OLLIE_NZ

^ Yea mate, car was sold in March thankfully. New owner crashed it a few weeks back.

^ Me too, I'm just glad we sold it prior to this happening

If you watch this YouTube video of another car racing that day, you can see the corner leading up to the sign that the GTR hit at 1:20

Oops! Was just sent these links by a friend...... Pretty sad to see it like this after all the hard work that was put in. Car was sold in March to make way for a 996 GT3 cup car (which turned into a pregnant wife instead) Check out the small gif 'video' in the link below too http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i66/geoffwnz/Skyline.gif Wellington, New Zealand. Seaview Sealed Sprints event.

Front uprights

Hi Brad, have you done anything in the way of custom goose necks on an R32 GTR?

Hi guys, Thanks for the insights To answer a few more questions. - blackrex, we've not had the tyres off the rims yet so aren't sure but should go ahead with removing them as they're only good for the bin now. - Munroman, have you managed to fit a 680 rolling diameter rim under an R32 GTR? We'd love to go down this path as the Porsche Cup slicks are a dime a dozen over here. We did look into this before we went for 17"s but were told a 270 68 R18 wouldn't fit. - Fastig, we can't afford new slicks (these were bought from Michelin New Zealand second hand) they had done a 12 lap test with them when we bought them. But will definitely get pyrometer

Thanks for the replies so far chaps, To answer a few questions in no particular order - No pyro reading as we don't yet own a pyrometer - The temperature on the day was no more than 20 degrees, it was an overcast day so not too hot. Not sure on the temperature of the track surface itself We started the day with 28psi cold all round and worked from there We were aiming for 32psi all round hot and were pretty close to that after letting one or two psi out after our first session. We took pressure readings immediately after pitting the car and took note of them. (off the top of my head the highest reading I would have seen was 34psi hot and the lowest 32psi hot) There is very slight rubbing on the front plastic wheel arch liner but the is only on near full lock and only affects the outside wall of the tyre.(there's no way we would see anywhere near full lock at this track) If there was rubbing elsewhere surely that would show up on the tyre itself wouldn't it? There is very little evidence that I can see looking at the pictures that I can see. Picture of the car (sitting far too high as we had just put new springs in the front) Camber 4 degrees, caster almost 7 degrees, Front toe 0mm

Rubbing wasn't the issue if you look at the last two pictures you can see the writing on the side wall perfectly untouched and also the ribbed lines the run across the sidewall.

Hi guys, We took our R32 GTR out to the circuit last weekend and everything was great until we got the car home and up onto the axle stands to inspect everything. When we took the front tyres off we noticed the inside wall of the tyres was starting to come apart (see pictures) We don't feel we ran them too low pressure wise (we started off with 28 psi cold) and then worked towards a 32psi hot on all four tyres. There's no visible damage to the outside wall of the tyres The main tyre that is really bad is the left hand front tyre (inside wall), the two main almost hairpin corners at the track are right hand corners and the track is predominantly right hand corners and quite high speed. Any thought as to what has caused this? The New Zealand Michelin Motorsport tyre distributor has told us we ran the pressure too low which we dispute. Tyre size is 240/640R17 Prior to this session at the track the slicks had done twelve laps.

Very small update chaps. Today I replaced the springs with some linear Eibach springs as the car had some progressive ones in it. I ended up going for some 800 Ib front and 500 Ib rears after much head scratching. I got some helper springs to keep the rear springs captive as when the car is up off the ground there was about 50mm of slop with the spring. Also purchased and installed a Cusco rear sway bar. On the way from Japan is an Ikeya tie rod end set. Made a cardboard mockup of the centre console, maily to hide the dash bars. Will probably make the final thing up tomorrow from aluminium. Rear sway bar Rear springs in Fronts done

I have exactly the same issue Matty. It seems as though the sign in box is blocked by the add banner. I've tried using explorer, Firefox, chrome and opera. I can only login on my iPhone.

Just to add chaps, nothing that already hasn't been mentioned. The problem I have is that I can't Sign In to make a post or thread at all. I've tried Firefox, Explorer, Chrome and Opera. When I click on the Sign In tab all that comes up is the add box and nothing else. The only thing is can post on is my mobile phone (iPhone)

Hi guys, thanks for the replies, I've just woken up so will write a better reply soon to answer some questions. I never mentioned what our spring rates were or the fact that they are progressive which isn't what we want I'm guessing? Roy, I'll pop out this morning and grab a rear Cusco sway bar. For the fact that the springs are progressive and that we don't mind coughing up for some replacement Eibach springs should we just do it, if so does anyone want to throw out some numbers? This is what's written on our springs which for the life of us we couldn't work out what they meant. Rear 'Merwede Progressive 250 49 98' Front '25 250 59 118' We then emailed Merwede to hopefully get some answers, this is the response email (I've tried to add the conversions in red)

Thanks for the reply Duncan. I'm not sure why there's been no response so far. I am hoping to go and buy the springs tomorrow and at this stage I'll be going for 900 fronts and 500 rears (unless someone here scares me off)