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Loveday Mud Dust and Music weekend
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 4:06 pm
by Phizinza
Rocked....
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:21 pm
by brumbyrunner
Great shot there phiz. How fast you reckon you were going and did you break anything?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 10:08 am
by Phizinza
brumbyrunner wrote:Great shot there phiz. How fast you reckon you were going and did you break anything?
Not as fast as last time. Second gear, 3000rpm maybe, in low range (had a tie down strap on the low range lever!)
We got air a lot this weekend. On the flat top we done it every heat and both the semi finals, I think we done 6 heats, so 8 jumps there. But left the ground at least once or twice more each lap. Tough little beast! We fixed the strut top problem before we came out to this race. But in our last semi final the front right must of come off the bead (3rd time over the weekend) but this time it was early in the lap and we bent the radius rod over a bump.
Had it fixed in less then 15mins with parts off my Leone but turns out our lap was too slow to get into the finals.
There are a few more pics at
http://offroadingsubarus.com/forum/inde ... opic=657.0
This is our big jump from last year, that was about 5000 or 6000 rpm in 2nd low. That hurt, and bent both seats, plus broke both strut tops extra reinforcing we welded in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-acCfUfGKI
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:04 am
by El_Freddo
NICE!!! Has a year ellapsed since the last one?! I didn't think it was a year just yet...
Cheers
Bennie
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 9:31 pm
by Phizinza
No, 6 months. Well, a year since the last Mud Dust and Music, but he runs two events a year, MDM and Riverland Challenge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfkPnA0bKqk
http://www.youtube.com/Phizinza
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 12:20 pm
by someguy
Wow. Pretty impressive.
Must come down and watch it in action one day.
I never thought you would be able to push that much power out of an EA :P
Congrats, you built one hell of a car mate.
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 12:05 pm
by Phizinza
brumbyrunner wrote:How fast you reckon you were going
As you might of guessed I didn't really pay attention to the RPM or speedo, but I done a test in my own car and I reckon the RPM over the jump was more like 3500-4000 (last year we hit it at about 6000 and thats what broke and bent a lot). Would of been about 30 to 35kph I guess. Pretty slow, but its a sharp jump.