[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

what tyres did you get? how much?

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

still after these if anyone has come across em…. getting my wheels re-sprayed (and gutter rash removed).. some new centre badges would set it off!

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

Do you know what it was actually called Gary? I haven’t seen any on ebay, but maybe i’ve only been looking for manual ones…

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

santa is bringing me the cusco ramps… i couldn’t justify it to myself, but when ppl kept asking me what I wanted for xmas…

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

@Sands – yeah I was worried that once it was taken out it wouldn’t go back in properly.

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

Cheers Sands – you are spot on. Spoke to one bloke who is keen to do it, but said he would need to take the plaster surround out of the fake leather padded padded calais/statesman style console. so I was a bit hesitant about it but it maybe the only solution. The bloke has done some pretty good work – check it out – https://www.facebook.com/conceptcustomsaus/

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

Underneath the fake woodgrain is just plastic (obviously), so i assume they were just a fancy sticker.

Never made a cad file before but I’m quite cluey on all things computers so I’m sure i could work it out…

 

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

marble – is that out of GTS?

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

Nice puddle of power steering fluid in my driveway… think the power steering rack seal is shot.

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

Yeah I got the VS Senator manual with old woodgrain surround (garnish / trim / ?) and i reckon they looked crap in the mid 90’s and now 20 years later it really looks crap. Got a bloke that can make one up, but he wants to take the surround out of the centre console and it’s held in by the squished heat plastic nipples.

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

Just got sent these photos from a bloke in the HSV Qld car club, so I take back what I said.

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by  SSEN8R VS #1081.

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

UPDATE – Lakeside Street Sprints 21/11/15

Went and did a track arvo at Lakeside today. I had entered in “Queensland Raceways Street Sprint Series”. It was sold as minimum 4×4 hot laps and it was only $145. I had intended to go with the HSV car club, but this was on at the same time, that is, the HSV car club were there too, and this was cheaper.

Since my last outing at Lakeside, where I did a PB of 1:07.5, I had put in new swaybars (adjustable front) and upgraded the rear rotors. So was hoping to beat my PB.

I showed up at 12.15 and they had an ambulance on the track taking some one away – not what you want to see. The bloke had crashed his ‘radical’ style race car, basically writing it off, and ended up being taking away in an ambulance to hospital.

Went out for the first set of hot laps and traffic was ridiculous, basically the order of the vehicles was completely out of whack and people weren’t slowing down and waving cars past. Hadn’t done laps at lakeside since laste May so my raceline was a bit off at first.

Was out with a broad mix – R33 skyline, Renault Megane’s and Clio’s (Renault Car Club), MX5’s, Integra’s, BMW’s, WRX, newish Alfa. Poor turn out by the HSV car club, only a few newish HSV’s – turns out that they had stacked their booking with MX5’s… anyways…

Second set, I pushed myself up the order to try and get out of the traffic, and I always slow down and wave faster cars past. Ended up just beating my old PB, so was happy with that and felt that there was plenty more time to make up.

Third set went out and about the second lap and came over a blind crest to see a honda integra parked against the wall facing the wrong way. Then I had seen the red lights flashing. I thought that would ruin the track time. Turns out the bloke was fine and his car only had a banged up from left. He ended up driving back to the pits. I think his ego was more battered than the car. So suprisingly, they called us right back out again. Jumped in and got some clean laps as I think half the people didn’t bother going back out. Consistently was in the 1:07’s and got a new PB of 1:07.0.

Fourth set got some good laps but got stuck in traffic and blokes that wouldn’t let you pass. My problem is that with all my brake and suspension mods I actually catch cars, but then when I’m on the main straight they think I can just pull and fly past but the stock original 202,000km just doesn’t have the ponies.

In the break I went and spoke to some blokes to try and get the starting order right so we didn’t have to worry about overtaking which went fine….

Fifth and last set – someone must have told the slow pokes to sit this one out, as they weren’t there and everyone lined up in the correct order. So we all got great clean laps and I managed to get another PB of 1:06.60. almost a second better than my last lakeside outing… Pretty happy with that.

Really happy that I kept getting more consistent and faster the day went on.

Enjoy the screaming Hankook RS3’s!

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

So after my last track day, where I boiled the power steering fluid and it went bang with oil smoke after the cap popped off, I’ve got a new power steering pump, and I’ve hooked up the the power steering lines through the auto trans cooler in my radiator (since I’ve got a manual). I’ve also got high temp power steering fluid.

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

Can’t wait!!!

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

nice. good clean up.

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

manual?

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

so work has got in the way of my racing career… i know! so won’t be able to make the next Lakeside Track Day on Fri 13th Nov, but I’m booked in with the HSV Car Club (Qld) Track arvo at Lakeside on Sat 21st Nov.

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

here’s a vid of a lap on the Clubman Circuit – in hindsight not the greatest raceline, but I wasn’t taking it too serious and it was my first time on the track.

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[SSEN8R VS #1081Participant Brisbane, North Side\'97 VS II HSV Senator 185i View build HERE Member since: March 16, 2015 Posts: 227]

@IJ what’s the other small cooler in the pic? cheers

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