Roy

So still in Sydney until coming weekend so happy to negotiate up until i get them out of my friends garage

I wouldnt go out and buy 5000s. If you have them already then great...but not worth the $1300 or whatever the going price is. std is fine

Yeh, it varies so much car to car and person to person. It woudl nto be strange to have trouble on street but not a track. Depending on the roads and the tracks etc. But on a track like PI and Winton there is only really one or two stops that rqequire you to brake for more than 3 seconds...on the road you often cant carry the corner speed you do on the track so need to brake more frequently for longer periods without the high speed bits between that really gets the cool air flowing, If the thing is borderline on the street though than I expect you are right and you will struggle on a track like Sandown. Places like Winton and I suspect you will be ok, well at least a lot closer to ok. Frankly, I would throw a set of pads and good fluid at your current setup for your first few track days. Minimal cost and will give you a chance to just get out there and see what you like re feel in brakes with a different pad. Having had numerous setups on my car and I can tell you about 90% of brake feel and performance is the pad. I suggest something like a Hawk DTC-70s...high temp race pads that you can get cheaply through the US for Brembo equipped 350Zs....you will most likely get a soft pedal from boiling fluid than fade from over cooking pads and rotor temps. So just take an extra bottle of fluid to the track and give it a light flush every session once things have cooled down. Since you need to change pads anyway to start doing track work than thats a sub $500 solution to getting out there and being able to enjoy the car and get a feel for just what brakes you are going to need. You could find the money saved on brakes could be far better spent on suspension or tyres

You really need to know what rotor you are running..then its the obvious answer...run the bran bracket that you are running rotor wise. OR go and get them machined up which can be the cheap or expensive option depending on circumstances

So you are in Melb? So how many track days are you seriously going to be doing every year? If its 2-3 then that is very different to 7-8. Places like Winton are far easier on brakes than Sandown and Calder...are you going to do Sprints or just drive days? What are you running in the way of pads and fluid now?

First things first...by the sounds of what you are doing...std R33 GTR Brembos will be fine. Have a look at Ant's vids. Seriously quick track car with similar ir not more power than you in his full weight daily driven car on semis. He ran std setup for a long gtime with DBA 5000 2 pce rotors. The car had a bit of an appetite for rotors and pads, but thats because he does so many bloody track days! https://www.youtube.com/user/Ant1997GTR?feature=watch I think you need to just throw some good quality pads and fluids in the car and get out there and go from there. Std kit is pretty damn good if onky doign sprints and fun days

Yeh, sounds pretty poo as now with turbz they are going to have uber torque and will gear them accordingly

Bernie negotiations 101...tell teh media it isnt going to happen = generally means the opposite. Fingers crossed he will be in gaol soon enough and his daughters pedalling their a55es on street corners to pay the rent....and France and real F1 markets get/keep their GPs! I think it will be sad to lose the Indian GP. More than Malaysia I think give it a few years and there is a real interest in motorsport and F1 that will see the continued bums in seats. Singapore, India and Malaysia...and then Australia and Japan are enough. Nobody in China or Korea give a rats a55 about F1 so dump em...

SOLD. Farewell old faithful!

If you know a good machine shop then there is nothing stopping you from going old school muscle and doing an offset grind of the crank to increase the stroke. A few people have done it with good success

The frist word that comes to mind when listening to Lewis is "glum". I thought most of it was Rosberg winning two GPs...but seems he is pining for a cougar. Man, he was in Budapest with a 4 week break. If I had the power of Lewis rather than being a broke ass, fat-balding engineer when I was in Budapest I would have had an even better time!

My god ..get over it Lewis. The thing was on-off for the 5 years anywa. Plus she is coming up to her used by date as I think she is only 12 months younger than me! MOVE THE FARK ON! I am not sure the tyre change is the whole reason why cars inc Merc are coping better. We have seen it each year that the teams get teh setup right as the races roll by. But no realy surprise that the tyre durability is probably better.

Also , watching replay...Vettel up the inside of Button into T4 ran all four wheels over the line on exit...same corner and thing and Romain got dicked

I wonder what the Fail 22 to both RBR cars meant....new code for Multi 21...ie Webber car 2 stay 2?

What happened to Dan with 4 laps to go? Was comfortably ahead of JEV and DiResta. Di Resta had a prob and retired and Dan lost a heap of time Check out the Hungarian ladies! Oh my the memories

RBR cant spanner two cars to save their lives! Romaib on song and Dan in the top 10 makes me a happy camper But RBR have made car mistakes on Webbers car at 1/3 of this years races....meanwhile Seb has 4 wins

COME ON ROMAIN!!!!

Are you English by any chance? LOL this build reads SO much like the die hard Poms restoring their beloved Sierra Cosworths / Escorts etc! Great to see the same level of attention going into a Nissan!

Ditto Maldanado for dropping cars at public-media show/gigs

Oh thats got to suck for Kobi

Werent the established drivers forced to run the new tyres with no setup changes...vs the rookies allowed to test development parts and change setups? Many variables for the relative pace....but all the same Sainz was impressive first time out

Odds are the DS2500s work from cold and the PMUs need to be over 300deg C before they are in their operating range. So the DS2500s are offering a higher co-efficient of friction from cold when the fronts are still thinking about getting up to temp. If you still have the DS2500s that the car came with slap them back in and see of the problem goes away. If it does than thats the issue. Has anyone ran a Pagid RS4-2 with their Alcons. On paper they are a tad better than DS2500s....they are the next pad I am trying

Are you at the Augu-Winton day John....Need to side swipe you to slow you down

If someone comes across an R31 GTS-R manifold in good condition or a HKS manidfold then let me know. I am keen to run one of these bad boys but need to get rid of my Trust based manifold. Part of the reason why I went 73HTA was that I could run it on my TD06 based turbo

Is there any truth to the fact that the HKS turbos use a steel bearing race vs the Garrets using plastic?