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Well problem being that I don't live anywhere near Whiteline, or for that matter anyone else who knows much about Skylines - the joys of living in regional WA I suppose.

If it is just street you are after I would recommend: RDA rotors from the group buy section. They are much cheaper than the DBA series. Ferodo pads, maybe not DS2500's, but a cheaper alternative. Look for something with a friction coefficient of about 0.5. Any common or garden Dot 4 brake fluid - you don't need 600 degree stuff, Leave the stone guards (Not dust covers!) on. Forget about ducting. Replace both front & rear pads.

Any chance of a photo? Springs should be trapped at full droop... Anyway, here is a photo of the shocks as they are presently. When the Eibach springs arrive they need an extra groove machined into them. But where?

For anyone who cares Shane Price is the son of Drew Price who drove the GT-R at Bathurst in 1991. Just thought you would all like to know that.

Just bought a coilover kit for the R32 Whiteline/SK Bilstein R32 GT-R suspension. Matt (as in son of SK who is looking after stuff whilst Gary is in the US) said I needed to machine another groove into the shock. Unfortunately he couldn't help with where. Has anyone with the kit got the location(s) of thee extra grooves?

Bit hard when there is a tilt tray truck in the way....

Oh, yeah. For anyone that remember Satoro, this will bring a smile to your face. News Nakajima to race for Williams in Brazil Tuesday, 09, October, 2007, 10:30 Kazuki Nakajima will race for Williams in the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix, the Grove squad confirmed on Tuesday. Nakajima, the team’s official test and reserve driver, will step into the seat vacated by Alex Wurz, who announced on Monday that he would be retiring from Formula 1 racing with immediate effect. The 22-year-old Japanese driver has covered more than 4,300 miles of testing in the FW29 as well as earning rookie of the year honours in the GP2 series. “I am very grateful to the team who have given me this opportunity,” he said. “I hope I now know the car very well and thankfully have done some Friday driving as recently as Shanghai. “This is a chance I intend to grab with both hands and repay the faith the team are showing in me with a strong performance.” Team boss Frank Williams explained that the purpose of running Nakajima was to allow him to gain F1 experience rather than to evaluate him for a 2008 race seat. “You cannot assess a driver’s capability on the basis of one race but this is an ideal opportunity to develop Kazuki’s experience,” he said. “I am confident he will approach the race in a very workmanlike and focused way.”

A few things: They may be of some benefit if the thermal conductivity of the alloy is markedly less than say, that of the backing plate of the brake pad. So maybe check out what it is for the alloy in question versus steel. It should be measured in Watts per metre Kelvin or similar. Make sure you have enough room to squeeze everything in! If you can find some titanium plate (not too hard) & a friendly laser cutting shop (not hard) just email them an ACAD drawing of the profile you want. Then you can have as many as you want plus some spare titanium plate. Lastly, not that I am a fan, but you could coat the outside of the pistons with ceramic or similar.

Well this may help. Ferrari make more money from merchandise than they make from cars. So they have more in common with, say, Mattel than with Mercedes. Does that help?

There are R32 cranks & R32 cranks. May help if you tell the people what year the motor was from.

So fking up your career prospects isn't penalty enough? I want to know what happens when they give the whole grid a 10 spot penalty. Got to happen sooner or later.

As long as there are more beanies up there than teeth it will be fine. Perish the thought that Bathurst turns into a mecca for chardonnay sipping socialites. It is not F1 FFS. Oh and go the #17. I hope the first lap this year will be as enjoyable as last years.

Well I noticed a couple of things. 1. The piss weak folk at FIA/ITV had their coverage removed from Youtube (the bits that missed the incident). Bit rich for them to use someone elses for their own purposes then, really. 2. Lewis was was over the right hand side of the track near on level with the safety car. Webber was on the other side & only a couple of car lengths behind the safety car aswell. Sure, Lewis was driving erratically (& should be fined and/or slapped about for it) but really I don't think they can pin Webber's accident on him.

On which hand?

The coppers have been behaving like fascists at any and every sporting event since the 1980's. Particularly at Bathurst. So someone wants to drink too much on top of the mountain, pass out & miss the race. Big deal. Sure maybe you wouldn't want to take your mum up there, but they aren't rioting & they aren't ferral protesters. Just a bunch of blokes who are a bit rough around the edges & enjoying themselves.

Real men use 9" grinders one handed.

Don't use caustic based anything (paint stripper, degreaser, anything) on any part that is made of aluminium.

I thought he won the ATCC with Ford Credit written on the side of his car? My 10 cents owrth: It only went pear for him when the AU hit the track - which was somewhat pear shaped itself now that I think about it.

Well the front right hand wheel falling off in Germany didn't help.... Anyway, in other news, not that I would believe Nigel Stepney, but on the basis of this maybe BMW should be the constructers champion. In recent days we have received (unsolicited) communication from Nigel Stepney which raises a number of questions which have not been touched on in the scandal to date. Stepney says that he believes Ferrari have been let off surprisingly lightly by the FIA. He says that there is a point that everyone is missing because they are assuming that the flow of information to Mike Coughlan was a one-way flow and that Ferrari did not gain anything. There is no evidence at all that Stepney was being paid to pass on information and he says that it was rather more simple than that. "I got information about when they [McLaren] were stopping," Stepney says. "I got weight distribution, I got other aspects of various parts of their car from him [Coughlan]. Ferrari got off very lightly. I was their employee at the time. I was aware of certain stuff they were doing at tests, fuel levels, for example. I knew what fuel level they were running. I think they should have been docked points personally. The question is: Did I use the information, did I talk about it?' That's the big question. I spoke to some people about it. I can't prove it, there are no e-mails or anything. Points about the fuel and the differences [between Ferrari and McLaren] were discussed inside. As well as McLaren having an advantage, did Ferrari have an advantage? I think so." So is Stepney surprised that Ferrari got off entirely without penalty? "Very surprised," he says. "It looks like information flowing only one way. No one has been balancing the argument. No one has asked the question. They were thinking Mike was asking the questions and I was answering them." Stepney, one can argue, is a source that is seen to be somewhat tainted given all the allegations that have been made in Italy. But they are only allegations at the moment. Nothing has been proved in a proper court of law and until it is he has as much right to make his feelings known as Montezemolo.

As per the vertical axis of the graph. So a peak of 86 with the surrounds at 72 or there abouts.

My tuner appears to have put in a bundle of fuel at idle. Now there was a problem originally because they missed a vacuum hose when the engine got put back. Anyway the question is: can I reduce the fuel here simply because it doesn't particularly hot start well, nor is the idle brilliant. Car is an R32 R with 260 Poncams amongst other things. fuel_map.PDF

Something in a mankini... Nah, just an external showing the rotor/caliper/rim so we can get an idea of cleareance & maybe a shot of the bracket arrangement for the caliper. Mmmm, brakes....

Any chance of a photo of the installation for us brake geeks?

"Lewy" wants to win the drivers championship. Which he is well on track to do. That hard enough for you? What I find vaguely amusing is that people criticise F1 drivers for being, amongst many things, arrogant pushy demanding ultra competitive self obsessed selfish greedy All of which, uncoincidently, is the MINIMUM requirement for any sports person to get to the top rank of their sport, let alone become a champion. So there you have it people, all that is holding any of us back is that we are nice blokes.

The quick fix is to install a cooler. Which is also the best fix. Get yourself a small (say 100mm x 200mm) radiator & plumb it into the power steering circuit. Some Nissans (not sure what you have) already have an inadequate finned tube arrangement infront of the radiator. Rip that out & replace it with hose & the small cooler. Job done. As for fluid. If is smells & is browm replace it. Just use any old gear it doesn't matter.