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Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car, plus a spare shell
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Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 06:31 am, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
I think you might be surprised. I ran that 1:10 with 150rwkw or whatever a stock 20yo 1J had at the wheels, but that was on semi slicks (stock brakes and a busted up set of coilovers).
Torque is very important at Wakefield. I have a video chasing a 6L V8 commodore IPRA car there. We run similar lap times, but watching him pull out of the fish hook and the last turn and just drive away from me was demoralising. I made much better corner speed, and was back on his tail by turn 3 and being held up.
To reinforce that, it has come to light that Damien's TTV8 'only' had 270rwkw when he ran his 1:07 in basically 'street trim' on full slicks. He would have had shedloads of torques though.
Harry up in QLD just reset the production lap time in his local hillclimb in an auto Soarer. Apparently it is quite a sight to see his barge on the track, but it gets the job done. Ray Goodluck is running the standard auto in his track car in SA (with a cooler I think). People have told me the A340 auto is a pretty good bit of kit. Hopefully it works for you too.
I would be surprised if you were not running well under 1:20 depending on the weather, and grip you can muster from the tyres etc. I think 1:15 might be achievable. Regardless, whatever time you get will give me a tenth name to throw on the table in the track times thread.
