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Standard ones?

Important question will be is it a big end knock or has a turbo fallen apart?

After 5 years or so my SCR Pro front rotors on my GTR are fine. They have fine cracks in the surface of the rotors - not to be confused with massive cracks that run tot he whole depth of the rotor and which mean you have to bin them. Also if you buy the Pro series you can keep the hat and replace the rotor and save a few hundred bucks. Also DBA do not make 5000 series for R32's as afar as I can remember.

Rotang FTW. Just as long as you like noise and buying petrol and rebuilding motors.

Because the F1 drivers special relativity theory takes into consideration the age and experience of the drivers. Kimi - not as fast as he once was. Romain - faster than when he was paired with Kimi.

If you look up the manual there is supposed to be a certain amount of clearance (for want of a better word) beyond the last plate. You measure this and shim the clutch pack to suit. A worn pack will have grater than acceptable clearance - the result is that the attessa system doesn't function properly because there is not enough force on the friction plates. The system displays the output on the dash - the output of the pump basically, not the torque output - it is too stupid to realise the clutch pack is worn. End result is the gauge wont help you diagnose a worn clutch pack, only a vernier will.

Did you check the wear on the attessa clutch plates before you installed the box?

Yeah the spring steel - atleast the old school Australian AS1447 XK5155S & XK5160S have defined ranges of alloying content. As do any number of other grades down to your common or garden 250MPa yield strength mild steel. Just a matter of guessing what the bar would be made out of and matching that. Radiusing is good, haven't seen stress relief by belting It with a hammer for a long time but is a good method none the less.

Just finished the book too. Wasn't too bad for the usual ghost writing. Was his other book any good as Ausse Grit was a bit superficial.

A solid 27mm bar is 4.5kg/m. A 30/20mm bar is 3kg/m. They are thereabout the same stiffness (Hollow 5% more). So 3kg for the rear. Maybe another 2 for the front. Its all weight. Just cant find an obvious answer to the question and material testers can only do so much.

Its hollow. You find me some hollow spring steel in 30mm od and 20mm id. I don't think there is such a thing.

May be the answer here: http://mint-design.ca/2013/04/ Just wonder if the sway bar is spring steel or mild steel?

Well it depends. I have a Whiteline front which is about right and a Cusco rear (fixed) which is too stiff. Was contemplating some more neg camber for the back to grip it up but my gut feel is I have too much stiffness back there. Will pull the front bar up and see how it upsets front grip. It used to be all ok until I put some different oil in the rear diff and now it turns like the diff actually works - which means oversteer. On another topic what diameter springs do the MCA use?

Well for what it is worth I reckon the middle of the Bilstein range of springs (If that makes sense) is about the 5-6kg/mm mark front and rear. The Whiteline and equivalent spring rate is down around 3ish so the damper is a little over done in that setup. When I asked about the Bilstein damping rates from Bilstein they wanted to steer me in the direction of harder springs still. But without knowing the rest of the setup - mostly camber - it is hard to know whether they are on the money or not as harder springs compensate for less camber. Just wish I could get a decent anti roll bar - ie hollow and adjustable. They don't exist, however.

Just get one of the first three of these. They turn themselves off every night and restart automatically the next morning. http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/online-store/4wd-and-outdoors/solar-power-and-generators/solar-panels-and-kits.aspx?id=1021381

Well not sure whos engine supply they are taking over? Lotus? Force India? Williams? Plus it will obviously be at the cost of the Infiniti sponsorship. Cant imagine Aston Martin has that much money to throw away on sponsorship anyway. Do I believe it? Not more than the Ferrari engine stories.

Rate the Yokies massively better than the RE55's. Out of interest what changes to the spring rates were made? Damping looks a lot better second time around.

Cracking good race. Best one I can remember for years. Good to see Williams up there running one two - just all turned to custard when they lost grip levels, their aero appears not to enjoy slower speeds. So, who to Williams after Bottas goes to Ferrari to replace Kimi? Hulkenberg?????

The abs and the attessa are only linked in the sense that they are triggered from the same sensors. So whether or not you have abs doesnt change the sensors if I understand it correctly. The sensors feed the AWD system and the abs. The gauge properly goes ape because it thinks you have no wheel speed from one corner and does what it thinks it needs to do to fix it. Which is presumably max front torque? Anyway fingers crossed it is only a wet and or dislodged sensor.

I think the point he is making is that an undamaged R32 GTR with no rust and good paint is an unlikely candidate for sale as a shell or a roller for $10k.

Youre not really trying to read the waveforn, merely to see if the sensor is dead or not. You have four and need to figure out which one is the problem. Does the error code tell you which corner is stuffed?

Nah I meant a multimeter or similar. They are really cheap nowadays.

Whereabaouts in HK can you get a tune done? Ive only every seen places like this:

It would be miraculous if it did.

Do you have something that will read the output of the sensors other than the attessa computer?