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Nah rally stuff makes you look like a muppet. There you are trying to read the notes and the bloody photographers make it look like you are trying to find a spot under the dash to hide. Second one from Wanneroo. Note the multiple black lines & the Emo with the fail understeer.

Yeah all of that except the fan and radiator.

Good trolling. Quote someone without context & take the relative reference in the said quote & make it absolute. Win, win.

Seriously if you find a stock one keep it that way. There must be atleast two of them left in captivity. Most GTRs have been modified and yet most people want to buy a stocker to modify. So the best answer is often to get something someone else has spent coin on. That said I wouldnt mind a stocker and Id even try to keep it that way.

You are both trying too hard. Back it off a notch (or two) and make it so that the effort is sustainable over months/years etc. You will still improve - just with less effort and over a longer period. Otherwise you will get fed up and end up back where you started. Or injured. Or both.

You two are kidding surely? Refuelling is rubbish on the following grounds: It costs squillions to cart all that crap around the world. The car set ups are fundamentally less compromised as you dont need to make a car work on high & low fuel loads. which makes the racing more predictable. The racing is even more dire as no one bothers over taking they just wait for the pit stops and pump in some quick laps.

I figure when it gets to the point that teams wont run in qualifying there is something fundamentally wrong with either the tyre design or the allocation or both. Plus it makes Pirelli look like muppets which must be wonderful for them given how much coin they would be spending.

So in other words the system requires the officials to work out how best to implement it on a race by race basis. Or in other, other words provides yet more scope for their incompetence to fk up the championship. Easy answer - get rid of it. Oh and the useless "race tyres" whilst they are about it. The less fake plastic "racing" there is the happier I am.

From 1989 to 1994 the R32 was fitted with Sumitomo callipers that used the 296*32 + 292*18 rotors. The exception to this was the Vspec version that used the Brembo calliper & 324*30 + 300*22 rotors. So the date listed in the DBA cattledog is wrong for the end of the smaller rotors on the GTR, ie it didnt end in Aug 93. Look at the calliper & you will then point you in the right direction. The only way it would be wrong is in the extremely unlikely event that the previous owner has adapted the Sumitomo calliper to the 324 rotor in which case there will be an extra adaptor on the calliper.

The FIA asking themselves? What? These people are highly trained professionals who dedicate their lives to fcking up motorsport. No need to ask themselves anything - the answers are all coded into their DNA.

Dont mention the war. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it all right. The reality that it takes even the likes of a gold plated genius like Adrian Newey a while to get a team sorted to produce a winning car. The REd Bull would be a championship winning car with any of the leading drivers in it. The only change this year is Webbers marked inability to cope with the Pirellis.

Yeah 15mm OD, 10mm ID & 32mm long. Same front & rear. Going to send mine to get plated.

Maybe but not with those strut tops. The standard shockies have the seats on them for standard springs - the id of which is much larger than the 65mm the ISC tops work with. May work with other brands of tops but you wont be getting any height adjustment anyway.

Front pair turned up last week. They are $199 for the type with the rubber bushes. Spherical ones are more. The gain in shock travel is just under 30mm and the strut appears to match a 200mm long spring pretty well and hopefully a 250mm item. They look to be a good improvement over the standard tops, even if you just do the front pair. Worth the money.

Hmm, hard to fathom really.

Well looks like SBR are stepping up to the plate. All three cars in the top ten in P5 with Cheeseburger fastest. Whincup put his thing in the wall trying to keep up. So the 888 lads will be busy before qualifying this arvo.

So can the seat travel fully forward for when you forget to take the extinguisher out prior to letting you mechanic fix your car.

Strut braces and adjustable shock absorbers are probably two of the most over rated after market suspension "upgrades" ever sold.

Well back in the olden days you had to try pretty hard to make the race on four stops, ie 32 lap stints. You could fatten up the fuel but it meant an extra stop. Economy was line ball. The tyres would just about hang in for those 32 laps but not if you pushed to hard too early or the set up was wrong. So the balance was pretty good between tyre life & fuel consumption. The change to ethanol means you cant go anywhere near 32 laps anymore. So looking after your tyres is much less of a concern - to the detriment the racing - it is supposed to be an endurance race after all. Hang about until the last safety car & go like fk is the strategy now. In other words it both makes it more like a sprint race and removes a lot of strategy from the day. Not a problem if you are shtfaced on the lounge but less fun for anyone wanting to dig a little deeper. The other vaguely interesting thing is on the tyres. There will be the usual crew crying because they chunked their front right/rears. But while everything from the weather to your neighbours cat gets blamed it is mostly them using low cold set pressure (19lbs I read somewhere) and going out too hard when they are cold.

Hmm not enough tyres but also two ddifferent types and nowhere near enough of either. There is apparently a big difference between those marked PV and others marked ZD. What is the weather going to do come Sunday? Actually having tyre compounds to choose from would help make it interesting again. Bit like it was before the ethanol fuel ruined it.

Missed call? You must be with Vodafone. Less money spent on 888 more on coverage would be nice.

Yeah maybe, but if they want some hack who couldnt drive out of sight on a dark night it is not like I have anything on this weekend. Also looks like a shtfight with regard to wet tyres. Some are not as equal as others.

Has done for years. Nothing new this year.

Not sure I would characterise it as a cash grab. F1 being relentlessly commercial I cant see how Bernie (who whomever is in charge of the commercial stuff this week) could really allow the BBC not to honour their contract and/or not take a pineapple just because the arse has fallen out of their economy. I am sure there will be alot of pressure from the (mostly Pommie) teams to get the thing back to FTA as soon as possible. Maybe this way the feed we will be getting might actually match the commentary. You know, just for shits and giggles.

Hard to see a Ford winning. SBR havent gone well since the EL, DJR were hopeless at PI & FPR have been a joke at Bathurst ever since they started. Yes they are. Nice to see some variety in the fields too. Why? I mean other than hoping he doesnt fk up soemone elses race who really cares if some random weather man finishes last or second last?