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You may have gone off yokohama but I recently bought some C drives for my daily, errr, driver. They are very quiet & grip well in the wet.

Trust me when I say this: The road safety debate is irretrievably broken. Take this as an example: http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,27...06-2761,00.html Note the headline: teenage hoon. Not teenage car thief trying to outrun police. Apparently hooning is a more noteable offense than car theft & avoiding arrest. Which tells you all you need to know about the value judgements of police, journalists & politicians. Look clearly Tom Koutsantonis is a clown & an archetypal hypocrite, but then again are any of the state politicians proclaiming to be tough on law & order any different?

Phaarrkkk. When did this become Anorexics Australia? High five for anyone else nudging the 100kg mark. Good luck fitting your child bearing hips inside a Japanese seat with a width of 450mm by the way. Now go and eat some pies you lot.

Not so sure I understand why there is so much hype about the process. It has been around for many, many years. It is just that it has up until now rarely been used in such a high profile motoring application. In the grown up world (ie not teh interwebz) plasma coatings have been used to refurbish, reinforce, strengthen, protect, modify etc etc no end of engineering components - from stuff like pump shafts to wear parts to components needing a protective stainless coating. There is no reason to believe the coatings on the motor will be any less successful than old school cast iron. Anyway when they fail you should be able to get them redone & rebored. So no need for oversized pistons....

Put the house on Hamilton. Looks like the revised diffuser may be the ticket to fixing McLarens chronic rear end aero issues.

Maybe have a think about a keeshond.... Nice dogs, clever, loyal (bit too clingy perhaps) & not too large.

He means most of the Bilstein/Whiteline kit gear comes with a generic bump stop. If the bump stop is not cut to a proper length before installation you end up with a set up that works better as a pogo stick than as car suspension.

Somewhat off topic (hey its my thread) but how do you find the Radical. Is it all aero grip & no mechanical or reasonably balanced?

Speaking of Portugal & the FIA: If you want awesome type Latvala Portugal crash video into a search engine. Jari-Matti destroying his WRC Focus in the most comprehensive possible way. There is some in car & some footage from a random spectator. Also the FIA want to introduce KERS to rally cars. Why don't they just fk off & let someone competent come up with some decent regulations that may actually promote the category???

IMHO A1 GP is not a good yardstick. It is heavily dependent on which (usually English) company is running the cars for the various countries. You will find that the successful countries are mostly run by a select few companies. NPKJR was a race winner in A1GP in 05 however. In any case he ran second in the 06 GP2 championship - some hack called Lewis beat him. Look, clearly he is struggling & the book of excuses is nearing its end. He can drive & needs to do better.

Yeah mine have about half a lap in them more than yours. So no rain dances between now & May, ok?

Looks like it. Although the rear body work is not the same. http://www.my105.com/classified.asp?id=7764 Not sure what an SR1800 is supposed to be either. Maybe there is a typo on the entry. Saurus looks more likely than Saurag.

Hey Frankies back. The fifth photo is Frankie in his Supra. See www.speedeventseries.com (on the front page under video clips - Franks spin at Barbagallo) for the last time he was there. This is some random stooge from Busso......

Anyone know anything about these things?

I agree & um, disagree. No car is difficult to drive in the wet. If you can't take off from a set of lights without wheelspin you shouldn't be driving. Or won't be for long after plod sees you. But the only tyres that suffer unduly in the wet are R compounds & cheap "performance" tyres. The reason you pay good money for good tyres is that they grip well in all circumstances.

Seriously if you think that getting sideways in fourth on a wet road is testament to you driving ability you need to think again. Things to avoid are: 1. Driving like a dickhead. 2. Bragging about it on an internet forum.

Yeah the Brawn thing was sort of my point. It was good out of the box. Compared to the McLaren which is a dog which no amount of testing will fix. RBR are the odd one out as they are the only team running a pullrod rear. I would have thought that most of the big tems would have been working on the revised diffuser since before Melbourne.

I will be gobsmacked if they get banned. It won't take any of the major teams very long to get the new arrangement implemented. The lack of testing will not hurt them as everything will be sorted using their wind tunnels, cfd systems & shaker rigs.

Well that begs the question: What curve does the HKS unit give? The Ruzic one will do a straight line adjustment to the lateral accelerometer output as one of the settings.

Looking at the first photo (ie motor with head off) it would appear that all of the cylinders were affected. Which pretty muchs rules out a single dud injector or poor air distribution through the manifold.

Velo list their Perth distributors as: www.searleraceequipment.com.au Tony Flood Motorsport (Nice bloke, recommended) 08 9472 1800 Kew Street Welshpool. Race Tune Services (Roley - again, nice bloke) 08 9371 3333 Chalkley Place Bayswater.

Sooooo what spring rates did you settle on? Also I am interested to see how they dealt with the mods for the spring rubbers.

The point of the Velos is they are available in different widths so you can get anything from a slip hipped nancy boy fitment to something suited to the fat bastards of this world. Most Japanese seats are very narrow. Also try OMP - they do good stuff.

Because the 32's & 33's have too tall gearing which means you too often get caught off boost or between gears in hillclimbs/kharnas etc etc.

Velo do nice work, are local & best of all can be specced up so you know they fit before you buy them.