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So many questions... - Is the stock boost guage limited in it's range? Don't understand the question. It is a guage. It's range is written on it. - How do RB26's ingest the ceramic dust from a blown turbo? Turbos will do of the order of 100,000rpm. When they go bang stuff goes everywhere. - Is there any easy way to check the turbo's for any modifications? Pull the inlet side ducting off & have a look at the compressor face. - Just decided I'd like to know if 34 GTR turbo's are a worthwhile upgrade(what are they worth? I know the only main difference is they're ball bearing) considering slide can do a pair for $1500 that are good for 300kw's and are steel wheel. They are an upgrade. Depends how much you pay & if you do the work yourself. Don;t forget changing them costs $'s if you get a shop to do it. - What experience have people had running 1 Bar on stock turbo's? Mine has been fine. Lastly, the engine ECU doesn't control the boost level.

Would the spark plugs be ok if I just washed them with some degreaser? They're the NGK Iridium ones and they're pretty new and appear to be in good condition. Should be ok, yes. Also, how the hell am I meant to get the oil out of the cylinders? Can I try cranking the engine over and the oil will come out the spark plugs and I clean it from there? Should I manually rotate the engine (push the car while in gear) rather than cranking it to be safe? Pull the plugs & rotate the motor by hand. This will get most of the oil out. Then get a pipette or similar for the rest. Will a little oil be ok and burn off as long as I get rid of the bulk? A little, yes. Make sure you check the sump for pick up & bearing metal. If it was running belly up there is a fair chance you have starved the bottom end of oil & the motor won't be long for this world....

Try Harrop if you are in Melbourne. Also Racebrakes. Check the disc offset - I am not 100% sure that the BA matches the Nissans, but I think that it does. If it does you can get a large range of rotors (hatted) made by proper companies like AP Racing, Alcon & Harrop themselves. Oddly Falcons use the same PCD's as Skylines. Not sure why you would ever want to go larger than 355mm, however.

OK, you have completely missed my point. Which is this: To be a fair law the punishment should be proportional to the offence. The way the laws are written there is no connection between the offence & the punishment, ie some idiot could lose their $500 Gemini for doing a burnout, but equally could lose a $50,000 car for the same offence. In this case the article & particularly the headline reads as though a burnout is a far more heinous crime than trying to run over a copper. You would hope that the punishment for trying to run someone over is worse than that for doing a burnout. But, because of the way the law is written, this may or may not be the case. Personally I think a just penalty for doing burnouts on the roads is for the said offender to be dragged out of their car & punched repeatedly in the head. Both the act & the sort of dickheads that do this stuff are offensive. They are not, however particularly dangerous which is the PR spin put on it by the government. Not yet heard of anyone being killed doing a burnout...

Warning: Read the warnings. Just a quick warning to anyone wanting to look at the new Renault livery. Make sure you breakfast/lunch/dinner is well settled before trying this. You have been warned.

Try the AHG driver centre when they have an event on. You can also try the speedeventseries if you want to take shots of moving cars when they have events on. First one is at Wanneroo in early March, but they also do various hillclimbs & go to Collie. There is usually a wide variety of cars, not just GT-R's but anything from open wheelers to old school GT's to M3's to you name it & it will probably be there. www.speedeventseries.com

A great win for common sense? Did he get the car confiscated for trying to run over a police officer? No, he got it confiscated for spinning the wheels..... So on which particular planet does that constitute common sense?

The copper must have been pretty observant. What are the odds the Gem had an LSD? Not good IMHO.

Yeah the nugget in the Gemini & the coppers are all members of Mensa.

For my 10 cents worth I don't think you should count on it. The present government (The State one) has been shown to be variously corrupt, incompetent, unduly influenced by minority lobby groups & basically the worst state government since the last corrupt & incompetent government run by Brian Burke. Yet they are at VERY short odds to win the next election. What does that tell you?

What a triumph for the new laws. What are the odds that sooner or later people will discover a Holden Gemini is worth all of $500 (With a full tank of petrol). Actually, having driven one I am impressed that he managed 120km/h. Clearly the bloke is an idiot & will deservedly get done badly, but it speaks volumes about the Government/Police PR spin that the headline is about the "hoon laws" and not about him trying to run down the copper. On an serious note the reason they introduced the "hoon laws" was simply for the PR value & because the state government learnt by example that vilifying young car enthusiasts as hoons doesn't have a political down side. There were already sufficient laws which were sufficiently robust before they introduced this draconian nonsense.

Yeah great idea. 2 hours of racing which would include atleast an hour and a half of safety cars. Plus there would be exactly zero chance that the Bathurst circuit would be able to be certified to run a GP. The only circuits worthy would be Adelaide & PI. It is a shame that the money poured into Albert Park every year can't be put somewhere that could use it for the remainder of the year. Still anyone old enough to remember the "international" circuit at Sandown - remember the Group C race in the eighties? - may conclude it isn't worth the risk...

Calm down. I am not saying they should bin the Australian GP. Just the Albert Park circuit. It is dull as dishwater - at no point do the cars even look like they are going faster than your average Formula Ford.

They actually gave the award to the Pulsar in about 92. It won in conjunction with the Hoinda NS-X. That the Commode won will come as absolutely no suprise to anyone who reads Wheels magazine. To win you need a car that has no glaring shortcomings (Which usually rules out most European cars) & is good value for money. Hence the history of Japanese & Australian cars winning the award. The second point is timing. Every new Commodore released won the prize, but in hindsight I am not sure that any of them were truly deserving. There was very little competition this year - maybe the Toyota & that was about it.

For my 10 cents worth I wish they would replace the Albert Park circuit. It has to be THE most boring circuit for F1 racing anywhere - even the track in Hungary is better.

I strongly suspect you will have problems on the back if you are running a centre of tyre to guard height of 345mm as recommended. In anycase you don't want/need much -ve camber on the back. The fronts should be fine with a useful amount of -ve camber.

Try Noltec or Whiteline.

To anyone out there running a useful amount of -ve camber on their R32 GT-R. By this I mean more than two degrees on a 355mm front height ot there abouts. Having set my car up this way I find that the front rims could happily run much less offset - about half an inch less. I guess I have two options - spacers & a different rim. The questions I have are two fold: 1. Will 15mm extra offset be felt in steering kickback/bump steer? 2. Does anyone offer a rim in 17*9 with a +10mm offset or thereabouts which also happens to have enough room for an aftermarket caliper? This would go with a +22 (or more) on the rear.

But if they are running on this years tyres, how would they even get close to the record?

Based solely on this test result I am predicting a Super Aguri 1 - 2 result in Melbourne. Better get on the bandwagon now, Roy. Before it leaves town.

Problem was the wind was really howling - to the extent that I couldn't get the camera to hold still properly. A 4 - 5 second exposure would have been better, but there was no way I could have got a proper shot with it. I had to use the 0.125 second & even then half the shots had the comet walking across the photo. Played with the histogram. Not suprisingly everything was on the LHS for this shot.

I played around with the ISO settings on the camera last night. Turned out that I needed them turned up to 400 to compensate for not being able to have the shutter open for as long as I would have liked. Anyway, I think it worked ok.

I think you are drawing a long bow to say that the constabulatory hassle import drivers to protect Australian car manufacturers. More probably they don't like imports for more pedestrian reasons. Whether we like it or not a not insubstantial percentage of import & even Skyline drivers are tools & probably deserve every bit of targetting they get.

Here is hoping Toyota can bolt together a decent engine. I have a sneaking suspicion the only differences will be that the Toyota motor will have less hp than last years Cosworth & the driver pairing won't be as good. Although maybe Rosberg will stop running into his team mate. Hope I'm wrong.

Yeah, sorry I get lazy & tend to refer to rear suspension as double wishbones when there are inevitably different layouts of the links involved. Probably it's because of the rear wheel steering, but may just be a lack of application on my behalf. They are fundamentally different to struts & semi trailing arms & in a way the arrangement of the links doesn't make a whole heap of difference. Here is one prepared earlier. What Salad said with regard to the transference of load to the chassis via the suspension arms to bang on.