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you mean moving the mounting point of the rear LCA down to flatten it out etc ?? Ive done this to my track car. Totally unnecessary on a road car most track cars dont even do this mod

other thing to consider is in reality is it a necessity of go that big on brakes with the light s13 and not huge power ie: not just the caliper but if you go the EVO 350mm rotor they are heavier and more expensive and the brake pads are more expensive from my knowledge With the GTR stuff smaller 324mm rotor and brake pads = little lighter and for the same money can get better stuff (only marginal but still counts) For reference Im running r34 brembo's all round with BMC50 all be it with Project Mu 2 piece rotors and PMU H16 03 pads and it pulls my 1300kg total R32 gtst very well, admitted its on their limits really but still does the job well and im running 560hp and full tote odds. I went the smaller brakes but the best rotors and pads I could for the money instead

better quality semi's ? Hankook's the next step up in quality and price. my experience with AR1's to new set of 050's is circa 1 - 1.5 sec difference over a 61 - 62 sec lap never been involved in full slicks before but would think unless go full soft option getting heat into them to take full advantage would be a problem then at the proper soft level they would last long at all !??

Thanks. Yeah dog box just have to get used to shifting a little differently and be a bit quicker and bang it through a bit more, cleaned the teeth a few times but all good now MCA's get the tick from me. I still haven't optimized the setup I dont think even after changing out the initial spring rates and adjusting the height a bit after some initial testing... whether its front spring rate or adding some sway bars over stock I decided to not play with it for a while and just drive the nuts off it and it definitely lets me do that with great results still ... its very compliant on the track in R32 the only previous experience was HSD's and then TIENs and miles better than even the TIEN's All be it in different car being an s14, so I spose not apples with apples I have driven on KW V3's and a Bilstein package - for mine Reds beat the Bilstien package that was in it and about on par with KW's give or take

Infinite Time Attack night at barbs has happened... I only got 4 hot laps in ... but I did do a new PB of 61.6 on the second lap of the night which is great, then I spat a powersteering hose near the rack that couldnt be fixed on the night so had to pack up Great to get a good time the car etc felt great, disappointing not to be able to push it further on the night as I have to say there is a good amount left in it as the car currently stands which I didnt think there would be to be honest Now the chase is on for a 60 sec lap Also previous weekend was back at Antilag Supercruise in collie : again a heap of track time, good fun, good people I got to take passengers out which was fun also as dont do that much. Had to stiffen the suspension up to hardest to accommodate passenger and old tyres which not optimal but still fun and good little track to test your skills on and belt around. Managed a 49.2 which is not too shabby.... like everyone else cant wait for the long track ! The bump is gone now, for now at least, here is an ode to it from the weekend things got a bit loose sometimes same same !?

Been a while... stuff and things really Belt throwing activities got solved by putting standard balancer back on Been doing some events but not a huge amount really and no huge advancements in the car just little things here and there ... bit boring really. Might have to do something soon Car is running 560hp 680 nm on 24.5ish psi Once everything was in a running, went to last Antilag Supercruise.... didnt get many laps was blowing oil (finally got it sorted overfilling sump etc) as new sump acted differently Been doing a few Infinite time attack nights All the thoughts and analysis... 'trying to work out how to get some speed out of this thing' quote Days of thunder spec Managed a 62.4 last time out with Nankangs on the front and bald 050's on the rear. Work those little brakes hard still, they hold on .... just Also went to Kebabs and Cars night... good night and turn out, reminded me 1) of the old days and 2) now how old I am Won a prize and all ! Going to Antilag Supercruise again this sat should be fun and then to Infinite time attack Thursday night , might have new tyres on ... After that dunno, not really satisfied...but dont know what with or what to do next

delay in updates but ..... The happenings...All was finished and put together. Got it dyno'd last week on Hyperdrive roller dyno made 430hp on 17psi low boost and 498hp at 22psi on high boost. Had it at the tuning day at Barbs yesterday to run in the new brakes and see any teething issues.It flipped the p/s belt 4 times on high revs giving me some oh shit moments, after that I then took the 75% approach to get some laps in steering wasn't optimal so have to work on that.Laps went well mainly tried a few things and getting used to gearbox. Gearbox is great on upshift pretty brutal shifting down. Shift light has been setup which does help Vbox has also been hooked up but had too many other things to concentrate on to learn how to use it yet.Will get steering sorted next event is 19th Oct - will be on old tyres but be good to have another hitout.After a couple of successful outings will go back to dyno and wind a few more psi into it

Ive run a 295 050 on a 10" rim on the track many times, front and back 'bugle' a tiny bit but had no problems with them at all with wear or feel etc

Nope i have r34 brembos on my r32 gtst direct fit 12mm bolts just the fronts 14mm

Think they are the same they will fit yes but I used s14 ones.....depending on your cars other suspension ie: adjustable or stock it may cause problems. either way you'll need a wheel alignment when you put them in They are 10 - 15mm longer than standard r32 gtst hence, without any other adjustment and all other things remaining equal, you'll be running more camber and your castor rods may not be long enough

Something to consider for the non W.A guys ... while dyno's are dyno's and numbers are number etc etc the C - Red dyno is notorious for being the lowest reading roller over here.

to give you a real life example on a track car with 'everything' I have retained a gtx3076 0.82 rear on my car for near 5/ 6 years now - 4 years of drift and near 2 years of sprint / time attack. I run it on 6 boost 3" exhaust stock engine till now I just put forged in, pon cams and 1000cc ID's 44mm ext wastegate on e85 Ive had no probs with the turbo and its still in great nick, I think there are better options out there now I just don't want to sell this one for nothing and fork out for a new setup just yet is the reason for keeping it so long and keep spending money just being on the track rather than change in W.A we run pretty smallish 50 - 60 sec tracks not like SMSP etc so response can help anyway or that's what Im telling myself The response / punch is definitely there I run a pretty high grip rear setup both suspension, tyre and rear wing. Have to control the traction even with all that with the right foot other wise anything under 4th gear still turns the tyres On hub dyno my last result before I blew the engine was 550hp and 660nm at 23.5psi the tuner say there was prob about 2 more psi in it and that's it. Its full boost by 4000 max torque at 4500 max hp at 7000 That could be limited by a few things though like my 2.5" intercooler piping and only 500 x 300 intercooler (for response) Just put new forged engine in haven't turned up the wick really yet but on a different roller dyno made 500hp and 585nm on 22psi after a few more track outings we are going to go to 25psi and by extrapolating we expect somewhere around 530 - 540 and 630nm you'll hit your 400 rwkw @ 25psi ish pending dyno's (definitely hub and i'll achieve this on a roller too) But I think that's all it has in it and that's running it at 98% type thing

Ok so skip some months since that happened hibernation period is nearly over.... the happenings over my break went a different direction than when i thought it was going to going in but it happens. Obviously the engine going bang had to be addressed... Ive got a full built rb25 nearly complete and ready to go in. Im not one for writing a big list of every ACL bearing etc but the list is long etc. I'll be running this at the same power levels so looking for more reliability than a bump in power right now. Im justing waiting on the custom sump to be finished by Luke from Lukes Crazy Speed Shop should be ready this weekend. The gearbox dilemma wouldnt leave me.... I dont think I'm yet baller enough for sequential or old age sensibility has kicked in a tiny bit but anyway this Rb25 PPG doxbox got delivered during the week. It should provide some better gear changing and more reliability rather than banging poor 25 yr old gearboxes all the time so just waiting for the sump and finish putting it all back together ready for a tune... Spending funds on that will leave no room yet for a good brake upgrade so new Project Mu rotors and pads all round have been ordered and will have to stop this thing over and over again... seem to do the job pretty well though. Aiming to be out in early Sept maybe for for a track day to check everything out then more events from there. Also a side note other funding was taken up but happy to do so we bought back our S14 gravel rally car. We built this 8 years ago sold it about 2 years ago and bought it back a few months ago for a bloody great price from the same guy after he only used it twice on bitumen got over it and put it in the garage. Fun times ahead !!!! So thats where all this sits right now....

In May a trip to Collie for the Antilag supercruise bought goods and unfortunates... Awesome day all round and always good to meet some people and also get in the car and drive a track I don't drive that often. The car ran double duty with myself and a mate driving ran well Surprisingly with such a stiff suspension setup ( and couldn't be bothered playing with dampners etc) it handled the tight bumpy track well.... full compression through the esses here think I have the ride height and setup pretty close now Later in the arvo after a good morning thrashing my mate got a little butt wild and decided to do a power skid on 295 050's !! joking ... through the supercruise the below pic says it all. Engine has gone. Although haven't delved right into it seems like unfortunately a simple thing looks to have let down a big thing - a split vac hose lead to overboost and although we have boost cut setup etc seems it was still little bit too much to take. Not catastrophic like a hole in the block like I usually do but enough maybe someone should've tried harder ! Over my hibernation period from now till the sun comes out again there will be a full strip down of the car to check and clean and go on more of a diet, pending funds the already planned aero improvements will be implemented and time for new brakes etc etc

Agreed ... I wouldn't do it. Especially when your learning and if your car isn't up to scratch .... belting on it if something goes wrong, at best you'll prob get stuck at the track and have to get a tow home ... and then what. No car to do anything else with even drive around and get parts you need to fix the car Drifting whether learning or at top level is brutal on your car

New version I assume is what Ive been told can be done ie: how the r34 box works take a 3rd gear from r34 box and what ever gear changing mechs (I cant remember now) the r34 box uses .... which is not clips and put it in the r33 box to solve the clip issue No change in strength just gets around the clip issue apparently

Although I don't know that answer 100% in relation to your type m guards I have an r32 gtst 4 door with origin side skirts (normal size) with gtr front guards and it fits fine I think most of the size difference in the gtr guards vs standard gtst ones is higher up so doesn't flare out till half way up the guard if that makes sense So id say the answer is yes they'll fit

I was going to say what happened to the old good rotors pads and fluid? Surely even at what 1500kg the brembos on it with really good stuff to combine with it will do the job every now and then on the track and definitely on the street

That's pretty good I was expecting more still with the rb engine and g/box combo I assume no cage ?

Im in Perth and the company I found luckily is here too... Panelmate.com.au Don't know what is available over your way but Im sure someone is doing the same thing over there it's pretty cheap to buy but coming in 2.4m x 1.2m sheets I dare say shipping from here make it too expensive. If you do use it PM me if you want I've picked up a few tricks to make mounting etc better

Ally composite. 10mm thick. Ally honeycombe core with 0.5mm ally sheet either side Weights 3.5kg/ m2 and is very strong

Build bits and results Few little additions recently. Trying to run the ride height I wanted to ie: lower was leading to suspension geometry issues. I bought some gkteck knuckles that had 20mm drop built in to attempt to correct that. After what I admit was a fair bit of messing around with the usual change one thing and effect 5 other things we got these in with new bearings, wheel studs etc etc. It served its purpose for both correcting steering geometry and also letting me run the ride height I wanted but correctly. The new tailshaft over the last event and a test and tune was rattling my teeth out with vibration so gave it back to Final Drive who rebalanced it and put that back in and all is good now Off to Allstar to final give the power a bit of touch up... been running 490hp and 550nm @19 psi successfully Sean gave it another tune I can run off a switch adding 4psi so now 550hp and 660nm full boost at 4100. That's a fair bit of pick up from 4psi. Everything on the car to remain 'balanced' without it being too pushed or unsafe ie: brakes is made for 500 - 550 hp - try for anymore and I really run out of turbo, injectors, clutch, brakes The car was also due for some new tyres - I had some fronts I bought cheap from over east new but 3 years old and some new ones for the rear I also picked up the Vbox for future events so will get that in soon. Last night ran at the Trackbattle night I like these night cruisey but decently professional good amount of track time and good people. After a bit of rain gave this thing a crack and got a new PB by a decent amount knocking 0.9sec off my existing PB ....lap time doing 2 x 62.1s and I think about 7 - 8 laps in the 62's

I can half comment on this I have a r32 gtst and got the V2 I actually just put a pair of these in my car 2 weeks ago and drove on them last night... all be it grip driving but I have drifted for a long time etc and know the difference in feel 1) they are fabbed up really nice, except one thing we noticed immediately was that they obviously got the bearing case machined and then welded all the other bits on etc - great quality except the heat has obviously put the bearing case out of round by the tiniest bit and had hell of a job getting new bearing case in there 2) I cant comment using your suspension arms and ride height etc but we had to do some adjustments to get everything to fit up, I have full tote odds suspension setup etc (everything) and Tein extra length tie rods etc etc ... I ran out of tie rod length so had to get rack extenders. Then running 18 x 9.5 +12 with a 255 semi tyre on it the tyre then hit the upright, we had to space that out 10mm which gave us bees d*ck clearance to the upright - need more, then came trying to make the tyre fit into the guard and wheel well in its new postion. Not uncommon when you change the ride height etc but do bare it in minid that things like this might have to be addressed 3) they have a sh*t load of lock - when I drifted I had some albeit mild 3up cut and shut knuckles from Japan, these had way more lock. You wanna run wheel small thin and really wide to take full advantage of the lock aka: what they do with wisefab 4) they have approx. 20mm drop built into the knuckle - so on a lower car like mine where the arms where just slightly starting to push the correct characteristics geometry it bought it back to spot on and everything looks and works great I am grip driving now and bought them for the 20mm drop to correct my geometry. Are they good yes, are they a hassle and cause a few probs putting them in - sort of ( I also don't believe many tings are just 100% bolt in so expected some small probs). Are they necessary for you that's a decision only you can make but Id say from my previous drifting experience (did ADGP for 3 years) no you don't absolutely need them and the above mentioned JDI ones that everyone runs will be more than suffice. My 2c

Few build updates to come but for now This was from the other night

I got a very good condition 2nd hand set of tein drift coilovers you can have for $400 plus pay postage from perth the where you are ( prob $100) Thats basically the same price as these ebay coilovers and a million times better. Let me know via pm if youre keen