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Thanks BB, it does look like he would need to get the car for less than 70k to make it worth while.... The UK looks good though currently!!!

Seeing as BB is not answering as quickly as I would like does anyone else have any experience with this type of thing????

Dearest Beer Baron (Rich) Jedi master I have a friend that lives in Hong Kong, and will be buying a 07 R35 20k on the clock for a killer deal.... He wants to know after he owns the car for 12 months, what would his costs be to personal import it and register it etc etc.... (is it cheaper to do it in certain states?? i.e. SA versus NSW) the car will cost him 70k Aust currently. what would the breakdown be i.e. GST, TAX, rough transport costs, rego, etc.... hope your good big guy!!!

http://www.advertiser.com.au/sportsstar09/finalist04.html Now nominated for South Australian Sports Star of the Year 2009 come and support the only driver to be nominated, and help motor racing get over all the ball sports!!! "The 21-year-old's move from Adelaide to Melbourne, to be closer to his Formula Ford team, Sonic Motor Racing Services, paid big dividends with the Flagstaff Hill youth winning the 2009 Australian Championship. Nick won 12 races this year bringing his national total to 22 wins, breaking a 15-year-old record and giving him more wins than Mark Webber, the Brabham brothers, Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup COMBINED!!! Lowndes, Whincup and Garth Tander were past Formula Ford Champions."

just one day to go!!!.... I sure hope there are some votes to come from SAU!

anyone know of other places that hire the GTR in japan???

so no one has been to the F1???? jeez.... any help???

G'day all!!! Just scouting out any info that others might have ( I have done a few searches, but haven't found too much) my current plan has me going :- MEL to HKG and catching up with mates then onto Tokyo for a few days from the 28th Sept.... staying at the mecure hotel in ginza shinkansen to nagoya and staying in a ryokan before the GP (ryokan is in ozone) then back to tokyo... leaving Japan for bathurst on the 7th oct so in total I have 11 day's-ish in Japan.... and have got a JR rail pass.... (no nozumi) things I'd love to do!!! - hire a GTR - yes it is possible I am sure, and I'm 35 so not a young punk!! .... ideas? - track time (not in the GTR obviously...)? or visit another circuit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukuba_Circuit maybe??? - places to eat? - places to see cool japanese things? - nismo factory? is it possible? how? basically I'll go anywhere I can, and make most use of the rail pass... fill me with ideas boys!! I will post pics of the adventure!!!!

Thanks Drunken.... Neil I'm curious as to who you could of voted for that will actually have a shot at winning (the driving phase, not this "dancing with the stars" part..) Crashing is part of racing, although 19 podiums from 20 races and 12 wins in 2009 shows we don't crash... the most damage from 2009 so far has been 2 BIG stone chips on the nose box... oh they came from the GT-R safety car while following it at Winton http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/10915/

Surely there are some people here that want to see an Aussie go all the way to F1????

Well as you may or may not know, Nick has just wrapped up the 2009 championship in Australian Formula Ford, but what for the future?.... Well one chance he has, is to compete in the Grand Prix Shootout, which would pay for him to race in Europe... If he is fast enough who knows where he can go?! Simply, all you have to do is log onto his Driver Database profile, and type in your email address and click vote! yes its that simple!! Then simply click on the link that will be emailed to you and you've have helped give one of Australia's most talented young drivers a chance... so what are you waiting for? http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/10915/ for more information on what it is all about see http://www.grandprixshootout.com each internet connection can vote up to 10 times (10 email addresses for the one IP) so everyone in your house or work can vote too! ( or if you have more than one email addy ) PS If you have the time, please send this link onto as many people as you can as every little vote counts !!! www.nickpercat.com results speak for themselves most wins in 40yr history of Formula Ford.... 20 races this year for 19 podiums and 12 wins! see www.formulaford.com.au for details

yep you are 100% correct with the last part.... I'm not saying you don't have race experience, but professional teams use N2 for a reason, and its not to just spend money.... we have found that tyres that run even one session exposed to water (on the race track) are changing the tyre's characteristics and knocking maybe 1 second a lap off optimum times once the track dries!!!! this same effect was happening with air (even dry) as it wasn't as dry as N2.... when you are running control tyres, and have to maintain a tyre bank, its rather important to look after the rubber you have.... so back to road cars! if running N2 you will have the tyre closer to optimum pressure for the life of the tyre, and that will aid in tyre life/wear/grip all the good things!!!

well I could.... if I owned it for 12mths in the UK

Marko! how are you going!!... If you get an R35 before me jeeeeez... haha! yeah I could get one in the UK, but I would need to keep it there for 12mths! ...which isnt too much of a drama! as I have a house there... but if I was going to that sort of effort it would only be for a gallardo or GT3 RSR

snowy! Im curious.... are you saying that TQ didnt have to change anything? or that he had to change a lot..... (maybe your humour flew over the top!!)

ok girls.... back to R35 prices.... whats the latest? aussie price? japanese price? all on the road no bullsh%$ etc etc.... I would be keen to get one in 12 mths time! so keeping a close eye on the way prices are going....

So Julian got a new set of wheels eh.... I do rate the 427!!!! I wonder what his opinion is on both????? His garage looks like mine! (seriously).... I'm guessing inner city luxury townhouse!

yeah not quite so easy... what you will find is that remaining in your now partially flat tyre is a lot of water! and oh when you inflate it again with wet air yep, you guessed it.... your back to square 1! dry air yes is ok... but if your going to the effort of running dry air, why not get N2! its bloody cheap.... If any of you don't believe N2 is the way to go for optimum performance your kidding yourselves.... ask anyone who has REAL racing experience! oh and for interest... This is how ferrari managed to control tyre issues recently :- One of the most talked-about elements of the McLaren spy case was a special gas used by Ferrari in its tyres – in particular, an incriminating email from McLaren test driver Pedro De La Rosa to lead driver Fernando Alonso that revealed that the gas reduced the internal temperature and blistering. In the email De La Rosa is quoted as saying ‘we’ll have to try it, it’s easy!’ Racing tyres are typically filled with air or, in more professional series like Formula 1, Nitrogen. But in an email from Alonso to De La Rosa he states it is ‘very important’ that McLaren test the gas that Ferrari uses in its tyres as ‘they have something different from the rest.’ He follows this up with ‘not only this year. There is something else and this may be the key. Let’s hope we can test it during this test, and that we can make it a priority!’ It has been widely reported that the gas used by Ferrari was carbon dioxide and, whilst this is partially correct, it’s not the whole story. In fact, the gas used by Ferrari is a hydrofluorocarbon (HFC)-based mixture designed specifically for use in racecar tyres, though not dissimilar in composition to gasses used in refrigerators, which are comprised entirely of hydrogen, carbon and fluorine. A team headed by Andrea Seghezzi of Monza, Italy, in association with Gruppo Sapio developed the gas and subjected it to extensive track testing. It was discovered that the HFCs were able to effectively conduct the heat generated during the rotation of the tyre to the wheel rim at a more or less constant pressure. The wheel rim then acts as a radiator, exchanging the heat with the outside air, maintaining a lower internal temperature and preventing it from overheating. This is particularly effective on aluminium or magnesium wheels. Racing rubber inflated with air also suffers from the effects of some internal chemical interactions, which damage the structure of the tyre, and can result in a sudden drop in performance. Due to the high capacity for heat transfer, tyres inflated with the new gas mixture achieve excellent longevity, since the temperature of the tyre is kept low and the pressure is constant. After extensive tyre testing the best blend of HFCs was found to be 52 per cent Tetrafluoroethane, 44 per cent Pentafluoroethane and four per cent Trifluoroethane. This mixture, known as HFC R404 A, was found to be most effective in a racing tyre when it was inflated with a blend of 50 per cent HFC R404 A and 50 per cent CO2. The use of this new gas mix for tyres has implications far beyond Formula 1, of course, as using it allows teams to run softer compounds for longer, or to work the tyres harder. It could also be that there will be worthwhile benefits in races run over longer distances, like NASCAR or Le Mans. The court case continued without revealing the precise details of HFC R404 A, but it transpires that, despite the encouragement of the drivers, a Bridgestone engineer doubted whether the gas mixture would be effective if used on the McLaren MP4/22. However, it is thought that the McLaren drivers were not fully aware of the gas mix, rather they only knew of the CO2 element.

ok ..... The facts :- Nitrogen is more stable - so is less likely to rise in pressure as temprature increases.... it also does not continue to "grow" once at hot operating temprature. Nitrogen does not pass through the surface of the tyre, after all rubber is just a membrane.... if you don't believe me, ask yourself why a balloon goes down after a few days??? So less loss of pressure over time (i.e. session to session or day to day) It is also "dry" meaning it doesn't have any water vapour in the tyre, causing once again unstable growth in pressure.... It is used in race cars for a reason, and not just because its cool to tell your mates This car is very tyre sensitive, so I am sure that having the best pressure in from cold to hot works well for tyre life also.... want to know what ferrari used to do to their tyres????

to coin a phrase! PICS OR BAN I've looked on the Haltech site... but nothing on their forums....

in car of the GTR was actually the M3... and yes the STIG is shite! hardlya patch on Ben collins, who can certainly rip it up nicely! ask fernando what he thought of the stig's driving in the wet at silverstone...

"For us, it's not clear how this time is possible. What we can imagine with this Nissan is they used other tyres." He believes the time achieved by Nissan with ex-Formula One driver Toshio Suzuki would only be possible with a semi-slick race-style tyre. Achleitner says Porsche took a standard GT-R, running on regular road tyres, and ran it around the Nurburgring within two hours of its own cars, on the same day with exactly the same weather conditions. He says there was no tweaking of any kind and the GT2 and Turbo both ran on regular Porsche road tyres, the Michelin Sport Cup. I'm pretty sure the "cup" tyres are a semi slick!.... they sure grip like them... and wear out in no time flat.... http://www.michelinman.com/tires/ultra-hig...ilot-sport-cup/ ?????

buy a 40D and save the pain when you will want to upgrade in 12mths... http://cgi.ebay.com.au/As-New-Canon-EOS-40...1QQcmdZViewItem body only.... Then if your into portraits get yourself a nifty 50 (50mm) $100 or less don't bother with any of the "kit" lenses as they are pretty much crapola... and save like buggery till you can get a 70-200 2.8 http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Canon-EF-70-200mm-f...1QQcmdZViewItem expensive??? welcome to photography oh and liveview is rubbish... sadly so is the new 5D II... video mode??? WTF 3.9 frames a second??? WTF...(40D is 6.5) its shooting to the rich fat american market it could be 40D for a looooong time, as the 1Ds III is such a jump! ****Edit**** didn't realise you had already bought...

I see the car is forsale in my105??? http://www.my105.com.au/Classified.asp?id=...amp;exfeature=1

Just to let you know.... the area around Frankfurt can be nice and sunny.... and then you find this at the Ring.... March 08! It is always worth going though!!!!!