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Any photos of how you attached it? Ian

I've just shifted into a new house (Yes! Off street parking for more cars! :-) ) and one of the things I'm going to want to do is get long bits of pipe home (light weight plastic). I've been using a borrowed ute for the last few days - and one of the nice things it had was a bull bar at the front with slots in it for a piece to go up to the roof level. So you could put something long up on three points - the back of the tray, the front of the tray, and the front of the car. I want to be able to do the same with my stagea! Years ago I made something for the towbar that went up to the roof - which was good for things up to about 4m or so, as you attached long things to the towbar bit, then the back roof rack, then the front roof rack. But now I need to be able to do 6m stuff... Has anyone put a bull bar on their stagea?? I found this post http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/225687-so-how-does-a-stagea-drift/page__p__3978775__hl__bull+bar__fromsearch__1#entry3978775 from 3 years ago, but no more details were provided. Anyone? (and yes, I know you are all shuddering.. But my stagea isn't my have fun car, it's my carry the crap car.. :-) ) Ian

I've got some tires that were in (not on!) my stagea when it arrived from Japan a few years ago - I kept them in case I ever needed a spare set. Now we are shifting house, so I have to give them to someone or take them to the tip. As per the topic, they are four firestone f-690 tires, 215/50 r17 91v. Two of them don't look very worn, and the other two have the tread worn a bit on one edge. The first person to contact me (if anyone does!) can come and pick them up for free, we are in richmond in Melbourne and the need to be gone by feb 1st, 2011. Else, off to the tip they go. Camera is already packed for the move, so no pictures... Ian

The LSD was an option on the R34 GTT - so some have it and some don't. It was only standard on the r34 GTX (which was a GTT with most of the options included..). Ian

Good question - as after I gave up on the A1M's due to squealing (see above) I went to the bendix heavy duty. They don't squeal, but aren't as good at braking as the a1m were... Makes me pine a bit for the OEM pads too, which I quite liked - so if you get a price post it! Ian

I used to travel a lot to - so what I did was wire a plug for permanent 12v under the dash, and then plug in one of those little solar cell things jaycar has ($30) and sit it on the dash when I went away. It then kept the battery charged enough for the alarm to work and stopped the battery going flat. - and I made sure I parked the car facing north.. :-) see http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?I...mp;form=KEYWORD I've left it for 3 months like that and have had no problem, longer than that I left it with a friend to start it up and drive it once a month

I'm going to do a full post on this, but just a quick comment - mine was definitely the clutch fan. I''ve dropped back to my normal fuel economy since replacing it - in fact with everything I've done to find the problem (air filter, petrol filter, spark plugs, fuel injectors, ecu reset, replace o2 sensor, normal oil and filter change, and probably other things I can't remember. Plus new tires and brakes....) with the final one being the clutch fan - I've got better than ever ie I got 9.8l/100km last weekend when I did a 300km country drive sitting mainly on 100/110km/h.. That is better than when my car was two years old (when I got it) when I got 10.0l/100km on the same 300km trip. Maybe the wind gave me the better .2 this time! The point is, I was getting 20l/100km around town before, and 16l/100km country. All the other things improved it a bit, but the final bigy was the clutch fan - so do check it! A brand new one cost me less than $200.. Ian

if you look at my original post, I wasn't complaining about the adds, or them slowing it down by a few seconds - I was commenting that I'm running into times when that site kills it entirely... So what I was hopping was that you could have a fall back position, ie if Ad.yieldmanager.com doesn't respond in a certain time (say 10sec?) you bring the page up anyway... Ian

and have a look for a post from a couple of years ago - as we talked about this a lot and I posted the pics etc of my one when I put it into the rs4s. It's a rostra global cruise control (from memory) and works great. Links up to the speedo wire from the ecu, and the brake and clutch. Ian

hmmm, I'd been thinking of changing the rs4s for a m35 (the wife wants an auto...), but won't after reading this post.. I use the roof rails on stagea for carrying looong things, and the rails on the m35 look useless. I've also made a T frame that comes up from the tow bar, so I attach things at the front, middle, back on the roof, and beyond from the towbar - ie I've carried 8m long steel poles home on the stagea, and it does 6m with ease... And 2.4m*1.2m sheeting fits on the roof bars withno problem.. I couldn't do any of that with a m35! Ian

ADSL2 - close to the exchange ie I actually get 17mbits/sec download (not just line sync). Firefox, latest version. Windows XP. Pretty sure it isn't my system. And it comes and goes - ie today not at all, yesterday a lot... Ian

They may have eventually gone quiet, but it wasn't worth the hassle waiting for it to happen, not knowing if it ever would! Ian

I've been having a few problems accessing this site - it sometimes hangs and won't respond. Every time it does it is trying to access ad.yieldmanager.com I assuming you're using that to monitor or generate adds on each page. Can you check to see if it is occasionally hanging or taking a long time to respond? Do you get any stats from it? Is there any way your code can bypass it if it is not responding within a few seconds? Ian

After a bit over 4 weeks I gave up on the A1RM's this weekend. I put them in my R34GTT and they have squealed ever since (- and yes I do have the metal shims installed! And I had the disks machined). I've taken them out and roughed them up, followed the 'bed them in process', and they still squeal once they have warmed up (at slow speeds). The trouble was I was waking up the family (and the neighbors) when I came home late at night! They brake fantastically - great progressive feel and its like you've run into a brick wall if put your foot down hard - but I just can't have the noise. I've replaced them with what I could find quickly on a saturday morning (the wife was NOT amused when I cam home at 2am and woke her up with the noise and demanded Something Had To Be Done) - which was bendix heavy duty. They aren't as good as the A1RM for braking - they feel remarkably like the stock pads instead - but are dead quiet... :-) Ian

I've still got one problem to sort out (http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Spare-R34-Gtt-Cluch-F-t263596.html) then I'll put numbers up. But in the small amount of driving I've done so far, the engine is running noticeably smoother. Ian

Edit: I double posted the above due to an error with the ad.yieldmanager.com that this site uses.. I'll do a post about it in the appropriate area!

I put sumitomo HTRZ III in 235/45zr17 94y on my skyline a couple of weeks ago, after several personal recommendations. They aren't that expensive ($190 fitted) and I've been very impressed with them so far. Grip is good, and when they do start to loose it - ie going around a corner and you put your foot down a bit - they fail gracefully, ie slide a little bit, then a bit more if you push them. With my normal driving around town - when I wasn't trying to test them - they aren't sliding at all. I haven't had a real go in the wet yet (hasn't been raining much when I've been out) but the one shower I did catch showed they were still sticky in the rain. 8/10 Ian

as per the post above - with the engine rpm increasing it just gets noisier! Ian

And keep an eye on my post http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Sp...-F-t263596.html - and check your clutch fan! I'll know in a few days if that was it... Ian

I did go with the lubemobile - they have a guy who is a skyline enthusiast (Theo) who was very good. What they do is turn off the fuel pump, take off the fuel line at the engine, and then put their mixture into the engine and let it run for about 20 minutes. You could smell the stuff coming out of the exhaust. I haven't managed to go for a long drive yet, but the car did seem to go up a big local hill better.. Even better, while doing this he noticed what might be my fuel problem - my clutch fan is gone (see http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Sp...F-t263596.html). So all up I was very impressed. Ian

OK, this will hopefully be my 2nd last post on this... I hope anyone ever looking for a cluch fan for a r33 or r34 reads it! I rang a few after market shops, but nobody had one listed for a R34. I rang nissan and they quoted $435 for a new one I then rang a few wreckers, and got quotes of $150 to $170, but 'only for a R33' I rang back nissan, they said (after checking the part numbers) that the R33 one was the SAME as the R34 one. That was good, as I could get one from a wreckers BUT it might be as old as an early R33! So I didn't really want to risk it.. So I rang back one of 3rd party parts suppliers (http://www.motor-spares.com.au from above) and asked could they send one down from the ACT. Their quick reply was that it came from melbourne from davies craig! (part 5265). So I rang them (03 9369 1234), and yep they have them in stock - $213 inc gst ie http://www.daviescraig.com.au/Fan_Clutches...65-details.aspx So after many phone calls and hassles, I'll be buying a new one for not much more than an old one from a wrecker.. Going to get it tomorrow morning, I'll report on how I go with it after I put it in, it will be interesting to see if it fixes my fuel problem.. :-) Ian

thanks - I'll ring them in the morning. Ian

I've finally tracked down my fuel usage problem - the clutch fan is 'sticking' so when the revs go up, so does it - it's louder than the engine at speed! It means I'm always pushing the fan around, even at speeds that it shouldn't be... I rang around and there doesn't seem to be a third party replacement - and the stock nissan one is $435. Has anyone got a working one who wants to sell it, or know when I can get one cheap? Ian

if you have one for an r34gtt (I've heard they are different from a r33 one) pm me - as I need one too! Ian

Hi guys, thanks for the suggestions. (OO)SKYLINE(OO) - I've already tried the fuel injector cleaner in the petrol - definitely improved it a bit, but not enough... With flowrite and splintex - I can find both in the phone book, but neither have a web site, and neither have ever been mentioned on SAU (till this thread) so I'm a bit nervous... Do they both do them in place, or remove and clean them? blind_elk - do you have any specific suggestions of a place to go to, as I'm a bit reluctant to randomly pick one from the yellow pages.. :-) Ian