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Because I am such a nice bloke I am willing to help. Look at your photos in the first post. Specifically the 8th one showing the back of the rim. If you look closely you will see that the rim has some markings stamped/cast into the back of the hub. Variously the say stuff like made in Japan, show the build date (month & year) & also most critically the wheel size, ie 17*9 JJ +15. The last number is your offset. But please check because the photo wasn't high enough in resolution for me to read it properly. Nice rims, anyway.

If you want the Motul fluid the best places to go looking are the motorbike shops. For some reason they carry Motul gear. Also it is dot 4 (600) Which means it is much better than the run of the mill dot 4 fluid. The 600 is its boiling point in degrees fahrenheit. Stuff paying $55 for 500ml. Someone will be along in a minute to tell you about the Penzoil gear.

Well the Motul is about $25 for 500ml. How much is the AP?

Actually, check the price of the rotors from Greenline.... http://www.greenline.jp/catalogue/bccatpar...gory=suspension

Here are a couple I prepared earlier. I was not running any ducting & the stone guards were in place. Rotors cracked on the outside. Note the rear failed completely & if you have a look at the front you can see the start of a crack propogating from the small slot. I don't think you need look any further than those slots to see what kills these rotors. Note that there was minimal wear on all of them, pads were RB74's & they got a bit warm as you can tell by the surface of the rotor. I have another dead one at home (a front) that is cracked through from the return slot.....If you have the ear of anyone at DBA tell them to bin the return slots.

I would be curious to see whther anyone has had their DBA4000 rotor crack from anywhere other than the small slots on the outside of the rotor.

So what is Alonso going to get at Ferrari that he doesn't have at McLaren. A slower car for one? An even less communicative team mate? A less supportive team environment? Still Ferrari & Alonso probably deserve each other. Can't imagine the departure from McLaren would be particularly tearfull. Massa would want an even bigger paycheque than $40 to go to Toyota. He could kiss goodbye to any chance of him ever winning a GP again.

Yeah sorry, upside down Miss Jane. You need to team a larger rotor with a smaller piston area for the smae brake bias. I fixed the first post. Need to engage the brain before the keyboard.

There are three parameters for the brakes (Assuming you have no external balancer). 1. Piston size. The larger the piston area in the calliper the greater the bias toward that end. 2. Rotor diameter. The larger the rotor diameter the greater the bias toward that end. 3. Brake pad friction coefficient. The higher the brake pad friction coefficient the greater the bias toward that end. A new set of brakes SHOULDN'T massively change your stopping distances on a once off basis, unless you are running very sticky tyres that is. What it will do is stop you well time & again. The frustration I get is that very few of the suppliers will quote you piston areas (or clearances for the rims) & all of them assure you their particular setup will be balanced nicely. So they offer you a larger rotor with a unchanged piston area for the fronts & then tell you the balance will be fine. So either it doesn't matter or they are full of shit. I haven't made up my mind on that, but I suspect the latter.....

Do what? McLaren didn't cheat. McLaren didn't do anything that all the teams (including Ferrari) routinely do anyway. If it wasn't for the FIA needing to deliver Ferrari a championship to make up for their lack of competitiveness over the past three years, nothing would have come of it. Read the transcript of the proceedings. It would be funny if it wasn't such a sad malodrama. The only people who have done the wrong thing here are Coughlan, Stepney (Who got fkd over by Ferrari in any case), Ferrari as a team (For dragging F1 throught all this sh!t) & the FIA for delivering such an obviously flawed verdict & for conducting the proceedings in such a shambollic fashion.

Water pump gone.

Noice. Some questions: Which rotor diameter did you get (365mm?) What wheel rim diameter are you running? What sort of piston area are those things running at the front & rear?

Yes you should get one.

These ones? Mono4_28mm_disc_Model__1_.pdf

Well, yes actually. Problem is that you get to the point where there are so many car parts on the table that you have nowhere to eat your dinner. Fortunately for me this was resolved by the fact that, having spent all my money on car parts, I could no longer afford dinner.

Well I just sold mine. In WA too. It took about a month & I didn't have a huge number of enquiries. Maybe half a dozen. More people wanted it than could either afford it or justify it. Only one bloke came & looked at it, he was the first & he bought it. My opinion is that if it is clean, stock(ish), well looked after & reasonable priced you should be able to sell it without a huge amount of drama. It won't be gone in a week & will probably take a few. The down side is that you will get a raft of time wasters & tossers who will pound you with bizarre questions & expect you to give it away (to them) without them even bothering their arse to come & look at the car. Oddly enough the cheaper the car, the more of these types the ad appears to attract. Best tip is clean it up & put a coat of polish on it. Make sure it drives well. Most importantly, never, ever underestimate the value of a pretty photo. I used here & carsales & ended up selling it through car sales. I checked the numbers & approx the same number of people looked at the SAU ad as the carsales ad. Approx 800 of each. Also ask your mates if they know anyone who wants one.

Can you please explain? Intent was to team it up with a 343mm rotor. p12004.pdf

Never forget that at the core of this is a Ferrari employee getting fkd over badly by Ferrari.... Anyway, read the transcipt of the evidence. Not only didn't McLaren use the information they variously demonstrated that: 1. Much of it was wrong. 2. Much of it was either obsolete or irrelevent. 3. All of it was sourced from legitimate means as well as being discussed in the emails. 4. Other than one engineer, no one in the engineering arm was aware of it. I need to explain #3. Take the weight distribution as an example. De la Rosa talked about it in an email to Stepney. Turns out that all the teams routinely calculate the weight distributions of the cars - they calculate it by using the footage of the cars when they are hoisted on the cranes after an off track excursion. So this supposedly valuable bit of info was therefore available to everyone. Turns out de la Rosa, for all the talk of using in the simulator, never did simply because it was well outside of McLarens parameters. And so it goes - there was categorically no smoking gun. Just a disgruntled Ferrari employeee & a complicit FIA (Particlarly Max Mosely). The best bit of the whole thing was that Ferrari tried to demonstrate that McLaren did something wrong when they found out & ratted on Ferrari using illegal floor designs. To anyone who thinks it is not common practice for all teams to do everything they can to find out what everyone else is doing, well that is so naive words fail me. Teams analyse others designs and basically monitor everything they can. Paddock gossip is always about what everyone else is doing. Read de la Rosa testimony - he was flabbergasted that the Ferrari beak could argue otherwise.

Wow, there is a market for under bonnet linings? I have one at home. Not sure how good the condition is, will have to check. Some of the clips went missing, however. Send us a PM if you are interested....

If you have some time on your hands the transcripts of the proceedings make for interesting reading. It shows how insubstantial the allegations really were & also that the FIA didn't care whether or not McLaren made use of any information. The way the whole thing was conducted was bordering on the shambollic. I guess not penalising the drivers (Hamilton knew nothing about any of it & Alonso didn't even have the guts to turn up!) allows the FIA to try & present themselves as being reasonable.

Hmm for motorsport & premium street performance, so says the product description. So maybe they really mean for driving to the track to watch other people.... http://www.dba.com.au/2006/products_4000.asp But no, they disclaim all warranty once you venture near a track.

Gareth, Interested, but any chance of you letting us know what your spring rates are?

Check their company profile. Australian made all over it.

Well it is a lot of trouble to go to if it is only at the engine. Even so it is alot of trouble to go to if it is at the treads. An RB26 can spit out 500rwhp easilly.

Which fiasco? There have been so many.... There was some mention in the telecast commentary that Alonso is keeping much of his info to himself. But who knows who starts these things. I don't think Ron Dennis would put his teams hard work at risk by short changing anyone in terms of the number of engineers etc.