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How come the fastest cars in December & January (even February) go AWOL when the season proper starts?

Give the bloke a break, he may have been confused by the floor mats. Andrew, it would be a good idea to check the build number on the chassis plate. If it is a 92 the plate should read something like BNR218000 to BNR226000 (in that range.) A V-Spec from 93 onwards will have a BNR300001 - BNR314649 chassis number plus a couple of other identifiers in the model code.

Come on Duncan - it is the constructors championship that the manufacturers are after. All very well being smug when Takuma wins the drivers championship, but it won't count for anything when Spyker win the constructors now will it?

Just as there are 50 ways to leave your lover, there are many ways to kill an oil pump. I was just trying to pull him up on the seizing thing, is all.

Well, if that is out the back of WMC's Nickel refinery I wold be keeping your car as far away from it as possible. The ammonia in that place is horrible sh!t & will wreck your paint given half a chance.

Gees, where would anyone in WA take photos of their cars if not for the industrial strip in Kwinana? Nice car, nice photos. Well done.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but how fat is your arse? I am in the market for a seat because the stock R32 GT-R seat is too small for me. How does the Bride compare relative to the Nissan seat?

Hey, can I also show the world that I am not a loser? Putting aside the reality that I am one, ofcourse. Maybe Super Aguri need to team up with Beck. Now there is a winning combination. I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me....

I have a 5Zigen oval muffler & literally cannot hear it over the tyre noise. Dunno is you want it THAT quiet, however. By the way it has a JASMA plate on it starting with 92-. not sure if the 92 in some way refer to the dBA rating.

Aguri targeting wins ‘by 2008'. Despite the fact that the team has yet to score a point, never mind finish on the podium, Super Aguri managing director Daniele Audetto says he feels the team could possibly make the step to Grand Prix winners as soon as 2008. The Japanese team came into F1 at the start of the 2006 campaign running a four-year-old Arrows chassis for Takuma Sato and Yuji Ide but, having been understandably well off the pace in Bahrain, the Honda-supported squad knuckled down to the job at hand and by the season ending Brazilian GP had got to a position where Sato was able to clinch the first top ten finish of Super Aguri's fledgling career. Into 2007, the team will hope to make further progress with the addition of highly-rated Briton Anthony Davidson to its line-up, but Audetto said it was 2008 when he feels the big steps forward will be made – especially as changing regulations will allow the team to work closer with Honda and possibly even run an off the shelf Honda chassis. "We want to show the world that we are not losers," he told Reuters. "Now that we have the base of the team, mechanics and engineers, we really want to prove that we can fight for a better position. I think if we are as good as we proved to be with the old car, maybe in 2008 we can be potential winners of one grand prix. "It's true that the Honda support is very strong and with Sato and Davidson I think we have a very good couple of drivers. But to be in the middle of the grid [next year] is a big, big jump. I think we can achieve that in 2008, when the regulations really change...I think that 2008 will be the year where Super Aguri will really show all the potential. "The new rules will allow even the small teams to have the same technical support, chassis and aero as the top teams - we can share the same car - and then what will count is the drivers, the racing team, the strategy. Potentially a small team with a very good car, with good drivers and strategy and a little luck could eventually win a grand prix in 2008."

The most probable answer is that the oil pressure sender unit has failed or is suffering from an intermittent failure. Mine used to randomly change pressure & despite how ever many times you tell yourself not to worry you end up getting paranoid about it. So I fitted a new unit & the problem went away. If you are going to get it checked then it is well worth pricing up a new sender unit as they aren't massively expensive. Change it out when you next change the oil. The oil pump is directly geared/coupled to the crank so if it seizes the engine won't go round....

I was there on Sunday & there were only a few nuggets wandering around wondering why the car out on the circuit weren't getting sideways... Atleast they got to see Gary West break the lap record in his Lola.

Baron, I have a set of the Cusco castor rods & they are well built. Unfortunately, being steel they also weigh approximately half a ton. Each.

Hmm, I take the view that for the kind of money you need to spend to get 500rwhp or thereabouts & if you are opening up the engine why wouldn't you spend the extra for the rods? But like you say it can be done on an unopened motor or with crack tested rods.

On Skylines the spindles (vertical suspension arms) can and do bend. If so the easiest (best) method of fixing it is to replace the thing. Don't bodge the thing up - fix whats wrong.

What I did was put a spare jack under the trailing part of the sway bar. You can then jack the sway bar & the bolts will align with the links. Tap it in gently. Job done.

For that much hp you should be using aftermarket rods. The differences between H & I patern rods (In terms of performance) is less than some people make out. H pattern (for the same weight) arguably have a lower rotational inertia hence are favoured for high revving motors. I beam rods have a greater stiffness in beding along the crank axis. Best bet is to find one you like (in terms of stated strength) & price.

Good question.

By my rough calculation a solid 25mm anti roll bar is less than twice as stiff as one with a 2.5mm wall thickness. Or to put it another way a 30mm od bar with a 2.5mm wall will do the same job as a solid 25mm bar for less than half the weight.

Upside down, Miss Jane. The turn opposite phase on turn in then same phase mid corner. Which is why HICAS retains the ability to scare the living bejeesus out of you when you are hustling along & need to turn in on an off camber entry...

The inherent problem with the Whiteline sway bars is that they are made from solid bar. There really isn't much excuse for making a torsion bar from anything other than tube....

Well you learn something everyday. When I went to school it was the latent heat of vaporisation that allowed a closed cycle refrigeration system to function. Maybe my school was too old skool or something.

Try the Noltec & the Whiteline websites............ It isn't a big job to change them.

Whiteline can/will sell you a replacement bush, not a rose joint. You can also get an adjustable setup that still uses a bush. Noltec offer the same, infact they can sell you a caster rod with it..

Um, the only way you will get a V-spec as described at the price suggested is with the aid of a shotgun. Try $21-23k before it leaves Japan. By way of an indicator I recently sold my '94 GT-R (non V-spec, largely stock) for $28k.