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  1. great news dundan! good luck for the 1hr mate.
  2. great stuff ian. glad to see it all coming together mate. it's one crazy car!
  3. yep, rail design is the key. sometimes you will need a base plate to provide a flat surface, then bolt sliders to that so seat can move back and forward and then you bolt your side mounts to the sliders and the seat to the mounts. with all that stuff you end up with a fair bit of height. removing the sliders gives back about 20mm or so maybe even 30mm depending on design. you do still need some kind of base plate though to give a level mounting surface for the side mounts. the other option is modify the floor to allow you get a flat frame for the seat nice and low. lot of work though and must be done professionally.
  4. yeah you are right. no matter what the licensing scheme there will always be dickhead drivers getting through. anyway I think what aasa is doing is great. it is good to have an alternative for people. and they certainly are making door to door racing more accessible for more people in a variety of different cars.
  5. do not listen to troy. he is a secret GTR lover. it's like homophobes who make all the gay jokes but deep down love the company of men (like marlin and fatz). troy shots loudly about how much he hates GTR's cause deep down they are all he can think about. I'm on to you Roy!
  6. I know. read again. I have 2 laptops. I was talking about the Z seriies with the SSDs which is 4k and linked before. I said I also have the big boy. it doesn't have SSDs and costs 3K. but does have some other great gear. including a beautiful full HD display.
  7. lol. word he is certainly getting the height to get the job done on the little bastard.
  8. seriously that car for $50 something K is a good buy. The bloke saying it cost $150k to build I have no doubt is even conservative. sure you can do similar for $80-$90k if doing a lot of stuff yourself but having a car built at a top workshop you are talking $100 an hour and it doesn't take long for those hours to start piling up. For $50 odd K you get a very well sorted package with good brakes, well built engine package, very nice cage and all the other little bits and pieces. if you are seriously thinking about building a tarmac/circuit R33 GTR you'd be crazy not to buy that car or at least try to. you will see $50K dissapear very quickly on a buiild. $25K on the car and $12K for your big Ap or Alcon brake kit takes you to $37K which leaves $13K to buy a cage and seats and some wheels. now you still need to start the engine and dirveline and suspension and all the other work. buying a car already done or nearly done is a BIG money saver providing the car you buy was done right.
  9. this is the correct solution. keep the GTR as a 'fun' street car with the odd track day every once in a while and for serious track stuff by a go kart, or a alfa GTV 2l, or a S14, or an escort, or a 1600, basically anything cheap, light RWD and most importantly purpose built for 100% track use.
  10. lol, sorry I've been absent. well I just was about to buy a GTR in japan. it had 2.8l HKS step 2 engine, HKS V-cam, 34 box and transfer, big brakes all round, 2530s, about 600 hp and good suspension and I reckon it would take a pretty fancy GTST to keep up with it. the only downside is cost. to do all that to a GTR you are well into $100,000 territroy. even to buy one already done you are talking around $40K+ for a good one. on the other hand a well sorted GTST can be had under $20K and a really top shelf built circuit GTST somewhere in the $20K range. so yeah the top shelf GTR does sadly cost double the top shelf GTST. Having said that I love my GTRs. I've owned about 10 of them and loved them all for one reason or another. one of them I've kept for nearly 8 years which is pretty good. I've also owned every model from 32 to 35 and have had standard ones and heavily modified ones. In that time I've had a few other cars too. i've still got an S13 silvia with 230rwkw and lots of gear that I like and i've had an S15, a modified FD RX7 and a 32 GTST so I do love the RWD cars too. they all have their strong points. value for money a GTST or S14 is always going to give you better fun per dollar than a GTR. they are just so much easier on brakes and tyres. but a GTR does have that certain 'something' about it that makes them hard to refuse. and they are great fun to drive hard. purchase price is not a big deal. in the end it will pale in comparison to what you spend on mods and consumables to keep a track habit going. yes I do love the RB26 exhaust note, though with the right exhaust etc I reckon the RB20 sounds as good. not a fan of the 25 for some reason though. but the 20 and 26 are music to my ears.
  11. also on E85 there is also a local sydney supplier now who is selling E85 with the CSR ethanol but blended with BP100 RON premium petrol instead of 98 pump gas. if anyone is keen send me a pm and I'll put you in touch. price is competitive I think and can deliver drums of various sizes.
  12. that RX7 is not a bad piece of gear for $35K providing the engine is a good one. it would be a great fun circuit car or a pretty lively tarmac rally car.
  13. black sika? forget that, just get into some black nikka and you will think chewing gum is all the sealant you need... my nikka.
  14. loving the webber leap! reminds me of the schuey leap and it didn't hurt his win record! also reminds me of schuey 'conducting' the italian national anthem until some weiners took it the wrong way and got all upset about it so he stopped. fun police strike again! they can't deny it's a jaunty little tune.
  15. no, what you need is compliance and the CIN that you get from the complier. apart from that you need to check state requirements. in NSW it's a blue slip inspection. and 'engineering certificate' is a pretty general term and covers a lot of things. they are usually done to certify non-standard vehicle modifications though.
  16. yeah agreed if the entry level licence is now $100 that's a bit tough since like you said 99% of people only compete in motorsport in their own state. for people who actually will compete insterstate paying $200 is not a big deal for a licence. I mean even if they only did one meet at say Phillip Island that extra $100 is not even the first tank of fuel on the way out there... but dunc, like weevil said they do still have the $50 club licence. the only scary thing for me is that you can now get a national circuit licence for door to door racing simply by attending 3 super sprints and paying $100. at least under the cams C3 and then PC/NC licence scheme you had to do an observed licence test and that usually meant some form of advanced driver training course and that was just to get to the provisional (PC) licence you then had to demonstrate competence to get onto your NC licence. it means people with some pretty questionable driving practices and skills can get straight into national door to door competition. having said that though there were plenty under cams too but I guess at least working a bit harder for the licence formed some kind of quality filter. all cams licences have been nationwide though even back when an L2S was about $60. I do think for door to door comp licences there needs to be some kind of assessment done to ensure people out there know how to behave and how to drive without endangering other people. easy to ask for but hard to implement I guess.
  17. yeah agree 100% he was never going to get anywhere by doing what everyone else was doing. I actually thought it was a good move at the time. I was suprised the commentators were saying how his race was over etc because he didn't pit under safety car. I thought it was a great idea. i mean he was in the fastest car on the grid so by staying out and getting to the front he'd have a chance to use it. the only unknown (for me) was how long the softs would last. he still had to make it work though with lap speed and he did it.
  18. what a race! go webber. I got some cash on webber after qualy at 3.50:1 and also put a few bucks on alonso as back-up at 6:1 which I thought was pretty good odds. I was nearly right, very nearly had an alonso win but webbers was much sweeter and not just the pay-off! How funny that rbr screwed him and it ended up being a fantastic strategy. webber should take the credit though as he made it work by running fastest lap after fastest lap after fastest lap in that middle part of the race. his pace was amazing, they were all inch perfect one lap qualifying type laps (remember how good webber was in the old 1 lap shooutout format?). well done mark. what can I say about sookbastian ze-tool? he is a masive cry baby and as usual only has himself to blame. again he f**ked up behind a safety car (anyone remember a certain Japanese GP?????). perfect result for webber. webber on top of the WDC, red bull on top of WCC, no points for hamilton, and vettel 2 places behind him and dirty as hell. yeehaa!
  19. how to tell normal blow by from excessive? simple. if your car keeps shooting out it's dipstick then you either have excessive blow by or your catch tank has been incorrectly plumbed resulting in your crankcase not being able to breath. like ERD said it can be hard for the average punter to tell what is normal and what is not just by looking under the oil filler cap of a running car. and likewise filling a catch tank can be due to excessive oil in the head getting flung out under cornering not due to combustion gasses leaking past the rings (blow by).
  20. for your needs and budget the sony Z is the way to go. it's a kick ass laptop. I have one. the quad SSDs means your stuff will run super fast. seriously they are a serious piece of gear. I also have the big boy http://www.sony.com.au/product/vpcf127hg If the Z is too small then look at the F series above. it's under budget at $3K and is still a kick ass machine with HD display, HDMI out etc. very good laptop if you need full size, full featured. but if you want portable, fast, stylish then the Z is hard to beat. and it would want to be at $4K.
  21. if you have a pulse and can see 2 feet in front of your face you can pass the HPT. it's not even worth worrying about. just follow the instructions and you will be fine. if you can't pass that test you shouldn't be driving anyway. it's so basic as to be almost a waste of time.
  22. JEEEBUS????? WHERE ARE YOU JEEBUS?
  23. come and get your front diff out of my kitchen. also have that fancy sump adapter/billet cradle/brace for your 30/26 build ready for you too. your front diff box has bits of egg and olive oil all over it from sitting on my kitchen bench. come and sink a can or two with me. i'm moving out of slurry hills soon.
  24. I was thinking the same thing. for your age, location, car, mods, history of 2 recent speeding infringements etc your premium is on the cheap side if anything. reducing the agreed value by $6500 to net a $200 premium saving is actually pretty good too. as shell said, what is your NCB %? and same as blitz, I remember insuring a bloody GTI-R pulsar in 2002 which was worth about $23K back then and it was about $4000 a year!!!
  25. I say thank you ferrari! I had a good feeling about gonzo after practice but before quali and put some cash on him at a lovely 8:1! sadly I also backed webber at 3.25:1 before quali only to have his odds blow out a bit, but gonzo shortened to about 2.50:1 after quali so I was happy to have gotten on when I did. thanks ferrari for that little gift. I can tell you know I was quick down to the TAB to cash in my ticket though..... luckily it's in the same building I live in! lol. bummer webz went no where. as usual red bull strategy for webber was shithouse. fastest pit stop doesn't mean shit when it's executed at the worst possible moment. oh, and the comments by massa and gonza in the press conference were awesome. I fast forwarded through anything sookbastian ze-tool had to say of course... and suck it zetool. you are still behind webber due to webber having won more races than you champ... I mean chump.
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