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Razon

By Razon,
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nawww, you should hit the track at every opportunity! Then you can get some feedback in laptimes as to how succesful your mods are ;)

Suspension wise, I'd get some BC Coilovers, they're working great for me and a couple other skyline drivers in drift and Super Series and going well on them.

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haha well i would love to if i knew people who went! lol that and i want to make sure my car isnt going to blow on my first ever lap so trying to get everything all sorted but im a paranoid overthinker when it comes to my skyline so that might be a while :P everything on it is original so thats why im worried "things" are going to break haha...

I've seen BC coilovers a few times when ive been reading up on them, they arnt too bad priced either i believe? do you know if its easy to get them reconditioned later on in hobart? or do they have to be sent off?

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Next time we're heading out to the track I'll extend an invite your way :)

I saw a very tidy, all original 33, wheels and all, going across the bridge today at like 3:45, wouldn't have happened to be you?

Stock 33s love it on the Track, Jay used to take his out a bit, just the standard SMIC gets a little warm and you lose power after a few laps :(

I've not looked into rebuilding BCs, and I don't think anyone in tassie does it either :/

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Next time we're heading out to the track I'll extend an invite your way :)

I saw a very tidy, all original 33, wheels and all, going across the bridge today at like 3:45, wouldn't have happened to be you?

Stock 33s love it on the Track, Jay used to take his out a bit, just the standard SMIC gets a little warm and you lose power after a few laps :(

I've not looked into rebuilding BCs, and I don't think anyone in tassie does it either :/

that would be awesome zoid then i can finally meet some of you guys and pick all of your brains lol

Nahh wasnt me unfortunately :(., mines a white 33 with black rims and L plates :P... (in baaad need of new rims...they are just painted stock nissan wheels from the previous owner lol)

So really theres nothing i "need" to do to my car to be able to take it too a track day then? i think im just a bit paranoid about taking it because i know next to nothing about the cars previous history so not sure if its just going to "blow" the minute i give it to her lol

just another question guys, i bought slotted rotors aswell and replaced all them but i think i might not have bedded in my brakes properly....how will i know if ive done some damage to the rotors?

i got the pads and brakes put on but then i had to drive it home from kingston unfortunately so the big hill coming back into hobart would have got my brakes fairly hot but then i had to stop start all threw town....i tried my best to not use my brakes but you guys know what its like.... i took it for a drive the next day down to cambridge and didnt notice any form of vibration or shuddering so maybe thats a good sign?

i was still paranoid about using my brakes yesterday so made sure i left the car overnight with no brake applied....should i just roll with what ive already done or should i go out and bed the brakes in today even though its been driven twice already?

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