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Yep I'd rough em up with sandpaper a bit especially if the old rotors were scored at all.

Similar thing happened to mine except it was shonky mechanics at work and I didn't notice for about 10-15k after the service. I decided to err on the side of caution and replace it, it's expensive and a pain in the arse but balancers are tuned to fractions of a gram. It might not cause an immediate problem but vibration will fatigue metal over time. On a street driven car where the majority of time is spent around 3k rpm it's probably not a big issue but if your car regularly sees the upper end of the rev range then why risk it. A replacement balancer is cheaper than your oil pump failing and having to rebuild the motor - an unlikely event if it's a small chip but I like things on my car to be "right" not "she'll be right".

best 2.0L motor? It would have to be 1.3 lots of a BRM V16 motor wouldn't it?

^^ huh? you avoid games like gran turismo because they're a simulator game? you're kidding, right.... simlators are games like grand prix legends, live for speed, GTR and GTR2 are not bad either. rFactor is supposed to be authentic but I haven't played it. GT3/GT4/GT5 are arcade games pure and simple. shits and giggles, their handling model is a joke for serious driving. I was initially disappointed with F1 2010's driving model because it wasn't simulator-y enough. But then when you start to exploit the last 5% of your traction budget it gets really entertaining. For once Codemasters have pitched the game well, I think it's a blast. We have a group of 5-6 people trading lap times ranging from sim junkies like me to guys who just want a bit of a fun game and they're all loving it. If you're not playing with a force feedback wheel then your arguments are completely null and void. I've had a blast playing this game and you really do get a sensation that you're on a knife edge at times.

hmm let's see show and shine vs get rid of steve........ only kidding stevie.. you're awesome

uhhhhh...... sounds like you need a wheel alignment, mate. your upper control arm is shorter due to "wheels aren't as close to the guards". when you change the UCA length your toe angle changes. HICAS doesn't care about camber. or ride height. it cares about vehicle speed and steering direction. just in case there is any doubt for anyone else playing with their suspension ANY TIME YOU MAKE A SUSPENSION ADJUSTMENT YOU NEED A WHEEL ALIGNMENT. everything affects everything else. change UCA and your camber and toe changes. change traction rod and your bump steer changes. change to a rotor? apex seals need changing.

werd. great game, a couple of irritating bugs but hopefully they patch them properly and not do what all game makers usually do and just ignore those who paid money for the game and start working on the next title... we have a hotlap competition at work and nominate a track each week, best time in time trial mode gets bragging rights. any car, any setup tweaks... it's good fun (specially cos I'm winning )

the white wire method normally works, except my POS timing light i got for free flickers randomly with the clip fully around the white wire. if I clip it "half" on then I get a proper timing strobe. And if I do the old school short spark plug lead between the coil pack and plug for cyl #1 it works perfectly. But now I'm lazy and just half clip the timing light onto the white wire. A decent timing light should work directly off the white wire no problems.

bah. you know it's not really winning if you have to share it with everyone who reads SAU. PM next time, biatch

Electronics whether they be car or home computer will happily operate within a certain thermal envelope. The more processing you do the more heat is generated, but modern manufacturing processes means this heat output is reduced compared with older technologies (for the same amount of processing power). Car ECUs are not a particularly stressful thing these days. Therefore they will happily be passively heatsinked by their own metal enclosure and no additional cooling is required (and there will be no benefit either). Earlier ECUs were pushing the envelope, I believe the R32 GTR that won bathurst had an ECU cooled by the car's fuel (!!!) because they were obviously trying to make it do a lot of clever work with the technology available in the day. These days heat output is a non-issue.

98% of the time this is absolutely the case. Very rarely you catch a bad egg or someone on a bad day but the vast majority of people who come on a forum and piss and moan about it have done the wrong thing themselves. Take the original subject of this thread for instance - the chick and her mum have gone to the media with the "woe is me" story, "I only took my seatbelt off to put the ticket in the machine". The REAL story is that she drove to the shopping centre without a belt on. On forums you only hear the side that suits the person telling it. So are you contradicting yourself there or is it only the regular cops you don't get along with? Hard to believe that they all start out as flamin mongrels and then graduate into nice people once they get highway/undercover.. don't you think? (I love the word censor... LOL) oh wait now you've really contradicted yourself. your argument is completely invalid, kthxbye

prolock make one with a square cross-section that is supposed to be stronger than the regular type. the regular type (round knobbled shaft) bend pretty easily. at the end of the day it's just a deterrent but better than nothing!

Yep. My late ex-neighbour was in crash investigation until depression got the better of him and he committed suicide. It was very difficult to see because his family knew he would do something but were powerless to stop it. I couldn't do that job. No ifs or buts. No way. I have great admiration for those who can. Did you know everything about your job before you started? Or were the first three months a real eye-opener? Unless you work in a fish and chip shop I'm pretty sure it's going to be the latter. Sure you are aware of the basics of what it's about but doing it is a very different thing to thinking about it from the outside. So you're basing your prejudice of cops on what the media reports and what a bunch of other bell-ends on forums post about cops giving them a hard time because the first thing they said to the cops when they rolled their window down was "I didn't do nuffink!". I have *always* had acceptable experiences with coppers. They're there to do a job, it's a shitty job and apart from the occasional bad egg I think they do it pretty damn well. The only time I've not had a positive experience was when one chased me down to fine me for mobile phone - but rules are rules. I was too lazy to use a handsfree and I paid for it.

this. most people on the internet suck at comprehension and they are completely wrong to selectively quote what they did. the law is simply that you must be wearing a seatbelt while operating a vehicle. technically the seatbelt should be on before you start the car and stay on until after the car is switched off. also you must park the car and switch it off before using a mobile phone. yes it's over the top but those are the rules. i would like to think that a police officer would be reasonable and apply their discretion rather than slapping you with a fine, unless that is you fail the attitude check by being a f**kwit.

BUT I WANT TO PAY $14 FOR AN AFM.. AND I WANT IT TO BE GOOD QUALITY!!!!!!!11uno the copies will instantly explode and you'll die in a huge fireball.

the smileys afterwards indicated i was being a tongue in cheek, i'm sure he knows what he's talking about just so happens there's a guide saying the same thing. but yeah, it's good to find mechanics who really know their stuff as opposed to the ones that have only recently evolved enough to pick up a spanner.

soft metal FTL. I wouldn't want to get a nut crossthreaded or stripped. they are holding your wheels on, you know i bought supercheap locknuts and the material is so soft that I almost rounded the tool the first time I used it. very poor quality it doesn't engage far and the metal is soft. i always cringed when i used them after that. got proper ones now. i reckon one bash with a chisel/hammer and they would have split in two.

surprised you guys are even responding. it's school holidays, yo.

Amazing.. if you didn't know better you'd swear he quickly googled the process while he was on the phone with you and come up with the link Johno posted.................. man that mechanic of yours sounds DODGY. avoid avoid avoid. Even if it costs money to fix sometimes it's better to just go YOU ARE NOT TOUCHING MY F**KING CAR AGAIN and go somewhere else, lesson learned. Had a mob screw up the 100k service on my car after I used them on a recommendation. I think the dude who recommended them has rocks in his head.

yes but slappers are easily persuaded to do other things once they get in your car to see the neons sleeping with slappers is still half gay. they're so easy they're practically dudes (because guys will pretty much root anything. amirite?)

yes and no.. the current bridgestones are so good that you can drive a full race on one set of tyres if you want. i would prefer that they give significantly more grip for about half the time and then drop off a cliff. that would make the racing interesting because it forces teams to pick their moment to change. now you can just manage the whole grand prix ohhh we were quick and ran a long stint it's now 10 laps from the end i guess we gotta start thinking of pulling in so we use the other compound. highest level of racing, tyres that last a full race even starting super heavy on fuel? come on. let's see some pit crew action. bernie is pushing F1 into all these places for one reason. MONEY. can run events cheaper, and squeeze more races into a season by persuading countries to build new tracks. fatter hip wallet. he gives Tillke a reacharound to flog out some more brain-dead track layouts and away we go.

they're made of plastic so not much of a bash plate. but useful to stop small debris from bouncing up into your engine bay if the car/truck in front stirs it up. and better for aero/cooling as it creates a vacuum behind the radiator and helps pull the air through.

webber's not so crash hot either if you take into account his career in general rather than the last handful of races when he's been on form. it's pretty easy to win if your car is much faster than everyone else's and you stick it on pole. that's how massa wins races too.

sucks, especially for a pretty clean looking R31.

or next door to me... sorry about that