Beer Baron

i think it's quite clear I don't need a stupid book to help my excuses. they are well honed as is. still king of the losers!

yeah agree webber is always quick to own up to his fkups. sometimes too quick I reckon!

personally I'd be more worried about the rear quarter panel damage...

me fail without pacenotes? that's unpossible!

GST4 is the rubbish viscous diff just like GTST. only GTR has the mech clutch pack type LSD.

fk me dead. $444 is harsh. I thought $178 was cheap but was thinking more like $300-$350 retail. will let you know. if it comes to it I'll need to spend some time grinding the bastards down...

cool. the 88-75 should be pretty good. it's still a 2.6 yeah?

it's going to look absolutely SICK all plumbed up. seeing it now it should work nicely with the charger sucking through the turbo at lower RPM then the turbo blowing through the charger at higher RPM. I'm guessing this way with a shared path you don't need to have tricky 1-way valves/solenoids etc to swap intake paths between turbo and charger. I hope it kicks arse.

I think I'm going to buy a set of the project MU titan HC for my F50s. yes they are 18mm but they list them as suitable for front calipers. maybe F40 to F40 is slightly different width? for $179USD I think they are pretty keenly priced.

they are pretty expensive. for $2200 you could have a nice bolt on japanese titanium system... they do look nice but I think at only 3 inch possibly a little undersized (assuming you want more power later). if however you are not planning any big turbo upgraded etc then it's probably fine. I wouldn't expect it to give you 40kw though. 20-25kw maybe but not 40. it will still be a great and very noticeable gain, and I imagine it'll have a nice note and be fairly quiet. if you don't like the big cannon look then most japanese exhausts are out. plus they are generally either free flowing but very loud, or quiet but very restrictive.

yes that's normally true but don't forget in this case he was using aftermarket cast pistons meant for NA applications that in all probability are less suitable for a boosted RB than factory pistons. so it's quite possibly it was a combination of the build AND the poor quality/unsuitable pistons.

cool. good to see it back on the dyno. hope it goes well mate.

yeah as much as I love schuey he's hardly putting the sword into nico just yet. he's started to come on strong lately but nico has certainly had the upper hand till now.

yeah interesting that the 458, the R8GT, the SLS, the LFA, the Z06 all had higher mph than the R35 (indicating they were all hunting it down to different degrees). certainly the 458 would have it beat in a race even slightly longer. even the GT3 RS was only half a mile slower to the 400m mark despite being 7th outright... cool test though.

yes yes ferrari were a great team but they had not won a constructors title since 1982 when schuey came along and won with them in 1999 (though they got 2nd in his first 2 years no thanks to irvine).. and they had not had a driver of theirs win a drivers championship since the 70s (with lauda and schekter) ffs when schuey won it in 2000. so given 20 years of no ferrari driver having held a WDC I think it's fair to say scheuy was a big part of turning those guys around. Mclaren and williams (and briefly scheuy in his benneton) had been spanking ferraris for the whole of the 80s and 90s. it's not even remotely like what happened to vettel. he walked into a team that had just hit it's straps with the most money, best car, good engine, best aero and a great stable development team (including webber) to push it onwards.

you bastard!! we need all the BNR32 we can get in this sad world.

yeah P6 hotting up. but baron is still king of the losers. it's mine, i've been a consistent 6th for ages. not going to give it up now. I got slaughtered this round. first corner saw rosberg and petrov gone which was 2 of my top ten. then webber gone which was my top 3 and fastest lap. then I had stupid hamilton for a podium which he somehow managed to lose even getting right up gonzo's arse on the last few laps. bastards. plus I didn't get my tips in pre qual so lost another 2 points.

yeah it's the fittings that's the killer. i've only personally ever bought and used earls stuff (they give good trade discount) but have used speedflow and a few others on other peoples cars. i've seen a little bit of generic stuff around but mostly because it had problems (sometimes just cosmetic like annodising coming off, but sometimes leaks etc too). have you ever used any generic stuff? most i've seen was crap but it's possible it's better now? it's certainly fking cheap. any experience with these guys? they do teflon lines up to -12. http://www.anfittingsdirect.com/index.php?cPath=302&osCsid=420af8f14d05058858d3910d7c3cfb87 at $16 per metre for -12 teflon line in stainless sheath that's cheap. and the fittings are cheap too. I'm tempted to buy a few and play with them. it has potential to knock a fair bit off the fittings bill but no point if they are rubbish.

yeah no one forced hamilton into whatever ratio he chose. just like everyone else it's a compromise between faster acceleration (good overall lap time) or higher top speed (great for passing and defending but not so good overall). and vettel made the same compromise work for him (got I hate saying that). schuey V2 might not be what he was but he's still got some spark left. and unlike vettel he didn't walk into the best car on the grid straight out of primary school. schuey built that team from nothing and then reaped rewards from his years of hard work. people might have gotten sick of ferrari pounding everyone and cheating like the little buggers they are but the fact is 'till schuey and brawn and company came along they had been no-where. at that point no one could build a team like schuey/brawn/todt. and it kept on working for close enough to 10 years. lets not forget scheuy very nearly won his last WDC in his last year at ferrari to make it 8 WDC (apart from the 7 WDCs he was 3rd 3 times, and 2nd twice including that last year at Ferrari in 2006). So it's fair to say but for a few little fckups it's not hard to imagine he'd have been a 12 time world champion.... not bad for a german with a chin so big he can't see down to do up his own belts! and I'm with harry, he schooled hamilton on how to race hard. he didn't put him in the wall or damage his car. yes he may have squeezed him a bit but as harry said hamilton was pretty cheeky to think he'd get down the inside there and with only his front wing and schueys rear tyres schuey had every right to shut the door. given how fast things happen when schuey decided to shut the door hamilton was probably still a bit behind him. things happen fast at 300km/h...

it's ok, there are no stupid questions, only stupid people. lol. jk. but yeah as I said the problem is with cheap cars the 'associated costs' with importing become a much higher portion of the total cost of the car. so you end up spending $8K on a $1K car without actually adding any 'value' to it (you've basically just moved it to a new country and re-registered it). on a car that's worth $30K the import costs might still be 20-30%, but for a $10K car they might be more like 80%. the only way it's worth it is if you were after a level of car that is not readily available here in aus (something really original, or something really heavily modded, or something rare). but if cost is your main motive then getting one here will probably be cheaper in the long run. I'm sure even guys like Iron Chef would agree if he wanted to buy a 32 GTST or a S13 SR20 silvia he'd probably buy here. and he doesn't have to pay the broker fee, and probably can get a mates rates FOB of 80K yen or less, cheap compliance, do his own customs clearance etc but even still it's not worth it. It's the same for me and the last S13 silvia I bought was in aus. so as a retail customer it's even less worth it. and yeah check out the SAU forum, check out ebay, check our carsales and even gumtree. you'll find something nice and cheap sooner or later.

just line length and possibly a few bulkhead fittings and line clamps/holders depending on how you were planning to do the boot set-up. but yeah big size -12/-16 stainless covered teflon hose is not cheap (branded earls/speedflow stuff more than generic branded stuff) but it's the fittings that cost the most so saving is not that much. BUT for a road car it can be best to keep all that stuff isolated in the engine bay as dry sump tank in the boot makes for a pretty smelly car unless you vent it externally and seal everything very, very well.

cheers. so it's in the ball park then.

I don't know about other areas in sydney but near me (balmain) there are 1 united and 2 caltex's within 1km or so of me. there will be more to come too.

yeah brand new alternator is around $1000. unless as above you can find a generic replacement and adapt that one to fit.

ahh! good stuff. would be a shame to rob the world of one more R32. we need all the ones we have!