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R32 GTR's do 28.5 km/h per 1000rpm in fourth.

Thats what sh!ts me. GTR's have TPS, steering wheel angle, front torque %, RPM, wheel speed all there for the taking. But without spending large amounts of cash you can't log them.

Not seen that before. Rpm traces tell you alot as do TPS & others. Shame no one makes it easy to tap into the few extra inputs that can add so much useful info. Anyway the performance box is <$1000 but so is the Starlane gear too. The Starlane stuff appears to have more functionality for the dollars.

Can't see a VE winning much. Too much aero drag will kill them down Conrod. Put the house on 888. Or FPR.

Yeah saw that. You will notice some idiot called djr81 posted in it. Check Pauls thread about his data logger for its specs.

Link to a relatively new release. It has some handy features - mostly the bad lap/good lap/best lap idiot light which may be useful for qualifying, sprints etc. http://www.starlane.com/en_news.htm For what little it is worth, IMHO the most useful parameters for a data logger to analyse driver behaviour are: GPS coords, ie lat & long but also heading if available. This allows you to work out accelerations but needs atleast 10Hz logging rate to work well. RPM. Throttle % (easy to get out of a GTR as it feeds the ATTESSA system) Steering wheel angle (Again already used on GT-Rs) Torque split. This lot will tell you a great deal about car behaviour & enough about what the driver is doing to affect it. Having some functionality in the logger unit itself to assess the current lap you are on can be a great help too. Mostly this involves sector splits & tracking whether the lap you are on is ahead and/or behind & by how much. Good software is also critical. Best of luck with it. Your ATTESSA controller is a nice bit of kit & works well.

Nope. Just the part number stanped onto t he end.

They aren't anything special. Just Project Mu sized for a 33 R. The fronts only weigh 0.5 kg heavier for the pair than the rears. But you can't get any hatted back rotors for sensible money. Also the vanes on the rear are, for whatever reason, more substantial & numerous than for the fronts. No idea why that is but I stopped asking such questions after I got sick of the local stuff cracking.

Mine turned up the other week too. Has BM57 cast into the side & externally looks identical to the R32 unit.

Actually it is, sort of. As I understand it you are obliged to do what you can to avoid an accident.

Been looking for a new logger which which records both GPS based accelerations etc & rpm. This thing appears to do both for a reasonable price. Anyone heard of them or used them? http://www.starlane.com/en_Athon_GPS_multi...onal_chrono.htm

You didn't miss much of his first race. He qualified well then the clutch went bang on the start line. Then Walkinshaw did a few dirty moves & Schumacher turned up at Benetton. Oddly enough Eddie was sort of my hero. He had no great talent, was a bit of a gob shite but, by god he did he rake in huge amounts of cash - particularly from Jaguar. He was my hero simply because he converted a lack of talent into great big piles of cash. Something to which I aspire. I've got the first bit sorted anyway.

Sorry probably should have explained. Act 1: Schumacher forced Frenzten off the road & out of the race in a particularly ugly incident. Not sure if that is on Youtube but it may be worth a look. Can't access it from this computer. Act 2: Hill weaved about a bit (As per youtube) & held Schumacher up briefly. Act 3: Schumacher accuses Hill of "dangerous weaving" I only remember it because it was the point at which I lost any last remnant of respect for the way he (schumacher) conducted himself. Something about which I am sure nobody at all lost any sleep over.

Hill vs schumacher Canada 1998.

Sad. There again I saw one on a Toyota Camry wagon yesterday. Automatic. 1990 model.

Stock will be fine. Also you don't need to go to that large a radiator. But if you do it would be worthwhile looking at an oil/water cooler for your engine oil rather than an oil/air cooler. You can also do no end of good by ensuring the motor breathes cold air to start with. This can be difficult to arrange partiularly if you put an oil cooler in the usual position of the passenger side of the front air dam.

Yes the stock GT-R diff is a 2 way, but there is much more to it than that. Firstly the preload on the stock diff from factory is ALOT less than the NISMO item. Secondly you don't need a diff that locks on the over run in a GT-R - it serves no purpose other than to exacerbate the GT-Rs inherent handling faults, ie understeer. Third as long as your ATTESSA system is working correctly (ie not worn out) you don't need much in the way of a rear diff. An Attessa controller will eliminate any last vestiges of wheel spin so get one of those instead of going too hard on the diff. There are two parameters for how aggressive a diff is - the preload & the ramp angle. More preload = more aggressive. More ramp angle = more aggressive. Lastly check the other Nismo options.

Ah, um, Honda first won an F1 race in 1965. Mexico as it happens. Richie Ginther. Which pretty much pre-dates every other constructor in the championship bar one.

Best advice is to down load the manual off the Nismo website & see for yourself how easilly (or otherwise) the pre load can be adjusted. Then decide if it is a useful feature. For my 10 cents it is not worth the effort. They are an agressive diff in anycase, irrespective of the setting.

Absolutely. He will give you enough space to be yourself & yet be there for you when you need him. Wait, what?

Talk of people who "deserve" to win F1 races is nonsense. All of the teams are out there busting their arses to win or to get good finishes as are the overwhelming majority of drivers. What arbitrary measure to you use to work out whether someone deserves a championship sor not? How many years they have been in the sport? How hard they worked to get there? How much natural talent they have? How much effort they put in? How well the go under pressure? A million & one other random & baseless parameters? Anyway in Singapore (& in a number of other races) the McLaren was by no means the best car.

The nomenclature is a bit muddled but I think what you are referring to is the Nismo edition built in 1990 & used to homologate the GT-Rs for group A racing. The 500 built requirement was allowed by the FIA as an "evolution" eg the late 1987 Sierra Coswoth RS500 was different tot he one raced earlier that year & was an example of an evolution model. As were all the Brock & Walkinshaw Commdores. Anyway the build numbers had a 1 at the front of the sequence & then numbered from 1 to 560. So they were in the range of BNR32-100001 to BNR32-100560. The model should read KBNR32RXFSL RA

I am a little confused. The -7 has been tagged as the GTSS equivalent but now a few people have moved over to the -9 as being more closely aligned. Can the -9 be bought with the right flanges etc to bolt straight up?

Well the housings look to be different? http://www.turbobygarrett.com/turbobygarre...0R_707160_9.htm http://www.turbobygarrett.com/turbobygarre...0R_707160_5.htm

I meant the turbos. It is just that a number of motors I have seen sheets for run more air flow that is shown on the compressor maps. That other turbo is interesting & look well sized for that 435 rwhp- but the -5 & -7 were a straight bolt up.