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Dump it & get yourself an ipod.

Some infra red thermometers have adjustable emissivity values, but that for bare metal is a long way from black surfaces. Yes the paint works only once. That way it measures the peak temperature which is what you want. If you have to wait to get back to the pits you won't gather any data of any worth as the rotors will long since have cooled. The only other effective way to do it is to check the colour of the rotor itself (ie what shade of orange/red) it glows at the end of the braking zone. Bit hard in the daylight, but if you can get out there in the gloom it works. If you get yourself three jars of the paint you can check the temps any number of times.

Cheap infra red jobbies DON'T WORK ON OTHER THAN MATT BLACK SURFACES. Sorry, but I have seen far too many people make that mistake. People who should know better. Anyway, best method is to get yourself some temperature sensitive paint from your local race shop. There are usually three colours which go off at varying temperatures.

Now all they need is a couple of additions to the "Let's not have the thing lunch itself by lap 12" department.

Don;t use a single solenoid controller if you want to go to 1.2 bar or above. I would recommend a Blitz unit. Take you pick which of the dual solenoid version you prefer. I got an ID III

Search button..... You can either get one from Nissan (I would recommend taking your own pineapple & all the cash you can lay your hands on). Or you can get a generic one from the likes of Windscreens O'Brien.

You can buy it from the pitstop bookshop (in Perth & online) who have just got some more stock in. It is a good read.

It wasn't a loss, so much as the government literally couldn't give it away. They didn't want to hold it this year, but had to because of the contracts they signed. Tells you how on top of things they are. They put together some dodgy alledged economic analysis that "proved" $10 spend on a pie & a drink at an Ironman event in Busselton was worth $147 in economic activity. Apparently that same $10 spent at rally Oz was worth $16. These pillocks reckon the money spent is too much of a drain. How much was this years state budget surplus? $1 billion, no $2 billion.

Oh, great a fourth rate advertorial for a dodgy fkn energy drink. In Perth. Unreal. Wouldn't walk across the road to see it. I will believe that the Bunbury track exists when I am driving down the main straight in my GT-R. Until then it is only a proposal. Bad enough that country WA gets sod all compared to Perth. Then if you start to consider that Perth gets sod all compared to the east.... How many "National" series never get further west than Adelaide? Just about all of them. It is a joke.

Just thought I would say a big thanks for nothing to our beloved WA State Government. With the last Rally Oz over and done with we now have absolutely no international class events left in the state. Atleast now the worthless dogs can go back to focussing full time on being corrupt & incompetent.

The problem was that the GT-R Edgar bought had issues with the ATTESSA system. Which eventually was found and fixed. So yep, a GT-R with a slow reacting AWD system does oversteer too much. Which is hardly a revelation. And the seats do suck if you are of above average size - especially the lack of lumbar support. And the things do tramline quite harshly - particularly is the wheel alignment is out. And they are noisy. BUT, for their time (now rapidly closing in on 20 years ago) NOTHING could get near them.

Cheapest way would be to rebadge customer Renault F1 engines as Nissan units. Not sure they would be very successful in comparison to the factory renault effort. Redbull Nissan anyone...

After the thing has been on the engine for a while the heat & vibration will tend to make it harder to remove. As an aside don't the K & N filters have a lug on the end that fits a 1/2" drive on your socket set? Also, the screw driver trick works, but remember there is no going back once you start. The metal skin of a filter is actually quite thin, so be careful.

Stock GT-R's have higher spring rates at the rear than at the front. Lessens the understeer.

The point I was trying to make (With or without the one being carried) is that belting a kerb to a degree is analagous to the random brick on the road the solution to which is the pretty much the holy grail of active suspension. You want compliance at that point.

Think about it in a transient rather than steady state mode. Then factor in your high speed damping effects.

What about the strippers as a learning exercise. Or is that a yearning exercise. The thing to remember (As far as sweeping generalisations go) is that balance is as important as total cornering grip. By the way, does anyone have a torsional rigidity number for the R32 R?

The soft springs hard sway bars also helps (along with some damper settings) in those kerb hopping moments, relative to a stiffer spring/softer sway bar. For my 10 cents I found that stiffer sway bars were a good improvement, but nowhere near as good as new dampers.

In an ideal world you would be able to separate your damping resistance in roll from that in bump & compression. Unfortunately the list of active suspension options for the GT-R are rather limited at zero. Maybe Frank Williams to help out. You sort of have to start looking at anti roll bars as undamped springs to a degree as they don't come with their own dampers & rely on the coil spring dampers. SK, your are correct in saying that when looked at in conjunction with one another the effects of anti roll bars can be counter to that when looked at in a single axle situation. Unfortunately explaining it to people is difficult because one effect is opposite to the other & the importance of them changes depending on the chassis under discussion & the tyre & the suspension geometry & a million other things. I remember Tyrrell using the ultimate anti roll arrangement. One spring & dmper unit for the front end. Don't have to muck about with sway bars then....

That's it. Great stuff. Later on in the fottage you can see the touring car mechanics lining the pit wall to watch. They followed it with edited highlights of the Hang Ten 400 - Moffat, Bond, Johnson in XC Falcons & Brock, Harvey, Grice, Rogers et al in A9X Toranas. Gotta be some of the best TV going around at the moment.

Clean the oil from the outside of the filter. Then go wash your hands (use some laundry detergent). Then grab it hard as you can and undo it. Important note: Do not over tighten your filter.

The only problem with the Whiteline bars is that they are a solid bar. Which is a pretty stupid way of building sway bars, but there isn't much choice out there.

Fit the harder sway bars. For my ten cents worth it makes the car much nicer to drive if there is a good balance between stiffness in terms of spring rates & stiffness in terms of anti roll.

In and of itself, it isn't. But you have to separate balance (ie understeer/oversteer) from overall grip. Front wheel drive cars (& GT-R's for that matter) have a poor weight distribution with the front end carrying 60% of the weight. Now all else being equal (it isn't, but lets pretend) the front tyres won't generate as much grip as the rears. So you need to kill some rear grip to balance the car. In the case of a front wheel drive car as long as you have sufficient rear grip who really cares if the inside rear is off the ground? It isn't doing anything after all.... The problem with the GT-R is that running a stiff anti roll bar, while it is fine for balance (Needed in fact) it hurts your traction off the corner because you can then buzz the inside rear on power down. As for transient (ie damper) issues - these are different from steady state spring (& rollbar) issues. But you mate is right - low speed bump does have an effect, particularly on turn in.

I forgot to list some bloke called Glenn Seton. Geoff Brabham won Le Mans with Peugoet in 91 & did alot of racing in the US. Gary Brabham won the F3000 championship in 1989. Don't go the blood nuts, Baron. They can really angry really quickly.... They used to have an award in the Can Am series. It was for Polish drivers. It was the Polish Pole Position Pole. Unsuprisingly the trophy was a, um, pole. By the way did anyone wathc the reply of the '78 Australian Grand Prix on ABC 2 on Sunday? The laps by Fangio in the old Merc & Brabham in the BT were just gold.