Duncan

if you do buy the whole car you can always get a couple of hundred at simsmetal for it

I'm amazed there is one in the country. Pretty sure no importers have compliance for them so SEVS is out, they are post 1988 so you can't use that rule. So any car came in under either personal import or race use only. btw $36k is a spectacular price. I paid $5k for my march super turbo which is even more rare. sorry just read the ad properly. it is a personal import

whatever that was it was tiny. mine ate a washer once and it made waaay more damage

sounds very bad to me.....fuel is a rubbish lubriant, almost as bad as coolant but assuming you changed it, most of it was removed (no oil cooler?), and the problem was fixed that may not be it.....you don't have the oil that just came out of it?

haha I don't think I'll take running in tips from a sport where a 60 second engine life is considered good personally I start it, warm up the water, then take it for a hard drive a low but not no boost. revs up to about 5000 and as much load as possible without labouring it. 50klm then drop the oil. new mineral oil in then either 2-300klm of road driving (as above, medium revs, low boost, as much load as possible) or on a dyno 100klm. dyno is much more repeatable than having to deal with traffic/speed limits/road conditions. then tune it. drop the oil and race it. I've never had a problem with ring sealing (plenty of other problems lol)

ask for the price on a vipec I'm sure you'll get a response

just do a compression test!

2nd one is the alternator earth, you connect with a pissy little bolt into the threaded hole on the body of the alternator above the positive stud. don't get them the wrong way around it makes sparks when the engine starts

yeah for sure....and no doubt the most serious guys will have new tyres each round....if not the series is not competitive enough It was run and won on the weekend, plenty of skylines in the mix according to the results: http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results..../2010.SAN.S20.Y Sam Markov won in in his BMW, 1.16.6 JFK 2nd 1.16.8 Tony Avramides 4th 1.19.7 Michael Rice 6th 1.21.9 Jeff Beable (targa) 7th 1.22.8 Neil de Pau (Neil) 8th 1.23.5 David Tinworth 12th 1.24.8 Kevin Galvin 14th 1.25.1 Robert Marshall 15th 1.25.19 John Richardson 19th 1.26.8 Mark Hawkins (haw001) 20th 1.27.2 sorry not sure if the other guys are on the forum....but a great turn up from nissans/datsuns which were by far the most common make there. well done neil in a good run considering its the first time he's seen the track outside the xbox. And of course congrats to JFK and Sam who were absolute miles ahead and very competitive with each other. Also good to see Mark's car last the day as a test for targa in 4 weeks

have you still got the oil? get it checked for fuel that will tell you very quickly if that was the problem. i think its more likely there was another problem that showed itself with the sustained high revs - maybe a slight bend in the crank from the start? was it tunnel bored or checked for straightness on first assembly? or more likely just pinging up high smashing the rod bearing (it is #6 after all)

they are a great little car, amazing traction at the rear

lol. spray painting *looks* so easy at first doesn't it. I think I have a patience problem...

ahh......excellent idea! upsidedown 'shrooms!

car's still there....however Andrew has been abducted by aliens. I don't think he'd ever find out if I ran it at superlap for him

jeebus. 1.02.9

Yeah in qualifying (closest parallel to superlap) they run in the 29s. And this car has every right to be faster with the extra mods allowed. Most importantly of all they should have access to years of data about the track, compared to most other competitors who have only had a few practice days there, or none at all. Would be great to see local engineering stick it up the whole world My guess is that soft semis in the same width will not be any slower than dunlops control slick. Dunlop have no reason to make anything but a super safe, durable tyre when it is a control tyre.

Unfortuantely while the "old" tracks are much more interesting to watch as a challenge, and I'm sure more fune to drive....but they don't promote overtaking. Imagine how monaco will be without pitstops? And even today monza will be won by the car with the most power. This season is still on track to be one of the most boring on record (and no you can't count teams getting qualifying wrong so fast cars start at the back as being part of the plan!) BTW big improvement from webber this week, only losing 1 place from his qualifying position. Still getting soundly beaten by the only guy he is really racing though (his teammate)

I've got a set of the kumho slicks on mine atm, they re pretty good. Got them from John at fsport

unless there are specific instructions with the pad I do exactly what maxzugkraft said. You need to warm the pad enough to burn the delivery coating off (whatever form it takes), then let the pads cool slowly. generally 4-6 stops from 100 to 20 will do the trick, you have to go until you smell the layer burning off. then drive slowly and avoid braking for 5 min while everything cools slowly and evenly. somewhere quite and open of course for safety. while I have heard of the drive carefully for 500klm idea it sounds less than satisfactory to me, and possibly dangerous if an emergency stop is needed in the meantime.

yeah I think so too, will come with properly engineered setup, sufficient power, and wider tyres than taxis are allowed to run.

32 LCAs. bump steer adjusters - depends which ones and where. To me it's about protecting the carefully researched/developed factory geometery with a little more of what I want like lower and more camber. Thats why I run the wider LCA point instead of shorter upper arms, to keep it more like factory setup. longer lower ball joints help give lower ride height but it is very difficult to do the same with the UCAs. spacing the tie rod end down is probably more important in most cases but you would need to measure the bump steer fully to be sure you are in the right place for a given setup.

lol all true! its on good rubber (kumho v70A), has bilstein springs, eibach shocks and a power FC. And yes its an N1. And yes that is the quickest I've been around there in prod car specs. On the other hand it is over standard weight and running standard 12psi boost. No doubt the r35 is at least 3 seconds quicker than the r32, which itself is no slouch.

definately better than pineapples but a hell of a lot of work to chuck in by comparison. why leave the mushroom top so tall? free lowering....

yeah sorry was that a different one? and it stops, handles and steers fine. quicker than my gtr around phillip island

Kerry's car is damn quick