funkymonkey

lol @ accusations of fifth gear burning down their prop storage. I wanna drive around the alps now. f**k australia for being so flat, barren, too spread out between major towns and busy where built up.

hmm when I went to transfer my reg for the ceffy from VIC to NSW all the "engineers" I spoke to insisted that I change the seatbelts as they didn't have pretensioners or some shit, can't remember now, was a few years ago, but they were quite insistent on it being re-complianced to meet NSW reg's as VIC regs are a little lax.

Puts a fat dent in the wallet when we have to buy tyres too... 255/40/ZR17 Front, 355/35/ZR17 Rears... Pirelli P Zero's too

got 87rwkw before and 105rwkw after from memory... that was with mods to exhaust and intake, so can't say for sure exactly how much just the remap got me. not exactly mindblowing, but good enough for a 2.0L N/A from 1992. think R32 GTS's were supposed to get 114kw at the fly standard... so theoretically I should have gotten 97rwkw with a 15% drivetrain loss.

<insert sly remark about england cheating in the rugby here> anyways, nice car, very clean. what brake upgrades did you do? welcome to the forum

its fibreglass from what i can tell

not mine... but its teh company car, so meh... factory original kakimoto (not one of the Skyline Imports copies)... so it has the carbon fibre wing and underskirt.

have you tried viva garage? they are sponsor of the forum and their kits fit quite well.

I've got one... not gonna sell it... would you settle for a colour photocopy? lol try ebay.

fo sheezy... just make sure the engine's serviced regularly and it should give you no grief. mine also had a remapped Dr Drift ECU to make the most of 98 octane fuel and the exhaust/intake mods, plus change the REV limit and remove speed restrictor.

the ceffy bonnet and GTSt bonnet are roughly similar in weight (and I can tell you that after carrying both from one end of our workshop to the other). The ceffy's come with two factory dampners. I'll see if I can find a pic. Maybe just get some secondhand laurel/ceffy struts and somehow graft em onto the R32?

fine... "alas poor Norick, I knew him, 2rismo". happy? used to love watchin him cos he has a suicidal riding style compared to the rest... had a fair few falls too.

My AE86 cracked 420,000kms. 4AC toyota goldness! I'm starting to see more and more of them... but give it a year. Cabbies here seem to be loyal to ford as they come with the Gas option from factory, wheras Holdens have to be retrofitted.

all cars that they bring in have to be shown to meet ADR's... usually manufacturer specs / crash test data are sufficient... but they also use the test tracks to get tunes right for local fuel/weather. Some things like A/C units are changed to meet australia's harsher conditions.

hmm can you call 0425855540 tomorrow to get the quote from the boss?

more to a race than just being fast... cornering speeds of DTM cars are way higher than JGTC, although that could be due to the track layouts, japan tends to have lots of long straights with tight corners. Well Chrysler wanted to enter the 300C Touring Car into V8's but was refused. hehe, didn't stop them from becoming the pace cars though... good marketing ploy... "you won't allow us to race, fine, we'll lead."

Mac users ARE chicks!

I think the DTM cars will chew em up and spit them out. They all have different restrictions etc, so you can't truly compare em. Would be awesome if someone would come up with a global touring car championship... I guess like the Mixed Martial Arts Championships for GT cars DTM > JGTC > BTCC > V8 Supercars > Nascar (yeehaw)

You knew him well? http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/chu...008page_id=2325

after having owned an R32 GTS, I can tell you they are lots of fun to drive around as a daily. I had extractors, an exhaust and a pod on mine, some stiffer lowered suspension and it was awesome fun to drive around in. The RB25DE's aren't as revvy as the RB20 (longer stroke etc) so for an N/A I'd say not as much entertainment value. That said an R32 GTS25 is the easiest of the R32's to convert to an RB25DET/RB30DET later down the track when you're off the P's.

I was told Nissan was testing a couple of new vehicles at the Holden testing track in Melbourne... might be one of them.

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/419794 http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Motorc...1695791648.html Another one bites the dust.

V35 with a car bra?