Beer Baron

lol, nah it's a dump! though it has rested my sore head on a few occasions... as for cobra GT? it's the choice of champions. mine has been graced by the bum of glenn seton and my goodself. pretty good pedigree...

with small turbos that ramp onto boost very hard you will occasionally have trouble controlling them as they ramp up. if you are at boost producing rpm. say 4500. at part throttle. and you stamp on it. they turbos spool up to target boost faster than the solenoid can bypass enough air to stabilise the wastegate. it should not be a big spike but yes you can get a small spike under conditions like that. it's not a big deal if it's only 1psi or so which is all it should be. you really need to replicate it on the dyno with proper logging of the boost curve. as sometimes the controller might beep or display a high peak that it's hitting for a nano-second as it swings into action to stabilise your boost. it can be such a brief occurrence that it's not worth worrying about.

some pics of my old set-up that may inspire. seat takes 10 mins to swap. I used 34 GTR seats for road and the cobra for track. can use the cobra on the road too, but you do look like a bit of a tool at the toll booths or trying to hop out in a shopping centre...

for cams events you generally need a minimum 1kg dry powder type extinguisher. usually can be had for around $50 and they must be mounted with a METAL bracket. do not buy the ones that come with a plastic mount. for my car I then made a very basic mount for the fire extinguishers mount to fit to out of a piece of aluminium stock lying around. linished the corners smooth, drilled some holes and voila! it fits by using the 2 front anchorages of the front passenger seat. the rules state it must be able to be reached by the driver without taking belts off or getting out of his seat. so you may be able to reach it either in front of or behind the passenger seat. try it and see. mine is very basic, but works, passes scrutineering and takes about 2 mins to fit to the car and needed no holes drilled or welding done.

i've had great success with the profec B IIs. I've had a few of them. ran one on my old GTR set-up 5 years ago and it was good, ran one on the GTR I had built in japan with HKS turbos, cams, built motor etc. and it worked well too. and am running one on the new set-up too. in fact it seemed to work better than the profec E-01 in my silvia which was $1000 when new! this is the kind of boost curve you should be aiming for.

i think he was using ATI. though I did have the same initial thought as I think you're having! lol. I would guess maybe running the dry sump drive gear off the front of the balance places a little more load on it but you wouldn't think it could do this. especially considering how many dry sump RB26s there are around running this way.

fck mate! that sucks. what a shame. at least the pace was encouraging I guess, but still a bit of a downer to have to be pulling the thing apart so soon. lucky you got off it and hopefully didn't damage that lovely crank... you have had some bad luck with the head gasket/thermo problem before and now this. cars really can give you the shits sometimes.

ahh of course. i'm not that familiar with 2D as I'm usually in SVD and have only ever run pretty much bone stock car in type 2. I forgot to mention the on screen telemetry was very nice too. you're getting good value out of the driftbox and trackvision. it looks great and is such a good learning tool.

yes definitely get a proper seat and harness. the GTR seat with a harness is a bad idea. especially if you back it into a wall you'll find the backrest snaps off from the bottom and you'll end up sitting in the back seat, or more likely wrapped around the rear half of the cage like a pretzel! in a head on accident the seat will also snap and you will 'submarine' under the harness as there are no locators for the lap straps. think about it. a proper race seat that fits you will be more comfortable, not less as it supports your body in all the right places. I personally feel a proper seat and harness is worth nearly 1 second per lap in a quick car as with stock seat and belt you expends a lot of energy gripping the wheel to hang on, and bracing yourself in corners. in a proper seat you can literally drive with fingertips and toes and you can feel exactly what the car is doing. Velo are good seats and aussie made. and they have a variety of sizes so you should be able to find one to fit you properly. and definitely design the cage with the seat in mind as the last thing you want is getting the cage the realising it will foul on your seat of choice. swapping seats literally is a 10min job max. it's 4 bolts and 1 clip. done.

nice one mate! that's quicker than I've been around there in a 35. The lap was good. there are a few spots you could probably gain a 1/10th or two but I reckon 16s are about as good as it'll get in a near stock 35. you should be very pleased. 16s around OP GP in any car is good. let alone a very standard road car that weighs so much. I am a bit more agressive I think too which may not be good. like you I do a nice short shift to 4th up the bridge but I was hard on it at the apex coming off the top of the bridge in massive slide, fun but not fast( acutally I may soetimes be holding 3rd there and hitting 4th after the exit off the bridge)! though you can be pretty hard it the gas there as the track widens so much you can just run it all the way out to the edge and it sets you up nicely for the S. the nature of the car is you can short shift a lot and save yourself the corner exit wheel spin in a few spots cause it just has so much midrange torque, just keep it in that sweet sport torque wise and it just piles on the acceleration. 220 at the end of the straight is about right too so you are not giving away much if any power really to JDM cars I think. I didn't count the gears, were you keeping it in 5th on the straight or hitting 6th (edit: just listened, yes you hold 5th I think, good boy!)? why no tune? warranty concerns?

lol, when he jumped up onto the car and he had his little leg pad on I thought poor guy, he's still fighting it, then he jumped off the thing and landed pretty heavily and i think his next few steps were taken a bit gingerly. I think he overdid that jump a bit! It would have damped things a bit if he had to limp onto the podium on the shoulders of vettel and massa.

exactly. talbo mate you have a serious case of one eye welded shut. as best I can tell the FIA dishes out punishment based on the quality of the pina colada they are sipping at the time the 'incident' happens. lol, near colossal accident my hairy arse. that's like saying me buying a lottery ticket is a near colossal windfall. nothing happened. it's like saying every grid start is a near death experience because 2 drivers come close to stalling or breaking a clutch and we all know if you're on row 1, by the time to bloke on row 10 gets to you he has a fair turn of speed on, and if he hits you, you may both die. but it didn't happen did it? neither car was damage and neither driver lost or gained anything out of the incident. if anything webber lost a bit as he probably backed off as he saw and hit rubes. like he said in the interview he thought rubes was coming up the left and he was moving over to take the inside. rubes was in the perfect spot to avoid it, was no where near being backed into the wall and he easily see webber in front of him and knew exactly where webber was. and he chose to say 'fk you i'm going to just sit here and if you hit me then so be it'. mark was moving right to left long before rubes got to be alongside him. he could have made some room for himself but chose not to. it was a racing incident. sure the blame may lie a little more towards mark, but either way based on past rulings no way did webber deserve a drive through. I mean kimi just smashed up sutil and took him out of the race and nothing was done about that (as far as I know).... But having said all that, thank god they did penalise him. otherwise there'd be all sorts of little girls whining about how unfair it is that webber wasn't penalised and how rubens would have won if webber had a drive through and how he didn't deserve to win. and how his first win was tainted. at least now there is nothing to whinge about. he took the penalty and won the race. good on him.

lol, I was just having a little fun. everyone needs a boring car sometimes. not everyone wants to strap 2 kids to the roof of an RX7, then fold the wife in half like she was a tetris block and squeeze her in through the roll cage. I can understand that. but you don't need serious $$ to have serious fun in a car. I can think of a few fun cars that are cheap to buy and run. and I have a boring car too. it's a 07 subaru liberty sedan. and it's even auto for gods sake and not even turbo! in my defence it's really the girlfriends car and I'll shortly be selling it and replacing it with an EP3 civic Type R which I love.

I can tell you why. it's called a tank slapper and is caused by a number of things, the biggest of which is poor car control. basically over reacting and slow reacting. instead of making a small correction to both the throttle and the steering wheel you can see he jumps off the throttle which unsettles the car and then (too late) has a big tug of the wheel. hence the tank slapper which builds in momentum until he's into the wall. I bet the S2000 driver wishes she was a few 1/10ths fast then she would have been out of his path of destruction... shame your accident also wrecked someone elses car whether you tagged it or not. the reason you don't run radial tyres with ply tyres is not really to do with different levels of grip. it's because of the different construction of the tyres. bias ply or cross ply tyres have very soft sidewalls and very little lateral grip. running them with radial tyres on the front can cause problems with getting the car to run straight. I would suggest going back to the ET street RADIALS. for some practice, then perhaps down the track go back to a bias ply or cross ply drag slick with the appropriate front runners to match. with more practice and some more experience your car control will improve and hopefully nothing like this will happen again.

if you want the least lag then out of those you mentioned the GT-SS will be the best choice.

wow, I know all dyno's read differently etc. but still all JDM cars i've seen on various dynos read between 290 and 310, and all the ADM cars I've seen seem to be around the 270 mark. but with nothing fundamentally different between the models I would say you can get it back with tuning. and I know of one car that tried the uni-chip and it actually worked quite well. this was a year ago though and there are definitely better solutions out there now. given how far things have moved since a year ago I would be looking at a cobb AP if you just want a very basic upgrade and leave it there, or the haltech platinum I reckon is the gun choice now.

looks good. what was the weight of your new wing vs the stock one it replaced?

lol, shame your 35 spent some time in the clink mate. at least it was by far the toughest inmate and was almost certainly not violated in the showers by the masses of thrashed silvias and vl commodores in there. in NSW at the moment we are enjoying what I like to call "speed free week". NSW cops have decided they shan't be issuing any speeding fines for 7 days as they want more money and aren't getting it. I've made a little song to sing as you drive down the NSW freeways this week. speed free week... it's lots of fun speed free week... no need to run speed free week... it's just this one speed free week.

I can only agree with one point that max made which is that for 950,000 I would probably take a ferrari F40 LM and some change over the Monaro 427. though if I had loads and loads of money I'd have both. and many others to go with them. but seriously, I know I said drive as many cars as possible, and keep an open mind and all that, but really, a maxima of any type is not on that list mate... I can't foresee any possible situation that I'd enjoy being in a maxima.... you can get a car that is fun for as little as $1000 so budget is no excuse either. it's a matter of taste. set the maxima on fire and buy something fun with the insurance money. I'm not sure what the monaro really sold for. i know the owner of the classic throttle shop very well so I'll have to ask him next time I speak to him.

I even foolishly put a couple bucks on button as he was 6 to 1 and I thought if webs has his usual luck button can get me some of my money back! now I feel guilty for ever doubting our man webber.

yep absolutely spot on. you took the words right out of my mouth on all of those points. I was shit scared this nearly became another 'should have been but...." race. but he was on a mission this weekend you could see it in his face and in the way he drove that nothing was going to stand in his way. he could have flipped the car and vommited on the second flip landed it and still won this time. it was just his turn. he must have been a nasty wife basher in a previous life as the bad luck he's had is astounding. let's hope the bulk of it is behind him now and we can all laugh about it after he wins a WDC or 2.

and yes the daily smellograph article was crap. I like how they said. "...webber who only joined red bull this season..." ummm wtf? retards.

I'm going to frame this farken TAB slip!

what a great race. a well deserved first win and he had to work hard for it. I hate to be akin to a english wanker comentator but it did remind me a little of schuey. people would write him off after an early penalty or problem and he would just punch out the laps and get the equivalent of hitting every green light on his run home while his opponents kept getting caught at ambers and reds... webber is a dead set great guy and a great driver. how he managed to pull himself together and just get on with racing I don't know. but it's the reason he's paid what he is, and I'm paid what I am. cause i would be more likely to drive into the pits, hop out of the car, smash my helmet on the ground and then kick each of the stewards in the balls. he definitely fkced up but no way did he deserve a drive through for that. he was continuously moving right and he said he though rubens was going left. when they hit no damage was done and no advantage was gained, and rubens coming up from behind had a clear view of webber (webber didn't have one of rubes) and could have avoided it easily if he chose to. I could hardly bare to watch the last 5 laps. I just sat with my eyes closed shitting my pants. only opened them back up with about half a lap to go and just willed him on. so who else ponied up some dough on the boy. after he got pole I just had a feeling this was his race. I laid out some cash on him and got an ok return at 2.50:1. I was surprised that he was that short odds and he was the favourite! surprising considering he's a bloke who's never won a race and is notorious for bad starts surrounded by button, rubes and vets. but still thanks webber for earning me a nice little payday. eat your words duncan! can't beleive you doubted our boy webber. it's the aussie come from behind spirit! troy likes to come from behind too. just ask the unsuspecting indian chick he found last night... I did lol too. I think on the whole we have a fine world image! if I had a 'samsung' LCD I'd kick it in half too... lol jk too true. he has proven he is a guy who can pull of those tough, gritty, determined drives when it counts. he just has not had shit go his way before in F1. but he's shown it in other categories. and the fact that he's managed nearly 8 years in F1 with some ok teams means they must know it too. they will be thinking hard now about do they bank on the experience of webber or go with the raw pace but loose driving of vettel. the points gap between them is practically non-existent now. Funny to see webber still must have a leg problem too as he was wearing some kind of brace/pad on his right knee and looked a bit stiff out of the car. he could drive with his face on fire I reckon and just about has in the past.

whatcho talkin bout? he's perfectly cromulent.