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Lake Gairdner, Australia => Lake Gairdner, Australia => Topic started by: firemanjim on January 06, 2017, 11:24:53 PM
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Anyone else making the trip--my wife, Becky, and are are headed down. Will hook up with my good friend and team mate, Greg Watters, and off to Gairdner. Looking to ride a M-1000 BF/BG Kawi H-2!! Cannot wait!!!
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I'm jealous!
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The lake is looking GOOD !
http://www.dlra.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=26856#p26856
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Plan on Being there with Jack's Camaros. Cars and truck left on the boat Jan 5th. Threy are Scheduled to arrive on Feb 14.
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Planning on joining Steve there soon with Greg May, Keith Turk, David Freiburger and Chris Mursick
Looking forward to a great adventure Down Under!
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Looking forward to meeting you all .
After a week long heatwave with temps reaching 115 degrees, "cooler" weather (in the 90's for a week) is more than welcome.
Our "doctor with wings", Scott, who is also a competitor, & head of the emergency medical team who look after us flew over the lake recently, what he saw confirms what the satellite thermal images show, very little water remaining on the lake, although the 9 mile may be a bit damp,
http://www.eldersweather.com.au/dailysummary.jsp?lt=site&lc=16067
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According to the DLRA web-site everything is looking GOOD for this year's event...........including the ice-vendor :cheers:
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In the USA we are hoping for some posted results.
I understand lack of Wi-Fi but if someone goes to town
for 151 Rum, have them tell us something.
Preaze !!
FREUD
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The event ends today..............so maybe some news tomorrow :wink:..........We have better communication from deep space :roll: :roll:
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The event ends today..............so maybe some news tomorrow :wink:..........We have better communication from deep space :roll: :roll:
And it's often easier to translate . . .
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Saw on Facebook Keith Turk ran 237 driving Jack Rodgers '68 Camaro.
David Friberger went 249 in the same car. all I know so far.
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From the Spirit of Sunshine build diary . . .
We're back on the blacktop.
Jack Rogers turned up with three Camaro and he, Greg May, Frieburger all ran 200+.
Dave Rosewarne and Mark Love's Firebird got out of shape and then on its side after a chute pull.
Lionel West's AA/Falt did 261.
Dunn's tank 240's
Mike Davidson's FlattAttack ran 230's
Peter Warrens P38 ran over 200
Cookie's Brunskilltown Mopar did its 175 license.
Kim and Jim and Greg suffered tribulation.
Richard Assen turned up with a new lay down head first Busa motored special in A Blown, ran 209. Centre hub steering and all round beautiful engineering.
Brooke Jennings built a similar deal with leading link and a VW flat four that ran for TO.
More later.
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Our team (Jack Rogers Racing) traveled to Lake Gairdner with our 3 camaros. We were assisted by a number of DLRA members both prior to out arrival and during our stay. In every respect we were made to feel welcome and appreciated. Several times officers and officials stopped by out tent to make sur that if we needed anything they would provide it. All in I count it as a Top 5 Racing Experience
While we had a lot of problems, we were able to get 2 of the 3 cars on the track and set 5 records with 5 different drivers in 5 different classes, 4 of which appear to have qualified the driver for the DLRA 200 MPH club
Maybe the biggest accomplishment of the week was Steve Strupp out of Customs Quarrentine in record Tim and getting our 53' long overweight car hauler on and off the salt without sinking into one of the sandbars! What a guy!
And speaking of salt! WOW! Smooth salt stretching for miles and miles - not even a "pressure ridge"
And our 67 Camaro ran about 6 mph faster than it has at bonneville - both David Freiburger and Greg May ran over 249 mph exiting at the "4". So much for slower expectations at Lake Gairdner
Anybody who wants to try this should talk to Steve Strupp
I think we will return because it was such a highly enjoyable experience
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News..........News.........Thanks :cheers:
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A pretty thorough recap here -
http://www.dlra.org.au/2017.htm
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Thanks for the reports and speeds.
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Want to thank the DLRA and all the great Aussie racers. Could not have done it with out all the help. Already making plans for next year.
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Thanks guys
We like to make everyone feel welcome
G
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I wuz gonna feel welcome this year until that racing budget enhancement program got in the way. :roll: Later though. :cheers: Wayno
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I wuz gonna feel welcome this year until that racing budget enhancement program got in the way. :roll: Later though. :cheers: Wayno
Yes
I know excatly how you feel
G
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I wuz gonna feel welcome this year until that racing budget enhancement program got in the way. :roll: Later though. :cheers: Wayno
You better :wink:
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Gairdner was good--and bad---Greg was having issues sorting his Busa and trying to get he H-2 back together and dynoed. I arrived thursday and we started wrenching hard friday morn. Chasing a miss on the Busa we replaced plugs, ignition module, coils, and ecu with no luck so ended up replacing entire wiring harness and back to the Gen 2 ecu from the past and finally got good runs on the dyno. I worked on getting rearsets made and bars back on the H-2 readying it for the dyno. It was just coming in with maybe 2 runs to go--(sounding wicked ) when the tuning system tanked. This set-up required a internet connection to tune and we think THEIR server went down, so no ignition etc. Left it on the dyno, dang it!! (Geg has since got it back running, thinking of bringing here this year!)
We arrived two days late and a bike short at the Salt. I went out first on the Busa running naked and was going well coming into the timing when there was a soft "pop" and it started loosing speed, ran back to pits on a 3 cylinder. Log showed no problems with air/fuel so not sure what happened, but it was done.
Kim had a couple runs on the 750 and had some rust to knock off so she ran 200+ in fifth and the next run had a miss up top. We changed plugs and found a loose ground wires so I took the bike out the next morning( the last day) and it was good through fourth but would not pull fifth. Seems the boost controller was playing up. There was not time to do anymore so we packed it up and headed for home.
It was a great time and saw lots of friends. ----AND--- got a 2 club hat from Down Under to add to the collection!!! :banana:
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Gairdner was good--and bad---Greg was having issues sorting his Busa and trying to get he H-2 back together and dynoed. I arrived thursday and we started wrenching hard friday morn. Chasing a miss on the Busa we replaced plugs, ignition module, coils, and ecu with no luck so ended up replacing entire wiring harness and back to the Gen 2 ecu from the past and finally got good runs on the dyno. I worked on getting rearsets made and bars back on the H-2 readying it for the dyno. It was just coming in with maybe 2 runs to go--(sounding wicked ) when the tuning system tanked. This set-up required a internet connection to tune and we think THEIR server went down, so no ignition etc. Left it on the dyno, dang it!! (Geg has since got it back running, thinking of bringing here this year!)
We arrived two days late and a bike short at the Salt. I went out first on the Busa running naked and was going well coming into the timing when there was a soft "pop" and it started loosing speed, ran back to pits on a 3 cylinder. Log showed no problems with air/fuel so not sure what happened, but it was done.
Kim had a couple runs on the 750 and had some rust to knock off so she ran 200+ in fifth and the next run had a miss up top. We changed plugs and found a loose ground wires so I took the bike out the next morning( the last day) and it was good through fourth but would not pull fifth. Seems the boost controller was playing up. There was not time to do anymore so we packed it up and headed for home.
It was a great time and saw lots of friends. ----AND--- got a 2 club hat from Down Under to add to the collection!!! :banana:
You didn't mention that on your first run both myself and the Southern Rescue Fire Crew followed you back to your pit to see what the smoke and oil was
G
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Guess cuz with no mirrors I saw no smoke or you guys on my tail--- it was a 3 cyl bike at that point. :-D