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Nah I was just curious. Obviously a rubber grommet is cheaper than a window, not to mention the drug money Nissan want for the rubber sealing strip that goes around it. Probably why I have seen a few GTR's that have suffered from a broken rear window where the owner has full glass coverage on their insurance. Coincidentally. Allegedly. Apparently. From what I heard. On the internet. From overseas. Hmmm. What I would like is a new windscreen with an antenna in it, rather than the local ones which I understand dont have them.

Havent pulled the motor down I wanted to get the parts I needed for a rebuild before doing so. There didnt appear to be a whole lot of point after the leakdown test was done. The engine isnt burning oil just puking it. As for pistons, the ACL stuff is here: http://www.aclperformance.com.au/NissanRB26DETTForgedPistons.htm Ring part number is C1686 (As per RB30) SR20 is here: http://www.aclperformance.com.au/NissanSR20DETForgedPistons.htm Part number is: C1834 There may be a 1 in a thousand chance that ACL have a couple sets of SR20 rings left. They dont have any C1686 unfortunately. To be clear the rings you have a re ACL items? If so and you could check their end gap that would be awesome.

You need to differentiate between weight distribution and centre of gravity. The heavy wing helps with weight ditribution but not with the c of g. Anyway out of interest are N1 rear windows available at all?

Well the ring gap claimed for my CP piston install is/was 19 thou. And its looser than...... I won't say. But yes the 22 thou number is already larger than what I wanted to run and the bores are in the 85.7 to 85.8mm range. So yeah add about 10 thou to 22 and I dunno you get next weeks winning lotto numbers.

The concern is I had an engine built last time. By a workshop who claimed a reputation for building track motors. (And no I dont want to talk about who it was). Unfortunately things didnt go well and I need to rebuild the rebuilt motor. It has CP pistons and enough blow by that I cannot run it at my local track. Basically I am trying to find a recommendation for a piston that reliably produces single digit blowby numbers and therefore will allow me to do more than one lap at a time without the motor puking its oil out the breather. And yes I read all the threads on the subject and have done the mods listed in there. The difficulty is trying to differentiate the motors used on the road (because mine would be fine if it was just used on the road) and those used on the track. I had hoped the 1.5mm ACL top ring would be a large part of the answer. Unfortunately when we got the top ring and stuffed it into the (unhoned) N1 block the end gap was already 22 thou. Or in other words too big. Sorry if I sound cranky but this is doing my head in.

After a great deal of messing about - the ACL piston is a no go. I actually had the things but for whatever reason the top piston ring came with far too much end gap. ACL no longer make the rings and could not change them. Nor could anyone else supply a ring to fit the piston. So in the absence of a 1.5mm top ring does anyone have an opinion on the 1.25 vs 1.0mm?

Not that I care, but: Telstra was privatised starting in 1997 and the last of it was shoved into the future fund in 2006. So it was not coincidental with anything. The government got the best coin for it in 2009 at $7.40 a share (Now worth 4.76). Bargain. Something somehow related to hype and the internet. Glad that has changed now. It has, hasn't it? Most people dont have multiple users in a house wanting to upload/download HD simulataneously. I certainly dont. I really dont care how long peoples mega uploads of Doctor Who take.

How many of them in the last 15 years? Their 2010 car was such a dog it should have been left chained to a fence somewhere. Actually that is a little harsh. The 2011 car was worse. Maybe this years is too.

Williams, Force India or Sauber. Which of these is a "big name team"?

Like Roy says McLaren have the long/slow strategy covered off with Button. So why sign Perez???? Hulkenburg has shown he has speed over a single lap - claiming pole in a Williams and did well in the Force India last year - particularly late on in the season. Probably too late. Di Resta is no muppet either. Anyway I cant see McLaren winning a race this year. Hope I'm wrong.

Me too but then again I cant figure out how Perez ended up at McLaren. The new Kovaleinan by all accounts. Would have gone for Hulkengurg or Di Resta.

Wow how old is Mal Rose?

What if I already do? What then?

R30. You may get a more helpful response if you tell the people what you want from the car & how much coin you may be willing to spend. You want atmo, GTST/GTT level or a GTR? Two or four doors? Wagon? Stock/modified. What are you going to do with it? Drive it to work. Enter it in Targa Tassie?

Well RedBull would have to be incompetent to not have discussed such a thing before the race. We will never know though, will we? The complication was Vettels strategy differed to Mark s which tends to indicate they didnt have their act together. There is more than enough history there for neither of the two of them to help each other. The difference between Malaysia and Silverstone was that in Silverstone neither of them had backed off under team orders. In Malaysia Webber had. Anyway, the team order was not unsporting - it was sensible.

Be putting my money on a faulty sensor. I would recommend checking the oil temp. If it is anywhere near that number you will know when you pull the dipstick.

The dog reference is about him agreeing to one thing pre race (Multi 21 or 12 if he had been leading) and then reneging on the agreement when it no longer suited him. Not unlike what Carlos Reutemann famously (or infamously) did to Alan Jones. It is not a German thing, hell Stefan Bellof was damn near a god in many peoples eyes. It is just that people dont like arrogance (Which they choose to ignore in drivers they like, as all good sports are arrogant - youd have to be to believe you are the best in the world) But more than that people dont like duplicity and dont enjoy the self serving justifications put up afterwards. Anyway I dont remember many drivers being applauded for reneging on agreements. Senna got smashed for bailing out of Toleman to use just one example. Tactics and cheating arent the same thing. Never have been, never will be.

Cheers Harry. That is probably why I had trouble picking which part of the fatherland his accent was from. Somewhere west of Alsace Lorraine? No he isnt in F1 but he is a giant in the rally world. And, arguably, a huge loss to F1. Shame he didnt follow up on the TR thing.

Well I could check all sorts of things. But I will never connect to that pile of *#%$ simply because it stops working when I leave the house, making it utterly useless. Also it will not be connected near home any time soon because I dont live in a marginal western Sydney electorate. Anyway the speed arguments are rubbish because most plans appear to be limited to slow speeds anyway. How long does 5 gig take to download at 25MB/sec - about 3 and a half minutes? Then you are back to near on dial up speeds or downloading stuff at 3 am. The point is the NBN is great if you are a big user and downloads dozens or hundreds of GB a month. But for everyone else (Which is the overwhelming majority of people) it is a gold plated solution to a problem that doesnt exist.

Well if anyone wants an example of how a sportsman should conduct himself have a look at Sebastian Loeb. Absolutely dominant and universally respected. Makes Vettel look like the dog he is.

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Yes it is completely accurate. If you ignore the fact that Porsche themselves have denied it. http://www.smh.com.au/sport/motorsport/porsche-denies-mark-webber-deal-20130415-2hvns.html Or not denied it. http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/porsche-not-denying-webber-rumours/ But either way he may or may not drive for them. Depending on who you believe.

They are both the same. Pricks with the best equipment. Most world champions are exactly that.* Please note: This in no way excuses Vettool from being a pole smoking *%$#. Or Schumacher for that matter.

Seriously there is so much work in a track car build when started from scratch that basing it on someone elses work is a REALLY GOOD IDEA.

Ah fk Williams have gone back to sucking balls. Sigh.