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LOL, Lauda certainy is a no BS guy and you wonder whether he is over Lewis. Coming out and telling media that he trashed a Merc roomafter losing out in quali to Nico and telling the world he is simply lying about his relationship/respect with Nico is probably telling us something

LOL, Lauda certainy is a no BS guy and you wonder whether he is over Lewis. Coming out and telling media that he trashed a Merc roomafter losing out in quali to Nico and telling the world he is simply lying about his relationship/respect with Nico is probably telling us something

My money is on being the most boring GP of the year

What tyres do you run on your GTR Duncan? I noticed a lot of different going from RE55s to AO50s and i need way more spring with the AO50s, or a lot more camber etc because of the roll the car developed and hammering outside corner. I feel I already have enough camber so spring is the obvious choice. Also, I suppose those springing the money for MCAs doing "track work" may these days have abit of aero as well meaning they probably running more spring

LOL. I hear you. Just like all the posts saying not to use Tomei/HKS/Jap when none offer NEO springs either I am going Perforance Valve springs and retainers simply because I am hoping they aren't any worse than new std OE NEO RB25DET springs. If I could afford Ferrea (Part no. S10078 dual springs and require their Ti retainers to be used) I would hand over the cash, but given my engine is only running small 252 Tomei cams the main reason for wanting springs is boost is expected to be up around 26-28psi and revs around 8,800-9,000rpm and guess std springs may not be the greatest at those revs, boost and expected power at that level

Is the Kando H the Trust TD06SH? If so i think the 10cm will be good on an RB30 and be about perfect for the rev range to 7,200rpm of an RB30

It didnt help we got belted in the Rugby and living next door to MCG-AAMI stadiums i had to put up with all the England fans all Sat night

Post up pics of the rotor, bolt number and PCD. Odds are they are Biot

I am just a prick. I dont like how the Sky F1 commentators are so one eyed and Ant always calls rubbish to support any English driver. I wouldnt have been able to watch any of the remainder F1 coverage as I would have had to listen to LeMans winner Ant yadda yadda. There was a funny moment mid-late Le Mans when a commentator rightly gave Ant a compliment and then the other English commentator starting BSing on about how clearly he was the fastest driver in the car. The other commentator pulled the guy up and stated "that they all equally do a great job, one is no faster, better than the other" . But minutes later he again said Ant was clearly the fastest Toyota driver only for the other commentator to pull him up and say on speed along Kobi had proven to be the quickest over the week. Its just an English commentator thing as a rule. Buemi is a gun and he never gets a mention by them. I am just over the English love in, just as much as I am over "Australia's Mark Webber"..."Oz's Danny Ric" etc etc. LOL, I am a miserable bastard at the moment

Discovered another good feature of the GoPro. Its replaceable case. Gave my Radcam another go on a recent holiday and in an open top car the glass lense has now picked up a few scratches/chips from stones etc and its not causing blotting on what used to be pretty goo quality video

Eat shit Davidson...sorry to Seb and Nakajima but you get that when your teammate is a tool

Eat shit Davidxon anf Hamilton Predictably Sky are saying we need to look at radio ban, yet 18 months ago they were saying to ban it and sledging Nico for using advice grom pit wall...he cant dive the car without tuition....vs Lewis doing the same thing being talked about as genius and WDC stuff for using every tool at his disposal Yet tonight Nico had the same problem and cleared it whilst Lewis went on a sooking session

BUMP

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Click on the youtube link people...i think its actually posted by F1?????

Truth is if i could yave my time again with singles on the RB25...TDO6-20G with 8cm if on E85 or 10cm if on 98 The 8cm is really too small but with E85 it masks the mismatch. If 98 you need the efficiency on the exhaust side and IMO need 10cm The 20G was just pulled everywhere. Perhaps if my motor liked boost i would have liked the T67 more. But i had problems with the engine not making more power at 22psi than 18psi...assume its valve springs in my motor. Lol so i reserve to change my mind if with 24psi my T67 had made the 360-370i expected i may have liked it more than at 330rwkws which was only 15rwkws more than what i strangled out of the TD06-20G

Really...pretty sure i was almost at 200rwkws with no ebc or vct

I have ran a TD06-20G with a 10cm housing and 8cm housing on an RB20. Difference in response is HUGE. No difference in power I have ran a 12cm housing and 10cm and 8cm housing on the same TD06-20G on an RB25 and the response is light years different again. 8cm was mega punchy but fell over after 6,000rpm. The 12 cm was laggy and basically the 12cm-20G on the RB25 was the same as the RB20 with 20G and 8cm...so big step backwards. The 10cm was the sweet middle, pulled well to redline but certainly wasnt as violently response in the 3,000rpm range as the 8cm I quite liked the 8cm on the RB25. If my car was purely street I would have kept it as it drove like a diesel truck. But the lack of top end would have annoyed me when driving at the track

I guess they have the active dff so perhaps they try to help dial out understeer by running a higher rear spring rate I used to grab bits off a V8 Supercar guy and when he was at Kmart Racing he told me there was a big difference to how Rick Kelly and Greg Murphy set up their cars. If memory serves me correctly Murphy loved as much bar as they could throw at the car whilst Kelly liked more spring. I ran big bars at one point in time and whilst the car was generally about as quick as it was with the other smaller bars I have run it did handle and feel very different. Not sure porpoising is the ride word but it seemed to feel as though it crabbed around fast corners..just felt odd. With smaller bars it just feels like the car handles what I would say is more natural Russman now runs my old mega bars in his Time Attack GTSt and its friggin quick for a basic car so they obviously work well with the Tein RS setup he runs. But for me I ended up with my ARC bars that generally felt the same at the off the shelf Whiteline offering but are larger diam and hollow so lighter but still adjustable in the rear.

Frankly I would be going DMS or MCA, lastly Bilsteins. But all three would be decent enough things though I tend to believe the DMS or MCA will give you a slightly more focussed result. The critical thing IMO is to decide what tyre are you going to run. The TYRE is CRITICAL. I agree with much of what GTSBoy has stated but since you have mentioned 30% track car its important to remember that your car with such low spring rates and modern semi slicks will quickly find itself out of its depth. At the end of the day you will need more spring and associated damping to handle the grip an A050 will give you. But if you are going to street tyre, even a grippy street tyre like AD08R you wont generate the grip to need higher spring rates. This is full Whiteline kit. Back in the day my car was actually the Whiteline development car, so low spring rates like GTSBoy refers to on near new RE55s This is the same turbo setup just with more boost so 40rwkws more and Tein RAs revalved by Racepace with F7/R5 springs running old A050 tyres The difference in stability is huge as with the lower spring rates and grippy tyres there was simply too much pitch under brakes, squat under power and roll in corners that loaded up the suspension. You can see I spend most of the lap chasing the car with steering input The kicker is I think the Teins with higher spring rate actually are less crashy on the street. In general driving you can tell they are stiff just with how the car rides the bumps but they are actually less crashy over expansion joints and the like because I suspect the Bilsteins valving is more agressive than the Teins.....so dont discount the actual valving of the shock and in turn the ride...its not all spring

Holy shit https://youtu.be/RQmMYTBS_F4 Since when? F1 finally woken up

I am sick to death of him just driving Rosberg off the road...he barely gets a wheel alongside at Barcelona and lunges at a closing gap because he thinks there is a gap and has done enough to be given space but when Rosberg has plainly driven around him is easily alongside and has the inside line for the next corner he "understeers" again into Rosberg. Its crap and robs viewers of good racing. Hell Max showed how its done...amazing job by the young punk

$500 + postage so I can afford more beer whilst on holidays

Oh...and if you dont know who Ben Manion is have a read on his Targa Tasmanis results...on public roads his car hammers...RB20 and hi-flow turbo Not saying they are the ultimate...but you can't say they dont provide great performance when Ben Manion has won early modern and him and Ben Wooster always run competitively in the tarmac rallies in their lil GTSts

Even the Pirelli fella aHembrey said 3 stop is faster on paper but everyone is likely to 2 stop due to traffic and difficulty in overtaking