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"Looks like a really good idea, BUT i hope it's not gonna be like the guy with the most cash will win every meeting!" Why would it be different to every other class of motor racing there is?

Hmm, well first move for me would be to bin the slicks. No real need to run on anything more exotic than R compounds.

Well given it no longer has an R32 RB26 in it any criticism of the early RB's is rather irrelevant. Secondly, with all those mods I would have expected to see something relating to the oil pump & maybe an oil restrictor in the head. Maybe they just missed listing it. Lastly, it doesn't read like a drag car. But you just don't know. Just make sure the thing is reasonably fresh. All the mods in the world won't help if it is flogged out. Good luck getting it complied...

Project Mu is not really that odd. The symbol used for friction coefficients is mu - the Greek letter. So calling a brake pad project mu is not reallly that odd. The things you learn.....

Um, no they are not. PCR use 888 chassis' (like djr as of this year) but Stone Brothers engines. DJR engines are done in house. In any case they do not share data.

To be fair they do exist. They look like this.... http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e63812200

If anyone cares GTS-T is a contraction of Japanese/English Romaji script and can be translated directly into English as "Car for people too tight to buy a GT-R"

I have absolutely no comment to make.... http://www.prestigemotorsport.com.au/modul...hp?StockID=4236 http://www.j-spec.com.au/list/index.php?ID=9543

They are a 2 piece caliper. So the material grade is less important than for a 1 piece as the steel through bolts are ALOT stronger & stiffer at elevated temps. Try the APRacing website.

Well, here is hoping. Junior, aka Mr Potato Head, has been on a diet & judging from the weekends efforts he is now dragging his slightly less lard arse around in good time. Davidson had a crook back so couldn't show much. But the boy has talent to throw away. With 888 chassis', good hp & some money to spend things are looking up for the mob formerly of Daisey Hill.

HRT's new red is supposed to be redolent (That word again) of the 84 Group C Commodes. As for it being red like Ferrari, well there is a story. Ferraris are supposed to be scarlet not the crap Marlboro red they currently are. Go back in the books & look at them from the mid eighties. They were a much darker colour then. There are only the colour they are now so you can think of smoking some coffin nails each time you see Kimi cutting some laps. As for the chrome/silver finish I reckon it looks rubbish. It merely shows up reflections of whatever the car happens to be near at the time. It would be better to be painted silver. Looking at the last years 888 cars & this years it would seem Vodafone paid alot of money to clear the things of the minor sponsors.... For my 10 cents I think the djr cars look really good. Not as nice as the Jim Beam girlies, but solid all the same.

Um, I must be missing the point here. Surely Vodafone would want viewers to recognise the similarities & linkage between the 888 cars & the McLaren cars. Hence you would expect the liveries to be redolent of each other. 888 would naturally consult Vodafone as the paint scheme was coming together. I can't understand either why people would think it should be different or get all bitter and twisted about who did what first. For my 10 cents I don't think the silver finish looks good on either the McLarens or the 888 cars.

The bitter truth about aero parity is as follows. The manufacturers do not by themselves decide how much down force they can run. The governing body does. So on that basis Holden presumably would have installed more downforce into the E series than it presently has. Presumably Ford would have done the same. There is no point lashing out at either manufacturer on the basis of a parity decision made by the governing body. They test the cars to make sure they are the same & if not, they make adjustments. As I said both Holden & Ford could have installed much more downforce onto the cars. If one make ends up with more than the other it is not due to the designers of the car it is due to a failure in the parity system.

So by having a fat head I am genetically predisposed to dying in a car crash. Damn.

Which is why you should always drive with the window up.

I was wondering where the photo in this weeks Auto Fiction was taken. Car was, not suprisingly a Formula Nippon or similar. Dunno why it had James Moffat's name on it, though.

I have adjustable coil overs all round with adjustable hight etc Rear traction rods - not necessary adjustable upper control arms - just get some offset bushes instead. Hi cas bar - lock bar presumably - good idea. strut brace - not necessary lower tie rod brace - not necessary whitline adjustale sway bar - good idea. ajdustable tie rods - what for? Front Strut brace - ok for some bling. whit line adjustable sway bar - good idea set it upp on soft. Heavy Duty steering rack tie rod set - not necessary Cusco Front Tension Rod bar- not necessary Upper Camber Arms - would get some bushes instead. Pillow Ball Adjustable Tension Rods - Cusco do some nice ones. Adjustable Castor Rods - um, see above. pineapples - go on the back! What do ya think? You don't actually need half of this stuff - so you can save a heap of money.

Big call....

Yes.

I guess they must be relying on the fact that not many people are going to turn up this year.

I would refer you to the previous statement about keyboard warrior weiners. That's me. Can't make it Thursday (work), but will be there Saturday for the SES.

Never mind the pics. Post the damn cover!!!

Which optima did you have?

Well I want an ounce of whatever it is they are smoking.

I was thinking more along the lines of an Odyssey PC68T. http://www.odysseybatteries.com/battery/pc680t.htm