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I did 10 or so days of driving through the Swiss, Italian and Austrian Alps before importing my Sierra Cosworth RS back to Aus. That was back in 2011. Wow, how time flies. I am going to Le Mans and Spain in a few weeks so planning on doing some of those Spanish roads EVO uses. f5twister, Even if I have my gate atmo, which I doubt I will I dont think I will have much trouble with noise at Spa. I have only ever seen a few crazy loud race cars get pinged for noise...and seen loads of crazy loud cars run all day. Do you know any different?

LOL, different strategy call seemed odd. The guy two stopping who is quicker than the guy 3 stopping needs to come through on the same tyres....and Seb has to stay out due to there not being a clear spot behind to drop into if 3 stopping. So had to make a two stop work, whcih he ultimately did. Goes to show even the tyre genius can ask the tyres to operate outside their window from time to time

Well you can take me off that list of everyone. Don't think youbwill read me having said anything....was funny though...at least Vettel snuck a funny line in

http://youtu.be/oUKk0nSW8x4 How good is the Mansell send up.

Funny. Snowman said as a joke that the first question for Jev this year should be "what do you hope to achieve in your last season of F1?" Ted Kravitz is already talking about a paddock rumour that a mid season STR driver change is being entertained unless JEV finds pace. Kyvat has been impressive given age, kms and experience of F1.

Plan is Spa, Zolder and Zandvoort plus some UK tracks. Sadly the dollars wont stretch to doing any French, Italian or German tracks

Pretty exhausted today and have to say the weather made for rather poor viewing. Good to see Porsche got a podium...and Hartley doing a good job alongside with Webber

The valve springs are a question mark and they will soon be coming out and replaced with some Tomei springs. Sadly the RB24 isnt going to happen. I plan on taking the car to Europe next year and need to save money so sold all the RB24 gear to another forum member who is cracking on with a quality build which I am going to be exited to see the results of. Longer term I am being boring and going to put a std RB26 in it and engineer it all so that I can enjoy it on the street and track

Quali times were close. Come on Porsche

What I am finding amusing is the amount of forums now saying Vettel is crap because Dan is looking so good next to him. Also stoked for Romain. Now to see if Homo has a brain fart. Interesting that it was Rosberg that broke and not Homo. Have to expect Homo has the edge in talent but he is a big girl with regards to maturity and coping with off track pressure. I also saw some footage from P2 and P2 with Maldanado. He is shocking. He speared off the road because he was looking down at the steering wheel and ran off the road...then in P2 binned it on pit entry! He is shocking...can be fast but has no grey matter!

I thought it was thecrap nature of the old T3 IG housings whilst the T25 housings worked fine...case being the T618z knock offs

DJ...kick ass library! hrd...That's not what I said. But nice try. Anyway...Lets see if Renault can live up to their talk of a far more promising weekend for their power units. Big weekend of motorsport

LOL, they do sound like an SR20 crossed with a 4 stroke trail bike

LOL...yep. I did read that the FIA offsets have included some rather wayward % too!

Errrrrummmmm.... that 3-5hp difference that the FIA dont know about. So easily play with boost etc to make it how they want. So that is the possibility of making an extra 3-5 hp legally just by changing meter! If you have a 70hp deficit like the Renaults are talked to have had at Malaysia then dont you want all the power you can get? And thats for when the meter is working in its window of accuracy. When they are out by 1-2% it can easily be 15hp!!! If you are giving away power to Mercedes to start with that is going to further hurt the Renault and Ferrari runners even more!!! Anyway...

LOL, I have one but with the 73HTA compressor. Is a good thing. Tad more responsive than the 20G depsite being 5mm bigger on the compressor and the turbine is a much later model thing with the same basic dimensions as the TD06 65mm turbine but different qty of blades and rake etc. The L2 turbine simply doesnt have the torque to turn the higher flowing compressors which is why they typically dont touch them. I dont get the fuss over the L2 turbine. I sold mine as numerous L2 setups tuned by the same tuner on the same dyno as my plain TD06-20G got the same result give or take a few kws...if anything mine always pipped the L2s ?!?!?! Maybe on higher flowing setups rather than ashmatic RB20. If only I can get 10cm housing for it as the 8cm was alight swtich on full boost at something like 3200rpm but nothing over 6,000rpm...and the 12cm made it way too laggy. 10cm is right in the sweet spot...but hard to come across cheaply

Porsche being back at Le Mans has me pumped for the first time in a long while! It helps to have Brendon Hartley on board who was always a bit of a wild child and character despite being dropped by Red Bull Development program and of course Porsche also have on board Mark Webber! SO Silverstone kicks off this weekend. I already have my tickets booked for Le Mans so dearly hope the Porsches run reliably this weekend. http://www.fiawec.com/

Reason I say that is with plain 20G compressor I made those numbers with the smaller turbine and smaller 8cm rear housing on an RB20. Though was eternal gate on a 6boost manifold

Easy 270rwkws on 98...easy 310 on corn syrup. Only need 18-19psi

I like the tales from yesteryear. Everything was just so much more accessible...and personal. Need to win lotto just so i have time to read the books i have

Got mine from http://www.pitstop.net.au/products/colin-chapman--the-man-and-his-cars/ Also paid a small fortune for mint condition, original print, signed copy in English of On the Starting Grid, by Paul Frere. Don't care if its not great read...its just COOL!!!! But don't doubt i will enjoy the tales

I started reading the Colin Chapman - Lotus book the other day. He was a hard man! http://www.bookdepository.com/Colin-Chapman-Gerard-Crombac/9781859608449

Ummm...forgetting the numbers and codes. The T67 which in Greddy speak is a T67-25G runs the same turbine as the TD06L2-20G. The turbine housings swap over, they have the same number of blades, they have the same pictch,. diameters...they are the same on the Trust/Greddy turbos. If they are not the same I would love to know what the differences are? Common wisdom in Greddy speak is the T67 and TD06-25G whilst running the same compressors run different turbines and different shaft diameters, The TD06H-25G I understand (going from memory here) uses the same shaft diam as the T78 turbos. Kando and other knock offs...who knows!?!?! A forum owner Kris bought my genuine Greddy L2 20G and the turbine was exactly the same as the genuine T67 I am running now This turbo (sold to Kris) Is on the left here On the right is a genuine TD06H-25G (below is the actual compressor cover of the turbo on the right) I dont have many good pics of my T67-25G. About the only pic I have uploaded is

Poor 89CAL....lol must be painful . Sorry. Source?? I told you...go watch the Ted interviews pre Malaysia etc. What you want me to crop interviews and youtube it? He most likely wanted RBR punished as he threw away pace when his meter was wrong. Good enough for him...good enough for RBR. Doesnt make the meter right or RBR wrong...just silly meter. LOL, FI, STR are lucky in that theirs outright failing means they divert to the engine parameters/fuel rail etc whilst the meter was performing. Bets put a kill switch or fusible link in that power cable Most likely teams have worked out by now the way around the meters and are either bench testing units and only installing the optimum ones. Remember the tolerance is + / - so imagine the holy grail is the one that reads a tad low and they get that .5% or 3-5hp extra Edit...you wont be satisfied but here is something on line. Similar things were said to Ted Kravitz and Ted drilled down on why they didnt show their true pace (suspecting he knew the answer was the fuel flow meter) Graeme Lowdon smiled, shrugged his shoulders ; effectively answering to Ted , yes...the reason we were slower than we should have been was the fuel meter. Extracts from what is online... "I don't think we showed our true pace in particular in the race and there were various reasons for that. So I do think that pace-wise we have made a step forward, it's just I don't think we've really shown that yet." "For all there were various issues and problems, and certainly we experienced some circumstances on the fuel flow where we had to make some decisions, I think most of the teams made those decisions in accordance with how the FIA thought the teams would act, which is to err on the side of ensuring that your car is safe and legal at all times, which is the stipulation that's in the Sporting Regulations. I know whenever we were presented with a decision to make we took it into accordance with the guidelines that have been issued with the FIA." http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/17581/9230233/exclusive-graeme-lowdon-qa-marussia-sporting-director-on-engines-appeals-2014 I am with CAL89 from here on. Hopefully everyone has 5 bench tested meters all reading a little conservative ready for this weekend....swap them out and be ready to start each session with a new one. Great for the supplier

I still call them virgin because they still haven't popped thjeir cherry! I watch the Sky F1 pre shows, post shows and also the BBC stuff. I skip loads but do watch the interviews. Yes Mur-Virgin wanted RBR to lose the appeal but in one of the interviews he also said that their pace had been hurt in Australia due to their sensor readings being wrong. They applied the FIA offset and felt that it still hindered their pace as it was still wrong! The line of questioning came from Ted Kravitz when the same person saying they hope RBR got penalised mentioned their lack of pace being artificial and not true to their potential Anway...I am not saying Vettel had a fuel problem...what I am saying is that going forward until they are reliable if a drivers pace is off then there is a reason why a driver could be unduly hindered. Precision and accuracy...lol they drift in readings. Thats just not RBR saying that. Force India had to apply different offsets on the same meter between practice sessions and ended up binning the meter and going with a new one.