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32GTR's love lots of -ve camber on the front end. Out of interest what are your ride heights? I use zero toe on the front of my 32 (Would use toe out but for the road trips I have to do) & a total of 1mm at the rear. Front caster is only a little more than stock. Question: How is the turn in grip relative to the mid corner grip? Mine turns in much better than it grips across the apex, but I am slowly balancing it out - something more -ve camber on the front helped with alot.

Unfortunately most of the Can-Am cars ran their motors as stressed components. So you tend to get the flies in place of the fillings that get rattled out. A flat plane crank V8 as a stressed member doesn't bear thinking about....

Well you have a choice of four GT-40 versions, so take your pick. Much prettier than it's Lola equivalent. Can I humbly submit the 956/962 Porsche? By the way, you can build your own GT40 replica & have it registered for the road. Throw in a stroker 302 Windsor for some useful rwhp & with only 1000kg to lug around you can scare yourself silly.

Not sure anyone said the 917 was a Can-Am car, just that it was pretty. Mmmm, pretty. There are a number of companies doing replica cars. 917 can be had from Kraftwerkz in Aus & Racecarreplicas in the US. GT40 from DRB in Oz &, again, Race car replicas. Perhaps unsuprisingly the 60's & 70's tech can be quite easilly replicated today in such cars. Unfortunately the crashworthiness is, to some extent, replicated. Hell the original 917 used to scare Frank Gardner & he had bollocks the size of tractor tyres.... Anyway, replica GT40's are suprisingly common. There are a few around in WA Ricky Virago's is one of the very best.

Shades of Tony Longhurst versus Paul Morris. Ahhhh, happy days.

Punch on..... You've gotta hope they reconcile the two formulas before both of them turn completely pear shaped. Hopefully the new Panoz chassis will do some good.

I should preface this post by saying I am a long time Nissan supporter & Own an R32 GT-R BUT At the time & looking back at he various quotations IMHO I think that Mark Skaife & Freddie Gibson were insufferably arrogant. Richo was always too much of a gentleman to really buy into the whole thing other than his brain explosion at Bathurst (Which I fully agree with). Gibbo spent many, many years trying unsuccessfully to get his cars on the pace of the rest of the teams. When he finally achieved it (With the HR31 in the ATCC & the R32) the team produced invective towards the other competitors that became progressively worse. In racing terms it was a triumph, in PR terms a disaster.

Still broken....

Presumably RBR want to shift this years engine/chassis over to Torro Rosso much as they did with last years car. It would be harder to do so with an engine change. According to John Todt it ain't going to happen & RBR are stuck with Ferrari engines next year. So do I. You reckon Flava-Flav could get Newey & Webber signed with Renault?

Then don't muck around. Buy on eof these... http://www.race-car-replicas.com/917.html

Here are a couple of photos for you. It is only a replica, but it still make me all moist & squishy inside....

On the off chance the up load will work on my pc: First image is of some dodgy Scottish driver called Jackie something with a tartan strip on his helmet doing some raod sweeping in the Chapparral 2J at Watkins Glen. A lazy 465 cubi inch Chev providing the motive power & a 2 stroke motor powering the two fans. To quote Denny Hulme: "I didn't laugh because I knew anything that came from that shop had to be a serious contender. When I saw the thing squat down, I knew we were in deep shit." Second is a write up from the 1970 Autocourse about the legalities of the 2J. Hope it is legible. Third is some kiwi driver in a bright orange car. Lastly a nice shot of the Gulf Porsche which surely wins the prize for the prettiest car ever built. BTW, the photos work ok, just the thumbnails don't....

Dusty: No. Noisy: Yes. Bitey: pretty good.

Yeah, the non McLaren engine in the back. Next to the non McLaren wheels, tyres, brakes, radiators, seat, steering wheel, fuel, oil, bearings, springs, dampers...... The Honda motor was arguably, relative to it's peers, the finest grand prix engine ever made. Accusation of favouritism have always been part of F1. Lotus once complained to Honda (In 88 if I remember) & where told to go & pick and engine from out of the truck - as they were all the same. By your way of thinking there are only four legitimate teams in F1 (Does BMW Sauber count?) & teams like Lotus, Brabham & Tyrrell have no place in the record books. What the hell, let's re-start the FISA/FOCA wars from the early eighties. Not that it matters, but what would you call the bespoke TAG motor that powered the McLaren from 84 to 87? Built to John Barnard's exacting spec & used solely in the McLaren. Paid for by McLaren's TAG sponsor. Atleast Ferrari never had to engage third parties to sort their motors out. Best we don't mention the name Osamu Goto then. Part of what makes F1 so good is the treasure trove of history that can be used to support any and every argument. Not everyone will agree on which team is better (& why should they), but that doesn't make the argument less enjoyable.

You mean the race at Jerez when Schumacher tried to punt Villeneuve off the road in order to win the world championship? I think the point to be made here is that the championship had been decided. Coulthard was rightly pissed off & fair enough. Doesn't mean there was a greater conspiracy at hand.

Have a think for a little while. Ferrari (Well, let's be honest - FIAT) need F1 to generate the revenues. Do you really think that CART racing or Indy racing would allow them to bring in the hundreds of millions of dollars in sponsorship etc? For the record McLaren won in 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91. With three different drivers. All allowed to fight each other - just think how bad the '88 season would have been if Senna hadn't been at war with Prost - they won 15 of 16 races between them. Would have won at Imola too, except for the Williams crashing into them.

Ah, ok. Indy must have been the time when Schumacher braked on the finish line to try to allow Rubens to "win" the race by a few centimetres. Can't remember who actually won, but that is probably because I had had a gut full of their carryings on by then.

When did McLaren ever do that? I can recall Mika Hakkinnen going off his brain at Ron Dennis after a race at Spa because he had to fight with Coulthard for a place. The one time it all fell apart was in Melbourne, but that was all based around a messed up radio call which made Mika drive through the pit lane to no good purpose. They fixed it by making the two swap places on the track. It had absolutely nothing to do with championship points or anything else. Just righting a wrong. Remember the FIA changed the rules because of the way Ferrari made a dogs breakfast of it a few years back. Was it at Indy, or another race, I can't remember.

You could always look for an old Formula Gemini... http://www.my105.com.au/classified.asp?id=5882

Good point, well argued. We have been ignoring the burgeoning talents of the next world championship team.

I have to profoundly disagree with you (Apart fromt he bit about Ferrari being crap, ofcourse) If a brilliant talent such as Eddie Irvine can almost win the championship in a car, it speaks more of the car than the driver. I would rate Brawn & Byrne up there with the very best. Add in the biggest budget in F1, unlimited testing etc etc etc & the wonder is that they haven't won more championships. The question has always stood: If Schumacher is so good then why does he need a #2 driver entirely subservient to his needs. Or run into everyone else when the pressure is on (Like last week, for instance). Yep, he can drive, but he has a glass jaw (& a large one at that).

Skylines are notorious for oil surge killing RB motors. GT-R more so than anything else. Overfilling the sump helps prevent it. Not sure how much to do so on a RB25, but an extra litre on an RB26 is fine.

C'mon Baron, bring it...

Perhaps calling you an idiot was harsh & for that I apologise. BUT Have a think about the consequences for you if the coppers see you doing this sort of thing. (Loss of license, big fine, confiscated car, more shit put on car enthusiasts) I can assure you they won't think of it as a "lil race" Please, please anyone who wants to try their car out do it on a proper racetrack. Not the Hume highway... And yeah, the person(s) in the EVO are just as bad, but they aren't here talking about it.

It only invokes passion because of Ferrari's consistent behaviour in putting their own short term self interest infront of the good of the sport. Occasionally is comes back & bites them in the arse - at which point a great many people smile.