Manny’s Trix Dyno Day 29 May 2011

This years Track day was really something else. First off I would like to thank Toyota South Africa and especially Ferdi de Vos for his commitment to the club and for providing us with the Aygo Crazy what an awesome little car. Thank you to the Toyota Advanced drivers who were there on the day to provide us with insight on how to run your car safely at race speed round the track. All in all it was really an awesome day and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. We did have some laughs on the day as someone lost it on turn 8 and parked his conquest facing the way it came from (names will not be mentioned).
 
We had an array of cars there AE82 conquests N/A, supercharged and turbo ones and they really flew round the track there was a very neat 20v as well as the blue AE 92 running a 20v power plant, to think a year ago it went round the track as a normal 1.3. then there were the two avante’s that went round together which made me feel like I was in the 80’s when the 4AGE’s reigned supreme round the tracks in the world. The two MR2 spyder’s also learned something on the day it the top is down its just to cruise.
 
Toyota also borrowed us one of their rally drivers on the day to take the Aygo round and did it fly round I personally did not have the pleasure of going round in it but it seemed as if all the people that did go really enjoyed it to the max. So enough of my talking I will let the photos do the talking. Thank you to all who enjoyed the day with us and thank you for your support.
 
Here is a link to a write up that the boys did on speedhunters on the Aygo Crazy http://speedhunters.com/archive/2008/06/16/new-cars-gt-gt-toyota-aygo-crazy-concept.aspx

The morning started off with rain which I think put a lot off people off, however the rain played a great role in keeping the skidpan wet most of the day. We started off with registration as we had the afternoon session and there were 20 entrants on the day which made it enough so that everyone could have loads of fun on the day. Toyota South Africa was kind enough to send us one of there advanced driving instructors on the day.

We started off with braking on wet surfaces and all cars that had ABS were disconnected so the focus was drive in a straight line lock the wheels up and try and turn the vehicle end result was you go into a straight slide. There is the poor mans ABS as they would call it and that would be done by applying the brakes and when they lock up you release them and apply them again by doing that continuously you are mimicking how ABS works.

The event was held at Kyalami go-kart track and there were an array of vehicles on from KE70 Corollas to Lexus is 200’s 20v chisel conquests a import RunX and fwd Levin and last but not least a supercharged chisel.

It was the usual hot summer’s day in Johannesburg and with all the beautiful Toyotas on display it was an awesome gathering of friends. Our chairman Thags Govender announced his retirement from the club but he will remain as an honourable club member to show the new guys the ropes. The new chairman Jamey Brinkhuys was introduced and we wish him all the best. We also heard that Toyota bought Subaru and we would like to welcome them as part of the family.

This pristine blue box corolla owned by R. Baker has a 1JZ engine tuned to perfection. High boost figures are 515kW with 716Nm of torque. Pretty much everything has been upgraded on this beauty except the stock internals on the 1JZ engine. You can also vote for this ride in the forum, so read the specifications below and cast your vote with the link at the bottom of this post!

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