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What are you doing anyway? Are you running an automotive technology museum? Like you say even the early 2000 Blitz website doesn't list this one. blitzpowerusa that is mentioned in that facebook post doesn't have it either. I have a feeling the pragmatic solution might be to not run ancient hardware. I thought I was good with internet stuff but I give up

Makes me wonder whether you need to go full Japanese. Jahoo Japan, Japanese search and all that shebang. You have probably come across this one? https://m.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.251913441533137.65385.244204408970707&type=3

Do you have a clip of what the horn sounds like? I'm curious now. What made you go for Indian truck style?

This was great fun! I was a bit sceptical about electric gokarts but it really scratched the right itch. Feels good once the higher power levels unlock. A bit noisy in the venue which is ironic considering that the karts are silent. We are actually going to be back on Sunday morning to work on those lap times. With the 20% off from the code on the wristband and off-peak times it ends up being ~$24 for a session which is much more reasonable. If anyone is interested in going again feel free to get in touch. It's pretty local for us and I'd like to do a bit more of this. Some photos from the day: Ronald borrowed one of the phone mounts that they lend out. Short clip with somewhat Naked Gun intro vibes. clip.mp4 Not really any car photos. Not sure where people parked. We just came across Sam on the way in. So there's two chubby Nissans.

Thanks Danny, much appreciated! That makes it clear and it sounds pretty straightforward actually. The car is booked in for Tuesday. Not sure if I'll look at it before then. The car is dry, it's sunny for the rest of the week, I have a long list of things to do, an even longer list of excuses and two left hands. Will update on how it goes either way

Hah, have you tried the Blitz website? They have a section for discontinued products and they still link to the manuals. Product number would help there as well. See for example https://www.blitz.co.jp/products/electronics/sbc/sbctypes-r.html Not sure if same controller. They seem pretty good with that stuff

I love how you have the photos from the same angle in the same spot. It is such a big contrast. One looks like serious business and the other is as understated as a GTR can be.

From what I have read HICAS only kicks in at speed, i.e. 80km/h upwards. So not much help in parking lots unless you go full Tokyo Drift. I found this topic helpful. Haven't really seen it described well anywhere else.

Thanks for the pointers! Will have a look in the next days. Plenum drain must be the worst name for it to go looking online. Closest I have found is this topic on MGs. I'm not ruling out other things leaking, but pouring water into the vent ends up with at least some of it dripping down into the footwell. The car has a mostly garaged history and little of the typical Stagea rust. So I'm keeping my hopes up that it's not a rusty nightmare hiding in there. Any hints on where to look for that drain? Do the vents need to come out?

Yeah, they seem to be filling somewhat quickly. I don't really see a good way of keeping it together for a group. Or are you thinking to book it on the day when there?

Thank you for mentioning this! This hit a nerve and I feel personally called out even though it wasn't directed at anyone. Bumped it back to the top of the list of things to do on the car.

We ended up booking for four of us for 5.30pm and 6.15pm. See how it goes.

I'm dealing with this issue currently. Makes me wonder whether it is somewhat common and people don't notice as long as it is not bad enough. Had spots of slightly damp carpet under the floor mats every now and then and always thought it came from the top. As in it dripped down from shoes or so. But it's definitely going from the vent under the windscreen down behind the carpets. It must have gotten a lot worse recently. The foam under the carpet was just wet but not musty or anything. The foam under the plastic/rubber behind the pedals seems to have been wet for much longer as it smelled much more musty. On the plus side the car is now probably the driest it has been in a long time. Booked it in to have someone who knows what they are doing have a look at it. Definitely no driving in the rain until then. Some photos for what it's worth. A cm or so of standing water under the carpets. Nice. Water goes in here And part of the water comes out there Dry motherf**ker, dry! I panicked at first and almost bought a proper heavy duty drying fan from bunnings. In the end it turns out the shitty fan heater and old hair dryer work just fine.

What slot(s) have you booked yourself in for? We were thinking to do two sessions. Right now according to their website: 5pm - booked out 5.15pm - 16 spots left 5.30pm - 15 spots left 5.45pm - 5 spots left

Hmmm, might be the image host does not like you for some reason. They are on zupimages.net. Can you see them attached to my post and hosted on sau? @jibe, hope you don't mind me attaching your photos again. Otherwise let me know and I'll remove them from my post. It's a bit of a shame that random image hosts tend to disband eventually and a few years later it all ends up in dead links. Attached to the forums it should stick around as long as the forum does.

To be fair the states haven't had ~30 years of opportunity to learn those lessons. So they'll go through all of that now. I'm just hoping that more hype in the states will lead to people replicating parts that are getting rare.

@GTSBoy just to make sure everyone is on the same page: OP is doing the manual conversion on their S1 Stagea

This was great fun! Looking forward to the next one. A bit tricky for photos. Maybe it can be argued as artsy. Not sure who owned that 32 but it's chef's kiss. 10/10 would drive behind again. Makes me want to take on stupid amounts of debt to own one.

Hey @PranK, just as an aside, I'd say the how to become a supporter page points to the wrong page for the subscriptions. As in currently it links to https://www.sau.com.au/forums/subscriptions when it should link to https://www.sau.com.au/forums/store/category/3-sau-supporter-subscriptions/ as this has the actual supporter subscriptions. I was looking for them the other day and couldn't find them anymore and thought they had disappeared. Or alternatively the supporter subscriptions should be on the subscriptions page.

Clearly the big brain move here is to buy a club membership and to then get the tech night for free.

Ooo, sounds good! Will be there. Really looking forward to it after the whole flooding thing at the Nasho breakfast cruise. @Dose Pipe Sutututu would you bring out the Skyline for this? You could argue that this is heading towards some kind of meat emporium. It is also before your track day so the car still runs. @mlr what about you? The McDonald's parking lot is the natural habitat of any proper bogan cruise ship

And some either unsure or unrelated to SAU on the day. Love the race car Mirage!

Good stuff! Good call on starting early. It did get quite busy at Benzin. Some photos from the day attached. I'm pretty sure these were all SAU related. Nice weather, nice people, heaps of nice cars both at Benzin and Dural area in general. Food at Benzin was also tasty. And instagrammable if that is important for whatever reason.

I forgot all about that! That sexual tension when they tried to pull the headlight bulb out of Nicole Kidman's R32 and it wouldn't quite budge was intense. Many teenage wet dreams were had. (I'm not quite sure if you are taking the piss but I'm just going to go along with it. If you are not I'd love to hear where you are coming from)

Oooh man! It took me way too long to work out what you were talking about. I had never heard of the term boofhead before reading this thread. I just went along with it and assumed it was a special way of adjusting things. Because people used it so confidently and GTSBoy is always so educated on everything. It would have been pretty funny if I ended up asking my mechanic about boofhead timing adjustments