Beer Baron

yep should be perfectly fine.

does it still have chassis number engraved on the firewall? build plate missing is probably ok, but will need the chassis number to be still engraved on the firewall. if both are missing it can be a tough task.

you can drive the GTR at PI if I bring it and our mate trent tunes it up with the al-key-hole brew in it. lol, poor little silvia. i thought everyone in melbourne drove painfully slow till troy told me I was hooning and I realised the speedo was out by about 20kM! v lucky I didn't get booked that night. still a good little jigger.

seriously all that set-up is going to do is fill your head with oil. it won't be able to return to the sump quick enough. I hope at the minimum he's ported/enlarge the oil returns or it'll be even worse. there's nothing wrong with an N1 pump with good gears in it.

guys, thread is over a year old. I'm sure he's sorted something by now...

impossible to put the GTR sump on. very different engine shapes from V6 to I6. far easier to do his solution and fiddle with the shafts and just change to a suitable ratio. nice bits mate, can't go wrong with a set of carrilo rods and what look like cosworth pistons? I'm glad you are better with spanners than you are with a camera cause your pics suck! this thing is still going to be mental with big V6 and a nice turbo.

now i has it. if anyone in sydney needs to use send me a message and maybe we can be friends...

damn you! I was going to say finnished!

yep, first time you drive a car on a circuit with a proper seat and proper harness you can't believe how much better it is. I reckon going from basic seat with belt to proper seat and harness is probably worth up to a sec a lap, but more than that it means you can do lap after lap at the same pace. with you not having to brace youself in various parts of the cabin and not gripping the wheel so tight you can drive with your fingertips and toes and all the feel of what the car is doing is magnified 10X. best thing you can do to a road car to drive it on the track is fit good seat and harness.

well then you've got no hope of hooking up with nose man's woman as being barmaid I don't think she had 2 Deutsche Marks to rub together. maybe try the chick from the bach beirhaus as at least she cooks a bloody awesome strudel and pulls a cold beer. plus she seemed massively dissatisfied with her no good gambling addict bum of a husband. perhaps 2 years from now we'll see brisby in a back beirhaus sponsored scirocco driving in some euro touring car series with giant beer and strudel graphics on the side?

ahh bris. yeah I think the red one was the second alfa after I proper f**ked the first one! lol. the first one was much prettier but didn't last. second one was a bit down on power but at least held together. you were a man to take it out sight unseen onto the ring. and yeah I wouldn't trade our spa day for a ring day. Spa was fking awesome. it took me the whole day to get into the rhythm of the circuit but when I did it was just fantastic. as we both commented the level of driving at the private spa trackday was many times better than an open ring day too. standard of car was a fair whack higher as well. you know I am now thinking how I can get out of this town to join you at zandvoort in august. it looks like such a cool track. how can you even contemplate going without me?!?! I thought we were friends..... carnt.

I'm sorry mate but you're dreaming if you reckon the average km of R32 GTRs being imported in 2005 was 25,000... the average in 2002 was about 100,000km for genuine cars and car yards would wind them all back to something in the 60,000 range. by 2005 it was about 120,000 (with car dealers having generously moved their wind backs up to the high 60s now). The ones with less were either wound back by an optimist, or had the documents to prove it. if your car went 16 years with 25,000kms that means it travelled 1,500 per year. so basically driven once every 3 months... for that to be true it would have to have been a 1 owner car for the whole 16 years (there is no way 2 owners or more would have all basically not driven the car). a 1 owner car that only drove his car 1500kms a year would have records to back it up as even in 2005 the value of a car with 25,000kms genuine kms would be much better than the rest with 120,000+. every bloke with his cheap GTR thinks it has genuine kms because of some random indicator he picks. how would you know the timing belt hasn't been changed? it could have been changed twice. even if the kms were gen at over 20years old and 80,000kms I would hope it's been changed at least once. 20yo timing belt would be f**ked by now regardless of kms. other people reckon they are genuine because of seat wear, or gearboot or steering wheel. what do you think are the first things a smart dealer replaces? know how much a genuine gearboot is from nissan japan? not bloody much. anyway, really it's beside the point. if you're happy with it. that's good. and regardless of it's condition, any GTR for $12K is very cheap. and it's possible to buy nice cars for less than they are worth with people who are desperate for money. but the thing is, usually people with the nice cars don't get in situations where they are desperate for cash and they are willing to wait for the right price. usually the guys who are desperate for a sale have long had ups and downs and chances are their car was not always looked after as it should have been... spending on the car is one of the first things people cut back on when things are tight. they suddenly feel like chrono 300V at over $100 per oil change is too expensive and instead by castrol magnatec for $25... that's not the car you want to be buying.....

and yep, got a few nurb stickers. too pussy to stick them on anything yet. but one day. maybe stick one on my power rangers lunchbox for the guys at work.

I LOL'D! troy's comments are all borne of experience. he has driven their 'stage 3' alfa and driven it in the rain, on semi slicks, with no demister and an arse that puckered up so hard he couldn't shit for a week! and I was right there behind him in the little scricco with the heater and demister on practically bump drafting up his arse just to keep him alert! and yes we have had the pleasure of one of those fking alfa's braking down (at km12 which is exactly half way round the circuit and furthest from everywhere). but wouldn't trade the memories for anything (except a working car). the alfa's were good fun but my god when I first pulled up in the shitbox troy wouldn't fking stop laughing for about 20 minutes. neither could I to be honest. especially when we'd go to touch something and it'd just brake off in your hands. just little things, like the steering wheel, or the door handle. lol. but nothing beat passing a bloke shitting himself in his GT3 while we were driving a 200hp (at best) 80s alfa with bits hanging off it. yep, no power, no niceties but great handling though it did try to murder you mid corner in the wet if you got off the gas. in the rain you had to drive it like you wanted to die as with positive throttle use it seemed to grip up, lift off for a mili-second it was swapping ends on you. killing one just added to the satisfaction... lol. can't believe you're going back without me bris. i'm stinging for a holiday! carnt.

the renault megane R2R6 (from RSR nurburg) is another good option as even though it's manual it is in RHD so will be familiar. They are a pretty cool hatch, 250ps, 1200odd kg. should be pretty rapid around the ring in the right hands and certainly very forgiving. I very nearly hired one last time I was there but went another day in the scirocco instead.

could not agree more. on a busy ring day you will be passing cars every few hundred meters and being passed at the same rate yourself. on top of that you will occasionaly come around a blind corner flat knacker and find cars strewn across the track. many corners are blind and it takes all your brain just to remember where you are. many corners look and feel the same but where one opens into a flat section (and hence the corner is flat out) another may tighten after the apex into a hairpin (definitely not flat!) so just remembering where to position the car etc is tough enough. the scircoo has good power (from memory I did an 8min something in one), easy to drive, forgiving handling, roll cage, upgraded brakes, semi slicks (ask for some if the car they give you doesn't have them as some do and some don't), sweet DSG box and just an all round good ring mobile. everyone wants to be a hero and drive some old hero car (I did and hired an E30 M3 race car) but like snowy said you'll be most likely dealing with seat on the wrong side, manual box with the wrong hand on top of all the other challenges. it is rewarding though. don't be scared to go out if it's wet either. some of the best little battles troy and I had were in the wet as 90% of the wankers in porsches etc all pussy out if there is a few drops or rain about so we had the track pretty much to ourselves except for all the people we were passing. lol. amazing how the tables turned. cars that were blowing past us on straights in the dry were mincemeat to our little steeds in the wet. best fun you can have with your clothes on. well second best fun next to a spa trackday... EDIT: swift and clio would make a great ring hire car too for those on a bit of a budget. i don't really recommend trying to do it in a regular hire car either. i did in my hire audi A6 (which was brand new with a handful of kms on it when I collected it) and at the end of the first lap the brakes caught fire... d'oh! you really need a proper ring prepped car with good pads, suspension and preferably a roll cage. many people die at the ring (though over 90% on bikes from memory) but you don't want to be one of the few who do in a car.

yeah I have hired from rentracecar and rsr. both are good but I would probably suggest go with rentracecar for your first time and go with the scirocco of a swift. I can vouch for the scirocco being a great car to drive at the ring. if after that you want more by all means hire something like an exige or M3 but be aware the excess on cars like that is north of 30,000eu so a small crash can get bloody expensive. also agree private track day is the go buy many times more $$$. private track day entry is around 500eu and that's just the entry. you'll need another 900eu or so for a car so budget 1500eu+ if your doing a private day. many more laps though and much less traffic and less fatalities (usually no bikes at private days). tourist days are fine though, just keep eyes on your mirrors as there will be wankers in their GT3RS who seem to think they are about to re-set the porsche 'ring record on a tourist day... just remember, never in history has someone set a record on a tourist day and neither will you. so just circulate, have some fun, try and learn some bits of the track and for god's sake don't hit anything or anyone. have fun. i've been twice and will going again, and again.

dunno about that. kimi is finnish. but I guess some people do include finland in 'scandinavia'. debatable though.... lol. mr pedantic to the rescue!!

if RB25 can has it. you can has it too.

nice project mate. should be a pretty fun piece of gear when done!

I think it's more so the tune will vary to suit the content of ethanol not so he can keep varying his mix of fuel to suit a target value.

having met john and spent a few hours(!) talking to him I have utmost respect for the man. he has amazing skills and a brain that operates on another level to most. I have a pretty high IQ but john must be off the charts. Very nice guy too and not afraid to tell what he thinks and usually has very sound arguments to back his opinions too. he has some amazing ideas about a whole range of stuff. I've no doubt this will be off the charts. I want to go back and ask him some more stuff. just need time for my brain to digest the last bits of knowledge he dropped on me! thanks very much bobby. I really appreciate the intro mate. and your time too.

don't worry I've had that same thought before too. "hmm, plenty of 6spd sequential hollingers getting around in varous V8SC.... hmmm now how do I put that into my GTR???" lol.

actually looks like they are not an HS6 after all. and apparently V8SC don't use HS6 now either. it's still possible you could buy one and then buy the bellhousing for the front and the transfer case mount/adapter for the rear but again by the time you do all that just buy the right GTR box? have a look at the holinger site. it's been updated recently I was told. if you look at the centre of the old GTR boxes (which is the gearbox with the front being just bellhousing and the rear is transfer adapter) it does look a bit like an HS6 but better to check before doing anything.

pretty sure the GTR hollingers are an HS6 so yeah with the right bellhousing and adapter for the transfer case it should be fine. as long as what you're buying from a V8 is an HS6 too. call hollinger and I'm sure they can tell you. but by the time you buy the right hollinger/RB bellhousing, and the transfer case fitting it might not be worth it. also need to take into account the ratios it comes with might not be suitable.