mad082

but i'm bored.....

hahaha, yeah thanks for that. i log in every week or so and retrieve the prize money i've gotten thanks to you and a few others. if i have time i run a few races to pay you back a bit too. zebra i sent you a friend request on PSN ages ago. i could've earnt you a heap of money over the past few months had you accepted, LOL

well for starters, with the x1, it has about twice the power of a f1 car (not "a few extra horsies"), and it has a buttload more downforce as well as less drag. as for lap times, a F1 car has never done a timed lap of the section of track used for road cars. they have only done a full lap which is 4km longer, but it is estimated the f1 car could do it in just over 5 mins. a car like the x1 wouldn't do quite as fast lap times in real life as in a game, but it would certainly smash the F1 time. and as for the comment about the supertourer and v8 supercar lap records being old, i have said many times that the current v8 supercars are no faster than the old ones as engine the regulations of the old ones meant they had more power. the GTR time could be set tomorrow, but if the GTR is still built to group A regulations then it isn't going to be drastically different to the times set back in the early 90's because it is still based off the 20 year old regulations. a GTR built to a different set of regulations would be able to post a faster time. as for AWD cars running faster times, you will find that there are road registered r35 GTRs able to post faster times than a group A r32 gtr. and to give a few examples of AWD times in the low 1:3x's, how about the fastest car at time attack 2010 at eastern creek. it was an evo that ran a 1:30.587. the next 2 cars were also AWD (an evo and a wrx) with 4th place being the fastest rwd, about 1.7 seconds back. every category was won by AWD cars. second place in every category was also AWD.

look up on the bosche website for the cross over reference to see if they are the right size, etc.

well considering they are in the business of selling cars for profit, what do you expect?

make sure you put full downforce on the car. this will allow you to go much faster round the corners. and then just slipstream the other cars down the straight and once you get to the front block like a sumbitch.

i can't answer your question, but i will just point out that if you are putting in the ECV to make the car legal, it technically won't be. if the car ever gets tested they test the exhaust with the valve open. if you are putting it in to at least reduce the amount of attention the car draws and make it quieter to drive, then go for it.

if you read what i said again, i'm pretty sure i refered to it as a theorhetical prototype. it was still properly engineered by the redbull engineers using the same software they design the f1 cars on, so the figures/performance would be pretty much spot on. as for why a v8 supercar is faster than a group A skyline, well if you pulled your head out of your arse and read any of my posts you would have figured that out. you can't compare a group A car to a v8 supercar. the rules that they have to built by are completely different, regardless of when the record was set. you might as well wonder why a 2L v8 (or whatever the current f1 cars are) which cost a few million dollars to build is faster than a 5L v8, v8 supercar that costs a lot less. if you look at lap records from eastern creek raceway you will see that a lambo gallardo has a lap record of nearly 10 seconds faster than a GTR and it is much less modified than a group A GTR. you will also see that a supertourer spec 2L, rwd bmw is about as fast as the lambo.

if you got 11.4L/100kms driving normally then your o2 sensor is probably fine, but you can test it with a multimeter.

yeah the mate i refered to in my earlier post had the same thing happen to the SR in his drag car.

i may or may not have used to do that in my skyline to pretty much every car i saw driven by young guys when i was bored, lol

also if you have to cut the reinforcement bars (or simply not use them) then it will be illegal

yeah but he said a mates uncle was going to do it, implying he has some sort of exhaust workshop, and generally exhaust places use better quality mufflers (note i said generally). in the same way that bike shops generally sell better quality bikes/parts than big w, etc.

rebuilding an engine will see you get an increase of hp (takes it back to what it was stock), so if you have a car that you have used a lot and it is down on power compared to when you first bought it and an oil change still doesn't take it back to full original power then a rebuild will. don't know about the chassis one though.

slight lost in translation going on there, but oddly enough it's pretty much true. it's going to cost sony US$169 million, but ultimately it will cost the general sony using public (and share holders/investors) $169 million.

it's an exhaust. there is a limit to how much the cheap/fast/reliable theory applies to this. performance wise there will be minimal difference, but cosmetically there may be a bit (how neat the welds are, etc). however there will be a bit of a difference in noise attenuation in mufflers. basically, just get a decent oval muffler and a centre muffler/resonator and you will still have good flow without the drone or attention from the boys in blue.

if there is a bit of a belt squeal then it is the compressor. if it only dies when idling but the car will still run if you turn it on when driving then it may be the AAC valve. if it kills the car when driving also, but there is no belt squeal then there may be an electrical short.

to be honest, i have no idea, but i would assume that at least the ecu plug would be the same, which is all you would need to use that ecu.

no free check, but for a small fee you can get a vcheck. i got one done a few months back. i think that even the most comprehensive check was only about $40 (was a few months ago so memory is a bit sketchy). here's the site https://www.service.transport.qld.gov.au/vehicleinformationcheckQt/Welcome.jsp

not having a go at the young guys in here, but i have a question. how much of your own expenses do you pay? do you pay for groceries? do you pay rent? do you pay for electricity, internet, etc? or do you simply pay a small amount a week in board which covers all that? if yes for this last question, then in a large way your parents are helping you pay for your car. this goes for the young kids that have saved up house deposits too. it's easy to say you paid for your own car/house when your parents pay for everything else leaving you lots of spare cash to save. on topic though, it's going to take quite a few years for them to appreciate in value, and in that time, if you take into account the rego and insurance you would pay on it over that time, you would probably still end up losing money on it.

well at 10psi they shouldn't but at around 170kw they would be getting up there a bit. my mate was running 15psi on his s13 (with the t25 turbo) and it was fine, and his missus had a s15 turbo on her 180sx. it was running 15psi with no fuel issues. my old 180sx was running 15psi on the stock turbo making around 170kw and it wasn't maxing out the injectors, however the first time it was put on the dyno it was leaning out and only made 135kw (before they backed off). a new fuel pump solved the problem.

played gt5 again for the first time since psn was hacked today. the first race i did was one of the ferrari seasonal events (in the ferrari f1 cars). it was 10 laps and i won easily. the next race was in a gallardo with sports tyres. got to the first corner on the first lap and understeered straight off the track, lol. took me 2 or 3 laps to get used to the handling of a normal car, lol.

the ecu would run it, but not very well. for starters the mapping is for a 2.0L engine with lowercompression and a turbo bolted to it and you are putting it on a higher compression, larger displacement engine. if you are planning on putting a nistune in it then yes it should be fine once it's tuned.

this. the engine regulations are more strict now than they were 10 years ago. as is happening in pretty much all race categories around the world, rules are being made more and more strict to try and make the racing more about the best driver (or team that is best able to dial the car in) rather than the team with the deepest pockets (like f1). everyone talks about the hey day of racing being back in the 90's with group A and the like, but from a spectator point of view it was as boring as batshit. "oh look the car that is vastly superior from the team with the biggest budget has won every race by a mile again. what a suprise......"

i'm not saying they couldn't get high kms, just saying that there is a stigma around imports with high kms. that said, i think that you would find that on a high km engine the aussie engine may well be in better condition because of the fact that they are such a detuned and lower reving engine. most japanese engines are a bit higher strung