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Then the guy at Fulcrum Recons is wrong. What are you going to bolt the liner to once the guards are rolled?

There was a vague intent for Nissan to run Percy/Grice in that car at Bathurst in 1988. Fred Gibson said don't bother as his cars were already more developed than the European version. You can make of that what you want. Grice ended up driving a Walkinshaw VL and hating it.

How much castor are you running? One way of fixing a problem on the rear of the front tyres is to get some rods & wind some more castor into the front suspension. The fundamental problem is that the rims are the wrong offset. They should be +22mm ie 20mm narrower in trackwidth than what you have.

Well for my 10 cents if you are chasing lap speed the following would make the list: Engine rpm. Longitudinal gees. Lateral gees. TPS. Steering input. (Check on understeer/oversteer lap on lap or after set up changes) Car speed in km/h. (makes it easy to figure out if a short shift costs you and where the engine is spending its time on a revs vs speed chart so you know which rpm to chase torque at) Brake pressure (or digital on/off if you are short) Boost. ATTESSA output (If you are messing with this it helps to know what your settings are on corner exit etc)

You can stuff a 355 rotor inside a 17" rim. Nice work. Any chance of a photo and or the rim internal diameter?

To remove/ replace it you need to: Remove the centre concole. Loosen the adjuster/tensioner nut under the lever. Unbolt the handbrake (don't forget the two rearmost bolts under the bit of carpet) Get under the car & find the two cables that are between the handbrake & the mechanism at the back. Unhitch them (the rear point) Then unhitch them at the front (this is above the drive shaft & a fk to get to) Pull the handbrake out (carefully). Then put it back in the reverse order. Tips: Check the adjustment before you put the console back. Don't work under the car unless it is properly secured. Get someone else to do it, it is a %&*^ of a job.

Usually Bernie has a very finely honed sense of how much money he can extract from a race promoter. Threats are routinely issued to extract more cash. There again he does know when to walk away from a dud deal. Maybe if they moved the race to an interesting, permanent circuit things would improve.

Well I don't know if you noticed, but the state government has declared a jihad on modified cars. It, mistakenly, believes that they are inextricably linked to last years higher road toll. As our beloved premier said on the tellie last night - they have increased the fines/sanctions etc because it is "easy" to do. Not right, not effective, not responsible. Just easy. So this sort of behaviour only serves to reinforce their false perceptions & indirectly causes everyone else more grief. You will find that after you have done some track work you will realise that "dragging people" etc on the street is just lame. Not to mention irresponsible, dangerous, stupid & a bundle of other things besides. It is why others recommend doing some track days. Maybe instead of expecting people to be purer than St Francis of Assisi you could atleast listen to what they say & perhaps even learn from their mistakes without having to repeat them yourself. Just a thought.

No just start it up, let it idle for oh, 5 seconds then get on your way.

You only ever really needed to double de clutch when your gearbox had no synchros (or the dog clutches were marginal & needed looking after). All it does is get the gearbox shafts up to speed thereby removing the load on the synchros (or grinding the gears). No one since 1950 something needed to do it.

YOU need some new RE55's!

Thanks so much. You have no idea how hard it is to get that info. Now kidney, liver or, um, ?

Oh very fkn funny. Fkn newbs. Actually if you want a good read go buy yourself a copy of the book 1982. Get it from Amazon & it will be cheaper than locally. http://www.amazon.com/1982-Inside-Story-Se...6608&sr=8-1

Well to me compared with, say, how they were in the early 80's or the 70's the cars now are all clones of each other.

Some rotor/calliper profiles of the cheapoid G-Reddy range. OH and if people would measure rim inside diameter it would help immensely.

Look I hate vee sixes as much as the next bloke, but there is a little more to it than just saying they are not perfectly balanced. It depends on their vee angle. Ever wonder why people produce 60 degree angled vee sixes?

Well if you removed the paint schemes from the cars other than the different height keels for the front suspension I reckon even the most ardent train spotters would struggle to figure out which car is which.

I will just say that I hope Piquet Junior spanks Alonso's worthless arse. Oh and the Williams looks quick. Sweet.

What theory, who's theory? There is nothing, NOTHING inherent in a V6 engine that would allow it to make more torque than its inline counterpart.

No! Find the tyre dude and slap him. Put the good tyre on the front (So you can brake & steer) and the space saver on the rear (less weight, less braking). This is true for FWD, RWD & AWD cars. Lastly next time you go to the servo check the pressure in the spare. They need a heap of pressure to run as they are so small. Using a foot pump will take you three days to inflate them. No point carrying a spare if it doesn't have any air in it.

OK I dug out an old Bathurst year book & the following were the circumstances: 1. In 1987 There were no B & H Sierras- Frank Gardner ran the JPS M3's that year. The following year (1988) Brock ran the BMW's after his bust up with Holden. 2. They took two Sierras to Bathurst in 1988. Only one ran in the race - winning it as it happens. The left hand drive car sat in the garage and wasn't used in the race. The right hand drive car was the race car. It was the same one that ran the ATCC in white for Longhurst. 3. The two 88 cars were not German. The annual desribes the race winner as "A Don Smith shell fitted out with a kit of components from Andy Rouse" The car was built in Sydney before being shipped North. It was rebuilt before that years Sandown 500. 4. Some bloke called Campbell Little did the engines. 5. Frank Gardner's name was mud in Europe at Ford because his name went on the joint protest that rubbed out the Texaco cars in 1987. So Tomas Mezera was used as an intermediary to buy alot of the parts they needed. 6. I wouldn't expect that latter cars were anything other than locally built.

I will willingly trade kidneys or sexual favours for the inner diameter of a Rays RE30, CE28 or Nismo LMGT4 in 17*9".

You had to get Gossy pissed to get him to talk? How did you ever get him to shut up? He's alright. Deserved his Bathurst wins no end.

There are some templates available for brake packages so you can check if they fit into wheels. Here are some random ones. I would also suggest that the inner wheel diameter gets listed aswell as this changes from rim to rim. If anyone does the cardboard cutout thing please take a picture (or two) & post it. The three pdf's are 1. Endless 6 pot on a 343 rotor. 2. AP CP5555 on a 343 rotor. 3. Alcon as per the data sheet. 6_3.pdf p16004.pdf Mono4_28mm_disc_Model__1_.pdf

This is what cams have to say (This week) http://www.camsmanual.com.au/techdocs/T-401%5B1%5D.pdf