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To get a licence you need to pay $88/$48 AND be a member of a CAMS affiliated car club. So join SCCSA as it's probably the cheapest at $35 for a year. So together, the licence and club membership for a year will cost you $83 for L2NS or $123 for L2S. Get the L2S Ash and then come and do regularity with me

Port Gawler is an awesome track for learning I reckon. I first linked a corner there And then a few months later, linked the whole track.... Ah fond memories of a place to drift weekly...

Ash: Yeah, SCCSA is a CAMS affiliated club, so you can get your L2S ($88) or L2NS ($48) with it. L2NS: Drift, motorkhanas and grip practice L2S: Hill-climbs, super sprints, regularity runs and all of L2NS. I had L2NS last year, but have stepped up to L2S this year so I can do regularity and super sprints, and possibly hill climbs. If this does become grip and drift, I'm gonna have to take SOOOOOOO many rims and tyres out... Could just get too lazy to change the semis and go drift on them Would be fun

Yeah, I'm gonna give MTQ a ring tomorrow. He didn't rebuild it, just put a rear seal in, we'll see what they say tomorrow anyway.

Was a 2nd hand turbo, but then took it to the guy to get the rear seal done and he said there seemed like there would be a good 2-3years left in it. 2 days later... No idea of turbo's previous history though... Also thought I'd mention, the bearings actually fell apart, the shaft bent and the wheels hit the housings.

Well I've got the whole turbo at home with me now, all in pieces. There is no blue on the bearings, they're all black and there is some brown on the shaft too. All the balls of the bearing have turned black too, along with the races that look like they have melted a bit... No idea about the oil pump, but he did suggest that that may be a problem as the restrictors needed to be drilled out to get what he said was the required oil flow. There was plenty of oil in the sump, not overfull, but full.

Back to a stock RB25 turbo now, was running an RB25 GCG highflow, which seized up after 2 days of running (1 day on a dyno and then 4 laps of Mallala). The same guy was the last to have it apart to do the rear seal on it, just want to make sure he's not trying to get out of it or anything like that...

Whether or not it should be 1.5L/min or infact less. On my car to achieve this figure we had to drill out both restrictors in the oil feed banjo bolts. With the restrictors before it was only getting around 0.9L/min. I'm just after confirmation of what he has said. Or if it's not right, I have to have a couple of words with him.

I just used universal ones from Repco too, do the job well enough

Hi, I'm just wondering how much oil flow the standard RB20 supplies to its turbo? I have been told that the turbos need 1.5L/min, but the guy has said a couple of other things to make me think twice about it. Any help would be appreciated EDIT OK, I've gotten onto GCG another way and found out that the GCG highflows need around 900cc/min to survive, which is exactly what was measured out of the oil feed line. So now I have to figure out why it's been starved of oil... MTQ suggested that somehow something may have been stuck in the line, but then somehow, relieved itself, this seems a bit odd though. The only other thing I can think of is the car stalled a couple of times on track, but I started it again straight after. Someone mentioned coking before as the bearings/shafts/races were all black instead of blue. I was always under the impression though that only plain bearing turbo suffered such huge problems from the car stallin unexpectedly or something. Any help would be great Cheers

How does the front R32 GTS-t bar fit? Mainly interested in linkpin angles. I was under the impression that the lever "arms" were too long for A31s with the R32 swaybars.

Mallala and AIR. You can also go out to do some motorkhanas which should get you a little bit of fun.

^^^ Definitely, great fun. Just gotta make sure your car's up to scratch (mainly brakes and cooling) 6x 15min sessions. Plenty of time out there for you. Starts (driving) at 10 and goes till 4. Gates open at 8 or so. $25/shed bay hire or just park on the grass. I think it would be great if we all pick a date to go out there (of the free practices, dates available here) as a group and just have a hoot out there

Do as above and any air left will come out slowly within a week as it gravity bleeds itself out (the resevoir is the highest point).

Good god I'm drunk... Last exam was today, so started drinking as soon as I got home, about 3pm

Clunks and rattles are usually worn spherical bearings in the strut top.

Whether or not the will clear your calipers depends a lot on the spoke design as well as the offset. 17x8+30 should fit with un-modified guards, if you have the car quite low, you may have to lip the guards slightly. On a 17x8, it's pretty hard to go overboard stretching so if you really want stretch, go find the skinniest tyre you can get. Should get some pretty interesting stretch with a 205/40R17 if that's what you're after. Yes that is a Lancer size, and yes its load index is far too low for a skyline and you've got bugger all rubber on the ground, but people that want heaps of stretch dont seem to care about any of this...

Slight correction, pillowball tops are not refering to the strut top itself being metal, I havn't seen one that isn't metal yet... If it referring to the fact that they use a spherical bearing/rose joint/pillow ball to locate the shock shaft to the strut top. For a street car, they provide lots of NVH and wear out quickly, then begin to knock once they start wearing out.

I think I'll just take my resistor pack out the car. Unclips and no resistor pack = no injectors

^^^ Yeah, rwkw is about ~15-20kw less than measured at the hubs. If you've got a 3.6 final gear, you should probably look into getting the stock 4.363 in there, much better match for the RB20, covers up its lack of bottom end a bit and keeps it in top end more. Unless of course you regularly need to go over 300km/hr?

^^^ SXY-33R: Bad luck with the turbo, have a look into the Sliding Performance highflows, heaps of people seem to be having good luck with them and pulling some pretty respectable numbers. And at under $1000, it's definitely worth a think about

I'd say his quoted figure is a bit more realistic. To only lose 20kw through the drive train (whilst revving the crap out of it, max power at 8160rpm) isn't very realistic at all. What turbo is that running? Looks pretty laggy, bit too laggy considering the power it makes.

They will more than likely just lip them as that's what most tyre shops do. Just fold the lip of the guard up so you get a bit more clearance.

And 88 cefiros can still be imported Same with any 88 car...

Yeah, I think for that money I'd rather spend it all on a well put together kit, Roy has freakin awesome results with his TD06-20G kit, would sure crap all over a stock RB25 That said, I'd still love an RB25...