mad082

a very skinny, nerdy 8 year old, and the 16yr olds are the type that can already grow a full beard and like to open bottles of beer with their teeth.

i actually think that the nissan box is good. the audi and vw ones aren't that good. and the vx commodore never had tiptronic.

but it is still essentially an auto. you don't have to try and slip the clutch off the line in just the right way, you don't have to time your hand and feet at the same time so that you don't end up grinding the gears or missing the gear altogether, like if you hit the gate going from second to third). if you can manage to grind or miss a gear in a car with a dsg gearbox then you must be the worlds biggest moron. you can change at the wrong rpm (which you can do just as easilly with a manual), or not hit the shifter hard enough to get it to change, but the chances of someone actually doing that are pretty small. just like at the 911 turbo. the tiptronic box in that yeilds a 0-100 time 0.2 seconds quicker than the manual. the computer does all the work for you. all you have to do is keep your right foot buried into the carpet and tap the shifter a few times. i bet that if you took a group of 20 ordinary people to the track with a gtr and had them run, all using the traction control, and just telling them to change at the same rpm, they would all run very similar times, but if you then let the same group of people drive a different car that ran the same sort of time but was manual and had no launch/traction control you would find that the times varied greatly.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5005941,00.html

yeah i found the 3076 a bit laggy on my mates car too. although his engine had 'issues' but it still made 251kw at 16psi.

one thing with something like the r35, they have made it so a useless driver can be almost as fast as a good driver. as the fella that drove it round the track in england said, it was just so effortless to drive. they are basially making the car drive itself, LOL

the sideskirts of the car look ok being colour coded, but the front spliter looks like crap. i prefer it being black.

actually the spacer you need is about an inch thick. i installed a 3076 on a mates 33. and you will need a new intake pipe as the compressor housing needs a 4" intake , and you need to make a few mods to the 'hot' cooler pipe. a good bolt up replacement is a highflowed r33 turbo from gcg. they are a 100% factory fit, but as your turbo isn't standard some of the oil and water lines may have been altered, but a trip to a local hose place should sort you out.

how much it comes on boost depends on how much accelerator you give it. my gts-t would be at 13psi by less than 3000rpm if i booted it, but i could keep it pretty much off boost and drive along at 4000rpm. the more you plant your foot the more boost you are going to give it. not just the rpm.

a 3076 will bolt up to a standard manifold, but you may need some oil fittings. as for the ecu, any aftermarket ecu will do the trick. you are best of asking the person who is going to tune it what they prefer. by using what they know the best you will get the best tune from them. if u get something they aren't familiar with you won't get as good of a result. and i think a 3076 might be a bit big for a rb20 unless you are chasing big power. it will partly depend on what housing size you get. but i don't know that much about what turbo is suitable for rb20's.

if they can ever get them to stop going up in flames, LOL

i agree, on a cold morning just letting the car sit and idle till it warms up can take much much longer than if you just drive it slow, especially if the car doesn't get kept in a closed off garage. and also the time it takes depends on your thermostat. if your thermostat is stuffed and not closing properly, letting it idle up to temp could take an hour on a very cold morning, which isn't good for the motor at all. when i drive to work in the morning, by the time i have been sitting at intersections, etc, the car is usually up to temp in less than 1km, and that would be no more than 3 or 4 mins. although my skyline used to take a touch longer to come up to temp.

depends on how it is supposed to be pronouced. if it is supposed to be pronouced the same as the constelation (oh-ryan) then it is ok as it is completely different. but then toyota has the ascent (assent) and hyundai has the accent (ack-sent)

i would suggest posting in the for sale section, not in here

both r33 and silvia wheels are 16 x 6.5 also 300zx wheels fit. they are 16 x 7.5 i am pretty sure, so you can fit a wider tyre on them.

yeah my bad, i meant to say the GT2 is 200kg lighter than the turbo, not the gtr

yes, lets organise a day then smear it all over the internet that we won't buy fuel that day. i'm sure none of the fuel companies or their staff ever use the internet. a better idea would be a whole week where you don't drive your car to work. that way you wouldn't be buying fuel, and also not using it, so the fuel companies actually would lose money. cause while you have a day that you aren't buying fuel, you are still using it as you drive to work.

and then they would make MORE money. and instead of make, say 5c a litre they could put it up and make 10c a litre. and more people would be buying it cause they hadn't bought any the day before. so the unrealistic loss of 4.6 billion dollars could turn into a gain of 10 billion. the only positive i can see from this junk email is that there will be people who don't have the mental capacity to add 1 + 1 won't be buying fuel so there will be smaller waiting times at the servos. and if these emails are so common, don't you think the fuel companies would know about them? so they could be pricks and lower the cost of fuel on the day just to piss people off.

IT WON'T WORK!!!! ok so you don't buy fuel on friday. so you wait till saturday, or do it tonight. either way the fuel companies will still get their money. they will have a slow friday but today and saturday will be busier and make up for it. we have been discussing this in wasteland for weeks and on other forums, and we all agree that it won't work.

i'd like to see a comparisson between the gtr and the 911 gt2. the gt2 is about 200kg lighter than the turbo due to it only being rwd. i also think that if they had left the traction control on in the 911 they would've got a quicker time. i also noticed that they ran the gtr on an empty tank too.

i think it will take something EXTREMELY special to get the r35 to a sub 50 second lap. the current outright lap is 51.8, so to shave 2 seconds of that is going to be extremely hard. going from 1.01 to 59 didn't take that much, but it will take a lot more to get it down to 57, then much more again to get it to 55, and a massive amount to get it to 50 or below.

or they land on their wheels and drive off

just looked at the spelling of the thread title. it's actually orion (like the constellation), not orian.

they could've been controlling the ignition timing or rev limiter to get it to do that. you can tell by the way it nearly stalls when it gets the real low note. but renault did god save the queen at the woodford festival of speed back in 2005 the first 55 seconds or so is them warming up the engine