GTSBoy

I think Johnny's next reply would be something about a 3.2 upgrade and Samsonas.

Sadly, there's more than one misapprehension regarding my circumstances in your post. First up, I don't drink, so there's nothing to take the edge off. Second, my car is 2600km away, at home. If it wasn't for the Ctek charger the battery would be f**ked because I haven't driven it since early August. Bunno is pretty, in the summer time. Which, sadly, is coming to a rapid end. It's hot today, but the mornings are getting darker and colder and ti won't be long before it is raining every day again. Yes. Between the shitful nature of the place and the border closure, I have been receiving it dry and without protection for many months now. Yeah, I only see that ratty black R33 regularly, and one or two others from time to time around here. At least there is plenty of old chrome bumper stuff paid for by exorbitant tradie/FIFO earnings dribbling around on the weekends.

Yes. Agreed. Apart from one good data point I have (my Neo, tests on a trustworthy comp tester at ~170 psi on all 6) which shows that a healthy Neo can generate substantial cold comp pressure, there's nothing wrong with 140-150 psi. As Duncan said, it could be a little worn, could be technique, could be a slightly low reading gauge, etc etc. 9% variation does suggest that some of it is wear, because clearly some have worn more than others.

And Wongy's a good bloke. If it goes pop, he should replace it.

R32s are limited as to how much caster you can wind in by the upper arm bush binding problem. But adjustment is not the issue here. The issue is preventing any movement along the axis of the rod. Even poly bushes allow several mm of movement with longitudinal loads. Pushes the wheel fore and aft and affects every part of the wheel alignment in a bad way.

I'm thousands of km away from home, so can't look at the spare in the shed (to see what power rating and what tooth count).....but pretty much all RB starter motors bolt up and work.

There's more than a few here in Oz with VQ30DET. Many in WA, as there was a shop over here that specialised in the swap. The Skid Factory (Youtube) have a series on an R32 with one in it. Using the stock ECU might be a recipe for tears. Be prepared for it to fight you. You might be far better off jumping straight to an aftermarket ECU.

I didn't notice a single scrap of extra NHV going from poly bushes to sphericals in the caster arms. I did notice the lack of the lower end of the uprights flailing around though. The increase in trust in front end behaviour was a quantum jump.

The front caster rods are definitely the very first arm that deserves and demonstrates the value of solid spherical joints, without any downsides at all. Do it.

The whole country can be driven end to end in a day. Surely there is one (1) dealer in the UK with a good reputation for helping.

Well, maybe, but I'm inclined to say no. You should do that mod to any R32. RWD or AWD.

Yes good. Now imagine how good it would have been with some proper cams.

It's in the R32 GTR manual which is freely downloadable.

But this is reasonably easily fixed by lowering the front mounts on the LCA.

I didn't call it bunghole. That was djr81, who actually lives here. I'm just stuck here by a combination of a shitty project and the border being slammed shut for the majority of the last 6 months. I call the place Bunnabama. Also sometimes Buntuckey. You're right about the water sports. I entered my first ever long distance open water swimming race on the weekend. I've never been so fit as I have this summer.

It's not unreasonable to expect that once fully divided, any little difference in the performance of the two turbos would compound on themselves. For example, the dump pipe layout is not the same on both, so the turbine vs. wastegate flow could differ, meaning that the same ex manifold pressure would provide a different amount of turbine drive. Then, the rear turbo has to pull its inlet air through a longer pipe, which adds restriction and also more heating, so it won't be pulling the same density air as the front.** The turbos then flow to separate intercoolers, which are unlikely to be exposed to the same ambient air flow conditions (likely one up high and one down low, with the bumper reinforcement, difference between intercooler grille opening and upper grille opening, etc etc) leading to them running at different temperatures and heat soak behaviour. Air then flows to 2 different plenae, with potential for more of the same geometry related issues attached to the turbo locations. Shuffle all that shit together and it might average out, or the problems could add together in the same direction and make one half of the engine work quite differently to the other. If running to the same boost target (2 separate boost controllers!) then maybe one will have 10° hotter charge temp than the other because the compressor is working in a different part of the map, or the intercooler's not doing as well. And then that reports to the exhaust flow which closes the loop and possibly adds further reinforcement to the problems. Two turbos....OK. Two intercoolers....OK. Two plenae? Probably not OK. V engines with twins and separate intercoolers have usually retained a single plenum for a reason, I suspect. Plomp all the air with different characteristics into the one place (the whole engine) to eradicate the possibility of the 2 halves of the engine migrating away from each other in terms of their performance. ** I mean, shit, the fact that turbo shuffle is already a problem indicates how differently the 2 turbos already work in the stock arrangement.

Why is that a problem?

Z32 calipers (without any sort of dogbone spacer to push them out to suit a larger disc) suit a 280mm disc. With a spacer, these can be pushed out to suit 324mm discs. Same with R32. R33 calipers suit a 298mm disc. These are seldom spaced out because it is hard to do it decently. R34 calipers suit a 310mm disc. I have never seen these spaced out. The differences in these radial dimensions are all in the legs of the caliper. The body of the calipers are almost (if not actually) identical.

Could be collapsed radius rod bush. Could be something bent, from an arm, to subframe bolts. There is no adjustment for caster on stock radius rods. Take it to a chassis specialist for examination.

I've been here so long that I now have to choose between a facial piercing or a neck tat if I want to keep getting let into the Rose Hotel.

Le sigh. I shall do all the f**king work then, shall I? from https://www.bmwblog.com/2020/09/02/how-bmw-twin-power-works/ BMW TwinPower Turbo is relying on a single turbocharger with two scrolls BMW TwinTurbo Power (yes, this one exists too) relies on two turbochargers Granted, you have to read past more than half the web page's bullshit dumbo BMW customer spoon feeding bullcrap to get to the one useful bit of technical information. But when you, buy, it's a f**king doozy.

It's worse than that. I've been stuck in Bunbury for the last 8 months anyway. As to the hubcaps - I'm wasn't sufficiently familiar with the movie to know what cars are in it. Apart from the car chase, the rest of the movie is shit. I'm not about to do any research to look for a car in it that doesn't even have those hubcaps on!! I've got infinite hours of youtube videos to watch first. But.....are you sure that they are Charger hubcaps? The do not look anything like Chrysler/Dodge hubcaps of the late 60s (which were universally pretty f**ken ugly!). They do look a lot more like GM product of the late 60s.

Nah, they actually use both words, in both orders, to mean two different things. One order means twin turbo, the other means twin scroll single. They is classically f**ked over by marketeers. Engineers would tell them to go f**k themselves if they had the balls and the corporate power hadn't been usurped by the business school grads.

I'd concur with that guy ^. You wouldn't ask less than 80. You should probably consider that mods don't really increase the value much when up at that sort of price level. It's completely different than when the base unmodified car might have been $30k, and the mods would let you ask over 50. I don't think they will let you ask over 100, just because.....the whole "standard is desirable" aesthetic that is now in play and so on.

I just say "double your first estimate and then add the original number".....keeps people busy thinking for a moment while I walk away.