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teh cage in my pic could easily be legal. The design of the cage is legal, however it is not legal in my car. To make it legal i need to fully removed the rear seat, rear seat belts and take the car to Vic Roads and have it registered as a two seater. No engineering required provided you get the correct paperwork when it is made. Brow Davis in Bayswater are in a good position to help you get your carge legal as not only does David sit on the CAMS Safety Review Committee, but is also a consultant to Vic Roads. But the rules are the same for everyone and any experienced cage builder will be able to guide you when selecting your cage and ensuring its is still legal on the street

Personally i would have scrapped the horizontal bar in the main hoop and gone for a harness bar. I would have thought that since you run a race seat and harnesses they would have given you a means to more safely mount your harness. Also, for a club car, i find the horizontal bar in the main hoop and diagonal in the main hoop restricts access to the back seat. Even if you dont have a back seat, its always handy to be able to put rims, tool boxes, backpaks etc back there for the trip to the track/away. CAMS accept the diagonal in the main hoop or between the rear legs, both comply So not saying one is better then the other, just a few things i considered when i got my cage that others may want to consider. Your cage with teh exception of the lack of harness bar is a little more serious then mine...but i wanted to maintain a level of practicaloty from mine. And keeping access to the back seat was a big part of keeping it practical This is like what i am talking about

Maybe he took it back with him. Be interesting to see if McLaren continue to be line ball with BMW and behind Ferrari!

Dont wasye your time with the Cusco. A friend had it in his STi and they were not bad...but a long way from good. Also, the Type S seem to be a similar sort of thing. You knock the Super Street, but Giant was gettign excellent results with them for a long time before completely losing the plot with major mods on the R32. I know of quick GTRs using Flex, Super Street. Rock up to a track and look at what the quick cars are running

Looks like Hammo has copped a reality check. OUt of the last 6 GPs. he farked up good and proper in China. Very next race threw away the championship because of stupidity in Brazil, now had a Barry in Bahrain. Thats 3 bad races out of 5. If any other top driver had made three silly errors like that head will be rolling. Massa throws the car away in one GP in Malaysia and everybody is on his case. The Aus GP move on DC was legit.... Come on Heikki And good work by the BMW crowd.

So was the Count running through the streets naked with champas in hand? Red Bull look slow, so a long nigh ahead Hopefully the Worlds most Beatutiful man can take out the race!

I read that he has switched to the spare tub. I think they have banned spare cars, but you can still cart a spare tub as its only a component. Albeit a major one. I think Sutil did the same thing is Aus when he damaged the Force Idia chassis in practice and had to use a new tub

Who cares how it looks./ Its got an OS Giken 3L with HKS T51!

Well a word of warning re RDAs. I dont think they are heat treated and in turn like the extremes of track work that well. I think the secret is not using too racey a pad. It seems pads like Endless CCX, whilst great pads, like killing rotors. So rather then band DBA, RDA etc rotors as rubbish, i think we all jsut need to consider that if your car is being tracked, you have some decent power and grip and starting to crank some respectable times....well cheap rotors just wont do the job Have to say CSC/B-Spec and G4 seem to be the best value upgrades. That said, young Johny Boy as Unique Autosports in Sydney is the guy to speak to. He is selling the 2pce Stoptech rotors in 324mm http://www.nismo.com.au/pricelists/pricelist_gtrbrakes.htm If you look down the page you will also see the DBA rotors which are curved vane with fish hook slots like Alcon and AP use. I woudl rate these above the usual DBA range

Nathan, if you chose to enter your car in both classes, (switch of tyres) is it teh std entry fee or can a few percent be cut off entry? Also, have you spken to Speedweek(SBS) about getting the event covered?

Re $? LOL, ifi i add up the spend on my little R32 GTSt and it would be about 30k plus the purchase price. To date i have only done a 1:38.1, but have only done about 10 laps of the place. Silly Dutton format, and that 38.1 was being held up by a 430 Ferrari. So over the 9 years of GTSt ownership i have spent what i see as stupid money to get a car that is capable of 36s at Winton. And let me be the first to say, if i was as smart as i am fat that i would have a far quicker car. Its not about the money spent on the car or the sum of the parts. But the nouse of the guys swinging spanners and developing the car. So hats off to Sam as the cars he works on seem to be at the pointy end of what the cars shoudl be capable of. Not many workshops can make that claim with many cars fallign well short of what you woudl expect their performance to be. LOL, doesnt Sams brother have a VL track car? Or used to? Any ideas of the sort of time sit used to/does?

The easist thing to do is play with tyre pressures. Especially as you have an AWD car and running different tyre types front to rear which is never a great idea if you are chasing good balance. I think until you get your head around the car then just leave the shocks as they are and get tyre pressures right. I too foudn that once i started running grriipy tyres that my suspension that was great on low grip tyres started to struggle with body roll and pitch. BEst place to start is same tyres all round then make sure your ride heights are ok. Since you are about to hit the track...i stay stick with tyre pressures, start high and work your way back as generally street tyres like pressure. Or at least i found

Massa is quick again. Only he cant translate his practice and quali pace to dominant race performances. One to two races a season isnt going to cut it On a good note, Louise binned it Looked tol be a bit of a silly mistake. It will be interesting to see if he cxan get back in teh seat and qualify well in the spare tub. Hopefully he qualifies a few spots down so it will help make for an interesting race

I can get a goole page, another forum etc. But at the same time lots of pages dont seem to want to open and just crash.

Is the streaming working at the moment? It isnt working for me. Does it matter that i am using wireless or something?

Stoptech now do std replacement, single piece 324mm rotors. At least that way they are proper curved vane, not like the Project U etc whichg are just straight vanes or intermittent vanes (Depends on the ones you are looking at)

As usual i hold my breath and hope that RBR are somewhere in qualifying. Outside of that the races always suck...so not expecting too much.

But its not a race. Everybody will be racing the clock so there wont be any door to door racing. People show each other lots of respect with space to race and pass. Nobody wants to get held up on a good lap so the format lends itself to a wide cross section of cars and drivers. Give it a go!

Sure you can read that. But how do you explain how an R32 GTSt running std calipers spaced out for 324mm, an increase of 44mm with std rotor and caliper at the back, with the same compounds all round wants to lock up rears well before the fronts? Even with a less racey pad out back the car wants to lock up rears? Answer is the pitch of the car under suspension, an issue because of the soft springs and too low a front ride height. So sure, technically what is being discussed above is true, but there are so many other things going on when trying to stop the car that you can get it wrong when you look at parts in isolation

Any idea of which cams its running. A friend has a neat little daily driver/club car that he races with BMW Car Club in NSW and his 3.2L E36 M3 is only making 170rwkws with a chip and exhaust. He woudl be worlds quicker with that sort of power.

That is a very hard thing to answer. Have you had your car corner weighed? I suggest you throw it on and accept the fact that the first few months/track days will be exploratory until you find the ideal setup. The ratio depends a lot on suspension, ride heights, weight distribution, tyre grip, CoG ... etc etc

Juat Jap, re the rotors. Can you let me know if Mines are sourcing their rotors from RDD these days? Is RDD etched on the rotor anywhere. Im curious as looking at the direction of the slots and the direction of the vanes, most manufacturers avoid that combination in the quest for durability?

Surely we can up at the pub up near Horsley that has topless barmaids. Then in order to fuel up and go home we hang out at the Shell on Great Western Highway...where if we get there late enough we are guaranteed some nasty loving

If it rains then i ring members of my family, tell them i love them and give the camera crew footage worthy of white goods on Funniest Home Video

In the Victorian State series there are a number of old Carrera Cup cars and GT3s running around. They do between 1:26 and 1:29s. The Carrera Cup cars in the main game are V8 Supercar quick, but the Vic state series ones i was referring to are slower for any number of reasons. Team/Engineering support with setup. Fresh tyres for all races, driving standards and of course the spec and lifing of components Damn. Looks like i need to work on the pace of the little GTSt