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Cheers, sent email to both.

I'd looked at that site so good to hear feedback about it. Cheers

I should clarify, i don't mean Clints Crazy Bargains fittings, i just mean an alternate source to Pirtek/Enzed locally who seem to want to charge a bunch. All I'm doing is a fitting a bigger turbo a track based S13 with a CA in it, it's budget racing

Where are you guys sourcing turbo fittings from, the local Enzed what rediculous dollars for what seem to be basic fittings. I need a 4AN to 14mm banjo and a 4AN to 14mm straight through. Are there any cheap places online besides eBay?

They seem to hold value well from what I'm seeing Terry, I think some of that is that they don't push fleet and that they are a relatively new family of car compared to some others. 350GT will be out of the price range, Accords are a maybe, we're going for a look this weekend so she can drive a few and we can check out boot space. The car would be with us long enough that prams might be a consideration, though we've discussed that she could drive my falcon and I could drive the smaller car to work if boot space was an issue.

As the devout Nissan lover I am i had considered an N16 but the missus doesn't like it and it's a bit smaller than a Mazda6. A mate of mine has one and her prtner is always complaining about how shit it is, 65,000ks and using oil like it's got 265,000ks, I doubt that's normal though but still surprised me as I've got a CA powered S13 track car and it takes a beating and keeps asking for more. Other things I'm considering are 07 plated Camry's the newer shape, anyone had anything to do with those? Toyota land scares me for parts though, is that a justified reaction?

Cheers for the feedback. What sort of fuel economy do you get and what type of driving do you do? Is your's the 4 or 6 cylinder?

Morning gents, The missus is looking to switch jobs and if it goes ahead she'll lose her new Mazda3 company car so we've been looking around at mid size cars up to 10k. Initially we were going to go with a Mazda 6 as we've had 2 company Mazda3s and they have been excellent little cars. Something like this. http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/mazda-6-2003-11728709?cr=0&eapi=2&page=1&silo=Stock&sort=~Price&Range=Price:Min,Max~1|Mileage:Min,100000&__N=1216%201246%201247%201252%201282%204294965340%204294961345&vertical=Car&distance=25 But in my searching I came across the last model of the Vectra (the Opel one) before they brought in the Daewoo based Epica. The below as an example. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2006-Holden-Vectra-ZC-MY05-Upgrade-CDX-Silver-5sp-Hatchback-/270818490136?pt=AU_Cars&hash=item3f0e0a3718#ht_2317wt_1346 My question is, who here owns/drives either of those and what do you think? The missus leans towards the Vectra because it's newer (so more info on that would be great) but I'm a bit concerned about V6 FWD and the amount of Electrics the Vectra has being a Euro car and top of its range here. I can't imagine it'd be cheap to get parts for, but I also know that Mazda parts aren't cheap. My background in service and repair is mostly Turbo Nissan's or newer Falcons but I'm sure I can handle the vast majority of any service/repair items we might have with either car so labour shouldn't be an issue for the most part. I note that both cars also list premium unleaded as a requirement, but given the cost difference I'm happy to sacrifice a few killer wasps to run standard unleaded. Thoughts?

Further to this, pulled the rotors to have them machined. Noticed that the side that had worse pad wear also has noticable more rotor wear, to the point where the slots on the inner side of the rotor looked fairly wiped and may not come good with a machine. Still sound like a heat issue? I couldn't detect any deflection in the wheel bearing but I note the tie rod ends dust boots are split.

Whoops "hour"

Heading off in an our or so actually

Nah this one has some answers in it, the other double ups are where the bs is lol

I guess im spoilt, Winton is only an hour away and 3hrs gets me to sandown/Calder plus DECA in shepparton is 2hrs, Wakefield around 3 in the other direction. I'm in Albury Wodonga mind you. As for port/Newcastle Wakefield is a bit far to go, EC is a few hours from Port, less from Newcastle and I wouldn't go any closer to Sydney. 2hrs is bearable. The hill climbs all look really short. I've only dug up footage of the lighthouse point one and it barely had 2 decent corners.

Whoops was getting a proxy error using iPhone and it didn't show as posted, can a mod please clean these up.

What options do sprint type cars have up this way for events besides heading to Eastern Creek? I read there's a couple I short hill climbs, one around Telegraph point north of Port Maquarie and another at Raleigh Raceway. I see Raleigh also runs a drift series but I'm not into that. I've read that Newcastle could be getting a track too as there's some planning talk over in the Motorsport section. Is there anything else up this way? I'm enjoying my holiday up here and just seeing what options there are for my Sil as EC is a bit of a drive, as are QLD tracks. Also, any club level rally up here?

What options do sprint type cars have up this way for events besides heading to Eastern Creek? I read there's a couple I short hill climbs, one around Telegraph point north of Port Maquarie and another at Raleigh Raceway. I see Raleigh also runs a drift series but I'm not into that. I've read that Newcastle could be getting a track too as there's some planning talk over in the Motorsport section. Is there anything else up this way? I'm enjoying my holiday up here and just seeing what options there are for my Sil as EC is a bit of a drive, as are QLD tracks. Also, any club level rally up here?

What options do sprint type cars have up this way for events besides heading to Eastern Creek? I read there's a couple I short hill climbs, one around Telegraph point north of Port Maquarie and another at Raleigh Raceway. I see Raleigh also runs a drift series but I'm not into that. I've read that Newcastle could be getting a track too as there's some planning talk over in the Motorsport section. Is there anything else up this way? I'm enjoying my holiday up here and just seeing what options there are for my Sil as EC is a bit of a drive, as are QLD tracks. Also, any club level rally up here?

I've cut slots into the inner guard on the right side as well as I noticed that difference. However the right side has my oil cooler so hot air could be flowing through. Might be worth making up some basic deflectors for the LCAs

You're just going a crap load faster than me then, that's a lot of roll. I thought the tyre wall strength wasn't bad. Good luck at Winton Be interesting to see what I think of these tyres with a bit more power on board.

You must run more camber than me, I don't get wear like that on the edges my tread wear looks a fair bit different, I also get the rubber balling up on the tread block edge. I also run about 32 hot on the RS-R. I'm only running -2.5 front and -1.5 rear. I might have to dial in some more when I finish the turbo swap an can carry some greater entry speeds.

What's your reasoning behind them lasting longer? tread wear rating?

http://www.sg-motorsport.com/ details on the front page Maybe not a lot of you guys know of SG, I'm certainly not a customer or anything, but I've been a fan of Sasha's racing stories for quite a while and followed the development of his S14 (especially the aero) before he moved onto the 350z. Does anyone know of a workshop that does write ups of their escapades in a similar way? Weird as it might sound I enjoy reading about how club level/semi-pro type teams go at track days.

Afternoon gents, some clarification on some tuning concepts would be greatly appreciated and NS is giving me nothing at this point, allow me to elaborate. CA18DET Currently has -Stock fuel system, injectors, pump etc (I realise I need to upgrade these to go further, see below). - T25G, 13psi - Basic supporting mods, oil cooler, fmic etc - Used primarily for track duties - SAFC II Adding fuel from boost transition point onwards, around 16-17% - AEM Wideband installed - Standard ECU (going of previous receipts it said "tuned" when the previous turbo was repaired, only thing I note is it's running 7 deg base timing instead of 10 - checked with timing light after noting CAS was clocked). Last dyno sheet was approx 164rwkw at around 12:1 afr. Now I'm in the process of fitting a GT2560/S15 BB T28 which will obviously flow a lot more air at 14 or so psi than the T25G and will fit some GT-R injectors and possibly a bigger AFM as I expect the standard items to be approaching the limits. Am I right in my reading that adding fuel in the SAFC retards timing and removing it advances timing? So at the moment my timing will be less than stock as the SAFC is telling the ECU that it's got higher load than it really does to get more fuel, in turn retarding timing? Plus it's got retarded base timing - putting it back to standard 10 deg seemed to make it knock (SAFC knock reading using factory sensor). If that's the case, putting in larger injectors/fuel pump will require me to add less fuel to get the right AFRs so timing will be closer to "normal" or do I have it backwards? With timing close to factory, will that be my biggest risk of knock or will increased cylinder pressures from more boost be a more likely culprit? I realise I can go Nistune etc and have full control over timing, I'm only interested in what will occur with the SAFC at this point, as an aside SAFC II has the agbility to transalte between RB25/Z32 etc AFM to CA ecu, manual shows the values required. Cheers

What sort of dollar are we talking for those? I just switched to RSRs from some old semis and ran 3 tenths faster which impressed me no end. I got these for $640 delivered, 235/R17s (On a Silvia so might be a bit small for a 33 with grunt).

I see, well if the sensor is what has let go you can't really blame AEM for that as Bosch make them. Hope it gets sorted ASAP though.