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What are the odds the site crashes?

The ones for the rear (as opposed to the front) don't have any knurling on them.

As far as I know (ok, I don't) you cannot adjust the front camber with the Cusco arms - there is no mechanism. If you have Bridgestone blokes there then please pummell them with the questions of the day: Hot set pressures for the RE55's on the Gt-R's & optimal operating temp for the tread face.

If Roy doesn't take them I will. The rears that is.

No they are the same, merely fitted together.

The spring shouldn't affect the position of the shock. My front looks a bit like this:

I work in manufacturing & whilst the Chinese are a threat fortunately they haven't figured out how to do things efficiently & with good quality in large refinery/production facilities. Yet. So we are still in business. Yes the federal governments use bucket loads of advertising - same as the state governments. Oppositions always claim it will be different when they get in - never is. All of them waste shed loads of money. The thing people tend to forget is the dot com bubble & also the collapse of the Asian markets (Thanks LTCM!) was weathered well by the Australian economy. Yes black Monday in 87 was worse, but corrections happen periodically. It hasn't all been beer & skittles.

Either raise the nose of the car or buy some of these: http://www.moonface.co.jp/shopping/goodspr...gi?gno=MFP-SCA1 Also you probably could usefully invest some dollars in one or other of the car suspension books.

So how about you take a look at the two other economies that were previously our principal trading partners, ie Japan & the US. Both of their economies had struggled badly in the last 10 years. China is our #1 trading partner in part because of the failure of the US & Japan to maintain good economic growth. So that may be worth thinking about. Yep, just like the ten years before that & the ten years before that and the..... This is not a new phenomenon. I am not happy about Rudd copying the Liberals on tax policy, the pulp mill, refugee policy & a hundred other things. Nor him blaming his staff and/or running & hiding whenever he coughs something up. He claims it is new leadership - doesn't that imply some kind of leadership? - presumably different to slavishly copying your opposite number. Weak as piss is what it is. Peter Garrett must wonder what the hell he is doing. By the way I have tried having no job because the economy was fkd (Thanks Paul ) Much rather have a job & an income....

Yeah, Massa did well to follow Ferrari's team orders.

Nice edit!

Yes they are different. They are black, not yellow. Other than that they are the same, ie same amount of camber adjustment.

Maybe Williams can cement its place as the team for sons of former drivers. Hill, Villeneuve, Rosberg, Nakajima.... Rosberg has come on well this year. He got spanked by Webber last year, but tahter than going & having a sulk he instead has driven very, very well. Proof in the pudding has been his qualifying. Nakajima did ok too. Qualifying was horrible, but he raced well. Maybe he listened too much to Alex Wurz. Here is hoping Nelson Piquet's young bloke can get a good drive next year.

Well it is a fitting end to an awful year. Ferrari & the FIA used illegally obtained documents to stitch up McLaren. Ferrari demonstrated how completely bereft of any integrity they are. The FIA demonstrated favouritism not seen since the JMB days. Alonso demonstrated to the world just how big an arsehole he is. Now apparently you can get away with an illegal performance advantage as long as Ferrari don't suffer. Can someone please start a 2008 F1 thread because this year sucked. Were it not for the emergance of Lewis Hamilton & Nico Rosberg there would be nothing positive to remember.

On the off chance you haven't forgotten. Am trying to track down the rear Brembo callipers from the 33 GT-R. Any chance of part number/ price?

Sorry but I made a bit of a blue. The first number is the wire length, ie the length of the bit of wire the spring was made out of . Part numbers are Front B46 1471 Rear F4 - B46 1472 According to the brochure anyway - http://quadrantsuspensions.com.au/pdf/Bilstein%20B6.pdf

Interesting. You may like to try raising the front up. I use 355 front, 345 rear. The more nose down it goes the more it understeers. Secondly, with regard to camber there are two sorts. Static camber, ie measured at rest & dynamic camber, measured when the thing is loaded up through the corners. However much static camber you car may be running you seem to have insifficient dynamic camber. This is shown in the photos as the front wheel "tucking under" during cornering. Anyway, form what I understand, this is a suspension geometry issue tiedlinked to too low a ride height. So it would be worth (IMHO) trying the car with an extra 15mm in the front ride height. Anyway here is mine cornering - note the soft springs (Half your rate) but the front tyre -ve camber is still ok, even though the static is only - 2 degrees. I awill be chucking some harder springs at it today/tomorrow.

Hmm, what ride heights you running (front & rear?)

First lot of questions: 1. How heavy are they (just out of interest) 2. Ideally, but not necessarilly (See below) 3. Yes or with the circlip type height adjusttment. 4. Roll centre adjusters alter the suspension geomtery hence migrate the roll centre. Answering the second lot of questions: 1. So you need more spring stiffness relative to sway bar stiffness. 2. Then big up the spring rates. Dampers will work within a range of springs - but you need to check. 3. I understand where you are coming from. I got the wrong colour springs & I needed to go buy some new handbags, damn it all. I would recommend a combination of Eibach springs & Bilstein shocks. Springs can be chucked at little cost if they are wrong & the shockers re-valved if necessary. 4. Yes. I have some spares somewhere + some drawings if you can get stuff fabbed. 5. Get some more -ve camber! Particularly at the front.

You have some options: 1. Increase the sway bar stiffness. 2. Increase the spring rate. 3. Move the cars centre of gravity. 4. Move the cars roll centre. Unfortunately these all have downsides. 1. Increased sway bar stiffness will hurt traction because it will pick up your inside rear. 2. Increased spring rates will make the car less forgiving but are worth a look. From the photos it looks like your car is falling over the front wheel, so could easilly live with a higher rate. 3. Lowering the c of g is basically impossible relative to the roll centre other than by changing the ride heights. 4. Moving the roll centres is an option. Check moon face racing for their adjusters. Having tried some of the stuff I can tell you that this is a difficult path. From the photos I would recommend you throw some -ve camber at the front end before you do anything.

1. Uni's have had full fee paying students for a very long time. Overseas students are mostly full fee paying students. The difference is the Liberals have allowed some Australian full fee paying students. Amongst a whole range of other changes. You may have a point about the funding levels to uni's, however. 2. Well Reith lied about the Tampa. You can easilly say that Howard was at minimum misled by Reith. Mostly it is just used as an excuse by the ALP for losing an election they should have won. As for the GST well he went to an election with that in his platform, so one throw away line (Never ever) is not really worth all the hostility heaped upon him for it. 3. Labors new workplace agreements (whatever they will call them) have a similar fairness test. So take your pick. I know many people who are better off for their AWA's - they like them. 4. We have a Kyoto (unratified) target which apparently will be met. As opposed to places like Canada who have a ratified target which wont be met. The fact that ours is a pathetic target shouldn't cloud anyones judgement. Rudd's 2050 (or 2060) target is meaningless. Who is going to measure that & hold him accountable? Simply no one because no one can.

Hmm, interesting. 1. The Hawke/Keating government introduced the HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme) which means if you go to uni you pay the tax man. Plain & simple. O/S (full fee paying) student have been at our unis for many, many years. Good on them. Why should they be denied an education as well? 2. All politicians are liars. Plain & simple. Actually they are not. If you (or anyone else) had everything they ever said scrutinised & debated & misrepresented then you too (& me & everyone else) would be termed a liar. Rudd has the advantage of not having been around long enough to have piled up baggage. 3. Howard fkd up on the first change when they introduced the AWA's. But now that they have implemented a no disadvantage test covering the most important benifits you can't get little of no compensation for trading your penalty rates etc. Try working on a salary - you don't get any O/T, penalty rates or anything other than your salary. Not everyone works on wages or can even get access to AWA's. 4. Kyoto is a lame duck. Ratifying it will make bugger all difference. If Rudd had any bollocks he wouldn't be banging on about a target in 2050 - thats what four changes of government & 15 elections away. He would map out a short term target (say every year until 2020) & set out how he would achieve it. So would Howard. But they are both too gutless. To finish: what I hate the most about this election is the me too, cloning that is going on in the policy areas. Weak as piss.

Bump.

This should answer your question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGyH8Kf_0Fg

What is your point, I mean obviously they are best mates. They hang out on weekends, don't they?