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i think it's about the second week in december, when i know for sure i will let you know. i would love to go to fuji speedway & to race on it would be awsome! , can you see the mountain in the back ground?? russ P.S Richard i saw that white r32 that runs 9's that you have in your diary, bloody nice car! i saw it in the flesh at the trade show we went to overthere.

hey john, awsome effort with your car mate! hats off to you! NEW PB!! 10.17 @ 132mph thats fantastic!! cheers russ

Hi Richard, yep the full set !! mind you , mind you the cars are half Marks as well . I would love to get the new gtr but my wife would divorce me! hmmm i like you photo diary of japan really cool, i was at a few places you have photos of, last weekend! my first time ther and i loved it!! i will be going back there in december to run in the hypermeet time attack at Tsukuba circuit which will be awsome. Hey Cam , hows your GTR going? and you know your welcome to come around ,we should get the 34 back here in about two months, it will be purely circuit/time attack car but not till next year. cheers russ

nah mate! it is a beautiful car, i just need to finish it! its just a shame as i am going to sell it as i need the money for the 34 and i havent even driven it yet!! cheers russ

hehe , would have been good to be quicker than the westfield!! dont ya love it i had a great race with a westfield up here at a top gear meet , i think its the most fun i have had racing so far!! russ

it's good to see we all burn the midnight ours on our passion!! this is an unfinished project! hopefully finished in about 3 or 4 weeeks! this will be the new project! cheers russ

good pics !! i am really liking this thread

hey gents good to see all the nice cars on here!! not sure how much , too much!! probably 60k plus original purchase price, i think four engines and a crash. cheers russ

yeah thats correct! thanks for your help guys cheers russell

car is being built for time attack in japan and the u.s.a and these events are not cams sanctioned as far as i know? cheers russell

hi could someone please steer me in the the right direction for paper work and what ever else is required for importing a race only car, i have purchased a car in japan and need to import it , it will not be being road registered ever(circuit only car. thanks russell

absolutely toe in/out changes the way the car feels dramatically

SAU Nickname: giant Car Make and Model: r32 gtr Circuit Name: Wakefield Park Lap time: 1:04.10 (mark driving) Circuit Name: Queensland Raceway national Lap time: 1.17.1 (russ driving) Circuit Name: eastern creek Lap time: 1.40.0 (mark driving) Modifications Engine: rb26 Power: 380-400 awkw Suspension: tein street Tyres: do2g dunlop Brakes: AP cheers russ

i run a torque controller supplied by duncan and it works very well for us, we have done alot of racing over the two years it has been in the car(hillclimbs, sprints & tarmac rallies) and we are still using the original transfer case and we have not had to rebuild it. i will say one thing though, if you 4wd system is not working properly (as most r32's aren't when they get to this age) all a controller will do is speed up the process of destroying your transfer case oh & another thing, we did try a different torque controller that used a dial with percentages(10 stage adjustment) being directed to the front, this was a very sensative system and if you dialed in too much it would have killed the transfer case in a heart beat on circuit, not as bad for drag racing though. cheers russ

GO THE R34!!!! HEHE Yeah top job to get the Evo there at all, and bloody hell it was a fast weekend!! cheers russ

hey guys ! thanks for the nice comments and support the car was going beautifully, nearly all weekend Mark's driving was unbeliveable!! he really has a handle on how to get the most out of it. me on the other hand had a pretty ordinary weekend but it was enough to get the job done. yeah we were on the rev limit in 5th before the end of the airport 800mtr sprint about 275km/h same with eastern creek main straight, backing off at the start finish line to stay off the limiter. The GTR was well represented on the weekend with John & Craig in the other r32 as well, the speeds and times were up also it was a very competitive weeekend. lots of smashed gearboxes (14 i think) and a few accidents.

yeah umm bel garage evo won with a low 1:06 (going quick too!) then john from unique came 2nd with a 1:06 mark in our car came third, with a high 1:06 mark went out in the morning and the car went great in practice, put it away and waited for the flying lap and the moment it went out , no boost. we thought we had a boost leak and spent to much time on that and missed the second session. thats racing luckily john let us use his boost solenoid for the dutton!! thanks John cheers russ

hi mate we use gts4 diffs which helped lower the ratio but didnt make the difference we were looking for. cheers russ p.s : and yeah your dead right, the reimax gears are higher grade steel replacing sintered as well. do you race utes?

mate your a gem!! thanks for that i will be looking into that setup, i would say they would have to be fairly robust to inuse in speedway?? correct? cheers russ

hi mate yeah 4th gear is dog straight cut also, but it is one to one ratio so power goes straight through the mainshaft of the box and therefore doesnt make any noise. cheers russ

reimax oil pump gears are stronger gears for the standard n1 oil pump, as we have broken the standard ones before . and if any one knows of a quick rack for a gtr i would love to hear about it!! cheers russ

they are in a gtr, so many turns lock to lock ( unlike a quick rack in an evo or sti) but good fun!!!

some vids i put on you tube, seems to play better cheers russ

john that is the area we spent alot of time trying to make it right, when you look at your graph you making full boost at about 4000 where as we hit full boost 500 rpm earlier , which makes a huge difference off a corner & worlds apart when going round witches hats in motorkahnas using the handbrake, i'll try and post a video of the car at a motorkahna it may show the car has great low down power and insane through the middle. yeah i may have to go to 30 row cooler or two 19 row under the car when we rebuild it. yeah roy i will have to check up on the legals side of it, the guy doing the cage does a lot of cages for the arc guys so i have a lot of faith in the strength of his work. also regarding the manifolds the car was definately lacking off slow corners and witches hats stuff as we were boggin down and having to fan the clutch to get it back into the boost range when using the extractors also the exhaust system had a quite an effect in this area too! also boost piping length & material thickness effectsit too. nah snowy not coming to Vic, would love to because was awsome event last time we were there but to much to do, we run vp 109 in the dutton rallies also along with a few others cars and then others are running martini race fuel, if the outlaw it it wouldnt bother me, we mainly use it for safety absolutely no detonation. pump fuel is far cheaper and with an aquamist setup which we are going to be using when we rebuild it we give better performance results with they same kind of safety margin. i went for a ride in a world rally car a couple of years ago with kenneth erickson( which was awsome) and he went through a few things before we got going, when we were ready to take off, he startedthe launch control system and antilag and boost climbed to 2.8bar before we had launched and when we were going along boost was climbing to almost 4 bar , with inlet temps no greater than 20 degrees on a 32 degree ambient day!!! amazing too bad they are restricted cheers russ

hi Roy i will try and tell you what we have found really important and our mods. power is approx 380 to 400 kw's @all four depending on weather and temp. so yep, still 2.6 bore size, 270 cams tomei, adj cam gears, cleaned up cylinder head ports, n1 valve springs,cp pistons, tomei rods, n1 oil pump with reinmax gears(also use tomei oil pump previously), hi octane racing large sump (will be going to a hi octane racing 4 stage dry sump in a month or so) standard exhaust and intake manifolds, are intercooler, n1 garret equivelant turbo's, greddy intake boost pipes, apexi airfilters, autronic ecu and cdi ignition,gonzo exhaust, vp109 fuel( good for 30kw's and much safer than pump fuel), tilton brake pedal box, australian spec tein suspension, bosch fuel pumps, advan suge tank, npc clutch ( i swear by it!!), carbon tailshaft. block and crankshaft are standard, acl race bearings, 25 row oil cooler, standard blow off valves. we also run a water sprayer for the radiator and oil cooler for longer circuit runs. we have tried hard to make the power come on hard down low in the rev range , which makes it easier to drive, we tried aftermarket extractors and the car made more power but we lost over 500 rpm before boost would come on so we went back to standard manifolds, adjust cams to get power as early as possible, car has over 300 kw's at 3500 all the way to rev cut, rev cut we have lowered to 7800 till we get a dry sump. the other thing we have spent a lot of time on is the 4wd system and wheel alignment setup, nearly all r32 gtr 4wd drive systems we have looked at including our car when we got it, do not function as they should. wheel alignments also have been a real issue. we have had a lot of trouble get alinment shops to align to the spec you ask for and ahen checked they are way out!! we now do all our wheel alignments by string line and have had far better results. the car will be coming off the road in two months(after nsw dutton and maryborough sprints) for a full rebuild, dry sump if not before) , side exit exhuast for events that allow it, chromoly strut to strut cage, try to lighten it some, total repaint, stack dash , hopefully carbon doors, bigger swaybars & a few other changes. hope this helps if you want to anything specific just ask cheers russ