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You have to understand that the "proper motorsport is too hard/too expensive" excuse is just that. It in no way validates stupid behaviour. People don't do it because doing the right thing is too hard. They do it because they are utter fkwits.

I want to know who is financing Paul Dumbrell's V8 escapades. Simply because it would be good to know someone so generous. Well done to the Jones brothers & McConkey. Good to see them having some time in the sun. The PWR car for Andrew Thompson did well. Looks like he can drive, not that there was much doubt. Junior Johnson got well shafted by the "Judge of fact". Fact was he got it wrong. Highlight of the whole weekend was the brilliant effort by Paul Morris to drop the C word into the broadcast. As for driving standards - it is always going to end up in a mess of broken cars if you relax them even a little. Surely that much has been learned? Not that it is V8 related, but it is good to see so many sons of former racers having a go. Miedecke, Moffat (x2) & now Hansford. Good stuff.

Yeah sorry old info I guess. I saw some over the weekend advertised as duralium. So I guess they have fixed it. Million dollar quesrion: How do you pick the difference between the two?

Yes the euros have been driving diesel cars for yers. But then again if fuel was double the price, the roads half the size & the taxation rates even more stupid than they presently are everyone here would probably be driving a 1 litre diesel Fiat something. And hating it. Not sure if you noticed but diesel prices are in lock step with petrol prices - and it is more expensive & less common (in metro areas). Plus you have to stand in the awful black oil slick & get the stinking sh!t all over your hands every time you fill up. Then there is the noise, the lack of a torque band more than 2000rpm wide, the dodgy resale.... Audi winning Le Mans. That is mostly about weak opposition & stupid rules. Like Le Mans has always been, really. In any case given that Australia has an abundance of gas it makes sense for Ford to build an engine that runs on LPG. Which they do. So maybe less of the is Euro is good and a little more credence to the local engineers who are building the things.

Well the decision is as much about who you import it through as what you import. A good importer will serve you well, a bad one will unload any old crap they have laying about. You can get a good idea from asking - much better than the impression that may be gained from looking at flashy web sites & spammed left overs. But in any case at the moment, for R32 GT-R's - I reckon you would be much better off finding one local from a private seller. They are abundant, cheap & generally in better condition than when they left Japan.

It looks oddly proportioned in the photos. There appears to be a heap of room between the beonnet & the top of the motor. Maybe this is something to do with the pedestrian crash worthiness regulations?

Try a search. The tooth section of the cam gear wears very quickly because it is soft aluminium. Also whilst you are arsing about with the gears change the belt & think about changing the water pump.

Yeah I wouldn't buy HKS cam gears. I would get a different brand.

Nah, far tougher burning and/or gassing yourself with CO2.

Best option: take it somewhere else.

No. Being aluminium doesn't make a radiator reject heat any better than being copper. It just makes it lighter. The second consideration is the volume of coolant the radiator carries. Obviously the longer it resides in the radiator (as opposed to the motor) the more heat it can reject. Just as obviously the more coolant you carry the heavier the system. Bottom line: Check your current system to condition. Make sure it is up to scratch. Then & only then replace it if it is marginal. Drifting is a bit of a hard application for radiators simply because the motor is putting out reasonable amounts of power but the lack of airflow makes it hard for the radiator to function.

Idling is not bad for your motor. Running cold is. So (within reason) the quicker it gets up to its correct operating temperature the less wear you will get. So sitting in the driveway for 5 minutes whilst the thing sits there running cold is bad for the motor & will undoubtedly annoy the fk out of your neighbours.

No it didn't. The roof is steel, by the way.

You reckon? I can't really see a market for a diesel Falcon. Territory yes, but not so much the Foulcan. Maybe if they continue to be similar it will be easy to bung an oiler in both.

Faaark me - the first four or five? I wish. Out of the first thirteen twelve of them are either race or rally cars. The other was a GT3 Porsche. I remember the old days when you had half a chance of a result in a road car. Anyway my driving sucked badly on Saturday - so there is much truth in the rumour I couldn't drive out of sight on a dark night. Mind you, with stock brakes the thing can be seen from quite a distance. I can't even claim to have been the quickest Nissan on the night. Paul got me by 0.2 seconds. But I did manage to be the quickest Skyline. Mostly because George took his thing home on the back of a trailer after some unhappy engine noises. It was a good day/night. Glad the 38 degree temperatures didn't eventuate. Oh and next round is on in Collie on the 2nd March followed by the Busselton event (I think). Be nice to see some Skylines there.

Yeah well there are a few people out there who want both performance & some home comforts inside their cars.

This one may be the pick of the range. Traditionally the Fairmont was the car for pensioners. But with a turbo motor Ford won't be able to go too soft. So you get the best motor they make in a reasonably well specced car without all the boy racer bullsh!t. Nice. Hope they price it well.

So could you reasonably say that with 18" rims you would look to less camber & softer springs?

Err, um: Spartan means something. Skyline means something. Supra means something. Which begs the question: Does anyone here speak English?

F1 cars are irrelevant. V8's run 17" because thats what the regulations say. That started in 1993, so it is an old reg based around old tech. No one else of note goes this small on diameter. If you take a look at the old super tourers the ran big wheels diameters because their regs said with a flat/no tyre the body work couldn't scape ont he ground. As for Roy's question. Hmmmm. I suspect the answer would be yes. The weight thing isn't exactly obvious as the tyres themselves weigh as much as the rims. On the up side you get loads of room for rotors/calipers. On the downside it will probably cost you near on $500 each time you change tyres if you go for 18's rather than 17's. Plus the rims themselves will be more expensive. Money better spent elsewhere?

Yeah, like me: couldabeenchampions. Ron Dennis has now been forced to announce his split from his missus. Phaark he will be putting 2007 down as a year to forget. Lets see: Stitched up by the FIA & Ferrari. His number one driver turned out to be a complete twat. Fined a lazy 100 million. Lost his constructors points. His missus pissed off. (She is shiney, too). Lost the drivers championship. Crumbs.

Well the piston area is quite a bit bigger than the Nissan Brembos. 58cm2 as against 53. So expect some bias issues. Just for amusement this is what the stockies look like at night.

Here you go. Standard 4000 series crack. Started from the return slot & propogated inwards. Full width & depth of the rotor. I measured the rotor wear at 0.1mm, so like new. Only was a rear so it doesn't work for a living. It's just bad design. Photos are not working presently. I will post it later.

Except the RB20 AFM's are not nearly as good as they are made out to be, nor as good as the Z32 units.

Don't forget you need the plugs to go into the AFM's. They come with the Apexi kit but not with the Ebay special.