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You can order a harness kit to convert from an aftermarket head unit's output into a configuration that can be plugged in to the Bose setup. The guys on 350Z-Tech recommend the PAC R-OEM harness. I'll be looking at ordering one from the US in the near future, as I've got a new double DIN head unit ready to go in to the car.

The extractors on our cars take ages to install. I've got a set of TopSpeed headers from UAS, and I think they're good. I did the extractors and cats at the same time (as well as the Motordyne MREV2), so its impossible for me to say what the headers by themselves did....but I can tell you the engine is generating a lot more torque in the top end with its willingness to go to my new 7200RPM cutout.

Yeah, I've tried to be really diplomatic about the whole thing but pulling over 10rwkW by changing the intake tube and moving the location of the AFM set off my bs meter. Considering they said they "tuned the length", but they only had the car for 6 hours. How many different metal intake pipes can you fabricate, install, drive to the dyno shop down the road, strap down onto the dyno, and power run in 6 hours? Even if they did it all via CAD by flow-testing the intake of the VQ35DE just north of the throttle body so a computer could calculate the best tube length and diameter and only require the fabrication of one tube, it would still take a fair amount of time. The guy also reckons he ran a 1:13 flat on his first time out at Wakefield Park in a dead stock car that he'd only owned for a week or two. Sure, Rick Bates managed a mid 1:12 in it during Motor Magazine's PCOTY....but Bates is a pretty damned good driver with plenty of track experience. I'm not saying he's intentionally having people on, but its quite possible he's been given the bum steer by others and he's fallen for it. The claims don't resolve well with my experiences with the car.

Wouldn't the width of your intended rotors have more of an effect on compatibility than the diameter, when it comes to caliper choice?

Duh! Do it quietly, so no-one notices.

Whether unboxed pod filters are defectable or not (and I've heard arguments on both sides), the cops will assume it is defectable and issue you with a notice anyway.

The correct response is, "you're welcome".

http://www.nagtroc.com/gallery/albums/user...cret-r35-11.jpg Shot of the back of the car. That rear rim has the requisite amount of dish.

Yeah. IS Motor Racing is having a Dyno Day this Saturday.

And the fronts look like they need less offset. There's not enough dish. Part of the charm of the older GT-Rs is being able to run low offsets and get mad dish / concavity to make the car like super wide.

That's what Mitsubishi and Subaru get for releasing new vehicles within the same year as Nissan releases its GT-R. They should have either released them at the beginning of the year, or some time next year. Its like movies that had the same release date as the Star Wars: The Phantom Menace or Transformers. They weren't going to get a look-in on that weekend, no matter how good they might be in isolation. The only companies that would have a hope of competing with the GT-R for attention would be if Honda released an all-new NSX. Even the Lexus LF-A, with its apparent GT-R beating Nurburgring time and F1-inspired V10 engine, doesn't have the history to match the hype surrounding the GT-R.

The A/F doesn't surprise me. Most cars designed for cruising at high speed run rich to preserve the engine. I remember reading an interview with Peter Luxeon of APS in a Motor Magazine, and he said they managed to pull 20% more power out of a 996 Turbo by leaning the mixture out. He said if you were sitting on an autobahn doing 250km/hr for several hours then the overly-rich mixture made sense, but when most of us don't sit at more than 120km/hr for any length of time its a waste of fuel and power. Given that the R35 GT-R's aero and suspension was engineered so the driver could sit at 300km/hr without tiring them out, you'd expect they'd do the same for the engine.

happy birthday *reacharound*

"Well, considerin' the semi-classical nature of the vee-hickal with the slick wheels and the custom paint job....." "Wait, the paint's faded!" "Yeah, but its custom." "Its custom faded?" "Well its your first car, I wouldn't expect you to understand." Somehow, I doubt that the R32 you were looking at would turn out to be a giant robot that turns itself into an R35 GT-R when the hot chick you've had a crush on says it looks like a piece of shit......

This is why Hong Kong drivers should stay out of fast cars. Those people scare me.

If you crash your car with disabled ABS (i.e. one of the vehicle's active safety features), expect to get reamed hard if your insurer finds out about it. Get it fixed ASAP. I had the same issue as you with my Z33, after I installed HIDs. It appears the high voltage lines were interfering with my car's CAN bus and sending weird signals to it. Your car doesn't have a CAN, to my knowledge, but it could be something really subtle causing your issues.

The V35 and Z33 share the same FM platform, so the suspension is completely identical. 350Z 17" and 18" rims will clear the Brembos. The 18" rims are 18x8.0 +30, the 17" rims are 17x7.5 +30 and 17x8.0 +33. I'm not sure if you can use the latter for Compliancing, but if your workshop says it can then its another option.

The Evo IX came with canards as a factory option. If I remember correctly, they were worth 4-5kg of downforce at some ludicrously high speed (200km/hr+) Unsurprisingly they were also bullshit expensive, so I told my mate that if he ever wanted to drive that fast with extra stability I'd buy him two bags of sugar to put in his engine bay.

Yeah. It needs a set of staggered TE37s, or if they were willing to go back to a 19" rim I'd put a set of RE30s on it for extra lightness. I wonder when RAYS and Nismo develop a 20" LM GT4 (or maybe they'll have a LM GT5 out for this car?) and what it'll look like. If there's any reason the two need to come up with a successor to the LM GT4, the new GT-R would be it.

I just read the last page. They gave the award to the R8 because they say its a better driver's car. Given Top Gear's long-standing position on the more enjoyable car being better than the faster car, the decision isn't unusual for them. Having never driven either its hard to say if they're right, but having driven cars that were fast but remote vs cars that are slow but responsive, I know which I enjoy driving on the road more. As for respect, the Europeans (especially the British) have plenty of respect for the GT-R. The R32 GT-R is one of Clarkson's best cars of all time (and Clarkson's one of the biggest douchebags in the car review world when it comes to brand snobbery). In Hot Metal he really liked that JUN 1000hp R33 he drove. I think if he was ever let at a Z-Tune, he'd adore it too. Tiff's felt the same about GT-Rs as well.

If you're buying the R35 for me, then its OK. Just read Wheels Magazine's review and the thing sounds tasty. I want one.

Oh, well, if you're doubling the price of the standard model then fair enough. But if the standard model is going to be AUD$150K, then the V-Spec would cost $300K. That puts it line ball in price with a 911 Turbo, so it had better go faster than a Veyron. I've only ever bought Nissans and I love them, but even I would baulk at paying $300K for one.

If/when Nissan releases their hardcore, stripped out versions, then it might be a competitor for the GT2. With rumours of a weight reduced "Evo" spec, if that thing gets more herbs out of the engine then they might aim it straight at the GT2. If/when Nismo releases an R-Tune or Z-Tune then it'd probably demolish the GT2's time. Even an S-Tune would give it a good run for its money. But, the base R35 GT-R was meant to be "luxurious" etc to be a true competitor to the 911 Turbo as an all round supercar. That it isn't as fast as the more focused GT2 isn't a bad thing. After all, no-one complains that both cars are still over half a minute slower than the production car lap record because the car that holds it is basically a bathtub with an engine and wheels.

The VQ is great for low-end torque. I can drive mine around town at 1500RPM in 6th gear and it won't lug on anything bar a reasonably steep hill. With boost, the VQ is insane.

That wouldn't be a minor job, though. Since the car was designed with a transaxle in mind, the driveshaft tunnel won't have a space for a bell housing near the driver's seat. That would mean floorpan modifications, which means structural modifications. That also means your crash tests for the regular GT-R wouldn't apply to the V-Spec, and so you'd have to comply them separately. While Nissan is charging a mint for the GT-R, they're still not a prestige low-volume manufacturer and so they won't be able to get away with making two similar cars that require individual homologation.