Mik

I've been down that road. Anything decent, forged and 18inch to suit a GTR will be well over 3k just for the rims, even if you ship by sea. And yes...OEM wheels are always nice. And I think BCNR33 rims look great on BNR32s and BNR34 rims look good on anything.

haha...and if you think you are going to do the dodgy and try to bring in a set of wheels without paying duty and GST on the goods and frieght, you have another thing coming. You will almost always get stung on big items like wheels. And yes...they are cast. Price the forged gramlights

You certainly can't get any forged 18 inch rims from Japan for anywhere near 2k.

Nope...changing the ECU has no effect on the immobiliser. Power FCs also have the built in immobiliser too.

The thing to be careful of with Quicktrak, is that there is only coverage in the sydney metro area. (Due to the triangulation tracking technique they use) Once you leave the coverage area, Quicktrak can no longer track your vehicle, or disable its engine. You may be better off with one of the newer GPS tracking systems. Depending on where you live, it may not take a theif very long at all to get out of coverage if he or she is in a hurry in a quickish car.

Yes...but no matter how bad the 326 is, you can be reasonably sure it won't fall apart. The 326 is Falken's budget tyre. It is still made in Japan and will still be made under decent quality control. The Chinese stuff might perform better, but I still wouldn't use them just in case I got a bad one.

From a quality control perspecitve. Most of the stuff that comes out of China has pretty poor quality control. For most goods, if they fail, you just throw them out an get another one...but when it comes to tyres and brakes, it's your life you are playing with.

I believe these tyres are made in China...doesn't that bother anyone?

I sold my STI nearly a year ago for around 30k and it was a prime example with only 40000kms. You can pick up average ones for high twenties. It's pretty damn hard to get an S15 into the lows 12s...especially on street tyres. Why would the STI be any more expensive to work on than the S15? Subarus are so easy to work on and parts prices are comparable to nissan.

I beg to differ. Take a GC8 STI. Put a turbo back exhaust on it and a power FC...that's it. Low-mid 12s at >110mph all day every day. I know because I've done it. Pretty damn hard to do that in an S15. Also, I don't know why people think a WRX has no torque. A WRX makes more torque than a GTSt.

My old stock MY99 WRX made full boost (0.95 bar) by 2500RPM. My old modified (including bigger turbine) v6 STI made full boost (1.2 bar) by 3000RPM Neither of them were exactly laggy My GTR makes full boost at 5000RPM. The bottom line is any model WRX will be faster than any model GTSt. No ifs, buts or maybes. Dry, wet, straight line, corners, up hill, down hill...whatever you want.

How thick are the rotors...ie how much thinner than 30mm are they?

I take it this will be cancelled?

Put in on a dynolog dyno

It's not that simple, one (tractive effort (N)) is a linear force, and the other (Torque (Nm)) is rotational. Also, torque is affected by gear ratios. Theorectically, if you multiply the tractive effort by the radius of the tyre, you will get the torque in Nm at the wheel, but this will be different to that at the engine. Dynolog dynos somehow read torque at the engine, and they manage to do it quite accurately. There is one on the South Coast that read 390nm for a stock standard GT3 and just over 500nm for Gallardo.

I don't think anyone will be...the rain won't stop for more than 1 hour!

They aren't rated at anywhere near 800HP, but even 2530s are more than capable of a 10 second pass...

The GTRS turbine is smaller than that of the 2835

And all the gear bolted onto another car with a set of cams ran an 11.3

Because BCNR33 wheels are forged...you can hardly compare them to bodgy chinese cast wheels.

Because BCNR33 wheels are forged...you can hardly compare them to bodg chinese cast wheels.

Falken...only because they are the only one of the three not made in a third world country. But... 326s and 512s are rubbish

Don't listen to blitz...go nuts

I remember looking and finding nothing. It can't be enkei...

haha...I always thought SSR made them???