Sydneykid

They look to be a 2 piece arm, in comparison to the standard upper control arm which is one piece. One arm bolts to each side of the upright (hub), then bolts to the inner pivot points on the standard brackets. The trick would be to adjust the pair of arms in tandem, otherwise you will screw up the caster and most likely the bump steer. I would strongly suggest that adjustable bushes are a better proposition, unless you need gross amounts of camber correction ($183 on the Group Buy). Cheers Gary

To correct the rear camber on the rear of an R32/33/34 you need to adjust both the upper control arm and the traction arm. If you don't adjust them in tandem you end up with excessive bump steer (ie; the toe changes as the wheels go up and down). This uncontrolled toe changing disrupts the tyre's contact patch with the road and results in less grip and nervous handling. BTW, the name "traction arm" doesn't mean that they directly affect the tyre's traction. As described above, their effect on the tyres grip level is secondary and in very much in tandem with the upper control arm. The word "traction" actually refers to their effect in controlling the fore and aft movement of the upright (hub). One of the (many) reasons why I dislike the use of adjustable arms is the almost total lack of understanding by DIY'ers and many wheel aligners of the side effects of adjusting the length of a control arm to correct camber. You would be very lucky to find an alignment shop that even has a bump steer gauge, let alone someone who knows how to use one. Adjusting the traction rod length to correct the bump steer is a painstaking process, one that the requires both the equipment and the skill/knowledge/experience to use it. The standard Nissan upper control arm and traction arm combination is pretty much the best matched length for minimising bump steer. Which is one of the (many) reasons why I prefer to use adjustable bushes to correct camber. If you adjust the eccentric to the same degree on the upper control arm and the traction arm then you will end up with no more bump steer than the car has standard. Cheers Gary

We are currently suffering from out of stock on some springs, some alignment products and some shocks absorbers, which is holding up about 20 deliveries, some for over 6 weeks. So we haven't been taking new orders, it's not fair on the guys who are waiting on their stuff. Springs are gradually arriving, they are made in Europe, so delivery takes time. The bush production is getting back on stream after the amalgamation of the Noltec and Whiteline alignment products, the new combined range is called Whiteline Plus. Some are due this/next week. That leaves us with a few kits that will be waiting on selected Bilstein part numbers. I am on the suppliers case daily as many of the guys are, understandably, getting impatient and they send multiple PM's every day, this fills up the inbox faster than we can reply. It's a temporary situation caused by a number of unrelated issues, once we are passed that we will take some new orders. The bonus is there are a number of new and improved products that we will be able to include in the various Group Buys. Cheers Gary

We are currently suffering from out of stock on some springs, some alignment products and some shocks absorbers, which is holding up about 20 deliveries, some for over 6 weeks. So we haven't been taking new orders, it's not fair on the guys who are waiting on their stuff. Springs are gradually arriving, they are made in Europe, so delivery takes time. The bush production is getting back on stream after the amalgamation of the Noltec and Whiteline alignment products, the new combined range is called Whiteline Plus. Some are due this/next week. That leaves us with a few kits that will be waiting on selected Bilstein part numbers. I am on the suppliers case daily as many of the guys are, understandably, getting impatient and they send multiple PM's every day, this fills up the inbox faster than we can reply. It's a temporary situation caused by a number of unrelated issues, once we are passed that we will take some new orders. The bonus is there are a number of new and improved products that we will be able to include in the various Group Buys. Cheers Gary

We are currently suffering from out of stock on some springs, some alignment products and some shocks absorbers, which is holding up about 20 deliveries, some for over 6 weeks. So we haven't been taking new orders, it's not fair on the guys who are waiting on their stuff. Springs are gradually arriving, they are made in Europe, so delivery takes time. The bush production is getting back on stream after the amalgamation of the Noltec and Whiteline alignment products, the new combined range is called Whiteline Plus. Some are due this/next week. That leaves us with a few kits that will be waiting on selected Bilstein part numbers. I am on the suppliers case daily as many of the guys are, understandably, getting impatient and they send multiple PM's every day, this fills up the inbox faster than we can reply. It's a temporary situation caused by a number of unrelated issues, once we are passed that we will take some new orders. The bonus is there are a number of new and improved products that we will be able to include in the various Group Buys. Cheers Gary

We are currently suffering from out of stock on some springs, some alignment products and some shocks absorbers, which is holding up about 20 deliveries, some for over 6 weeks. So we haven't been taking new orders, it's not fair on the guys who are waiting on their stuff. Springs are gradually arriving, they are made in Europe, so delivery takes time. The bush production is getting back on stream after the amalgamation of the Noltec and Whiteline alignment products, the new combined range is called Whiteline Plus. Some are due this/next week. That leaves us with a few kits that will be waiting on selected Bilstein part numbers. I am on the suppliers case daily as many of the guys are, understandably, getting impatient and they send multiple PM's every day, this fills up the inbox faster than we can reply. It's a temporary situation caused by a number of unrelated issues, once we are passed that we will take some new orders. The bonus is there are a number of new and improved products that we will be able to include in the various Group Buys. Cheers Gary

We are currently suffering from out of stock on some springs, some alignment products and some shocks absorbers, which is holding up about 20 deliveries, some for over 6 weeks. So we haven't been taking new orders, it's not fair on the guys who are waiting on their stuff. Springs are gradually arriving, they are made in Europe, so delivery takes time. The bush production is getting back on stream after the amalgamation of the Noltec and Whiteline alignment products, the new combined range is called Whiteline Plus. Some are due this/next week. That leaves us with a few kits that will be waiting on selected Bilstein part numbers. I am on the suppliers case daily as many of the guys are, understandably, getting impatient and they send multiple PM's every day, this fills up the inbox faster than we can reply. It's a temporary situation caused by a number of unrelated issues, once we are passed that we will take some new orders. The bonus is there are a number of new and improved products that we will be able to include in the various Group Buys. Cheers Gary

We are currently suffering from out of stock on some springs, some alignment products and some shocks absorbers, which is holding up about 20 deliveries, some for over 6 weeks. So we haven't been taking new orders, it's not fair on the guys who are waiting on their stuff. Springs are gradually arriving, they are made in Europe, so delivery takes time. The bush production is getting back on stream after the amalgamation of the Noltec and Whiteline alignment products, the new combined range is called Whiteline Plus. Some are due this/next week. That leaves us with a few kits that will be waiting on selected Bilstein part numbers. I am on the suppliers case daily as many of the guys are, understandably, getting impatient and they send multiple PM's every day, this fills up the inbox faster than we can reply. It's a temporary situation caused by a number of unrelated issues, once we are passed that we will take some new orders. The bonus is there are a number of new and improved products that we will be able to include in the various Group Buys. Cheers Gary

We are currently suffering from out of stock on some springs, some alignment products and some shocks absorbers, which is holding up about 20 deliveries, some for over 6 weeks. So we haven't been taking new orders, it's not fair on the guys who are waiting on their stuff. Springs are gradually arriving, they are made in Europe, so delivery takes time. The bush production is getting back on stream after the amalgamation of the Noltec and Whiteline alignment products, the new combined range is called Whiteline Plus. Some are due this/next week. That leaves us with a few kits that will be waiting on selected Bilstein part numbers. I am on the suppliers case daily as many of the guys are, understandably, getting impatient and they send multiple PM's every day, this fills up the inbox faster than we can reply. It's a temporary situation caused by a number of unrelated issues, once we are passed that we will take some new orders. The bonus is there are a number of new and improved products that we will be able to include in the various Group Buys. Cheers Gary

What I can assure you that any reservoir in the boot of an R33 is most definitely NOT for HICAS. R33's and R34's have an electric motor that moves the rear steering rack, there are no hydraulics involved. R32's have a hydraulically moved rear steering rack powered by the power steering pump. Which has 2 stages, one stage for the front power steering and one for the rear. The reservoir for the power steering is under the bonnet. GTR's and GTS4's do have the ATESSA reservoir in the boot, as do 4wd Stageas. Cheers Gary

What Duncan said, plus the HICAS is electronic anyway, no Stagea had the R32 hydraulic HICAS, which BTW used the power steering reservoir. Cheers Gary

It's simple, when they are standard; S1 autos are all bush style, there aren't any S1 manuals except for 260RS's which are fork same as GTR. S2 autos are all bush style, S2 manuals are fork style as are 260RS's. Of course when people do conversions, auto to manual, RB25 to RB26 etc they may also change the rear cradle. So if you have a converted S1 or S2 it pays to look first before buying. Some advice, stay away from second hand Jap stuff that is designed for sedans or coupes, they never suite the waggon style. In fact even the waggon stuff doesn't suite our roads at all. Cheers Gary

Are you sure it's the coils? 99% of the time it's plugs and/or plug gap, not the coils. Cheers Gary

I assume you know that screamers are an instant defect? Cheers Gary

Have some extra (higher) circlip grooves machined in the Bilsteins. FYI, Eibach make many of the Bilstein spring applications. Cheers Gary

It pays to try the search button first before starting a new thread; The R33 exhaust is pretty much the same as the R32, just different hanger location. The Stagea hangers look like the R33 ones so my gues is you wouldn't have to move them like I did with the R32 exhaust. Cheers Gary

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Typical Japanese R34GTR spring rates, too high in general plus they try and fix the understeer with out of proportion (to the weight) rear spring rates. A decent sized rear swaybar is much better fix for the understeer and it doesn't compromise the ride or traction anywhere near as much. The sphositicated Bilstein valving (depending on part numbers) will typically handle a much softer spring rate without any problem. Cheers Gary

Sorry for the delay James, I have been tooo busy to forum. Cheers Gary

The problem with controlling boost via the pre intercooler pressure is that boost will slowly drop off at high rpm. Why? Because no matter how good it is, the intercooler and pipework will suffer some pressure drop. Plumbed into the pre-intercooler pipework, the wastegate actuator will not be receiving the actually boost pressure, hence the drop off at high rpm (actually airflow). Cheers Gary

The non adjustable bushes are pretty much the same price as the adjustable ones, plus I have never ever seen an R32GTR that doesn't need camber adjustment. Cost on the Group Buy is $183 plus freight. Cheers Gary

Have read of this thread before you buy something unsuitable; http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Wr...tml&hl=arms Cheers Gary

Are you substituting KPI for SAI? If so, changing camber at the upright (hub) with camber pins makes no real difference to SAI. SAI doesn't care what you do between the 2 pivot points, moving the pivot points themselves is what is important. For symplicity of tuning you are best thinking of caster and SAI as linked. ie; more caster = more SAI. One of the advantages of caster is the jacking effect, you most certainly don't want to minimise it. To answer the question regarding how much caster, it is hard to have too much caster. But ultimately it depends on what you are doing with the car and what tyres you are running. So there is no one correct answer for all situations. Cheers Gary