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  1. ferrarifixer

    ferrarifixer F1 Veteran BANNED

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  2. scud

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    you sure that's not the boat with my TT on it for NZ ?
     
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  3. Aircon

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    i get it...a metaphor...cos a boxer is heavy, slow and rolls around a lot..haha...good one phil :)
     
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  4. ferrarifixer

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    It's a flippin long way off course if it is!
     
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    yeah yeah, all that.. AND it's on that ship....
     
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    greg246 Two Time F1 World Champ Owner Silver Subscribed

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    so is she travelling first class or below the watermark? :D Goodluck with the delivery mate, hope to see some pics soon
     
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  7. Aircon

    Aircon Ten Time F1 World Champ BANNED

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    ohhhhh....i get it now!!

    exciting. pity you probably missed the last fca-vic track day with it.
     
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  8. ferrarifixer

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    I'm all class... you know me!

    Thanks.
     
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    ferrarifixer F1 Veteran BANNED

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    No matter. Plenty of other opportunities.

    Wanna get my eye in privately before I show my cards anyway ;) Haven't driven ANY Aussie tracks at any real speed yet. Or any car very fast for ages.
     
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    don't worry , others on here haven't either
     
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  11. Arvin Grajau

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    Great news,look forward to seeing you tackle the Island.
     
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    PAP 348 Ten Time F1 World Champ Lifetime Rossa Owner

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    *cough*.....PP...... *cough* :D
     
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  13. ferrarifixer

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    Beeyatch!

    But yeah!

    There's still a MASSIVE case where several people could benefit enormously from investing in some 1 on 1 driver training with our resident Ferrari pro Allan Simonsen. (who just got 2nd in LMGT2 in Jarama despite dud tyres from Pirelli)

    MUCH cheaper than hotting up your car, increased safety could save your bones and your dollars...... and transferable to any car!

    As you ALL know, I'm a know all.. but I'll not go to my limit until Allan has shown me the right way round each track in my car. Besides, he owes me, but that's not the point!
     
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  14. Aircon

    Aircon Ten Time F1 World Champ BANNED

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    how many people do you know who "hot up" their ferrari, btw?

    of course having tuition helps...but it's a case of diminishing returns.

    on a day that i did a 64,2 in my car at calder, fitzy did a 63.8

    on a day that jim richards did a 68.2 in my porsche, i did a 68,4 (eventually)

    i'm not pro...far from it..but i'm happy with that for now.
     
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  15. ferrarifixer

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    err.. you for a start (Suspension/tuning/no cats etc)

    and MANY others.. whether it be better brakes, or just an air filter... MANY Ferrari's have been hotted up even slightly in the pursuit of laptime/acceleration...

    stupid point... Any more?
     
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    PAP 348 Ten Time F1 World Champ Lifetime Rossa Owner

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    It's started already.......... Moderetti :D
     
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    i haven't hotted up anything on my car. that's how i got it....and no one i know.
     
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    BS.

    Did you tune your car and gain more power than it had when you got it?

    Have you tuned your suspension?
     
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  20. Aircon

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    why do you have to be an idiot? tuning what's in my car already is considered hotting up?

    Putting in SOFTER springs than it came with is considered hotting up?

    crawl back in your hole. you always come out with crap to support your case.

    I do not know anyone who'd hot up a road ferrari. apart from SS and tony defelice.
     
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    Your car is hotted up, whether you installed the MoTeC or not.

    If softer springs make you go faster (in wet) then YES, it is hotted up.

    Your Boxer was hotted up.

    There are dozens of hotted up Ferraris in Melbourne.

    Ever heard of Tubi? Pirelli Corsa? Hoosier? Brembo? Pagid?...

    gees... somebody is an idiot all right

    You've descended into malicious name calling... truth hurts?
     
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    ummm....truth hurts??? errrrrrr...ok.

    i said i didn't hot up my car. i didn't. do you have a reading problem?

    and name calling? well...you know...you make ridiculous assertions and then twist things around to back them up! maybe that doesn't make you an idiot...but it's what sprang to mind at the time.

    i still don't get the truth hurts thing, though.
     
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    ok. I think we're done there now.

    Now, back on track perhaps?

    This is about MY BOXER.....
     
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    PP and FF please ignore each others posts but from my own perspective hotting UP a car would never include softening the springs.

    I'm sure this would have been done to improve the road driving not track response

    If I'm hotting UP a car it is by increasing power, beefing UP the suspension, improving brakes, stregthening the chassis and by those definitions a lot of Ferraris have been "hotted up"

    Tuning a car so that it is in peak condition is not hotting it up IMHO, that even sounds absurd, so a car that is out of tune is "normal" but keeping it in peak tune is "hotted up" ???

    Silly argument guys from two of the smartest car guys I've met

    strike 2
     
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