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1 out of 2 aint bad i guess. The rb may be heavy but a pos it most certainly isnt.That such high horsepower can be extracted reasonably reliably from as little as 2 and a half litres is quite stunning really. Now Lotus on the other hand needs their arse rheaming for using such a slow pos engine in the first place.

Not at all. quite a reasonable setup for a street car imo. I run around 2.5 degrees on the front and 1 on the rear. (both negative) my car does see trackworkand i couldnt be bothered getting an alignment every time i do it. If it wasnt quite so aggressive i would run heaps more but premature wear on the road deters me from doing it.

Sig test check is go.

The power of suggestion James.

On the flip side i wonder how the lotus would go with RB power? Would the extra weight of the iron block rb be too much for the lightweight to carry.

If you're going to keep your mods to around that level there really is no need to go power fc unless you want to. A simple safc will suffice.

Just snap an axle on that 1/4 mile beast you're building and you'll understand corners soon enough.

If customer service is anything to go by You certainly deserve better. Come back bigger and stronger guys.

Perhaps the sheer weight of the beast is going to find it out in these longer races. Early days tho and i guess some real track time testing will sort out any weakness.

I just spent one of the most boring days of my life at qld raceway. We left early as nobody could stand it any longer. Just an endless session if cars in race colours in the same formation from start to finish. I will never do that again.

Got any pics of the exhaust.

Wonder who will be the first to offer clear guard indicators for them?

I wasnt taking a shot at beau Marc. I,ve seen him in action. He's pretty damn good. Some of the crap i see out there is not a bit rough, its downright dodgey.

I see your point. If i had to pay those bucks i wouldnt have put them on mine either.

Wouldnt a set of 33 gtr brembos be more than adequate for that combo?

As a matter of interest Phunk. How heavy is the ceffy as opposed to a 33 skyline?

X2. I get a kick out of wandering pit lane and looking at the detail some people go to in presenting their track cars. I do the same at the qr friday night drift sessions and i can not believe the dodginess i see. All i can assume is they have no respect for themselves if that is the public persona they are prepared to present.

It is basically a 33/34 vspec rear end, The alsd is a bigger stronger diff than the gtst diff and uses gtr half shafts to boot. The only difference between the gtst and gtr alsd is the ratio. the gtst has 4.11 gearing and the gtr uses 3.9. They can be troublesome when they start single spinning but regular bleeding of the hydraulic system keeps them working well. If bleeding it doesnt help I suggest you re shim it and try again. Failing that the clutch paks may need replacing. I have read posts on here where people have not ben satisfied with them and changed the rear end out to standard gtst but i wouldnt swap mine out for quids.

Are you on holidays?

Fark eh! that "WAS" a nice car wasnt it.

Holden more so than ford carry the burden of responsibility. Ford was dragged to the table Kicking and screaming as they did not have any desire to pour millions in to a local 2 horse race. They would have looked stupid if they didnt and both avesco and holden knew this. Holden have lived on the Harry Firth principle of "Win on Sunday sell on monday" for the last 30 odd years and it bore fruit for most of that period. Proof being the amount of special high performance variants they offer in their lineup. Back when toyota approached avesco with a view to getting involved in the local derby it was holden and ford that made the most noise against it. Now that the writing is on the wall I commend toyota for telling them to shove it where the sun dont shine. Chickens coming home to roost kinda deal. Irony again but they have already started tipping in a sizeable chunk of cash To a high profile drag team and are about to invest even further in said team. (who woulda thunk it) v8 supercar can rot in hell for all I care. I lost interest in it when it became obvious that it really wasnt about the marque but revolved around chochrane pretending he was bernie echelwheelbarrow of formula 1 notoriety. Watch him push the women and children out of the way to be first in the lifeboat when this ship starts going down.

As a rule I enjoy reading your posts and get a chuckle from your inherent comon sense roy but i feel you are off the mark when you say " But i think ppl have to be fair and appreciative of what the local manufacturers have done for our local motorsport scene. " They have destroyed The Australian motorsport scene. Shrunken it to a 2 horse race with horses that are about to be sent to the knackery. All that is left are high interest groups with very limited budgets (generally speaking) and zero outside support. From this low base oz motorsport will have to rebuild itself as it has had to do so many times in the past. The taxi's have but one chance of survival and even that will only be a shadow of what it is currently. They will have to revert to true production type cars with very limited modification allowed and most definitely a control tyre. What i do find ironic in all of this is that the form of motorsport generally identified as being "hoon" material, namely drag racing is firmly on the rise with some serious backing and t.v. bucks being spoken of whilst circuit racing appears to be on the slide. Go figure.

Do i smell a commercial coming on here.

http://www.sauqld.com/ipb/index.php?showto...amp;#entry47466 Some here.

Here ya go http://www.sauqld.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=822