Duncan

goddammit! need 8 weeks notice not 2 days!

almost certainly....although confirming the actual tyre you mean would help (I have always been very suspicous of the hoosier ones). as long as they have legal tread depth of course

yeah I run the federal 595SS, excellent tyres at excellent prices to NSW club members. Mine in 245/45/17 were less than 1000.

nothing wrong with a gtr track car as long as you are ready for the fact you need to spend double the purchase price to get it up to scratch and keep it running. but when it is running properly the smile it leaves on the face is absolutely unbeatable. prior to the gtr I ran a 33 gtst, it was a good, cheap, reliable option. just not fast and after a while you want to go quicker. like anything in racing an honest budget is the most important thing....so what can you afford to spend on the car in the first 2 years?

are the revs lower than normal when it is "shuddering"

hey? weren't wyong the council putting out EOI and surveys for a motorsport facility? in my experience cesnock council are not interested in any project that would undermine their title as unemployment captial of australia. we had to take them to the land and environment court to setup a corporate facility there a while back.

actually....not a bad spot really! everything in front of the radiator is bad.....cooling is marginal in these cars, then we put air con and huge intercoolers in front of it making it worse. the driver and passenger inner guard have good airflow in and out, and as long as it is ducted to the front bar there is nowhere for the air to go except through the cooler

I love the fact they even stole the name from nascar - car of the future = car of tomorrow. tony turns out such bad copies of good ideas that he should run a chinese manufacturing business i dont mind them at all...very close, aggressive racing.

actually a basic bottom end rebuild is a very simple thing. assuming you get a machine shop to check and hone the block, and check the crank, the rest is pretty easy. the trick is in cleaning it properly as said above, and not trusting the machine shop. At a minimum you need to use plastiguage to check nothing silly has happened with clearances. From there you the only specialist tools are a good torque wrench and maybe an angle gauge. stretch gauge as well for the rod bolts if you want to be very serious. I've built a heap of bottom ends and have no mechanical background....and it is easy enough. I've never made a mistake that caused a failure, just double or tripple check everything before you put it together. BTW i don't see how any bottom end is much easier or much harder to work with. heads maybe but not bottom end.

hmmm...unless it has a spacer to sort out the rod to stroke ratio...anything more than about 2.8l in a 2.6 litre block is getting silly. I'm sure it *can* be done.....but should it? that sucks....hope you don't have to do full emissions test as well omg they have an app for that???? That's wierd.....i guess the rb30 might run out of puff up high but it should still flow the same air/make the same power, just at lower revs? Not much point calling these a forklift block...rb30 was by miles the biggest selling rb motor...they are very well proven BTW is this going to become one of those threads I have to lock and hand out warnings?

um can you take another shot at explaining what you are trying to do :| no doubt there is a solution! are you just trying to fit an mdf sheet to metal parcel shelf - then cover with carpet?

good call...thanks

I'm going to assume we are still talking about cars :| but that sounds like a fair swap - you can take my tow car for a drive and I can make sure your gtr works ok. whats that in metric? don't you guys have that yet?? i love how much more easily the 3l make solid useable power. 3.4l will be the next big trend. there is indeed no substitute for cubes

wasted in a forklift....rb30s belong in tow cars

hmm....between 500-600 for re55 or dz03g in 245/45/17. thank god they bought in tyre limits this year, some of the other guys were using 6 new tyres a weekend

a050s are returning good results....but are only available in medium so not really an option except for short sprints.

fuel pump makes no difference to your tune unless it actually runs out of flow, the pressure is managed by the fuel pressure regulator not the pump.

definately nolathene for track use. nismo is just factory +20% or something. nolathene is much harder

lol mmmgtir. it's been a while eh? don't waste your time with a gtir troy......you know you want the real little banger.....MARCH SUPER TURBO!!!

the problem's not refueling, that has always been a "fake" way to spice up the racing. Just ditch this 2 hour procession crap and run 3x 20min sprints instead. Add reverse grid to the second race if you want some excitement.

haha bloody processions. at least *someone* would be working on your car you bludger

wow. just watching the replay on one. 11 laps in, no sign of action. off to mythbusters. these guys have pulled off an amazing feat in the off season in making F1 *less* interesting than v8 supertaxis! great to see new teams at last instead of the same old crap. but the racing is rubbish

looks excellent....good work. one suggestion though, factory dump pipes are rubbish. a great build like this deserves something better.

Alright, no need to cover off who is or is not a trader on the forums. The mod/admin team closely monitor for potential traders and we have regular discussions about actions in cases that are clear, and those that are not so clear. At any given time there are a heap of potential traders being actively monitored. As a user/member of this community (not my role as an admin) though, I personally feel that Martin spends a lot of time talking about his business and not much adding useful, actionable information....plenty of other regular posters on here own businesses and are very helpful with free information and advice to members on their specific issues, and URAS mentioned above is one of those (I can also think of Dan from Elite, John from UAS and a whole host of others). Yes they do run businesses but the difference to me is that they are not always posting about themselves, the products they sell and their own acheivements....they let their happy customers do that for them. The business owners and people who actively work in the industry every day are a huge asset to this community in terms of accurate, up to date information based on direct experience (not "my cousin's boyfriend's mate once did xyz"), and that is why there is some leeway allowed in defining who is "trading" and who is not.

just check out the PDF on the federal website for approved fitment, you will find there is a wide range for 8" rim. http://www.federaltyres.com.au/ss595rsr on the race car we run 8" rims and have used 225 up to 245 depending on the tyre. if it is rubbing you could always consider different offset wheels or just spacers to move it out a little.