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Hell that car is for sale, cage and all. As driven by Ben himself, oh and i did win Targa a few years back

Just put the RB20 back in, problem solved

Chrikey. I need an oil change and tyres. But for some reason even that feels too hard Can you PM me your PI dash part number? A friend is looking at buying a car ruinning one and he asked if i could help source the software and some info on it. Though PI have not been too helpful to date Did you buy Doughboys PI Setup? suspension tuning is just like the automation people at work, bloody white mans magic My car is pretty good with the new Teins, but looking at Adz's video the car looks ordinary with my suspension. I have only done a few laps at Sandown and Winton with them at Dutton and they felt ok, but hardly a good test, 4 laps total on cold tyres. Still did a PB at Winton though

Thats why i want an Ultima Quick and brutally simple...BUT LOOKS MONEY BABY

The boat going custom Bilstein Your car was always interesting as it used effectively off the shelf shocks. Now that you are going into the black art custom shock with a dash of hoodu, voodo and vindaloo, well sux to be a shopper for suspension and a track car You are as bad as all the Vic GTRs with their govt research grants into gettign GTRs to go quick It appears nobody believes anyone makes a reasonable shock for track work...custom, custom, custom Farkit, bigger injectors and more boost baby! Just strap in and hold on.

You are pooling all sequential gearboxes together, sequential dog boxes, twin clutch boxes and automated manuals. There are too many differences between them to pool them together. The sequential dog boxes that you are mostly referring to arent very versatile for road race production cars. Hell cruising along in 5th gear and you have to bang it all the way back to neutral I was not raising concern over the sequential nature of the gearobx, but the twin clutch and DCT aspects of a gearbox in a track car. Plenty of saloon race cars use sequential gearboxes, but not DSG/DCT etc boxes. Ferrari use them, Lambo etc in GT racing. But Prodrive, Porsche etc dont. If the balance was so clear in favour of one option over the other, they would all be using them. But the DCT does appear to be superior to the automated manuals of Ferrari, but still. No way i would want to be racing a car with one, not until they are a known quantity.

Hats off to you then. I cant afford one, so no point me even thinking about it. Though, if i was going to track one i wodl be concerned about the cost of tyres and pads for one. But also after 18 months of playing with one at 5-6 track days a year what is the gearbox going to be like. Not to mention the kms on the engine which i read needs to be freshened before the old RB26 needed a timing belt change To me, Nissan have doen wonderful things with the GTR, but they have forgotten the roots of the brand. ie a Datsun that is cheap and reliable to get performance out of for a long time

Nothinng wrong with Ohlins. But jsut remember, you can buy $800 a corner Dunlops, and you can buy $65 a corner Dunlops. You can buy $35 tennis rackets and you can buy $415 tennis rackets. You can buy $2500 Ohlins and you can buy $15000 Ohlins, just like you can buy $800 Koni and $15000 Koni shocks. Just because Tasmna motorsport use them, doesnt mean these used shocks are going to be out of this world great

All weather conditions? Who in their right mind tries to punt a performance car quickly in the rain? Visibility sux, roads have oil weeping out of them. When its wet its A to B time. SO have never understood the whoel traction in the wet thing, Sure its nice not to be thrown off the road, but any decent car is perfectly safe in the wet. Now if we are actually racing, then sure its a bonus. But who of us if we owned either of these cars would be racing them?

I winge and worry about stuff. It doesnt pay very well or very satisfying

YEH BRO. I need to widen the appeal of my car so some young punk will buy it off me

Does anyone know whether running 18" wheels at the rear and 17" wheels at the front car work. Obviously i may need to tweak ride heights a little. But was thinking i might try to park 255 x 18s out back and keep the fronts to 235 x 17. Fir what i am trying to achieve it looks like hte overall gearing would be about right, i just dont want to run 18s all round for dollars and front guard clearance which may struggle if i try to get a 18 x 8.5 wheel up there

So Gary, is your Mack Truck going to be there? If so i will be gunning for your diesel GTSt too

Forget all you Prom Queens with your fancy cars. If i make it i am just going to be hunting down any SR20 powered car as i am sick of hearing how much better then an RB20 they are. A bit of a mid corner touch up coming onto the straight will fix their wagons.

And hats off to Lexus/Toyota. As part of the cars development they are racing it in the upcomign LeMans 25hr race. Largeyl std, with only safety and fuel cell mods for compliance to regs, the thing is going to be raced in its intended relaease state of tune. They are also using young engineers etc do that they get valuable experience, so great for development of staff as well. If they bag a good result then its great for bragging rights, if they suck they can blame the young team and the fact that the car is still in its development phase. First impression is it has it ont he GTR for me. Looks brilliant, sounds emotive, the only question is performance?!?! That said the R35s look is realy growing on me and i am sure an exhaust change will make the note a bit more emotive

Those saying its too thick, what does beign too thick actually mean, i mean what do you think the negatice aspect is? I am happy to sacrifice what, 1-3hp for very healthy oil pressure and stability at high temps.

Any info you can give us on the camera setup? Is it a lipstick camera inputted to a digi cam? I have been looking for a setup for track days, scrutineers are getting pretty strict with installs these days so if you can get that quality out of a lipstick camera i would love to hear about it

Right now i have to say there are some cool ppl piloting the cars. I have really enjoyed watching how Heikki has conducted himsefl this year and loves what he is doing, and then there is this guy. So not F1, just a racer! http://www.crash.net/motorsport/f1/news/16...ing_future.html

Bes thing about it is how quick and how quiet it is

Well i think May be the mont i got my balls back. I was feeling the pain for missing the last two DECAs I was all over the state servicing for a rally, so i think its time i get back int eh drivers seat. Though trying to pick up women in Hopetoun was a highlight of my weekend. I WISH I GREW UP IN THE COUNTRY!

Just to sabve confusion, which there seems to be a bit of A 3076 and 35R do not run the same exhaust housing, do they? The GT30 series turbo runs a certain sized turbine. The GT35 series turbos run a larger turbine again. So all being little math buzzards, A/R is only a ratio of cross sectional area in the scroll to the radius of the scroll at the point the area in measured. So whils the housing shatre the same ratio they are not the same housing. They cant be, the larger GT35 turbine is well , of a larger diameter. So that means for the housign to be mounted on it then its "R" measurement is larger to cater the bigger turbine. So to maintain the 0.86 ratio then the cross sectional area of the scroll at that point needs to be larger. So the housign is nto only different. You wouldnt expect a 0.86 GT28 turbo off an SR20 to be the same as a 0.86 housign off a GT35 or T04Z turbo. Im not sure the bigger housing on the GT35 will do the trick , its already bigger. Not to mention that that the outlet diam of the GT35 housing is probably bigger to allow for the larger turbine. The reason why a smaller exhaust housing on a big turbine often flows better then a larger housing on a smaller turbine

Be interestingf you could run a wheel speed sensor off a front wheel that way the loss of traction doesnt mess with your speedo. Looks grunty, only, why post footage of you doing crazy speeds in a public place like youtube then link it on a public forum

For a daily driver perhaps the 10W60 Edge could be seen as being too thick. But if you drive the car hard or do track work i dont think you can go past it.

LOL, will be interesting to watch JFK through the kink at turn 1 with his patented kerb hopping Get the cameras ready

All those talking about parting out a GTR being cheaper. Lots of guys who race cars struggle to change tyres so dont discount the labour component of building a car. LOl, the flip side is i have seen what is required to build a Grp A car from a shell and its a farking ball ache if it needs to comply with a class or a its previous form