The Bogan

Nice score, lucky man

Ive dropped about 5% strength wise on my deads and mil press, will see how bench suffered today and cleans tomorrow. As for being sore, my legs are busted after front squats and SLDL on Tuesday, lots of stretching and rolling is happening as I am backing them up tomorrow after cleans. My legs haven't hurt like this since GVT. Ill stop bitching like a girl now.

Obviously your mate didn't research his items. Any way, spend your money they way you want, me, I'll look around and find people who have purchased the items I'm looking at and make my derision from that. Hopefully the OP can he some quality parts that can make power and save money building his GTST. As for where I got my IC, Just Jap.

Not so many Jap parts that come with the "made in japan" label on them, lots of big name performance part suppliers are using China, Korea and Taiwan to fabricate their parts. Hell, even the big OEM brands are getting their parts made outside Japan, Nissan uses South Korea plants who do Hyundai, Toyota too I think. Its not like when the low quality parts flooded the market 10 years ago, yes there is some rubbish out there but there is also lots of unbranded parts which have yet had their "big dollar brand name" painted on them. It all comes down to QA and pricing. There's money to be saved I've your a smart shopper and research. Disclaimer: A $100 IC will most likely be rubbish but a IC which has the engineering and QA behind it may cost $250, after getting GREEDY painted on it $???. Again my $250 IC loved 500hp, was not a restriction and was still efficient. Haters gotta hate. Smart people research.

First I've heard of one failing. Bit like my Jap manifold cracking.

Nothing wrong with some China parts, my old china IC was fine for 500hp and my Fenix radiator never had a issue. If you need to have brand names on everything then fill your boots, but if you are just hunting power not brand names there are some cheaper options out there which will do the same job at 1/4 the price. Do your research on each part and how they will all work together. China, Taiwan and some other nations supply to Japan which then just clean them up and relabel them. I found it cheaper to get my exhaust manifold custom made in Australia when I was looking for a strong as steam pipe jobbie. Also look at the US for parts as its usually cheaper to import parts than purchase local. Then do a skid.

Don't spend money on stupid things that just empty your pocket. From my experience to much money is wasted on things that do little to nothing, the term "bang for your buck" comes to mind. A good ecu and safe tune is paramount. Do some searching, have a budget and speak to some local shops and tuners. Have you upgraded your brakes and suspension, do you have good quality sticky tyres. UNIGROUP ENGINEERING is good Sydney shop and Yavus will not lead you astray.

Ended up dropping 4ish kg, will see what its done to my strength during next weeks program.

My body hasn't stopped flushing out for 5 days now, put something in, wait 20 minutes and out it comes. The only keeping me sane and hydrated is the hydration salts that I'm chugging through. As for eating, nothing spends enough time in the gut to be of any real benefit. I am averaging 1 roll of TP for my bung hole every day. Will throw myself on the scale this arvo to review the damage.

Gastro can EAD, over the last 4 days I have survived on about 5 peices of toast and a box of ORS. I dare say if you are pushed for weight loss gastro might meet your weight loss needs, you don't even need to leave the security of your bath room. Did I mention that gastro can EAD.

New side windows and vents, some plastic polymer stuff, vents are some aircraft stuff, about $100 delivered from the US. Very happy with how they work.

Its hard to say without lots of background info. What's your body weight and height? What's your diet like throughout the day? What training and conditioning do you do? What body type are you? How focused are you? Do you have any injuries or medical issues? If it was me I would just focus on my training and getting my diet sorted and see where that takes me in say, 2 months, if that is going well then sustain or adjust to suit. After my hernia I cut out the low rep stuff and switched to 10 x 10 training, no change to anything else but I lost a lot of body fat in that 3 months.

LOL, fair call. Edit: I wish I had the power of a lawn mower. Edit, Edit: I'm on the Scotch tonight, winning, the brilliant ideas will be coming fast and furious in a few hours time.

You are what you eat, if you always eat rubbish, you will be rubbish, simple, but no counting macaroni's, no fad diets, on that point you can and should eat some crap on the odd occasion, life wasn't meant to be boring. I know its a clique but the paleo (?spelling?) type of lifestyle is simple and effective, and it doesn't cost a lot either. I'm also confused why people are fascinated by trying to get their BF levels into the unhealthy range for long term, I know there are different body types and stuff but isn't the healthy range around 18-20%BF for active males? Everyone I know who has tried to keep BF levels below these levels haven't held it long term, or are that worried about what they eat their lifestyles suffer, or their health/stamina/recovery. If you are stripping for a comp or fight or something to get yourself to or below a certain number, then I can see the point then.

A great man once said "No great idea was ever conceived while eating a salad" I get all my best ideas after drinking some cool beverages.

http://www.nissanclub.com/forums/2005-2006-nissan-altima-se-r-discussion/378842-de-powering-steering-rack-manual-steering.html#/forumsite/20547/topics/378842 Similar but different, or as fats has stated, only difference would be the ratio.

Neil, the problem with the PS when the belt is removed is that you are trying to pump hydraulic fluid through the system by arm power, when you fully depower a rack all fluid is removed and a grinder is taken to the internal piston which is pressed on inside the rack, this eliminates the pressure you have when the belt is removed/fails/falls off, the removal of the piston removes the internal air pressure which means you can bung the old PS fittings. If you can find a spare rack, strip it down and look for the piston on the steering rod inside the rack. The steering will be slightly heavier when you are moving slow but once you are moving it is easy as. I was going to get a manual rack for mine but found that if fully depowered the rack I would have better ratios (less turns lock to lock), Ive driven a 5 with a manual rack and I prefer the depowered one. Took me about 6 beers from full PS to fully depowered. GOOGLE "De-powering a Miata power steering", I assume that all PS racks would be basically the same. Rock and Roll

What is the beastie weighing now, you seem to have pulled some fat out of it. Can you "depower" the steering rack? I was bored and did it to the 5, the steering is actually better I find now, I did cut out the internal piston to negate the internal pressure, with brackets, pumps and fluids I lost about 10kg (ish). Guess the weight????? My guess is 1432.6 kg with half a tank of fuel and a driver half full of beer.

Maybe, I'm after something clean with more than 2 seats, looked around at a few cars, not in a rush, if this is around in a couple of weeks when I've got my "spend some money hat" on again I may have a squiz. It does tick most of the boxes of what I'm looking for.

If its still here next week would viewing on 16-17 May be possible

My sessions take between 1/2 to 1 hour, I work about 200 meters from the gym so it would kill kittens if I didn't go, plus by the time I get home the minister of war and finances will have dinner ready for me (if I'm good), as for recovery I only train 1 muscle group hard once a week (except for the bicepticons which I am hitting twice due to vanity) , so lots of time to recover, plus I eat 6 times a day, eat well and can eat/drink everything and have no idea what a macro is, is it a biscuit? I like biscuits.... I've cut away the 531 due to joint and cartilage problems ( there's not enough fish oil and glucosamine in the world) and am now again rolling with the GVT method which is much easier on the body parts and a good cardio hit to boot due to strict rest periods, 10 x 10 sets = 90 sec, 3 x 15 fluff sets = 60 sec. 1. Bench 10 x 10, 1 Arm Row 10 x 10, Inc Fly 3 x 15, Seated Row 3 x 15. 2. Weighted Dips 10 x 10, Bar Curl 10 x 10, Rope Tri Ext 3 x 15, 1 Arm Kettle Bell Swings 3 x 15. 3. Power Cleans 7 sets of 5 reps. 4. Mil Press 10 x 10, Pull Down 10 x 10, Lat Raise 3 x 15, Push Down 3 x 15. 5. Front Squat 10 x 10, RDL 10 x 10, GHR 3 x 15, BB Curl 3 x 15. With 2 morning conditioning sessions thrown in there somewhere. I use the same weight for all exercises, increasing if I make all the reps, the cleans are 40-45-55-60-70-75-80 % of my 1 RM of 90kg, again increasing by 2.5 kg if I get all 5 on the 7th set, Cleans get a 3 min rest between sets because they break my balls. I also throw in farmers walks in sometimes on the Clean days as the Cleans only take about 30 minutes. I still need to get some 0.75 plates as the 1.25 plates are getting heavier on some of the movements and a smaller increase would be better IMO.. P.S Running can now kiss my arse.

LOL, I'm training 7 times over 5 days, 5 strength and 2 cardio.

I assume it was based on me only shopping at home for sex but my partner could consider dinning out at a different restaurant. Birds being Freud (ient slip).

Haven't noticed any difference energy or strength wise, its not like you stop making your baby batter, you just don't fire the stuff out the barrel, like everything lots of people have lots of different views and opinions of the procedure. Just like the good "General Jack D Ripper" said, "I do deny them my essence". And I don't need to bother with the half concern concept, some do, not me though.

I only shop at home now so the gaids and stuff is of no concern