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...and if so, are you willing to sell the gearbox on it's own? How much just for the gear box?

PM replied to... SOLD

Bump - still for sale...

To begin with, without being fully aware of the regulations and just being moreso a spectator/enthusiast, my opinion is more an overall view of the current situation rather then a technical analysis. I totally agree that heads up racing is real racing and that it shouldn't really be replaced by DYO. On the counter side though, there's a lot of growing interest in the sport at the moment and one good way to keep the interest is to open up avenues for participation to more people without sacrificing any viewer entertainment and to also cater for the enthusiast/budget contrained racer as well. I think DYO achieves this objective quite well. Personally speaking, in the past I would have never contemplated entering an event like Compak Attak given my car is probably on the limit doing mid-13's. But with DYO, I have just as good an opportunity to compete as any other guy in the category (provided you qualify) and that is appealing. Afterall, most of us are enthusiasts who only pipe dream about competing, whilst now we actually have a reasonable chance to do so without fear of getting embarassed by a 11 sec car for example. As was mentioned above, you still need to get in the top 16 to actually qualify, so there is still the motivation to go faster to ensure qualification. On the whole, I think the DYO concept is good for the "budget" racer, good for spectators as it accomodates close racing, but at the same time there should definately be something to accomodate the true outright racers as well. Personally, I believe a possible solution may be a hybrid category including both forms of racing (apologies if this sounds silly). All participants qualify together and then split into 2 groups - heads up racing for the top 8 or 16 (or whatever) qualifiers should be the main show and then DYO for the next 8 or 16 (or whatever) qualifiers. That way there's still motivation for the outright racer to post quick times (no brake pedal action) and there's still the opportunity for the budget racer to get out there and have a go as well. Probable downside is that it'll inevitably make the regulations for racers and spectators even more confusing... Just my two cents worth - and I'll also add that from a spectators point of view, Compak Attak was definately good entertainment.

Awesome day...even though I got a little roasted in the sun. Definately will be there for the next one two.06l, your car looked and sounded awesome from the stands. Well done on the car and the times posted. Great to see a heap of other Skylines out there posting up some good times as well. Congrats to everyone who competed. BTW, did any of the rotaries end up breaking 7 secs? I had to leave just before 5pm, so I didn't get to see them run during the evening...

Why the hell would you bother clocking back an instrument cluster that you're planning to replace? Sounds pretty dodgy (and very illegal) to me mate...

That sucks mate - here's hoping you get it back in one piece. I can't believe the amount of NSW members who've either had their cars stolen or an attempted break in over the last few weeks. I've always thought my alarm/immobiliser system would be a good enough deterent to prevent my car from being stolen (yes, it has black wiring, 3 point immobiliser etc), but now I'm starting to think twice. Pager alarm group buy anyone?

Or Motorcycle Accessories Warehouse in Parramatta (only 20 mins from WSID) - they have approved helmets from ~$100 (even less sometimes).

Wish I could have made this but unfortunately a few unexpected things came up when I got home which ruled me out tonight. Hope everyone had a good night - i'll eventually make it to the next one.

No worries - I thought you were meeting somwhere round the beginning of the M2. I think I'll just meet at Thornleigh Maccas instead, although I'll keep an eye out as I pass the Mobil on Penno Hills Rd and if I see any Skylines there, I'll stop by and cruise to Thornleigh with you guys. Cheers, Brenden.

Where abouts are you meeting "just off the M2"? And what time? If all works out well tomorrow, me and the misses may tag along for this as well.

I agree Should be a good day, just hope the weather stays to the current forecast

Does anyone know what the program is for the day??? I've looked on the WSID website but the link to www.sportcompactgroup.com is dead.

Good race overall, although Webber through away a good chance at a podium. From the replay, it just looked like he lost the back end of the car which isn't surprising given that Williams have been struggling with rear end grip all weekend. Webber also had an exciting battle with De La Rosa towards the end of the race, although I thought it was going to end in tears with the way Webber was swerving all over the track to block him whenever he made a move to pass. Thought Webber's defensive driving was perhaps a little over the top to be honest as he was really struggling and De La Rosa had good pace (over 1.5 secs a lap quicker), but all ended well (although Webber unfortunately lost that battle).

Cool - thanks for the clarification

Sorry to hear mate - that really sucks. I know if it was me, I'd be pretty devestated as well. Here's hoping that somehow you get the car back in one piece. On another note, I cannot comprehend why the police wouldn't at least look at the video footage. Even if it's not enough evidence to convict someone, surely it could be used in some sort of investigation. If they then somehow found the guy with the car, then obviously that would be enough to convict wouldn't it...

I'm slightly confused...are you guys still referring to MRC or are you now talking about Hills Motorsport?

Just to clarify a few points as I don’t want people to get the wrong idea and misinterpret my original posts… * Yes, the workshop does have the laptop tuning software and I expect that they did keep a copy of my maps. The reason I believe they did a retune instead of just replicating the original maps is due to the fact that they told me they were going to back the boost down to 11psi (from 12psi) as the knock reading went through the roof when I ran the car at WSID after the original tune. Of course, in hindsight this only happened because the original dyno tune they did with their laptop was not the tune that I left the workshop with. It “just disappeared” quote/unquote. If they had told me this before they did the retune, then I would have just asked for the original tune to be replicated and there would be no need to retune from scratch, no need to recharge me and no need to waste half a day of my time. * No-one deleted the original tune. The tuner told me that it would have been lost when they disconnected their laptop and re-connected my hand controller. Apparently they’ve seen a couple of instances of this happening in the past (including on their own car). Why they didn’t bother to road test the car after this tune is beyond me. I asked the tuner about this afterwards and he admitted that they should have road tested the car and that it was an oversight on his behalf. As a result, I left their workshop with an untuned PFC, $550 poorer and potentially risking damage to my engine. As said in my original post, I didn’t really notice an improvement in performance after the tune, but due to my naivety with this kind of thing I didn’t question it…basically thinking that the dyno readout doesn’t lie and that perhaps I was over optimistic about the improvement I was going to achieve. * The original workshop did know about the idle problem, in fact the tuner was the one who noticed it initially when he took the car for a test drive after the retune. It was only intermittent at that time and apparently after re-plugging a supposedly loose hose into the distributor, the problem disappeared. I can attest to this as it was idling fine when I drove the car home, but the problem re-emerged the next day and has been occurring ever since. * I agree that sticking to the same workshop does have its benefits and I did intend on getting back to them to have another look at the idle problem when I had time. Given it’s not just a 10 min drive down the road and that I don’t have a lot of spare time due to work commitments, I hadn’t had a chance to do so as yet. In the mean time, after doing some research on these forums and speaking to the guy personally, I dropped my car off at a reputable local workshop to have my clutch replaced. During the ensuing conversation I also mentioned my idle problem to him and being a reputable tuner in his own right, he offered to have a look at the problem for me in the hope that he could possibly pinpoint and rectify the issue. I didn’t originally go there with the intention of him trying to rectify the idle problem, but I thought it would be a good opportunity to kill 2 birds with the same stone so to speak. * My car is only very mildly modified (i.e PFC, EBC, FMIC, turbo back exhaust, air filter) and did not have any major problems prior to the original tune (other than my clutch which was starting to occasionally slip very slightly). The car been regularly serviced in the past, so there shouldn’t (and wasn’t) any need to do service work. Please don’t get me wrong, if there was a need to do any work, then I would have no hesitation in getting it rectified. My only gripe is that I don’t like paying money for nothing…I’m sure most people are the same way inclined. My major gripes are (time inconveniences aside): a) The tuning maps were locked. I wasn’t informed that this was going to happen and quite frankly I don’t believe they had the right to do that once I paid for the tune. Additionally, we’re not talking about some +300rwkw weapon here – my car didn’t even make 200rwkw, so I don’t think they were really risking divulging any tuning secrets with my tune. B) I was charged for an original tune which I really didn’t receive. Admittedly, the work was done on the car, but for whatever reason, I didn’t leave the workshop with the tune I paid for. This could and should have been avoided if the car had been road tested prior to me collecting it. c) I had to pay for an unnecessary retune. They could have reloaded the original maps, but chose to retune on lower boost (which wasn’t necessary as the high knock reading was inevitably due to driving the car with an untuned PFC rather than running it on 12psi). I think I’m entitled to feel a little irritated about the above. Obviously I won't recover the money or time wasted in this whole debacle (nor do I think there's anything to gain from trying to do so), but I am hopeful that at least I'll be able to resolve the locked tuning map issue when I visit the workshop in the next week or so…they seemed like decent guys and all I really want is to have my tune unlocked, so if that happens, I’ll happily walk away and call it a day. At the end of the day, all I wanted was to physically receive what I paid for and I don’t think that I’ve been paid that courtesy.

I went on the Friday as well and totally agree with what was said above - I went home pretty dissapointed to be honest...thinking to myself that I get more action for $15 on a Wednesday night at WSID. Although I was somewhat glad to hear that at least the Sat and Sun were a lot better, so I'll probably give it another go if there's another one in August. I'll put the Friday down to a few organisational stuff up's due to having a new event at a new venue.

I pretty much agree with what you're saying and I'll be echoing that to the original workshop (which shall remain nameless) when I go past there in the next week or so.It's a bit of a shame because they seemed like decent guys - it's just extremely frustrating from my perspective as I really believe they should have at least had the courtesy to advise me that they lock the tune when I spoke to them prior to getting the work done. At least that way I would have able to make a fully informed decision on whether or not to go with them or someone else (based on what I know now). Worse still, they didn't even bother to tell me after doing the work and then I find out the hard way when I've got my car in another workshop attempting to get something done thus inconveniencing me and wasting the new workshop's time in the process when I can't get my idle problem looked at. I just don't think that's an ethical way to do business - the money's in their bank account now, so I don't really have a leg to stand on other than to hope they'll just do the right thing by me when I go back. I just hope other people don't fall into the same trap

Bit of a story to this, please bare with it... I had my PFC (R33 GTST) tuned earlier this year, getting around 186rwkw on 12psi with FMIC, Cat back exhaust and air filter, outlaying over $550 for the tune. First problem - I didn't really notice an immense improvement in performance over the std ECU after the first tune, although I didn't think too much of it...thinking to myself that the dyno results don't lie. In the mean time, I fitted a hiflow cat and 3" dump pipe and I then took the car for a run at WSID. The knock reading went through the roof on my third run, so I parked the car for the night and decide to head back to the tuner to find out what's going on. Tuner says that all the maps have "dissapeared", probably when the hand controller was plugged in after the initial tune and that the software needs to be reloaded and the PFC retuned. I thought that was a little odd, firstly because I hadn't heard of that happening before and secondly because I was under the impression that they would have saved the original tune somewhere on their own computer. I was happy enough for them to retune the car, but I became a little irritated when the car only produced 175rwkw on 11psi when I was hoping for at least the same output as the inital tune (admittedly 1psi less boost, but I though the addition of the hiflow cat and 3" dump pipe would have roughly compensated for the reduced boost) and to make matters worse, they charged me $150 and half a day of my time for the trouble which I wasn't happy about. I still question why it's making less power now and why I had to pay $150 for a retune when I left the workshop the first time $550 poorer without the car being tuned properly. I believe I am entitled to feel irritated, but I didn't take it any further as I was happy with how the car felt and just couldn't justify wasting any more time with this... Second problem - the car developed a rough idle directly after the car was tuned the second time. I wanted to get this looked at (as well as getting my clutch replaced as it had seen better days), but I didn't want to go back to the original tuner primarily because they were a good hour's drive from my house and secondly for the reasons mentioned above. I decided to go to a local reputable workshop and organised for the work to be done, only for the tuner to call me within an hour of dropping my car off to tell me that all the tuning maps have been "locked" by the original tuner and that he couldn't even view the maps. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but i didn't think that tuners were allowed to lock the maps so only they could access them (in doing so, supposedly forcing me to go to them for all my tuning). I would have thought the fact that it is my car and that I paid for the tune, that it becomes my property and that I always maintain the right to choose who tunes the car. Has anyone else experienced this problem before??? If so, what course of action did you take to get your tune unlocked??? I will be going back to the original tuner to ask them to unlock the maps, but I'm unsure as to what reaction I'm going to get from them. I'm pretty irritated by the whole situation as not only has it cost me more than it should of, but it's also inconveniced me by unneccesarily taking up a lot of my time (I've taken numerous days off work to get the car to both workshops). Does anyone have any suggestions on anything else I can do to rectify this situation? Apologies for the long rant - I just wanted to vent, make people aware that this kind of thing happens and get suggestions on what course of action to take from here. Any help/comments on this would be very much appreciated - thanks

Gotta agree - the racing was really good tonight, although I think Webber was a little hard done by. Fisi wasn't on the racing line, his tyres were gone, he braked too late and he slid into Webber despite the fact that Webber gave him enough room (and was turning away from him at the point of impact). It was a shame, as he would have been on for a podium finish if that didn't happen. Good to see Toyota up on the podium though

I'll take one as well - PM me when you have the stock and I'll send payment down to you.

Not sure why they were quoted as being so much in the post you're referring to as I know my mate paid less than $200 for his k104's on 18' wheels Also, take a look at Jay95R33's post further down the thread 235/45/17's for $175 a corner

Also noticed this review on the K104's see here. Seem to be a half decent tyre for the price