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That's absolutely fantastic news It's great news for everyone with an R35 on order, and for the future of GT-R modification in Australia !

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Hi All, If you pickup the latest issue of Autosalon Magazine, the cover car is the Team Orange Evo X, which runs one of our Works Bell Team Orange Steering Wheels and the Team Orange version of the Works Bell Rapfix II quick release. There is a great photo of it on page 77 in the magazine. More info here about the magazine article ... http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Wo...St-t259994.html - Adam

Hi All, If you pickup the latest issue of Autosalon Magazine, the cover car is the Team Orange Evo X, which runs one of our Works Bell Team Orange Steering Wheels. There is a great photo of it on page 77 in the magazine. More info here about the magazine article ... http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Wo...St-t259994.html - Adam

Hi All, In the new issue of Autosalon Magazine (issue 73 with the Team Orange Evo on the front), there are two mentions of our Works Bell gear ... JUN AUTOMOTIVE EVO X On page 44 is an article about the parts used by Jun Automotive to build the JUN Evo X (shown above). As mentioned on that page, the JUN Evo X runs a Works Bell Original Steering Wheel. It also runs a Works Bell Rapfix II quick release. This is the steering wheel used on the JUN Evo X ... We can supply this steering wheel for just AU$219.00 including GST. You can find it on our site here ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Online_Store/Wo...ring_Wheel.html The Works Bell Rapfix II quick release used on the JUN Evo X can be found here ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Products/Works_...k_Releases.html TEAM ORANGE EVO X Also the cover car of this month's Autosalon is the Team Orange Evo X shown above. If you turn to page 77, you will see it runs a Works Bell Team Orange Steering Wheel ... The Works Bell Team Orange Steering Wheel is a mindblowing wheel - one of the finest steering wheels in the world. They are made in Italy to Works Bell's design. They are available in a leather version and a suede / buckskin version. I have one on my own car and at least one other forum member has one on his car too. Here is a photo of his car ... There is a thread about the Team Orange Steering Wheels here ... http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Wo...St-t238174.html If you want one for your own car, you can order one from us here ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Online_Store/Wo...Or_Leather.html The Team Orange cars also run the Works Bell Team Orange Collaboration version of the Rapfix II Quick Release (shown above) You can order the Team Orange version of the Rapfix II here ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Online_Store/Wo...on_Version.html - Adam

There is a thread on another forum that reads ... Before driving the GTR at Silverstone I'd have agreed with you. But after driving the GTR I have to say I could live with that paddleshift forever.. The are big advantages of using a paddle shifter over the centre console mounted lever.

It's definitely do-able electrically speaking. We have customers running Works Bell paddle shifters on everything from a Honda Fit / Jazz daily driver road car, to a team who race off road who use one on a Dakar Rally style off road custom buggy, to a European rally team running one on a WRX rally car.

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Porsche's with factory tiptronic steering wheels with buttons built into the factory steering wheel have the same issue. The solution for track cars to fit an aftermarket steering wheel is to fit a paddle shifter behind the aftermarket steering wheel. That way, an aftermarket steering wheel can be fitted and the buttons are replaced by the paddle shifter kit.

Full specs and 3 videos of the car now added ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/yoshioka_ae86.html

Update now posted at the top of this page. - Adam

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Hi All, The Tuners Group is very proud to announce that we have been appointed by Works Bell in Japan to find a new home and owner for Toshiki Yoshioka's legendary AE86 drift car. For sale is Yoshioka's car, which he has campaigned with enormous success and with which he won the Las Vegas round of Formula D in 2008 where he stunned the US drifting community with the mindblowing speed of his AE86. This car is without doubt one of the most developed, most advanced, and most successful AE86's on the planet. The specs list is completely mindblowing. No expense has been spared in building this car - we are advised that Team Droo-P spent roughly 8,000,000 Japanese Yen on building this car. That amount spent to build the car is approximately US $87,000 / Euro 68,000 / Sterling £61,400 / UAE Dirhams 320,000 / Australian $134,000 on today's exchange rate ! The asking price represents outstanding value, and is WAY below what it would cost to try to build a car with equivalent specs from scratch. US$87,000 is what it cost to build, not the asking price for the sale of the car. The asking price for the sale of the car is WAY below the build cost. You can check out the specs list and a photo gallery, videos etc at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/yoshioka_ae86.html As we definitely want this car to go to a good home, we'd definitely appreciate people's help in getting the word out about this car, so if you are a member of any drift forums or AE86 forums, feel free to repost this post. - Adam

It's a pity you didn't talk to us first At the moment we're simply supplying the Porsche components, but we have a number of engineering and machining contacts who can machine and engineer hats and caliper adapters to fit these brakes to virtually anything. Hand brake can be accommodated of course - here is a couple of photos of a CNC machined custom hat for the Porsche brakes ... Note the rear view showing machined inner surface for handbrake in the photo above. Here is a photo of the Porsche calipers on a car ... Our target market for them is custom setups. Bear in mind that the cost of designing, engineering and machining the caliper adapters and hats must also be taken into account. So for customers who want an off the shelf bolt on kit, we have the AP Racing Formula Big Brake Kits, and for customers who want a custom Porsche-based setup, we have the Porsche Motorsport Department option. There is also an excellent range of track pad compounds for these calipers as they are a true racing caliper. At the end of the day, Porsche's have an amazing reputation for incredible brake perfomance, and we are very pleased to be able to offer these Porsche Motorsport Department parts to our customers at such a competitive price.

Hi All, A bit of an announcement of something we have been working on for a few months now ... We have had a bunch of enquiries from customers looking for truly hardcore brake components to use to fit monster brakes to all kinds of cars, particularly Japanese and European track cars and time attack cars. To come up with a solution, we went deep into the world of professional racing, and found a solution from two of the most hardcore companies in motorsport - Brembo & Porsche (specifically Porsche's Factory Motorsport Department in Weissach, Germany). Here's a photo of Porsche's Factory Motorsport Department - awesome ... The Porsche Motorsport Department is where they developed and build cars like the GT3 RSR ... Anyway, to cut a long story short, we are now are able to get access to Porsche Motorsport Department parts and supply them to our customers These parts are truly mindblowing and incredibly well priced. As an example ... 6 Piston Porsche Motorsport Department Calipers for just AU$1070 including GST per caliper For front calipers, we found a 6 piston radial mount caliper made by Brembo for the Porsche Motorsport Department, shown in the photo above. These calipers are of course a special Porsche Motorsport Department caliper, which is not in the Porsche road car catalog. Many Porsche dealers do not even know it exists, because the part number is not in the Porsche road car catalog system. They feature radial mounting which simplifies installation for custom applications, and provides two planes of adjustment for accurate alignment over the disc. So a radial mount caliper is far superior to an axial mount caliper with "ears" on the body of the caliper. These calipers feature special ceramic inserts which help keep heat out of the brake fluid at races like the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. To give you an idea of the size of these calipers, take a look at the photo above. That is a 600ml sprite bottle for scale, not a 300ml bottle. Best of all is the price of these calipers ... Because professional racing teams demand low pricing on spare parts for their racecars, we can supply these calipers at just AU$1070 including GST per caliper. They are designed to run on a 350 mm diameter brake disc which we can also supply of course. There is also another 6 piston Porsche Motorsport Department caliper which we can supply which is designed to be used with a 380 mm disc. Because they are a radial mount caliper, they can be fitted to virtually any car by using a custom machined caliper adapter and custom hat for the brake disk. We have also found a 4 piston caliper that can be used as either a front caliper or a rear caliper. And for the insanely hard core cars out there, we can also supply ... Porsche Carbon Ceramic Brakes (PCCB) European Car Magazine installed a set of these brakes on one of their project cars. They concluded ... The engineering of the PCCB system is mindblowing. Here's a diagram of how they are made ... They are not cheap of course ... As you can imagine, the price of these brakes reflects the quality and innovation of the materials and manufacturing. As a ball-park figure, the cost of a set of the latest model of PCCB brakes (for all 4 corners of a car) is more than $30,000. But again, they can be fitted to virtually anything by using custom hats and caliper adapters. More info More info and a link to a photo gallery of the various brake options from Porsche Motorsport which we are now able to supply can be found on our website at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/porsche_brakes.html - Adam

Hi All, I stumbled across this on the Original Made blog ... motorbike handlebars installed instead of a steering wheel ...

Hi All, Works Bell have now announced a new bundle of steering products called the "Steering Campaign Bundle", which allows you to buy a number of Works Bell products all in one bundle at a heavily discounted price. The Steering Campaign Bundle includes the following ... A Works Bell Rapfix II Quick Release (red or silver model) ... A Works Bell Original Steering Wheel ... Your choice of a Works Bell Standard Length Boss or Short Boss ... The glove friendly Works Bell Flipper for the Rapfix II Quick Release ... And the Works Bell U-Turn Airbag Warning Cancellation Harness ... OUR PRICING The price of this bundle of products with the standard length boss is way below the Japanese retail prices if you purchased each product individually. So you can save a lot of money by purchasing these products in the bundle. As an example, if you purchased a standard length Works Bell p/n 110 Subaru boss, and all the other products in this bundle separately at full retail prices, the total cost would be Japanese Yen 57,180 plus tax. By contrast, buying the Steering Campaign Bundle will cost you just Japanese Yen 48,600, saving you Japanese Yen 8,580 (approx $142). BELOW THE PRICE THE BUNDLE SELLS FOR IN JAPAN As usual, The Tuners Group continues our policy of offerring the finest parts from the world's best Japanese tuners at the same prices they sell for in Japan. In fact our price on this bundle is below the price this bundle sells for in Japan. Here is the image showing the price of the Steering Campaign Bundle from Works Bell's website in Japan ... In Japan the Steering Campaign Bundle sells for Japanese Yen 51,030. Our price for the Steering Campaign Bundle is equivalent to Japanese Yen 48,600, so we are Japanese Yen 2,430 (approx AU$40) below the price the Steering Campaign Bundle sells for in Japan HOW TO ORDER Works Bell are currently out of stock of the Rapfix II, so the steering bundle will commence shipping at the end of January. The Steering Campaign Bundle is likely to sell very quickly though, so if you want one, we suggest you get your order in rightaway to avoid missing out. It will be supplied on a "first come first served basis", with stock reserved for the first confirmed orders in. You can order the Steering Campaign Bundle from this page on our website ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Online_Store/Wo...ing_Bundle.html Owning the very finest in precision high quality Works Bell products has never been more affordable. - Adam

Hi All, We are having a sale until this Wednesday 24 December on the world reknowned Works Bell Rapfix II steering quick release. Our price is a massive $173.79 off the Australian RRP, and well below the retail price of the Rapfix II in Japan. The Rapfix II is 100% made in Japan, by Works Bell, the inventors of the ball locking quick release. This is the real deal, original Japanese made quick release, as seen on cars like JUN Automotive's Evo X ... ... and an enormous number of Formula D & D1 cars. A photo gallery of various cars and drivers who use Works Bell's products can be viewed here ... http://www.worksbell.co.jp/information/support/ WHY IS THE GENUINE JAPANESE MADE WORKS BELL RAPFIX II THE BEST QUICK RELEASE IN THE WORLD ? If you ever wondered what makes the genuine Works Bell Rapfix II superior in every way, check out this article on our site with photos of how the genuine Works Bell Rapfix II is made and the rigourous safety tests the Rapfix II has been put through in Japan ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/How_To_Select_A...II_is_made.html WHICH MODELS OF THE RAPFIX II ARE ON SALE ? All models of the Rapfix II are on sale, including ... ... the black model ... ... the silver model ... ... the red and silver model ... ... the Team Orange Collaboration model ... ... the Toshiki Yoshioka ToshiKing Collaboration model ... WHERE CAN I GET ONE ? They are available right now on our website at the link below. We are Works Bell's exclusive authorised Australian distributor and we ship worldwide. This sale ends on Wednesday 24 December 2008 and will not be extended. Click on this link for more info and ordering ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Online_Store/Wo...ck_Release.html - Adam

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Haha. Nah - a blender is way more fun than a rocking chair - Adam

Hi All, A reminder that our pre-xmas sale ends in 5 days - on Wednesday 24 December. Stock is still available of the Works Bell Rapfix II quick release (on sale at at an incredible price that is a massive $173.79 (28%) off the Australian RRP and $81 below Japanese retail), Ecliptech Shift Lights (on sale at just $159) and Forced Ignition systems (on sale at $399 vs $499 RRP). Our Tuners Group Gift Certificates will be available right up to December 24 if you run out of time to get your xmas shopping done. More info about our "Save A Truckload" pre-xmas sale and links to order the products on sale can be found on our site at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/xmas08.html - Adam

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Hi 2rismo, We are Works Bell exclusive authorised Australian distributor. As per your question, the Works Bell boss kits are machined with two sets of mounting holes for the steering wheel - 6 bolt 70mm PCD (Momo, Sparco bolt pattern) and 6 bolt 74mm PCD (Nardi bolt pattern). Here is a photo of one ... Please advise the exact model and month and year build date of your car so we can be sure we are quoting on the correct boss for you car. The Works Bell Rapfix II Quick Release is currently on sale at a price of AU$430, which is $81 off Japanese retail and a massive $173.79 (28%) off the Australian RRP. You can find it here ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Online_Store/Wo...ck_Release.html They are the real deal, made in Japan original quick release. You can find info on the outstanding quality of them and how they are made in our "How To Select A Steering Quick Release & How The Genuine Works Bell Rapfix II quick release is made" article. This article also has a photo of what can go wrong with non-genuine quick releases, and why the genuine, made in Japan, Works Bell quick releases are the ONLY quick release you should consider ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/How_To_Select_A...II_is_made.html The genuine Works Bell Rapfix II Quick Release is made from billets of high strength A5056 alloy. This high strength A5056 Alloy is then heat treated to H34 standard which increases the yield strength of the metal by 60%, to approach that of Duralumin, widely known as a super strong material. Works Bell don't stop there though ... This high strength and heat treated A5056 Alloy is then cold die forged. SAFETY TESTING As a result, the Works Bell Rapfix II meets the safety standards set by ASEA (Auto Sports & Special Equipment Association) which is the Japanese equivalent of SEMA. Works Bell's products have been subjected to a huge number of safety tests, including the following: - Material Hardness Test - Material Tensile Test - JASO C713 Static load bending test on steering wheel - JASO C713 Static load torsion test on steering wheel - JASO C713 Static load fatigue bending test on steering wheel - JASO C713 Static load fatigue torsion test on steering wheel At the end of the day, a quick release is what keeps your steering wheel connected to your car, so it goes without saying that the genuine Works Bell quick release is the best way to go if you want a quick release. - Adam

Hi All, Just 8 days left to go in our pre-xmas sale. As you can imagine, the large amount of traffic to our website caused by our xmas sale is putting a pretty heavy load on our webserver at certain times of the day. If you get an "internal server error" message, that simply means that the server is unable to keep up with the current amount of requests for pages on the site - so wait 10 seconds or so, click the "reload / refresh" button, and page will load up. If not, click the reload / refresh button again. Our new server arrived on Friday, which we will be deploying in January. It's a complete beast. The noise it makes is outrageous haha. MORE INFO ABOUT OUR XMAS SALE AND LINK TO PRODUCTS Remember, the sale only runs until 24 December 2008, and stock is limited, so if you want to take the opportunity to save a truckload on the world's finest parts, be quick to make sure you don't miss out ! More info about our "Save A Truckload" pre-xmas sale and links to order the products on sale can be found on our site at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/xmas08.html - Adam