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God....at least it was a race then. I saw the lack of a comprehensive cage in the MX5 and thought taking their practive sessions far too serious

Serisouly? So they had an MX5 out there with no cage (well it may have a main hoop but thats all...racing with GT3 cars? Man...recipe for a Greg Hansford isnt it?

Interested to see more info about the whole setup .... GTSt/GTR/ turbo and manifold setups

I know with injection etc that people take them out to just under 5L and they make 450hp with revs on board. The one in the TRX made about 300hp so made for a quick car back in 1990

Grosjean appears to be ready to fly the white flag and go hang out in DTM with BMW. The RBR programme seems rather cut throat and ruined some your careers but you have to wonder if a talent like Grosjean was in it would be be sitting in the wings or progressed through STR and into RBR by now

You will get better advice if you can tell people what tyres, what suspension (inc spring rates) do you have any swaybars etc.

Lets see who guesses what is coming? Looking at the stickers on the car it appears to be a PIARC day... glad I am not in this session

Cyber EVO now runs GT spec Brembos...so now got SERIOUS BRAKES under it

A friends Dad had one of those Rover V8s in a TRX Bluebird that had the Bathurst mock up guards etc. Was a pretty tough conversion!

Oh, only 1 sec improvement and work in progress Still...looks tough

Fark...so where to from here? Just re-trace your steps and give the same setup another go?

You are on to something there. But the problem is you are talking 2k worth of GP tickets. I drove past Nurburgring the weekend of the GP this year on my way south to France...was tempted to go to the GP but the tickets for the Hungarian GP had already cost enough. In a way I was happy MW didnt win as I would have been gutted if he had got up and I had been too tight to pay for a ticket Didnt realise Belgium was so close to the previous GP next year. Traditionally Spa is the first race back from the mid year summer break.

Thanks Woolls...the piston size is what I am most interested in and whether they change based on the rotor diameters they are paired with

What time does a std R35 do? I 15s or something? Big improvement

Lets be clear. An 87 Sierra, even with 6 pot APs, 420hp and plenty of love, care and maintenance is a bucket If you are not quite right in the head you will see that as part of its appeal....its loud, rather crude styling, rattly hatchback, loud-harsh engined appeal At the end of the day you get in it and grin like an idiot and again if you are soft in the brain you are proud to be seen in it. Having been a passenger/driven in all sorts of cars, including exotics...I cant think of too many other cars I would be proud to say I own ... like I said a little soft in the head and no doubt the reason I dont get as laid as often as most

IT IS A SHOPPING TROLLEY!!!!!!!!!!! Just like the VL and VN, M3, R31 etc etc. The Grp A rules were for manufacturers to hot up mass produced cars after building a limited volume of the hotted up buckets to go racing. I loved the category, but Nissan cheated (were smarter?) and when they built the next model built a car around the regs. Can you imagine if the R32 GTR was just a later model R31 GTS-R still running an RB20 so it would be in the same class as the Sierra (2L, RWD) One day I will have an E30 M3 to go with my R32 and Sierra. If I can find the right M3 may have it as soon as May next year Though dont think I will ever have the money to get the VN Grp A...as much as I would love one

If only Malaysia was the weekend after...its a good GP to go to...only i cant go that weekend

I am 80% sure that if you put the same pad in your Brembos you would say the same thing. Pedal feel is all in the pad you use and the piston sizes. Which reminds me ... http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/385180-k-spot-d2-attkd-etc/

If anybody has a set of any of these can you please help me out with the following: Brand: Piston QTY: Rotor Size: Piston Diameters: Cheers

Well, SKY team looks pretty shit LOL and Croft is a lead commentator ... i didnt mind him on the Red Button for practice sessions...but the main seat for races is completely different as you cant just talk gossip...you need to offer insight. Oh well....farewell BBC and will have to see what I do on the Fox front. Does anyone really know how it affects us Aussies with One HD?

The braking force of the std brakes is fine...especially if you run race compound pads The problem is they cant handle the heat. So you need to throw as big a rotor as you can under your rims. Get a caliper with a good size and range of pads and this is all about heat management. If you have massive amounts of aero and downforce then you can consider trying to increase the braking force and reducing stopping distances. Its surprising to some with massive brake upgrades to rock up to a corner at the track and find that cars with well sorted std brakes and supension/tyres can actually outbrake them. So just work on absorbing and disspating the heat with your brake upgrade. You get shorter stopping distances with tyres and suspension that control the pitch of the car and suspension travel under braking loads. You dont shorten braking distances with brake upgrades

And its no real decision...you woudl have to take this over the GTR...as cool as the GTRs are, they are just waay too much money when you can get this for 1/3 of the price Shame you cant paint it up in the earlier colour scheme

Yeh, if the numbers I was told about the Japanese cars are correct then I think its going to take a Powerball winner to get one landed here and racing. Was it one of the usual suspects looking at the Calsonic car or a fresh face? I was told the other weekend that this is for sale...(Taisan) I am not 100% sure but I think the 1990 & 1993 winner was the Impul/Calsonic GTR. In 1991/1992 Hasemi Motorsport Hasemi Calsonic Interesting to see that Dunlop, Bridgestone and Tokohama all supported different GTR teams. In Aus the GIO cars often suffered being on Dunlops vs Gibson on Yokohamas...plus they were of course a customer car and somewhat privateer team

Sorry, typo..yes lake Mulwala so 75kms. Although I just realised there is an SAU-NSW track day this weekend and I need to get up to Sydney for Xmas so not sure if I should do Winton or Wakefield whilst in transit home?!?!!?

So one day for 3 forms of motorsport then a whole day of cars sitting around in the sun? Spread the events across two days and have a parc ferme where cars can be viewed. What the hell does a SNS have to do with competition cars anyway?