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Toyboy Troy

i've got the oil pump appart on my bench now, i'll put some pics up tonight. I got mine from my tuner, but i know spool sell them too.

e85 all the way. Yep I got some of that good VHT alloy in a can, it's now super light. Why people paint their blocks black is beond me, it's 1000x easier to work on a light engine, cause you can see what your doing.

more than likely a high km taxi engine, taking people to and from strip clubs

Most people with facebook would have seen this already Astons probably don't make the best gravel cars.

They banned the x wings in the 90's for that very reason.

I hope some other teams other than the kelly brothers run Nissan next year (i'm sure there will be). I couln't bring myself to support them

Wrong heat range plugs, tip fell off and went through the engine. But after I pulled it down, it was apparent it was a time bomb. The machinest didn't seat the valves properly, and some were leaking, and the Bearings were very warn. Looks like it was a very high km engine

I just used my DET pistons from my original engine.

standard RB20. It's just a stock RB20 with a nose on the crank, and ACL bearings

started putting the engine back together today. Factory Nissan rings are great, none of them needed regapping.

You have to take into account that most places have a much longer lap than 59 secs Timmah. So it would take a little longer to get bored

been a while, but the engine is back from the machine shop!!

how do the re11s compare to a dunlop or yokie?

how much grunt does that monaro have!?

Green rubber is worth about 0.5 secs a km compared to slighlty used rubber. So to go from shagged rubber to greens would be worth 1-1.5 secs a km. A lot of the crews for the top teams fly between stages at warp 11. YT's big silverado thing must be the fastest in the world.

Do you want to go from 600 engines to 14000 engines Ben? Paul I asked Helen coad about the DVD a month ago, and she was going to chase southern cross up. Never heard back!!!!

That's brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!

Another thought, how many teams will have their spare tyres carried in tyre warmers? The rules say it's not allowed, but I can't see it being possable to police.

I think they should data dot all tyres, and have them checked at the start of every stage. Just like they check your helmets and lights... Etc If you are only looking after 1 car, you can see your car at the start and finish of 70% of the stages. No need for choppers.

I agree woo. It's going to be hard/impossable to police people checking in say 8 x m's, but have crews with s's on board to swap straight after stages. With 8 tyres it's now a 600km sprint for the cat7+ cars. The cost is the main killer though, I know a lot of people only own 6 rims on the same size, so it's not only extra in tyres, it's more money on rims. It's easy to say "just run 4 or 6 tyres", but if you want to attempt to be compeditive you will need 8 tyres. I know it was bad enough last year with accusations flying about people running 7-8 tyres when it wasn't normal to see cars up in the air.

I won't be surprised to see people use up all 8 tyres gambeling on softer compounds, and/or being able to go flatout without thinking about tyre wear.

Just looking through the supp regs, looks like corner cutting is out again.

I had thought about air jacks, but I don't think they would work for a rally car very well. Much easier to yell at your crew to jack faster I've been told the gtir's can be pretty hard to drive cause their wheelbase is so short, and they love smashing gearboxes.