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The old Nissan ones need pressing to get out. The new (whiteline) ones if that is what you are using don't need a press.

Flush ones do look better but they may not fit. You need to check.

There is a rubber chicken prize for whomever can stop a GT-R from understeering. I have my hopes. The rear anti roll bar I made out of scaffold tube should hoik that inside rear atleast 3 inches off the deck. Being serious it is no good having traction in a car that won't go around a corner. Traction is easy to get in a GT-R. Finding front end grip is very hard. But the Baron is right. VH Commodore & R32 GT-R. Same same.

Based on some scientific sampling of the 8327 threads on this subject there are two people who favour running larger rears tyres on the rear of an R32 GT-R. Neither of them should be listened to. There are many good reasons not to. There are no good reasons for doing so. Try a search.

Because you can't just click a link. Roughly in order you need to Select an event. Get a membership to a club. Get a licence (be it for the day or for the year). Prepare your car for scrutineering with typical requirements over normal roadworthiness being: Tagged fire extinguisher. Blue triangle Valve caps on the tyres. Tow hooks. Prepare yourself Long sleeves in cotton. Helmet. Prepare your car for the track typically needing things such as: New and or proper brake fluid. Decent brake pads. Good rotors. Cooling system up to scratch. Engine in good nick. Good suspension. And all that is before you get to the point of thinking about going quickly. Which is somewhat more than just clicking on a link. Most people look at that & think it is too hard. Which it isn't really. A selection of what events are on soon: http://www.cams.com.au/Sport/Events/Event%...;to=&page=1

Well think about what you have done to the brakes. The rotor is much larger in diameter 290ish vs 360mm. So there is 20% more torque for a similar amount of force. The CP5555 (I guess that is the calliper?) has a smaller piston area than a Sumitomo & will be stiffer. Which aligns with what you are observing.

Here then. Facilities: Wanneroo Raceway. www.wascc.com.au Collie motorplex. www.motoringsouthwest.org.au AHG centre www.dtec.com.au Kwinana raceway (drags) www.motorplex.com.au Stuff you need to hit a circuit. Cams affiliated car club memership eg http://www.cams.com.au/en/Sport/Club%20Zon...e=WA&page=1 Cams L2S licence. www.cams.com.au Licence menu here - you need a L2S for sprints/hillclimbs which in turn requires club membership. http://www.cams.com.au/en/Development/Get%...ce%20Types.aspx Series and/or events and/or clubs that runs events (just some of the many) Speed event series. www.speedeventseries.com No limits events at Wanneroo http://www.nolimitevents.com/news.php (An event on tonight I believe) State sprint thingies http://www.dtec.com.au/ That took 5 minutes & was off the top of my head. There are numerous car clubs who want members & organise events too. The unfortunate reality is very few people can ever be bothered turning up to have a look see, let alone enter, let alone do it properly. My argument is this (& does not in any way relate to the people unfortunate enough to be involved in the incident mentioned in this thread): If all you know about someone is that they are happy to disregard road rules why would you want them on a race track anywhere near you or your car? Clearly you don't. So why do people argue that hoons need facilities & that the hard working folk who manage/run them ought to provide their services to fkwits. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but there it is. On the other hand you will find anyone involved in motorport will be more than happy to help & be genuinely interested if you want to do something properly. Me included.

It has been asked and answered any number of times. The reality is that most people who say they want to participate don't. They either have unrealistic expectations (eg it should cost next to nothing and be just round the corner) or are put off by it being competitive or by it being a controlled environment or any number of other reasons. Which is fine. But it is not like there are any secrets about where to go or who to talk to.

I dunno, not like I have any idea what I am on about. If you look at the photo you will see my pos. Bearing cover is missing paint, hub is a lovely shade of iron oxide & the open ended nuts are bleeding red where they exposed metal on the studs & then got wet. So yeah, tough in a adandoned shopping trolley kind of way. You can remove the bearing cap & paint or anodise that. Then use a shiney new split pin. Also the hub centre can be cleaned up & painted a bit too. Or just get some caps & stay away from the kerbs & carparks.

A few things: Be careful because on some of the Volk rims the flat caps (the ones in the first photo) don't clear the wheel bearing cap on some rims. It is common to lose the damn things when you kerb hop at the track. You can get them from Greenline/Nengun etc cheaper. It may just be easier to neaten up the bearing cap eg paint/anodise it & use a shiney split pin.

Phark I run out of talent parallel parking in town. Yes the bolted connection where the LCA meets the castor rod is solid. As in 2 times M12 worth of solid. No clearance fit on the bolts, either. Most of the compliance in the stock R32 is in the castor rod. Shop alignment is for pussies. Just do it by eye. Because I can't manage to read 87 pages of stuff & turned up late - did you change out the upper inner arm bracket (that bolts to the chassis?) Looks to be stock. If so next time you have a chance pull the spring/shock out - disconnect the sway bar & articulate the suspension, ie check if it binds. I am pretty sure this was at the heart of the issues I had with bushes lasting 10 minutes or 10 kms, whichever was the least. Oh and those Cusco upper arms are heavy bastard things.

Try half the 12 & 10kg/mm rates listed, ie 6 & 5 kg/mm. Which sounds like it is well outside the window for the shocks.

Gold. Some things to remember. 1. If the engine bay is smoking then people tend to get excited & reef the bonnet open. Which is a great way of flaring the fire up & getting a face full of flame. So do it slowly. 2. The best way of fighting a fire with a 1kg extinguisher is to throw the said extinguisher at the fire & bravely run to the nearest mashalling post. But like teh Baron says it will be the highlight of the said marshals day & a nightmare for you cleaning it all up. Which you should do as soon as is practically possible as that stuff eats electrical connections and alot of other things besides. 3. You R35 owners need to harden up. Nothing shows pride of ownership like tec screwing the extinguisher bracket to the floor of your car. Just try not to put a screw through a fuel line.

Well the answer to both those points is same. I live in the country. Unlike the prevailing attitude of just about everyone who lives in Perth/other random capital city I long ago made the realisation that doing stuff takes time, effort & involves some degree of sacrifice. So yeah it is a 3 hour drive to go to Wanneroo, just like it is 2 & a bit hours to go & watch the cricket, the rugby or to attend a decent concert. You will find that most people who live in the sticks understand that & get on with life anyway. It is a city based mentality that requires everything to be presented on a plate.

Getting a Cams licence is not at all difficult. You need a car club licence (pick one they are cheap) & then send CAMS a cheque for less than a hundred dollars with their form. If you want one for a day you can organise that too. Simply put the threshold for money/forms/competence for doing a track day with a club is so low that there is no reasonable excuse - none at all - to do something stupid instead. It is not the money, it is not the skill level required, it is not the time required. It is simply that people cannot be bothered doing something they incorrectly perceive as being too hard. That being the case there is no reason to link motor sport to anything that happens on the roads. There are countless numbers of resourceful, competent and dedicated people who work tirelessly to organise & participate in motorsport all around the country. The more people try & link tragic accidents like this to the sport the harder their job becomes. So stop it. If you want something to do go down the park & kick a football. It works just as well in stopping people from having accidents in their cars. Oh and one last thing. It is government money that has, to a large degree, allowed the expansion of the Collie motorplex & that will allow for further expansion in the future. It is also government money that hopefully will allow Wanneroo to expand. So just think before you tip a bucket of sh!t onto the pollies for doing nothing.

In the same manner as there being no time & place on a public road there is no reason to link such unfortunate occurances to motor sport or motor sport facilities. At all.

Let me guess you are running castor rods with a rod ends rather than bushes and the outer upper suspension link bush is lasting next to no time at all?

Here are a couple of photos are are tenuously related tot his thread.

Well I would like to see Ari Vatanen over Mosely. Maybe that way the WRC would get looked after properly instead of being permanantly fkd about. He is already a politician so doubtless will be familair with the back stabbings etc. Hard to see how he could do any worse than Max has done these last few years.

The good thing about Webber is he doesn't carry on like a bitching school girl when someone else does it to him. He is an (overly) aggressive driver at times but to give him his due, when someone else does it to him he just gets on with it. As for the rules - it is F1 - the rules are whatever they make up this week. Just went to down to the news agent. Usually they have a half a dozen or so copies of Auto Fiction. This week there are atleast two dozen. I reckon someone thinks there may be a Webber induced sales bump.

Well said. Schumacher was the one who started all the swerving off the startline to push others out of the way. It has only got worse since. Hopefully Webber will learn from this & not do it again.

Yeah - wastegates & wastegate actuators are not the same thing.

Most Blitz rims have the size, offset, manufacture date etc cast into them on the inside of the hub. Take the wheel off & have a look. Are you happy with the size/offset of the rims you have? Remember the calliper clearance is not related to the offset. I have a set of Blitz rims that only just clear the front callipers on my GT-R. The Volk CE28's I also have clear them by a good half an inch in all directions. The rims are the same size & the same offset ie 17*9 +22. So changing the offset is not the key to fixing the problem. See this for sizing. http://www.nismo.co.jp/en/products/competi...pdf/wheel02.pdf

It would help if you stated what the offset is. There are two issues. 1. Getting enough room between the calliper & the spokes of the rim. This has nothing much to do with the offset. 2. Getting the offset right. From memory a number of about +12 is ok for a R33 gt-r (not sure) but you need also take into account rim width, tyre width, suspension camber. Basically offset is all about how much of the cars track width the rim provides. A smaller number givers you a rim that sticks further out into guard which is a bit upside down but there it is.

My Cusco castor rods aren't bent. What they do instead is slightly offset the position of the rod end at the front of the castor rod.