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Thanks, man. That is the nicest thing anyone has said to me in ages.

Well maybe just admire the fact that someone on this forum can differentiate between lose & loose.

Peoples ability to ignore good advice & to externalize blame for things has always amazed me. For the doubters I can only say this. Try some proper motorsport. You won't look back. Now please kill the thread Dan, before we lose any more IQ points.

More worried about the fk off big dump truck tyres they use instead of armco at my local track. (Collie). I don't think you would punch through them so much as bounce off them into some sort of geostationary orbit. I suppose anything can be made to go hard if you tip enough dollars into it. 650hp will have to wait until I rebuild the motor. But yes it does make a better starting point than most cars. Anyway, given the thread title maybe we should go back to talking about R31 gearbox fragility & the 1988 Sandown 500. How did they end up fixing it, or didn't they? Also Bo Seton - brilliant engine builder or not. Discuss.

I will try to remember that when I am getting spanked by an Evo. Invincible means you don't have to lift off the throttle, yes?

Point was you said it didn't affect you. I was just explaining why it did. How much of an effect depends on you. Oh and it is not a $10 increase in premiums. Try comparing a quote for a modified Skyline to a bog stock Falcadore. The difference is bloody ridiculous. Then try getting the same insurance after you have had a licence suspension. The last time someone pulled up next to me and wanted to race my Mum was sitting in the passengers seat.....so I just ignored the fkwits in the Commodre like I usually do. I get far more amusement racing against my mates in their cars at places such as Wanneroo, Collie & at hillclimbs. You should try it one day. Infact check the laptimes thread in the motorsport section. See if you can post a halfway competitive time..... Yes there are bigger issues than street racers. Far bigger issues. Which is why the sooner they & the hype surrounding them goes away the better off everyone will be.

I agree with what you are saying 100%. Yes GMS did do well when the V8's were introduced - once the aero updates on the VP Commode were put in place. They continued to do well up until the Yokohamas lost any pretence of competitiveness against the Bridgestones. As for the GT-R outside Group A - again I agree. But it is perhaps a little harsh a criticism given the whole intent of the original GT-R design was to win in Group A. So job done there. If you look at the strong points/weak points of the car you can see how the regulations shaped the design. For example the brakes are rubbish, but the Group A rules allowed this to be fixed so it was all good on the race cars. The pistons/rods are relatively weak. Again, not a Group A problem. On the upside the productions cars' induction system is a work of art - no real manifold freedoms for your race car so you can see why they had to get it right. I could go on for a bit (as far as my memory allows which isn't far). But anyone who has tried to punt a GTR around a race track would be well aware of it being less than the invincible creation that many keyboard warriors insist it is.

Oh dear, where to start. The point is that even if you or your friends or your familly aren't killed you are still affected. You are affected by higher insurance premiums, by higher third party insurance on your rego, you are affected every time you get pulled over by the cops for no good reason, you are affected every time someone makes an ignorant comment about "hoon" cars that pisses you off, you are affected every time Grank fkn Dorrington's self righteous gobshite gets puts on the news. But mostly you are affected because the unrelenting focus on "hooning" etc distracts the police and the government from focussing on doing something effective about the number of people killed on our roads, ie the likelihood that it will be one of your familly or friends... Need I go on? Yes it is obvious that driving like an idiot on the roads is a very bad idea. Yet people still continue to do it. So other than pointing out their stupidity & encouraging them to do the right thing what can you do? Certainly not support them & certainly not give the impression the SAU or Skyline owners in general condone or are indifferent to this sort of carry on. I sincerely hope no one here is killed or badly injured. I know from having it happen to people I care for that it is an absolutely awful waste. So maybe think about that for a little bit.

It wasn't the wrong place at the wrong time. There is no right place to drive like a %^*&wit on the road. Please think about that. What you may not realise is that if you get done at the high end of the speed/fines range it will have a number of knock on effects other than just a fine up to and including: Loss of licence with all the hassle that having to walk everywhere entails. The prospect of very few points remaining on your licence for a number of years. Removal of your car for a period (Now a week for first up offence) Higher insurance premiums for years to come. More negative publicity for your fellow Skyline owners. So it isn't just a case of paying a fine & moving on. The system doesn't let you get away with it that easilly. If you want to get involved with some motorsport try the AHG group near the airport or the no limits group mentioned in an earlier post. This is a safe, legal & enormously fun way to test your car & your skill. The first up experience of running on the track is usually a sobering one. It demonstrates to people how little they actually know.

The comments were contemporaneous, ie from 1988. The 1987 Hardie Ferodo was an absolute disaster for Nissan. Not sure about the claims for the GT-R's. As for distorted reality there is always an amount of spin/lobbying in any pronouncements so you have to factor self interest in.

Maybe check here: http://www.trust-power.com/01exhaust/pe_Ti.html They are supposedly all good to the JASMA standards. Click the Nissan button & have a look at the pdf. My kanji is compelte rubbish so the columns may mean anything.

Then the guy at Fulcrum Recons is wrong. What are you going to bolt the liner to once the guards are rolled?

There was a vague intent for Nissan to run Percy/Grice in that car at Bathurst in 1988. Fred Gibson said don't bother as his cars were already more developed than the European version. You can make of that what you want. Grice ended up driving a Walkinshaw VL and hating it.

How much castor are you running? One way of fixing a problem on the rear of the front tyres is to get some rods & wind some more castor into the front suspension. The fundamental problem is that the rims are the wrong offset. They should be +22mm ie 20mm narrower in trackwidth than what you have.

Well for my 10 cents if you are chasing lap speed the following would make the list: Engine rpm. Longitudinal gees. Lateral gees. TPS. Steering input. (Check on understeer/oversteer lap on lap or after set up changes) Car speed in km/h. (makes it easy to figure out if a short shift costs you and where the engine is spending its time on a revs vs speed chart so you know which rpm to chase torque at) Brake pressure (or digital on/off if you are short) Boost. ATTESSA output (If you are messing with this it helps to know what your settings are on corner exit etc)

You can stuff a 355 rotor inside a 17" rim. Nice work. Any chance of a photo and or the rim internal diameter?

To remove/ replace it you need to: Remove the centre concole. Loosen the adjuster/tensioner nut under the lever. Unbolt the handbrake (don't forget the two rearmost bolts under the bit of carpet) Get under the car & find the two cables that are between the handbrake & the mechanism at the back. Unhitch them (the rear point) Then unhitch them at the front (this is above the drive shaft & a fk to get to) Pull the handbrake out (carefully). Then put it back in the reverse order. Tips: Check the adjustment before you put the console back. Don't work under the car unless it is properly secured. Get someone else to do it, it is a %&*^ of a job.

Usually Bernie has a very finely honed sense of how much money he can extract from a race promoter. Threats are routinely issued to extract more cash. There again he does know when to walk away from a dud deal. Maybe if they moved the race to an interesting, permanent circuit things would improve.

Well I don't know if you noticed, but the state government has declared a jihad on modified cars. It, mistakenly, believes that they are inextricably linked to last years higher road toll. As our beloved premier said on the tellie last night - they have increased the fines/sanctions etc because it is "easy" to do. Not right, not effective, not responsible. Just easy. So this sort of behaviour only serves to reinforce their false perceptions & indirectly causes everyone else more grief. You will find that after you have done some track work you will realise that "dragging people" etc on the street is just lame. Not to mention irresponsible, dangerous, stupid & a bundle of other things besides. It is why others recommend doing some track days. Maybe instead of expecting people to be purer than St Francis of Assisi you could atleast listen to what they say & perhaps even learn from their mistakes without having to repeat them yourself. Just a thought.

No just start it up, let it idle for oh, 5 seconds then get on your way.

You only ever really needed to double de clutch when your gearbox had no synchros (or the dog clutches were marginal & needed looking after). All it does is get the gearbox shafts up to speed thereby removing the load on the synchros (or grinding the gears). No one since 1950 something needed to do it.

YOU need some new RE55's!

Thanks so much. You have no idea how hard it is to get that info. Now kidney, liver or, um, ?

Oh very fkn funny. Fkn newbs. Actually if you want a good read go buy yourself a copy of the book 1982. Get it from Amazon & it will be cheaper than locally. http://www.amazon.com/1982-Inside-Story-Se...6608&sr=8-1

Well to me compared with, say, how they were in the early 80's or the 70's the cars now are all clones of each other.