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Well rubbish weight distribution is a problem for just about every GTR ever built, not just the 33's. You can only try & move stuff rearward really.

Why are you s focussed on he least important of the things on the list of weight redction? The first order of priority is to reduce unsprung weight. So rims, tyres, brake rotors, callipers, suspension arms, anti roll bars, springs, shocks etc etc. Just dont use aluminium wheel nuts because they are shit. The next on the list is rotating/reciprocating parts. Eg alloy cam gears instead of stockies, pulleys (material and ratios), flywheels, tail shafts etc etc. Only then do you get to the dead weight. The first and easiest thing is the battery. Dry cell it & you have 10kg. Then do all the other bollocks on the lists. Easiest thing to do if piss off all the bracketry in the car & cable tie everything. Oh and the stock front bumpers weigh a tonne too.

Look if it is just one side the way we do it in the bush is to swap the top plates over. If the knock follows the plate then you have a winner. If it doesnt it is in the shock.

Fatz if it helps I can dig out the dimensions for the GTR stuff. From memory the Nismo GTR castor rod is basically as per stock just a few (4 or 5) mm shorter and a stiffer rubber. As for the upper arm not sure it is any different in the steel to a sotcker - just harder bushes.

It promotes fake plastic racing for what is now a fake plastic formula. Dump the thing before it kills someone.

What makes you laugh. It just shows how unscrupulous Ferrari are in going about their business. It is not sport, hasnt been for a long time.

C'mon Roy you will. You will be the same as me. Sitting on the lounge watching the race muttering crash you fkn fkr over and over again.

I take a different view. A 60D I wouldnt bother with - a 7D I would. The 7D has alot of good features it is not just about sensor size. Yet to see what the 5D mk 3 has to offer. If you are not in a rush maybe wait for that & if it is not what you are after the 5D Mk 2's will be cheaper by then. A 5d is a balls achingly good camera for the money.

Bollocks to the Renault Lotus stuff. May as well go old school. Go to the merch section and, um, merch it up. http://www.classicteamlotus.co.uk/content/shop.aspx Or here: http://www.grandprixlegends.com/motorsport-and-f1-merchandise/autosport/retro-gp-t-Shirts

Is it a dog in dirty air or do they run alot of down force with a (relatively) down on power motor (compare it to the MB brigades trap speeds)? Seeing the Red Bulls over take anything always looks like hard work. They are quick over a lap (maybe due to the downforce) but struggle to overtake. So is it a downforce/drag thing or are you saying the car is inherently shit in and around others? But either way you are right the effect of that is to make Webber look worse than he may otherwise.

No it is like saying your Nissan has, for example, brakes made by Sumitomo, an interccoler from Calsonic, turbos by Garret and so on. Subcontracting is the norm and is to be expected. What would it stop at some arbitrary level? Anyway all this is wholely off topic. Best leave the people actually involved to resolve it as best they can and as they see fit.

It is not a reasonable assumption. Given the metallurgy involved in the turbine wheels especially it is far more likely they would sub contract the work. How do they keep QA under control - oh I dunno, maybe ISO 9001 has something to do with it. What are you saying you dont have your own laterite nickel deposit?????????

Here, in fact. p19_p20.pdf

Its funny you say that about formula libre & hillclimbs. Over here the most recent trend is to stop open wheelers from competing in hillclimbs (on safety grounds) and now open topped cars (same grounds). Our series had to bin a round at Meelup (best hillclimb venue we have) because of a ban on both those types of cars. "Permanent" hillclimb tracks ar ok for some reason - even wheen they are more dangerous that the ones one closed public roads. So, yeah turn up in a 800hp GTr and you are fine. A 100hp MX5 & you are unsafe. Madness.

Not sure what it is like over east but from WA is the list of top ten finishes at our last state based sprint/hillclimb series. Pashley Marengo Pilbeam MP 56 Radical SR3 Pashley Marengo Radical SR3 2007 Nissan 180SX Speads RM07 Brabham BT23 Mitsubishi Evo 3 Birkin S3 The 180SX has a 7 litre motor and is on slicks, the EMO was fully stripped/caged. The closest thing to a road car was the Birkin which was the same car as entered the national championship. Basically from what I can tell sprints are no longer just for road cars and if you enter one you cant expect to finish up the pointy end. I guess once you accept that (Or dont) it makes sense to get as an eclectic group as possible just for interest sake. Even when you turn up in a "class" car for a sprint - in my 4WD class anyway there is always someone with a stripped/caged Emo running on a rally rego plate and E85 with stupid boost. It is "road registered" so what do you do?

"According to British motorsport journalist Joe Saward." There is an oxymoron if ever I heard one. Journalist and Joe Saward in the same sentence. He is a muppet.

Cusco do one. I got mine from Greenline but had to email them & ask as it was not listed. Same as the normal strut braces except the drivers side mount has the bits on it for the brake stopper.

The thing (apart from the rubbish tyres) that annoys me is that the rules are now so proscriptive that even the weight distribution of the cars has to be within a tiny range. Bloody ridiculous. Guessing Webber is going to back out of the sport without winning another GP. Still atleast we have another yocal in there, even if it is with the Hormone Replacement Therapy mob.

What? Roy was making the point that a number of drivers have been badly affected by the new Pirelli tyre. Webber is one, Massa another. A fundamental change in the tyres rewards different driving styles. For example Buttons "easy on tyres" reputation didnt count for much at various points in his career. In fact probably made qualifying far more difficult than it would have otherwise been. With the new tyre, however, being gentle on tyres is a very important attribute for a driver. Vettel, Button, Alonso have made big gains in comparison to their team mates. Making a super soft option last a couple/three more laps means you do fewer laps on the shit prime tyre. The Hamilton haters put it down to a million other things and whilst they have doubtless made a contribution I dont think people need to look too much further than the tyres this year as a reason for changes in intra team competitiveness.

To my (limited) understanding there are two different things going on here. Firstly the Tomei pump is physically much larger than the N1/stock unit. Being a positive displacement pump (ie not at all like a turbo) its output is proportional to its speed. So you get more flow - but this, in terms of what goes through the motor & the head is not the important point. Pressure is a function of flow, not of the pump and the pressure relief valve on the pump acts in such a way as to divert the oil away from where it would otherwise go (Through the engine). The important point is that the pressures on the Tomei pump are high - about 4 bar at idle and more at higher engine speeds because of the hgher volume flow. An approximate number would be that the pressures are approx 2 bar higher than for an N1 pump across the rev range. As you can see from the attachment adding/deleting shims does not have a big influence on the pump pressure. It has some to be sure but maybe not what people may otherwise think. So our start point as far as oil supply to the head is concerned is that the pressure seen at the oil restriction orifice is higher for a Tomei pump than an N1. Consequently you will get more oil into the head with a Tomei pump - but again probably not as much as you would think. For a flow restriction orifice four times the pressure will only give you twice the flow. We dont have quite that much extra pressure but we do have some & to grab a rough number (Ie one pretty much out of the air) a 50% increase in pressure (which is not wholely unreasonable for the change in pressure) will give you a a 22% increase in oil flow. You counter this by running a smaller restrictor - 22% smaller in this example or about 1.3mm as opposed to a 1.5mm orifice if that was your default choice. I think that makes sense - it is still early.

No. It is such a boring race that it will make your head hurt.

Why the obsession with short shock bodies? If you look at the suspension set up you will see there is a good 30mm or so of travel to be found by chucking away the standard top mounts and using an aftermarket unit, ie where the shock shaft is attached to a "top" which in turn bolts to the chassis. Most shocks are with in a few tens of mm's in length - it is the way you mount them that is more inportant in terms of their travel.

The trade off for the weight loss of the 4WD system is a slower lap time, ie remove the system and go slower. Dont waste your time just to struggle with the other GTST's. Oh and by the way the "supertaxi" gearbox is a Holinger. Originally designed to fit in a - wait for it - R32 GTR. True story.

Yes that is the price in Australia from the Australian distributor. If you have a look at the price you would be getting either ex Japan or locally I am confident it will be cheaper.

Just go here for the Project Mu part numbers and get them from whomever distributes to you - be it imports or local. http://www.project-mu.com.au/en/products/Rotors.html