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    Adjustable Castor Arms

    in Suspension, braking and tyres

    Posted

    Hi guys,

    I grabbed a set of Shiang-I adjustable caster rods for my R32 GTR. They look ok quality with a rubber boot over the rose joint, which I was happy about.

    But after talking to a couple of wanna-be drift kings they tell me that some of these after market arms break! How likely is this given it's only street driven?

    Last thing I want is to be repairing the firewall after the caster rod snaps. I've seen it with stock rods when people just gutters and the like.

    Your thoughts most appreciated.

    Replacement Fuel Pump

    in General Maintenance

    Posted

    Hey all,

    I have a case of the lazy fuel pump disease. It's not holding up it's end of the bargain.

    What fuel pumps are people using these days as replacements? The cars pretty stock, just exhaust and filters. So I'm not fueling a 1000hp monster.

    Is there a suitable replacement that slides straight in? or are we messing around with brackets and stuff now?

    Thanks!!!!!!

    Rebuilding A R33 Gts 5 Speed Yourself.

    in Drivetrain and transmission

    Posted

    Have done a few of them...Not rb25 boxes, but vl turbo, d22 navara, rd28 patrol boxes, they all are the same basic box, just minor differences.

    They are a large, heavy, and clunky box. I was always amazed at how much end float the gears had. LOL.

    Everything is circliped and shimed in (unlike rb20, rb30 NA boxes, which are hold by threaded nuts).

    Any usually everything is DAMN tight. I was lucky enough to have access to NISSAN tools, so that puller shown above is a blessing. LOL. It can be done at home, but dont hope to get it all done in one weekend, unless everything runs smoothly.

    Interior Globe

    in General Maintenance

    Posted

    The cap doesn't come with the globe - you simply swap it over onto the new globe. Any spare parts supplier will have the globes.

    I've tried a couple of places here in SA with no luck, can you suggest any one who I should try?

    Gtr Calipers

    in Suspension, braking and tyres

    Posted

    hey all,

    i always thought my calipers were just 4 pot and there was nothing else to it?

    but today i saw another R32 GTR with tight as brakes! they were gold and im pretty sure they looked like

    "brembros"? but they had nissan writting on them???

    so its come to my attention that there must be different brakes that came out with different brakes?

    any1 know cheers?

    There are severaly types of "nissan' 4 piston calipers.

    There are ONLY R32 GTR Nissan/Sumitomo callipers though, and only the V spec II with the R33 Brembos..

    You more than likely seen repainted nissan calipers, perhaps with a larger rotor and adaptor to make it look 'tight'

    Australian Stockmarket

    in News & Current Affairs

    Posted

    My view is that we will only know what the hell is going on after October. Why October? Cos historically October is the bearer of bad news. Ask your parents about October 87.

    So we are having a dead cat bounce, that will "pump and dump" in October. Every major downturn in history has a dead cat bounce. It's human nature, buy in to a prematurely rising market only to be cut down again.

    Unfortunately, IMHO, the government interference will only ensure the length of the downturn will continue. Yes, it sucks to see people loss jobs, but is it in our childrens interest to rack up massive government debt? We cant have a free market and too much government intervention, it doesn't work that way.

    All the older folk I speak to hold the opinion that Australia hasn't been touched yet......I will give praise to K.Rudd and his team if they keep it that way....but time will tell.

    Melbourne Girl Looking To Get Into Mechanics.

    in Victoria

    Posted

    This is quite funny. Not long a go a fella was saying he wanted to be a mechnic. I let rip with my view of the trade and was shot down for being over negetive and crap at my job!

    How disliking your job eqates to being no good at it beats me. Shane Warne wanted to be an AFL player, didn't really care much for cricket, but was the best bowler of all time.

    But here in this thread alot of people are advising against it.

    I have no doubt females can make great mechanics. You just gotta be able to stand up and tell the idiots running the show to F#@K OFF alot of the time. After all why aren't they working on the cars?

    Automotive customers are the worst in the world. I am sure of this. Im sick and tired of chasing dash rattles and squeaks. Consumer law says these are not warranty, and we should get paid to find them. I spend alot of my day doing warranty stuff, and they business just doesn't get paid for it. Hence my time is worthless. Thats what annoys me the most. Im selling my life away at a rediculously low cost.

    How can a lawyer justify $80 just to answer an email, where I can work on a car for two or three days and the business doesn't recieve a cent.

    Financial Crisis

    in Australian Capital Territory

    Posted

    Have I been affected? Oh son of rajab yes.

    My investments have been sold down way lower than their worth. How can I say that? Well all of them made record profits last year, for the last six months last year and look to be well on their way for this six months.

    I was close to starting a business outside of my current field, but this has been put on hold. Ill have to continue to do what I do now. By the end of the year Ill just buy a business. I think we got lots of bad news yet to come. End of the year should see the local economy really hurting.

    I did post in another thread that we would be in official recession in April. Well last quarter last year we shrunk, and we will definately shrink this quarter, voila two quarters of negitive growth. Yes, technical recession in April. On the upside, gee aren't Vspec's getting cheap....Getting closer to buying my Vspec II every week.

    Who's Given Linux A Shot?

    in PC & Games Discussion

    Posted

    Ive been messing with liunx (mainly mandriva) for what for 6 or more years now.

    It was bit hit and miss back then. Now its pretty darn good.

    I built a new pc in October last year and some of the drivers werent out, like the network driver and video card. Thats what you get for buying cutting edge. I was able to get it working after googling for a few hours. I couldnt get my RAID array running. A few months later mandriva 2009 came out. I installed that and everything, EVERYTHING, was detected and worked.

    So the improvements happen so fast with everyone from around the globe finding and repairing bugs.

    I still have to spend hours googling to find ways to do stuff. I am a member of the Mandrivausers forum and those guys are great.

    I still dual boot with XP, as some of my programs are windows based. But I'm sure i could get them to work under WINE.

    Linux is so stable and so much faster that I use it for practically all my surfing and other pc duties.

    As a normal home pc linux would be perfect. If your like me and mess with hard ware abit and like messing around it still takes a bit to find how to do stuff.

    I love my linux installs. The 3d desktop effects are always impressive for my friends too!

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