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Get the lightest, widest rim you can afford. Don't run different sizes front and back. Don't buy Bob Jane sh!te or anything similar. Toyo & Bridgestone make very good track tyres. Yes, but they are usually well used. Useless, no. Less effective, yes. Yes. Some fit. Well it depends on what type. In a 2 door, no. In a 4 door - maybe.

If you are sufficiently concerned about it you can buy youself some second hand stock turbos off a car that has only ever run stock boost & with fewer kms. They can then be inspected/rebuilt/whatever to within an inch of their lives. Somewhat fortuitously I have some for sale... http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...=178971&hl=

Yes.

There are two completely different circumstances where castor will & will not help you. 1. You are one of those drift type people. In which case loads of castor is good. It gives you strong self aligning torque (for when you let go of the wheel) & more -ve camber at large amounts of lock. All of which is good. 2. You have a track car, or atleast want to do hillclimbs/club days etc. In this case caster is much less important & certainly not at the expense of camber. Simply put more castor gives you more camber when you turn the wheel. However if the car if handling well you wont use much more than about a quarter of a turn of steering lock. The amount of extra -ve camber castor generates at these angles is negligible - particularly is you have an R32 which only has anout 3 degrees castor to begin with.

Go with SK's recommendations. Ignore the shop. 4mm toe in on the thing will make it tramline like a bitch. I would suggest getting the camber kits too.

Well unless you want to reach a higher level of hp you are better off selecting the smaller of the two Garrett turbos. Have a look at the compressor maps (turbo by garrett website look up 707160-5 & 707160-7). Now whilst I am no great fan of the -7's efficiency if you want less than 400rwhp the -5 will be largely wasted in this application. Oh & get some decent dump pipes whilst you are about it. No reason not to. Lastly, going all out usually encompasses a little more than new turbos.

Has anyone out there had the boot lock removed & the hole blanked in their 2 door R32? If so what method do you recommed for filling the hole, eg weld in a plate etc...

SK, I am after some of these bits. What is the best way of getting in touch because your in box has been full for a week or so now...

Well the timing marks should be on the pulley at the front & bottom of the engine. There are usually six or so marks. Find out which is TDC & the number of degrees between them. This should be in the manual somewhere. The timing light needs its induction loop clipped to the feed to the #1 spark plug. High voltage is better, but a good light will work off the low voltage feed. You don't need half the shit Nissan say you do...

The pricing disparity is derived from the vastly different condition that you can find the cars in (from spotless to flogged out rubbish) & also the simple fact that it is quite easy to spend as much money on the modifications as on the car to begin with. A cheaper car will be older, have fewer quality modifications. It may or may not be in inferior condition. There may be other reasons like the owner may want it gone quickly and have priced the car accordingly. On one hand people don't want to pay too much & on the other get scared that the car is too cheap So price it reasonably, go to an effort to make your adverts read well & present the car well (ie clean, tidy, take some good photos etc). It also helps when responding to enquiries (regardless of how inane they may seem) to make the effort to compose well sorted replies & not use text abbreviation etc. But yeah, expect time wasters & spankers to make enquiries. That, unfortunately, is life.

is it possible to just advance the CAS anticlockwise Yes. and do it by ear until it pings No how safe is that Completely unsafe lol because i dont know anyone who has one of these controllers Go buy a timing light.

Well putting aside the prejudice it is pretty easy to pick a badly done up & thrashed car when it is stood there infront of you. Less easy from a few grainy photos & a three sentence description. Not sure what is Japanese for bogon but you can be sure the cars get used hard in Japan.

Exactly. Even with the best will in the world the people inspecting cars in Japan are under time pressure. On the other hand you yourself can inspect a local car at length. I think alot of people but a car out of Japan because. 1: As much as anything that is what they WANT to do. 2: They are too impatient to find one locally & believe an import will get here quicker (It wont) 3: They mistakenly believe it will be cheaper. 4: They believe the choice will be better in Japan (only sometimes) From having looked at a number of local cars you will usually find them in better condition than fresh of the boat imports because the owners as often as not will put time in to fixing stuff that the Japanese wont be bothered with.

Actually I don't reckon there is any substantial price difference between importing a car yourself & buying one from a private sale. Not now that the dollar has tanked again, anyway.

Easy the four Walkinshaw cars are good in the dry, but hopeless in the wet.

yeah, peach fuzz makes you like such a hard geezer. Sorted.

Oh, ok then. Better now?

Latte? You mean the triple decaf sugar free soyachino don't you? Ah what do I care I moved out of home once so clearly I have nothing left to prove.

Yawn. If you want something that will start to tax your brain concentrate on where McRae is driving whilst digesting Nicky Grist's pace notes. They are straight forward - the higher the number the faster the corner - same as a gearbox. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzyV7Q0Sy40 In any spare moments you may have check the speed & the size of the trees on the road side. When you brain can't keep up contemplate that would be the same moment that you would be your way to a big accident.

I liked this thread better when it was about me. But thanks for the advice. Now that I have it on someone elses authority that drifting is easy I can go and do all the stuff you have listed. I have seen the light.

Thanks for the encouragement. I will work on something else along the lines of all drift fans being fully sik hat backwards wearing pre adolescents with a collective annual income approaching the $100 mark. Just give me some time, eh?

Yeah drifters use heaps of throttle control. You need to keep your foot mashed to allow the engine to bounce of the rev limiter every 0.5 seconds. Now that is throttle control. Would that be on the rare occassion they are actually holding onto the wheel & not just letting the excessive castor do the steering for them? How is that for flaming, I am only new to this....

Fkn newbies. Proper Orstraylean cars are racing green with a gold stripe down the middle. Just like German cars are silver, British cars are British Racing Green, French cars are blue, Italian cars are red. I am quite certain it has always been this way & always will. Otherwise how do you know where they come from? That's all I have.

Well I watched most of the ashes series last year. That wasn't sport, it was a bloke kicking a dog. Any sport at a reasonably competitive level is not easy. (but it may be boring, as in rugby league) People say I could do that about just about everything. Yeah, you can drive a car around a circuit. But if you are a few tenths shy in a controlled spec series you would be waaayyy down the back of the grid... Being competent is easy. Being good is alot harder. Being a champion is harder still (& not something I will ever need conern myself about) That holds true for every sport. How difficult it looks to a casual observer has no bearing on the degree of skill required to be a champion. Only the intensity of the competition does.

Generally there is a usefully large amount of gear that can be taken from either the RB25's or the 26's & fitted to the 20's. Off the GT-R's fuel pumps have been mentioned (Got one for sale as it happens) but also injectors with suitable mods fit, as do the cams & if you are handy even GT-R intercoolers can be made to fit. From the RB25's the turbo is the most usefull component, as mentioned.