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Andrew NZ · Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 744 Location: New Zealand

We're off on the NZ's ultimate road race this week. It's a tarmac rally covering about 2300kms with almost 800ks of closed special stages!
Jinxed is my crew chief, so hopefully he'll be able to keep the old 924 running to the finnish, as well as updating you all with our progress from time to time if we can get the internet connection working on the lap top.
You can also keep track of us through www.targa.co.nz, and we're car #223.
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Andrew
1977 RX924 race car
12a bridgeport supercharged
www.race4-dcup.co.nz

Khal · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject:

Excellent! Good luck, mate!

Giv'em Hell in the mighty Toofah!

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'80 924 Turbo

Tigger937 · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

Go get'em tigger..............I mean tiger! Long live the 2fah!
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1981 931 (Concours)
1982 931 (Daily Driver)

"Think outside the box"

morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9103 Location: Romania

Good luck dude !!
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Mike924 · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2601 Location: IoW UK

Seeded 12th out of over 170 entrants. Impressed!

May the Force be with you!
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1985 Porsche 924 'Lux', Kalahari Beige (my ex)
1993 Porsche 968 Coupe, Midnight Blue, 6 spd

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Andrew NZ · Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 744 Location: New Zealand

Yeah, but the unfortunately the slowest starts 1st, so we're actually seeded 12th from the bottom!! The good bit about that is that we can only go up!

I'm hoping that reliability will help us to move up through the field, because the power certainly won't

Our weight to Kw ratio is somewhere around 11.5:1, where as the top cars are about 3.5:1.

There are 29 Porsches entered, which makes them the largest showing for any one make in the event.

To me just getting such an old car to the finnish will be a huge achievement.
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Andrew
1977 RX924 race car
12a bridgeport supercharged
www.race4-dcup.co.nz

Tigger937 · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject:

Neil924 · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 4225 Location: Canada

Good luck

kike924 · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:09 am Post subject:

good luck... I will be following you

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Euro 924 1980 N/A
Daily driver + week end racer

leadfoot · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:01 am Post subject:

Good luck...
take lots of incar footage for us to squiz at after you've won the race OK!!
Leadfoot
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1981 ROW 924 Turbo -
carbon fiber GT mish mash
LS1 conversion in progress...

Andrew NZ · Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 744 Location: New Zealand

Just back from the shakedown stage. The car died suddenly while waiting to start the stage, so I had to do a quick repair on the start line! Nothing too serious, just a freak ignition switch failure, so swapped in a spare switch and away it went. About 2 kms into the stage we had to slow right down as the road was blocked by a very sad looking Australian 968. There were three other major accidents on the stage (including a GT3 which was also over from Aus) which seems crazy when nothing counts until the official start on Tuesday.

Hopefully we can keep it together tomorrow so we can start to get really serious on Tuesday.
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Andrew
1977 RX924 race car
12a bridgeport supercharged
www.race4-dcup.co.nz

J1NX3D · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 1333 Location: New Zealand

today was great, i took lots of pics of flash race cars

http://www.flat-6.net/forum/showthr...age=1&pp=10
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'86 944

Tigger937 · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:22 am Post subject:

Try this link:

http://www.flat-6.net/forum/showthread.php?t=16264&page=3&start=&pp=10

Awesome pics.............wish I was there!
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1981 931 (Concours)
1982 931 (Daily Driver)

"Think outside the box"

Andrew NZ · Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 744 Location: New Zealand

I'm Andrew's wife, Bron, and he's asked me to try and keep you all updated on progress during the Targa (since the internet wasn't going to happen on the laptop they took!)

Yesterday involved laps round Pukekohe race track - uncovered a few hassles for him, the ride feels wrong since he got the alignment done before the race, and with the slight raise in suspension and hard tyres, he almost had an off on the track! He'd advanced the ignition and it seemed to be running really well, but on the track when he got to 140kph, it started missing, then did that in high revs in each gear except 2nd from then on. He's decided that it just likes to be thrashed, trying to take it easy isn't suiting it! Today is the long haul (about 10 hours of driving) down the country to New Plymouth, so I don't think I'll hear anything till late today (still, no news is good news!!)
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Andrew
1977 RX924 race car
12a bridgeport supercharged
www.race4-dcup.co.nz

Chrenan · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 3903 Location: Canada

Thanks for the update! This is exciting to follow, Speed TV here typically puts together a highlight show of the Targa New Zealand (as well as the Targa Newfoundland, our Canadian version), so hopefully he well get at least some camera time!
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1987 951 - M193 Version for Japan