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you do know that there are levers and stuff that let you adjust the seat (both the angle of the back rest and the lower half of the seat.....

for those that didn't here is a link to the story http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=304160 basically it is a satchell of powder that sticks to the outside of your airbox and is supposed to get you better fuel economy. i am wondering if the aussie distributer is on this forum. he is a r34 owner from brissy. they did a test and the car with the item got 3.6% better economy over a 12km round trip, but half of the trip was through the centre of the gold coast, so it may have just come down to that particular driver being a little bit lighter on the accelerator. it costs $100 to buy the stuff (for the larger satchel which is rated for a car above 1.6L). so for most people it would take a year to have made enough of a saving to pay for the damn thing.

how much fuel you use more depends on how much time you spend on boost. the more time spent on boost the more fuel you will use. also what sort of driving you do also makes a difference. the term city driving doesn't mean much these days. i drove from albany creek in brissy to mt gravatt and only had to stop about 3 times in 45 mins. that trip would've used a lot less fuel than if i had done it in the worst possible peak hour traffic. if you sit dead stopped in traffic for 20 mins a day (10 mins on the way to work, 10 mins on the way home) you will be wasting a fair bit of fuel every week.

yeah my bad. wasn't sure which of the 2 it was. i knew it was the opposite of the s1 though

the answer is why not? but they are a tuning company that does a lot of stuff for the magna. it also comes down to what you want to do. do you want to do the same thing as everyone else, or do something different.

but you can't apply the same rules too them. they are 4wd, they are turbo, they have a smaller motor, etc. to build it up under the same rules you would have to put a 5.0L v8, rwd, have an aero package that is the same as the fords and holdens, but the body up to change it to have the same track and wheelbase as the fords and holdens (even the new VE commodore has to have the body lengthened or widend to meet the regulations). so you would end up with a v8 supercar with a gtr shell. it would be no different to a toy slot car where you just stick whatever shell you like onto the same motor, etc. so at the end of the race the car with the best driver, etc would be in front. not necessarilly the nissan.and the main advantage the gtr has is the 4wd. but if you were to race a gtr in GTP today i think you would find the EVO's giving it a good run for it's money.

http://www.rpw.com.au/shop/index.php?optio...5&Itemid=40 and they have just upped the boost to 16psi and made 485hp. talk about an understeer warrior.

for the s2 r33 you only need to change 1 jumper. from memory you set jumper 8 to 5v. the rest stay as they are. i think it says thich jumper it is that you have to change on the first page of this thread

that'll buff right out

this wouldn't happen to be gary's old one would it?

i don't know about that. 2 seconds (about 80m at the average speed of 155kmh the GTR did on a lap) is a hell of a long time to gain over just over 6kms. and experience doesn't mean that much. just look at mark winterbottom. he hasn't been racing for anywhere near as long as skaife and he beat him in the top 10 shootout, and went on to set the race lap record. and the reason they cost so much is (as has been said) they spend big money on research to make stuff last longer, perform better, while still being legal. that is why they bring in control items. to cut down the costs. otherwise the team with the biggest budget will win. and to the people saying that there are GTR's out there lapping within a few seconds ot the V8 supercars, ask them to do over 6 hours in it and see how it holds up. that is the thing. at bathurst the cars spend about 4 hours at 100% throttle (60% of a lap is spent at 100% which is rather low compared to some tracks)

wasn't it in perth that the guy followed that lady and smashed her window that showered glass all over her baby in the back? definately a stupid idea to provoke idiot drivers.

that record means jack shit. pretty much every lap of this years race was 1 or 2 seconds (and as much as 4 seconds) under the quickest lap of the GTR. but because more time was spent behind the safety car the record wasn't broken. they were only 10 mins off the record and had a safety car come out after lap 1 for a few laps. so take that into account, plus the slower lap times in the wet for the last 40 laps and it would've been beaten. and the GTR only held the race record by 4 mins from the time set 7 years earlier by peter brock in a VK commodore. then it came within 1 min of being beaten in 95, and within 2 mins in 97. but because it is such a long race and the safety car is used so much now it is going to be a while before it is broken. does that mean that the GTR is a better race car than the cars raced if the record still stands in 10 years time? no. it means the circumstances were better.

and i have an old motor magazine where they put glen setons v8 supercar up against a formular ford and a porsche gt3 down a runway. the v8 didn't get off the line that well, and they were all about even run about a 12.x second quarter (but the v8's speed was well above the other 2), and the v8 was a full second quicker that the other 2 going from 80km/h to 120kmh. the other 2 took about 3 seconds and the v8 took 2, and then after 400m the v8 stretched it's legs and left them for dead. i will try to find it tomoro and scan the performance figures in.

you are all forgetting 1 thing. at times the gtr was getting beaten by a 4 cylinder ford sierra, that didn't have 4wd. there were only a few v8 fords when the gtr was racing and they were old models as ford made no v8 when the gtr was racing. and you can't compare the times of some street cars to a v8 supercar. people with street cars can do whatever mods they want. the v8 supercars are limited to what they can do. they have to limit the revs to 7500rpm, they have weight restrictions, suspension restrictions, ecu restrictions, tyre restrictions, diff ratio restrictions, etc. if someone went all out and didn't have to abide by any of them i'm sure they could go a hell of a lot faster. hell, i'm sure f1 cars could go faster if they didn't have as many regulations either. and the formula holdens are even faster than the v8 supercars. at eastern creek the formula hold lap record is nearly 10 seconds faster than a v8 supercar, and a porsche carrera cup car record is less than 3 seconds slower than the v8, and at bathurst they were lapping as fast as a lot of the v8's even though they were about 20km/h slower down the straight. you can't compare 2 different catagory race cars evenly because they have a lot of limiting factors. they have so many rules and regulations they have to follow that there is no way that they can be evenly compared. but i remember a few years back in the GTP races at bathurst there was a few gtr's and they were getting beaten by a lot of other cars (and not just ones in higher classes)

both the ea's and vn's were the start of a new era too. the vl was an in between model. it had styling based off the vk and the nissan motor (which is loosely based of an earlier motor anyway), but the vn and ea were the start of a new era. the vn was the first v6 holden used, and the ea was thr first of the 3.9L. ford had problems with batteries exploding (so they gave them a CAI) and had problems with head gaskets going (i know mine did a few, but the bore itself looked like new) amoungst other things. then the later model eb's got the 4.0L and they didn't have as many problems.

yeah, i forgot about the rb30. and i was more talking about motors rather than gearboxes and diffs. sure they need a bit of upkeep. i think part of the problem with them is that a lot of people never service them. most will just drive it till it dies. but i know plenty of commodores and falcons that have done over 250,000kms on the standard box and diff and they are still running fine.

we put dan's under the cd player where the holder thing normally sits (since he doesn't have 1). we are eventually going to make a little panel to hold it firm. we put it there so it is easy to plug the laptop into it.

i have owned a commodore, a falcon, a 180sx, a skyline and 2 magnas (plus a few other cars). i must say that handling wise the imports win hands down....... until you hit a rough, typical australian outback road. then the softer suspension of the aussie cars does help quite a bit. i have been on roads where even at the speed limit the stiffer sprung japanese cars will walk across the road but the aussie cars will soak it up nicely. but they are designed for different purposes. the skyline is a family sports car. the aussie cars (well the sports versions like the vrx magna, xr falcons and ss commodores) that get slight handling upgrades are sporty family cars. also the majority of roads in japan are in better condition than the majority of aussie roads. if you have a family and want something that is going to be cheap to run (all running costs from fuel to insurance, etc) and plan on keeping it for years and years and do plenty of kms then a ford or holden will be fine. you don't have to run it on premium fuel so that cuts your costs down a bit, repairs are generally cheaper, and they will do well over 300,000kms easily on a motor, where as you don't see too many healthy japanese motors with that many kms on them.

you'll crash it anyway so what's the point? also you should note that changing your track can make you car illegal. in VIC, you can only widen the rear track on an independant rear suspension car by 25mm (front is also 25mm), so that is 12.5mm per wheel. so that means you can only change the offset of the wheel by 12.5mm. also having a wider rear track than front track can make the car a bit more unstable going into corners under brakes, and slightly easier to roll. having a wider rear track makes the dynamics a bit more like a trike.

there are multiple threads about this. and the bonnet isn't that have. man up a bit, lol

yeah they work the same. have 1 or 2 minor cosmetic changes (as the facia on te s2 is slightly different)

and expensive. most wreckers i found wanted $400-$500 for the stock series r33 gts-t front bar, second hand

i had this happening on the stock bov. pulled the plugs out (set of iridiums about 20,000kms old) and they were pretty much stuffed. stuck a set of coppers in and it went like a dream.

it would just be how they are molded into the outer bracket. i doubt it would have any affect on the inside bits as thay probably make a universal centre and just use different outter moldings.