Roy

Nice vid. How fast was your GTR around SP?

Shoot me your bank details.... I need one of these and been too lazy to sort...

Be interesting to see how it goes up against the Ford GT and Vette....go the US iron

Don't you just love it. Its a good feeling when you exceed peoples expectations with a humble, maligned RB20 Re the brakes , CCX are good things but perhaps they are too hard on rotors. I have used only one set and loved them but they did seem to have an appetite for rotors with regards to shudder and cracking. I will be trialling the PFC 06 pads with the Stoptechs and 343mm rotors. I am really happy with how they have all come up. I will try and get a set of DS3000s to trial back to back with the PFC06 before they get too worn

Well looks like Nissan is in F1, courtesy of Red Bull and Infiniti badging of Renault engines

Ferraris have alwasss been for fags! Lotus is where its at!

So Snowie...its been restored and now the asking price has tripled....shoudl have bought it and been one of the cool kids when it was going cheap http://cars2.ebay.com.au/1993-Lotus-Esprit-GT300-GT2-LeMans-Race-Car_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQitemZ270672966729 http://forsale.classicandperformancecar.com/detail.aspx?ad=19893&d=1627

If only it was Sunday;...may jut tcome down and give the car a run and bed the brakes and see if I cant get my head around the difference between A050s and RE55s.

From recent Winton day

I have an R34 cooler and rather then blank where the std air temp sensor goes i woudl rather install the std air temp sensor for connection to my data logger

Except for Fatz...the man speaks the truth! At the end of the day, anyone in a quick car will be questioned with regards to their ability (its all the car). Ppl in slow cars are typically free of that sort of scrutiny...fact is its far harder to punt a fast car fast then a slow car fast... if you let other peoples comments affect what you do with your car then that is pretty sad...its your dime and its your time...do as you please! If you are not too proud and your eyes are open when you do track days, you will realise there are guys out there that drive circles around the majority of us....and to put the competition and fun behind the requirement to perform or beat people then you are only cheating yourself of some good fun

How do the front diffs, shafts etc go (gearbox and rear end) go when you throw all that torque at them? I think the 3.2L, 3.4L bottom ends getting around must go close to being drivetrain killers?!?!?!?

LOL...ok. Ultimate RB in my eyes really depends on what car you are putting it in. What yo uhave spelt out would be a good thing in a GTR...if its were a rwd platform I would be focussing on making the turbo as small as you really need and throw bigger housings on it so that the thing doesnt ramp hard onto boost and has a flatter torque curve

Engine efficiency etc has come a long way the past 20years and an RB26 head will get the job done...but my money would be on a VQ25 with the right bolt ons giving it a hell of a run for its money

So Australia is going to be the first GP of the year ....surely. Tanks and riots and shootings ie, revolution are not the right surrounds for an F1 race. Bernie wont be happy that peoples freedoms are ruining his race! Serves him right for taking races to countries run by dictators and oppressed populations, ie the only people who can spend th emoney Bermie demands without having to answer to the wider community

Interested to see the figures of a well prepp'd RB6 head vs anything that has come out the last 5 years. I suspect the ultimate RB will be ribbish compared to what the VQ etc heads can flow these days

Doesnt have to be dodgy to knock 5kgs out of you. Dodgy is both ends so you can almost double that!

Yep, and my tip for those using the system is to make sure that the 12V plug you are using is 100% compatible with the socket of the car you are plugging it into. When using the Radcam in my car I am not having any troubles, because its install-set and forget. But being an easy unit to throw in different cars, when using hire cars in Europe the silly 12v plug that goes into the lighter socket was not a consistant supply of power. Stupid thing would charge, and still whilst plugged in short (is that the right word?) the connection and whilst still plugged in the unit would then go back to its battery supply and if not checked battery would go flat. I use my car-mobile phone USB charger now anyway as it has this annoying big blue light on the plug so if the silly socket breaks the circuit its easy to see. So i hope that explains why i found mine going flat....hardly a fault of the unit but something that can catch people out. So is something to be careful of if you are at a track day going from car to car etc. Re the lost footage. I will throw the thing in the car over the weekend and just record whilst i am working on it to see what happens when the battery goes dead. Now that it is in my car i have not had any problems since the battery has never gone dead. Its only when its going from car to car that these things have popped up. ..oh and perhaps this discussion is best for the the camera thread?

How much for the upgraded batteries? Is the 2 hours at full HD quality? Also, the file wasn't lost I have the files, they just dont play When the camera powers down due to low battery the file may be saved and exists...but its file format becomes corrupted. I really need 3 batteries to get me through an open pit track day. Sprints are ok as you only get 40 mins on the track. The 12V supply is great, you just need to be sure that the plug and your cars socket like each other as on the little Lotus you plug it in, light came on....but a bit of vibration and it lost contact and in turn charge (even though it was still plugged in)...hence low then dead battery But the quality is well above the POV....maybe mine and its owner have been dropped on their heads too often....and dont get me wrong Mark. I am not intending to be negative or knock the product....I am not posting here anything I have not shared with you via email....just sharing the quirks of my experiences with the product in case others are considering it...think of it as a product review (I should add wasnt mine one of the very early ones sold and you did a great job to get it shipped off to the UK at short notice for me so perhaps later versions differ, better batteries?)

Pretty good things, the only criticism is buyers need to be very careful of where the power button is. A friend borrowed it and I didnt give him the remote which meant he had to handle the unit to stop and start and becase the power button is on the side, every time he grabbed it, your fingers cant help but press the power button which if shutdown before stopping the recording you will lose the footage. I had some strange problems when i first got it, which due to the average battery life I needed to be using power from the ciggy lighter. Problem was it was cutting out which means the file was not being properly closed and I was losing footage. I have since replaced the ciggy plug with a better one and the problem seems to have gone away. (Though it could of been the wiring in the hire car i was using) My mates problems with it had me thinking the problem had returned but realised what was going on when going through the operation of the thing with him and saw that he wasnt being careful enough when handling with relation to the power switch. So use the remote to stop (ie save) the footage, be aware the battery life isn't great and make sure the ciggy lighter power supply to the thing is rock stable. The quality of the footage is good, sound is great once you have a play with it...

Yeh, it bolts to the top half of the plenum. To drive it doesnt feel voerly different. Unfortunately I dont have the logger installed so couldnt really compare 2nd, 3rd and 4th gear acceleration plots to see where the truth lay...dyno , seat of pants or somewhere in between. I have tried to control the before and after as much as possible, same boost controller, boost, tuner, dyno etc etc. So all I can talk to are my experiences but as a result i probably will question the results of others just to understand why I am in the position I am in. Re dyno figures and real world results...i suppose often there are stories where dyno improvements are not translated to real world gains. I am not sure there are too many stories of dyno showing losses but you have improvements?!?!?! The throttle response is no better or worse really so ... time will tell...some more things to try over the coming weeks

Thanks to Ash and especially BEC! Congrats on the new committee and look forward to the future (even if i am only in Melb 1-2 days a week )

I almost bought some of those seats last year as when they came in a place had a bunch for sale...do you stock them? If so interested in a PM of prices

Yeh, but arent you running an RB25? The aerodynamics of the RB26 plenum on an RB25 are going to be simimlar. The gas velocity and cylinder filling etc on an RB20 will be different. Not saying different is bad, different could be better then std. Hear what you are saying about not needing dyno figure, but its handy to see the characteristics of performance changes. Driving the car didnt really feel tht different, but dyno suggests there is a fair bit...i wont know until i drive the thing in anger and in whch case any loss in response will be very noticable

I was in the shit working all weekend back in Melb...was hiding from phone calls in case I was due for more bad news! Back in Brisbane this week so will give you a call.