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You need a helper spring. They are not expensive. Find out what the inside diameter of you springs are (Would guess 65mm), what height you need to bridge and go from there. http://eibach.com/de/en/motorsport/products/eibach-helper-system

Lewis usually implodes off the start line. Wonder who Williams will sign for next year. List of likely candidates doesnt look promising. They need someone with some money and who can drive. Kind of limits the field.

As noted most of these measures are not a case of either/or. You need them all to work together to try and overcome a design floor in the RB26. So, yes, drill the oil returns. Vent the sump via the catch can. Fit a restrictor. But most importantly pay alot of attention on your piston and ring selection, how they are assembled in terms of clearances and overwhelmingly important how they are lubricated during assembly (The bores/rings) and how you load the engine immediately after start up. The less blowby you have the less of a problem you will have with oil. There is a reason the fat old school cast iron rings Nissan put in the engines work better than the steel aftermarket ones.

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No I have +22's and without a lip roll and on r comp tyres (wider than road tyres for the same nominal width) they scrape. 16mm is an odd number - you sure it is correct?

Thanks for the offer but not what I was after.

You will almost certainly foul the rear guard lips with that offset but it depends a little on the tyre (not all 255 are the same width) and your ride height/spring rate/camber setting.

You mean driveshaft? http://justjap.com/driveline/driveshafts-bearings/genuine-nissan-reconditioned-right-front-driveshaft-nissan-skyline-gtr-sold-exchanged.html

As above after soem standard R33 GTR lower control arms.

Yeah I have and will have the manual somewhere. I didnt do it as per the manual - I installed it under the rear parcel shelf but the wires you need to cut into are the same. They work fine.

Maybe but what they've got at the moment is being belted by Force it India. The low downforce/low drag advantage they used to have appears largely lost and they are nowhere with high downforce settings. Be interesting to see who they get to drive alonside Bottas next year.

Not the most exiting race - but Dan ran well so that was good. NFI what is going on at Williams. They need to find some speed and soon. Had also thought Palmer may have turned the corner after his last weekend and qualifying. But again he was outshone by his team mate. The Honda looked to have some horsepower, shame about the fuel consumption.

Well done to Nico then. A day in the sun and at home too. Good luck to him. Never said Hamilton was the greatest driver (the greatest tool of this generation perhaps, other than, errr, Tool) just that he is quicker than Rosberg and that the tens of millions of dollars they pay Rosberg don't appear to be warranted. Sure they can afford it but even so.... Would still have my money on Hamilton for this years WDC, though.

Yeah the same one who has lost the wdc 2 years running and squandered a massive lead in this years which he gained on the back of his team mates bad luck/bad management/stupidity. The same one you saw sooking on the tv last weekend*. *Having said that he is now guaranteed to win at home this weekend.

They are all 30mm.

Well its not magic but they appear to hang on pretty well. Certainly massively better than the 48's if people are to be believed. I would buy which ever is quicker to start with that way when they degrade (And they will) you will be progressing towards the other tyre. Swapping them over on the rims left to right, front to rear helps with the wear on the tread blocks too.

Can anyone come up with a good reason why MB extended Rosberg's contract? Other than the PR for not doing so would hav ebeen bad in Germany. Guy is rapidly becoming (If he is not already) a number 2. So why pay tens of millions per year for someone to pick up the crumbs when Lewis has a sook.

Short answer is yes. There are criteria, but an accident repair doesn't preclude import - depending on the extent of the accident/repair.

Wow, they put a 7" spring in the front? I couldn't work out why they used such a hard spring but I guess if you only have a 180mm to play with you are going to need a big number. Hmm, on looking up an Eibach cattle dog the 7" 10kg 2.5" od spring has a travel of 100mm which leaves about 50mm once the car is on it. So better than I thought and probably not much different to a lot of setups. Still 10kg/mm & 4.5kg/mm is a big gap when you have a car that understeers and has four wheel drive.

You realise that changing out springs is quite an exercise and quite honestly too much of a pain in the arse to do for a track day? What Spring rates do you have anyway? Hoping they are around the 6 &5kg/mm mark front/rear but I fear otherwise.

Well good luck. I tried Project Mu, DBA and any number of others. Maybe Harrop at a pinch? Either that or use 324 x 30's off a 33. Problem being you will need new adapters. Are they AP or another brand. AP wanted drug money from what I can remember.

Forget aero it is a non event on any road car. You usually run a soft rear spring for traction. If your GTR has a properly functioning attesa system (Which can exclude 32's) you won't struggle for traction and can then use the front/rear springs to alleviate under steer which all gtr's do in spades. SO who's right - MCA or Nismo? IMHO Nismo by a long way. WHich doesn't mean I wouldn't ask MCA what a decent Spring rate would do to their shock setup. Bar choice comes down to chucking the hardest you can find at it - I bought mine a long while ago so am no longer sure what is still available. Hard springs with soft bars leaves you with wheel hiking ugliness like Mark Skaife circa 1995 and generally a car that feels unsettled in the corners. Running too hard sway bars reduces your grip and the suspensions independence so isn't to be recommended either. FWIW I run 5.5kg/mm front, 5 rear with a Cusco rear bar and a whiteline front on soft with heaps of front -Ve camber. Balance changes with tyre age from mildly tails (and quicker) on new to under steer on old. This on a 32 GTR.

What changed their minds? Who knows. Perez was outpacing them on softs and Hamilton on ultrasofts in the end - so maybe they got the worst of all options from a compound selection that didn't make much of a difference. Sounds like they just plain couldn't decide and screwed it up because the tyres weren't at hand.

Red Bull & Torro Rosso have both signed with Renault for next year. Will be interesting to see how well the new engine spec goes in Canada....

The baffle kit helps work on oil surge - the blowby problem manifests itself in the head of the motor (Which is where the bigger returns get drilled out so not sure what you mean there) - so no, it doesn't help like you'd hope.