REWIND: CROATIA 2012

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Blake Jones under Uncategorized

What a week.

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Posted on June 5, 2013 by Blake Jones under Uncategorized

Katrina Chan

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Blake Jones under Uncategorized

That's her!

Katrina Chan – that’s a name to remember people! My gorgeous lady-friend has only recently launched her blog and has already been getting linkbacks from the designers – this time it was Aussie label(?) House of Wilde. They created a gallery for the shots which I took for Katrina about a month ago around my street. They are good shots – but it’s really not hard when the subject is so stunning!

Check out the gallery here.

Circuit Club day @ Wakie

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Blake Jones under Uncategorized

Got down to Wakefield yesterday for the Circuit Club trackday – it was a gamble with the weather but conditions were perfect all day! Had a big night on Friday with no sleep then up at 5am to make the long drive south! Met up with Nemo and watched him carefully dodge potholes on the way down.

It was the first session since new suspension went in. I didn’t have time to do setup beforehand though so was running street camber. The car definitely felt better but was still understeering badly in the first session. Turned out rear tyre pressures were well below what they should have been so I rectified this. Next session out the car felt 100% better.

Managed to put in a 1.17.9 which was about 1.5 seconds better than my previous PB! Very happy. Also got to do a session with the driver trainer at the end of the day which was invaluable – Didn’t go any quicker though (well he was a solidly built bloke of at least 100kg)!

Nemo was trialling semis for the first time. He dropped his time to a 1.16.5 (from memory) which is good for a stock-engine NA6. His car seems nicely set up and at this point he is a little faster than me… but I hope to rectify that soon 🙂

The driver trainer said my tyres were shit and that the staggered set up is not helping with understeer, so I will probably be running my stock 15×7’s next time with R888’s, this has been in the back of my mind for a long time anyway. Could also play around with rear sway setting or put 20mm spacer on the fronts according to him. Next time I will put aside time the night before to do alignment setting instead of drinking…

Other highlights of the day were an Audi R8 getting air… backwards! Was also good to put faces to names of some forum guys.

Here’s a vid of a couple of hot laps:

Distractions…

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Blake Jones under Life, Project 944, Travel, Uncategorized

Well, some time has certainly passed since I last posted! I’ve travelled to both Japan and America and am almost at the end of the first semester of Uni. The last few months have been tough, battling with a mystery illness and (resulting?) demotivation etc. The end of my studies are also fast approaching which brings me to a real crossroads!! What to do with myself next year?! It’s scary seeing half my friends suddenly swapping long hair and hoodies for a business haircut and matching suit as soon as they land a grad job! Reassuring though is that most of my closest friends are in the same boat as me… namely HMAS NoFuckingIdea.

I’m feeling much better as of yesterday re motivation etc, have cleaned the desk and set up my new Macbook properly to get some work done. Amazing how a clear workspace can help clear the mind! I was using a calendar productivity encouragement thingo (http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/02/calendar-win-rapid-course-correction.html) (found through tofugu.com) for most of March to fair success, so have restarted that as of yesterday. Give it a look if you are looking for a simple way to encourage good habits!!

Have been working on/tracking the 944 a bit recently, which has been going great. Installed front coilovers last weekend, so low and awesome. Printed off the 14 + pages of instructions re installing new torsion bars in the rear and decided it would be worth getting a quote from my mechanic. I have a lot of uni work on at the moment and can’t really afford writing off a week just to install rear suspension. You can follow my build thread here.

Highlights of 2011 so far…

My Japan trip!! Best month of my life!!! GAH I love this place wayyyy too much. I may be back there in the near future… but you will have to wait and see.