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First port of call is to increase the airflow to the hub & the rotors. This will reduce the temperature of the rotors/callipers etc between stops. Try the www.nismo.com.au site for some brake ducts. Not sure if they have finished the bits for GT-R's, but worth a try. The second port of call is probably to throw the DBA rotors into the nearest scrap bin. Get yourself a rotor that has internal vanes that actually pump air - the DBA just has pillars that do approximately SFA. This will work with your ducts to keep things cool. Try Mu Secret, Harrop, Endless..... Lastly, there are better callipers around than Brembo. Particularly some which have what are referred to castlellated pistons. It looks like a tower on a castle - hence the name. This reduces the amount of heat transferred from the rotor & pad to the fluid in the caliper. Other things like external cross over lines help too. Not sure about titanium backing plates for the pads - I suspect this is just a bit of wank factor. The thermal capacity of the rotor is proportional to the weight of the rotor. But, remember that the amount of heat put into the rotor in the braking zone will not change if you go to a larger rotor. Nor, if done well, should the weight of the rotor increase markedly. So the difference in storage capacity only changes if you select a heavier rotor - something it is worth avoiding. Upshot - more ducting + better rotor. In that order.

I have a couple of queries regards the RAYS RE30 rims. 1 Does this AP kit shown below fit the LMGT-4 rim in a 17*9? 2. What the hell is the difference between a short & a long rim? See the Rays website under the RE30's. p16004.pdf

What a sickening week in F1. It demonstrated all that is wrong with the sport. A governing body doing the bidding of one team. Dull racing. Petulant drivers. For those that think that McLaren did anything wrong maybe you should spend some time in a pit paddock at any race weekend at any level of the sport. Most of the diiscussions are about who is running what. As to speculating about the weight distribution of the cars, well I guess I had better run and hide. Check post number 1232.

As the title says, I am after the triple gauge cluster that goes above the ventilation controls in the R32 GT-R. Need a version to suit a 94 GT-R. If you have one could you please either post or PM me, preferably with a photo of the unit you have. Cheers DJR81

Before you go any further - get an estimate for insurance. This may just put a stop to everything. To answer your questions 1. Yes. But you may get a back ache if you are tall. 2. They break because people crank stupid amounts of hp out of them. They also break because they can be badly maintained and/or abused. They are a very solid motor if left in standard spec, oiling issues aside. 3. Yeah, why not. 15kms is fine. Just don't wreck the seat getting in & out all the time.

That represents the upside of driving a Ferrari. If you do something stupid, somehow the world at large treats you with good humour. Do the same in a Nissan & you WILL be villified.

I have a question based on ignorance. Why are you comparing an F430 to an R32? The equivalent model is either the 328 or the 348. Take your pick. But both of them were rubbish.

This puts it plainly. http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_new...es_art_id=32759

Shell 5w40 is the viscosity they use for their full synthetic. It is ok as an oil, but not as good as Mobil 1 as an example. Just top it up with whatever you bought & it will be fine.

It isn't build quality it is old age. If you look up the manual, oh fk it here it is. Shown is how you adjust it to get rid of the rattles. door.PDF

With signage like that I am surprised Kevin Rudd hasn't been in contact. Nice car, good luck with the sale.

Actually re reading what I posted I think I left out the word reasonably. But then the FIA have never been accused of being reasonable. For those that remember Ken Tyrrell, this is what the FIA did to him in the mid eighties. Sorry about the quality, but it makes good reading if you can spare the time. Of it is from an Autocourse annual, back when they were worth reading.

What everyone should note is a few points: 1. Court decisions are supposed to be about justice, not about finding a middle ground. It is a judgement, not mediation. 2. The FIA have not explained their verdict. 3. The McLaren owes nothing to the slower Ferrari in terms of design. 4. McLaren, as an organisation, knew nothing of the document. Only one person within the organisation did. 5. As soon a Ron Dennis found out about it he suspended the employee in question. 6. The FIA does not have the sport as its number one priority. It has consitantly demonstrated that reinforcing its own authority is its number one priority. More often than not this has been to the detriment of the sport, be it F1 or other categories. On the up side it has made me change my mind about something: Max Mosley is a far better fascist than his father ever was. (Oswald Mosley, look it up)

Well there is a surprise. The FIA handed Ferrari a title on a plate. How do you go from a $0 fine to exclusion & 100,000,000? Then not bother to explain anything to anyone for a week or so? ie after the news cycle has run its course. Had it not been so thoroughly expected, everyone would be shocked by their obvious bias. So, are they going to strip Toyota of points or fine them? No, they aren't quicker than Ferrari. Biggest mistake McLaren made was winning in Italy. They should have thrown the last race & everything would have been fine.

Auto gear boxes which, when used in manual mode have the upshift & downshift function upside down. Most boxes you have to press forward to change up & pull back to change down. This is backwards & counter intuitive. One fo the few companies to get it right is Ford. Indicator stalk on the left hand side of the steering wheel in a right hand drive car is a long time bug bear. Interlocks which make you put your foot on the brake to change between drive & reverse.

Well an unloaded, ie inside wheel that spins will have much less an of an affect on the balance of the car than you may otherwise get. Remember that the GT-R drivetrain as standard only has a rear LSD, the front is open. Even then it isn't the tightest thing in the world & it you listen to most GT-R's on tight circuits you will hear the wheelspin. Mostly it doesn't upset the balance of the car.

The point I am making (or trying to) is that there is a difference between competing & acting in your own short term self interest but to the detriment of the sport. It is sport & however much people may have invested in it, winning at any cost should never be an option. Near on all the other teams understand this & conduct themselves accordingly. You can single out Ferrari for it as their track record contains a litany of such actions. To use but one example - who is the only team running cigarette advertising despite all the remaining teams forgoing the income as per their agreement?

Well I agree more with Paul Stoddart: http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_new...es_art_id=32733

I think you have to look more so at the configuration of the car than simply blame a wind tunnel malfunction. They still have their own test track to confirm the CFD data spat out by their computers. Anyway, it wasn't aero that did for Massa in the last race, it was a bung damper. Kimi was a bit stuffed after walling it prior tot he race. If you check the race even the commentators were noticing the inherently superior damping on the McLarens relative to the Ferraris. So maybe less wind tunnel & more the kindly folk at Koni. I don't believe that Ferrari does (or ever has) give a sh!t about anything other than Ferrari. It was always the case, going back to the days when Enzo was still running the show. He made Macciavelli look like a rank amateur. It is not restricted to Ferrari, Tom Walkinshaw was a master at playing silly games to his team's short term benefit & to motor sports long term detriment. But he went bankrupt, so maybe there is hope for us yet.

Yes it was different. Benetton were blatantly cheating. Well it has to be said, Ferrari would be better off spending there time making a car that can finish a GP & maybe also one that doesn't randomly head straight for the nearest concrete wall for no good reason. The stuff about emails was largely a figment of some Italian journalists imagination. The rest? Removing a teams constructors points for a pit lane shit fight that cost them anyway. FFS. No idea why the FIA got involved with that at all. The Stepneygate thing can hardly be sheeted home to Ron Dennis who is has the most integrity of anyone the pit lane. (Well, maybe equal to Frank Williams & Co)

They won't. Look what happened to Benetton all those years back. Their shit was more dodgy & they didn't get chucked out. The FIA have already passed judgement, so they can hardly go from no penalty to turfing them out. Although they did that to Tyrrell in 86. Also given the new allegations are made up anyway, why bother about them? The gearbox is much kerfuffle about nothing. What McLaren interpretted as a modification, the FIA interpreted as a new component. It wan't anyone being dodgy, just interpreting things differently. It passed the crash test, anyway.

Turbos now sold.

Hey Baron, how did they remove the paint from the front lip? I ask because my is white & I want to return to the dark side, err, I mean make it black once more.

Thing that went wrong: Battery went flat when I didn't shut the door properly. One had a small oil leak from the rear turbo that fell into the too hard to fix category. Ventilation systems are a bit random in their function (Common to alot of Skylines) Maintenance. Front suspension bushes aren't brilliant. Bit hard on brakes as a rule. That is it. Alot of what I have had done is because I am a fussy prick. Like I said, buy a good one & you will be happy. Buy a dog & you will be in a whole world of pain. So if you unsure of anything, best take along someone who really knows their Skylines (Not just a mate, in other words.) Infact in an unsolicited reference, have a look at Beer Barons R32. That is the sort of thing I would recommend whole heartedly. http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...=183345&hl=

Ok, now I am confused (doesn't take much) Obviously you have an AP caliper on the front. What is this teamed up with? Oh and which caliper is it exactly?