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Mate, stop them ASAP! Seriously. You are spending thousands on an engine to only put a 200rwkws turbo on. They are ok as a cheap get out of jail turbo that close to bolt on....but they dont perform. I have seen R33 turbos on RB20s that offer barely an improvement at 4,000rpm compared to my big, laggy truck, err I mean Trust turbo. Get a healthy RB20 motor put in and get a 2530 Kai or similar 350-400hp turbo put on. You will make 30-40rwkws more then you will with the RB23 and will be far cheaper to boot. I am about to put a new billet turbo on my car and run E85 which will see the figure be somewhere between 290-320rwkws...all on a std motor which I expect it will be fine with. At 230rwkws a std motor will alst forever and for less then 4k you can have a motor, tunable ECU, good turbo upgrade etc

I have a wrecker RB20 motor in my car running a TD06-20G. I have run it for 60,000kms and the last 7 years at generally 18-22psi and 235-275rwkws. Most of the kms are going to/from the track and actually driving it on the track. My take is that the RB20 is soooo over engineered in std spec that even a high km wrecker motor will be a good thing if you give it a wise going over when you install it. When you start leaning on them you need to make sure your tune and fluids are up to it and you will be fine with a wrecker motor. I am in the position that in the next few weeks I am going to spray my engine bay so on the weekend I went to a motorkhana and ran a 9,300rpm rev limit and 9,600rpm rev limit.. It sounded wild, and span up the tyres like a champion with plenty of limiter bashing. All whilst making about 260rwkws. I was half hoping the engine would pop so when it comes out that I could put it back into a freshly sprayed engine bay with all my RB24 bits...but its still running 100% reliable and drove me to work yesterday morning! Teh below pics is from drifting a bend and section of straight blazing 3rd gear on the 9,600rpm limiter before braking to stop in the finishing gate. The site of smoke behind me was hilarious....a std motor can take almost anything you can sensibly throw at it. The problem is it wont be responsive and have to give it a hard time; which incidentally they seem to like. So my strongest advise is buy a short wrecker engine with warranty and get it back on the road and just have fun blasting around in it. After this weekend I am more convinced than ever that if you arent worried about being the fastest, just having the most fun...then rape the RB20 with close to impunity Your money is far better spent on a nice turbo upgrade to a wrecker RB20

Mate, was good to have someone canning on with on Sunday. Was relaxing to kick back , drink beer..eat pork expertly prepared with love and affection by someone far more attentive then either of us. We almost got through $80 worth of meet Oh, and I LOVE this picture. 9,600rpm limiter action on the Mini Wang....I cant believe how strong the RB20s are

Who is doing the cage? I am now unemployed so I have LOADS of time so would be stoked to throw time at the lil GTSt

Just R33 GTR 2 pot Brembos with std issue 300mm rotor. I run the same pad compound front to rear. May have to throw on my spare F40 setup whilst I sort this rotor issue. A little bit gutted that some random thing has happened but oh well...f**king cars

Its 2010 again when after Silverstone there was talk that Webber was off to Ferrari. I doubt it but would be a cool way to finish up your F1 career http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/7719342/-Webber-to-Ferrari-as-Perez-stop-gap-

Stoked to have my car back ... but the plans to throw the new turbo on and go for a tune is on hold as I have a problem with the brakes which have destroyed near new rotors. So looks like I need a new pair of rotors which is going to set me back 1K so install and tune will have to wait a few weeks

All this stuff is back up for sale. Make an offer and depending on the day of the week may be interested in flogging stuff off. Also have some wheels and brake setups I will be posting up next week to get rid of

Seats still for sale. Making another attempt to get rid of some bits I have laying around.

They are a competitor to the 458. They look ok in the flesh, sound a bit muted i just came from the EPA but they go like stink in a straight line. So they are definitely a competitor for the 458 and not a replacement for the gorgeous, loud and full of character F1

Rinadeena looks like an amazing stage...absolutely hammering! Suspension looks planted. OK, time to start flogging your spec Penskes to the rest of us

So sorry to see you have the hiccup towards the end. Absolutely flying up to that point. Still an amazing result. Congrats!

Tein Super Racing/RS seem to be far more widely used on serious circuit cars. Looking under a number of Japanese Time Attack cars like Cyber EVO etc and you will see the Teins. They can also be rebuilt locally and valved to whatever spring/application you are after. They squeeze in under your budget as well. But if you have 3.5k to spend you are looking at some good quality gear. I woudl personally be looking at Koni or MCA. My next round of mods will be to get some Koni 3012 series or 28 series double adjustable shocks for my car.

With Alan Jones and Big Darryl. The earliest non-Aus GP I remember is Brazil then Silverstone 89. I remember watching the Japanese GP one year as it was on earlier then usual but cant remember what year it was or who won etc. I did remember watshing the Senna-Prost bingle Mk1 through

It'sa farking joke. So is he paying himself to host a GP? No Spa is a farking DISGRACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :verymad: :verymad: :domokun: Ricard needs overhauls such as media accomodation (tiny), extra vip accomodation, lots more parking on the outside of the circuit (the airport would be needed for the vips In a recent article discussing Bernies short term=stupid approach to the US GPs in the 80s...."Had Ecclestone bit the bullet and hung in there he might have wound up owning the Glen and maybe Long Beach too, giving him real power in American motor racing. But as with Bahrain, F1 today is always about the next bag of gold rather than long-term planning and building the sport’s popularity in places that not only have a passion for F1, but are also the perfect and proper venues for Grand Prix racing." Should be going to Magny Cours and Bernie needs to lower his licensing fees so amazing places like Spa get to keep their GP. It is such an amazing place, and gives us such amazing races....instead we are stuck with Valencia, Bahrain, China, Korea etc ...places that cant give a shit about F1 and simply line Bermies pockets

Wasnt too bad actually. Whilst I have packed on 15kg or so but I can still squeeze into a Caterham....just

Yeh std 210,000km gearbox. Secret is to use a sprung centre single plate puck clutch and CASTROL SYNTRANS 75W-85.

I got mine from racerecall.com . It does the job, but I don't think it is as good as a Driftbox etc but then again is cheaper so performs the basic job I ask of it. Well when you are hiring them and flogging them around the track when you are on holidays LOL, that how I know what a Swift can do around the combined GP Circuit-Nordschleife etc etc

Completely understand. I just need an oil pump and somewhere that will do reasonably priced inlet flanges and I could find out about turbos myself soon enough Re data logger. I have a little QStarz 10hz logger for when I am in hire cars and other peoples cars that if you think it will give acceleration etc you can borrow

Do you have access to a data logger for before runs? If you want I can send over a simple GPS logger so you can map gs and speed so that you can get a feel for in gear acceleration and response. Something a dyno wont pick up I have read a few people say that Nistune are decent enough but have their limitations. Is there a performance reason behind the change to Vipec from Nistune or just a question of more functionality? Or see the difference a better flowing turbine will make

256/8.5mm or 260/9.15mm??? This will be real interesting. Just remind me, do you currently have cam gears? Do a run before the cams go in and tune to get the latest and greatest run for reference. Or not....if its going to cost dollars or agro

Well more than ever Webber needs to do a 2010 and go to Europe and start bagging some wins and get some momentum. He really needs a win in Spain or Monaco

Have you bothered going any further with an inlet manifold? Curious to know where you got your billet flanges from?

Gutted for Dan, disappointed in Webz...hate Vettel but stoked for Lotus

Kimi will catch him up