Kennedy

Have you managed to hook up consult yet to see if it is your fuel pump thats failing?

http://www.nismo.com.au/ Go to "Parts Catalogue" then "Electronics"

The Resoviours always leak...especially when driven hard. You'll see most 33's at the track with a sock or something over the PS resoviour. Pretty sure you can use auto transmission fluid (Dexron) stuff. Best to wait till someone confirms this for me.

Autostyle

I rev till about 3000. Lift the bandbrake, let clutch out till the friction point and then release then hanbrake. I may not come onto boost as quick as the guys who drop and feather the clutch at 4000 but it's consistent. Tyres and suspension play a monumental part aswell

Spotted "spooled" on lady game drive this arvo. He seemed distracted

Definitly have it on. A guy at the Z-Tune track day didnt have one one his S15 and the wires caught fire mid lap. The heat shield not only shield heat but acts a mounting point for a whole binch of wires (02 sensor i think). Unless you secure these wires some other way away from the turbo then the wires dangle dangerously close to the turbo. In summary...there is no gain in having it off.

Above is the quote from Shell website. Adam, The Shell on Wicks Road in Ryde sells it. Also the Shell on Epping Road (near Macquarie sells it). And if your ever in the city, the shell at Taylor Square/Oxford St sell it I've been on extreme for nearly a year. Sometimes I change back to BP and can definitly feel the difference. Looking forward to what V power can do...... Here's a link to the FAQ's

Hey BB, If you dont mind can you be more specific or is this just your opinion?

Hey Guys, Not sure if there is a thread already about this but it seems that Shell have changed their fuel structure. Optimax is now "Shell V power" Optimax Extreme has been superseeded by "V Power Racing" Reading through the brochure and web site it seems that V power racing is an upgrade rather than a rebadging of extreme/ Claiming that V power has a minimum of 100 RON but avereages 101+. This is a claim that extreme never made so it interests me... Upgrade from Shell Optimax Extreme to new Shell V-Power Racing I filled up my first tank last night and will let you know how it go's. I oly have a stock ECU though without a knock reading so my feedback will only be impressions and stuff. I guess we can all wait and see if SK will take up the challenge and do his full test on it on our behalf What i do know is that Extreme is now gone or at least on its way out.

Some people have all the luck. Me hoping my tax return will cover a SK set this year

Up to you. Th ride height is adjustable via collars on the shock.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...764&hl=flow http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...283&hl=flow

Will potential power be power reduced? Yes. More Importantly your turbo will not be able to produce boost as "efficiently". This will result in increased lag and higher turbo temps. You can pick up second hand decent CATS for <$200. It's worthwhile investment which you will never have to touch again.

Stock Cat? Why?

SK's Bilstein shocks with your stocker springs. Mate of mine just did that and the ride is firmer than stock but still nice and soft. Ride is adjustable.

1. What is your name and where are you from? Sam from Ryde. Sydney. Grew up in Galston 2. What is your occupation? Analyst for Vodafone 3. What is your date of birth and blood type? 25/5/06. No Idea. 4. What are your hobbies? Racing. Weekend Warrior car mods 5. How many years have you had your license and what license type are you? Gold. 8 years 6. How many accidents have you had (your fault) and how many traffic violations have you had? No accidents where I was at fault. One where I wasn’t. Maybe 12 traffic violations in total 7. What was the car you owned before your current one? Barina GSi 8. What is your current car and it's mileage? 94 R33 GSTT 88K's 9. Is the car Auto or Manual? Man 10. What part of your car is unique that no one else has? Rims. FMIC behind stock S1 bar (not very common). Exhaust sound is something I get a lot of comments on 11. Do you own a motorbike? Nope 12. Biggest trouble/problem you've ever had with a car you've owned? Barina. Skipped 3 three teeth on the timing belt 13. Do you have an in-car navigation system? no 14. Do you have an e-tag/electronic toll unit? What are your thoughts on the system? yes. Works for me as my mum pays the etag bill 15. Do you have a particular route or road that you enjoy driving on? What is it? Galston Gorge. No explanation required 16. Do you have a meet point that you prefer? What is it? No 17. What petrol do you use? Why do you use it... Brand, Price or Convenience? Optimax Extreme. Car loves it and there are two servos within 5KM's of my house that sell it. 18. What is your favorite engine oil? ELF Excellium 10W50 19. How often do you change the oil in your car? 5000 K's and straight after a track day 20. What make is your tyre, and what size is it? Bridgestone. TS01's on the rear (17/40/255). GIII's on the front. (17/45/235) 21. How much tread is left on your tyres at the moment? 40% 22. Do you use winter tyres? No 23. How often do you wash your car? Fortnight 24. What magazines do you read/subscribe to? HPI/Autosalon. All the Ben Ellis Mags 25. What music do you listen to while driving? Dirty trance 26. Do you listen to the radio in your car? If so what station and/or show do you prefer? Alan Jones in the morning 27. When you are stuck in traffic, what do you do to pass time? Look at people 28. What products can you simply not be without in your car? CD wallet, tyre pressure gauge, spare tyre 29. Do you prefer to take the highway or the scenic route to places that are between 50 to 100 km's away? Scenic 30. Does your significant other prefer to accompany you on your drives in the passenger seat? Yes 31. What is your preferred tuning shop? PowerPlay 32. What is your preferred second hand parts shop? SAU Forum 33. When you see the sticker "Baby On Board" what do you do or think? Ghey 34. Do you like the Nissan models that have been released since Carlos Ghosn took over as CEO? 350Z is cool. Thats it 35. Although the R34 Skyline has been replaced by the V35, do you consider it a valid successor? No 36. What are your 3 most favourite Nissan models, excluding the one you own? R32 GTR, R34 GTR, DR30 37. What are your 3 most favourite non-Nissan cars? Series 6 RX7, Renault Clio Sport, F6 Typhoon 38. If you were to buy a new car now, what would it be? new GTR on backorder for 2008 39. Although its not Nissan, do you like Rotary Engines? Would have to do more research on it. Have never owned one 40. What quality do you feel your car lacks? Good Driver and steering. Understeers more than I like 41. What generation is your Skyline? R33 GTST S1 42. Is your car RWD or AWD? RWD 43. Why did you choose to buy your car? Coz my 3 previous cars blew up (all within a year) 44. When you chose your car, what other models did you also consider? None really. S1 or S2 33 45. When you bought the car, what condition was it in? Normal or needed some work? Tip Top. Grade 4. 46. How many times do you drive your car in a week? Everyday 47. If you had to coin a catchphrase for Skylines, what would it be? Sex on wheels 48. What car would you say is a rival model to yours as far as features are concerned? dont know 49. What is in your opinion, the best features of your Skyline? Zorst. Sounds sexy 50. What parts of your car don't work like they should? Left hand side mirror doesnt fold in 51. Have you ever dreamt of your car? Give an example. Yes. Driving on the run from the cops. 52. What do those close to you (family, partner etc) think of your car? They like it. My sister when and bought one as soon as she saw mine 53. What spec would you class your car as? Drift, Drag, Circuit, or Cruiser? Circuit 54. Which is more important to you about your car? Appearance, Performance/Power or Comfort? Performance all the way 55. What seats and steering wheel do you have in your car? Stock. This is changing very soon 56. What brakes does your car have? (Including disc/hub) Stock disc. Ultimate pads 57. What exhaust does your car have? Kakimoto 58. What headunit/stereo is in your car? Sony 59. What gauges does your car have? Autogauge 60. What aftermarket suspension parts does your car have? JIC Coilovers 61. What structural reinforcement parts does your car have? Front strut bar 62. What intake/cooling parts do you have on your car? Pod with heat shield 63. Anything else you have replaced on your car? Heaps of shit 64. How many km/l do you get out of your car on average? 380 65. Do you think you'll be driving the same car in 5 years? yes. 66. Would you purchase the car you own if it was new? (ie you'd be the first owner of the car) Would never purchase a brand new car 67. If you were given the choice between your car and your partner, which would you choose over the other? Partner eventually 68. If the Skyline you own did not exist, what would you be driving right now? S15 69. A lot of Skyline owners are changing to Evo's, what do you think of them and would you change? Good value. But Line is still sexier 70. Which headlight do you prefer, projector or non projector and HID or regular? Dont give a shit. Whatever is cheaper so I can spend the cash on performance mods 71. If you were to respray your car, what colour would it be? Same. Gun Grey...maybe a bit darker than what I have now 72. What is the first mod that you would do on a stock version of your car? Turbo back zorst 73. Is there a mod in particular that you would like to never see done to a Skyline? Convertable 74. If your car is RWD, is there any time when you wish it was AWD? Or if your car is AWD, is there any time when you wish it was RWD? Nope. Like RWD 75. Have you ever considered your car awkward or uncool? Why? Nope 76. Do you have any brochures for your car? Where'd you get it from? No 77. Do you have a service manual, log book and owner's manual for your car? Yes 78. How do you feel about the price of Skylines on the market now compared to the price you paid for your car? The fuel price is hurting everywhere. 79. If money was not an issue, what tuning mods would you make to your car? Complete Suspension upgrade. Lower Diff ratios, hi flow turbo and tune. Buckeet seats, harnesses, lap timing equipment. The rest is up to me. 80. Would you upgrade the hub assembly of your car? (eg 4 stud to 5 stud) no 81. Would you upgrade the air-con system in your car? (eg manual to climate control) no need to 82. Have you made any parts for your car, or any DIY mods? Cut up a sock to put over my power steering resoviour 83. Do you own any spare parts for your car that aren't needed yet? no. Dont really think that far ahead. I should though 84. If it was feasible to own a second car identical to yours, would you? Yes 85. How much have you spent on repairs to your car? no idea. Not much. Not much has gone wrong./ Just finished my powerup project and now have a touch over 200RWKW to play with safely. Now I just have to learn how to go fast and steer. 86. If you see another Skyline which has been modified differently, do you pick faults in it? Dpepends. If its something I'm familair with then yea. If not then I find out mroe about it and then make up my mind. 87. Have you ever watched Initial D, and do you think your car would have beaten Takumi? Yes. No I suck at drift. 88. Would you buy a scale model of your car, and how much would you be willing to spend up to on it? I would build one. I use to race R/C. 89. Would you buy a remote control model of your car, and how much would you be willing to spend up to on it? If I was ever to do it I would want a working version of it in race spec. Around $1500.00 90. Has your car ever been in a magazine? If so what and which issue? Hoping to get me in a background shot of AutoSalon this month for the Z-Tune track day at OP 91. Have you ever participated in a cruise or attended a meet for Skyline owners? One or two. Cruising bores me though. 92. Is there any other forum members' car that you idolise or was very impressed by? Sydney Kid for suffering from knowitallism and Liz for being a top chic that would kick most guys arses on the track including mine. 93. Would you do a face swap/upgrade (ie R34 front on R32, C33 front on A31, etc)? Nah. 94. What would you consider the locally produced equivalent of your car? Nope. I love my car. 95. You are offered to pick straws, one straw will get you free mods of your choice and track time to test them, the other will see your car returned to factory standard. Would you pick straws? Yes I would. It's worth it 96. You are to attend a track day, however your car gets damaged, and have the following choices: - run the same model as your car, but with a fully tuned RB20E engine. The car has done 150,000kms, and the engine has done 50,000kms. - run the same model as your car, but with a RB20DET auto. The car has done 500,000kms, and the turbo has done 60,000kms. - run your damaged car What would you do? Rebulld my damaged car 97. If you were to grade yourself as an expert on Skylines, what would you be out of 100? 75 98. What is the purpose your car serves in your life? Hobby, mistress 99. One word that describes Skyline owners in the country and the rest of the world? ? 100. Other than "that was long and tiring" do you have any comments? Go away. I'm sleepy now

Cheers for the responses guys. Most helpfull

Hey Guys, Before I start hitting tracks on a regualr basis I would just to have some sort of timing solution, which is better than bringing a friend with a stop watch or mounting a stowatch on your dash. Are there any purpose built stand alone solutions there for this?? I've seen this timer made by some italian company which fits in the centre of teh steering wheel which i think is cool...but it doesnt have a lap memory so it's only usefull for 1 hot lap. I guess what I'm after is a cheap, purpose built timer with a memory for lap times so I can stack up individual lap times, that can be easily secured to the car and easily pressed whilst going WOT down pass the start/finish line. Any ideas?

They do have one use. To ensure that your 02 sensor is working...

Brace stopper solved my mushiness

Wousses. Just coz you guys cant handle drinking for 12 hours straight.

Pinout 29 on the ECU. Grab you power from your cigarrette lighter. have fun getting dizzy watching the thing.

There is a guy here on SAU that does installs for $150.00 i think. Cant remember his name though....Does anyone else know who this guy is? Apprantly he's does a tip top job.

Get a cheap kit from Just Jap/CRD/GkTek. Heaps of people (including myself) have them and they rock. An intercooler has no moving parts...there isn't much that could go wrong. Some fit better than others but remeber that you have 3 or 4 pipes with silicon joiners which have a lot of flex and can me moved around to get the best fit. If possible have a crack at doing the install yourself...just make sure you have a weekend free to do it. Until the days that you strat running 300+RWKW with 20Psi Boost there is no need to think about the shit hot coolers such as ARC. Good Luck