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If i got close to that car I am pretty sure I would fiddle with it in an inappropriate manner

That is one hell of a sexy man standing in the background of that pic

LOL...oops, typo. Point being my car boils fluid, so its getting over 200deg c. When I typed that I was thinking brakes and boiling brake fluid. Brad, understand that they are nose heavy but I would have thought that you would still want to move as much weight to between the uprights, or alternatively as close to the axle lines as possible to reduce the polar moment of inertia. A fuel tank with 1/2 - 2/3 tank of fuel is going to be 30-50kgs. Moving it forward may move the CoG a fraction....but from a vehicle dynamics perspective?

I am reading that those that have been on the waiting list in the UK are starting to get their turbos delivered (8374). Supply is talked of improving around April. Anyone who has their turbo on back order hearing anything along these lines. I need to sort software for my Pectel ECU and then hoping to get one of these

Anyone out there wanting to try an internal gate TD05-18G on their RB20, and worried about boost control. It looks like I will have my rear housing left over from when I throw my Trust rear housing on it. So if you find you are having boost control we can mill out my spare one to see if it improves boost control, power and response like i suspect it will

I have emailed him again but may just order if i dont hear from him. Peoples thoughts on the11 blade turbine vs 12 blade?

Has anybody else heard a response from an email to this address? I am still wanting to buy my TD05 and running out of time to have it on before Jan track dasy

Re an R32 fuel tank, one thing I am considering in a few years time when my car is further down the road of track only is an alloy fuel tank which is only 35L and sits tight to the diff/axle. So effectively cut a std fuel tank in half length wise and limit the mass overhang behind the rear axle. Along with the front suspension change from R32 to R33/34 the fuel tank position is about the other major design improvement. I am trying to convince a friend to give it a go in his R32 track car The other thing I will am doing is sourcing an R34 PS pump, smaller, lighter then the 4WS hydraulic pump in the R32, only will need to hold off until the 26 crank and harmonic balancer go into my car due to the different belts they use. When I do this I want to go for a banjo bolt and braided installation to a custom PS reservoir. My thinking is that since PS rcks use brake fluid, and track work boils PS fluid, then the custom alloy PS reservoir may as well have water cooling coil in it.Will need to consider the length of coil needed inside the PS reservoir, may be easier to join a few std PS coolers together and throw them up front behind the IC

All sorted and good questions. I got a few different stories on what I cn and cant do with a pre 89 import that doesnt require compliance and doesnt have a Pink Slip. But got it sorted in the end

Hang on Tomcat was gorgeous, elegant, old world bird of prey. His thing is more like an F117

Well weld me up a titanium exhaust like on your car. By the way I am calling your car Beelzebub Blah, blah..its a hatch not a coupe/sedan. So like a 180SX a lot of noise etc comes from the rear and echos around off the glass and the old std shelf. So will be installing a new shelf and sound deadening so may as well throw some speakers back there to try and dull the noise...and with an old school, heavily compromised front...I dont have any good locations for speakers, or even doors thick enough to take a decent sized magnet etc. So need the rear to help as much as it can Others, thanks for the tips. Hopefully car will have rego in the next 2 weeks and will get something sorted and speak with Freeway Car Audio.

I need something in the rear, sun affected 1987 paper cone speakers dont sound that great, even if only being powered off the deck

I posted up about the Federals, happy to go with Kuhmo 215/35/18s ... I struggle for guard clearance so need the smallest diam and width possible

Just after a set of plain 595 tyres in 235/35/18. I can pick up or am happy to pay for delivery to Richmond Vic...whatever is easiest

Well its not a show car, and i dont drive around the streets with my music booming. Car is a 3dr hatch and sort of semi collectable so not looking to cut up door trims etc as they are all in immac 1987 condition What I have pieced together so far is: Deck: Pioneer DEH-8350SD http://www.pioneer.com.au/au/products/22/121/61/DEH-8350SD/index.html Amps: Either a good quality 5 channel L5.1110 - http://www.soundstream.com/los/lil-wonder_amp.htm Or a 4 channel Sony Explode GTX6040 for speakers http://www.sony.com.au/product/xm-gtx6040 : and Soundstream STL2.350 2 channel bridged for subs Speakers: Front - In the front plastic dash it takes 4" speakers. I can remove the original lower sill kick panel and put in a custom pod to take 6.5" splits. I am thinking about putting speakers in the dash and lower kick panel, but dash will probably be of no value and better putting the money into a better quality split. Rear - 6x9s in a new custom parcel shelf as I dont want to cut up the original one. I also doubt the original hatch would be suitable for big heavy speakers in them. Subs - I am guessing a single 12" in a good box that will go behind the split fold hatch seats. I have not decided on brands of speakers and frankly dont care about brands of speakers. The only thing I am picky on is the deck and happy with the Pioneer deck I have found Last time I played with stereos was 10 years ago and have not had kept pace of things. I used to run Polk 6x9s and splits, Kicker subs and Rockford amps. Not sure I want to go to that expense again and it seems that single 12s give pretty good sound these days. So rather then two cheaper 12" subs I suspect I would get better sound and still work out cheaper to get a better quality single 12" with plenty of nice clean power. Seems Sony and MB Quartz have reasonable priced splits at around $150 and a pair of 6x9s for the same price. Subs have me stumped, so much has changed in sub technology the past ten years So budget isnt huge, but neither are my needs. Its a rattly old 80s car so need a stereo to hush up the rattles

What ECU?

Was looking at JB and also Ebay...but are there any good car audio places around that are well priced? I need a deck, speakers and amps...a bit of expertise making the front speaker enclosure in the lower footwell/kickpanel wouldn't go astray

I worked in India for a little over 2 years and in that time never found a drag strip. They do have some ordinary little tracks, and the new F1 circuit is meant to include a drag strip, driver training area etc. They do love their motorsport and drag cars though. I was in Hyderabad and they used to go to the old airport and run their exotic cars and bikes down the runway there. Lambos and R8 Audis were more the norm then 10000hp Skylines though

Sorry, I meant to say by the time you throw an RB25 box at the S14 the S14 will be 30kgs heavier, equalising a little of the weight disadvantage the R33 has. I doubt a sensibly lightened R33 GTS25t could get to below 1200kgs. I think 1250kgs is probably more like it. I mean, its was one of the few GTSt that have all boxes ticked. Too many have engines, and thats it. He had the brakes, suspension, engine, gearbox, cooling aspects all addressed. The RB26 was nothing exotic, PPG gearbox almost a std in that category. And the rear ends are not brilliant, but they are easily up to the job if set up properly. Over an 6-12 lap race is a different story though as you may work the rear tyre a little too hard with the weight, power and geometry

Ooh, R32 catch can. Dont think I can ever part with my Powerade bottle

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/385051-pro-fabrications-fabrication/page__st__60 If you want one then get in touch with Brad and I will bring it back from Sydney with me in a few weeks time. Or just get him to ship you one

Interesting. There are so many variables...I am only basing my opinion on what I have seen from the Trust TD06 range of IG turbos. I have seen probably 4-5 people post graphs from results with IG Trust TD06-20G turbos or when the cars have been for sale. The IG turbos have always been laggier then the four setups I am familiar with that run STD RB20s with Trust external gate setups (my setup, Wheezy, Tim and Kris) and they always seem to be down >20rwkws. Like I said many variables but the theme is they dont seem to be tuned to make more then 240rwkws and the external setups seem to be making 260-275rwks. So its either the tuners are mega conservative on all the IG setups or there is something different in their performance

East Coast? You must be kidding. No money over here. Only people on the West Coast are earning enough coin to race I dont think there is anything an S13/14/15 can do that an R33 GTS25T couldnt do as well or better..but would need to consider the class of racign and mods allowed. Sure weight could always be a factor...but youu have 500cc, and bigger tyres...and by the time you throw a box in the S chassis the weights equalise by about 30kgs Fact is S platforms have more success than GTSts because if you are going to play with an RB then you go GTR, not rwd. The LF Performance R32 was a good example that if you do the basics to a car then you can get good results. You may be able to comment on the cars merits/disadvantages better then the rest of us as I am guessing you raced against it

The the ICE Performance Supra was pretty well known car down here in Victoria for a while until Nigel and his business partner decided to move on. The car ran 10s, made good power on pump and did track days with 400odd rwkws where it was quick in the day. Was very fast considering the poor man used semi slicks he always used to run!!! On funny fuel made some bigger numbers out of the same engine at Auto Salon. If Ash (R31Nismoid) reads this he may remember but I think it made somewhere early in the 600rwkws at Auto Salon one year but may have run NOS on the dyno. Was in HPI and a few other magazines years ago

A friend used to have an R32 that ran a Trust 2.7L bottom end, OS Giken Sequential 6 speed with twin T67-25G 8cms. I think it made 610rwkws on a 100-104 style fuel like Sunoco. So suspect you will walk in 500rwkws. He used to run twin TD06-20Gs but wanted more so i grabbed one of the two TD06-20G 10cms that he removed when he upgraded... and still run that same turbo in my car oday. Depending on what fuel you are running I think 20Gs may be the better option. ICE Performance's Nige ran twin TD06-20Gs oin his Supra and it made mega power. Maybe do a search for DAMN Supra http://www.performanceforums.com/forums/showthread.php?67205808-574rwkw-DAMN-Supra-FS!