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That was a good race. Plenty of tough racing....Looking at live timing Vettel was untouchable with his pace deep into the stints. Good to see Romain get on the podium

Tonight doesnt look great if you are a Kim, Webber and Romain fan Christ I must have the kiss of death

Top work Damo & Ben! Fancy winning Early Modern in a GTSt built by your own hands in the shed Massive amounts of credit deserved for car prep and how you hurried the bus along

I have a GTR radiator in my GTSt

High mount

Ahahaha....ahahahahaha...aaaah. NO. Hulk has done more in a Sauber this than Perez in a Mac. Neither car appears much chop at present

Will see how the 10cm housing goes. If it is somewhere between teh 8cm and 12 cm (makes sense) than I will grab 40-40rwkws through the midrange which given the 25G wheel gives me the sort of power that I am after ...well not being able to put a 10cm housing on the 20G or 73HTA is a killer.

Nothing amazing. Nbew fuel system is about finished. Turbosmart parts arrive today. So hopefully over the weekedn get things sorted and get theh thing fully tuned on Monday. Only the 73HTA is already off I looked in the mirror and deep down inside I knew I wanted to run the TD06H-25G...ie a Man's Turbo The 73HTA had near identical spool and looked as though it would tune up ok but ran out of fuel. I canned it as wanted to see how the gruntier 25G was going to go response wise with the smaller 10cm housing. Also want to make sure that I have the biggest dirtiest turbo I have on there to check the engien as there is possible there is a restriction somewhere in my setup that is capping power as nothing tried to date has allowed the thing to make the power of the RB20 So need to rule out the fact that my kinder surprise engine isnt somehow a bit ordinary at making power. Its got good bits, Good compression, pressure. No blow by. Tunes up right...we did run out of fuel but it doesnt really make any more power at 20psi then it does at 15psi so ?!?!?!

Perez is useless....anyway too much talk about perez. lets get back on topic. Vettel is a dog and going to be whipped like one this weekend

Just the 6boost on my car which if someone wants more then happy to take off and sell with turbo, gate, dump, inlet, filter etc Can have it with a TD06-20G, T67-25G, TD06H-25G or custom TD06 with billet 73mm compressor. I have a spare enginea dn turbo setup that the money from that sale would help complete

So the real question is when are you going to take the car off the road for anothe r6 months to swap over to a single?

Pretty wheels on tidy R33 GTR... you've changed!

Perez always had high potential to disappoint. He is Button with the volume turned all the way up. Capable of having crackign drives, but they are stratedy dependent...not pace. So Kobi seemed quicker over a lap. Often had better race pace....just did not have the strength of pace over long stints on alternate strategies. Didnt Kobi outscore Perez last year? Yeh, so until he shows some actual pace in a car over a lap or the optimum race strategy...not the roll of dice I am a long way from being convinced by the guy. I think DiResta is going to get damaged by the new and improved Sutil much like he was by Hulk getting his eye back in. McLaren really missed the train not getting Hulk on board who himself needs work but has the basics covered

I don't knowthe merits of the speed argument as I'm not a competitor. But as an observation AO50s and E85 means cars are now bonkers fast at circuits that never used to be....so can see where cars ma have picked up loads of pace

That's concerning

Sad to read the horrible news! Thoughts are with his family and friends!

Its funny that you read between the lines of Webbers comment which can be take two ways...but really can only be read one way when you read/hear Horner clearly say that there was an agreement before the race. Has been used and discussed before at places like Spa etc He said it live on tv! You just choose to ignore the fact that mark said it owudl be interesting as they gave him track position duer to Hamilton and Webber suffered even though he was the lead car who according to RBR practice lead cars gets preference. Only this time he didnt and of course he knew it woudl be on with Sebastian if given the same patch of blackstuff Re the Brazil things...tis all trumped up. Go and watch the race again for gods sake. Mark is plenty of things...he didtn selecet reverse gear for Seb, but didnt mess with his race as others claim The race start was a race start. He didnt move aside for him but he didn't do anything different to other start procedures. More could go wrong by doing something unusual..and with Alonso further back there was no need to do anything over then get off the line and when it was safe too let him by and let Seb get on with the race all whilst managing the cars behind him to make sure he didnt get jumped. Seb being tagged meant that never got the chance to happen on a later lap The race re-start when he went around the outside... Kobayashi was behind Vettel and Webber behind Kobi. Vettel sseemed to get a poor re-start with Kobi having a dive on the inside and Webber was alongside Kobi and when Kobi dove up the inside Webber stayed wide. He was racing Kobi who dove up the inside of Vettel . I agree Webber was still out racing for himself with the lottery dip conditions anything was going to be possible...but I think the problems he caused Vettel are overstated. Silverstone...? Like Herbert recently said, Webber just stuck his nose in there to prove he had the pace and was quicker...he then backed off. The charade was he wanted to show he could have done the job...and the proof was he palyed the game by coming home behind him.

Whats wrong with building an engine with used pistons. If they are in perfectly good working order and block machined appropriately with required rings. But main point is it appears poorly machined and assembled...quite possibly have happened even with new pistons

Dont care to be honest. More than the RB20 would be a nice start. @ 350rwkws would stop chasing more power

OK...patience out the window with all this and costs associated with back to back testing. TD06H-25G with 10cm housing is getting the elbow welded to its compressor cover and with the new fuel system going back to what I know.,Old school trucker turbo goodness. Fark latest tech Hopeing teh 10cm housing is at leat as responsive as the 20G and 73HTA with 12cm housing...if so then will be fine response wise for me. Just hope it belts out some real power over and above what the 20G could

Or buy the cool moonface ones Gave my car the 10hp back after I installed the Plazmaman pleneum

LOL, yep. I had it there to put the turbo oil feed line to so that I could confirm oil flow before cranking the engine over MINT!

Well after some head scratching found a problem with the Turbosmart gate. Will be surprised if its the cause of the boost problem but either way the thing needs fixing as the bottom of the alloy housing is pissing air through the valve stem due to a failed o-ring. Seems to be made of rubber which has naturally hardened and failed. So in theory that would make the thing spike or run higher boost than expected but will see.

Wouldn't be as big a ball ache as my R32 at the moment. Dropped the exhaust. ..no restriction. So I ripped the Turbosmart Hypergate off and tested it only to find its shagged . So in the morning need to get replacement parts for the gate...new fuel pumps as I sm niw st 100% duty on 1000cc injectors. So obviously s fuel flow priblem. THEN hopefully with sufficient fuel snd steady boost we can find out why the new turbo doesn't make the power hoped....almist time to throw the Trust TD06-25G at it and be f**king done with it. Money running out and still no results

I am saying his particular character traits suggest we would not get along. Coulthard, champion. Vettel dog. Wish DC wasn't so over it and the old boy comvo of Webz and DC were hammering it out in RBR colours