KezR33

It's slippery enough without water.

Forget the conversion, total waste of money. Keep it as a daily and save your money for a weekend warrior. Then you can afford a GTR or rotary or something equally as temperamental without having to worry about it dying on the way to work.

Just curious, but how do you come up with the skidpan lay outs? Do you cycle through patterns, or just play around with ideas until something fun comes up, or...?

http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/privat...ech&trecs=1 Go test drive that. Pretty much the best performing legal P plate car you can buy, short of an S2000.

Go to the Commonwealth bank and get a small loan (anything about 10k is stupid at your age, a lot of people would say even 10k is dumb) then buy privately. 15k will get a very good quality manual two door R34. Do yourself a favour and test drive a Supra too Unless you're dead set on the looks, the NA performance of the Supra absolutely kills the R34. I was tossing up between the two and it all came down to the test drive. If you're really keen to spend upwards of 20k, look at any Autech S15s in the area too. Very rare, but well worthwhile.

Where are you located mate? Pretty interested in the volk rims.

Nicked from Soarer Central: Sorry for been away guys, im just working through a pile of stuff which has amounted from my absence. Anyway in brief my old man had a heart attack last Thursday and been flat out with that aswell as dealing with my mums on going hospital health issues all the time dealing with everything on my own as my brother is overseas on his honey moon. So yeah pretty much since last Monday till today if i wasnt at one hospital i was at another. Anyway the order has been sent out from WA and is on its way to my place as we speak. The ETA given by Star Trak Express is the 19th so the coming Monday but im hopefully that ill receive it this Friday in which case ill send them out as soon as i get them in my hands. You can expect them to start showing up around mid next week for those closer to SA and those in QLD or TAS around Friday next week or the following Monday. Mike ive replied to your PM, ill be able to get you in on the next groupbuy which will be very soon and very brief as i have to sort out some A70 Supra owners in the near future. So yeah ill fit you in on that order as its too late for this one. Cheers -Dave-

Cheers mate, I might actually take you up on that.

Keen aren't we?

They're Advan TCIIs, but I suspect they're fake. If they're real they're worth nearly half of what I bought the car for.

I reckon all volunteers should be offered priority entry into the next DECA.

Volunteer to help! Seriously. It gets you right up close to the action, and many drivers (myself included) will be willing to let you jump in as a passenger for the afternoon runs.

The tyres I currently have on my car read: 225/40 R18 on the front, and 255/35 R18 on the rear. The KU36 has the front size perfectly, but only 245/40 R18, or 265/35 R18 for the rear. Once again, excuse my noobishness, I have been doing some reading but it is difficult to find decent information as most of what google finds are short tidbits of information given out by companies trying to sell to you. Is there only one size of tyre that fits each size of rim, or can tyres be stretched/compressed or rolled differently so you have different sidewall height etc? Also, if tyres can be stretched etc, it can be assumed that the readings on the tyres may not be the best for my rim anyway. Finding the width is any enough, but how do you work out what kind of sidewall you want? Thanks again. Edit: I just measured with a ruler, they're 10.5 inches on the back (265) and 9.5 (240) on the front. I think I'm answering my own questions here. So would my best option be the 245/40 R18 on the front and 265/35 R18 on the back? Thanks.

Nah, but Gary (the guy in the Soarer) will be there, and his mate Colin who was riding shotgun in my car will be volunteering/watching.

I like the sound of these KU36's. My concern is that they're semi slicks though. As a daily driver am I going to destroy my tyres? I'm still rather inexperienced on the track, I don't want to lock the car up and annihilate them that way either. Not only that, but I've heard when semi's let go, they really let go. I've yet to learn the limits of my car on street tyres, I don't want to lose it at some ridiculous speed running semis. Also, someone mentioned tyre temperatures, do these tyres have to be warmed up? As a daily driver I'm not going to be driving hard, but I may been to brake hard in an emergency. Also, DECA days really don't give you much opportunity to warm your tyres up. Thanks for all the responses guys, I appreciate it.

Anyone received these yet? I'm still waiting for mine.

I've made a few changes! Mainly a full exhaust system from headers back. Gives the car a lot more kick! Also hoping to install rear sway bars and replace all my tyres with something decent. Damn I'm excited. I loved the last DECA.

Hey guys, I'm in need of new tyres, but have zero experience with them. My car currently has THREE different types on it (hence why I'm getting new ones) so I can't even judge the ones I'm using. I'm trying to get out on the track, and I've been getting out to the SAU skidpan days, so I'm looking for some sort of performance out of them. I read through the tyre recommendation thread but it only confused me further. My budget isn't huge, but I'm willing to spend a bit for something decent. So, my question is: what bang for your buck tyre would you recommend? I appreciate any advice, thanks.

Just stay Friday and Saturday night! DECA is fun, but so is taco bills afterwards. I promise.

I can confirm Colin. He's more than willing.

Put Colin Clark down as the morning Skidpan hat starter/removalist. He's definitely coming but I haven't had a chance to speak to him about it. I'll convince him tonight.

Can myself (Kieran Robinson), Chris McColgan and Gary Swift please be put in the same group please. Thanks Bec.

I'm not going to be able to make this. Due to some clerical f**k up at work I'm rostered on to work tomorrow and my bitch of a boss pretty much told me I have to work or I'm fired. I'd call her bluff on it too if I didn't like my job so much. My apologies for any inconvenience or problems caused. Kieran.

If it's easier just split Chris and I into a room together and put Colin and Gary into another room. Thanks.

We can surround the trailers in our other cars so there's no way anyone can unhook them or anything.