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I am reading its a misquote. Seems they left bits out to paint a different picture.
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A Boy's Love For His Rb20
Roy replied to Roy's topic in Members Cars, Project Overhauls & Restorations
Yeh, a 2530 makes for a nice setup, but I personally think its worthwhile losing 15-20rwkws at 3,800rpm odd to make equal and more power from 4,200rpm. If you are caught in the wrong gear etc the TD06 can be a bit painful...but I feel a TD06 will make for the quicker car all other things being equal around a track, drifting or drags But the truth is its pretty easy to spend 5k getting a TD06 setup singing so whatever you chose just do the numbers carefully before hand and make sure its the path you want to take. -
Mazda Rx3Gt Restoration
Roy replied to ylwgtr2's topic in Members Cars, Project Overhauls & Restorations
Yeh, but your nephew doesnt stand a chance with you and his Dad around... = -
LOL, yeh when are people going to run cool cars. By cool I mean old, unreliable, slow but loud cars. If someone wants to build a Sierra I know the perfect car to build up as it already has all the good parts from either RS500, Grp A or aftermarket
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Its all a load of UK-BBC/Internet hogwash. Smedley gives Massa a 2sec pep talk to get him to lift his game and keep pace so that come pitstops Massa will stay ahead...and the whiney poms are making out that somehow Massa had Hamo off or forced Hamo to run into the back of him So, ie next. Ready to move on!
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You ruin E85 with OJ...a stoning is called for!
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That is BS. So basically the series is moving from a production car based series to a "run what ya brung" series. Would make it more appealing to hacks like me and more accessible to a wider range of cars but not sure you want to be opening up this type of motorsport to hacks like me and even facter cars ? Surely this means an R33 GTS25t can run an aftermarket tubo, if so then all of a sudden they look like pretty good things for "liltte dullahs"
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Blaise...join the one make R32 series
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Yeh cool .Looking on carsales earlier this year I was surprised by their asking price. But the condition of local ones was nothing to get too excited about
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I know, its the wallpaper on my laptop and phone Yeh, I looked at an early model one to buy and import rather then the Sierra, but bit like the E30 M3 they lack the grunt to be entertaining, as you cant punt the things to their max on the street with regards to braking and cornering. They do look the part with the guard lips and wild wings.
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Love the ZED, is that a Cosworth plenum as well? When I was working in Singapore a friend had a crate Cosworth engine in his ZED...went well and sounded AWESOME
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The Jags were part of the Classic Endurance Race. There were plenty of E-Types as well as Low Drag Coupes (which are to die for)
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Elsewhere around the pits there were some other cool things....most of all, the watch that almost had me handing over my credit card. I am a huge Steve McQueen fan...I have my Steve McQueen jacket, now i need the watch I shudder to think what this thing is worth
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As part of the race meet Porsche had a massive stand and had what must be close to my dream, cool daily driver. Immaculate condition, old school, with some period racing bits to make it cool And of course a classic race meet wouldnt be the same without 80s Touring Cars
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Hey, some get married and buy houses...others hold on to their youth for grim death So whilst we were in Germany we hung around for a few days. We were lucky enough to see all the historics racing at Nurburgring at the Old Timers meet. We had to go to Frankfurt (a shit hole full of drugs and nasty hookers...) to drop Jarrod at the airport. Me and Lee hung around for a few more days going back to Nurburgring for more laps and a small tour through Brussels and Belgium on the way back to the train at Calais The biggest problem about the Old Timers meet is the fact that you can probably afford some of the cars. So if you are a diehard for old cars they will haunt you for weeks, dreaming of owning one of these buses, living in Europe and competing at legendary race tracks against other very cool cars
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Where did you get your brake caliper bracket from? My god it clocks the caliper around a hell of a lot
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Compomotive Rim Refurbishment Options
Roy replied to r32gtrdrc's topic in Motorsport Discussion & Builds
Just arrange for it all yourself. Get online and find a metal finisher in your area. They will drop the wheels in a bath and strip the paint. The you can can give them a good run with red scotchbrite....though with those wheels you may be better off just giving them a light hit with a media blast (may not be required if the the paint strips easily / powder coating comes off pretty easy, the anodized type paint finish of Rays wheels is a pain in the ass to strip. Then go to your local powder coat guy and get them in whatever colour you want. -
I think Kimi is plenty motivated to drive a car as fast as possible. What I think he has no time for is all the media appearances and fluff associated with beinga driver in F1. I am sure Williams will be nowhere near as demanding of his time then McLaren and Ferrari. I think he was still plenty motivated in his last season at Ferrari. you only have to look how bad Fisi was in the same car to realise just how bad the car was....remembering that Fisi almost beat Kimi at Spa in a Force India a few GP earlier....he could not get anywhere near Kimi when in the same car. And as the year rolled on without Massa and the car setup went towards Kimi then the pace improved.
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Nothing is ever perfect and everything is a compromise. Cars do three basic things and a mix of all at times. The accelerate, the corner and they brake. A tyre that is good at one may not be good at the others or even all three. Generally more sideall will give you better longitudinal grip, braking and power down...but if you are trying to go through corners as well..... like I said, everythings is a compromise. Frankly, a low profile 19" car should work perfectly fine if its a good quality tyre and your suspension is set up for it. If you have big, baggy side walls then you can generally run harder suspension as the tyre acts as a damper. If you have low profile tyres with no side wall then you need more compliance in your suspension
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LOL. my car does back flips at the best of times. Not sure I like this whole $2 DRS system on a car that I am driving. I suppose it can be fixed into position though
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Isnt that graph in hp? Based on my experience of my car on his dyno makes a lot more sense then the claim of 305rwkws. The below is my car on an old 235rwkws Racepace tune that equaled about 244rwkws on his dyno. Not long after this I went back to Racepace and we leaned on the tune a little more with 100ron and made a comfortable 260rwkws (track tune) So Based on finding 25rwkws on the Racepace dyno lets call it 245+25rwkws on Dr Drifts dyno....so about 270rwkws
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The gurney flap would make a difference. But a dual plane wing is technically a better solution. You need one of these...but woudl cost waaaaay more But, truth is I dont pretend to know that much about aero. To me its all wank for 99% of us. We end up with ugly cars with parachutes attached...but there are a few basic concepts that seem best to follow
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Even though i have two bootlids I would rather not have either of them drilled full of holes that are not being used. They are both re-sprayed body colour and if running the winged bootlid I still want the car to look neat