Piccies from today's Advanced Driving Course at Oran Park

[vbthedog]

HI guys - here are some piccies from today (Thur 1sth August) of Cal16V and TRMOV doing the Ian Luff advanced driving course at Oran Park in their Callys ....

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Park it square Patrick - don't hit the hats...

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"Don't be a wimp Calibra boy! Put your foot down. I said 80kph NOT 18!!!"
Patrick getting told off.

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That's better!! Note the rear left back wheel in the air.

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Line 'er up and get her through. To the cheers and jeers of the opposing team

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Troy at speed and about to hit the bend (with fictitious tree on road at left and 200 metre drop at right. The result???

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Missed by THAT much !!! :)

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80kph to zero as fast as you can when the whistle is blown. Oh and get the Cally around a fictitious parked car as well.

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There's that rear left wheel again. Luffy is in the passenger seat here and hit the handbrake without Patrick expecting it.

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Troy got this one right..

[SmellyTofu]

Gosh, I hope when I go do one of these things at the end of this year that they don't pull a handbrakey on the Subie... centre viscous coupling would go ape-s@$t and the engine will spit the dummy.

[euro_stylin]

cool...can i ask how much it cost to do it?

[YuSuF]

That red Calli is NICE, clean & str8

[SmellyTofu]

Most cost in the high $200.

[mr_sikma]

would be wild in a RWD 8)

[Vectracious]

Gosh, I hope when I go do one of these things at the end of this year that they don't pull a handbrakey on the Subie... centre viscous coupling would go ape-s@$t and the engine will spit the dummy.

You'd hope that they know which cars they can and can't do a handbrake turn with. If you did a handbrake turn on the Vectra for instance - you'd kill the whole mechanism because the rear brake drums don't work together with the normal brakes like in most other cars, so it's not designed to apply friction to a moving wheel.

I pulled the handbrake once before I knew better. It "clattered" and you heard metal on metal, so I released it pretty quickly... The handbrake has never been the same since....

[vbthedog]

Most cost in the high $200.

Wrong - around $240-ish - www.ianluff.com.au and look under Stage 1[url=http://www.ianluff.com.au]/url]

[vbthedog]

I think driving instructors of the ilk and experience of Ian Luff would know what handbrakes they can and cannot use.......

[lee683]

looked like a fun day. shame i couldnt have gone :(
car started playing up again :(
but all fixed up now. i hope. :D

[vbthedog]

looked like a fun day. shame i couldnt have gone :(
car started playing up again :(
but all fixed up now. i hope. :D

I am sure we can organise another - takers???? I can ge the course for around $240 rather than the $265 or so normally. And if U read :

http://www.holden-calibra.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=2336

and

http://www.holden-calibra.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=2329

it'll give U an idea of the fun we had!

[CAL.16V]

was a great day guys, really started having fun...

if you want to read a full review of the day and see some more pics jump on the holden-calibra.org/bbs page..its under the safety issues section...

the good thing now is i can skip straight to a stage 3 course which is on the actual oran park race track and speed limits dont apply :twisted:

[SmellyTofu]

Maybe in mid Oct to whenever is fine for me. Anyone want to put that sort of date on. $240 seems to be cheaper than every other place I've seen. Plus stage 2 appeals to me as well. At least by then I'll be back in a more lower car than what I'm in as well.

[ultim8DTM5]

$247 is what I paid with DriveSafe Australia (Same locale, different instructors) and it was in a mini-GB of 5 cars

This was in 2002.