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I love my Sierra but you owning this DR30 makes you so much cooler than me

A real lap of Hockenheim

Really? A professional workshop installed them? I would be mocking them the next time you speak with them that you prefer they dont drink when they work on your car Its not a big deal at all. Rather simple. Its right up there with people who piece together kits and install curved vane rotors on the wrong side of the car not realising how the curved vanes work. Its no biggie...but on a track car will work properly if installed properly. The point of the bleed nipples is a simple fix...but an important one for the person who takes them off your hands. The Advantage Mono6 caliper which is what you have has different sized pistons in the caliper. They are different sizes to keep uniform pressure on the pad and rotor face. The leading pistons should be the smaller; the trailing the larger pistons. You are all correct in the bleed nipples need to face upwards...but look at this pic. http://cdn.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/uploads/monthly_07_2014/post-486-0-83920000-1405117815.jpg That pic is passenger side ...now think about which way the rotor passes through the caliper when driving The pistons near where the A of Alcon is the smaller (30.2mm) piston and the other end near the logo is the 38.1mm piston. The way they have installed your caliper is that the large piston is the leading piston and the smaller piston is the trailing. That is wrong and will give you rather poor pad temps and wear....essentially hamstringing the performance of the kit from what it will be capable of. The fix is when they are off the car then you remove the bleed nipples, remove the external fluid line at the other end of the caliper and swap them over , effective flipping the caliper so the piston sizes are correctly orientated. Of course this will mean what is currently the drivers side caliper will become the passenger side caliper and vice versa. I have the big brother Prodrive version of this caliper on a 380x35 R35 rotor...they are a good piece of kit and whoever buys them will be stoked....its just that they arent configured right for a Nissan

Doesn't change the fact they are installed wrong and should someone want to buy them they will need to quickly swap over the bleed nipples so that the pistons are orientated correctly to the rotation of the rotor. If you don't then you may experience hot spots on pads and uneven pad wear

FIFA retards!!!!V And we thought FOM were bad

So club and open seem to have a good number of entries. little going on with international or new builds?

Its not magic. The surface temp may drop a few degrees but it's all still flaming hot. There is no replacement for proper, well thought out, engineered heat shields

Keep it simple. Power Fc. Easy to tune by just about any tuner. No messing around with std ECU. 10mins to install and start tuning. Nistune is a good backup option if you cant find a PowerFc but I would be grabbing one of these http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/444035-for-sale-r32-gts-t-power-fc-ecu/

Is that pic from when they were installed on car? The bleed nipples are on the wrong end of caliper. Looks like they need to be swapped over to be suitable to run on a Nissan Can you confirm rotor part no.? At 31.9mm they are near brand new 32mm rotor or undersized 35-36mm rotor. Can you confirm caliper part no as well? They arent V8 Supercar calipers but perhaps the rotors are. Looks like its a kit that has been pieced together using the Mono6 Alcon street caliper. But there are two versions of the Mono6. One is for a 32mm rotor the other for 35.5mm that also takes diameters up to 410mm

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FP offered 65mm HTA compressors for Vauxhall VXR hi-flows in Uk. Wonder why they dont offer that wheel?

When he is on it he has done a good job. But when he has had his mech failures he has been behind Rosberg. When Rosbergs car failed he was in the lead. But thats only a small part of it. The main reason for saying it as its not even a case of being out qualified by Rosberg, but more the point that he has thrown away 3 (?) qualifying sessions now by being a hack. I mean he has had woeful qualifying where as Rosberg has done everything needed from him. As Harry pointed out...I will refrain from criticizing Hamilton for the retirement in Canada but I think its important to credit Rosberg with how he handled the situation and bagged a second place. So just have to cross fingers that Lauda and Wolff let them continue to race each other

The other day i saw the McLarens V8 engines they are using in their MP4 & P1. Intersting to note the turbos look a hell of a lot like internal gate EFR turbos hanging off the manifolds

And you have to say Nico has been doing the better job. Lewis has been messy a few times this year....Nico just fets on with it and never makes a mistake of consequence

Renault are saying they will kick in funding as required. Easy to say If Button gets canned I think its rather ovvious who would be on the short list. Eric wont have forgotten about Romain....just needs to convince Dennis and Honda

I hear Renault are happy as frees up reaources to concentrate on RBR

No; the ability of teams to come up with effective low drag setups and watch the cars twitch everywhere.

Estoril is cool and all...but no Monza. Monza presents a different challenge to an F1 car. Estoril less so

The other thing to consider is like Vettel Kimi has had the bulk of car problems at Ferrari. No doubt he isnt where he wants to be but not sure after being hit by McLarens, car faults week in week out....I think I need a cleaner bucnh of races to actually guage how much behind Kimi is. Not to make excuses for the guy, but to actually try to read the relative performance differences between the two. One think Kimi has seemed to struggle with, even alongside Romain is his qualifying. No doubt in the past when he could rag on the car he was rather epic. These days where you have to be a car whisperer and you dirve in a performance window I think guys like Kimi will lose out to the guys who are given a quick car and told to drive it at 9.8/10s every lap.

Its rare a new driver joins a team, new engineers etc and matches a good-great team mate. For years we have seen Kimi struggle with how he needs the car. When its to his liking he is mega. But needs the feeling of the car. Something it took a while to achieve at Lotus too. He is priving to be more Button and a Trulli and less Hamo, Alonso who can drive around any problem. The back half of the year will be more telling once the car has had time to be developed and tweaked for him. The brake by wire has certainly removed some intimacy from the feeling a driver gets.

2L V4 engine called it quits

1,000hp means they get up and boogie! I love F1s and have been lucky enough to go to several Euroipean and Asian GPs but for sheer entertainment they cant come close to Le Mans as a spectacle and things to do

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