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You didn't miss much of his first race. He qualified well then the clutch went bang on the start line. Then Walkinshaw did a few dirty moves & Schumacher turned up at Benetton. Oddly enough Eddie was sort of my hero. He had no great talent, was a bit of a gob shite but, by god he did he rake in huge amounts of cash - particularly from Jaguar. He was my hero simply because he converted a lack of talent into great big piles of cash. Something to which I aspire. I've got the first bit sorted anyway.

Sorry probably should have explained. Act 1: Schumacher forced Frenzten off the road & out of the race in a particularly ugly incident. Not sure if that is on Youtube but it may be worth a look. Can't access it from this computer. Act 2: Hill weaved about a bit (As per youtube) & held Schumacher up briefly. Act 3: Schumacher accuses Hill of "dangerous weaving" I only remember it because it was the point at which I lost any last remnant of respect for the way he (schumacher) conducted himself. Something about which I am sure nobody at all lost any sleep over.

Hill vs schumacher Canada 1998.

Sad. There again I saw one on a Toyota Camry wagon yesterday. Automatic. 1990 model.

Stock will be fine. Also you don't need to go to that large a radiator. But if you do it would be worthwhile looking at an oil/water cooler for your engine oil rather than an oil/air cooler. You can also do no end of good by ensuring the motor breathes cold air to start with. This can be difficult to arrange partiularly if you put an oil cooler in the usual position of the passenger side of the front air dam.

Yes the stock GT-R diff is a 2 way, but there is much more to it than that. Firstly the preload on the stock diff from factory is ALOT less than the NISMO item. Secondly you don't need a diff that locks on the over run in a GT-R - it serves no purpose other than to exacerbate the GT-Rs inherent handling faults, ie understeer. Third as long as your ATTESSA system is working correctly (ie not worn out) you don't need much in the way of a rear diff. An Attessa controller will eliminate any last vestiges of wheel spin so get one of those instead of going too hard on the diff. There are two parameters for how aggressive a diff is - the preload & the ramp angle. More preload = more aggressive. More ramp angle = more aggressive. Lastly check the other Nismo options.

Ah, um, Honda first won an F1 race in 1965. Mexico as it happens. Richie Ginther. Which pretty much pre-dates every other constructor in the championship bar one.

Best advice is to down load the manual off the Nismo website & see for yourself how easilly (or otherwise) the pre load can be adjusted. Then decide if it is a useful feature. For my 10 cents it is not worth the effort. They are an agressive diff in anycase, irrespective of the setting.

Absolutely. He will give you enough space to be yourself & yet be there for you when you need him. Wait, what?

Talk of people who "deserve" to win F1 races is nonsense. All of the teams are out there busting their arses to win or to get good finishes as are the overwhelming majority of drivers. What arbitrary measure to you use to work out whether someone deserves a championship sor not? How many years they have been in the sport? How hard they worked to get there? How much natural talent they have? How much effort they put in? How well the go under pressure? A million & one other random & baseless parameters? Anyway in Singapore (& in a number of other races) the McLaren was by no means the best car.

The nomenclature is a bit muddled but I think what you are referring to is the Nismo edition built in 1990 & used to homologate the GT-Rs for group A racing. The 500 built requirement was allowed by the FIA as an "evolution" eg the late 1987 Sierra Coswoth RS500 was different tot he one raced earlier that year & was an example of an evolution model. As were all the Brock & Walkinshaw Commdores. Anyway the build numbers had a 1 at the front of the sequence & then numbered from 1 to 560. So they were in the range of BNR32-100001 to BNR32-100560. The model should read KBNR32RXFSL RA

I am a little confused. The -7 has been tagged as the GTSS equivalent but now a few people have moved over to the -9 as being more closely aligned. Can the -9 be bought with the right flanges etc to bolt straight up?

Well the housings look to be different? http://www.turbobygarrett.com/turbobygarre...0R_707160_9.htm http://www.turbobygarrett.com/turbobygarre...0R_707160_5.htm

I meant the turbos. It is just that a number of motors I have seen sheets for run more air flow that is shown on the compressor maps. That other turbo is interesting & look well sized for that 435 rwhp- but the -5 & -7 were a straight bolt up.

This isn't terribly accurate & doesn't purport to show anything much beyond some general principles, but... There are three attachments 1. Dyno chart of an RB26 (Roughish tune due to time constraints) 2. A plot of the air flow versus pressure ratio on the compressor chart for the turbo actually used - a GT2860 707160-5. 3. A plot of the equivalent airflow on a GT28-60 707160-7. Now obviously the two wont & cant work the same but as I said - general principle. Some things are noteable. 1. The dash 5 can flow more air & more boost. 2. The -7 efficiency is always lower than the -5. 3. The compressor efficiency falls away markedly on the -7. Question I have is how far to the right ie how much more airflow can be had from these things?

For anyone who is whinging about James Allen & Lewis Hamilton - you should have heard Murray Walker bang on about Migel Mansell. Phark even when he was at Lotus it was bad enough & he won nothing for them. BBC/ITV broadcasts to a mostly pommie ordience so ofcourse the commentry will be biased to whichever Brit is having half a go. Now it is Hamilton, before him Button, before him Coulthard, before him Hill, before him Mansell and so on. You want biased commentry you should have heard James Hunt rip into Ricardo Patrese.

Somewhat off topic, but does anyone know where you may be able to get some extra ducting to connect Nissan's ducts to the wheel hub/brake rotor?

Tyres. Simple as that.

They are standard.

Personally for all the hype I don't reckon the night aspect added anything to the race. So you could see a few more sparks from the undertrays & the weather wasn't quite so hot, but really apart from CO2 what did it add? Fkn thing was still televised at stupid oclock in the morning - thanks Win tellie.

Look I wasn't making any assumptions. I was just trying to help the bloke who started the thread. Sorry if whatever I said offended you. I didn't mean to. The lb/min to horsepower relationship is a useful one & one that I point people towards when looking at turbos. Not sure why you so rarely see it discussed. The shame of it is how bloody difficult it is to find maps for alot of brands of turbo. Garrett is the notable exception to this. The pressure ratio thing is important simply because people rarely speak of it in terms related to the turbo performance. They just talk of restrictions without quite realising what the restriction most affects & how cheap an upgrade fixing it is. The compressor map doesn't tell the whole story in this regard anyway as its x axis is in lb/min rather than the more common volume flow you see in industrial stuff. This coupled with the hp & boost obsession of many people puts too much emphasis on one side of the turbo only. You are right in that performance is all about the area under the torque curve. Or to put it another way the average power output over an rpm range. A graph of rear wheel torque versus roadspeed (ie for each gear) can help enormously when optimising motor/turbo setups.

Great more government money shovelled into the V8 coffers. To all those who are resistant to the idea - here is a suggestion. Go to a motor race other than the V8's. There are plenty of good categories & much good racing in the world outside the insular, no dammit inbred V8 Stupidcars. It doesn't have to be F1, it doesn't have to be V8's. Infact as often as not the racing is better when it is neither of those two things. Maybe even try the reconstituted Rally Oz. Mark my words if you want to see world class drivers in brilliant cars showing all the skill, balls & general awesomeness you could ever want then that is the place to be.

Oooh, tasings. Where abouts you offering to tase people, Fatz? My brother used to do home brew. Only time he ever cared about hygene, FFS.

Absolutely, but it is about balance. Chose too small a compressor & whilst it may produce the airflow (just) it will only do so at a huge shaft rpm & with low efficiency. So as ever it is about balance By full spool I take it you mean reaching the target boost level? Looking at the compressor maps a few point come to mind: The y axis is pressure ratio, not boost so keep this in mind. In the area above the peak efficiency island the shaft speed climbs markedly to deliver the requisite boost. Note also the fall off in efficiency. As an aside this is what annoys me about the "just add another 1lb boost" argument that alot of people use. As mentioned you can plot the airflow versus pressure ratio for your engine by using the dyno chart & the compressor map. It can be an enlightening exercise. The plot can look markedly different depending on how much boost you are running.

Can we not re hash 2007? It was a blight on everyone concerned, Ferrari, Renault, McLaren, but mostly the FIA. Anyway the global warming GP in Singapore was, despite the trepidations, a good race. Williams had a great result but were hard done by because of the bullshit pit lane rules. Why do you get penalised more for refilling the car than for tearing the fuel rig to bits, injuring your pit crew, spilling fuel everywhere & then pulling out infront of someone? Gees haven't seen Ferrari implode like that since, well since about 1982. Was Kimi too tired from spending time with the lady boys? He just stuffed it into the wall for no apparent reason. Good work by Renault. Good team tactics to use NPKJR to bring out the pace car to help Alonso. I somehow think he needs to have a strong finish to the year to keep his spot. Alonso on the other hand looked spent - atleast compared to the other two on the podium. Oh and what has happened to BMW?