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Well I take the view that it is simply too much to take on and, anyway, why the hell should it be up to car enthusiasts to fix? Why cant we be the same as any other bunch of sports people? I mean I dont see them building more soccer fields to stamp out soccer hooliganism. Or boxing rings to stop people down the pub punching on. Other sports dont get burdened with fixing societies ills, why should we? Its an easy fix. Just say no to HRT jackets. I would put across the point of view that any muppet who rips hektic single pegger skidz in his Commodore neither understands anything about cars nor is he the sort of person you would want anywhere near you on a race track. From my experience they are completely incapable of effectively competing in any events anyway.

What are you going to use for tops? They dont look to include them from the pictures.

Whoever attends please keep this in mind. Hoons = idiots ripping skidz etc. Car enthusiast = people who do stuff properly eg track days etc. It is NOT the job of car enthusiasts to save anyone from hoons. So please dont advocate more facilities (or anything else) on the basis that it will lessen the instances of fkwittery on the roads.

No point looking at wrecked cars for the rubber parts. They have all perished and just snap off if you try & remove them. Try Nissan/rhdjapan. But it is likely to be ugly.

I changed my spring rates again as I wasnt totally happy with what I had. Went up another 25lb in rate front & rear. The setup is such a massive improvement over how it was with the Nissan tops it just isnt funny. I think I got about 30mm extra shock travel front & rear although the rears werent critical.

I just bashed mine through with the new bush and a soft hammer. They pull up and align anyway when you tension the nut on the damper.

How did you get on with this? Also, has anyone used these? You have to scroll down a bit. http://www.lewisengines.com.au/

Why the hell is everyone so keen on using old Lotus colours. Red & gold??? Where is the tobacco sponsorship? I mean really they shouldnt be allowed to have cigarette money only Ferrari can do that.

No. The instructions say they only properly work on black surfaces - so shiney rotors wont work.

Look, for an R32 R the unsprung weight over the fronts is about 400kg per tyre. So to trap/capture a spring (even an 8kg on) to the extent of having enough preload to affect it in bump means winding in up by 50mm from the point of starting to take up on the spring. Which isnt very likely. It is more likely he is checking on the spring length to see if it is long enough in the first place and therefore not bottoming. Anyway best answer is to buy some good springs/dampers & match them with some sway bars. Nismo use 5.5/4.5 kg/mm front and rear on their intro series and that is a pretty good set of numbers.

Depending on your set up - oiled up AFM's will have that effect. If you are running a recirculation system for blow by gases and it is leaking oil out the bovs (common on GTR's) or you have re-oiled a foam air filter there is a fair chance the AFM's are messed up. This causes them to read high - the consequence being single digit AFR's, less ignition advance and no horsepowers. If you had it on the dyno what are the AFR's?

Just about anything in a 17" will give you good clearance on stock callipers. It is just stupid rims with dish that fail. But then again they fail in every other respect so no surprise there.

Just cut your losses and get some rims that fit - proper size, proper offset & clearance for the brakes. Its not hard you just have to stop listening to the fitment people. The Sumitomo calliper is already pretty small as is the rotor it sits on. Arguably too small for the car anyway - so a yet smallet calliper is going to cost money & cause other issues. Better to spend it on good rims instead.

The Birkins are pharken nice. There is a yellow one over this way (You may also have seen it at the Aus Super sprint championships)that goes well hard on the track. Worth looking at especially with all the carbon bling you can get on them.

There are a huge number of factors affecting your suspension set up. It is never a case of throwing a set of springs/shocks at the car & thinking it job done. If you are even half serious about it you will be spending a bundle of time getting it right & doubtless a bundle of money aswell. Pick whicever one the spring rates suit you. You will end up changing stuff anyway.

They will have a second rate car as it will come out of the Kelly brothers workshop. Not really worried about that. I just generally wish that the Nismo brand (dont give a fk for the Nissan brand) didnt have to be boganised in order for Nissan to sell some more shtbox Navaras.

This from an interview in this weeks Auto Fiction of Dan Thompson who is the CEO if Nissan Oz: So, essentially, you're selling the spectacle, not the specification? Well, we're selling the Nissan brand. So there you have it - it is just an branding exercise. Basically there to sell more Nismo jackets or Tiidas because there is no way a Jack Daniels swilling bogan is going to go buy a new GTR off the back of Rick Kelly getting all emotional or Murph punching on with everyone. Keets is right. Whereas before you may see someone with a Nismo shirt/jacket & think here is someone who knows/cares about motorsport. Now you will just be looking at another cashed up bogan with no clue.

Snowie, according to one who was there (allegedly) the Track Battle time attack at Wanneroo sucked and blew at the same time (allegedly). The best, competitive series is probably the speed event series, as mentioned. You can, as long as it is safe, run what you brung in the SES. Targa SW is the next yocal tarmac rally. In the interim there is the Alistair McRae Rally sprint series for those who want to have a try. On tomorrow actually. The classes for door to door stuff are on the WASCC website. For my 10 cents worth - the bloke should just start doing something. You cant start at the top anyway and even if you could it is a bad idea given the size of the jarrah trees next to the roads around these parts.

If I remember correctly the 2 litre championship was a pretty good thing by 1994. BMW tipped a heap on money into it over a number of years to beat Audi. They were the E36 3 series whereas the 93 cars in the SATCC were the E30 M3's. The argument at the time was very much a case of do you run 2 litre cars as per the hugely successful BTCC or our own 5 litre championship. The 2 litre cars didnt really suit most of the established teams at the time. Basically Glenn Seton racing (Ford Sierras) Dick Johnson racing - Sierras. Gibson motorsport - GTR's HRT - Commodores Perkins/Brock (Take them as the same/seperate depending on timing) - Commodores. Frank Gardners mob BMW Colin Bond - Sierras. That was pretty much it from memory - the rest were privateers. So you can see which side of the fence most of the established teams were on. Only BMW & I guess judging from Fred Gibsons comments at the time Freddo himself were pushing for 2 litre cars. Brad Jones - who did good things in the Audi wasnt properly established. Neither was Garry Rodgers. Volvo did enter - not to much effect until too late. Anyway the point is there was a viable, well supported 2 litre championship which withered and died. They had their own sprint series, their own Bathurst race and endless opportunities for manufacturer involvement. Plus a source of cheap(ish) second hand cars and good drivers. As for Toyota & Mitsubishi their involvement in Group A was pretty minimal, class cars aside for Toyota.

Why the hell not? This whole thread has been arguing about nothing so we may aswell keep it going. The 5 litre V8's first ran at Bathurst in 92. Oh and the 2 litres had their own championship series after they split from the V8's. It died in the arse when the BTCC did much the same. Was a good thing for a while, however. Was good to see so many random makes/models out there having a go.

Not 100% sure - the M3's were not the same as the destroked 3 series running in the 2 litre championship. When did Longhurst run in Larry's VP - 93 or 94?

Was that Steve Ellery? An ex Seton Sierra? I think I can almost remember the last round for 93 - Sandown perhaps with the 2 & 5 litre cars all on the same grid. mAybe they did some separate heat & grouped others. Too long ago.

Did they? My dodgy memory has Colin Bond in a Caltex sponsored 2 litre car up against Cotter/Doulman in a BMW in 93?

Well that is sorted then. Now we can go back to trolling and not apologising. Actually I just noticed that people have. Sweet.

Can we go back to talking about how the GTR's were banned and how an R35 would wipe the floor with the V8's?