Calder Park Off-Street Drags 13-12-2002

Calder Park had a big turnout for this Friday night event, with many racers hoping to get a few runs before the Christmas break. Along with the usual V8 brigade, a few VL Turbo's and some late model Japanese sports cars there was also a decent number of rotaries in attendance.

Anthony had his 13B Turbo 1300 wagon out, and improved on his personal best with a time of 11.62 @ 114mph, the car runs a HiLux diff and Corona box with some mild extend porting and a slightly larger compressor cover and is a crowd favourite as it lifts the front wheel through first and second gear.

Simon had his rare Luce (Japanese model RX-4) coupe out and ran a best time of 13.89 @ 99mph in complete street trim, however he did break 100mph later in the night. The car runs a standard Series 5 RX-7 13B Turbo motor and gearbox with a Wolf computer, and still uses the 13B RX-4 open diff. You can read more about it on our Readers Cars page.

There were a number of neat first-gen RX-7s out, including 'NOTSLO' and 'RXION7'. Later on the lime green 1300 sedan turned up, running a LPG 13B Turbo motor it ran in the 12-13 second bracket.

An interesting car was the silver Jap-Import Series 6 RX-7. It certainly looked impressive driving around the pits, with its RE-Amemiya headlight conversion and body kit as well as the large race-style wing. It uses a T04 B with T66 front wheel in place of the stock twin turbos and ran a best time of 11.8 @ 121mph late in the night, sounding impressive as it went down the strip.

The 'DFECTV'/Promaz 13BT 1000 ute was launching well and ran 11.43 @ 117.9mph. The green 'KRAZY2' RX-2 sedan looked very neat and ran in the 14's.

Dalton Automotive had the 'DRAGRX' untubbed RX-3 coupe out and ran 9.62 @ 143mph, getting real sideways on the launch and leaving tyre marks halfway down the strip.

Craig Dyson from Dyson Rotary had his Series 4 RX-7 out and ran a 10 second pass early on before running two more 8-second passes later in the night, with the best run being 8.33 @ 162mph.

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