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Really depends on the kid. I would have taken him earlier but this is my first time aswell, as I live in Brisbane. I've taken my boy to various motorsport events including drifts, sprints and drags and he enjoyed them all. I started with the Winternationals when he was about 2. He loved the top fuel cars. It's not really what the event is that matters so much for the age to take them, it's more about at what age you would feel comfortable taking him somewhere that you have be there for the whole day or days and keep the kid entertained enough throughout. Kids vary greatly in that regard. I think from 4 onwards would be a good age for most kids who have a bit of an interest in motorsports and have been to a few shorter local events beforehand.

My boy is 8 and I'm taking him this year, prices were $400 for me and $99 for the boy for the 4 day weekend in the Prost stand.

Yahoo auctions mate. I use Importmonster as they are easy and reliable. There are plenty of new c130 indicators on there, I got a set a while ago. They aren't very expensive. There's 2 sets of chrome hotplates on there right now. Good set are $1000 plus shipping and taxes etc. Will come to around $1500 total. Other set are not in as good condition but are $600 plus. Probably be close to $1000 landed. I paid around $800 landed about 2 years ago, prices are only going up. The other bits can be found there too, but you may get them here off a member if you're lucky.

What offset are they? Definitely interested.

It's looking very nice so far. Congrats.

You are right, I couldn't find any info on any of this when I was looking either. This info should be useful to somebody in the future.

Was this using mr30 trailing arms? or hr30? I'm also assuming you're talking about a factory viscous LSD too? Viscous LSD's are mostly old and worn out now anyway, so I wouldn't bother with one. But I can't see the oil seal problem being a costly issue. Was it possible to use the short nose seal in the long nose housing, to match the short nose flanges? If not, then turning up a pair of new oil seal rings for the short nose flanges shouldn't cost much. My local machinists would charge $50 or less for that. If you are using mr30 trailing arms you will need to change the flange on there to match the larger cv's, either 4 bolt hr30 or make a 5 or 6 bolt one to match short nose cv's. Then use 4 x inner cv's with the appropriate flange on either hr30, z31 or custom shafts. My conclusion is that it is possible with a bit of mucking around but only worth it for the right LSD center, I wouldn't bother with a viscous for any diff.

The pathfinder short side stub axle can be useful because it is a solid circle, unlike other R200 stubs, so it can be modified by drilling and tapping. However Pathfinders use the bolt in style not the circlip style. To get around this you either need to use the threaded spider gear from the center of the Pathfinder diff inside your LSD, which can be done but requires complete disassembly of both diff centers. Or you need to modify the bolt in style stub to be circlip style. This is much more difficult as you need to add an extra inch to the stub essentially. This can be done, as I have had it done to my R180. I had the extra length of stub axle cut from the end of a circlip style R180 stub axle, an S13 R180, and had it drilled and tapped to bolt to the end of the bolt in stub from a Navara R180. This was necessary for me to use a 720 R180 with an S13 R180 LSD center which has 27 splines (like subaru). Because the S13 stub's flange sticks out from the diff about 1 1/2" further than the flush Navara/Pathfinder stubs. I needed this extra clearance so that I could retain the stock axle shaft and not have to shorten it. My setup goes like this, 720 R180 longnose with an S13 Tomei LSD 2 way with 2 x Navara (short side) bolt in stub axles modified to be circlip style. The shafts are R30 with R30 cv's on the outside and S13 cv's on the diff side. This is in an R30 cradle with R30 trailing arms. To do this with yours you will need, 2 x Pathfinder/Navara/Terrano short side stub axles. The short and long sides are blatantly obvious once you see the diff, short side is ~4" long, long side is ~2 feet. These 4wd's can have either an R180 or R200 in the front. The back plate dimensions are the same as regular RWD ones so use this to determine if it is an R200 or not. You will also need 2 x R200 circlip style stubs. Then you could drill and tap them to suit the Porsche cv's. But this will require custom axle shafts. If you can get these parts cheap enough it could be worth doing it this way. Porsche cv's sell for around $450 for a set of 4 chinese ones or $850 for German ones. It would be cheaper to use new Nissan cv's and not need custom axle shafts though. Personally I would talk to a decent driveshaft shop about what cv's could be made work easiest with the least amount of modification. Show them your flange options and see what will work with them.

Those allen key bolts are to hold the cv together and to bolt to the flanges. It looks to me that they have made a flange ,or possibly modified an original, for the wheel end. And the diff end looks like they are using a flanged stub axle, like later short nose r200's use. They have either had one custom made or are using modified ones from a different r200, possibly the stub axle from the short side of a Pathfinder front diff, which are usually r200's. My best guess would be that both flanges are custom made though.

Those are porche cv's. There doesn't appear to be any companion flanges either so I would say that is a custom porche cv conversion.

I believe then only differences between any of them are the crownwheel bolt sizes, which can be easily rectified with sleeves, and the position of the half shaft circlips. My best guess would be that the circlip positions would be the same between those 2 models, so the crownwheel bolt sizes would be the only difference I would think. This can be sleeved easily enough.

No, Not really, Just age related wear and tear, Not much, Most info you seek is either in these forums or just ask the right questions and someone will usually know. Try to be a little more specific and add photos when you can.

I don't think that is right Dennis. Pretty sure the bolt patterns are the same, so long as you're comparing 2 to 2 bolt. Of course there is also a 4 bolt short nose R200 back plate also, but the back plates are interchangeable anyway. You can also re-drill the mount holes if that helps.

Is this a diesel LD28 crank? You can get a whole L28 for $500 or less

No, pretty close to being exactly the same, around 1360kg. 2 seater 280zx is lighter than 4 seater and '31, around 1280kg.