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I may be a bit dim, but the chassis number starts with KBNR34.... which makes it an R34?

If it does go ahead (it won't) it will, like every break away series that has ever been, result in a divisive, weakened pair of second rate "championships". What will happen is that a compromise will be reached. I just hope that Williams & Force India screwed the FIA for all they are worth before they signed on. As for Nissan - it will never happen. Renault owns Nissan & Renault can barely afford to be in F1. The expectation is that one or more of the manufacturers will be gone at years end. There is a lot of money on that manufacturer being Renault. Toyota is prbably close to leaving too - too much money for no results. They should go back to rallying (just without the cheating).

A couple photos from a weekend in Albany. Sunday (in town) the weather was horrible. Monday was nice.

This has been done to death a million times. But anyway. There are two key mechanisms for dissipating heat from an intercooler: conductivity & emissivity. Both are obvious in the way they function. Painting an intercooler black improves the heat transfer due to emissivity but lessens it due to conductivity. Conductivity is by far the more influential of the two mechanisms which means you degrade the performance of the intercooler if you paint it. On the upside it helps stop it corrode from salt etc. So don't paint it if you want it to work at its best.

Why are you short shifting?

No it doesn't. You should be in no doubt as to whether the ABS works or not. You feel the pedal pulsing & as often as not hear the thing working. Find yourself a gravel road & hit the brakes....

They are stock on all R32 Gt-R's. They sit immediately behind the lower spection of the front spoiler & bolt to the undertray. They stop short of the front end of the castor rod & do not by any means channel air all the way to the brake rotor. The Unique air deflectors attach to the castor rod & essentially take the air from the Nissan parts shown & channel it to the brakes. You need both to do a half decent job. Or some ducting of your own which is massively cheaper. From memory the Unique stuff is about $300 - how much are the Nissan bits from RHD?

http://www.raceofchampions.com/ But Sebastien Loeb usually wins on account of him being a far better driver than any of the F1 clowns.

Yes it does. But it can only do so when the manifold is under vacuum, ie off throttle. The likelihood of a lower octane air fuel mixture (which is the effect oil has) in that circumstance causing engine damaging pinging is, IMHO, nil. This is very different from the oil that goes off the lower side breather which goes through the intercooler & can cause damage to your motor. It is this oil that also pukes out the bovs & stinks up the turbos. The advantage of retaining a pcv is as you said - it lowers the pressure in the sump. This, in turn, means less windage & less propensity to froth the oil.

Pardon my ignorance but how is the oil from the head of the motor going to have any more/less fuel contamination than that in the sump? Additionally removing the PCV from the motor is one of the best ways of increasing the amount of oil going into your catch can. That, combined with the illegality of doing so makes me question why people would ever want to. CAMS don't much like the practice either - they insist a large catch can volumes in the absence of a PCV. For my 10 cents worth a better arrangement is to retain the functionality of the PCV & install either an oil / air seperator (eg a Nismo unit), fix the problem at source (eg Mines cam cover baffles) & or plumb in a decent catch can (ie with a capacity bigger than a can of coke).

They clip in or should do. But yeah you can just Sikaflex them in place. Make sure it is done neatly as that stuff can be hard to get off. Question: How much are the bits ex Nissan?

Sounded like a recommendation. Teh Baron is right. There is no good reason to use different tyres front & rear. There are a number of good reasons not to.

Gees mine wasn't even that complicated. Give me one for a stock R32 Gt-R I said. So they did. Sort of. I mean, to be fair some of the dimensions were correct. I got it fixed locally as I ran out of faith that they could get it right. Admittedly I didn't want to wait for it to go back & forth to Queensland from WA & I got the hump after they told me my car was what was wrong. So I dunno. They do some good work but their quality control as far as building the things as per the drawing is well, forum rules & all that.

Camira, indestructible. In the same sentence. They were badly built, with a litany of faults. Most were so hopelessly underpowered that thrashing the bejeesus out of them was the only way of keeping up with the rest of the traffic. Plastic quality & build quality are not the same. For that matter "flimsy" is mostly a perception. How did you measure the quality? Overwhelmingly the more recent the car the better its build quality. The VE is streets ahead of the VT. Just like the FG is ahead of the AU.

Well if it fits you are miles infront of my experience. I don't have a problem with any of their welding it all looks good. Speedholes. Good work. Just make sure you touch up the exposed metal with some zinc rich primer. Good work with the chassis rails too. Whats the secret?

1982. Loud & proud.

Yeah I like them because you get oil cooling at standstill which is something you can't get from an oil/air unit. Plus you can bin all the nonsense around the filter that Nissan provided. There are only two downside that I can think of: 1. Its PWR so ofcourse it will get fabricated right the first time. On time too. 2. A 57mm radiator is alot of weight well forward that you need to lug about. Compared to the stock radiator anyway.

It isn't so much the rolling diameter as the fact that if you put a smaller tyre on the front your R32/33/34 will understeer like a pig on the track. Worse than it usually does in fact. With regard to tyre wear the fronts wear quicker than the rears. Which tells you all you need to know about weight distribution.

I always worry a bit about dry cells quoting CCAs. Half the time they give you some other number that is not directly comparable, ie sounds like CCA but is some other measure. Braille quote proper CCA's but not all manufacturers do. I will have to look into getting one if/when my Deka dies. The 15AH capacity of the Braille unit may need an eye kept on it. There again my Deka at 31AH appears to last for ages before it gives up the ghost. Good call with the radiator mounted oil cooler. Would have done the same (maybe) if I could have got one in a 40mm. Much neater than stuffing about with a seperate unit. Also leaves room for a CAI on the passengers side.

Bulb = globe. So without me going to check does the TPS check out as the manual says it should?

The existence of the Holden Camira (Wheels Car Of the Year, no less ) can be explained quite simply. It is what happens when a corpulent, out of touch car company decides it needs a new small/medium sized car. Then designs something that may have been half decent were it not so the fact they couldn't design/manufacture a ham sandwich to spec. As dreadful as the Camira was, you should check out the Cadillac version. See here: http://wikicars.org/en/Cadillac_Cimarron http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...mages&gbv=2 Perhaps even more scary was the Daewoo version foisted on poor, unsuspecting punters years after the Camira had been euthanaised. None of which explains the Toyota Camry. The anti car if ever there was one.

Nice work. Couple quick questions: What size Braille battery have you got & WTF is it still doing in the engine bay? Did the shrouding to the sides of the stock radiator fit on the PWR one? Looks to be the 57mm version is it?

Yes the 1990 ATCC was basically won in an R31. Mostly it was due to the unreliability of the DJR Sierras rather than the speed of Freddo's cars. The R31 started out with approx 370hp in 1988 & evolved to a reputed 460hp in 89. Their finishing record in endurance racing was lamentable. Mostly it involved gearboxes giving up the ghost. From memory they did Bathurst twice in the R31 - 2 x DNF in 1988 & then in 1989 3rd & 4th (albeit a lap down). At Sandown in 1988 they had 2 cars DNF, in 1989 they managed 1st & 3rd for their only win & in 1990 they didn't bother to turn up. Ofcourse the R32 ran at Bathurst in 1990. But if DNF'd there too.

Well said Baron. Also if you want a track wheel/tyre package there are MUCH cheaper ways to go about it than using R34 rims. Try a 255/40/17 on a 17*9 rim. It will be $500 cheaper for the R comp tyres alone. Just be aware a RE55 in that size will scrape on the rear with a +22 offset. You may get away with it with more offset eg an R33 Gtr rim but trackwidth is not something you should just give away if you can at all help it. Something to think about, anyway.

Remove the tps sensor, give it a clean & replace it. If that fails try swapping out the sensor with a known good one. Is there a globe in the dashboard for the fault light?