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2011 Memberships
2011 is here so most current members will need to renew their memberships within the month, a reminder has been sent out to all those who have not paid yet so you will know if its you.
For those of you who haven't been part of the Touge Alliance community in the past, feel free to contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information on meeting dates and times. Everyone that has been part of our community in the past, we hope you enjoyed being in the club and would very much appreciate if you re-signed with us to continue our journey into motorsport in South Australia.
Membership forms can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.tougealliance.com/resources/doc_download/3-2011-membership-form.html
Once forms are filled out please submit them with payment to Jason.
~ Hyperdrive3d (Jason Bradbrook)
Touge Alliance - Forum Now Mobile Friendly
After several requests, Touge Alliance now has a mobile version of the forms for members on the move/touge!
Whilst the new mobile version will auto-detect, we cannot guarantee this will work for all mobile devices. If you have a version that it does not work on, please let us know This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
If you do not wish to use the mobile version, you can change this in your User Control Panel when logged in. To do this:
- Go to the User Control Panel at the top of of the forums:
- Click on the Edit Profile button located under Overview > Profile
- Finally, look at the bottom of the page for "Disable Mobile Viewing" of options that appear. Select "Yes" and press Submit.
Annual Spitroast Cruise
Being a Saturday evening we were expecting big things from the now annual "Spit-roast Cruise"
With the evening beginning with tea at 6:30pm at Cafe B, we had quite a few people rock up for a massive feed including many plates of chips & wedges provided by some generous Touge members. Thanks to Jessie's step dad for making dinner a riot :lol:
After we had finished stuffing ourselves we headed to the cars to have, what turned out to be, an "interesting" cruise.
We moved off in an orderly fashion through Athelstone to go UP Gorge Road - normally only get to go down (nothing dirty intended) - on our way to Lobethal. We had a couple of indiscretions on they way but nothing our illustrious leaders couldn't sort out.
We had a little break in Lobethal for a chat, wee & shift of road position then moved on the "back way" to Mount Lofty Summit.
Whilst this stretch of road seemed to like holding the water it was a smooth cruise with many great tight corners & looooong sweepers. The thick fog was also hanging around making the wet even more fun. A couple of us got the unfortunate pleasure of meeting a white Honda on the way, who decided it was his night to be a TOOL!! We eventually made it to our stop & came across an interesting surprise.
Touge was not the only club to meet up here; HardTuned.com rocked up shortly after. There was also a wedding reception that was also on made car parking tight.
After watching HardTuned.com depart we made our merry way down Greenhill Road, which was a winner, as the weather had started to dry up & the roads were drying nicely.
Unfortunately the rest of the Touge crew seemed to get the unfortunate pleasure of meeting the white Honda on his way down the mountain, but his attitude had not changed & caused many a near miss, including oncoming traffic.
We all finished up at Burnside Shopping Centre for a chat with people dispersing in many different directions
Modern Regularity, November 7th
With the arrival of Jason's FD RX7 track car to too far away it was desided that some practise at Mallala Motorsport Park was a must.
Modern Regularity is a timed event run by the Austin 7's club of South Australia which allows drivers to take their cars out to the track and compete against themselves. At the beginning of the day you go out on the track for a 12 - 15 minute practise session, this allows you to get a look at the track and get a feel for your car. At the end of practise you return to the pits and set a target time for session 1.
With a target time set, you now go out on track for 5 hot laps, the closer to your target time you are the better (Modern Regularity is based on consistancy, not speed so this means any car can win). For every 10th of a second you are off your target time, you get 1 penalty point so the aim is not to mess up your laps. Over a full day you get 6 sessions including your practise session so if you mess up one session you can make up for it in another.
The day itself was a good one, Jason got a good amount of practise around the track running a personal best time of 1:35.0300 and came mid-pack in the overall results.
New Friends Cruise
Waking up on Sunday morning it looked like the sun had finally came out to shine for the cruise. And indeed it had. We had a unplanned meet up at the Mile End Subway (everyone needs subway cookies).
The first meet point was the Mile End Bunnings, there was a decent size turnout consisting of a few TA cars and also various other cars from the Toyota club, we had everything ranging from 4cyl fwd to angry hampster powered rotarys.
After leaving the first meet we wound our way through the back streets of the city and then up into the lovely Adelaide hills via Old Norton Summit rd. The drive up was perfect with very little water across the road and hardly any sunday drivers. Sadly just after we started the drive back down the Ae86 had to stop with overheating problems and called it a day.
The first meet point was the Mile End Bunnings, there was a decent size turnout consisting of a few TA cars and also various other cars from the Toyota club, we had everything ranging from 4cyl fwd to angry hampster powered rotarys.
After leaving the first meet we wound our way through the back streets of the city and then up into the lovely Adelaide hills via Old Norton Summit rd. The drive up was perfect with very little water across the road and hardly any sunday drivers. Sadly just after we started the drive back down the Ae86 had to stop with overheating problems and called it a day.
From here we continued on up to the Mt Lofty lookout where we were joined by Iggy taking our angry hampster count to three! The cruise led the way through the hills but sadly we ran into more leisurely drivers than you could possibly wave to in a single day. We spent the next four hours winding backwards and forwards all the way down to Port Noarlunga where everyone decided after the massive day it was time to head home!
Thanks to all for attending and can't wait to see everyone out again.
Motorkhana State Championships
Motorkhana State Championships had arrived for 2010.
Touge Alliance has had 3 members competing in motorkhana at Monarto this year with good results. Unfortunately only one could make it to the state championships and that was Jason in his 1985 Mazda RX7.
The weather hadn't been the best over the past few weeks but the sun was shining for motorkhana making it a pleasant day out for drivers and spectators. This event combineds the two series of motorkhana in South Australia together with people coming up from Mt Gambier to compete against Monarto competitiors. Combinding the two events means that on this day there were more class D cars (Commodores / Falcons) than any other group competing.
As all things go, there were a few troubles on the day for the top-runners which opened the doors for the less experienced drivers to show what they've got. Difficult courses were selected on the day to challenge the drivers and many cones were destroyed in the process.
With so many cones hit Jason's times were fairly average, therefor he desided to have a little more fun than usual and try to get the back end sliding out to entertain the many people who had come along for the day to support him.
MEA Sound Quality & SPL Comp
Awesome day had by all who attended.
We had Alex, Colin & myself in the DB Comp & we also had Cameron, Marcus & Colin (busy boy) in the Sound Quality Comp.
Cameron was kept very busy with Judging the Advanced SQL Comp hence him not entering dB.
Jared & his MUMMY also showed up to lend their support for a couple of hours.
Starting at 9am this morning the judges started with the SQL as it takes a long time to process the cars & go through all of the bits & pieces on their EXTENSIVE list.
I hope Marcus or Colin will be able to post up their sheets because it's definitely an interesting read.
Marcus got plenty of looks for his amps mounted to the roof impressing some of the fitters from the state & Vic but Colin showed him up with a 2nd place in his division.
Cameron fared fairly well after a late night & early morning to fix a couple of niggling problems but all turned out well.
They can all update you on their relative scores & entry levels.
The db comp seemed to start in the carpark - as per usual - before the event had started.
With varying levels of modification from mild to wild & the number of different cars the comp was an awesome spectacle.
The top db after 3 runs was 158.3dB from a Mazda with 2x18's & a Corona wagon from Victoria - it drove here with the stereo - rating 148dB
Novice Hatch:
1st was 141.1dB
Shaun - 135.2dB with a 2x12's in a prefab box from Ang's - awesome value
Novice Sedan:
1st was 137.2dB
Colin - 132.2dB with 3x8's
Alex - 128.8dB with 2x12's
Note: Novice dB all power had to be limited to 1000WRMS, any over was Pro Street
Alex & Colin took many photos & will hopefully post them up soon.
Other than the weather, an awesome day & great representation by Touge.
With 4 out of the 5 Touge cars containing Ang's hard work we must thank Ang's Audio for hosting the day with MEA - Gotta love our sponsors.
We had Alex, Colin & myself in the DB Comp & we also had Cameron, Marcus & Colin (busy boy) in the Sound Quality Comp.
Cameron was kept very busy with Judging the Advanced SQL Comp hence him not entering dB.
Jared & his MUMMY also showed up to lend their support for a couple of hours.
Starting at 9am this morning the judges started with the SQL as it takes a long time to process the cars & go through all of the bits & pieces on their EXTENSIVE list.
I hope Marcus or Colin will be able to post up their sheets because it's definitely an interesting read.
Marcus got plenty of looks for his amps mounted to the roof impressing some of the fitters from the state & Vic but Colin showed him up with a 2nd place in his division.
Cameron fared fairly well after a late night & early morning to fix a couple of niggling problems but all turned out well.
They can all update you on their relative scores & entry levels.
The db comp seemed to start in the carpark - as per usual - before the event had started.
With varying levels of modification from mild to wild & the number of different cars the comp was an awesome spectacle.
The top db after 3 runs was 158.3dB from a Mazda with 2x18's & a Corona wagon from Victoria - it drove here with the stereo - rating 148dB
Novice Hatch:
1st was 141.1dB
Shaun - 135.2dB with a 2x12's in a prefab box from Ang's - awesome value
Novice Sedan:
1st was 137.2dB
Colin - 132.2dB with 3x8's
Alex - 128.8dB with 2x12's
Note: Novice dB all power had to be limited to 1000WRMS, any over was Pro Street
Alex & Colin took many photos & will hopefully post them up soon.
Other than the weather, an awesome day & great representation by Touge.
With 4 out of the 5 Touge cars containing Ang's hard work we must thank Ang's Audio for hosting the day with MEA - Gotta love our sponsors.
28th of August Collingrove Hillclimb Come and Try
Saturday August 28 dawned a cold morning as Touge Alliance members Jason Bradbrook and Jared Green met with a couple friends in the Adelaide Hills town of Kersbrook. While cold and windy it wasn’t raining which was a relief – the weather reports had been forecasting rain all week. The initial meeting was a cruise to a ‘Come and Try’ event at the Collingrove Hillclimb, one of Australia’s premier Hillclimb venues.
For those who don’t know, Hillclimb is a speed event, where one car and driver runs over a defined course against the clock. In competition cars are classified into categories so as to even out the contest and having cars of like potential performance running against each other. However, the real contest is the individual one where each driver tries on each run to improve their individual time i.e., the hill and the clock vs the car and the driver. Come and Try events like this one are an opportunity for those who have never competed at a Hillclimb to participate at low cost and minimal requirements.
Site Updated
This is a massive hello to all our new sponsors, and friends who have come to have a look at the new content on the website.
You can find out more about the club, and what we do through the links in the menu above.
We also have our official email now activate ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) and have Google Analytics tracking the page hits on our website.
What does all this mean? That's easy!
We are much easier to contact now for one, not to mention we also can see the types of visitors coming to our website.
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- Jared Green
(aka: Bladeoz)