ceebmoj
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| posted on 27/5/04 at 10:26 PM |
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Tunner LMP
Been busy recently getting a new job witch is why I have not posted this before. Couple of weeks a go I when out to see the LMP at East fortune
airfield where it was being tested for a couple of days. While I was there Steve must have spotted the look in my eye because he let me take it for a
couple of laps round east fortune.
Some of you may remember me posting last summer after I drove the ZX9 car round knock hill last summer and how impressed I was with it. The drive is
sublime the car is so balanced and sure footed, I even found that the right handed gear change was a lot easer to use than I had first expected (I can
be a bit slow at times)
So it was with no small grin on my face that I accepted the offer of a drive round the circuit. On getting in to the new car the first thing that I
noticed was that the shifter had moved from the right to the centre of the car a there are a couple of other differences include the new engine witch
is now a ZX12, a different ratio diff and some tasty looking cast alloy uprights not to mention a host of other odds and ends.
The extra power and new diff ratio are all become apparent when you pull away it is just that much easer. Once I got the car out on to the track and
gave the throttle a quick blast the acceleration is amassing flying down the straits and arriving at the couners at the sort of speed that has me
grinning now just thinking about it. Witch brings me to turning I have driven very feu cars, if any that inspire the sort of confidence that I felt
driving the LMP. Turning it in at higher and higher speeds and having the car flow so well through the bend even with an idiot like me driving.
I have put 4 photos I took of the car in the photo archive also one of concord witch is now at east fortune air field. unforunally I have not just
shrunk and become 10 again The guy in the photos is the next-door nabores son Josh who came along and see the car and seams to like it.
Blake
Ps sorry about the speling and gramer
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JoelP
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| posted on 28/5/04 at 07:13 AM |
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car looks great!
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Hugh Paterson
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| posted on 28/5/04 at 12:14 PM |
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Blake, I take it yer better on 4 wheels than 2 Har har har Sori couldnt resist
Pity your going South, I was looking forward to scaring the poo out of you in the boat, but hey theres always Steve 
Shug.
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sgraber
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| posted on 28/5/04 at 02:54 PM |
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Blake, that story makes me surely wish that I lived nearby!
I feel like a Pavlovian dog because every time I hear the words "Turner LMP" (or Coram) I start to breathe heavily and saliva drips from
the corner of my mouth!
Graber
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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Hugh Paterson
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| posted on 28/5/04 at 03:00 PM |
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Be better when we get round to strapping a v6 in the back
Shug.
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ceebmoj
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| posted on 28/5/04 at 08:37 PM |
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Shug,
Lets be honest I not that great on 4 wheals never mind 2 but I do love driving
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