GTSBoy

Well, it is trivial to drill a hole and tap a thread into the thick cast alloy of the cross pipe. It is not possible to drill and tap/screw a fitting into thinwall steel or alloy pipe. You need to weld something on. So, yeah, if I was doing it, I would throw it in that pipe somewhere. As to that Blitz kit's already welded in fitting....well, that's what it's there for, and that's essentially the same place, give or take.

Well, you'd have to. The non-26 RBs do not have IAT sensors anywhere else that you could replace if you wanted to.

It's OK. You now have something you can do as soon as you get bored with it. Mark your calendars. I predict a Xmas present for Mark.

I still regularly listen to Iggy & The Stooges, all the original British metal bands from the 70s (and bleeding into the 80s), Metallica (even though Lars is a bit of a dick), Tool (which is only "metal" because some of it has distortion - it is otherwise obviously everything but metal), most other proper prog rock stuff (my daughter is still trying to steal my Rush t-shirt for wearing to gigs), and so on. But pretty much all speed metal, thrash, nu-metal, anything with gargoyle growling, can go eat a bowl of dicks.

Pretty much this ^

You might ask Brypar if they can do a drop spindle version of their GTR upright.

If the R chassis actually had a suspension design that wasn't based on borrowed 60's Mercedes ideas (hello half arsed multi-link rear) and late night karaoke bars drunken engineer hangover design ideas (hello R32 FUCA!), it would be an excellent platform. The fact that you have to replace almost all of it to make the car work is either half the fun, or a sure sign that the car was only even intended to be a mass produced Ginza strip cruiser.

Yuh, I saw that the other day (and then went back and watched the earlier one where Misha broke the Crown Athlete wagon), and looking at the inside of that Stagea I thought it looked like it was in really good nick inside. Made me think it hadn't done many miles, which is probably a reasonable thing for a 260RS. I also wondered if it was one of our more recent Euro Stagea owners' cars. I was actually very surprised by how well it drove. It was doing quite high speeds through various parts with esses and some fast corners where I'd have expected it to just flip over on its roof. It was clearly slower through the bends than that BMW that was behind it to start with, and just walked away from it under power, which was also impressive given it's supposed to be a stock 26 with only ~320HP. The BMS behind must have been a small engined variety. Makes me realise I'd have to man up quite a lot to push my car anywhere near as fast as Misha drove that Stagea. I have more power and less weight, so the speeds could be higher and I suspect that my suspension setup, which has never been proven at track speeds, might cause a few code browns.

Do you have an old gearbox you can leave in his driveway? It's a subtle threat.

I don't even know if the scam centre is VLSD. I can't see a cartridge in there. It might just be an open diff.

Yuh, you did enough - I just forgot.

Nah. My Momo dates back to last century. That's the last time I thought about boss kits. And mine is non-HICAS because I give no farks for HICAS.

Earth is via the steering column.

If you want the car lower without having to do it by shortening the suspension unit itself (ie, conventionally, by shorter springs or lowered perches on coilovers) and thus causing yourself the geometry problems of the arms all pointing up at the sky, then you need drop spindles. Time to open up the wallet, swat the various moths that come flying out, and pony up for.... https://au.gktech.com/products/v2-super-lock-r32-r33-r34-z32-front-knuckles?_pos=173&_fid=057415f49&_ss=c which gives you a free 20mm drop, along with some other geometry improvements.

No, you can't move the outer pivot point down. Well, not far enough to obtain any benefit, anyway. There's only a few mm of clearance in there to the end of the control arm. You'd have to cut up and open out the pocket of the upright to make space, and then you start to encroach on tyre space. Choose your compromise. I know which one I'd choose - the one that doesn't require all that metalwork on the upright for almost no gain. Given the surgery you've already done, the answer probably lies in moving the inner bracket upwards. Use the GKTech ones. You just have to remember that you have spherical joints in there and perform maintenance regularly enough.

Hartley

I use NoScript in (most of) my browsers to kill all that automation shit and I only enable it piece by piece until I get the webpage to work as much as I need. Google analytics and all the advertising trackers and etc never ever ever get enabled. f**k them.

I've been having fun lately poking the enviro-bears. They piss and moan about the price of petrol, then I calmly tell them, that in my higher-than-average-fuel-consuming-vehicle-that-only-runs-on-the-most-expensive-variant-of-pump-fuel-owner's opinion, petrol should have been at least $3/litre for the last 5 years and probably should be about $5 now..... to force people to reconsider their fuel consumption decisions. Then they blow up at me for being stupid. Power prices too high? Let them stay high until all the fossil fuel heated generators are shut down. Then have a discussion about why they're charging for power generated from (recent) sunlight (instead of ancient sunlight). But in the meantime....surely high power prices are a market signal to reduce your usage. We're facing the same problems with vehicle fuel consumption as we're seeing in power consumption as we see in computer power (processing power in this case). Because the things get a little better at it, we just allow inefficiency to flourish. The entire sound track for a C64 game (can't remember if it was Mega Apocalypse, or Crazy Comets) was done in like 4KB of memory, including speech synthesis. These days you can't even get a single gif squeezed into 4 fricken' KB.

I've always wondered how the various Indians you see driving this Chinese shit manage to balance their national hatred of the Chinese with their inability to not buy the cheapest, flashiest looking thing on the market. It must cause massive internal tension. And MG's are actually the nest of the bunch. They've had longer to drag themselves up from the quality basement. They're now on the first landing below ground level. Ozito tools rationale, as applied to the newest form of disposable appliance. The motor car.

Hopefully it's just one of the early nails in the coffin of those horrendous shitboxen.

Yeah, "blueprinted" does not mean "built" (in the common usage of "built" where that means "built tough with forgies and so on"). Blueprinted just means that when it was assembled the bearing clearances and other tolerances were all made to be right in the middle of the range given in the engine manual. Or otherwise to some exact specific value liked/used by the builder or someone else with good knowledge on the best setup. It is a term that I haven't really heard used by anyone since I stopped reading Street Machine about a million years ago.

ADM cars had diff coolers and a few other things that would leave traces that you'd have to clean up.

Not too bad. Horrible compared to non-twinscroll options available, but not as much as genuine. So....workable. Probably still smarter to convert manifold to T4.

These are far from the same thing. They are, in fact, about as far apart, in this context, as it is possible to be.

Ah, yes. I forgot that part. At this point I would concur with the earlier suggestion of having the manifold modded to get a T4 TS flange put on. I don't think there is a T3 TS housing option for these. On top of that, there is the whole problem of what is your expectation for a wastegate?