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Sorry I wasnt paying attention & didnt realise we were talking viscous LSD's. If the thing is clunking that is pretty bad news & I would be rechecking clearances ASAP. The whole point of running viscous liquids is you dont get static friction "stiction" in the operation hence no clunking. If only there was an antonym for thixotropic the world would be a better place.

The noise is the friction plates in the diff moving relative to each other. They clunk becuase they are tight (probably overly so in this case). The plates "unstick", move a little then stop again - hence the clunk which finds its way up the drive train. It can be a pretty aggressive thing. A welded diff doesnt have anything to move so all you get is tyre noise.

For my 10 cents worth dont bother with a V8. Really the current Foulcan 6 runs to 195kW and doesnt struggle for torque either. The old windsors had less power & the 5.4 litre motor wasnt much chop. Plus they were only 4 speed autos. They arent yet down to $15k but go have a look at a FG XR6 instead of an older AU or BA XR8. There are heaps of them about and they are cheap. Insurance is cheap, they use less fuel & if you have an R33 who really cares how many horsepower the daily has. Failing the there are a bazillion BA/BF's about. AU's can now be had for loose change.

Yes - probably why the things have a propensity to warp.

Yeah, that is the cooler. power steer cooler.pdf

What? The R32 GTR already has a cooler for the power steering. It is behind the grill on the drivers side. If you want a bigger one then just bin the stock finned tube and hook the new cooler up to the original piping.

Or you can just get a replacement bush kit that allows for camber adjustment. The usual problem is you cannot reduce the rear camber sufficiently after the car is lowered. There is not alot of adjustment stock. Ofcourse if it is all about fitment then it is completely irrelevent. In the same manner that proper handling and tyre life is completey irrelevent.

I have some OMP shoes. Cheap as chips and a good, tight fit.

The answer for a standard car is no. The front is fixed.

How much did the DL1 cost you?

Ride height is dependent on the springs you use. The only way to do this is try it & see. I would use as a start point the lower of the two "Bilstein" grooves. At the end of the day you may have to re compress the spring & move the ciclip. But it is an easy job. If you want to add grooves before installing the springs then do so. From memory mine had three above and below the ones you get from Bilstein at the same intervals. But be aware the shocks have gas pressure in them!

What a dead shock feels like is fundamentally different to what an inapprpriate spring rate feels like. The stock spring will feel a little soft on a Bilstein shock but in reality a fixed shock will work well with a big range of spring rates. It would be a good idea to get a driving opinion from someone else.

What? Since when do you need helper springs to get the shock into full droop? They have gas pressure in them for a reason. If the shocks lack travel that is another issue entirely.

Sorry but this thread is long gone. Just to tidy up for others who may for their own perverted reasons be amused by the troll action on here. You say the GTST suspension is superior. How? How does the roll camber compensation play such an important part after you have normalised it for track width and roll couple? Just interested is all. Would like to hear your thoughts on the matter. The GTST never ran in Gooup A. The various front engined rear wheel drives that Nissan campaigned lost out every time at Bathurst to the Commodores. Group A cars & regulations changed massively from 85 (earlier overseas) to 92. At the end they werent Group A rules anyway they were modified locally to even the field. Technically the GTR never ran under pure Group A rules in Australia. Your only correct point is to say the GTST is lighter than a Commodore. Which it bloody well ought to be given how much smaller it is. Anyway just because you cant afford a GTR dont bother talking up a GTST as a contender. Random movie quote: I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody.

But, but he makes such compelling arguments.

They "added" four wheel drive because the Group A regulations dictated a tyre width that badly compromised traction even on a 2 litre turbo motor - witness the Sierras & their struggles with rear tyres. When I say added I mean it was integral to the R32 GTR concept from the start. Which is to say it wasnt added at all. The motor was orginally to be a 2.4 litre but calcucations showed that the car would weigh enough to let it fall into the next engine capacity group upwards. So it went to 2.6 litres. Why are you even trying to compare a VT to a R32 GTST. What about them is in anyway similar? Lets see: Motor V8 versus turbo 6 Suspension. McPherson struts & semi trailing arm IRS versus wishbones. Two doors versus four. One is a family car the other is a pretend sports car. If you want a quick front engined, rear wheel drive track car just go and buy an RX7. Everyone else does. As for the Group A GTR no one is going to put such a historic and valuable car at risk by attempting to set a lap time just to impress an internet troll somewhere.

Why the phark does anyone expect an F1 driver to be humble? I mean really. How is that in any way compatible with having the kind of self belief to know that of the billions of people on the planet they are, in fact, the fastest of all of them. Humble be fkd. It doesnt work that way. Oh and for all you whinging about Hamo whinging you should have been around when Nigel Mansell was driving. If they gave out trophies for bitching he would have a shed full.

Nah I have done the re shimming thing & done the controller that fiddles with the lateral gee input for more front bias. But going from 4Hz to 100Hz must make the system more reactive & more repeatable. I mean, at only 100kmh you are moving about 7 metres every quarter of a second. So it is not like the R32 system is on the ball. How do we get hold of the 33 pinouts? Anyone got a manual?

Gees dude, he was just starting to win. What is it about now. GTST's vs V8 Supercars? Or why there arent many 20+ year old lap records? Or about how much cars cost. Or is a better driver faster than a useless one. Or something? Winning.

If that is your lifting gear then it is coming out through the top.

There is a schematic of the R32 unit in the manual that everyone has a copy of. Never seen one off an R33. At the end of the day you have the usual range of sensor inputs - wheel speed, accelerometers, brake input, TPS and that is it. attessa schematic.pdf

What I would like to know is can I plug an R33 ATTESSA computer into my R32 & expect it to work?

Williams. You are kidding arent you? They are having their worst season in living memory. Their million dollar super low awesome aero gearbox is a dog, other than the pay driver there is stuff all in the way of sponsorship & they just sacked Sam Micheal. Other than slowly sinking into obscurity/receivership I can see anything much happening to Williams. And it pains me to say that. Because after Brabham disappeared, then Lotus disappeared, then March disappeared, then Scuderia Italia disappeared, the Tyrrell disappeared, then Jordan disappeared I decided to support them.

Pirelli can build a good race tyre. Unfortunately they were told by the FIA to build a shit race tyre, which is what they have done. So that, combined with the DRS & KERS gives people something to bang on about. Which atleast serves to hide the fact that the integrity, soul and general whole purpose of F1 has been destroyed in the name of getting people with generally NFI to watch a race. They can basically take their crap tyres, their fake overtaking, their hopelessly compromised energy recovery systems & all the other junk & shove it.* *Subject to someone other than Ferrari, McLaren or Redbull winning. Which may happen before 2020, but probably not.

Given the stated kms I wouldnt be spending too much money on the motor. Just be aware the oil pump drive in the car is not as strong as a later model. So I wouldnt go doing a heap of 8000rpm clutch dump starts or bashing the rev limiter continuously. Have a good look at the harmonic balancer - make sure it is one piece. A failure there will result in an oil pump failure. It will be 20 years old so the rubber in them will have seen better days. In anycase treat it like it is - a 20 year old motor.