Duncan

218rwkw eh? well that clears up a real mystery to me....always wondered why my car could keep up with the 6l commodores in production cars....now I know...

yes you! how damn soft have you got since moving to mexico....you haven't crashed a car or set one on fire for ages!

yeah i could see you having brake trouble at turn 9.....looked like you had some interesting "moments"

I thought stroked *is* "targa spec" for evos!

pretty sure that point won't be an issue - they say the car has to be registered, not registerable Certainly slicks are not allowed on the road but are fine to swap onto at the track. Given that Duncan got written permission beforehand the most likely way it will go if a protest is upheld is that it can't be used at future rounds which is much better than losing all the points from this rounds. On the wing itself, I got to have a good watch and the range it moves through is pretty impressive and I guess turn 1 at Eastern Creek is a good example of where it would help - long fast straight where it sits very flat into braking into a high speed corner. Not sure how much it would help at many other turns there except 8, a lot of them are under 100klm which is where I understood wings start to really come on. And like Martin, I would have thought that some extra downforce at the front would have been a big help for these cars - does it feel unstable at the rear at speed (not under power of course) or does it tend to wash/understeer off the track?

sounds like the right spot - around the driver's side strut tower and it will have 1 fuel line in from the rear of the car, and another line out to the fuel rail. I'm no nissan parts guru but I got the following part number for r34 gtt 16400-41B05. If you want to send me your actual VIN# I can double check.

haha yeah....i sat through a 1hr argument about 1cc in head chamber size in 6l commodores the other night....I'm sure they would love to discuss a t51!

lol thinking same....is this the first 1000hp circuit car???

There are so many people on here running that this deserves it's own thread. Round 2 was run today, and the SAU class was won by Duncan(LSX-438). Full results are here: http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results....03/2010.ARDC.S1 Other entrants in SAU class from the very large 113 car field: 2 1 Duncan Forrest ARDC Nissan GTR 3800 4D 9 2 1:41.0871 0:10.6473 6 112 Stuart Inwood LDCC Nissan GTR R33 4366 SVD 18 11 1:43.0491 0:12.6093 12 41 Neil De Pau ARDC Radical 1298 5D 17 17 1:46.7807 0:16.3409 27 551 Mark Smith ARDC Nissan Silvia 1998T 4D 19 3 1:49.5123 0:19.0725 31 55 Brian Bugh NSWRRC Mazda R100 2616 4C 18 16 1:51.1492 0:20.7094 also special mention to these guys who *should* be on here: 46 310 Nicholas Larcos ARDC Nissan Skyline 2800 3C 19 7 1:53.9150 0:23.4752 67 114 Brock Heydon MINI CAR CLUB Nissan Skyline 1998T 2D 11 6 2:00.1461 0:29.7063 Brock probably thinks I am a wierd stalker for giving him the thumbs up at top ryde when I passed him on the way home. speaking to Duncan he was very happy with how the car was running. Stu had missfire troubles and was not having much luck going faster (sounds to me like time for new tyres). Neil had a prick of a day with motor problems but at least all of the gears were in there this time unlike Oran Park. Looked like Brian was coming to terms with the new car and going OK Sorry if I forgot anyone on here!

interesting, the rally guys that have tried aftermarket stuff have all ended up going back to standard suspension for predicability - you have to give the Nissan engineers credit for staying so far ahead. when you say standard alignment...what is that specifically (camber/toe/castor) or have you never had it aligned?

interesting question....sounds like a bloke that came to our last track day (idontownaskyline).....pm sent

haha I think duncan has come quite a way....including outright win in the NSW Supersprint champs 2009. Second outright in today's round too (behind a v8 radical lol) with a 1.41.08 which is super fast in a car with only light mods.

actually....I've tried all the top line brake fluids and got best results from the motul rbf600. the best thing about it is that it is about $30 a bottle from motor bike shops. I have used ap 600, caltex (dark horse!), motul rbf600, brembo whateveritwas, agip. motul 600 performed best.

if your tyres are not brand new the required complancing has not taken place (for that matter the car also has to be dead stock). I think if you suggest to the dealer that you know what you are talking about they will back down pretty quick - the new rules are very strict and they can loose their import rights if there is any suggestion that have done the wrong thing. ie, you have "hand". use it

good work, and keep up the updates. I remember some earlier pics of the machines in your "other" shed and you are damn lucky to have so much custom fab stuff available....I bet they are invaluable for this job. BTW very off topic...but are you racing the rb30 again this season?

hmm I actually had to pull my plenum off the other day in the engine bay too....medalist tools make some wonderful ring/ring spanners in a C or S shape, they were perfect for undoing the bolts underneath the plenum from above....wonderful things.

run a thin line of silicone gasket maker (blue/grey or black stuff, same as you would use for the sump) under the half moons before you install them. the rest of the cam cover gaskets do not require sealant. they do require rubber bushes on each screw/bolt in good condition (replace them! or just use 3mm slices of fuel hose like we did in the race car). most important...do not over-tighten the cam cover bolts...they are meant to be 15-20nm only!!!

wtf are you doing in aussie without going to race tracks?

lol so is the computer you typed this on. do you have a particular concern with specific bits of their stock or do you just beleive nothing from china can work???

oil analysis? there was a thread in the last week where someone (elite I think) posted phone numbers for capital cities. if you don't want to pull the motor analysis is 100% the way to go....couple of days and you will know. too drunk to find it myself its a bacheloring weekend for me

green stuff work as well from cold as they do warm. I've bought 2 sets now....never again. the qfm stuff that gslrallysport can supply are excellent for the price.

oh yes...absolutely right....sevs requires brand new adr approved tyres too. you have the dealer over a barrel so just hit them hard on this one.

interesting choice on the rear LCAs, i would have thought (and did) that changing to full custom was better. Nothing special about the stock arms and pretty easy to replace with chromoly tube. Did you keep the standard rear LCA ball joints, we found it difficult to match an aftermarket cone for the ball joint socket (no machine shop readily available to me)

lol i'm sure it is within budget for them....but still....what an choice! I'd be straight back to the haltec if I were them, very much race proven in many cars. Or at least spend a little longer on a safe tune please tell me he is going to return it to legal spec before targa....I'd hate to see it excluded. unfortunately I'm not going to make lake mountain (was intending to) but I'd rather do FOSC at bathurst and I can't get organised for both....lake mountain next year.

better pics of the xfer case on the m35 auto? It looks like a very good match to the R32/33/34 4wd setup. does someone have a 32/33/34 intermediate shaft they can stick into an m35 xfer case? I tend to think the 32/33/34 box is the way to go, the interfaces are flywheel/clutch/input shaft (do-able), tailshaft (do-able) and intermediate shaft (do-able). I'd be surprised if the d22 navara stuff fits, they would have a very different front diff setup