Beer Baron

f**king webber. poor guy. I fear all his broken bones will hurt his pace next year, and that will allow vettel to outdrive him, and will only add fuel to the argument that webber's day is done. god I hope i'm wrong...

hehe, I'm not sprung at all.... just don't tell nissan. I am still dodging their high priced lawyers!!

Hey Ellie, I'm glad you enjoyed the thread and thanks for appreciating the time spent uploading and writing! many a late night in a japanese hotel room uploading a days worth of pics in here. I don't think I have a particularly huge salary. I'm mid-late 20s I do reasonably well I guess but certainly not stellar. I guess it's more of how I spend money. I don't borrow money, none of my cars are financed, though i did borrow a few years back to buy property but even then put up 20% of the price. but I also don't really save any money. I spend it all on trips, cars, parts, food, etc. I'm not good with money at all, it comes and goes at a pretty rapid rate. what got me going with all the japan stuff was just a real love and interest in japanese culture, japanese people, japanese cars, japanese food, japanese architecture, japanese ideology basically everything japanese. so when I started learning to speak and read japanese and I started going back to japan more often the friendships over there expanded and grew which enabled me to make great contacts in japan that i've now had for a few years. basically just from putting myself out there anyway, I highly recommend everyone go over there at least once. it's a great place to see from many aspects. when things quieten down a bit at work I will upload some of the many unseen pics I still have yet to do.

thanks mate. it's my current favourite in the fleet. the silvia is getting a little love. the 34 not being driven at all as it's for sale and want to ensure it stays pristine. thanks stephen thorpe, glad you enjoyed the pics too.

nah I'm just a guy that imports cars.

I will give you a tip that I have learnt from experience. I always get insurance before I even pick any new car up. even just get a quote for insurance.you ring, get quote, they send it out. this is valid for 30 days. basically a cover note. so if you got a quote, got smashed into an hour later, my understanding is you are covered. without insurance you're fked. you can send him a letter of demand along with your repair quotes and your incident report number but he may just scrunch it up and put it in the bin. so then you have to go to small claims court (more time and money out of your own pocket) at court he may lie through his teeth, and given the damage is to the rear of his car, and the front of yours he may claim it's your fault and you may end up being directed to pay him. now lets say he does tell the truth and you do win and get awarded the money to fix your car (lets say $2000), the court will direct him to pay. he may still choose to be a fkwit and ignore the courts direction and still not pay. they certainly wont force him. so then you will have to keep chasing him for the money. (more time, stress, money). my advice is get the repair quotes. send the letter of demand. if he refuses to do the right thing then just let it go and move on. get it fixed and put it out of your mind. taking him to small claims court will cost time, stress and money and is no way a guarantee of a result. the bottom line is, everyone should have comprehensive insurance. if you had that, you'd have no worries.

the problem is with your front callipers. they are no good. send them, and the calliper mounts to me and I will dispose of them safely for you mate. wouldn't want anything bad to happen to you. I care.

give it 2 years or so and rental ones "may" be available somewhere. but then again currently most specialty rental places have pretty average 'sports' cars and charge stupid money to rent them.

well I've got 1 more R35 WITH LC that will be for sale soon. so anyone not wanting to miss out on the original recipe (or should that be hot and spicy?) R35 GTR send me a PM! It will definitely be the last one I bring in and it seems it will be one of the last coming to aus with a fully functioning launch control system. I feel everyone should get to experience R35 launch control at least once in their lifetime. Pulling over 1G of acceleration on the road, on street tryes whilst your air-con is running and your DVD is playing and your stubbie is in it's cup holder and the leather seat massages your buttocks is quite something. don't miss out.

sadly with the aud now buying only 58 yen it's almost 50% more expensive to do anything in japan that it was 2 months ago. It's amazing. it was around the 100yen/dollar now at 58yen/dollar lots of stuff that was affordable wont be anymore. like a $180 a night hotel just became a $350 a night hotel etc. it may actually be enough of a price hike to make me put off my next 1 or 2 trips for a little while.

hey Mark, Don't worry about aus emissions. we do not have any emissions testing done either for compliance or for registration. you can get pulled up at some point and be directed to present yourself to a testing centre, but in my life having owned many modified GTRs and my current pre-stage built, ported 13B FD RX7 it has never happened to me. when you do the personal import where abouts (which state) are you going to send the car? if it's sydney I can help you through that process. I did a subaru legacy GT as a personal import (which my mum now drives!). the paperwork is a bit tougher, but the actual work once the car is here is p1ss easy compared to normal import compliance. you not have to change anything for compliance. being a personal import the car does not actually get 'complied'. there are just a few small items to address, and then an engineers sign off, then just normal rego. none of which involves an emissions test or even a noise test. so with that in mind, do whatever they think is best for performance, don't let aus emissions requirements dictate what you do with the build. like I said, my friends 34 in tokyo is HKS 2.8, TO4Z, v-cam, Fcon V pro, built and tuned at top secret and it happily runs all the way to 300kph! but drives around town like a kitten. very smooth at low rpm. so it certainly does work. I might actually head up to sapporo next time I'm in japan (never been up north that far). I might have to call past and say konichiwa...

almost certainly loose/leaking pipe.

every plate is rare mate. funnily enough they only make 1 of each plate. please state an asking price or your thread will be closed.

crikey! all I saw was a giant thread of people stroking rob's wanger and licking his cake hole! no doubt the bloke has some great skills and his shop turns out some lovely gear, but there must be a whole bunch of pommies with brown tongues after that thread!! still all the stroking aside it will be an interesting project, and hopefully achieve what he wants.

there is no such thing as option 2 mate. you cannot have 2 turbos running at different boost. there are 2 types of twin turbo set-ups. sequential parallel sequential set-ups have one small turbo and one larger turbo. the small turbo spools first and once the larger turbo is in it's efficiencey range it comes into play. these set-ups are quite complex and require some tricky valves etc to operate properly. My FD RX-7 has this set-up. when done properly they are quite good. the RX-7 pulls strongly from 2,000rpm, then it starts to taper off at 4500rpm as the small turbo is running out of puff, then at 5,000rpm the big turbo kicks in pulling hard to redline. parallel set-ups use two equally sized turbos running together. they both run the same boost level. this is the GTR type set-up.

I didn't know brisbane was a prefecture of japan and that they too are prejudiced against non japanese tenants. bummer.

there are english instructions on the fuji speedway website...

wow! pretty pricey for a 32 GTS4 too. it would want to be very nice!

get the profec B II mate. easier to set-up, plus you have a dedicated display which shows the peak boost reached during each burst of acceleration which is very handy when you are tuning the thing. they are easy to install, light and easy to read.

your advice on R32 oil system problems is a bit off mate. it has nothing to do with start up. there are a number of well documented shortcomings in ALL RB26 oil systems. if you had looked at this forum before buying your car you would have known about them. it has nothing to do with the engine pumping oil on start-up and it is in no way solved by an N1 oil pump. The only part of this problem that is unique to R32s is that the oil pump drive flats on the crank are narrower than later model cranks. this can become a problem if it causes wear and possible failure of the oil pump gear. the RB26 does have a problem with having too much oil trapped in the head but not at start up. this occurs at sustained high RPM and it's not so much how much/fast it pumps but the fact that the factory oil return galleries are insufficient to return oil to the sump quickly enough. to combat this you should fit an oil feed restrictor in the head, and machine out the oil return galleries, and if you are considering track use even fit an external -10 or -12 oil return from the back of the head to the sump. all model RB26s also have a problem with oil surge under hard cornering/high rpm. when you have a lot of oil trapped in the head, and not much in the sump, and you are pulling some decent corneing G then oil can be low enough that the pick-up is no longer sucking up oil, but air instead. it's then very easy to damage the engine in a second. to be honest you must be mad buying a $11,000 32 GTR. It costs so much to turn an average (or more for a poor) GTR into a nice GTR that it really is worth paying extra for a nice restored R32 GTR to start with. to take a GTR and restore it nicely (new interior bits, replace all underbody bushes, replace suspension and brakes, do the diff, transfer case, rebuild engine, new turbos, ecu, wheels, tyres, maybe some bodywork, paint etc) will cost $50K +. but you can pick up a really mint 32 GTR with all that done these days for $35K or less. GTR's are very expensive to run, modify and maintain. I would hazard a guess here and say that your GTR will be up for sale very soon....

this thread is done. all the talk of 'jus outrun da cops bro' you can take that to www.im16andawesome.com

my mum's.

if james allen has a job in F1 next year i will punch clean through my TV set and half way through the brick wall behind it.

this is exactly my point! the purchase price of the cheap shit china parts are low. but the hidden costs in fitting, modifying etc soon add up. and imagine if you dropped it to a workshop to fit. there would be a massive labour bill to go with it. and even after all that money spent you still have a cheaper looking autobahn88 piping kit, when for the same money, with less stress you could have bought a nice bolt-on trust kit. I did. :)

my advice. forget the cheap copy split dumps. half of their 'benefits' are myth, and all too often the seperator fouls on the wastegate flap. plus you end up with 2 very small pipes. get the one big bell mouth dump. this allows the gas to rapidly expand as it comes out off the turbine which is exactly what you want to happen.