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37 > Delta. But that is just my opinion.

GTiR = Group A. Also it was a hopelessly uncompetitive understeering pig of a car.

Bring back the group B rally cars I say. Ford, Peugeot, Lancia & the rest were building mid engined turbo charged 4WD rocket ships when Nissan were still pissing about with atmo S12 Silvia's. Oh and all Toyota ever did in World rallying of any note was get chucked out for cheating.

You are all a bunch of girls blouses. www.wrc.com More sideways that drift plus they are airborne half the time. As committed to going fast as circuit racers but with fk off big trees right next to the road. Driving quick is one thing. Driving quick along a road you have only seen once with your brain processing what your co driver is saying about the road after the next corner which is over the current hump is quite another. Beyond the scope of any mere mortals.....

Major loss? Push understeer.

Short answer: yes. Long answer: The GT-R will provide you will a different level of performance. Upgrading an RB26 is not necessarilly massively more expensive than an RB20. It is relatively cheap & easy to get 400rwhp from a stock internal 26 which cannot be said for a 20. If it is a street car you won't be using alot of boost for a long time which causes failures in the stock turbos. If it is street car you will not be doing the sort of launches that cause damage to the oil pump drive on early model 32's. If it is a street car you don't need to do the restrictor. It is only lengthy periods at high rpm that cause problems. Fuel pumps can die on any car at any time. There is no point keeping a GTS-T just because someone reckon the fuel pumps may last longer. I have had my GT-R for four years. The most amount of maintenance it needed was replacing some worn brake rotors & some suspension bushes. Which is to say no different from what you will experience on a GTS-T. The problem with GT-R's is that too many people have bought them & not properly looked after them. Combine this with some wantonly stupid behaviour and in some circles the cars have garnered a reputation they simply do not deserve. They are a very good car. I would recommend you drive one & find out for yourself. If you are in the market buy a good one that has been looked after. The same as any car, really.

A couple of questions: 1. Why do you want to carry so much fuel. 20 gallons is about 90 litres. I can't think why you need so much capacity? 2. You don't necessarilly have to gut the boot & redo everything. I have seen some neat installs without making a complete dogs breakfast down there.

Probably after the FIA work out exactly how much help Ferrari need to win this year.

I don't think the smug look will be what is worrying Alonso. I think the fact that Lewis is faster than him may be somewhat of a concern.

www.noltecsuspension.com Have a search under the GT-R'sGTS's. Specifically they have lots of bits & their replacement bushes are, in a lot of cases, sleeved which will prevent them squeezing out like the Whiteline ones do.

Thanks for the comments, Ant. It will do someone proud. Sold.

Alot of questions. 1. If you aren't expecting a performance improvement why are you putting in adjustable cam gears? You will pick up some gains. The cams need to be moved closer together - so advance the inlet & retard the exhaust, not the other way around. 2. High flow cat probably wont make bugger all difference over a stock cat. 3. Just get it tuned with the PFC & don;t worry about messing with the HKS stuff. 4. NFI.

I have the following parts surplus to my requirements. All are off my 94 R32 GT-R. The parts are in Perth & are available for pick up which is my preferred option. Postage can also be arranged for the inter state folk. Please PM me if you are interested. All parts are stock GT-R/RB26 items. Intercooler $300 RB26 Cams $300 for the pair. Injectors Sold Fuel pump $150 Extractors/turbos/dump pipes - only ever run at stock boost. Sold. AFM's Sold. Cam gears $make an offer Water pump $Sold All items are in excellent condition. Photo (Not a very good photo, I am afraid) is attached. If you would like a better one please let me know. Regards Richard

Wow the two of them (Ambrose & Gordon) have kissed & made up. To the extent that Ambrose will be driving one of Gordons cars!!! Faarrrkkk. Didn't see that coming.

Do you think he would risk his reputation? I mean Sato would spank him & then what?

Well it has been one of the most interesting years since I don't know when.

Well I was happy to blame Fernando. But it looks like it wasn't down to him at all. Which begs the question. How did the FIA decide on that penalty if they had any evidence from the McLaren people?

Looks like the whole thing was Hamilton's fault..... F1: Alonso Didn't Delay Hamilton, Dennis Says Budapest, Hungary – 8/4/2007 McLaren team boss Ron Dennis has exonerated his driver Fernando Alonso following the incident involving the Spaniard and teammate Lewis Hamilton during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Alonso was widely criticised after he waited for some ten seconds before leaving the pitlane during his final stop for tires. The delay meant that Hamilton had to sit behind Alonso and was then unable to complete his final flying lap. The incident is under investigation by the race stewards. Although the Spaniard had been waved by his “lolly pop†mechanic to leave the pit lane, Dennis revealed Alonso’s engineer had instructed him to wait. “He was being counted down by his engineer,†Dennis told reporters after qualifying. “He’s under the control of his engineer. He determined when he goes. That’s the sequence. And if you think that was a deliberate thing, then you can think what you want. I have given you exactly what happened.†Dennis confirmed that Hamilton had not obeyed an order from the team to let Alonso past in order to allow the Spaniard to have an extra lap. “They were out of sequence because Lewis should have slowed and let Fernando past. And he didn’t. He charged off. That’s how we got out of sequence,†Dennis added. He further explained: “We have various procedures within the team and prior to practice we determine how it is going to be run, what our strategy is, and how that’s going to be enacted on the circuit. There are some procedural issues there on qualifying. One of the things that you’ll have seen several times over the course of this season is long periods of time where the car has gone down to the end of pit lane and sat for a long time. “In this situation, we are timed to when we can dispatch the car based on when the car reaches a given temperature, and then we know how long we can hold it at the pit lane. “The cars are dispatched as soon as possible. In this instance, Lewis’s car got up to that temperature first, we went Lewis, we sent Fernando, and the fuel burn characteristics [mean that] there is a small advantage which we play from driver to driver according to the nature of the circuit. “In this instance, it was Fernando’s time to get the advantage of the longer fuel burn. The arrangement was, OK, we’re down at the end of the pit lane, we reverse positions in the first lap. That didn’t occur as arranged. That was somewhat disappointing and caused some tensions on the pit wall. “We were, from that moment on, out of sequence because the cars were in the wrong place on the circuit and that unfolded into the pit stops. It complicated the situation into the result, which was Lewis not getting his final timed lap. “So this really started from that position, and from our drivers not swapping position to get the right fuel burn in order to arrive at the point where we cut the end result to the end. “Now, as you have often asked the question, and let me make it a very honest answer, it is extremely difficult to deal with two such competitive drivers. There are definite pressures within the team. We make no secret of it. They are both very competitive, and they both want to win, and we are trying our very hardest to balance those pressures.†Dennis admitted that Hamilton was frustrated with the situation. “Today we were part of a process where it didn't work, and the end result is more pressure on the team,†he said. “But what you hear is the exact truth of what happened, and we will manage it inside the team through the balance of the season. “Obviously, Lewis feels more uncomfortable with the situation than Fernando. That’s life; that’s the way it is, and if he feels too hot to talk about it, then that’s the way it is. “But what I’ve done is, I have given you an exact understanding of what took place today. And it’s just pressure, competitiveness, and that’s the way it is. We’ve just got to get on and deal with it, but we’re not hiding from it. “We’re sat on the front row of the most difficult Grand Prix to win as regards to overtaking, and therefore we want to get on with the race.

Zandvoort? The old circuit anyway. Atleast that way if the racing is crap you can got to the beach instead. This story was on the Racetech site.... The full extent of Lewis Hamilton's temporary falling out with McLaren team boss - and long-time mentor - Ron Dennis came to light ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, revealing the heated post-qualifying exchange that was the apparent cause of Dennis' headphone-throwing display on pit-wall. While many guessed that the displeasure was directed at Fernando Alonso, after the Spaniard had blocked Hamilton at the session's final tyre change, analysis of the radio traffic between Dennis and his protégé provided interesting reading for Britain's Sunday newspaper buyers. The 22-year old allegedly swore at Dennis over the team radio, precipitating an angry exchange of views. "Don't ever f****** do that to me again"," Hamilton was quoted by Britain's News of the World and The Sunday Times, amongst others. "Dennis hit back, blasting: "Don't ever f****** speak to me like that." But Hamilton responded: "Go f****** swivel." Things were rosier following the race, which Hamilton won from a pole inherited when Alonso was demoted five places on the grid for his pit-lane indiscretion, but the Briton admitted that there had had to be a lot of bridge-building in the aftermath of the session, in which he was accused of precipitating the blocking incident by not allowing Alonso through in the fuel-burning phase. "I came back, everything was quiet, we didn't really speak too much," Hamilton revealed in the post-race press conference, "I went back to my engineers, we did the same job as always, a debrief. Then we had a sit-down with Martin Whitmarsh - Fernando and his mechanic and me and my mechanic - and we went through what the programme was. "They asked me why I didn't do the part that they want me to, and I explained to them. I said 'I made a mistake, I apologise, it won't happen again. But it has happened, let's forget about it and move on. We are both on the front row, so we can still smile'. "I thought that, because of the argument I had with Ron over the radio, he was obviously angry, I thought that perhaps he was just teaching me a lesson, so I just took it on the chin. Obviously, yesterday, he wasn't very happy. We just had to be professional, we spoke about it. I told him my views, he respected those. He said 'okay, I respect that because it is part of your personality and perhaps, in your situation, maybe that was better for you or whatever'. "We came to a mutual understanding and started on a clean slate today. It is not great because of all the problems we are having already with the FIA and with Ferrari. It is just more pressure on the team. The comforting thing is that considering we have all this stuff going on, even this weekend, it just shows how strong the team are because we still came here and still qualified 1-2. We came here and weren't distracted from our job. That's the main thing. "I think, going on from now, we need to analyse the weekend as always. We need to sit down, I guess, and talk as a team and re-unite. But I have no worries about it. "I have been working with Ron for nearly ten years now so, okay, it is quite a big event and a problem for the team, but I think the relationship we have is very very strong and something like this is not going to come between us. We will move on and move on to bigger and better things."

Nick or Nico?

Yep you are right. He got moved from 8th to 13th. Eventually he rammed a Super Aguri. Scene looks set for a tearfull homecoming for Alonso & Renault.

I don't suppose Honda will be upset to see the back of it, judging by this years results. Although to be fair last years race was a corker.

Reamed how, though? I don't think he got dumped down the back of the grid or had a time removed. Certainly Renault got some constructors points.