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Simon Rennie was interviewed by Skysport the other race and my god he was a bore. It seems Disco Dan's engineer is a rather serious lad and never smiles or jokes...Dan's response

EF Falcon would be a luxury car next to a 80s UK Ford!

I already have the Sierra about right. From here itws just about little odd end jobs like hydraulic clutch conversion and the endless quest to rid it of rattles IO dont think people woudl have any idea how to get a Sierra's engine bay this neat!

Well...based on some piccies I saw on FB, Blaise has the right idea of building a very cool old school car within the loose regs of historic... woudl love to build a DR30 competitor to go up against it but that aint going to happen

Goodwood Festival of Speed (FOS) And most ridiculously...this P1 sitting in a grassed carpark/paddock. LOL, miliion pound supercar driven through 1km of dirst/dust/grass!!!

So just got back from Le Mans, Goodwood Festival of Speed and Burger RIng. Pumped more than ever to get the underside of my car back in. Still trying to suss best solution to HICAS delete on my new rear cradle and then slap the whole thing in. Have gone to rather stupid lengths with regards to replacing things that didnt need replacing...but I want to just bash the old girl senseless the next few years like when I first got her with no fear of breaking things and or worn things crying enough. So, to keep motivation up will be posting some pics....but in the meantime...why I am broke at present Le Mans Better pics taken by my mate Jarrod https://www.facebook.com/pages/JRM-Photography/208118185886748

Reading this is getting me excited about getting back on track! Good vids!

Well, i had a cooler car there for a while! I was keen to grab a red/black coupe that was for sale but Shannons wouldn't cover me if it was parked on the street so had to grab something else as a runaround

Lol...looking at the vid the car looks fine to me. Certainly not oversteering. You are nailing it in 2nd gear corners! Just drive the bus! I have found rwd cars with std arms in the rear with bushes and the cradle adjusted for traction offer best grip...all these adjustable arms means most people struggle with handling...std may be average but better than a $1,000 rear end that is worse

Another thing that sh1ts me. FOM have taken the sector times off their lice timing over the net. You want live timing with sector times rather than dots...buy the phone app

Bernie is tied up in court for having paid off someone...I really hope the verdict is such that he needs to step aside from F1 and the next cab off the rank guides it through either sale by CVC or a different style of F1. So many teams are struggling. Many circuits struggling to get crowds. We are having a cracking season with sooo much good racing. I personally think with the engines and various states of tune through the race and how they deploy their electric power they can do away with DRS. But even if they keep it the sport has bigger problems...and its not the show. How the hell FOM keep soo much of the revenue whilst the teams get dick, circuit promoters lose money year after year . The show/racing is fine....it woudl be far better if the mid-field had some more dollars from tv rights etc and the sprot did something about stopping Mercedes, RBR and Ferrari from spending 300-400 million a year. Hell, so much of that goes to DHL etc for shipping at higher rates than the public pay for the same thing. Fancy being contracted to a series where you have to use a sponsor and they charge you more than any other company. Good old FOM murdering the sport...rape and pillage. The older Bernie gets the worse he is getting....or is it his CVC masters?

I cant help but laugh every weekend that Button struggles and really hope that the young Dane takes it to him. Can't help but think Eric is in at McLaren saying...you know I have a brilliant young guy that will get what you need out of the Hinda-McLaren chassis. Hate to be following McLaren next year but will be better than watchign poor old Romain flounder at the back of the grid. I like Alan Jones...i am not saying he is a good commentator...god he was awful at the Aus GP on the podium interviews...but he is a WDC, a lad on the drink and tells good tales off camera.

Ch10 coveragw was worse than usual. Anyone know their FB page? Feel like a rant lol re Alan Jones...he messes up but i still rate his insight

Yep.

I love my Sierra but you owning this DR30 makes you so much cooler than me

A real lap of Hockenheim

Really? A professional workshop installed them? I would be mocking them the next time you speak with them that you prefer they dont drink when they work on your car Its not a big deal at all. Rather simple. Its right up there with people who piece together kits and install curved vane rotors on the wrong side of the car not realising how the curved vanes work. Its no biggie...but on a track car will work properly if installed properly. The point of the bleed nipples is a simple fix...but an important one for the person who takes them off your hands. The Advantage Mono6 caliper which is what you have has different sized pistons in the caliper. They are different sizes to keep uniform pressure on the pad and rotor face. The leading pistons should be the smaller; the trailing the larger pistons. You are all correct in the bleed nipples need to face upwards...but look at this pic. http://cdn.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/uploads/monthly_07_2014/post-486-0-83920000-1405117815.jpg That pic is passenger side ...now think about which way the rotor passes through the caliper when driving The pistons near where the A of Alcon is the smaller (30.2mm) piston and the other end near the logo is the 38.1mm piston. The way they have installed your caliper is that the large piston is the leading piston and the smaller piston is the trailing. That is wrong and will give you rather poor pad temps and wear....essentially hamstringing the performance of the kit from what it will be capable of. The fix is when they are off the car then you remove the bleed nipples, remove the external fluid line at the other end of the caliper and swap them over , effective flipping the caliper so the piston sizes are correctly orientated. Of course this will mean what is currently the drivers side caliper will become the passenger side caliper and vice versa. I have the big brother Prodrive version of this caliper on a 380x35 R35 rotor...they are a good piece of kit and whoever buys them will be stoked....its just that they arent configured right for a Nissan

Doesn't change the fact they are installed wrong and should someone want to buy them they will need to quickly swap over the bleed nipples so that the pistons are orientated correctly to the rotation of the rotor. If you don't then you may experience hot spots on pads and uneven pad wear

FIFA retards!!!!V And we thought FOM were bad

So club and open seem to have a good number of entries. little going on with international or new builds?

Its not magic. The surface temp may drop a few degrees but it's all still flaming hot. There is no replacement for proper, well thought out, engineered heat shields

Keep it simple. Power Fc. Easy to tune by just about any tuner. No messing around with std ECU. 10mins to install and start tuning. Nistune is a good backup option if you cant find a PowerFc but I would be grabbing one of these http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/444035-for-sale-r32-gts-t-power-fc-ecu/

Is that pic from when they were installed on car? The bleed nipples are on the wrong end of caliper. Looks like they need to be swapped over to be suitable to run on a Nissan Can you confirm rotor part no.? At 31.9mm they are near brand new 32mm rotor or undersized 35-36mm rotor. Can you confirm caliper part no as well? They arent V8 Supercar calipers but perhaps the rotors are. Looks like its a kit that has been pieced together using the Mono6 Alcon street caliper. But there are two versions of the Mono6. One is for a 32mm rotor the other for 35.5mm that also takes diameters up to 410mm

http://www.owendevelopments.co.uk/product/424/Owen_Developments_Vauxhall_VXR_Bolt-On_K04_Upgrades_%28Mk._5_Astra_VXR_Zafira_VXR,_Z20_LEH%29/

FP offered 65mm HTA compressors for Vauxhall VXR hi-flows in Uk. Wonder why they dont offer that wheel?