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So your running a AASA version of the kuhmo series?? Are you planning to check eligibility via Supercar history or is it open to any "touring car" Example could a New Zealand VY touring car run? I might actually be keen to bring my VY GRM chassis to a round if it takes off. Are engines required to be period for the car or free? So would a 2012 spec 888 engine in a VY be eligible? Wouldn't want to go back to the old 18deg chev.

Honestly there is 3 I'd send up there as is and one more that would be close. There is harder places on the tour than Bathurst. Clipsal was one of them. Chaos canyon on surfers is obviously another. What GMS did with the GTR will always be admired. They took a nugget of a car and made it great, no doubt. I'm betting there will be a win this year for Scotty mcglauclan. GRM have a pair of good cars this year and Scott has a lot of COTF miles. On one of his better known circuits I think he will come out on top.

COTF shares an almost identical weight distribution to previous cars. The old diffs were heavy and by the time you added drive shafts, spool center, crown wheel and pinion, diff bracing, watts link , bearing carriers, brakes etc to them the weight crept up. The tank was also behind the rear axle. A full fuel safe sprint cell with swirl pot reserve and pumps was around 130kg. The new transaxle is lighter than the fuel system and diff of old combined. The COTF fuel tank is slightly heavier than the Hollinger which was In roughly the same position (further forward obviously but I between the axle none the less) The chassis are not that dissimilar in terms of torsional rigidity and behaviour. Regardless of what people think the floor pans of last years car right back to VX have very little incommon with the road car.

Gardner did have moments of glory but in general the captain chaos title suits him well. He should have stuck with HRT and had a decent car instead of the leased buckets from Perkins he was trying to run. Stonner has stepped into an ex Bathurst winning 888 chassis that should be at the front of DVS. I do feel for the other guys in DVS that work their arses off to make it there and have had the TV exposure etc taken from them. That's motorsport though.

Can't believe no one has mentioned the "stonner show" from last weekend Hats off to the guy for having a go. I personally think he could go far. The cars are difficult to drive and his adapted reasonably quickly.

Last weekend we competed in the Wakefield 300 endurance race along side PIstore in an S15 that we built and prepared for production car racing. The event went well before the poor little factory SR20 threw a rocker arm and ran on 3 cylinders 94 laps into the race. Great event we will certainly return next year for another crack at it.

The majority of cars I've setup with these have had absolutely no need for them. They are heavier than factory arms They are more prone to failure 90% of them are installed incorrectly and never setup properly usually having poor rear bump steer. They are prone to coming loose Rod ends wear faster than ball joints They are good for widening track and gaining camber Correcting roll centres on some cars Quality ones are stronger than factory on cars bouncing from ripple strips

I've seen so many of those cheaper arms do exactly what those ones have done. There is nothing wrong with the arm other than an incorrect thread cut for the rod end. Typically I install them and set the car up then remove the arms and weld the things together. Rod end wears out just chuck the whole arm and buy another.

Air conditioning can be retained with the external oil pump system I've been doing. Mine is far better than any external oil pump system currently on the market. It eliminates the surge issues as well as the broken pump issue. It's half the cost of a complete dry sump system. I've done about 6 systems now all of which have been tracked and driven hard. A 2 stage pump feeds a surge tank arrangement in the same way a fuel system operates. Tank design has been the key to making the system work due to oil airation.

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It is for GTR and skyline owners. I've owned over 15 of them in 10 years....... When I locked up tonight there was 14 cars in my workshop, 8 of them are Skylines, 7 of those are seriously high end preped Motorsport cars. I wouldn't say I hate them at all. On the contrary infact. It's people who think group A is some sort of mystical god category that was the only one worth watching that annoys me. People who race GTR's now will even tell you that they are racing the wrong car compared to the rest of the grid. They do it because they enjoy the car and are passionate about them. Personally I didn't have enough time to keep fixing mine and bought a Supercar instead.....

I highly doubt I'm the only one who has that opinion of the old group A racing. In fact their is a post agreeing with me just below mine. People really do need to move on from 1992

It's funny. If and when there is a GT3 GTR in Australia all the GTR fanboys will praise it for being a GTR and a V8 Supercar killer blah blah and carry on about how its a GTR but a Supercar is just a body shell. Seriously there is as much GTR in a GT3 skyline as there is ford or holden in a V8 Supercar.... Fair enough they are primarily based on the monocoque chassis but so were the V8's till this year.

Group A racing was dead the whole way across the world. When will people realise the GTR wasn't banned, the entire category ceased and changed to an entirely different format. It had nothing to do with elliminating the GTR. The fact nissan aus and Japan are allowing the Kelly's to run as a factory backed team is great. Screw the GTR, screw group A racing (as good as it was its dead and will never be back) nissan have the Altima and wanted to push the car to the public market. I love my GTR's as much as the next guy but they are intelligible so move on. The peak of Aussie motor racing is the V8 supercars and the category has made significant changes to appeal to the public. The reality is the majority of Motorsport fans appreciate supercars and enjoy the category. It's the minority's like the nissan fan boys and sierra fan boys that whine and bitch about it. The cars use the body shells so they can obtain manufacture support. Infant a lot of the panels being used are factory parts.

A lemans replica we did some consulting and suspension setup work with Custom catch can for a VN commodore R33 Racer completed engien bay

Troy I do still do those hicas rear ends, the design has changed slightly to make them easier to fabricate but essentially the same components. Its been a while as weve been flooded with work before the Wakefield 300 and the begining of the motorsport year begins. R33 Nacca duct completed 180sx cage thats being done R32 GTR power steering resivour AP upgrade Intake and cooler pipes for a GTR R33 M spec bumper splitter right back to fabricated mounts on the subframe

Would be 600hp on any of the benchmark dynos if its low to mid 500's on the custom bugs dyno. 450kw, 0 miles, 300km race.

$1000 without the resonator.

If I was to do a minimum of 5 systems using 4 inch mild steel with resonators and mufflers I could do them for $1200 each with flanges, bolts and gaskets. 4 inch mufflers and resonators aren't cheap By comparison a 3.5in system doing 5 of them I'd say $880-990.

What do you guys think a 4 inch system in mild steel would be worth? Cat back (decat built in if needed) Cannon rear muffler Resonator in the center Proper bolted rubber mounts Flanged rear section It will be no means be a quiet exhaust system.

Design will be as straight as possible with a resonator mid way and a rear muffler. Mike I have a wholesaler who can get 3.5 & 4in in a 1mm wall. It's a day or two lead time to have it.

Ill work out a couple of options today and post them up. If people want it ill start a group buy thread and link it here. Id rather stick the group buy to one option as when I buy material and parts Ive got far more buying power doing them all in one material than I would having to buy less of each material. Stainless is affordable, most of the cars we do are circuit racers than destroy exhausts in a year or two and mild steel is cheaper to replace so its the most used material. Thin wall mild is fairly light as well.

Off to the tuner today.

A rough estimate using Ti 6Al-4V (most popular and corrosion resisatant alloyed Ti) would be between $3200 and $3500 for a 4in with a fabricated Ti muffler.

I've got a quieter day on tomorrow so ill price up 4 inch systems with mufflers. I can do 4in Ti but it isn't cheap obviously.