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One of the long time classic rotor guys did the switch this year, damaging the now 30k + Rx3 probably the turning point. There will be someone else doing the switch too next year. With the price of rotor engine parts going through the roof, you can basically get 4 cylinder rods and forged pistons with change for two new rotor housings. If you want to persist..... it's no Rx7 though..... http://my105.com/lis...ls.aspx?id=3467 Funny thing, guy I mentioned some pages ago with the GTR, ended up having to make lease payments on two cars after writing one of them off at TT.....when these were worth a bit of coin too.

While RB did have a bit of a tech edge in the past with screw in ports, cooling mods to housings and so forth - even if they did use their alloy plates, ianettis they usually recommend, 2 piece eccentrics and so forth, that's well OTT. There's no secret sauce in any country - although some of the locals practicing the art here probably would have been more suited to wild west blacksmith occupations. Your ex-RZ went ker-blammo very shortly after the sale.

You know what they say about info on the internet, you should remove those sexting pics by the way, shudder! I'll send the number and on second thoughts he's usually not too effusive on the phone, so a visit might gain a bit more.....you might even be able to convince him to get away from going line by line at the machine with your background.

93, 94, 95 - should be somewhere in that timeline, Cams required ROPS From my recall, there was a response of inserting a large object in a body cavity, when there wasn't going to be an exception for Racing Red.

Yeah, aware of the car....looks better without the bodykit. One of you came up one morning, whilst a minor dilemma was happening and didn't have much chance for a yarn, never caught up subsequently. Bloke in question, no, definitely not on SAU, 'bout the closest he'd get to a computer is putting G code in manually on a keypad - which is close to your heart from memory. Can provide a number, but I'd guess most of the Sadnut's foibles are pretty well documented now. An acquaintance may have a spare RB26 after putting a proper engine into his gtr - if the worse should happen. Precedent was set with the F40 all those years ago...didn't end well.....Octagon rulebook to the rescue??

Basically Richmond hinterland.....if it can be that upmarket, phone can be at best iffy to catch him. He is currently putting back together one of the GTRs group A, 90s era competitors. The homologation dept must have been working overtime on that bugger trying to stop the Nissan juggernaut, as I doubt there's a standard casting in the whole thing from head to block to mag sump. This bloke's soul brother is on here frequently, should be able to tell you no, no and no to any clarifications you seek, slip him a few bucks - and he can make any rule you want..... joking! You weren't in the lower car park in 2010?

Believe the rally skyline stronghold is in the shire. On the other hand, if you're interested in getting out of that rubbish Datsun and into an older superior classic tarmac rotary, which will cost a shedload less than building and running a gtr, have I got a deal for you! There is someone in the western 'burbs who ran a 32 and managed to fell timber on all occasions he competed, who I haven't spoken to for some time - if you're absolutely desperate - certainly wouldn't have any insight into current regs. His engine builder is in the foothills though, who's usually up for a chat.

The online manual has both the old and new regs under general requirements. My suggestion before firing up the glue gun, if you're long in the torso and anywhere near the roof, check, check and recheck helmet clearance with the FIA/sfi foam installed, which is not far off requirement either.

Apologies, foolish me, it's got to be the Queen's measure! None of that froggy nonsense. One of the nice things about yesteryear, was the diversity of makes and models. Nice to go back, pretty hard to swap out of the GTR though I'd bet.

An XJS ran in 94/95ish era. Most memorable thing, sparks and flames flying out of the wheel spokes at the hairpin at Symonds......after 1 lap. Must have done a fair bit of field and fence work during the afternoon stages - day 4. Don't think it was a good year for British racing green, 2 tonne pussy requiring some overnight heroics at Burnie too, if I'm remembering my years. There is a bloke locally who has all the tricky bits after being Jag driver of the year worldwide and given boxes of parts, he''d want Gallardo money for them though, if you that attached to oil leaks. To set the cat among the pigeons, an 037 Lancia looks like it can run classic in SS . One that was out here in the early 80s and failed to find money to run in the ARC, returned a year or two back too.

There's boy racer, BS artistes in Japan too, my world will never be the same, 340 odd hp on a 51 weber, ha ha! Naturally aspirated and revved to reasonable limits, 8~8.5k or so, probably do a decades worth of TT without a prob. The top line IP ones doing 10.5 to 11 to compete with the V8s will probably end up out a couple times a season. Might want to tame the rear end before doing anything serious with a S1-3, unless you like backing it into the trees too. If you want to indulge in additional blasphemy, an LFA toy-oda, - short on diffs - and tyres will certainly be an obstacle, would definitely be fun bouncing off the limiter.

With a GSXR motor to 2C specs, nova replacement pump in the water pump location.......dyno time only.....no problems with prime or drain back into the sump, after sitting for a few weeks. If you made the tank tall and skinny enough, you might get enough head to fill the sump, usual space and positioning limitations of the tank in one of these, it'd be highly unlikely IMHO. Don't know what's in your cars - Busas I presume - Kevin Leggatt (sp), did develop the scavenge pump for the kawa 1100 original some years back...which might save a few shekels and wouldn't be much of an engineering challenge to adapt I suspect.

Undoubtedly! No need to worry about vital parts exiting the engine either - if he was even smarter, should've continued with the emo - in-car of the old Nissan bus, from when ever it was, appeared to be armfuls of understeer, but at least it stayed on the black.

Is this skylines or rotaries Au? If you are nice to a certain person within Mazda Australia, I'd bet he'd more likely provide the specs, much like he did for previous SPs. Could be wrong, there has been some mention of other than the rally ones being produced......all you've got to do is add the balls of Steve Glenney, to hope to run against things of 2 to 3 times the power.....a commodity in seriously short supply unfortunately.

My understanding is 03 or 04 is the changeover now, which is after the production run....unless you upgrade yourself to run modern, but you'd have to double check.

Friggin quote thing again Series 6 run in cat 7, supposedly, S7 (poor things, with no perceptible advantage) and 8 cat 8, moderns in cat 9. There's mass confusion on this point, same turbos ran throughout, a couple of the sportier variations in the later years ran closer tolerance compressor housings and about 1.5psi more to generate a little extra in road trim....don't know whether the cars in question ran them either. Once the cars are tuned up to safe spec, the difference amounts to a mick hair from what I've seen, indeed, a lot of the Japanese tuning houses made a point of using the "old" style for their cars....even though the uprated spec are cheaper to buy new. 250 would be generous and a bit too dicey for 5 days, methinks, E85 maybe.....and then you'd need a bowser on arrowsmith somewhere, lol.

"I'm not quite sure who/what you're taking aim at? Care to elaborate? I think you're referring to Series 6 through 8 RX7's? Let the record state, I for one couldn' give a rats arse about them. Come one, come all I reckon" If the quote function would operate as I expect it too....allowing attribution, it would be so much easier, I'm a bit simple minded for that however! Was referring to the three preceding posts. Appears to be several inequities in 7 and 8 if date of the car is the deciding factor. Short of going to 4 digit number plates and a greater proliferation of categories/classes so everyone can still win a prize, you'll always have after the event whining......I can just imagine what will happen when 35s become eligible for EM! Anyhoo, the comment that a S8 with basically a nose-job and a rear wing change can be the huge deciding factor over an earlier car when both are in competition trim - you'd have to say that's a reach and a half. Something to go out on http://www.youtube.c...h?v=5uWa5tECp7U

Whole early, early modern and late, early modern split is bogus, when post 86 was modern, life was so much easier! Without any knowledge of whys and wherefores, contention that the addition of late cosmetics, on an essentially unchanged platform, put you 6 or 7 minutes up the road....you gotta say, take the hand off the pud, gurus.

Heretic! Spare 45mins..... tnf a win a possibility rather than a wishful daydream.....looks a lot faster.

More than likely a grubby grab for website hits, poll to rhs of article, vote early, vote often, advocate Appears there should be some appearance requirements enforced too, some rough nuts there!

Both speed control options are crap IMHO. Often see those plastic speed hump things they use to cover electrical conduit in traffic areas and wonder if they'd take the edge off the speedy bits and they wouldn't take the setting up time or need for observers - although I guess you might get the heroes going for launch! Not as good as a Mitsubishi driver's effort from a couple of years back, but still a language warning.....

If he's even half as quick as he was at 55 in that breadvan 356 last time, Rex B and co will be minutes behind is my prediction. Was braining them in late classic even in that 50s scheissen boxen after a couple of days, his back and seeming lack of mechanical sympathy, the jokers in the pack. Jum is always good for a quote!

Might embarrass more than a few..... walter hasn't been seen since Mr Wollek's stint??

According to the Germans, a lot can't, hence the new licensing restrictions for this year's event......NB race school and two European endurance events, I believe, required if you haven't participated recently.

From what I hear, entries are just into the double digits. Organiser asking past participants, who'd previously been told, "don't call us, we'll have a GT grid", now being courted.....I doubt there's the financial resources of a Ross Palmer to prop up the show, should numbers not materialize either.....but with the allure of Bathurst, might be a last minute rush of the miffed.