Steve's Soarer Page

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Soarers at Oran Park at an Unique Autosport TrackdayFirst time there for all of the Soarer owners, I drove the car 360km to the track with the track wheels in the back seat in the morning, arrived and changed the wheels, did the day, changed the wheels back and drove home again.  If that's not a true trackday car, then I don't know what is ! A very memorable day.The guys from the Soarer club are a really nice bunch of guys. I'm glad I got to drive at Oran Park before it closed down and thanks to Unique Auto Sport for putting the event on and allowing mortals like us to use it and our cars as was intended ! I was very surprised to find that the two turbo Soarer beat all of the other cars in the Turbo 6 class, my Soarer being 2nd in the class and in road trim with just mild boost increase, and Emanuel Spinola in his modified Soarer getting the best time. I think the Skyline guys where as surprised as us that the Soarers beat them.

Some of the GTR's and John Penlington's very quick 300Z

 

It didn't take long for this old second hand set of slicks to let go, not much use going around Oran Park with a right front like that.

 

Suspension out at Sam Markov's place. Sam got my car from 141's to 136's simply by setup. I'm sure there is more in it, even on stock Turbo's. I have a big single turbo, but really debating at this point if it's worth putting it on. The little stock singles are amazing. I've run them for hundreds of race laps at 17PSI and they just do not break ! I've got a spare set but not sure how good they are and I must admit the turbo's on the car are getting a little smoky after they have been sitting for a while. I also wonder how much quicker the bigger single turbo will be, it will be good for another 120KW but there may be power delivery issues due to the boost curve and the more slingshotiness of the delivery. Perhaps with the right sized exhaust housing it will be ok, its a Garrett GT35 with the 1.06 housing, so the housing needs changing.

Winton 2004

This was my first trackday in the car at Wakefield. I had allot of fun learning the limits of the car for the first time.

And this is how it looks today. Alas racing costs money and I don't have alot spare, so everything is done on a shoe string budget. Touch wood, it all continues to hold together, after hundreds of laps, all I have had is a broken shifter, and that was an after market short shifter anyway. Although it hasn't seen the track for several years at least it has that much less wear.

Me feeling happy after a day at Winton and showing off my success there at a club level. When I first took the car to Winton I really did not expect it to be as quick as it was. On the first meeting I went to I was packing up at the end of the day and someone came and said I had a third place trophy with a 141 laptop ! The Soarer is relatively quick car, I'm still not sure why, lots of torque, good chassis, dimensions. probably a combination and its very fun to drive !

Here is the Soarer in a more graceful outfit, after I first got it from the importer. The Turbo 6 era of the 90s produced some fantastic cars and also engines. I'm not sure if they are matched by today's standards, atleast in terms of performance.

Results

2004 Oran Park Raceway - 2nd in Turbo 6 Class at UAS Trackday 12 - Sept 2004 2005 1st Class 3B (Over 2 Litre Modified) Round 5 BP Midland / Delatite Ford Winton Sprint Series 139.19 1st Class 3B (Over 2 Litre Modified) Round 2 BP Midland / Delatite Ford / Winton Sprint Series 139.72 3rd Class 3B (Over 2 Litre Modified) Round 1 BP Midland / Delatite Ford / Winton Sprint Series 141.46 (First time at Winton Raceway) 2005 Winton Sprint Series Championship - 2nd Over 2 Litre Open Modified (missed rounds 3 and 4)

2006 1st Class 3B (Over 2 Litre Modified) - BP Midland / Pedders No Bull Winton Sprint Championship 2006 3rd Class 3B (Over 2 Litre Modified) - BP Midland / Pedders No Bull Winton Sprint series Round 5- 5th Feb 2006 - 137.6 1st Class 3B (Over 2 Litre Modified) - BP Midland / Pedders No Bull Winton Sprint series Round 1- 5th Feb 2006 - 137.91 3rd Class 3B - BP Midland / Pedders No Bull Winton Sprint series Round 2- 21st May 2006 - 137.24 1st Class 3B BP Midland / Pedders No Bull Winton Sprint series Round 3 - 2 July 2006 137.9 (Semi wet track) 1st Class 3B BP Midland Pedders No Bull Winton Sprint series Round 4 - 136.85 My best lap at Winton to date. http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?24/09/2006.WIN.P5.Y 3rd Class 3B (Over 2 Litre Modified) - BP Midland / Pedders No Bull Winton Sprint series Round 5- 5th Feb 2006 - 137.6

Thanks to Sam Markov for his help and work on the car.
Just incase you don't know, Sam and his R32 GTR is a combination that is breath taking to watch, with breath taking laptimes !

Videos In car from Winton Sprint Round 5 This was basically a test run after some work on the suspension. I wasn't sure how it would feel and it turned out to be over steering. I had a class win and managed second fastest Tintop outright (fastest was Sam Markov's Nissan GTR AWD) who's times are a world away..

In Car Footage From Oran Park Raceway NSW This was the UAS (Unique Auto Sports) trackday 2004 at Oran Park. I had a set of old second hand $50 slicks and pretty much a street setup on the car still. It was my first time at Oran park and my second time racing the car. The slicks where slowly falling apart from Lap 1 and the front right ended up completely delaminated. Wakefield Trackday Video My first Trackday ever ! I was so nervous in the lead up to this day, I didn't sleep the night before, but once I was on the track, I found out there is no time for nerves