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I ran last weekend at the Symmons Plains 60th annaverary meet. Unfortunately after a good run the engine decided to throw a rod.  I've got the engine out but havn't pulled the sump off yet, I suspect

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So it’s been over a year since an update. The first event last year was the Poatina Mountain Race, it was pretty much a 7km hill climb with the option for a navigator. I put my girlfriend in the sil

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Cable ties farken :)

Looks good and +1 needs rear pods!

Pair of rear pods would struggle to weigh half a kg haha

the point of the car is for minimum weight. if you had seen the effort we have gone to every where elce on the car than .5kg is good weight to us. i totaly understand that most people fob off weight reduction but its one of thoes things that if you are going to do it you need to get really anal about it. no point getting half assed. and to be honest it is very noticable the difference we have found from driving this to all the other skylines we have as a group.

also on anther side note. Bens vision was to run the full nismo/N1 aero kit which never had rear pods. what most people think are N1 pods are actualy trust or other pods. the rear pods do nothing for the cars performance or aero so they are un-nessasary. this car was built with only nessasary items installed. also if you look at most modern TA cars the rear area behind the wheels is usualy cut out to help the air excape from behind the wheel. some teams run multiple wings behind them to help smooth the air but we cant do this.

the conclusion is, no pods it is.

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I never wanted the pods before we got on the weight saving campain. I just have never liked them, plus they only hold water and make the rear 1/4 panel rust out (which i've already fixed one time to many)

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I never wanted the pods before we got on the weight saving campain. I just have never liked them, plus they only hold water and make the rear 1/4 panel rust out (which i've already fixed one time to many)

Why did you bother with the type m side skirts then? A little weight in those too.

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the point of the car is for minimum weight. if you had seen the effort we have gone to every where elce on the car than .5kg is good weight to us. i totaly understand that most people fob off weight reduction but its one of thoes things that if you are going to do it you need to get really anal about it. no point getting half assed. and to be honest it is very noticable the difference we have found from driving this to all the other skylines we have as a group.

also on anther side note. Bens vision was to run the full nismo/N1 aero kit which never had rear pods. what most people think are N1 pods are actualy trust or other pods. the rear pods do nothing for the cars performance or aero so they are un-nessasary. this car was built with only nessasary items installed. also if you look at most modern TA cars the rear area behind the wheels is usualy cut out to help the air excape from behind the wheel. some teams run multiple wings behind them to help smooth the air but we cant do this.

the conclusion is, no pods it is.

How much do you weigh? Taking a decent turd will loose you the half a kilogram... I love how 100kg plus people talk about weight reduction (not saying you are one of them) when if they just layed off some cheeseburgers they would be a lot better off :)

There is no "nismo/n1 aero kit" for a gts-t, you can get type-m side skirts and rear pods but n1 stuff is for gtr's. also there are no "n1 pods" for a r32 gtr, they are only trust pods which look similar to a gts-t's type-m rear pods

I never wanted the pods before we got on the weight saving campain. I just have never liked them, plus they only hold water and make the rear 1/4 panel rust out (which i've already fixed one time to many)

You could always just drill a drain hole in the bottom of them to disperse the water... I've never seen that issue on a 32 before. The only rust we see is rear 1/4 panels on the 4wd gts4's or gtr's

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How much do you weigh? Taking a decent turd will loose you the half a kilogram... I love how 100kg plus people talk about weight reduction (not saying you are one of them) when if they just layed off some cheeseburgers they would be a lot better off :)

There is no "nismo/n1 aero kit" for a gts-t, you can get type-m side skirts and rear pods but n1 stuff is for gtr's. also there are no "n1 pods" for a r32 gtr, they are only trust pods which look similar to a gts-t's type-m rear pods

the idea was to make the N1 side skirts fit. im pretty sure we all know the difference between GTRs and Gts-ts. im pretty sure i already said there was no N1 pods but you must have read over that.

we have found one company that makes N1 style skirts to fit gtst but haven bothered as yet.

like i said before if your not into weight loss on a car than you will never get it. its a combination of many small parts that weigh half of f all that makes the difference. serious people will un-tack or cut off every un nessasary bracket and cut the extra length out of every bolt just to save 5kg over the whole car. most people think once they have removed the ac and back seat they have removed every thing they can. the point is weight is free power and free brakes. simple physics.

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wrong.

see we rubbed all the paint off where the stickers were going then rubbed some of the metal back to save a few more grams.

this also ensured a seemless join between the sticker and original paint

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