Beyond Blue R33

Boost night next Wednesday is going to be awesomeness when Sau shows its colours and we're all down there with our cars tools spare drag tyres, air compressors and a full range of knowledge and what not. Can't wait too learn from you guys and front up as a team so we can out perform everyone! I've booked the date in my calendar even though I'm busy at work. Can't wait!

Yeah i did it gradually even down to a traffic light take off but it just fried the tyres and tramped under 3/4 acceleration all the way through 1/2 and hooked up in 3.

Might cable tie the wife and kids up next time and put them in the wheel well? I spun out on the lights a bit too. Nothing like the big boys on television? White amber's green. Whoops. Was trying to gradually build the boost up to 3500 about 9 p.s.i. like normal but... Whoops tramp spin ass Wednesday.

Best pass for the car was 12.8. But my reaction time was 0.7sec lol noob. 177kph terminal. So 13.5. I had major troubles hooking it up and had really bad tramping and wheelspin. Never done the 1/4 before. I tried dropping it at 4000.then 3500. Then 3000. And 2500 like traffic lights. Had 34psi in those shit Achilles tyres so nuff said. Lesson learned. Any tips or advice? Apart from new tyres or lower psi learned that the hard way. It only has the tein basic coil overs when I got the car it was on the deck and hooked up ok and left 11's on the road, but i raised it to 100mm all round for the police jockey wheel. through lifting it it has compressed the springs and is hard as all round. I was a bit disappointed with the times but even with a very mild launch it just tramped all the way through 1/2 under not full pedal and hooked up in 3. Bummer. Virginal. I launched it hard on the way home and it just hooked up and went with a tiny bit of tramping perfect. I thought the track would have way more grip than the street but total opposite. Live and learn. Was driving it through the the d/s window a couple of times. It has a full hicas delete but is obvious the tyres are crap with too much psi. Bummer. 4 wins and 1 loss with no Sau sticker. I got torched off the line by nearly everyone but 18psi in 3/4 sorted it. Bit embarrassing but there you have it. No traction at all. I reckon even with 100kg of sand bags in the boot would have been sweet.

I've noticed when the car is cold the full face n.p.c. Is real close to the floor. You have to bump it twice just to get going. But when the car is warm. (not thermostat hot) but driven it behaves pretty normally like the xr8.

Panicked when I left the motor plex the diff had some judder on the first take off round the corner. Oi!. Went and done some figure of 8's and it was all good. When I changed the diff oil it did the same thing with fresh 75/90 so I got some ford l.s.d. Paste off Dave and it did the trick. I would assume from the launches and horrid rear end tramping through first and second on the slippery strip with no cornering it just pushed the good thickness out of the clutch packs. (hope so?) I launched it pretty hard close to home and it gripped and took off like a animal. I think the main problem on the launches was because I lifted the ride height on the tein basics and it firmed the whole car up on the set spring rate too much. It's pretty obvious also that the Achilles s2 are crap tyres. I scored the full set for $360 at cost price so nuff said.

How was the second day on the job Dean? Man I was tired this morning. I went and picked up a huge lump of 12mm thick pipe and some turret punchings this morning. Then done a 11hr day just got home. I know what burnt toast feels like! Scrape off the shit and start again tomorrow!

I think my wife just worked out your plate. Is it from the old cartoon theme song. Godzilla, Godzilla and Godzookey.

It might pay to put a tiny bit of permatex on the corners and rear. Especially if its leaked bad off the rear exhaust cam side before. This will cop a lot of heat because it is near the manifold, turbo and dump pipe. Just a thought. Check there is no gouges or issues around where the leak was and it seats and Seals nicely. Pay attention to the fit up and get everything hard finger tight first then cross torque the cam cover like you would a head gasket. Clean all of the sealing faces up tidy as with a turps rag and make sure there is no gritty bits hanging around or shit from the rag. Use a soft brush to clean up the inside of the cam covers if it's gritty. Set aside a load of time and don't rush it! Don't know how much mechanical experience you have so just general advice. Nothing worse than dumping the gas pedal to a oily smell. Will be awesomeness once you have finished!

I was worried about the abs juddering on the new rotors and pads if I hit it too hard so was just a guess.

Did u check if it was a 5/8" or 16mm fitting? Just put a rule on it like the pic I posted and check the pipe o/d (outside diameter) not the swage diameter. Let me know. I would assume it is but always check.

Put the whole lot in new then braked reasonably hard 80-20, 100-20. Only p/s squeal. I mainly chamfered the lead and trailing edge at about 30* with a fine cross cut metal file and just took the edges off very minimally. All good now. Just hate doing a job twice. F##* might not have stood on it hard enough.

Sounds delicious!

Ill check out what we have at work tomorrow and see if we have anything like it and let you know. I went with the clear s/s wound so it wouldn't collapse and could see if it was leaving any oil residue or staining inside the tube after the s/s wool packed catch can. Before the air intake to the turbo. I've pushed the car pretty hard on occasions and have had no blow by. Yeay. My catch can is a fully poxy drift one. (from autobahn) I bought it the day I picked up the car to get rid of the evian bottle and garden hose to avoid a yellow. So for the mean time I put another 5/8" fitting reversed inside the can and ran it to half way in the tank and and cut the internal s/s hose at 45* so it would filter fumes and still had room to dump oil. Will fab up a new one and plumb it in properly from Ali when I have the time. (NEVER) :-(

How did you go with finding the s/s wound 5/8" hose today? I wouldn't mind seeing if I could get the original cam breather hose from Nissan also depending on price?

Hicas, attesa, gt-st, gt-r, gt-t, R32, R33, R34, R35, evo, wrx, Nsx, type-r, fc, fd, ae86, asashi, sake, sushi. I'm a bit limited with my Japanese. What about t-revs? Fresh from the land of the rising sun? No substitute for experience!

Checking the spray pattern on a acre of injectors, priceless. After 3 months of squealing and telling myself they will bed in. I finally got off my cake hole and chamfered the new front pads. Only the p/s was squealing but I did both to be sure. I took it real easy on them to bed them in and aren't sure why the p/s did and the d/s didn't? Dba slotted rotors and bendix advance pads. Any ideas?

Ahh, bourbon/whisky, best cure for any cold or flu, till the alarm goes off at 5:30am the next day. Putting a lemon in the neck of the beer should help out alot also.

Bore water fuel pump to 1 acre square fuel rail to 25mm injectors.

It's definitely the way to go. I Was so keen to get the driveway crossover in I forgot to sink the 25mm with the solenoid wires in first. Was a hassle to put it in afterwards and backfill it all.

3 hours weeding, way better than 3 hours welding! Are you going to put a bore and reticulation in? One of the best things I've ever done for the house, green all year round.

Seaty85

Man I remember those days, such a worrying time. Awesome that everything is all good. Congrats!!!

I can bring the xr8 falcon down if you guys want to take turns blowing the doors off it? Nah your right mate won't need a helmet in that!

I think this would be a good event for the Sau community to show its colours. Although it's hard with work and what not? If everyone could try to make it down there for skyline night or as least a cruise down there even if not racing. Posts? thoughts? Interest? Skylines? Racing? Noobs? Whoops? Asses? Wensdays? Anyone already run and want to post their times? It's on a work night so you can easily commit then say nah, had too work late! Haha