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HOW IT ALL WENT DOWN - VIEW ON THE BLOG As you all know, the team headed out to Sydney Motorsport park to do some drifting. It was rad, plenty of track time and everyone was super chilled out (even the ARDC). But that didn’t mean the Stagea didn’t give me any grief, I guess that would be an impossible thing right? This practice day was two separate sessions, morning and afternoon. Benny Paulie and I headed out to get a full days worth. Seeing that the Stagea has no rego I needed to tow it with my mums trusty Rodeo. I’ve never towed anything before so it was good to learn within a short destination. Easier than I had imagined too. Anyways most of the morning session was rather good I got in a few solid runs and started gaining confidence and consistency in the car (something I have been missing for a while) but then the Stagea decided it was time to play games. Midway through the morning session I could notice that something wasn’t right. I thought maybe I forgot to tighten something in the rear end, so I had a look and all was well. It wasn’t until I went back out and attempted to mash the throttle to get enough speed I noticed my clutch had, had the dick. As soon as boost had come on it would free rev and it even got to the point where I completely lost pedal feel. I was a little bummed as I really wanted to focus on nailing that first corner, but instead I worked on getting to know my hand brake as I don’t use it often. I ended up turning the boost down to around 15psi and the clutch didn’t give a shit. So yeah I guess it’s time for a new one. The transition from morning to afternoon session, the Stagea decided to start popping intercooler pipes. There is a reducer in the setup that is too short for my liking but had never caused grief, now every second run the pipe would come off … it was super frustrating. Finally, my front tyres went flat and popped off the bead somewhere towards the late afternoon. That and the cooler pipe was coming off every run so I called it quits. All in all I still had a rad day, the Stagea is near its full potential and I’m finally getting comfortable with it. The new diff setup works a treat too, the 4.3 gearing is a perfect match for my heavy Stagea. Next event is Raceline’s Wakefield matsuri which is just under a month away. I’ll need to change the clutch and get some new front tyres before then, I’d love to get my R33 front end and an alignment too but we’ll see what happens.

HOW IT ALL WENT DOWN - VIEW ON THE BLOG As you all know, the team headed out to Sydney Motorsport park to do some drifting. It was rad, plenty of track time and everyone was super chilled out (even the ARDC). But that didn’t mean the Stagea didn’t give me any grief, I guess that would be an impossible thing right? This practice day was two separate sessions, morning and afternoon. Benny Paulie and I headed out to get a full days worth. Seeing that the Stagea has no rego I needed to tow it with my mums trusty Rodeo. I’ve never towed anything before so it was good to learn within a short destination. Easier than I had imagined too. Anyways most of the morning session was rather good I got in a few solid runs and started gaining confidence and consistency in the car (something I have been missing for a while) but then the Stagea decided it was time to play games. Midway through the morning session I could notice that something wasn’t right. I thought maybe I forgot to tighten something in the rear end, so I had a look and all was well. It wasn’t until I went back out and attempted to mash the throttle to get enough speed I noticed my clutch had, had the dick. As soon as boost had come on it would free rev and it even got to the point where I completely lost pedal feel. I was a little bummed as I really wanted to focus on nailing that first corner, but instead I worked on getting to know my hand brake as I don’t use it often. I ended up turning the boost down to around 15psi and the clutch didn’t give a shit. So yeah I guess it’s time for a new one. The transition from morning to afternoon session, the Stagea decided to start popping intercooler pipes. There is a reducer in the setup that is too short for my liking but had never caused grief, now every second run the pipe would come off … it was super frustrating. Finally, my front tyres went flat and popped off the bead somewhere towards the late afternoon. That and the cooler pipe was coming off every run so I called it quits. All in all I still had a rad day, the Stagea is near its full potential and I’m finally getting comfortable with it. The new diff setup works a treat too, the 4.3 gearing is a perfect match for my heavy Stagea. Next event is Raceline’s Wakefield matsuri which is just under a month away. I’ll need to change the clutch and get some new front tyres before then, I’d love to get my R33 front end and an alignment too but we’ll see what happens.

Video – SMP drift practice 12/04/13 - View on the blog Another South circuit event was held last Friday. This time they ran two separate sessions, morning and afternoon. Benny, Paulie and I hit up both. Here’s a short vid of how we went on, enjoy!

Video – SMP drift practice 12/04/13 - View on the blog Another South circuit event was held last Friday. This time they ran two separate sessions, morning and afternoon. Benny, Paulie and I hit up both. Here’s a short vid of how we went on, enjoy!

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Cleaned out the garage yesterday, found some gear that needs a new home. RB25 S1 Throttle position sensor $10 Offset rack spacer 14x1.5mm (R33/S14/S15/R34 etc) $15 7 row oil cooler New $50 RB25 AN10 rocker cover fittings (these aren't push in, will need sealant/weld to keep them in) They might be RB20 (unsure if they have smaller holes) $20 Nissan Stagea S1 RS4 grille includes Stagea double unicorn badge $50 G Sensor Out of Stagea, should be same as GTR $120 S15 throttle cable perfect for Skylines with forward facing plenums $60 ATTESA pump out of Stagea, should be same as GTR $150 R34 open diff centre (accepts both 3x2 and 5x1 I'm selling below) perfect to weld up and shizzz $60 3x2 half shafts Off Stagea ABS $60 5x1 half shafts Off R34 $60 Tein springs Specs: 70mm ID 6kg spring rate 2x 225mm long 2x 250mm long $50 pair $80 set I've gotten too many PM's whether they'll fit certian cars, I don't know. Measure your current springs internal diameter (ID). Chargespeed eyelids for Stagea Brand new, black ABS platsic $100 shipped (currently in Japan) Will add more stuff as I find it. Located in Liverpool, will ship at buyers expense. Adam.

I had a 12cm on mine for a month, was so bad lol. Although it could have had better response with my new cooler setup. Cams might help it out too, dunno. Trent's set it plenty of times that he loved his, he had cams too.

I will need to get it on a dyno soon, needs rego first though (ran out lol). I ended up finding a HKS type S intercooler kit in Japan and got it sent over. Neat bit of kit, managed to get the return up nice and high too with a bit of moding so I'm all smiles

We might have to go that way, I was really hoping we could get Bass Junky back on board to do another run.

Figured I'd do an update on my setup. I made 235kw on 18psi, RB25 TD06 20G 10cm. All you cool cats worked out my intercooler was shit house, you were all right! I've stuck to return flow as I want it the engine bay as factory looking as possible, but a much better setup. Ended up taking it for a drive on Monday, left the boost controller on low just to be safe. Low boost was set at 14psi previously, and with the new intercooler it's pumping out 20psi! Crazy how much restriction the old cooler setup made. Pulls like a freight train now too which is great. Also feels less laggy too, win win win! So thank you for all your input lads

WHAT'S THE DIFF? - VIEW ON THE BLOG Well my Stagea’s rear end is finally sorted, but ‘the plan’ has changed more times than I care to remember. For a few weeks I was glued to the computer trying to decipher the “perfect” setup for the Stagea. I wanted a 4.3 final drive, 5 bolt shafts and a 2 way LSD. Sounds simple right? The R200 diff happens to have a lot of variances behind the pumpkin. The bolts are different size, half shafts are different lengths and splines and figuring out what will work with what is a nightmare! I was on the hunt for something already had a 4.3 crown and pinion and ABS. I also wanted a Nismo 2 way LSD as I had one in my old R33 and it was awesome. So I spent quite a while figuring out what I could use by comparing part numbers. I discovered that the BNR32/BNR33 and BNR34 Nismo LSD centre matched up to an ER34 GT part number, only to replace an open diff from factory. I ended up finding a R34 NA being wrecked so I bought the diff setup. The LSD arrived and I got it installed the next day, whilst I did that I started to think that the splines will be different between GTR and 5 bolt, so why are the part numbers the same? This was reading into diffs further though, after I had already bought the LSD from Japan. Another problem I didn’t notice earlier is that the R34 has the ABS sensor at the front of the diff, making the whole setup roughly 50mm longer. Which means my tail shaft wouldn’t work. I was cool with swapping it over to the more common RWD tail shaft (Stagea uses GTR) but I couldn’t confirm if they were interchangeable. I didn’t want to fork out more cash for a custom tail shaft either as I still needed to source GTR hubs and drive shafts. Anyway, I decided to put it up for sale. Probably within 30 minutes Jack aka Best Guy got in touch with me and gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse. If you’ve been reading his build thread you’ll know he’s putting the almighty 1J in his 180SX. Which means he’ll need to upgrade his diff to handle the extra awesomeness. So the final diff setup for the Stagea is a Cusco 2 Way with 4.36 final drive, and 5 bolt shafts. It’s not suited for ABS but I don’t really care … it hasn’t been working since the Haltech went in. So now I’ve got a proper diff, and I’ve gotten rid of the 3×2 shafts the Stagea originally came with. The new diff went in without much fuss, I had to change over my tail shaft snout/flange/whatever you want to call it, and that was it. Seeing that I’m never going back to 4WD I made sure I ditched the ATTESA pump too. This big sucker sits above the diff, and has been an absolute pain in my ass previously. Trying to bolt it to the diff is a mission. Initial drive with the new setup, it’s amazing! the shorter gears have really woken up the RB25 so I’m happy I was persistent with getting 4.3 gearing. Feels good driving a car that can turn at low speeds and doesn’t want to stall too. I was curious to see what happened to my welded diff, you can see the sump plug further up indicating there was a party. So I expected shit to be f**ked up when I opened the rear cover. But all I found were the bolts that Adan welded in last year, can you believe all of them came off? everything else looked sweet … so bizarre! While everything was out I managed to get a better pic of my surge tank setup, good to see it’s all going strong. So there you have it my cool story about the new diff in the Stagea, bro.

WHAT'S THE DIFF? - VIEW ON THE BLOG Well my Stagea’s rear end is finally sorted, but ‘the plan’ has changed more times than I care to remember. For a few weeks I was glued to the computer trying to decipher the “perfect” setup for the Stagea. I wanted a 4.3 final drive, 5 bolt shafts and a 2 way LSD. Sounds simple right? The R200 diff happens to have a lot of variances behind the pumpkin. The bolts are different size, half shafts are different lengths and splines and figuring out what will work with what is a nightmare! I was on the hunt for something already had a 4.3 crown and pinion and ABS. I also wanted a Nismo 2 way LSD as I had one in my old R33 and it was awesome. So I spent quite a while figuring out what I could use by comparing part numbers. I discovered that the BNR32/BNR33 and BNR34 Nismo LSD centre matched up to an ER34 GT part number, only to replace an open diff from factory. I ended up finding a R34 NA being wrecked so I bought the diff setup. The LSD arrived and I got it installed the next day, whilst I did that I started to think that the splines will be different between GTR and 5 bolt, so why are the part numbers the same? This was reading into diffs further though, after I had already bought the LSD from Japan. Another problem I didn’t notice earlier is that the R34 has the ABS sensor at the front of the diff, making the whole setup roughly 50mm longer. Which means my tail shaft wouldn’t work. I was cool with swapping it over to the more common RWD tail shaft (Stagea uses GTR) but I couldn’t confirm if they were interchangeable. I didn’t want to fork out more cash for a custom tail shaft either as I still needed to source GTR hubs and drive shafts. Anyway, I decided to put it up for sale. Probably within 30 minutes Jack aka Best Guy got in touch with me and gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse. If you’ve been reading his build thread you’ll know he’s putting the almighty 1J in his 180SX. Which means he’ll need to upgrade his diff to handle the extra awesomeness. So the final diff setup for the Stagea is a Cusco 2 Way with 4.36 final drive, and 5 bolt shafts. It’s not suited for ABS but I don’t really care … it hasn’t been working since the Haltech went in. So now I’ve got a proper diff, and I’ve gotten rid of the 3×2 shafts the Stagea originally came with. The new diff went in without much fuss, I had to change over my tail shaft snout/flange/whatever you want to call it, and that was it. Seeing that I’m never going back to 4WD I made sure I ditched the ATTESA pump too. This big sucker sits above the diff, and has been an absolute pain in my ass previously. Trying to bolt it to the diff is a mission. Initial drive with the new setup, it’s amazing! the shorter gears have really woken up the RB25 so I’m happy I was persistent with getting 4.3 gearing. Feels good driving a car that can turn at low speeds and doesn’t want to stall too. I was curious to see what happened to my welded diff, you can see the sump plug further up indicating there was a party. So I expected shit to be f**ked up when I opened the rear cover. But all I found were the bolts that Adan welded in last year, can you believe all of them came off? everything else looked sweet … so bizarre! While everything was out I managed to get a better pic of my surge tank setup, good to see it’s all going strong. So there you have it my cool story about the new diff in the Stagea, bro.

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These are still available, no idea what the original purchaser is doing. Open to offers these have gotta go!

Cheers dude I should get all the gear back tomorrow, so it should be interesting to see how it all goes back on the car.

Late February I was approached by Aleks from All Stars. He wanted to do a feature on the Stagea. So we teed up to do it at Dahtone Racing, a few days after the SMP practice night. Anyway, it’s been released on their blog today, so have a read and look at the pretty pictures.

Late February I was approached by Aleks from All Stars. He wanted to do a feature on the Stagea. So we teed up to do it at Dahtone Racing, a few days after the SMP practice night. Anyway, it’s been released on their blog today, so have a read and look at the pretty pictures.

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have been notified that my PM box was full, Do'h! all fixed now

Sorry mate, all cleared now!

RB25 S1 Throttle position sensor $10 Offset rack spacer 14x1.5mm (R33/S14/S15/R34 etc) $15 7 row oil cooler New $50 RB25 AN10 rocker cover fittings (these aren't push in, will need sealant/weld to keep them in) They might be RB20 (unsure if they have smaller holes) $20 Nissan Stagea S1 RS4 grille includes Stagea double unicorn badge $50 Tein springs Specs: 70mm ID 6kg spring rate 2x 225mm long 2x 250mm long $50 pair $80 set PRICES DROPPED!

Got a R200 out of a Stagea RS4, which has the optional extra Viscous LSD. The car done around the 100k mark, diff seems to be in good condition and still works as it should. Only issue is that the cover is cracked and will need replacing, I can source a replacement for $50. I'm after what I paid, $300 or $350 with a front cover ready to go. Open to offers though. Would love a quick sale, itching to get out to EC on the 12th! Cheers, Adam.

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Here's a pic of the LSD centre Will get pics of the housing tonight.