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Use some of this on your door opener things. http://www.meguiars.com.au/glass-clear-plastic-and-exterior-trim/gold-class-trim-detailer/

Black leather Nismo is a good option. IS Nismo but doesn't stick out like dogs wotsits. http://www.thenismoshop.com/Shift-Knobs-_c_802.html http://www.thenismoshop.com/Nismo-Factory-JDM-Leather-Shift-Knob--32865-RN003_p_1110.html

Don't remember. Dick Johnson was all over it as he had the Shell sponsorship at that time. If you dig around the Sierra histories there will be some info in there. You couldn't buy 98 octane in 92 I don't think.

Found some BBS LM's in the preferred size so they will have to do.

Shell. If I remember correctly they used the unleaded sold in Darwin as it was more stable at high temperatures. Not sure of the octane rating.

Not really. It is a high strength steel. Chrome moly is what it is usually referred to as.

You've lost the tool or not sure what it fits into? Usually it is either a half inch drive or into another socket 19mm long series or similar?

Thing is they are STEEL nuts. The collar on them is aluminium but the nut itself is steel.

Lewis Hamilton has been voted the best driver in the annual Autosport Formula 1 team principals' poll, but Nico Rosberg didn't fare well. In a secret ballot, 10 team bosses polled their drivers of the season under the 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 scoring system and it is no surprise that Hamilton came out tops having won this year's Drivers' Championship. The 29-year-old claimed 194 points with Fernando Alonso slotting in behind him despite not winning a race in his final season for Ferrari while Daniel Ricciardo, who tasted success three times in his debut campaign with Red Bull, completed the top three. Williams' impressive youngster Valtteri Bottas was fourth on the back of six podiums while Hamilton's team-mate Rosberg was surprisingly only fifth despite winning five races and finishing second in the Drivers' standings. According to Autosport, Caterham were not included in the poll "due to multiple changes of management". AUTOSPORT TEAM PRINCIPALS' TOP 10 2014 Autosport Team Principals' Top 10 2014 1 Lewis Hamilton (194 points) 2 Fernando Alonso (155 points) 3 Daniel Ricciardo (135 points) 4 Valtteri Bottas (119 points) 5 Nico Rosberg (115 points) 6 Felipe Massa (55 points) 7 Sebastian Vettel (53 points) 8 Jules Bianchi (44 points) 9 Jenson Button (40 points) 10 Daniil Kvyat (28 points)

Its not actually careless. For whatever reasons the jacking points are weak and you can take all the precautions you like and still collapse them.

Tell that to the tyre shop nugget with the rattle gun.

I used to go love picking stuff up from the plating works. Nothing like getting your home made bodge cad/zinc plated to make it look like JDM... Shame the local plater has retired and the nearest is now Perth.

Trying to remember when the last French GP was?Not surprised Jenson took a pay cut. No idea where the 33 million pounds is coming from. Where are McLaren at with sponsorship. There were rumours of Spanish coin?

The reason for them being "A bit tight" was because the fronts and rears are different. Fronts are a 14.3mm (0.565") knurl (ie as per Subaru) and the rears are 13mm.

Pro's. Is fashionable so you can hang with the cool kids. Is ecomentalist friendly. Makes moah powah and moah torque. (This is the overwhelming benefit) Runs cool. Con's. Stores badly (is hydroscopic) Can be hard to find at the servo depending on where you are. Blend used to change to E70 during the winter for easier start. Not sure if this is still true(?) Need bigger fuel systems than petrol and you have to be a bit careful about what the lines/surge tanks etc are made out of. Need new tune. Costs more to run.

Want to see Honda do well. Don't care so much about McLaren unless they paint their cars orange again. Have an old MP4-something in orange that Hakkinen used as a test car. Only F1 model I own. Hoping the VTEC is strong. Will be interesting to see who out of McLaren and Lotus get their sht together first. Atleast McLaren can tap in to the government funds from whichever country half owns them. Lotus not so much and they are starting off a poor base but with a better engine. Will see how it pans out early. Reckon McLaren will have it sorted by years end, however.

McLaren need a B team to develop young drivers. Like RedBull do and Ferrari did. But that aint going to happen under Ron Dennis. Probably don't have enough kesh to do so at the moment anyway. Alonso wont be cheap and I cant believe how much they are paying Button. Their wage bill must be almost as bad as Ferraris except Ferraris drivers are more mediocre - not as good as Nando but better than Jensen. If they had have signed Grosjean or Hulk then they would have been better off.

Cmon man, Andrew Hawkins.

Yeah the Brawn was horrible.

What happened. They need to keep Honda in the headlines. So who's more popular in Japan Button (ex factory Honda driver with a Japanese missus) or the other bloke? But anyway they need to develop the car next year and Button may be better placed to do that than Magnussen. As for Fernando that is a no brainer. Best driver out there.

Only because he is using the block from factory and not with a torque plate hone. So the higher torque for aftermarket bolts tends to further distort the bores. I think.

Well I will say it just be careful with a stock bore (ie machined from factory) and new pistons. You may need to check with your engine builder and see if they are happy to use that combination. Also I would use stock head bolts not the higher torque ARP ones. Maybe flick me a PM..

You probably will. They tend to pick up on stuff ex the US in a way they don't ex Japan. No idea why.

86mm is 86mm. Problem is finding 86mm pistons in aftermarket. Try this thread. Sorry for the mis naming of it. http://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/417029-65mm-pistons-ie-stock-bore-for-an-new-rb26-block/page-3

Seeing it and using it are two different things. It may be used for boost control but not for fuel and ignition.