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The one thing that people are ignoring is that one man's cooling system will be typically overkill for others. Hp and revs are really what you first need to consider before doing anything to your cooling system. If you are only making 200rwkws then std is fine for plenty of track work. Driving on the track does not equal "need race car". Most cars out there are near std

Mega patience right there Any pics of the ID?

LOL, I have sat on street corners paying those fellas to punt them on two wheels..in the process running up gutters and causing accidents...which has caused me to swiftly walk back to my room Videos are on SAU somewhere

Germany is the best for a bit of harmless blasting through the gears. This was in traffic is in a Dualis... And this was in my Cossie blasting form Czech Republic to Amersterdam Sadly the old Cossie ran out of gears and revs at 220km/h due to gearing but she certainly got their nice and quick and cruised pretty well at 200 with 25psi up its guts

Keen to but the prob is of course it means I have to remove the skirts currently one the car, complete with double sided tape etc etc which is a head fark to get back on properly

Does anyone know if the N1 sideskirts fit an R32 GTSt?

Turbo is brand new and come with all lines as a kit from Kando. I have an 8cm Trust turbine housing for it so is a 3 bolt type. Bought this turbo to run for the tighter tracks where the better transient response with slight loss in power to TD06-20G would have helped (Winton and Motorkhanas etc) No need for the turbo as after 13 yrs of ownership the car is going away from track car and back to fun street car and therefore going to go back to road friendly, EPA happy street car so obvious single-high mount is not what I can live with. Perfect 240rwkws turbo for an RB20. Grab a 6boost manifold and Turbosmart gate and you will have a good setup that will match a 2530 in response but bag an extra 20rwkws over what a 2530 will ever make. On E85 would make a rather epic std RB20 with what I guess would be around 260rwkws with the sort of grunt and reliability that would surprise many So id TD05H-18G with 3" inlet. I It has a Subaru core so is 360deg bearing with water cooled core and oil lube TD05H-18G Asking $540 for the turbo with no exhaust housing or $650 with the Trust 8cm rear housing (3 bolt) Note - New helicoils required for rear housing

Nick, you have built up abut the perfect street car. I love your bus!

Even if I had a built engine with all the coolers in the world...I would sacrifice 3hp and run the higher viscosity oil. Molded RBs make more hp than competition race engines and are just crappy production engines with loads of compromises. If I had a purpose built competition engine designed for the power, revs etc then sure the balance and tolerances of the engine would be suitable for lighter oils.

All used bits I have grabbed off yahoo...kinder surprise engine bolted together by Barney Rubble

Nothing is going for the lil R32 at the moment. A hose under the inlet manifold let go in traffic and I cooked the engine Damn peak hour traffic and a55holes who think you are just lane hopping and not trying to pull off main road to save killing an engine So its got a leak head gasket in No.3 or 4...cant remember which cylinder came up as the problem. Still making good power and still driving it daily...its just that it is pressuring the coolant system and missing pretty bad at idle. New engine will heopfully be in around Aus day after engine bay is sprayed and then throwing the 10cm housing on the thing, with Tomei 256 cams and back to back the billet 73HTA and Greddy 20G. Other delay was the R34 6spd that I had stripped for refresh before putting in came back needing a few too many little bits to be like new so going with the trusty R33 5 spd I hae had for years as back. up. Mega gutted that the 6 spd didnt work out... And thanks...I feel 6 years older, not just one

I have read of many situations that decent setups with boost, revs and decent power have ignition break down problems. Some say cas issue, some replace the std coil packs to other types...some have said igniter compatanility related issues. Seems variable and i am no expert. I expect switched on installers have got to bottom of it but can easily add cost to install.

You may want to run some allthread through the top and bottom flanges of the oil cooler to make sure its core is compressed/supported. When at temp if the thing just hangs from the top they can start to delaminate and damage the core. They need to be fully supported, especally if they are getting hit and banging around on a circuit.

All good advice, but the real question is how modded is the engine? And how was it tuned. The real problem with engine getting hot is what is happening to combustion temps as the head starts to get real hot with 110deg c coolant running through it rather then 85 deg C. If the thing has been given a load of runs on the dyno with no bonnet closed and no dyno fan to get temps up to what the car sees on the track and is running a tune with ignition and fuel levels required for that temp then you dont have so much to worry about re a hole in a piston. From there its a concern over a spun bottom end and its about oil quality and quantity. I did almpst two Bathursts with no oil cooler and drivign until then engine light came on. Thing was it was on a fresh sump of Mobil 10W60 and later Castrol Edge 10W60 at the start of every track day....knowing that over the 5 or so sessions through the day the temps and loads the oil was seeing was probably going to be breaking it down. The other thing I will suggest when running largely a std setup is shift at or around 6,500rpm and you will find temps stay lower longer. Its only when I started using all the revs that the temps climb faster.

What model GTR are the pullies for?

So getting back to ECU s... people having ignition related problems with Vipec. Is That all sorted now or a good rule of thumb to follow so not to be an issue?

Aus GP tickets paid for. Mega pumped. Week before in Portugal driving Portimao and Estoril then rush back for full speed laps of Albert Park in the mega RB20 then corporate in Brabham. So, so, SO mega broke but so worth it

A Thai GP will just be another European GP with all the English, Irish, German and Spanish backpackers that will attend. Wonder how many drunk Englishmen will get caught out by lady boys?

Well pretty disappointed with the 2013 new blood. Chilton is a hack with Daddy's money ...ok hack is too strong a word but he is capable, thats about it. Gutierrez has been bested by Bianchi in 2011 and in 2012 his rookie team mate had the measure of him and some poor luck only saved him from being by his rookie team mate. h All in all rather unexciting newcomers in 2012. Pic deserves a shot at Caterham and hope that Kobi or Petrov can hang around at the last Caterham seat.

I have a bunch of Lotus clothing for the next season including some Kimi "Leave me alone" shirts I just hope Romain gets confirmed. I can live without the others, Be good to see Prodrive or the likes of come sniffing around a tech partnership with Caterham but thats not going to happen whilst the costs are still so high ...edit...just read Romain Groinstrain has been signed up for 2013 Lets hope he has a better year in 2013

Awesome news for Nissan fans. Next year will see Nissan throwing a fair wack if support behind the R31 as well as V8....guess they are trying to promote their motorsport heritage. Some old names coming back , some cool pieces of kit to go with cool cars...now to see who buys the Winfield GTR so Jim can flight it in the R31 complete with RB20 goodness

Have a read here...loads of experiences/comments http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/252576-video-cameras-for-motorsport-use/page__st__480

But he is a nice guy and it would have been nice to see if he just needed time...but he has proven he isn't as even as good as Fisi etc who are quick on their day. Petrov put him to shame which really only showed that Trulli was past it, despite being mega quick when he was younger

I hope he gets confirmed soon. Can't be doing his confidence and prep for 2013 any good sitting in the wings. Kobi is gone as well along with Heikki. Shame I can't get excited about Perez.

Every 12 months or so I read the Vipec forum and I still read way too many "how to' , "why does" questions. Great that Vipec has support, but seems to need it. Last time I read it was still waiting upgrades to be able to do some of the things it was meant to. Has that changed? Was meant to have launch control, boost control for certain gears, being rwd thats the feature I am interested in...along with traction control and other advertised features that had not been fully developed They do seem to be the realm of the tinkerer....I run E85 and 98 tunes in my Power Fc and runs fine at the moment so really the Vipecs really need to make those feature accessible for me to consider upgrading, I need a new ECU due to the NEO head on the RB20 I have coming....so interested in options