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Cheryl has now been semi retired, most of my focus is on the Radical. I have two planned events for the old girl though so she's not getting off being thrashed again. Saturday night at Bathu

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So it turns out that is indeed what happened, and as Mel is not taking up racing and nor is their only child Lizzy the Great Dane, I am tidying the car up for sale.   As far as I can tell it is p

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Update time, I've actually finished installing the Radicals rear spoiler on to the Skyline, what a fun job on your own getting it exactly in the middle and correct front to back. At full adjusted heig

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Cheers Amir,,,glad you like my build. She does do great skids as Matty said.

Which brings me to another little issue I have. Before Cheryl went to the Bulladelah hillclimb we changed her gearbox oil,,,only because it was getting old and had seen lots of abuse. So we changed from my usual normal Castrol mineral oil to Royal Purple Max Gear synthetic 75w-90. Now my box never ever crunched or had problems finding reverse,,,she now does. It could well be that my box is getting old,,, but won't it be funny if my problem disappears when I change back to a cheap oil. I'll keep you all posted.

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VMX-M 75/85. GL4 spec is what these boxes like.

Cheers Dale,,,I think that's stuff was what I was running. It's a bit ironic really that a 45 dollar oil out performs a mega dollar one.

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Okay my bad,,,I should have clarified my dis-like for RDA. I actually don't like the way they run their business and until it changes I will never buy their product.

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Glad to see it is progressing!

I used sard 555 and they worked well and had plenty of duty cycle left. I also used smurf blood in my box and it seamed to work well but was expensive. If the cheaper one works then he'll yer more $ for fuel.

PS I actually worked on my car a few weeks ago I might even get it out towards the end of the year would be good to get them out together.

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Okay my bad,,,I should have clarified my dis-like for RDA. I actually don't like the way they run their business and until it changes I will never buy their product.

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Glad to see it is progressing!

I used sard 555 and they worked well and had plenty of duty cycle left. I also used smurf blood in my box and it seamed to work well but was expensive. If the cheaper one works then he'll yer more $ for fuel.

PS I actually worked on my car a few weeks ago I might even get it out towards the end of the year would be good to get them out together.

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Cheers Dale,,,I think that's stuff was what I was running. It's a bit ironic really that a 45 dollar oil out performs a mega dollar one.

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Neil.

This sounds interesting, after using expensive oils in my Z32 box I might try the Castrol. I remember I used it once in my RB20 box years ago and it went well then.

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We removed all sorts of wires that I don't use anymore and a whole pile of factory option wiring and plugs. Basically all the aircon,factory boost controller,fog lights, rear wiper/washer controller and it's wiring and the abs wiring that I don't have. Man there was so much un-wanted wiring and earth loops everywhere.

Next wiring job is to remove the dash and finally get rid of all the crap under there and install an on/off switch and starter button.

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I also removed the 2 vibration dampers from the rear diff cradle and with the ignition switch there's 1.6 kgs gone.

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Neil.

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Well it's been a while since any updates and some positive things have happened which is very pleasing.

I've been having a problem with boost coming on at 6000 grand and for the life of me I couldn't work out why.

Thanks to Mark at Unigroup the problem is now solved.

Turns out my boost controller was have hissy fits, so I sent it off to the great people at Turbosmart and they fixed it for free even though it was bought off ebay and out of warranty.

Back on the dyno and boost now comes on at about 2800.

I got Mark to lower the power while he was playing, so i now have 235 kilowatts on low boost.

I then decided to lower the rev limiter from 8500 to a more respectful 7300.

I went off and did the Aussie hillclimb champs and a Huntley hillclimb event and Cheryl ran perfectly.

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I've been meaning to replace my original clutch hose for years but had never got around to it. I had previously bought a stainless replacement hose but Abobob gave me a bango to bango one with a length of heatshielding, so I thought okay it's about time. Off to Earl's for 2 bango bolts and some washers. Turns out the bolt at the master cylinder end is way to long and normally I would have just hacksawed it off but since I bought this little lathe,,, machining it to length was a breeze and no thread cleaning.

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The lathe has turned out to be a great tool,,,I can now make all sorts of bushes, spacers, cut stuff down and although I haven't tried yet it will cut thread as well.

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Neil.

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