benm

I've used the Redline lightweight Shockproof Gearbox Oil in my R33 and its magic stuff. Cost $110 delivered for 3.76L (4L)

Turned out being a dead spiggot bush and a fried clutch. Check http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...&threadid=11574 for details.

Personally I think your wasting your time these days. Their are so many hidden flaws in the court/police system that its not worth the time money and hassles.

Up sh1t creek without a paddle with massive tidal waves and no safety vest.

ALWAYSSSS get out of your car and insist on seeing the speed reading (its on an electronic gadget on their dashboard). If they say now just piss on either of their legs, if they yeah sure then u know your up sh1t creak without a paddle.

(rwkw / 0.7455 = rwhp) Im making 272rwhp and my clutch has just gone. (Although its a hard daily driver constantly on 7psi - 249rwhp). Even though i thought the clutch wasn't slipping and felt reeeeally smooth ive realised after having my new clutch installed today that it was deffinetly lacking performance. Stock ECU Stock Turbo 3" Full Exhaust FMIC HKS Pod 68,000km on the clock thats it.... I'm sure my stock injectors and fuel pump are nearing the end of their lives but i have no easy way of telling. Ben.

Jay: The pedal is heavy, the first time i released the clutch it was so loaded that my foot nearly went thru my stomache hehe. BATMBL: I can't find the clutch on the Daikin website coz it just doesn't load anything on the 'sports catalogue'. Looking at my receipt though it cost me $418 Inc GST with $264 labour (that labour includes fitting a spigot bush) All up it cost me $687.55

I just did a 15km round trip to get dinner and yup its deffinetly getting alot easier to handle considering the friction pressure point is about 1 inch from the floor. Even if i become lazy for half a second at a set of lights i know about it coz the revs drop and the car wants to move forward. I think im gonna have to throw it in neutral when at the lights until i get used to it. I tried 1 launch on the way home on a flath stretch of nice smooth tar at 2,500rpm and mannnn it was awesome, 100% wheelspin but just awesome. I think im inlove all over again (ssshh dont let the chick around the corner know).

What do you mean shudder? I've done 2 hill starts and I found that if I gave it the extra revs (about 1,500rpm instead of 1,200rpm) and released the clutch sloooowly (riding it a fair bit) it actually wasn't too bad, its only bad if u release slowwwwly for the first bit to get you moving then suddenly drop the rest as you get thurst thru the seat. I think most of it is just nerves. I'm going to drive it pretty heavily over the next 3-4 days so that I can try and get used to it quickly and also wear it in a little bit.

*sign of relief*

Well today I had my car at a clutch specialist to have a $30 part fixed (release bearing and some sort of spring ??). Typical visit to a mechanic, quoted $280 and walked with a $689 hole in my pocket. (Got a good deal coz the fitter was a customer of the company I work for and I told him if he treats me bad i'll cancel his dialup account muahah). Turns out that while they were replacing this $30 part they noticed that the standard clutch was completely warn through and advised that I get a new clutch fitted while its all apart. I'm still abit sceptical over it all coz the original clutch was absolutely brilliant, infact i dare say the feel of it was the first thing i noticed when test driving the car and was the icing on the cake for the reason of my purchase. I agree'd to that so got them to replace it with an "easy to use" clutch. The clutch that ended up being fitted was a Daikin Exedy Organic Performance Clutch and I bloody hate the thing. I'm not sure if im just a crap user of a clutch or if my old clutch was so warn that it wasn't working properly in the first place and I became so used to it being like this but man I stalled the car 3 times just trying to get out of the carpark Before I could park my car in the garage (uphill driveway) without even touching the accelerator just by using the natural pull on the standard clutch, but now I have to give the thing about 1,200rpm just to move the car and about 1,500rpm + a bit of a slip to get the car relatively smoothly off the line. The first time I changed gears (from 1st to 2nd obviously) I released the clutch like normal and nearly put my head thru the windscreen (slight over exaggeration). The whole car just rocked forward from the pressure of the clutch. Same can be said for when changing down gears..... forget using brakes the clutch pulls the car up better whilst putting my neck out of place, why would I wanna use the brakes for! I found that if I let it out slooooooowly it was much smoother but obviously nowhere near as perfectly smooth as the standard clutch On the way home I drove the backstreets so I could play around with it alittle bit. I did 2 launches from 2,000rpm and man when you get the timiring right (of releasing the clutch matched with enuff revs) its a bloody slingshot its wicked. The car just launches with a squeel of my tyres and then just axel tramps (im getting that fixed next week with new rear shocks and a better setup). Sorry if im babbling abit but I have no idea about cars and im still trying to work out if I like this thing or not. Im hoping that this new clutch will loosen up alittle bit over the next week or 2 ? I'm really hoping so because otherwise I can see myself stalling the car atleast 3x a day which can't be too good (Let alone the idiot driver factor when crusing around places at low speeds or over speed humps). What do you think of the pic of my clutch below ? Is it really -that- warn coz I personally have no idea it still felt great to me. The plate itself is dead smooth with those little circle bits. All I got to say is I hope I seriously get used to this thing or it loosens up abit. Ben.

No did not wrap these in thermo wrap. I have a single Front + Dump pipe also. Afew people have mentioned this whole thermal wrap thing, i think i may have to read up on it abit coz i dont understand it much.

BTW anyone who was following this thread ive had my car dyno'd and it gave me an extra 12rwkw along with an oil change over my last standard frontpipe + standard cat. Highly worth doing.

My GTST is currently on 203rwkw but drives on 186rwkw every day (7psi for daily driving). I actually never ever drive it on 12psi (203rwkw) unless im on a dyno (dont even bother with it when im dragging someone). It looks like my clutch has gone (so ive been told 2hrs ago) because today i had clutch specialist looking at i believe the correct term is 'release bearing' or spring or something coz it was making some griding noises. They rang me to say that my clutch is completely warn and needs replacing. I dunno why that is coz the clutch feels damn awesome, has never ever ever slipped and is extremely easy to drive and now they are telling me its completely shot. Oh well its gonna cost me about $750 to have it all done so we'll see how it goes. I might post a pic of my "warn clutch" if i manage to get it back. They are replacing it with some generic clutch which they say is more an adequate to do the job whilst still being easy to drive. /darn

http://www.motorsportworld.com.au/outlets/croydon/

I know we aren't sposed to put comments in this section but this thing is an absolute beast. :whackit: Their are 4 banks within a 40m walk of my office, im gonna hit em until i get enuff $$. If you see me on the news Merli it was for a good cause ok

rev210: Can you tell any difference from just normal street driving ?

Woolworths uses Caltex Fuel. Im sure they mix something else in with it coz it absolutely sucks (used it twice on my old '90 Pulsar and it choked like a pig). My parents and sister insist on filling up with W'Worths fuel coz we have a server only like 20sec drive from where I live. I warn them everytime but then again they don't have a performance car so they don't notice any difference.

CRD in Silverwater sell Redline Shockproof Gearbox Oil. $25/L and it comes as a 3.7L for $100 + $10 Courier fee. So basically $110

Actually its 186rwkw coz i only drive on std boost. But thats the thing i never launch it and i dont drop it. I guess i'll have to get it inspected in a week or 2 when i get a lightened flywheel.

The Redline Shockproof Gearbox Oil is great stuff. Its very expensive but the quality is right there! It loosened up 1st and 2nd and i haven't had a 4th crunch yet. One problem I am having though and i thought putting the redline gearbox oil would fix it but im starting to think its a clutch problem... hopefully someone could advise me. About 5 times now (in 5mths) I have had this grinding type noise in 1st + 2nd only with the clutch is in. I can be upshifting, downshifting or just sitting at the lights and this noise will appear. 3 of these times its happened within 1km of driving so I was thinking maybe something is just abit cold and give it abit longer to warm up although Saturday night on my way home from the Palm Beach cruise (drove 100+ km that night) the noise was appearing in 1st+2nd it didnt matter how much driving the car had done. The noise is quite loud and the first time it happened I sh1t myself, pulled over and switched off the car, infact that time I think I had it in neutral and the only way to stop the noise was to turn the car off (the noise continued for about 5sec after the ignition was off i guess as the engine/gearbox/whateva was winding down). Does anybody have any idea what this noise is? Its starting to scare me and its quite embarressing when you pull up at a set of lights in a nice looking car only to have this LOUD grinding noise appear. The clutch feels really nice and ive only ever dropped 1 proper burnout the rest is just hard accellerating in 2nd + 3rd + 4th and it feels fine to me.

I did a before/after review of these pineapples in the /Performance section. Deffinetly worth the $110.

Removing the standard frontpipe and replacing it with a 3" pipe should give u around 7-10rwkw extra. Take a look at my thread here

Gutting the cat is illegal / won't perform as well.

weather looks promising