the lifestory of a DC5S...

[plAythiNG]

And this guy was laughing at me cos i had a shitgo migraine!

Well done on pb

[Timmy_B]

passenger session in the CFH ITR with Berty..insanely agro driver lol!!...Phil and his friends caught me in the act of throwing up after the session lol

Sounds like you need to be more aggressive in the car. LOL
Can't believe you vomited

Also what did I read about you two wheeling?

"Prash your two wheeler was epic!"

[crashprash]

what a weekend!!

Was good to hang out with all the honda nats competitors on Sunday and drool over Stevan's BR-Z!! Got a quite a few compliments on my car but it disappointed on the dyno lol. Managed a measly 136.9 kw. I managed a 147 at toda so i blame this result on the heat since it was outdoors and the angle my car was at which meant there was no airflow into the gruppe m intake Couldnt get over the amount of work that had been done to the charade!!..just the pedal box itself was amazing!

Moving on to sunday..i always thought my PB was a 1:14.0 but apparently it wasnt..Ended up beating my PB by 0.03 of a second. New PB : 1:14.3340. I wasnt entirely happy with the car though..It felt unstable under heavy braking and i was struggling to keep it in a straight line heading into turn 1. But the car made it back in one piece so Im extremely happy. Highlight of the day was a passenger session in the CFH ITR with Berty..insanely agro driver lol!!...Phil and his friends caught me in the act of throwing up after the session lol

[crashprash]

ok..so ive the 5m spacers on now am srsly worried about the amount of thread of left..had 1.5cm at minimum..it shouldnt matter too much since the car never gets driven so will have check the torque quite often and inbetween laps on the track..on a +ve side dont think my rim will scrape anymore but worried about the tyre rubbing under cornering load.

[Timmy_B]

nope going honda nats. U?..gonna miss our "wild" night in the cabins with stevan and timmy

hahaha Prash, good times

[plAythiNG]

Yeah im going both... Just paying for nationLs in 2 weekd... Making sure nothing bad goes on this track day

[crashprash]

U going circuitclub

nope going honda nats. U?..gonna miss our "wild" night in the cabins with stevan and timmy

[plAythiNG]

U going circuitclub

[crashprash]

since this is srsly lacking in updates..one from wtac


World Time Attack Challenge 2012 by Prash Imaging, on Flickr


I bought some 5mm slip-on spacers to stop my rim scraping on the trailing arm. Ill try them out this weekend and make sure it doesnt affect my wheel balance or something like that considering i already have to use hub rings.

[crashprash]

For those of you who have been living in a cave for the past week, The Lowdown.com organised the first proper car show in some time. I was proud to represent ClubITR along with Phil, Victor, Mark and Berty. The day was awesome with Victor running his own catering stand on the side and CFH ITR winning people choice's thanks to the massive ClubITR support along with Berty's campaigning with his models

Everyone seemed to have lowered their car for the day and added spacers etc but I consider that cheating (also I was too lazy). Thanks to Berty for looking after the car for the day as I had family commitments.

Anyways here's pics of the car







Showcased 2012 by prashr, on Flickr

[crashprash]

Here's some footage of the shift trackday I recently attended. This is the passenger session where I got Benny from BYP to sit in with me. You turn up the volume to hear him and sorry for the weird lighting

[crashprash]

I touched up the inner side of the rim and will get some 3mm spacers to solve the issue. Went to jax tyres haberfield today for a wheel alignment today and told them about the issue. They suggested toe-ing out the rear to increase the gap between the rim and the arm so went ahead with that. Attached results.

[crashprash]

Also it seems that my car wasnt perfectly ok after the trackday. It seems that the passenger side rear wheel had been scrubbing on the lower trailing arm as a result of my weak offset. I heard a noise when i was continuously turning right at the top of the hill on the track. There was a piece of aluminium shaving lodged between the wheel and the arm and this probably scraped the wheel some more. I am thinking of getting a 3mm spacer on ebay and maybe just run it for my next trackday and i dont have this problem with regular street driving..thoughts?

Also is having the aluminium exposed bad for the wheel? (since there is no longer any paint /coating). It is just the side on the inner part of the rim..otherwise ill just hand paint it with some auto store wheel paint.

[crashprash]

nice work man. I wish jimmy and benny helped me too haha! good to see u got a pb on the last lap. at least u didnt give up and still gave it ur all!

The CMS lap timer is a great app I reckon. Did u compare it to natsoft results also (sorry i didnt look at natsoft) cos i wanna see how accurate the results are as i dont know anyone else who uses CMS.

After beating ur PB Prash, did u get the urge/rush to further develop your car, and not sell it and move onto something Euro?

I was actually gonna skip the last session since I had accidentally stayed on for two sessions and therefore my car didnt get a break before my next session started but Benny suggested that I might as well make the most of the opportunity and go out one last time. This trackday was better than CC as there was hardly any traffic which allowed me to push hard and take breaks without worrying about running into someone or holding someone up.

The app was within tenths of a second of natsoft so i guess its pretty good.

In terms of the future, when i first decided to track the car, I said to myself I'd be happy if I can get within 1:15 by the time I move on. The car has had no major changes since my very first trackday apart from a change of brake pads/rotors.
Having gone from my first PB of 1:28 odd to 1:14..clearly its all about the driver ..Hence no point in further developing the car until I have the skills to match..so in terms of moving on I dont think this changes anything. I have been given a deadline by my parents anyway and they feed me and put a roof over my head so I cant complain.

[plAythiNG]

nice work man. I wish jimmy and benny helped me too haha! good to see u got a pb on the last lap. at least u didnt give up and still gave it ur all!

The CMS lap timer is a great app I reckon. Did u compare it to natsoft results also (sorry i didnt look at natsoft) cos i wanna see how accurate the results are as i dont know anyone else who uses CMS.

After beating ur PB Prash, did u get the urge/rush to further develop your car, and not sell it and move onto something Euro?