Roy

Do you have ABS?

If you have the yelloe coil packs then stick with them. But if you are yet to buy them do std or Splitfire . Forget a boost controller. Not needed, just use the wastegate actuator off your std R32 turbo and the money you saved on a boost controller make sure you have a decent cat in yout turbo back exhaust. The thing will spin to 14psi off the spring from the R32 turbo. Just make sure you are measuring boost at the outlet of the turbo and not inlet to the engine. If you are running the std Nissan ceramic you may experience 1-2psi pressure drop through your piping and intercooler and frankly you dont want to be running 15-16psi on the std turbo so make sure you are controlling boost with a reference pressure off the turbo outlet. As an obersvation those that blow the R33 turbo on the RB20 arae running boost controllers sampling inlet manifold pressure trying to spin the turbo up to ensure the set pressure in the manifold is achieved. And like I said, it is possible 14psi in the inlet manifold is actually 15-16psi at the turbo...so far riskier than knowing/ensuring you are only running 14psi at the turbo...which if your cooler and pipes are all in good order should be damn close enough to 14psi given the relatively low cfm fo air I would not waste your money on injectors or AFMas most likely you will be making 180-200rwkws and they are fine at that level. Only really become questionable in the 200-220rwkws....in whcih case the R33 turbo is not going to get you there

Hockenheim turning up the pressure on Bernie. More circuits should get together and say "get farked" not paying your ransom money race fees. Would be interesting to see how the demands would drop if Spa, Monza, Ring, Hockeheim an Barca all said that FOM had to be more reasonable or go find more dictators in developing cpuntries to pay your fees Teams can't afford F1, circuits cant afford F1 and many fans can't afford F1. Hello WEC I was only looking at the Spa or Japan round this year and now looking at doing Le Mans again

I am told they bolt in but the RB26 one acts as almost a short shift for the RB25 box. I just want a std shifter FFS

Hi, I am missing the shifter that came with my RB25 gearbox. I have found an RB26 shifter but obviously cant compare and have not been able to find anything after a search. Anyone know if I can run the RB26 shifter in the RB25 gearbox

Mercedes has used 78% of their tokens and Renault 62%. They are talking about leaving them largely for the second half of the season when Mario Illien has had a chance to work on the engine and identify improvements. So really, a few software tweaks for Renault to help drivability and then mid year use the coupons to catch up Token summary remaining for the year: Renault 12 of 32 Ferrari 10 of 32 Honda 9 of 32 Mercedes 7 of 32

My problem is that the limited supply of engines and the freeze are rather silly. The cost of trying to get an engine to last 1500kms is going to cost mega vs being abe to rebuild/life components at 450kms or whatever. And then locking in an advvantage for 12 monhs? The tech around the engines cost a fortune, but the countless CFD hours and wind tunnel hours add up to far more in design and construction costs of new floors, wings for every 1-2 races. I dont see FIA freezing aero specs at the start of the season. Everything is a compromise, and at the moment it is rather stupid to have a new engine manufacturer like Honda looking so stoopid. Renault struggling and leaving Merc GP cruising as its advantage is locked in by regs

I think F1 has been on a roll lately. But this year looks woeful with quali performances over 1.3 seconds clear of the next team. Lets see what happens re the Williams and Ferrari fight....but with no McLaren or RBR in there it will be interesting to see if Lotus can not trip up like they did on the weekend and get in to 4th in the constructors

Fezz had problem after problem on Kimi's car last year...seems stupid mistakes in pitstops continue. Engine freeze with a new engine formula and only 4 engines a year...well appears we hot lucky last year, and now the Mercs have a huge advantage. Williams 4acing Ferrari for 3rd-5th looks to be the only thing we can take from the season. Mercs finish 30sec ahead when they were not even pressing

Dull race for the lead, but plenty going on at the back. My first reaction was "oh no not Arnie" but he did a good job...as others said better than old Alan. Webber and Alan Jones were a good duo.Mark will learn he doesnt need to talk so much and clubbed with Alans low key I quite rated what they could be with regards to commentary. But Aus GP only so who cares. Bigger concern, is Homo is going to cruise to wins unless Rosberg can dig VERY DEEP! RBR cant pass a Sauber...Fezz still only able to field 1 car....and McLaren a disgrace... that was the sort of finish we expected last year...not 12 months into new regs Williams will struggle.../lotus still breaking my heart...and thanking god i have WEC to follow this year

So what is the difference between 6 pot and 4 pot? Running the same rotor and pad will often mean less braking power!!!!!! NOT more!!!!!! There are loads of threads posted about this sort of the stuff. Maybe people should read the EVO caliper thread to get an idea. People shoudl think of brakes as simply heat sinks. So you are not trying to stop quicker, but rather stop more consistently. So you handle more heat largely with the rotor so everything the caliper does it based around what the rotor needs. Good pads and fluid. Good curved vane rotors of bigger diameter...and frankly its pretty silly to use less than ideal lug mount caliper adaptors rather than go to a proper radial caliper. Especially when the piston sizes are going the wrong direction. ie the bigger the rotor you choose the run you actually want to go to a caliper with less piston area...NOT more. So going from a 280-296mm std Nissan rotor to a 355mm rotor you dont want to be going to a caliper with bigger pistons than the std 40.4mm pistons

Oh god...could this be the first year I tune out and not bother watching races?

Oh...and fark you Bernie. Paid my $33 for the F1 app and it doesn't work

4 engines is stooooopod. Oh, and Lewis has some rather gangstah power jewelry I see. Also wasnt interested in interviews this morning...the ego has arrived

If those piston sizes are right then they are going to be very different from anything that Nissan came with std. Clubbed with bigger rotors... definitely one for people running ABS as without it I would expect it to be lock up city

LOL...oops YAY..someone doing it right Looks a reasonable upgrade. Neat brackets too. Does anyone actually know the piston sizes of the calipers and whether they have different sized pistons? Also, anyone gotr pics of the pad, rotor edge? The caliper doesnt appear to saddle the rotor all that tightly?!?!

Bumpage

Bumpage...

I used East Coast suspension many years ago when I was still living in Sydney and they know their way around cars ... but just be sure they know what you use the car for. I told them it needed an alignment after I had installed the HICAS removal bar and the little bus was my fun daily-track car. The next day i went to Wakefield it was the worst the car had ever driven. When I questioned them about why the car was all of a sudden the biggest understeering POS we came to realise they were expecting me to bolt on a set of DO1Js or something assuming that nobody tracks their car on the lowly Falkens I had on the car. LOL so the 2.75-3 deg front neg camber and something like 2deg rear neg camber had no chance of ever working on the crappy Falkens I used to run. It was waay too much camber for the tyre I run and grip I ever hoped to generate So ...it is only a one off thing but was more a poor communication thing between both parties. Have an idea of what you want re an alignment before dropping it off. I had assumed they wouldn't wind in almost a degree of more neg at both ends when all I wanted was mostly a toe adjustment of the rear and a once over all the other settings

So you have shimmed the std viscous diff? I am with Duncan, no point goign arms etc if you can get the alignment you need. Though given the tyre you are running, and not knowing the spring rate you are running, I would tend to try and run 2.25 front camber and 1.25 rear camber From there...diff....at a minimum something like a KAAZ 1.5 and then I woudl suggest just driving the wheels off the car. The laptime is always in the driving

I am guessing the GTSR would make a 997 GT2RS look boring!

Very cool...i had no idea AC still existed

Nope. Sorry

Some funny stories coming out about Alonso. Rumour is that as they pulled him out of the car he thought he was a 13yr old go-kart driver and the concussion meant he was oblivious to the fact that he was actually a 33yr old two time WDC.

I offerd them $50 for their budget if they let me crash. I am trying to tell them it would be such a mega, properly epic crash that whatever sponsors they have will love the coverage it will get. it will be iconic.