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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Soulidarity's Happy Halloween BR

Your Australian friend has come to town and brought his Holden Monaro with him. He thought it would be fun to have his son participate in "Trick or Treat" with your son this year. However the competitive nature of your friendship has turned it into a challenge. He will take his son in his Monaro, and you'll take your son in your Pontiac GTO. Can you show him how a real Trick or Treater does business?

The challenge: Modify the GTO and/or Monaro in order to bring their power/weight ratio as close to equal as possible. Run a lap in theMonaro first, then try to topple that time in the GTO. In vitg's case, feel free to reverse roles by being the visitor come to out trick or treat your American friend on his home turf, and run the cars in reverse order. Flibutz and anyone else from outside the U.S. can take whichever role they wish.

Flibutz's Historic Racer Budget Rider

This is a historic race between small-engined European and Japanese racing classics. Instead of a cr. budget there will be only mod regulations for building your racer.

Car regulations:

- 1973 model or older
- 1605cc or less, no turbos, no nitrous
- Must weigh 850kg or more
- Must be built from a roadcar

Upgrade regulations:

- Tyres - Limited to N3 grade (meant to represent a racing tyre of the time)

- NA tune - Limited to stage 2 (historically, this is probably too much power but...)

- Weight reduction - Only stage 1 allowed (no CF hood? nooo...)

- LSD - No full customize LSDs

- Gearbox - All is cool, but please refrain from using the 6th gear if you get one.

Banned - Racing chip (where does this go? do we jam it in the carbs?)

Banned - Carbon driveshaft

Banned - GT Auto wing

Banned - Driving aids

Car list:

There might be more, but here's the eligible cars I found:

Alfa Romeo:
Giulia Sprint Speciale '63
Spider 1600 Duetto '66

Alpine:
A310 1600VE '73

Honda:
1300 Coupe 9 S '70

Isuzu:
117 Coupe '68
Bellett 1600 GT-R '69

Mazda:
110S (L10A) '67
110S (L10B) '68

Mitsubishi:
Galant GTO MR '70

Nissan:
Skyline 1500 Deluxe '63
Silvia '65

Toyota:
Celica 1600GT ' 70

lucky21s' American Muscle Car Competition

basicly, there will be 2 rounds: buyable and winnable muscles

Just pick 2 cars and report back with your best time.

buyable first, on s2's then winnable on N2's
I hope everyone knows what a muscle car is, no trying to sneak in a panoz esperante gt1, and, as you may have guessed from the title, they have to be american