GTSBoy

It's not going to differ from the T measured at the cast pipe by more than 0.5°C, under any conditions where it matters. Not sure, but it's either in the floor or the side, in the main body of the plenum.

It's worse than that. They cannot even picture the full scope of what it is that they are pitching or wanting. They see the core idea and cannot conceive of any of the side effects, compromises, losses of existing functionality that needs to be replaced somehow, etc etc, that come with doing these things. So how can they do a cost/benefit when they don't even know what the full set of changes actually looks like?

I'm an engineer. I am not supposed to do IT. I have been doing my company's IT for 25 years, because initially there was no one else capable and since because I don't trust anyone. Back in the day, we used to run a Linux server with just sendmail level mail handling. Everything was POP and SMTP. Then, someone demanded calendaring and the like, so I implemented Scalix (an OS Exchange clone) - from scratch. Migrated all the numpties over, administered that system for years. Then Scalix started to decline. So I spun up a full Zimbra system. Same same as Scalix, but different (ie, not even a fork). Ran that for a while in parallel with Scalix as I tried to migrate old users over. Both of these were on prem, with local backup in the case of Zimbra. (No backup at all on the Scalix server! Gasp!) At some point, I spat the dummy, after years of this, and capitulated and bought O365 for the whole company and migrated everyone off the on prem stuff and shuffled them off to the cloud. It has been easier and shitter ever since, seeing as MS cannot leave anything alone for more than 3 minutes and have to keep changing everything and making it "better' (I read that as "harder"!). It's like their entire crew are ADHD squirrels on meth. Meanwhile, all our data has been kept on prem on file servers with decent backup. Now the higher ups are demanding that we migrate all the data to the cloud. I am shuddering at the idea that it will all be held to ransom on some shit AWS or, even worse, Azure/Sharepoint system where you're at the mercies of the above posted price hikes, commercial disputes, company collapses/takeovers/DOS attacks/etc etc. I hate it. But... if it can get me free of the bloody IT shit so I can finally concentrate on real engineering work for the first time in 25 years, then.... good?

It's less aggressive, but definitely far more complicated. It's really driven by Danny, Adam and Justin pursuing their musical ideas even further out than before. It's actually better listened to at fairly low volume levels. Fear Inoculum itself is great track to listen to in the dark.

You keep asking this question, and now I understand why. But I don't understand how jamming the yoke an extra inch into the gearbox is a thing.

That's Misha's whole thing. He's got thousands of laps at the ring. Probably tens of thousands by now.

Yeah, I was going to say that the std reg should be able to handle much more than stock pump capacity at full blast at idle without losing control of pressure, but there's a limit to how many words I can type during a meeting.

Yeah, I'd agree, but there does also seem to be a physical symptom with the fuel pressure. So I lean towards coincidence and shenanigans wrt the fuel up. Doesn't mean the proposal is a bad thing. It's an obvious thing to try and might sidestep half (or maybe even all) of the issue. BTW, for all those posting about having high idle fuel pressure after installing something as small as a Walbro 255.....what? I mean, I have the same pump, running off the standard R32 FPCM, and my fuel pressure is fine.

It's a valid thought, given pressure drop over a partially closed throttle could & would cause a temperature drop. But I'm of the opinion that for a central inlet plenum like on single turb RBs, there's no ideal place that sees all the flow going past. Wherever you put the sensor it will only see the flow local to that spot. Unless of course you go FFP, in which case you can easily put in straight downstream of the throttle. Does it matter? Maybe not. Probably not.

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