Beer Baron

"NOOOOOOOOOO"........."NOOOOOOOOOOOO"........

safe operating zone for oil temp is between 75 and 100C. optimum is around the 80-85 mark. 55 is far too cool. safe operating temp for the collant is about 70-90C. optimum is around the 80 mark. it can get as high as 100C without any real problem, but past sort of 105 or 110 stop driving! it woil boil at 100 since the system is under pressure, but sooner or later it will boil. not good.

yeah I think ben is a tad bitter. don't forget webbers mighty jaw is practically burting with talent. there is no doubt in my mind he is well inside the top half of the grid pace wise. and in fact he qualifies up there even in the rubbish cars he's had over the years (jag front row anyone....?). he may be a bit down and lacking a bit of motovation right now, but there is always a chance that a young fast team mate will light his fire again and get him pushing hard for results again. sure it was an odd race but I will never forget him driving his minardi to 5th place in melbourne 2002. I was there to see it and even now i almost get a bit teary just thinking about what an effort that was. when he came and stood outside his pit garage with the aussie flag after the race you would have been able to hear the fans standing around there from the moon!

this event will be awesome!

agreed. I'm the ocker stig and even I don't watch those flamin mongrels on me idiot box. i prefer re-runs of baywatch... yeeeeehooooo!

It's me.

Guys, I really need to sell this now. Got cars coming out of my ears at the moment. So for the next little while I'm dropping the price to $49,999! That's right, you can buy my car for less than $50 grand. You won't find a 34 GTR in this condition, with history etc for anything like this money any more. When I imported the dollar was buying high 90s in yen. now it's buying 65. so if I was importing this thing now it would cost near $70K. that's a big difference.

actually found a better pic to show it.

I have had 32, 33 and 34 (and 35 I gues) GTRs to fit plates too and the easiest way to fit regual NSW premium plates to a 34 GTR is just to slightly bend each end about 10-15mmmm in from the end. just stick the plate in a small gap somewhere and bend it about 70-80 degrees. get rid of the covers, they are illegal, make the plate impossible to fit and to be honest don't look that great. a little hard to make out in the pic, but that's the beauty of it. it's barely noticeable.

I would think very carefully about that. RB26s also have oil squirters... if their RNN14 pistons foul the squirters there's a good chance they don't clear the 26 ones either. i would check it very carefully.

lenny's teaching his own class? well if he can teach a class then he can teach a class! I mean I can teach a class.

yep mild porting and polish and some cams and gears will be just perfect. if your tuner is comfortable working with it, maybe consider HKS V-cam too. been in 2 cars with it now and I was pretty impressed.

well you've obscured the A/R number on the exhaust housing, and it's not visible on the compressor pic either. so a bit hard to tell.

shims should not be noisy. the common ticking noisy in RB26 is injectors. they have very noisy injectors. easy way to test. at idle, give the car a rev and sharply lift of the gas. just as you lift off and as the revs fall the noise should completely stop for a very brief moment (as the injectors all shut for a split second). as for changing lifters etc... I can't think of any GTR engines off the top of my head who have changed the lifters? why? they are not a service or wear item really and nothing you can really do to upgrade them. they are just a piece of solid metal, like a tiny bucket.

god I would love to see webber in a big mac and handing it to hamilton. sadly I think there is about as much chance of that happening as there is of me waking up next to jessica alba tomorrow.

nice. they were a good buy. I was nearly going to grab them as a spare set for the silvia. then remembered I already have 3 sets of rims for the silvia....

there has been that level of development, just not in aus sadly. in japan there are guys who would have ported hundreds and hundreds of 26 heads for all different combos and uses. and there would be at least a dozen shops who know all the real tricks to get them working right with certain turbos, cams and capacities. in aus people just tend to do whatever they reckon 'she'll be right' but this takes a fair while and a fair few heads to get somethnig really good. I would say close to 50% of the time people in aus get their 26 head ported it's no better or even worse than factory (for their application). that's why I got my head ported and built in japan as the guy that did it has been doing probably 40+ a year for the last 20 years! that's a lot of heads. he certainly knows how to get results. regarding the torque split I can tell you last time I was at Garage Saurus in japan i was talking to hayashi-san about their orange R32 GTR which was the Tsukuba time attack champion and record holder for some time. He told me they use a locked (via hydraulic hand pump and valve to hold the pressure) 50/50 torque split in their car and they found that for circuits like Tsukuba with quite a few tight corners that 50/50 locked was the fastest way 'round. he said they did have problems initially but were able to overcome them. He said not many people know that they use a constant 50/50 split, and that most GTR drivers are surprised when he tells them and few other tuners in japan are willing to try it due to the inherent weakness in having the front diff in the sump and the fact that it's quite small, but there must be some way to make it work. I would say geting the larger front diff cover to hold more oil would help and perhaps monitor the front diff temp to see if a cooler is required there too.

I just hope webber can live up to the hype and spank vettel. by all measures vettel is good. 2 years ago I would not have had a doubt that webber would be able to match any of the drivers in an equal car, but things change and there is no denying the bloke is getting on a bit and no matter how professional he is surely the motovation is wanning. maybe a decent team mate will help spur him on a bit and see him bag a decent seat before he bows out of F1? when you think about it, it's amazing he's hung in F1 for the last 6 years without ever getting a decent seat or a single win. good on ya mark.

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it's not the car.... it's pete. he's rubbish. although he is by far the best lookin thing in the above photo.... well next to his man-lover paul.

you are pretty spot on. they are acceptable for daily use and 'semi decent on track'. be aware their compound is not super sticky like a proper semi slick track tyre but the stiff sidewalls means you still get the feel of a semi slick (just not the outright grip). they can certainly handle some decent laps, and whilst the grip will drop a bit after a few laps they wont feather or get chunks taken out like street tyres do when pushed on track (ie track use wont wreck them, which it will to regular road tyres). and their design means they don't walk around on the tread blocks like road tyres do under hard cornering so you get good feel. for daily use the negatives will be stiffer sidewalls wont give as soft a ride as more comfort spec street tyres, and they will wear more quickly (but no where near as quick as a semi slick) and you will most likely get some tramlining (quite common once you get big wide tyres anyway). I reckon they are quite a good compromise tyre for 90% street 10% track for the guy who doesn't want to bother with 2 sets of tyres and rims.

yep hire trailers suck. they are usually heavy, crap, and half broken. I busted my car at wakefield park once and had to hire a ute and trailer to get it back. the clowns gave me a crap little manual ute that felt like it had about 40hp, and weighed about 900kg, then gave me a trailer that weighed what seemed like 800odd kg or more and put my 1250kg car on it. great recipe for disaster. the thing could barely do 90km flat knacker and you had to rev the ring out of 4th to get enough pace up to get into 5th and cruise, otherwise you'd rapidly loose gound in 5th and have to downshift again. any slight incline meant going back to 4th (and I mean slight). I was getting passed by everything and any truck that went past (at 120km, 4mm off my side mirror of course) sent the thing swaying so much it was a fight to keep it on the road at all. then the invariable high wind out of goulburn started and basically the trailer drove me instead of the other way around. it was scary stuff.

oh baby.... sweet car mate! 34 VII N1. love it! they look so cool in white with a few nice bits. the great thing about the 'special' GTRs is they are usually bought by guys who look after them since they commanded high premiums over the regular models when new. I've found that 4 out of 5 'special' GTRs I come across were in excellent condition (regular 34s maybe 2 in 5 are good). so even though they are so rare, when you finally do find one there is a good chance it'll be in top order. I really like the sideskirts too. I reckon when you're keen for a change get some of the same nismo sideskirts, but in carbon, and a lower lip in carbon to match. it looks amazing on a white car. I imported a full carbon wide body for a 34 race car here, that has the similar design sideskirts to the nismo one, but much more exagerated and they are just insane. and look so nice in bare carbon. these ones (I know, totally impractical for a road car, but wait till you see this one finished!): If you ever bring the N1 to sydney give me a shout, I'd love to come and check it out. I bet you can't wait to get your hands on it.

he was banned some time back...

well if the turbos are the .60/.64 N1s then sure 350kw + is possible. but your standard injectors and standard AFMS means you are stuck under 280rwkw with any levely of safety until you get bigger fuel pump, bigger injectors and upgraded AFMS.