Kinks

drift oil filters? maybe they're designed to leak oil so you can get sideways more easily and the knock is your engine rattling itself to death. coopers filters are very good quality, keep using them.

I care --><-- this much. All it means is that with a side mounted number plate you can afford to drive a little bit slower so everyone can see how siiiik you are, for the same air/water/knock/wank level

I only have one opinion about the concept of applying a light-reducing tint to a surface designed to allow light to pass through it in order for you to see where you're going. f**king stupid.

You should be designing the sub + enclosure combination so that the natural frequency response is as close to ideal as possible. Generally this means aiming for a flat response before the "knee", a -3dB point of 40-50Hz and 12dB/octave rolloff. After this, then set the amplifier level to match the rest of your system (bass/treble levels equal) and then tune the crossover point so the sub blends properly with your other speakers. You should not be using the amplifier to band-aid a poor enclosure/speaker match by ramping up the gain. If your speaker is not matched to its enclosure and you try and correct it using the amp, then you will be pushing much more power at the speaker than you need to and it will fail. some light reading for you: http://www.bcae1.com/spboxad1.htm

finally we've found a use for Mormons!

it's like a ferrari, the fewer colours a car comes in the better it is.

There's a woman in the Manly Daily recently who got into an accident trying to park her car, already had her licence cancelled to 2099 and now they added another 10 years to that - she's in her 80s!! big whoop! Fined her $300 plus court costs or something as well, seriously. Once you get to that age they won't lock you up because there would be a community outcry. Her attitude was the same as well, "stuff you all". Several times during the hearing the judge told her to be quiet because she was representing herself and would arc up and have a go at people whenever she felt like it. And she's getting away with it.

Had a friend with an EVO4 who drive it like he stole it and it broke things too. Then again <insert "it's only a dressed up lancer" joke> Any car you don't treat with mechanical sympathy will break eventually.

Then your area is wrong

ditto. I was tossing up between an R32 GTR (dream car since childhood) and an R33 GTS-t (practical daily driver). Coming off the back of an R31 which already had old age issues I didn't want to go there again so I picked the R33 and haven't looked back. Would love to have the money to get a GTR and have it as a weekender car, and just replace anything that looks old (basically a mini resto job I guess!). Maybe when I finally have the money they'll be old enough to need a real resto job!!

Hundreds of references online point to it being a nylon wheel and having felt a S2 turbo with my hands the compressor does not feel metallic at all.

I'd be interested in reading it if you can PM it to me BTW Joe it was interesting to read that written report, since you gave him a good rap. I noticed in his header he's in Forestville, I grew up not far from there. Might be handy to know one day!!

100% wrong. See my first post in this thread (#5).

I have only heard of this with GTRs, possibly because the twin design is more susceptible to allowing particles back up the exhaust headers. Does it happen with GTS-t's too?

it's school holidays, these kind of people aren't able to own skylines

Not if the owner drives like a pussy and "1 bar" is just for street cred

Nope. They NEVER look at me. I've jinxed myself now but I've had the car since July 2006 and I've never been pulled over for "having a skyline" except for once when I was on a big skyline cruise and they were looking for some idiot who had done burnouts. I wasn't them so they let me go quick smart. Cops don't target skylines unless you modify them. FMIC + exhaust + chromies = cop bait. Cops, like daft impressionable women, are attracted to shiny things (although for different reasons).

How will chopping your springs REDUCE your bottoming out issues? Sell your skyline and buy a civic. Please.

keep the standard bov don't be an attention whore

10psi won't wear anything out any quicker especially if you treat your car nicely ie warm it up before boosting and drive gently the last few minutes of your trip to let everything cool down again. keep it serviced regularly and it'll be sweet. you should keep an ear out for pinging on the new boost setting, with standard exhaust my series 2 will ping more so I've left it standard until i do the exhaust.

unless it's a Torsen! MKIV Supras have a Torsen diff in them, which *IS* an LSD however it has the peculiar trait that if one wheel is in the air then the diff loses its LSD action. If your friend had put his foot on the brake a little while the unloaded tyre was free-spinning then the diff would have locked up and dragged him out.

depends if you're running a bleed valve or EBC too. on my R31 I ran a bleed valve and it hit 15psi in the midrange and tapered off to 10psi at high revs. That (standard) turbo had no problems at all, most likely because your peak shaft speed is at redline (assuming same boost level at all revs). The turbo doesn't have to work too hard to produce 15psi at 4000RPM and then at 7000RPM it's only producing 10 pound. EBC running 1 bar to redline, different story. Then the turbo is forced to spin much faster -> fail.

ALL recent skyline turbos (R32 onwards) have a ceramic turbine wheel. R32 has a steel compressor wheel R33 series 1 has a steel compressor wheel R33 seres 2 has a nylon compressor wheel R34 has a nylon compressor wheel AFAIK.

SPR-15E, very clever.. The only problem with rotaries as sleepers is most of them give the game away as soon as you hear them. If you had a very quiet exhaust on one then I agree, it would be a ripper. Re the 31, if you're right then yeah not that fast but if he's tickled it then it might be a bit more interesting jesus.. 1) buy old bomb 2) fit big engine ... 31) wail on the door with your foot for added authenticity

+1 vote for low powered cars for P-platers and compulsory advanced driver training. I'm so glad I didn't drive a skyline when I was younger.