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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.

Yeah it worried me when I put the pump in my engine. Still don't like it as a pump but there isn't really a good RB26 solution, even after all these years.

Tomei pump is adjustable but you need a couple of things to do a decent job of it: 1. A bolt to screw into the housing on the outside - you bore it out a little so the spring has more length to work with. 2. Springs. The two Tomei send you are either too much is used together or too little if you just use the one large one. So what I did was used a spring from a Nismo pump and set it such that it has 3mm longer (From memory, I think) to work with than with the Tomei bolt. Gives you lower pressure at idle but larger pressure at higher revs than just a single Tomei spring.

Problem being his pace on his second last tyre set was rubbish. They looked to be going away at the end worse than Verstappens. Problem with that observation was there was a point midway through the race where Vestappens pace fell away and I thought his tyres are shot. But they hung in there so who knows. Anyway RB looked to have two good drivers neither of whom appear to be knobs. First time ever?

OEM are hollow.

What he said. Plus suspension and brakes.

http://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/464582-brembo-f40-koni-bilstein-sk-group-buy-bilstein-pss9-to-suit-r32-gtr-gts-4/?hl=%2Bf40#entry7725058

Maybe the stars will align and Homo will get a car that works at a GP he gives a fk about. Maybe. Or Sebastian McSwearface will not back off half way through a corner and get shunted again. These sorts of records are all bullshit anyway. Jim Clark won his championship (One of two) in 1965 with 6 wins out of a 10 race season. Except he didn't turn up to Monaco so it was 9 races. Worth 54 points in total for the WDC. About what you get for winning in China & Mongolia or similar. Cars are massively more reliable than they ever were and advantages gained are so entrenched by the rules and politics as to be laughable. Used to be just Ferrari would veto bad decisions because it gained them a temporary advantage. Now everyone does it.

There is a framed version too. http://autopics.com.au/295-nissan-gt-r-bathurst-winner-1991-1992-signed-and-framed/

Turn up to a V8 round and stalk him? You could probably get Crompton's whilst you were there.

Not really my thing but may be of interest to some. And by some I mean Terry. http://autopics.com.au/95-nissan-gt-r-bathurst-1000-winner-1991-1992-signed-by-mark-skaife-jim-richards-fred-gibson/

Given the advantages they had by being outside the rules for a long time and then getting all the customer stuff you would expect them to be competitive. Will be interesting to see how sustainable it all is. They don't have sponsors and whilst HAAS has bags of money how much do you want to chuck away to finish 5th. FORMULA 1 TEAM PAYMENTS FROM 2015 (Figures via autosport.com) Ferrari — $192 million Mercedes — $171 million Red Bull — $144 million Williams — $87 million McLaren — $82 million Force India — $67 million Renault — $64 million Toro Rosso — $57 million Sauber — $54 million Manor — $47 million Note 2 of the 4 top teams get paid above their station. Ferrari didn't win any championships but got the most money. Red Bull got substantially more than Williams despite finishing behind them. System is rubbish.

Yeah the other half is all Dallara (Which I don't mind). It is the customer Ferrari for huge slabs of the thing that annoys me. It is not what F1 is supposed to be about. From the article: The Haas VF-16 is the first car from the US based team, but it has largely been constructed in Italy. In the past to be considered a constructor a team would have to design an construct its own chassis, front impact structure, suspension, suspension geometry, radiators, bodywork, steering system, brakes, floor and fuel tank at the very minimum. But at the start of the 2014 season that requirement was dropped to only require teams to design and build the chassis, front impact structure, suspension, suspension geometry, brake ducts and bodywork. For 2015 that has been further simplified again an now a constructor only needs to make the monocoque and bodywork. Everything else can be purchased. Haas opted to have Dallara manufacture the chassis for the VF-16, while Ferrari will provide almost everything else. “We have the front suspension, rear suspension, hydraulics, steering, electronics all from Ferrari. Radiators we have to do as that is classified as bodywork” Steiner explains. “We are using these things to focus on the overall car design, why make an effort to do our own damper or something when we can just get them from Ferrari.. We have everything exactly the same as the Ferrari.” Like the man says - why make an effort when you can just run a Ferrari. May as well make it a spec formula and be done with it.

Reckon Hamilton will sort his starts out?

Supplementary dumb question then: What did you use for a valve spring compressor?