Duncan

I watched a corvette with a serious case of dzus faster fail driving around mid ohio track without a front this morning

you know mad max?!?

If they are not meant to lower the car far, that could be normal. Old, soft springs on a heavy car may already have sagged somewhat over the years. In addition, new springs can take a couple of days or even a week to settle properly under the car's weight. Or, as Bob said it could be a difference in their mounting as well. I guess the question is whether you were after a look, or improved handling. If you just want it to look low and not handle cut a coil off the springs with an angle grider

my general thoughts are over here: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/401959-tarzans-g-sensor/page__pid__6387897#entry6387897 But more specifically, I don't see any benefit in any attessa controller in a stagea. the controllers only bring 4wd on faster, and the c34 system has miles of front bias already I think.

Hadn't heard of it before, and I find it very had to believe it will give you a better outcome than Paul Ruzic's controller - which has the advantages of more tuning options and a digital display. Unless of course your gsensor is dead, in which case as a replacement at about 1/10th the cost of nissan, it would make great sense. Ultimately, a g-sensor change, or any attessa controller, will only allow you to tweak the hardware you already have. And the basic controllers are still very effective at that. BTW I'd also take the comments in the article with a grain of salt. For example, an attessa controller, and attessa for that matter, does absolutely nothing braking in a straight line - and yet this controller apparently made the car "more planted under brakes"/

these things can be a bit of a pain, especially for things which are on and off regularly. They can get sloppy and misaligned. There are other types of clips, or even consider bonnet pins for ease of use

Agreed - big tyres tramline like crazy. the stickier they are, the worse they tend to be. The only thing worth checking is the bushes and balljoints in the front, any additional movement there will make it worse. But basically....everyone just lives with this behaviour. You might also find your grip in the wet is reduced from before.

Considering an asking price of $60k and a claimed cost of $300k (and I'd guess a bit more), that is something of a bargain. I've never been able to understand the amounts of money being spent on "superlap" cars, and about 80% of the projects that start never finish. There would be a shitload of money owed to workshops across the country because of that event.

exactly what works for me

Hi mate, sorry there is no offset marked on them, and I've never measured them up. They do sit well in the guard as shown in the pics (stagea/skyline/silvia all have similar fitment, especially on the rear). They also clear large brakes OK, I was running 32 gtr/33 gtst brakes under them for a while. Huge brakes 324mm+ won't clear though, you'd need 18s for that. BTW, thanks for the bump, I do need to get rid of these, so they are off to ebay with a higher reserve if no-one wants them before the end of the weekend

not just my hands. I am a very dirty boy. BTW Bob, I like what you are doing with both the ADM and JDM. Definately not the normal route, but it is good to see. You are odds on to have one of very few unmodified cars going around.

here's some incar from the last SAU day there, about 3 months before it closed. I was alos lucky enough to be at the last race meet there, an iRace meet in January - I won the race so I must be a perpetual chamption there some other good memories from there: Got license there by tricking John Boston into beleiving I could drive. mauahahah The race car's first ever outing. And my first ever spun bearing. My first race. 8 woos on the short/nort ciruit. It was mayhem Cracking a sump at the dog leg by cutting a little too much watching Kel race Scott back when super sprints had standing starts....she shoved it right up the inside...no worries about panel damage from her! the china radiator John sold me falling out of the mounts and cooking a brand new motor with less than 100klm on it watching Neil take the radical there at night. in the rain. on slicks. Classic. 2x 1 hour enduros, both times running out of fuel about 5 minutes from the end. Plenty of crashes, including a special in the mighty daewoos where I managed to hit 3 sides of the same car, but keep going (those things were indestructible) Scraping the milk sign a few times UAS track days, used to be sooo many cars there, including a cappucino doing donuts My first pole, and leading the first few laps. Almost holding the damn quick BSM car out. Fatz drift days, at driftland! featuring the R31 with the PVC rollcage Being buried to the chassis rails at turn 2. Watching Mark trying to finish a lap on 3 wheels after the woo's right rear wheel bearing exploded Being run off the track in turn 1 by Peter Hennessey 42 car grids with touring cars and the mighty woos in together. The start was a bitch at the back of the grid - steep slope, and you couldn't see the start lights! Dan just scraping the end of the pit wall during a beautiful 3rd gear (or was it 4th gear) entry at the drift nats Seeing some kid break their arm at my second track day. Driver forgot to take turn 2, passenger braced their arm on the dash. Running a combined grid with Production Cars and Sports Sedans. Warning the SS guys that I would come by at the start but not hold them up. They laughed. I overtook all 8 of them at the start. l.o.l. Taking the gtst, gtr, stagea, zed, march, and yes, the saab convertible around there. Trying to do tyre changes in this crazy sloping pit lane. Can't put the handbrake on because it will sieze the rears, can't turn a turbo car off hot. PITA Seeing the BSM car drive out of the pits without the bonnet pins done up. Ouch. Then John did the same at the next event to the Z. The first superlap, SAU had one fo the corporate suites. Inlcuded a memorable turbo landcruiser Pete making a valiant attempt to drive the R31house drift car at the first Oz drift nats. The skidpan. By the end it was a deathtrap because it was in such bad conditions. But lots of great motorkhanas held there over the years. The SAU/Peter Finlay course. It was beautiful to see 8 gtrs lined up on the first 4 rows of the grid. And great to shove the saab down the inside of 5 of them in turn 1.

Night racing there was so much fun - I was lucky enought to do it twice over the years, it was an amazing experience.....aiming for a point in the dark that you are pretty sure was where the apex is. Sitting so damn close to the car behind you that all you can see is your headlights reflected back, impossible to judge distances for braking etc. And it made for great pics of brakes

No, that sounds reasonably normal. Engines are almost always on vacuum (ie less than 0) because they suck air in. the more you open the throttle the more air they suck so the more vacuum you'll see. But with a turbo car of course, as it comes on boost it moves from vacuum (negative) to boooost (positive), but only when the engine is under load. Unfortunately that means that you need someone to watch the boost guage while you floor it for a while. Up a hill is best because boost builsd more quickly and the car accelerates more slowly.

glad to help out....those vents were a PITA as always, the rest went pretty smoothly

Most likely you've ended up with a reasonably bad boost leak....do you have a boost gauge, and if so what does it show. Go back around the whole job and check every hose is seated square, and every hose clamp is tight. The easy way to check a hose clamp is to push hard on the screw part - if it turns on the pipe it is too loose. But even if they are tight, the hoses have to be properly seated on the pipes, ie square on and good overlap

I got them through the NSW club - NTW has a great deal going for members They did help me out on price, I would expect retail on the softs to be around 300 in 235/4517 and hards 350-400. Roy what were you quoted for a full set, about 1600?

Pete, you're a f**king poet, and you didn't know it.

ok...+1 point to Gary's Bilsteins for having the allen key bit...makes that a lot easier. Is the knock exactly the same, or better, since tightening? The next most likely place for a knock is the top mount itself. As they wear, they allow movement between the shaft and the strut top/mount. Do you re-use the original strut tops, or put in an aftermarket/pillow ball top? You may need to replace them. Next most likely is a suspension arm bush, probably the top arm bushes. Get a long pry bar behind them and see how far they move when you push them, hard.

agreed...it's not impossible it is a wheel bearing, but they are a damn good design and wear very well, even under track use. eg I am still running the original factory ones in the race car. Usually, wheel bearings only make a noise when they are the loaded side, so you will hear it from the outside in corners. It is at least 10x more likely to be the suspension top nut. It is really hard to pick visually when it is loose because the spring almost always has some preload on it, making it look tight. DEpending on the shock you may be able to tighten it with hand tools - some have an allen key socket on the top, or a small flat on the shaft to put a spanner on to stop it turning. If so you are in luck

Firstly, you are right, the disc is floating. So the fact one moved a little and the other didnt is just random and not your issue. Also worth noting that pretty much any bush/balljoint etc problem won't really turn up just by a push by hand. What you really need is to get a big pry behind them and try hard to move them. Keep in mind each of those bushes regularly holds 500kg+ By far the most likely cause of the noise is your suspension strut. They all have a nut on the top which can cause a knocking if they loosen up. Get a rattle gun onto it and see if it is tight, it should be easily accessible on the front (rears are a different story). You can't tighten it with a socked because the whole shaft will turn

So, what's news Wayne?

So, Andrew, how does it drive?

I ran the FZ201 softs at Sutton Rd last weekend, they were outrageously good.

the world's funniest track incar is still Russ and the brakes....