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Points: 1054 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21-January-2005 at 17:45
Aidan - V8s are fantastic, I lived in the states and had a 73 Mustang convertible with a 351 Cleveland, twin Holley 750 carbs, high lift cams and racing exhaust.  400 bhp at the rear wheels on leaf springs

Thing was harder on rear tyres than juice but great fun.  Handling was not even a topic and come to think of it it was fairly brutal at stopping but on a rolling start it was mental.

Must dig out some oics and scan them in to post them up.  Wish I'd never sold it but hey at the time beer was more a priority.
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Points: 2124 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21-January-2005 at 19:49

Originally posted by kbannon kbannon wrote:

Speaking of M5s, I was onto Murphy & Gunn this evening, inviting them along and was talking to Kelvin. Apparently, as part of his development in understanding how customer's cars work, he has to head over to Rockingham to complete "non-technical training in the new M5" - in English this means he is getting paid to go over and drive the new beast on track!

Well, were they interested in your offer? you've given them plenty of notice anyhow!

Kelvin the lucky *******

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M&G have always been enthuasistic about the club and have had a few lads at each of the track days that we have held. Top notch lads!
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Originally posted by kbannon kbannon wrote:

M&G have always been enthuasistic about the club and have had a few lads at each of the track days that we have held. Top notch lads!

any chance they'll bring some hardware to an event sometime?
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hardware? as in cars? They have brought cars each time such as E46 M3s. The last day, Robbie Bolger was hoping to come down and (at a customers request) test drive a new 6.
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Rang in my fee for the day Killian - so hopefully that'll give you a few extra minutes sleep @ night.

So we're sharing the track with the Porsche club, yeah? Should be an interesting comparision....
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the modified VW's are on in the morning and we are on in the afternoon
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Are we with porsches?

@Killian: Could put the pdf file link onto your first post, would make it easier to find and edit the M coupe for me, I only have a lonely 2.8L
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ah... ok. they'll have scrubbed the track in nicely for us so
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Originally posted by ludo ludo wrote:

Are we with porsches?

We are *not* out with the Porsches. They are on in the morning and we are on in the afternoon! It is just coincidental that we share the same day.
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I just had a look at the porsche club site - there are a few pics from their track day last October but one confuses me - is there a car there that possibly shouldn't be?



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modified VW=porsches, I just got it!
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Originally posted by kbannon kbannon wrote:

I just had a look at the porsche club site - there are a few pics from their track day last October but one confuses me - is there a car there that possibly shouldn't be?

Yep your right Killian, i think it's called a cayenne

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and here I was thinking that you were refering to that Smart thing in the foreground, but those Cayennes are seriously rapid. Not sure what purpose they have in this country though. An X5 is a better all rounder and has plenty of poke. 
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Hi ,I can bring a compressor for anybody who wants to pump up their tyres,do we have access to mains power?

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Originally posted by Carbon Black Carbon Black wrote:

Hi ,I can bring a compressor for anybody who wants to pump up their tyres,do we have access to mains power?

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I think there was AC power in the garages
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I think there is power,I'll bring it anyway

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I have a foot pump if there is no power!
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I have one that connects through the cigarette lighter, and is fine but a bit slow. I'll bring it along too.  
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Points: 3450 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-January-2005 at 15:23
@killian

I know of 2 members who will be taking part in the trackday. However they wouldnt have known if it if I hadn't told them as they are not on the net.

I wonder how many other members are not aware of the track day due to no intenet access. I dont want to start a debate on the matter but in this instance how are members with no internet access been targeted?


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