Roy

Starting to rack up the European track count...this time Portimao in Portugal

Silly European track days keep eating the R32/Sierra budget. But they are so epicly fun!

Yeh, back in 2001 my car was the development car used by Whiteline to develop their Bilstein kit, swaybars etc. I kept that kit to around 2008 when I changed to the RAs. I almost got the Bilsteins rebuilt to be a little more racey but the Teins being alloy body pretty much sold me on them.

I bought the "I know what I am doing shirt" and the "Yes, yes, yes..." shirts. I grabbed a few for friends that I knew woudl like them and one was wearing his on teh weekend and he tells me lots of people were asking about them LOL, I got massively err, drunk in Paris two weeks ago and lost my Kimi beanie in a pub...annoyed !

They are Tein RAs with custome valving and different springs. From memory they are 8F/4R or thereabouts. Need to check. New stuff is the same thing just that they are GTR gear so have the forks rather then eyelets so suit the new rear end I have. The GTR gear is being revalved almost the same as my current gear and I am throwing a bit more spring at the car as I have softer swaybars now that I went from custom Whitelien to ARC so needs a bit more roll control. I may end up going back to custom swaybars if the higher spring rates do things to the pitch that I dont like. What are they worth. Well RussGTSt is selling very similar Tein REs near new and has had them up for sale for ages as he cant move them...so I guess less then that though my hoarding whore self may just keep them as they are near new and still shiney

Well my 20G is going to be for sale once the new engine is tuned and run in. It seems 350rwkws is about the mark for a basic Skyline doing track work with E85 these days so need to go to billet or T67 to get there. God that is a lot of power and going ot be painful to get oil and coolant temps under control Whole new suspension and rear end and diff about to go in as well so the car will be like new. Just have to decide whether I want alloy tailshaft or carbon

Ideally in Melbourne so I can pick it up., Need rather urgently so ready to come pick up and hand over camel teeth or cash if you prefer

I am heading down for both days...the plan is to stay in Cowes on Fri and Sat night. For those that have porblems with noise like me at WRX/AROCA days etc the PIARC event are full noise weekends with a Saturday practice and Sunday Sprint event. I am looking to get a garage for the event so put you hand up if you want to share a garage.

...its all about priorities. I own nothing but two cars...and am single. Its pretty easy to spend your money on holidays when you don't have a Mrs busting your balls about sensible things like saving for a house....wedding rings...kids etc Not having a mortgage and having cheap monthly rent means this 36yr old is trying to live the life I wanted when 21

What is the go with Moffat? Is he lucked upon some good results or is the guy actually reasonably talented and starting to find some form?

Me and a mate are down for Japanese GP this year. Can only really afford 14 days so gives me about 10 days plus the GP to see Japan and perhaps buy a bucket o shit R31 for some track work at either Suzuka, Fuji or some other track

My turbo is a ways smaller than a GT35 but I can tell you going from 98 to E85 made stuff all difference to response. If anything it is slighlty worse. What is better is just how much torque the car makes, but the sensation of when it boosts does not change. I think the GT35 is simply too big a turbo for any 2L unless you are going to have valve springs and oiling, PS and water pump pullys all geared so that you can pull 9,000rpm as the thing is unlikely to start making +250rwkws until after 5,500rpm. Also, since you are looking at running a gob smack of boost I think you are better of going for a smaller turbine and compressor and driving it harder with a larger A/R turbine housing.Whilst the GT35 has a good sized turbine, pushing that air through a 0.63 housing may result in a peaky powerband that falls over up top. Better to go a smaller turbone and compressor with a larger A/R turbone for a similar power level but generally better torque band and better cylinder filling/exhausting If you are going to run that big a turbo I also suggest you run a plenum. They seem to genreally further hurt response but they do tend to help the power in the high rpm range over 7,000rpm

I was in the Brabham stand too and thought it was Bottas going off...though it was Pastor who finally beached it. In other news after looking at the Mazda stand I want an RX7 SP rather badly. Would look sick next to my Sierra ..and on other other news...Webber had no KERS for the first half of the race. So sorry Mark for abusing you from the stands for not being able to get the job done on Button

I think you will find an amazing number of drivers who win in Aus go on to win the WDC. From there the constructor that wins in Aus normally goes on to seal the deal Stoked Kimi got up and made it easy. Made flying my Lotus colours today a lot easier. Shame that Webber, Dan and Romain all struggled.

Well have to take the good from the bad and it seems that Albert Park was pretty hard on cars so going to focus on the fact I was fortunate to not have made it as it may have broken the car more than it already is About to head in...going to be a lottery dip. Funny, when Webber was in a nowhere car I loved wet races as it gave him a chance. Now he is in a car that is in the hunt I hate wet lottery races

Looks like its going to get cancelled. Perhaps Sunday morning Q2 and Q3 ? Glad I decided to go put a new loom in the car today rather than go stand in the rain

Look forward to the DNFs. If they make the distance it will be ahuge accomplishment...if they place then be rather mega

Yep, all looks period

Boost response wasnt really any different between E85 and 100. On 98 it used to start spooling at around 3,000rpm. At 3,500rpm generally had about 5=6psi in it and would make about 18-19psi by 4,200rpm

Well thanks to the scumbag crooks that tried to steal my car the other week I am now not able to do the full speed laps around the Albert Park circuit and it appears I have pissed my money into the wind ... oh well. That is life with cars I guess. I bet Webber sux balls this weekend just to rub salt into my wounds. Kimi will probably blow up and Roamin take out Dan in the first lap.

That could coincide with the R32 RB25s and makes sense.

Yeh, my old R31 had these rocker covers on the the later model R32 engine it had. I left them the std R31 colour and just rubbed back to ribbed tops. I think they woudl look better if they were the std R31 colour rather than lipstick red...but meh. By the time they are covered in blow-by wont be able to tell

Yeh, will be interesting to know. What the guy was telling me made sense as the RB25 didnt really spring up in any Nissans until the R32 GTS25 which was a mid cycle thing from something like 92. So means that Nissan were using the RB25 block in a car before the R32 in a late 80s export market car. Be interesting to know what sump is on them as I guess the RB26 was around so that is closer to RB25 family of blocks!?!??!

Are you sure about the DNA of the engine. SOme lads in Singapore and Malaysia ran them in their drift scene and looking at them in KL (around Puchong) they told me they were RB20Es with different internals, not RB30Es? And with a bitsa car there is a good chance its an NA R32 RB25 that has been turbo'd due to loom compatability etc

Weren't the factory RB24s SOHC and carbie? RB24s actually use RB25/26 cranks so they are not actually using an RB20 crank and have the same stroke. They cant run the same bore so at 81-83mm bores thats where you lose the displacement R32s did come with RB25s. They didnt have VCS and were NA with visually identical manifolds to an RB20 so ... Also, RB25s head wont be able to be used on an RB24 bottom end. Not without loads of custom work so not going to happen so need to be RB20 based heads