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Well my ten cents worth. 1: 19" rims are a waste of time on an R32 GT-R. 2: The heavier the rim the worse the ride/handling/grip/tyre wear of your car will be. 3: The larger the rim the heavier it will be. 4: The larger the rim the more expensive it will be - same goes for tyres. Unless you buy cheap rubbish in which case you will be punished with a heavy rim. 5: The right offset for an R32 rim is +22. 6: The right rim width is 9 inches or maybe 9.5 if you want to push it. 7. Tyre size should be 245 or 265 in 18's. Any larger than that & you get clearance issues at the rear. You may get them anyway if you lower the thing to any degree. 8: There are plenty of options if you are prepared to either wait (Ex Japan) or find something second hand. 9: GT-R's are too nice a car to put bad rims on. My recommendation? 18*9 rim in a +22 offset with either 245/40/18 tyre or a 265/35/18 tyre.

Certainly is. It is for sale, too.

Went ok. I just need some new rubber as the old stuff had been heat cycled too many times and had lots its edge. That & a new diff would do wonders. It is all good fun in any case & its not for sheep stations. This should give everyone an idea of the sorts of cars that turn up - basically anything you can think of!

Sadly there was only one Skyline enterred on the day. Me. To those that come up and said hello - thanks for your kind words & encouragement. It was a good day. I think I managed to find an excuse to buy some new tyres. Sweet. Not so sweet was the hour & a bit of arsing around it took to get the space saver fitted & inflated. Not what you need after a long day and two and a half hours into a three hour drive home....

Not the worlds greatest photo, but then I again I rarely manage oversteer plus nailing the corner exit kerb at the same time!

I have one, but not in Melbourne.

Drivetrain losses ARE proportional to power output. Otherwise the car in your example would need to produce 81kw to move at all.

Well the fit & the brake balance are the two fundamental issues. Doesn't matter about the price if the first two are wrong.

Roy, Are you keeping these or are they still for sale?

So does anyone have an actual answer?

They are not B8's.

I just orderied myself some rear calliper, um, ies. So the bank account is back to its usual parlous state. Not sure I am in the position to take one for the team just at the moment. I will put it on the list with the other 428 bits of crap that I need from Nissan that may or may not fit.

Should do. Don't the CP5555's have a smaller piston area than the BRembos used on the GT-R's?

Sounds like I should just go and buy a new one. Re-sleaving a second hand one will make it way more expensive. You don't have a part # by chance?

Well I guess a reasonable argument would be as follows: They designed the thing. They built the thing. So maybe they should be able to sell it however they please. Remember at the end of the day we are comparing new cars with second hand ones. Nissan themselves don't sell second hand cars. Their dealers do. Presumably they too can become RAWS/SEVS workshops if they really wanted to. Also I don't think the term "monopoly" can reasonably be applied to a single model of a car, ie one that can be so easilly substituted for another. Don't like the GT-R, well you can go buy an Evo - that sort of thing.

I presently have a poverty pack R32 GT-R with the Sumitomo callipers etc. As part of a brake upgrade I wanted to change the master cylinder to make use of the larger bore as seen on the Brembo equipped R32's & the 33's etc. The question I have is what is the easiest way of doing this. Now I would think that a master cylinder from a Brembo equipped GT-R would be a straight bolt up but I suspect that it will be next to impossible to find one. Question is: does the master cylinder from the R33 GT-R fit the R32 GT-R? Here is a photo of my 32.

So why not just ask that? I usually find if you take the time to articulate what you do know (or what you suspect to be the case) then properly phrase your question you'll get fewer spankers taking the piss out of your post. Try the kindly folk at SAU NSW as there are a number of them who participate in track days and sprints/time attacks (The latter is just the Japanese term for the former. It is mostly used by 16 year olds & may explain the nonsense in this thread). Beyond that have a look at the websites belonging to the circuits - specifically their calenders & try some of the larger performance shops who run track days..

It is not about protecting Ford or Holden (Or Toyota or Mitsubishi either). Although you can be damn sure that they (Especially Toyota) lobbied hard not to allow any imports in. People also forget that the road safety lobby (an industry of itself really) are massively influential aswell. What do you think their opinion of 15 year old "high powered sports cars' being imported into the country is? What it is about is allowing the imports of sports & specialist cars (ie stuff we want) that comply with the relevant ADR's (Like everyone elses cars have to) by a quality assured workshops (Of the type you would want to use, ie not some busted arse outfit) that have to warrant their work. If you take those three things as the basic tenet of an importing system why would you have an issue with the way the RAWS/SEVS scheme is conducted? If you look at the cost breakdown for the cars you will see that the compliance cost (for anything half way worthwhile) is not a huge proportion of the total bill. I am not talking about a shitbox S13 held together with cable ties here. With regard to tarriffs you will note that the manufacturers are squeeling now that they are down to 10% (Nil for some countries like the US, Thailand) One of the major political parties has announced a bullsh!t "enquiry" into the level of protection should they win... The only real wrinkle in the system (As this thread started on about) is that the manufacturers themselves can fk it up for everyone by bringing only a few cars in at "full volume". On the flip side they can also do what Mitsubishi did with the Evo's & keep everyone happy.

GT-R shocks are silver. They have GT-R on a sticker on them. I have some for sale if you need them.

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It is amazing how quickly people have forgotten how rancid & rife with dodgy practices the second hand car import industry was before the new laws were introduced. Everyone should say thankyou to John Anderson that he had the understanding & foresight to introduce the processes & the legislation. There are only two groups of people who dislike the rules. 1. Dodgy businesses. 2. People who want to import third rate, thashed & badly modified sh!tboxes. I don't care much for the former, nor for the drifting community either.

If you have a complete set I would consider those too.

Because the same management techniques that force them to produce the world's most stultifyingly boring range of motor cars are used in F1 team. Hence they make really slow & boring F1 cars too.

Good post, but you missed a couple of things: McLaren didn't get caught. They got stitched up by the FIA & Ferrari acting in collusion. It is entirely about politics. If it wasn't in previous years Ferrari would have been punished for doing much, much worse than McLaren were accused of doing. Also, it is not a matter of "IF" Ferrari get a way with anything next year. They will get away with blue murder, like they always have done.

Nah, I think they have been struck dumb by Ferrari's hypocrisy... I mean, you are fkn kidding, aren't you? http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/63956