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if you have a set sitting on the shelf gathering dust after upgrading i want them. PM me.

adam, do you think hamilton should have followed the line of the corner on the ripple strip after he was caught on the outside? it seems he had the opportunity to do so but he wound on left lock an cut across the corner which ultimately saved him some time and car speed. i'm pretty sure that is what the would have considered as the most critical aspect rather just that he gave the place back. that video shows it pretty well. i reckon 99% of us would do exactly the same thing but i am positive he would have been much slower than just 6km/h if he had completed the corner. a real shame since it was great driving in the wet from both (and the others) up till then. doesn't it show what a handful the ferrari is to drive in the wet. yikes. bring on the weekend.

i thought Louise did enough to give the place back and passed KR fair and square but the Gonzo incident shows a distinct precedent about giving back the distance not just the place. Webber was probably robbed of several points by the HK error and the penalty HK got was too light considering what it cost the man with the biggest chin in F1. nevertheless it was correctly assessed and thats how it goes. when Hamilton and Vettel's actions conspired to destroy MW's vomit enhanced Japanese race, how was the end result of that fair? how do you penalise those guys in a way that makes MW whole? you simply can't. i think LH has been robbed (morally) of the points considering his pace at the end. if the same thing happened 10 laps out he would have been sweet.....it wasn't, it didn't and that's F1 racing.

lol he sounds like a brother with no soul when he said that. the high pitched english accent just doesn't sound ghetto. the weather came to him right on the button. Heidfeld the sneaky bugger comes thru...again. the driver of the race for mine was Massa. very wet track and no spins or crashes!!

massa might come good as the track dries but if it gets wetter....

i was just thinking a certain someone never gets overtaken..... thanks James Allen for clearing that up.

more fuel?

i know the exact feeling. unfortunately we found the left front shock was leaking so the cheapest option in the long run was to replace the shocks but then we found there was no where near enough camber adjustment on the rear even with an aftermarket eccentric bush. with upper rear camber arms there is enough adjustment to get sensible rear camber settings. so one thing always leads to another... ps. the rear of the stagea is at 365mm

practice 2 on now. doesn't Spa look sooo good. this is a real race track.

with extra circlip grooves machined on your shocks you can get your stagea as low as you could ever want with the standard springs. the spring rates on the RS4S seem to be decent as it is according to my bum-o-meter. if you are buying whiteline springs just specify it is for a stagea.

its probably not that bad but the "reliability upgrades" of the other engines manufacturers seem to have helped them and renault and RBR are struggling a bit. webbo was grumbling about the engine a bit at the last race so i guess this implies that that if he is going to call it like it is then there must be something to it. the "reliability upgrades" seem to have helped their pace but their reliability seems to have gone south......hmm.

the profecB are good units. nevertheless if you want this bleedvalve is sitting here (for free) if you want it nick. maybe it bring it on quicker and hold a little better or maybe not?!?

from F1 Q: Christian, how would you sum up the current situation? Christian Horner: After a very strong first half of the season, the team has endured a very frustrating past few weeks, with no points scored in the last four races. It is extremely important that we reverse this trend and get back on terms with Renault and close the gap to Toyota. The next few circuits, in particular Spa, should play to the strengths of the RB4 package. Over the past six weeks, we have analysed our performance in great detail and that analysis reveals the chassis is working well and we have pushed very hard in the factory to improve in all areas. Valencia did not play to our strengths, but we are convinced we can bounce back. SAU analysis of Horner's resposes: Engine is shit. Q: What has proved to be the most critical factor affecting Red Bull’s level of competitiveness? CH: Tyres are proving to be the biggest factor at the moment. Over the past couple of months, Toyota has looked very strong tyre wise in the higher temperatures. It’s not a case of our rivals suddenly ‘bolting on’ more performance. It’s down to tyre usage and they have handled that better than us. We have understood why this happened and I feel we can get on top of this situation and return to our earlier form for the final third of the season, hopefully starting this weekend in Spa. SAU analysis of Horner's responses: Its actually not the tyres, the engine it is shit. Q: Can the team expect a better weekend in Spa? CH: I think so, as apart from anything else, there are a lot more high speed corners than in Budapest or Valencia! We had a good test in Monza and although that was aimed primarily at the Italian Grand Prix, the results of the test answered several fundamental questions about our package. Apart from the track characteristics, the weather always plays a crucial part in Belgium, therefore we will need to be particularly sharp operationally and in terms of strategy, dealing with the fact that sometimes, half the track can be dry and the other half wet. We need to go there and attack the weekend, we need both our drivers to be on top of their game, aiming to finish in the points. At the moment, the section of the grid that includes, BMW Sauber, Renault, Toyota, ourselves, Williams and now, Sebastian Vettel, is extremely tight and, as we’ve seen at the last few races, one tenth of a second can make the difference between four grid positions. Even with the long lap at Spa, I think we can expect a very tight grid, while the early Autumn weather, the race taking place a weekend later than usual, can add further unpredictability. SAU analysis of Horner's response: No chance, since the engine is shit, DC is retiring and he is just circulating looking for another backmarker to impact test their sidepods, and lastly unless MW qualifies up the grid he ain't going anywhere (unfortunately). Q: Has the need to turn the current situation around had a negative impact on development work on next year’s car? CH: The whole group is working extremely hard to balance its resources between on-going development of RB4, currently more important than ever, given the performance downturn we’ve just been discussing and the work on the 2009 project. However, right from the end of 2007, we planned for RB4 development to continue to the end of the 2008 season and therefore the pressure to make up the ground lost in recent weeks has no impact on our work on next year’s car. The team has worked well together putting in concerted effort and man-hours to understand and find solutions to our recent problems, so we are going to Spa in fighting mood, determined to come away with some points. SAU analysis of Horner's response: We are working hard but the engine is shit and things aren't likely to change.

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hi charlie this is the link to the CF thread. carbon fibre DIY

alternatively cutting the old intake pipe and replacing the middle section with a small length of alloy pipe will give you what you had before and no risk of it sucking shut and this will allow you to replace the factory bov. nevertheless, if it is sucking shut it implies there is a restriction so perhaps that filter is an issue? (sorry didn't realise larger turbo, what is it?)

do you want standard oil and water lines? if so pm me.

if the intake pipe was collapsing at that sort of level of airflow then i think it is more likely than not a restriction with your filter.

call JP @ UAS he has whole lot of CF on his slot car. there is a thread recently in the fabrication section on exactly this sort of thing as well.

CF sheet and adhesive FTW

rich and retard mapping will be one of the causes. alternatively it also sounds like compressor surge. the compressor is feeding in more air than the engine can take and there is a backwave of pressure being vented by the BOV. is it the standard turbo? what exhaust? what IC?

shitty thing charlie and such a left field location to get damage.

the rears are no good for you CL11QE on the RS4S.

the S2 RS4S has the R33 GTR gearbox (this would constitute a stagea 5 speed box?!?!?). it is hard to believe it would be anything other than the same for a 260RS made during the same time as the R33 GTR.