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He can drive. Don't worry about that. Oh and there were no good old days. Anyone remember Pedro Diniz? Parmalat - the cheese of champions.....

Well he whinged about it being wrong two years in a row. They changed it from one year to the next. Make of that what you will. Anyway here is hoping his nephew gets a drive for next year. As an aside the Prost in the A1 GP's for the French team is a relation of Alain?

Stole? Actually for those bleeding about this years championship go have a look at the 1988 results. Prost scored more points than Senna. Senna won the championship because you only got to count 11 out of 16 races.

Thanks mate. Do you need me to cover you for any expenses or will a carton of Crownies surfice? I asked the nice folk at Racer Industries what a 345x32 2 part front rotor was worth. Answer:$1k. Per side. Ow, ow, ow. So am staying with 324's for a long, long time....

Have pretty much done the same. Sent the old rubber hose off to Perth Brake Parts with an instruction to make it the same, just 30mm longer. As an aside (another one) the pads I got for the F40 callipers are listed as "BA Falcon Fronts from the 4 pot calliper" - presumably a Brembo item aswell. They have what I took to be a slot for a pad wear indicator. Is there another common car that uses a similar pad but minus the slot for the indicator?

So the lines you have go straight into the calliper? No stuffing about with blocks & hard piping? The line would fit but the 33 is approx 30mm shorter than what it needs to be. As an aside the bolts that attach the rear Brembos are M10x30 with a 1.5mm pitch. The bolts that attach the rear Sumitomo's are M10x30 with a 1.25mm pitch. You have to go to a proper bolt shop as the Champion packs you find at most auto parts shops start at M10x35. Photos: Brembo first. Sumitomo second.

Offered up the rear Brembo callipers from an R33 to my R32 GT-R last night. Problem being the hoses from the 33 are too short to connect properly. Also the hoses from the 32 have a different end connection (block mount) to the 33. So I cant just swap stuff over. So the question is this: Anyone that has done this conversion what did you use for hoses. I there a 32 Vspec hose package with a block end connection or are they all the same & connect striaght into the calliper?

The cars looked good when they had the correct amount of track width. When the grooved tyres came in & the trackwidth was reduced they just looked liked mutants. Have a look at anything from about 1990.

Buy a bloody metric torque wrench otherwise your Nissan will explode. 100Nm = 74 lbft. 120Nm = 89 lbft. So yeah anything from 75 to 90 will be ok. Just make sure you do them up in the right order.

100 to 120Nm. Or more commonly whatever the numpty at the tyre shop manages with his rattle gun.

Must be brake week. My stuff went in on the weekend. Can't say if it works yet as I haven't done the other end. Just the M/C & front rotors & callipers. They will shortly be hiding behind these puppies..... So your stuff has gone to a good home, Troy. Not sure if it helps in the braking stakes but the brand whore count is heading North.

Looks like a combined harvester.

for the Z32 part. Part number I had was : F00E000202

That is an amazing coincidence. I once had a friend with a dog called Rufus. To go off topic - the measure of how hard an engine is working is BMEP - its brake mean effective pressure. Go look that up on Wikipedia. How the air gets to the engine is largely irrelevent.

Cusco make some adjustable bars. Not sure if they do so for R32 Gt-R's, however.

They do look tiny. Are the 18" tyres the same OD as the 20"?

When all else fails get the computer to tell you what is wrong. The procedure is simple & applies to anyone who has the HICAS light come on. 1. Park the car by the road side. Do not turn it off. 2. Open the boot. 3. Look at the underside of the ATTESSA computer & count the number of times the light flashes. It will flash for anything up to 20 odd times before stopping for a few seconds. 4. Remember the number then look it up in the workshop manual. 5. Then follow the diagnostic/repair procedure as detailed there.

At the rear you have too much -ve camber & too much toe in.

But compared to what? Costs that to go to the cricket for a day. Most concerts are more expensive etc etc.

Yes.

Yeah there is. When your fake centrelock rims come with even more fake knock on/off hubs...

Well the first 1950's era BRM was a world away from the mid 60's cars in technology & much else. There again they are the folks who spawned a 3 litre H16 when Phil Irving was knocking out world beating V8's to go with Ron Tauranac's inspired chassis & Jack Brabham & Denny Hulmes driving. Proving that things did not have to be complicated to be right.

5.7 bar - the joy of two stage compression. But remember that the compressors were centrifugal & have a think about what the torque curve would have looked like..... Anyway that BRM was a heap of sh!t, although it did have some magnificent engineering on it. The reasoning is simple & quite compelling. One lollipop man CANNOT look at four tyre changers and the fuel hose at the same time. So inspite of all the palaver & the carry on the green light means go system is actually safer & better than a man with a lollipop. Please note: It is particularly unsafe if it is one of the dodgy fkrs on here offering you a lollipop.

My personal favourite is the supercharged 1.5 litre V16 BRM. Everyone else is just pretending.

Gear ratios for the R32 GT-R on stock wheels are (in km/h per 1000 rpm for each gear): 8.9, 14.8, 21.9, 28.5, 40.