LotusGTR

Looking good. Just packed thses up for freighting and I wept a tear saying goodbye to these virginal beauties...

You compulsively love brakes!

Doh! Too late!

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Tr...25#entry4160725 Hope this helps. You pay $150, you drive 20 mins in the hour for three hours. You get instruction if you want it. You're down the pub by 9.30 and you get to spend quality time with your trouble and strife and family on the weekend.......

Anyone else attending this Friday? I hope to go subject to availability and weather report.

I agree with the caught napping comment. I think the box is 'intelligent' and if you trick it into taking a higher gear by using a light throttle in auto, and then at the right millisecond step into the throttle once the new gear is selected, it bogs down. It is still a great thing overall. Love the way it'll hunt up and down with such seamless speed when you try and use all the available throttle in a gear with out getting it to change down, but you give it too much gas and does change down then you lift and it goes back to your original gear. You know what I mean if you have one (I hope!)

Sold to you indeed (pending payment of course). What a marathon! Beautiful rims. Hope you have a good home waiting for them.

I have a GTI DSG and it is my daily driver. It offers a great compromise between the to and from work slog and being a little sporty when the mood takes you. After about a week I'm HANGING for the manual in my GTR. Couldn't live with the DSG alone. We run TDI Jettas with DSG on the work fleet. They are awesome cars. Diesel is so torquey and the DSG is hilarious as you just keep throwing gears at it and it keeps going unabated. I believe you can get a non DSG auto option. The Tiguans have no DSG option as it can't be packaged. With hindsight I would have got the diesel GT as it's kind of quirky and I hear the ride is far less harsh than the GTI, which is actually crap. I did find on the test drive the diesel didn't match the DSG as well and that was my deciding factor in the end. My Jap coil over'ed, swaybar'ed, RE55 shod GTR rides better in some circumstances........ 'Launch control' is no more scientific (IMHO) than turning the traction control off and doing a brakey. Luckily for the GTI the torque and available traction on a dry road seem to roughly match. Do it in the wet or adverse conditions and it simply wheelspins straight into the limiter. Sounds to me like something a dealership salesman made up. Mine certainly did......Still, it's a good jigga overall.

Hear what you say re rears. They did say 'suck it and see' was a good option for the rears, but it's just one more thing to fiddle with later if it's not done now......Hotting cars up is one long fiddle and time consuming exercise. I know it's overkill but it's nice to know you've got a set up nailed, however much it might be overkill. A fool and his money eh.....Or is it a fool and his money and his GTR! I'll drop you a PM re the other option. I'm 11th hour on ordering these, and pretty happy with my decision, but let me know what you've got in mind. Oh yeah, had some camber and castor put on there, as well as front and rear HD sway bars and the turn in is now fantastic and understeer is drastically reduced, albeit I've not yet been back on the track yet. Wheel feels fantastic and funnily enough tramlining is much reduced too, which you might not expect. Got coilovers, but they are old and need replacing or reco'ing (more money). Rims are R34 GTR running RE55s. 245/40/18 I think they're SR2. Can't remember 100% without checking.

Well, this saga is likely to end with me buying some tasty and expensive as all get out AP calipers and all the associated bits'n'pieces. I'm sick of rooting around with this so this is the 'final solution'. My likely set up will be 356mm fronts and I have a choice of 343 or 356 for the rear. The vendor tells me that they have a brake testing rig and on some track Commers they find that contrary to their expected theory, having 'larger than wisdom would suggest' rears gives an overall better balance under hard braking. Hence the 356 option on the rear. He's not trying to up sell as he aint that kind of guy. My query is that perhaps the weight distribution on the Commer is quite different to the old GTR and therefore these results aren't 100% applicable. I'm guessing the GTR is more nose heavy? Any thoughts on this final choice for me?

Looks like the Nismo item is the way to go. I still don't know what boss drive is. Perhaps it's academic as I now have a clutch of choice.

PM sent my friend.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/R3...91#entry4165791 and here are mine. Shameless plug for my rims that are now for sale after all that effort.......

Bumping it up for the night time crew.

Why only 1500kms? What makes you think the Nismo item will last any longer?

No thanks mate. I've had better offers and am close to getting what I'm asking for elsewhere. If I fall on tough times I'll let you know.

Bumpo. Getting close but not sold yet.

My 17/16 (BM57) fit my Cusco stopper and was externally dimensionally the same at the std item. Hope that helps.

Yeah but the 'wrong' one will be a bag of shite to live with.

Mine has no size on the casting. Only BM57.

Tasty looking rotors in the background there......

The clock is ticking. These rims will be sold soon.

Just in case people were still interested, today I had fitted a BM57, 17/16" BMC (to my understanding an R33 GTR item) to my R32 GTR with std Sumitomos. It is a straight bolt up item and the pedal feels great. I had a small leak in the old BMC so the new one will clearly be a leap forward, but certainly no adverse affect. The pedal is not noticeably shorter or harder. Having said this, I've only done light braking on it so far. A couple of Driver Dynamics nights at Sandown should see how it really goes. After my current pads and R specs are are done, it's off with the 16" rims and on with some 18" and the APs....So long as I'm not homeless and lining up for free soup by then..... Thought this might help.

Yeah, my my damn rims!

Buy them.....and they will be yours