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Does anyone know if braided lines for R34GTT rear brakes will fit standard Stagea NM35 rear brakes?

OK. Thanks Duncan. That answers about 20 of the questions I had. Most aftermarket braided lines I've seen have banjo bolts and crush washers. So out come the olives, and in go HEL R34GTT front lines. And for the rears, I'll see what HEL's got in the right length, or get them made to length. Solved! Thank you kindly!

I've got a set of R34 GTT Sumitomo 4-spot front calipers, 310 x 30mm disks, and new pads, ready to fit to my NM35. (I also got new disks and pads for the standard M35 rears.) The GTT calipers arrived with the hard lines snipped off flush with the fitting that screws into the calipers. I can't find photo reference of GTT caliper hard lines & don't know how long they are or what shape. I don't know much about brakes, so I'm in a quandary and need help with what my next steps should be: FRONT Do braided lines fit directly to the GTT caliper, or do they come with a section of hard line, or do I need to source specific GTT-shaped hard lines separately? BRAIDED LINE KITS HEL don't do an M35 braided line kit. Do any other firms supply M35 kits? And will they fit the GTT calipers? Or, will an R34 GTT line kit fit the Stagea? REAR Will braided rear GTT lines fit the standard M35 rear brakes? So many questions, so few clues. So a big thanks to anyone who can help me.

Last time I was in Scotland I asked at the local chippie (chip-shop) for a slice of pizza and she took a slice off a stack and dropped it into the deep fryer with the chips and the cod. No wonder Scots have the highest heart attack rates in Europe. Wis' ye could replace arteries wi' braided lines.

I didn't know whether to post this here or in 'What Did You Do To Your Stagea Today?' But here goes... Today I dropped an unwrapped Mars Bar on the floor while I was reaching for a slice of pizza from the box on the passenger's seat, and it went right under the seat. Luckily, I didn't drop the pizza slice, and was able to transfer it to my right hand. But I couldn't reach far enough under the passenger seat to find the Mars Bar while steering and holding pizza with one hand. I think the Mars Bar probably melted. It could have been a disaster, but fortunately I keep a spare Mars Bar in that little vertical cubby to the right of the centre console, between the boost controller unit and the lighter socket where the car-jug plugs in. I only mention this to illustrate how important careful food management is to the safe operation of our performance vehicles. Mars Bars Before And After An Oil Change

So. What's the final result? What did you replace the Yupiteru system with? And did you find out how it was wired in? Also where will you never buy a battery from again?

Sorry to see no-one can help. Yupiteru must be a rare brand. No help in the Skyline forums?

My CEL is on all the time, and I use it to remind myself what a lovely beast of a motor I've got. And not to be too much of a plonker with my right foot in the wet.

China's pumping out two million new millionaires a year, and India can't be far behind. When you've got millions of kms of crap roads and millions of people with money and no history with automobiles, any ugly piece of shit with a flying =B= on it is a sure-fire success. Bentley Salesperson: "Oh, sir, madam, I see you're leaking money! Let me mop up some of that nasty stuff with this huge, absorbent, famous, prestige vehicle."

Top Gear was about the people, not the cars. When the people changed, it wasn't Top Gear any more. They should have changed the name instead of leaving it tied like a dead albatross round the necks of the of the new presenters. It's now a curse.

OK, I've done a few hundreds of kms on these Pirelli Dragon Sports tyres and they're a bit nice. THE GOOD They like 45-48psi which improves their turn-in feel. In the dry they're grippy and predictable. I don't push hard in the wet since an 'off' on my narrow winding country roads would be a disaster. But these tires give me a lot of confidence in pushing through corners 40-50% quicker than on the tyres on my car when I bought it - Nexen 5000s. And they feel vastly more reassuring in the wet than the Falken FK-452 tyres I had (along with Bilstein shocks and Whiteline swaybars) on the F6 Typhoon. They can be a bit resonant on certain road surfaces, but nothing compared to the Fujitsubo cat-back. Overall these aren't just good, they're 'great' sticky tyres and cheap as. THE BAD Apparently, Pirelli doesn't want you to know ANYTHING about these tyres. So the only info online is some hurried reviews from a single PR event in China that got rained on, and some meaningless marketing slobber written by retards with zero knowledge of English, who don't know the difference between a tyre and a condom, and should be fired for abuse of language and customers ... "The pleasure to be sporty. The indulgence in Pirelli safety." And "Enhancing handling performance for sport driving on wet and improve safety." Shit like that prevents thinking people from buying their products.

New shoes: Pirelli Dragon Sports 235/40 R18. $169 per corner. And an alignment.

Is anyone familiar with Pirelli Dragon Sport tyres? I recently had my car serviced and Chris (mechanic recommended by Jez at DVS) noticed that the inner walls of my tyres were cracked. I went into the Bob Jane tyre place next door to see what 235/40 R18's they had in stock for immediate fitting (Friday arvo before the long weekend). They had 3 choices: a cheap no-name or a cheap Yokohama (not Advan), both about $120ish, or Pirelli Dragon Sport @ $169 ea. I couldn't find any online technical info or tyre tests for the Dragon Sport, but they were fresh (2016), W rated, had a square profile, and big wide grooves that look like they'll drain well. Mostly in preference to the other two choices, I bought the Pirellis. I've only driven on them a couple of days; mostly sealed, winding country roads:) Now they're scrubbed in, they have enormous dry grip. I've only pushed them a bit in the wet and haven't found their limits. So top points for lateral dry grip, and wet grip looks promising. The downside is, while they put a full 235mm of tread down, and provide good road feedback, they don't deliver quite enough steering precision as I'd like. I think sidewall flex is an issue. On the rims at 38psi the side-walls bulge out and look a bit donutty. I've combed the interwebs and can't find much info except irrelevant 2010/12 reviews of an old Pirelli Dragon (not Dragon Sport) tyre with a completely different tread pattern, and a press release saying the Dragon Sport (like what I've got) is a new tyre developed and manufactured in Pirelli's new plant in China. Which explains the relatively low price. The Pirelli Tyres Australia site comparo charts show them as outperforming the P Zero NeroGT and up there with the P Zero Rosso. I know it's only manufacturer's info, but relative to their flagship performance tyres, Pirelli seems to rate these tyres highly. I'm enjoying them in the dry and the wet. The car tracks straight (the wheel alignment probably helped) doesn't wander or tramline, and feels more planted as speed increases. They're also fairly quiet as far as I can tell over the Fujitsubo exhaust. They're predictable in dry cornering, feel secure and fast in the wet, and provide a nice amount of higher frequency road feedback. The only downside is slightly imprecise turn-in - like a bit of tyre roll is absorbing some of the steering feel. On the whole, I think I might have stumbled on something pretty good. Slightly stiffer walls and I'd say they were magic. I'll try them at higher pressure for a week or so. Meanwhile, has anyone else tried the Dragon Sports? Any feedback? Comparison with Pirelli flagship tyres? Opinions?

I didn't believe it would happen, but I'd owned the Stagea for just over a month, when a salesman, helping me load a roll of carpet into the back (with the rear seats pre-dropped,) said "Jeez, big inside!" then "A Volvo, innit?" I remembered the posts in this thread and couldn't help myself, I started to giggle. He looked at me, puzzled. Still chuckling, I told him it was a Nissan, and closed the tailgate. "Sta-gg-ia" he said, reading the badge. "Is it one of those imports?" "Yep." I said. "Sta-gi-ya. Japanese. Very popular delivery van in Tokyo, y'know? Narrow streets. Low rooves sticking out over the road. They need something small and slick like this for deliveries." "Oh, yeah." He said, nodding. Then, eyeing the fat exhaust tips, "But it's a turbo." "Yup." I said. "Urgent deliveries." "Aah." he said, as if it all made perfect sense. God, please send me the next one.