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torque was well into the 800ft reigion. Actually 878.8 to be exact. Nope at the wheels on a mainline dyno. Now it've got an OS giken in it and the thing keeps stripping crown wheel and pinion teeth not clutches.

Mine was two or three meetings old and had done some dyno time as well. It sheared the driving lugs off the two carbon clutch discs. Engine was making just shy of 500Kw. It let go coming out of the pits at wakefield park so I decided that clutch was not the best option for me. I kept the whole thing but didn't even bother looking into warranty. Its still in the garage in a box.

it was a ross balancer but not the balancers fault. The pump was offset slightly due to the dry sump pump being under it. It was fine at lower revs but anything over 8K and it would try and walk the belt off. No molly in this car. Im using CDS as the primary material. Weight is not the concern this time around and unlike molly I know in 5 years time the space frame wont be riddled with cracks and weak points. Its also worth mentioning that there are a fair few people helping me out with this project. Sam at westend performance has done an awesome job assisting with the engine development and machining. His been helping us out with our engines for 15 years (since I was in karts and motocross) and id never use anyone else for machining. The boys at bobjane in Campbeltown are great and do heaps for us, I use the alligner last minute, late night before a meeting just about every time without fail! Nick at racetige in tarren point has been instrumental with the suspension development in the white car and his onboard for this too. Gary Cook has also been a massive help with suspension and sway bar development. Greg at Autosport engineering of course, who has been having his spares pilfered and modified for years now but lets me keep coming back everyday. Dean and Joseph at revolution racegear who look after us really well again its always last minute! Steve and the boys at Just jap. Should have seen daz's face when I asked if he could keep an eye out for some 18x13 inch jap rims..... Jay helps a massive amount with getting the car ready to race, usually on the dumby grid things are still happening. Its far from over but a massive thanks to you mate! Liam Hill, riverside racing parts, only meet him a few weeks ago but so far in this build Ive asking him more questions than I thought id ever have to, his always helpful and has great advise. People wouldn't realise just how uptight some people can be about race cars untill you try to get information. It can be painful! Many thanks mate the advise and conversation is invaluable. If I can return the favours you need only ask. Its a long way from finished but there are sooo many people who help out from local bussiness' to interstate parts suppliers. It would be impossible to build this or anything for that matter without their support.

Sorry the mounts on the rack are 800mm apart. There is another 60mm of rack each side before the rack arm begins Here's a few photos from the garage. I built the entire white GTR in this garage but the new one is going to outgrow it and have to move to the workshop or the parents workshop shortly. I like having the garage heated and being able to work of a night time at the moment so it'll stay till I can't do anymore. Plus the lathe, mill and machinary are not here. The surface rust on the material is nothing, the whole car will be bead blasted and powercoated/painted depending on the final weight. I've just finished milling up some alloy blocks with scallops taken out of them to rest the chassis rails on at the desired ride height. Those wooden blocks are not really accurate but closish representation of the rails height. You can see where the front end has been cut off and the fire wall used to be. This is from the rear of the car. You can see whats been cut out of it. The tires at the front are 300wide michelins that will be the front tires. Keen eyes will see how much has been removed from the sill panels too. Photo of the rear quarter, or where it used to be. There is still more material to be taken out of the internal skins around here Random shot of Jay cutting up the rear section. Another random shot to stir duncan, He actually managed to get in and out of the R32! This is the cage in my other GTR, ill be pretty much replicating it ontop of the space frame

The knuckles on the rack are 800mm apart. So within the chassis rails. I was contempating manual steering but with an 11-12 inch rim on the front I think thats out of the question now. I've used a Tilton pump on the GTR but planned to use the TRW pump like Dave has done with the new car. The Tilton required an external resivour and is pretty heavy. I used to throw a steering belt atleast once a round. Its not had any problems with the steering since the change and its so much smoother to use.

Actually save me writting an email. Liam what do you typically use for steering racks?? Im almost set on using a woodward rack I have with an electric power steering pump. I currently use a nissan rack with electric pump and it works really well, problem is the nissan racks don't have any decent mountings without using silly shaped brackets.

Yeah I have made some slow progress I've been getting Duncan's production car back up and running but i've managed to do a bit. I've cleaned up the remaining body shell and laid down the two main chassis rails. I've knotched tube and tacked them together so they are parrallel at the distance I want. I've also got the two outter rails made up that the main body will be mounted off and the supports to join the main rails and the outters are knotched up and ready to TIG in. Made a dumby hoop and front legs from 15mm OD tube that I can use as a template for the main stuff. I started machining the uprights from billet tonight, (ill probably do one to start with to make sure it will work) I've done a few CAD drawings of the suspension and worked out control arm angles, roll centers and everything else I could think of. Still deciding how im going to do the shock mounts. Id like rocker arm but not convinced as yet. Im still not sure what sort of ride height the Chassis should end up with but looking over it thats governed by the wheels, uprights, suspension angles and so forth. The best procedure to building this is not really clear to me yet, Im trying to look at it from as many angles as possible always looking into the future before doing anything. The iritating part about this is the time i've spent thinking and designing the car I could have built the cage in my white GTR all over again. Something different though.

Cut the whole body away and build it like this. Ill put a few up of key areas latter that I think the R32 could be culled.

Sent you a PM

Its two weeks away. Don't you just need a clutch to make it drivable.

I wouldn't use one. been there broken that.

wakfield on the 29th private practice day plenty of test and tune time... Its two weeks away so heaps of time to sort anything out that needs to be done. Im going down to muck around with the GTR in RWD some more.

I fail to see what this thread has to do with motorsport. Or have I missed the point totally?? Im going to wakefield on the 29th anyone wanna come......

Id be taking Gary's advice with the bump steer and weights if it has not already been fully set-up. What bars are actually in it currently Gary?? I do agree that its a guessing game with the spring rates when such a drastic engine change has been made. From what i seen of it besides being unsettled through the turns (which could be driver as well) it was pretty well planted.

Did Garry end up doing the initial set-up?? Was it cornered and how did it balance up?? Watching it go through turn two it was moving far to much weight to the front and becoming light in the arse (obviously) First thing id be doing is raising the front spring rate providing the rest of the set-up is within the normal R32 ball park. Im planning to take my 32 back out shortly to do some minor spring and sway bar changes. Ill let you know when and if your free bring it out as well. I've got a few different bars and springs to your welcome to try. Also any idea what kind of speed you were trying to enter turn 1 at?? Was it as bad anywhere else around the circuit?

Im not overly concerned about the body. Its actually still pretty ridgid. Duncan wants to poke and prod at the remains, he'll get his chance next weekend. Ill brace it for you guys tommorrow.

Duncan and I were talking about this tonight, Im going to play NSW stuff for the time being. Ill spend the time and money getting it reasonably competative before racing it but thats the initial goal. Ill see how it goes but I know the national series is a big ask. I may do some of the local national rounds. I think the thing could be pretty competative, I wouldn't have started it if I thought it would be a nugget. Without blowing my own trumpet I can steer but still have alot to learn as well. I always planned to race the white car in the NSW series but its just not feasable. its bloody quick for what it is though. I Know id be leading from the 3rd row of the grid by turn one but after that id get my arse handed to me. I dont mind loosing but I hate loosing miserably. This will no doubt be quicker than my current car but I haven't really got anything or anyone targeted. Im more so building it for personal satisfaction and reasons I guess.

haha, we were all posting at the same time.. In comparision my current white GTR is built to 3d AWD rules and its no where near quick enough to be a front runner. Brandsters GTR which is very similar to mine is still off the pace as well but has shown some speed at times. Thinking this car will now use a 2.6L engine again. A few reasons. First being we have recently tested a killer RB26 which is certainly something different. If its a 2.6 I can drop some more weight 1050kg compared to 1200Kg if im reading the rules right and doing the correct math. We currently use 2.6L engines so only need to keep one or two spare for the three cars instead of two for each capacity. The question will be reliability making the power over race distance but im more than confident they can do it. I can mount the engine alot better in this chassis which will help the long straight six stay in a straight line and not flex. (yes we've had them flex in the block before)

Not free no. Wheel base has a 100mm+- tolerance Track is free but the body cant be anymore than 100mm per side wider and the wheels must be under the guards so that limits track to +200mm really Maximum rim width is 370mm Thats my interpretation of the rules. I've decided how the basic chassis will be constructed tonight and the rough design of the cage. Still working on suspension geometry but its coming along. The suspension is a real learning curve. Guys who are trying to tune suspension on floor pan GTR's are doing it the hard way. Working with roll centers and calculating instant centers etc is an art that im having to learn. I thought my GTR had pretty good suspension under it (Duncan is pretty impressed by it to say the least) but this is going to be so much better!

yeah im going to mould off another GTR quarter I have here. I suprised how much crap is there!

Yeah we were thinking the same thing ben. Why are we doing this again.... Its been done many times over but not to a skyline as far as im aware.

Well anyone who says there skyline has got no more weight to loose is a wanker. There is SO much material in an R32 body shell its not funny. It would almost be worth removing the entire rear quarter and the C pillar to remove the triple skins then fitting a new quarter to a GTR. The sill panels are heavy as and the extra bracing everwhere is hell. Even under the window frames and front end there is so much excess material that is not needed. We kinda went a bit further than most would ever want to but here is the result. There is still some panel to come off and some internal sheel metal to be removed but we have a base to work with now Here is what left of an R32 when you take the bits that are actually needed. Yes we managed to leave the whole thing together as a floor pan. It is still really heavy and the top section might be lucky to weigh 40Kgs.

It had the same attitude problems my car used to have wanting to switch ends all the time! Was fairly entertaining to watch. Up the front spring rates, stiffen the front bar then toe the rear in more.

What type of mono Brembo??

Yeah he did more K's in my car yesterday than his own in 2 months His GTR is cursed.