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We now havea new venue in the North East if anyone is interested :) Thor Racing is no longer hosting

Thanks Topless. We already have over 30 cars attending and have filled two venues (sorry) but still have spaces at these locations. The article is being covered by Total Nissan magazine :) Dyno aside it would be great to meet up with some of you guys and perhaps plan some socail meets for 2008. Hope to see you at one of the venues :)

CLUB DELICA are organising a Strongman Truck Pulling competition for this years JAE and its all in aid of charity. The idea is that contestants make a small donation to the charity to take part and pull a Mitsubishi Delica & Driver over a 25M distance, fastest time wins! Plus there will be a trophy for the winner and all money raised will go to the chosen charity (Claire has supplied a few words below). As some of you will be aware Claires daughter Hannah has had a pretty rough time of it this year, so we thought it would be nice to do something to help a little. I’m sure all of you will help support as you are all aware of the great work Claire does and this could not have been easy to deal with as well as dealing with the amount of organisation JAE needs too. So would you please promote this event on your club sites, nominate some club strongmen and make sure you come and take part at this years show. A few words from Claire: A heart warming thanks to the boy/gals of the Club Delica for organising a charity truck pull at this years JAE to raise money for The Children's Unit of The Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey. Let me explain in brief if I can...as to why. At the end of January, my 15 year old daughter Hannah was feeling poorly. It started, with what appeared to be an eye infection. You know what it's like having a 15 year old going on 25 year old young woman in the house. All the nagging of removing eye makeup just wasn't cutting the mustard with her...hehe. Anyway, the eye started to swell and got to a point where she looked like she had just come out of a boxing ring with Mike Tyson. A trip to the Dr and prescribed antibiotics later, still hadn't reduced the swelling. After a week of not seeing a sign of normality, I took H (as we affectionately call her) to the hospital. From there it was like a speeded up movie with bad dubbing. In February, H was admitted for two weeks into hospital, numerous tests were done. An MRI scan was ordered and the results showed a tumour behind the eye. More test proved nothing wrong with the eye, but the Dr grew more concerned about the tumour...as did we! On the day of H's discharge from hospital we were given an appointment at The Royal Marsden, Surrey. Some of you may not recognise this hospital, but it's a cancer hospital and one that both my parents were treated at. My heart sank, but H didn't know the impact of this, until I told her. We had tears.......lots of them, anger.......lots of it.........but out of it all we had a united positive front. Whatever happened we were...ARE going to overcome this. After more visits to numerous hospitals to see many consultants, MRI and CT Scans we were called to Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. Where we met the leading consultant, who chatted and laughed with Hannah and arranged a biopsy of her eye, beginning of March. My ex husband and I sat nervously waiting for our little H to come out of surgery. I must say at this point that H was very light hearted going into surgery with her pre-med....she sounded very drunk and afterwards coming round...well lets just say I recorded her for future prosperity....hehehe. The operation was successful as the Dr managed to remove all traces of the tumour and H's sight was not affected. A very neat scar on the crease of her lid...you would never know that she had an operation. We then had to wait one week for the results....not a good time! Results showed that H has a rare condition. The tumour was diagnosed as Eosinophillic granuloma. Not a great deal is known about this condition and she has characteristics from the below link. http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Cancertype/...llhistiocytocis This is a disease that has no cure, she will need regular check ups throughout her life starting with an MRI scan every three months until further notice. I always said she was one in a million, now I know she is exactly four in a million with this condition. It's heart breaking to know that at anytime my H could develop another tumour and instead of having an operation, be treated with chemo or radiotherapy. We all want our children to be happy, healthy and be successful. This has brought all this home to me, especially after our trips to the Children's Unit of The Royal Marsden. I remember sitting there whilst H was having bloods taken. There were children sitting round us pale, almost jaundice looking, bald hooked up to IV's.........but smiling and playing. I sat there and fought real hard not to cry, but failed. One of the little lads looked at me and asked if I was alright?? I couldn't speak, for fear of making a complete arse of myself and frightening him with my outburst of tears. H put her hand on my arm and said, "mum, what will be, will be" from that moment it has given me strength, hope and acceptance. My Hannah has remained very calm, strong and taken it all in her stride. I wish I were more like her.........I've been a nervous wreck since. One thing to remember though............if you think you're having a bad day, go visit the children in the unit and then say again how bad your day was. My thoughts for any raised monies would be to the children's unit at The Royal Marsden. The building looks sad, tired and warn out. The wards and waiting rooms could do with a lick of paint. The children's play area could do with some brand new toys. It's sad enough to see a poor little one go through all that and then have to play with broken toys. It broke my heart and I didn't want there little spirits to be broken. Love and hugs Claire X

To all you BIG KIDS. Bring along your remote control cars and some plastic tyres. :) Unfortunately Ken Nomura wont be there to present the prizes but there will certainly be plenty to watch and also have a go. If you want to know more please visit the D1RC.co.uk website. On the weekend they will be located just next to the East of England Offices - right where JTuner were last year (if you can remeber that far back!)

Now you tell me! :rolleyes:

You should be careful about oversize pistons in an RB26. Firstly they are prone to developing leaks under the exhaust manifold so make sure it's not a standard block if they have done this to it. Ideally you should stroke and RB26 not widen the bore. If it has been bored out ask if it is an N1 block or (preferably) a RRR block.

Very very sad news, my thoughts are with you and your wife at this very sad time.

Gets my vote :) It's only the driver that makes these kind of (stupid) decisions. Got a number plate and I might know who it is ;)

If you're looking for local accomodation there is a list on this page: http://www.the-organisation.org/links.html

Might be ;)

Pace car is a Nissan Stagea RB25DE :)

Yep :) .... must meet up for a beer V.Soon ;)

and according to the Z-Club you guys are in prime position :) http://www.zclub.net/forum/showthread.php?p=80020#post80020

Blimey, there are so many experts on here who actually KNOW what speed it should be. Guess they've arranged and run more than me? Now, sarcasm dropped............... Luffield 1 and 2 - the top D1 cars turn in at about 105mph. There is no way any street car would make it round that bend at anything approaching that speed. The whole parade will be behind a pace car and a camera car and will be at speeds to keep it safe and also make it a great spectacle. The pace car driver is one I have worked with before and is an MSA approaved marshal. He knows what he is doing. The MAX speed is the headromm, it IS NOT a desired speed and it most certainly will not be the whole parade speeed. IF we reach that speed it will be in one section of one of the long straights, nothing more. This is not mandatory, you do not have to take part, you can come to JTS and wtach if that is your preference. I hope that puts into perspective this discussion Thank you

We are working with Competition Car Insurance for a special deal for the day.