Beer Baron

yes shinjuku or shibuya are good places to stay in tokyo. whichever you choose make sure your hotel is actually near the JR or metro station. there are plenty of hotels in 'shinjuku' but some could be more than 30mins walk from the station. which will get to be annoying. and dr envy, no you can't bring bb guns back into aus, well unless you want to gave a guest appearance on border security.... pretty much any workshop on honshu these days has had hundreds of OS visitors. once they realise you are a tourist and not a customer they will basically consider you an annoyance, unless you can speak some Japanese and/or have an appointment.

no you can't. the radius is 7mm different. the only way to do it is to get a bracket to mount the caliper 7mm further out. but you can't obviously as the bolt holes will be more than 7mm. so it would have to offset the caliper to allow you to bolt the bracket to the hub and the caliper to the bracket. considering you are trying to save money, then i would give it a miss. making custom brackets to gain 14mm rotor diameter is not worth the $500 it costs you.

now that people are spamming to get up the 10 posts needed to pm I have a new policy. Anyone caught spamming to get up their 10 posts gets their post count reset to 0 and a suspension with warning note. or we can just flat out ban them. but surely some people will be actual genuine members who are just impatient. so we can do reset to 0, suspension/warning, and then if they do it a second time - ban.

wow, not bad that a 1800kg road car, on semis and still standard is quicker than the radical, and only 1.5s of the formula car. pretty sharp pace. you will have to shake him up next time neil! I was in a radical the other day and they are bloody fast. garth was saying they do 1:30s or maybe 1:40s at phillip island. nuts.

haha, well ask him the bloody questions then! he knows more about emanage than he does about girls... :banana:

emanage can't and wont blow up your engine. the tuner might though... but yeah, providing the tuner knows what he's doing i'm sure you'll enjoy the results from the emanage. that goes for any ecu really. in general they are only as good as the guy tuning them. hardly any set-ups reach the limit of the ecu they are using. I almost wish I had an emanage in the silvia so I could interface the profec E-01 I have with it... in fact, trent, what did you do with the emanage out of my silvia when you put the PFC in it? oh, and I'm not sure who's tuning your car, but if you haven't settled on someone firmly yet then you should talk to "uras" on this forum. not many in aus know as much as he does about emanage and tuning them. I'd not hesitate in letting him tune mine that's for sure.

mate it's no good saying all nissans are 15degrees at idle. nissan make a wide variety of engines. RB26s are 20 BTDC at idle. for example S13 SR20 is 15. RNN14 SR20 is 20. so even the same engine has different base timing in different models/configurations. apart from that, it's all sound advice.

bummer. my advice for ANYONE who fits ANY BRAND of cams gears is to check them 4 weeks after installation. being alloy there is always some 'give' in them. you tighten the bolts on installation but they can and do come loose. on one of my 32 GTRs. big build in japan. brand new crate motor, fully built from new, HKS turbos, 600ps all the good gear, cams, springs, head work blah blah blah. about 2 months after it was built we checked the cam gears. sure enough the bolts had loosened off. and these were tomei gears which run 5 bolts (i only use the 5 bolt jap gears, either tomei or trust). well worth checking.

well I don't think everyone says it's a bad choice full stop. it's just a bad choice for certain situations/set-ups. for your set-up it's a good choice. for 3 reasons. 1. the no 1 plug-in replacement ECU is not currently available for your model (PFC) 2. you are only interested in limited modifications. 3. it's cheap and within your budget. so for you it's great. but if I had my GTR, with built engine, cams, bigger AFMS, bigger injectors, larger twin turbos, larger fuel pump etc and there are Power FCs readily available for good money then of course I'd be mad to run an emanage blue. but yeah, your type of application is exactly it's target market.

lol, I'm tim shaw. have I got a deal for you.... but wait... there's more. F1. it's only 29,000,095 p/a. or just 52 easy payments of 576,000. plus P+H.

in his R34 Z-tune replica.

how weird is that. even after some quality spam the post count has gone back to 1? how can that be? if I were you I wouldn't do any more test posts as it seems they make the count go backwards....

nah, much like sydney or melbourne there are no performance workshops in the city. it would be like having racepace in little collins st, or CRD on pitt st. so no, nothing in shinjuku/ginza etc. they are all out in industrial type areas and the suburbs. and no, tsukuba is not near tokyo either. it's way out, past saitama even. chiba is not hard or expensive to get to though. regular JR trains will take you to chiba for maybe ¥500. it takes realistically about an hour each way from central tokyo. there is a nice mall in chiba too, and a good hobby shop called "Post Hobby". they have a wide selection of BB guns which is fun to see coming from aus, and lots of cool model cars etc.

congrats snowy ya rookie!

hmm,. I didn't know that. is that why you used 33 skyline gear on my silvia? thanks big boy.

there is no circuit that is less than 2 hours. and a 1,000yen train ticket doesn't get you very far.... probably the closest is fuji speedway. but still a few hours all up and more than 1,000 just for the taxi from the station to the track. from memory about 5,000 for taxi from the station of fuji speedway each way. actually, that's not quite true. D1 GP each year hold an exhibition at daiba. that is in tokyo and might only be 1,000 train ticket depending on where you're staying... but it's not a circuit. it's held in an outdoor carpark area.

lol, you are massively confused mate. ebisu is a suburb of tokyo. ebisu circuit is no where near tokyo mate. as andy mentioned it's in f*kushima prefecture. rofl. the only thing that's in ebisu, tokyo is some shopping malls, the beer museum and some nice apartments. you are as likely to see drift matsuri there as you are to see one happening inside your local multi storey car park... It will take at least 3 hours to get there from tokyo. I would budget about $150 each way per person to cover trains and taxi. and no cheaper if you drive. tolls on a 3 hour drive can easily get to 10,000yen, then there is fuel... etc. also top secret is not in tokyo, it's in chiba about 1 hr out of central tokyo. lol, I can just imagine you getting off the train at ebisu station and asking someone: "so like where's the drifto mate?" "surely ebisu circuit is around here somewhere?". lucky you found out now!

http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/VISU/reports/jacks.html read this and realise how few of these people used jack stands. I have seen plenty of jacks (bleed down) or someone come and twist the handle while fiddling with it and drop a car by accident. not good. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/49480/200504...eport_jacks.pdf

I just bought this for the living room for PS3 etc. http://www.sony.com.au/product/dav-dz870w the big benefit is you can connect VIA HDMI and optical cable for great quality picture and sound. also, the rear speakers are wireless which in my mind is a must have. nothing worse than trying to run wires for the rear speakers across the ceiling, or across the floor, or around the wall etc. AND it comes with an ipod digital media dock which is cool. works with my iphone too. the sound out of it is great. and never mind the sony price of $1100. they are currently on sale at sony and JB hi-fi. not quite under $500, but not too far out of it. which is bloody awesome value.

umm funky my eyesight may not be perfect but it looks like their march cup car to me? they one the march cup 4 or 5 years ago.

ask your tuner about it. what did he say? do a power run in RWD and see if it makes you feel better. and as above, for up to 280rwkw you can use standard injectors, standard reg and standard pump (providing it's healthy).

lol 3 race ban..... but it's suspended. might as well call it a no race ban. or a 100 race ban. either way it's a slap with a wet napkin. BFD. as usual the FIA does bugger all.

no the whiteline bars are NOT stiffer than the cusco ones even though they are solid and more than double the weight. the cusco ones are lighter, stiffer, better made, come with all the parts needed, and not very expensive. the whiteline ones are ill fitting, cheaply made, and don't always come with all the required bits. and they are damn heavy. simple as that. the only advantage the whiteline ones have is they are adjustable.

that was a GTST, not a GTR. and yes it's the same for all R32s.

$200 an hour in labour for oil change and alingment. holy moly. that is a bit steep. I can promise doug heasman and paul joyner at bilstein/heasmans in sydney could do a better alignment job and they certainly don't charge $200/hour. and $1300 for trans and diff fluid is a bit on the nose too. for mine it would be alingments at heasmans. trans and diff fluid from willal, and either change it myself or at any other competent workshop that charge between $70 and $100 per hour. more money for brakes and tyres both of which are needed in good supply!