Duncan

Have you replaced or checked the actual vacuum booster? Is it easier or exactly the same to press the brakes when the engine is running?

FWIW, as well as difference in front vs rear wheel speed from the ABS sensors, and longitudinal G force, they also have a TPS input. so yep, it's pretty damn good at guessing when you might loose traction. bloody amazing system for something designed on this

again damn I prefer your fuel economy. when you say fit air bags to the back, does the m35 have separate coils to springs (ie not coilover)? Not really an option for C34 unfortunately

32 GTR comes with a 2 way mechanical diff stock, you don't need a new centre. If you want a tighter centre (or if you prefer, a "Nismo" rear diff), just have a diff shop add some more clutch plates

32 11310-05U00 33 11310-05U00 34 11310-AA400

frankly, I'm worried I missed something and gave him a bum steer

Well I think based on your description we can narrow it down to loose wheel nuts front lower outer ball joint front lower inner ball joint front upper arm outer bush front upper arm inner bush shock top mount shock lower bush caster rod bushes front swaybar links front swaybar mounting bushes steering rack worn steering column bush worn front inner rack ends front outer rack ends front left inner cv front left outer cv front right inner cv front right outer cv front caliper bolts engine mount gearbox mount tailshaft uni joint tailshaft centre bearing diff backlash rear left inner cv rear left outer cv rear right inner cv rear right outer cv rear subframe bushes rear LCA inner bushes rear LCA ball joint rear traction arm inner bush rear traction arm outer bush rear UCA inner bush rear UCA outer bush rear swaybar links rear swaybar mounts rear steering rack rear inner rod ends rear outer rod ends rear outer steering ball joints rear shock upper bush rear shock lower bush rear caliper bolts or maybe it's in the interior. hard to tell exactly from the description

It does, or at least the ABS is part of the Attessa computer. Hydraulic bypass won't affect the Attessa computer though. On a side note, I disagree pretty strongly with the statement on their website "Removing ABS for a track driven car is a must and is strongly suggested. ABS modules are known to kick in under hard braking or in the wet unexpectidely. " ummm....no

ahh the town stage....we were just tootling through there because it was an easy clear base time....even turned the 4wd off for a little more fun. I'm very happy with the suspension and alignment, have been running them for many years with excellent results....I'm not really looking past inappropriate tyre compound for the cause

yeah I admit we were trying But I'm not on face-thingy so I haven't seen whatever is on there The car is nice and soft and deliberately so, Gary put together a compromise for rally and circuit use and it works very well. Swaybars are standard because it is a production car, and springs are 350F and 450R. It ran very nicely through the bumps/rough sections/camber changes etc

Hey Bob, I've actually been meaning to start a thread on it so I'll put the details there. Its a production race car (CAMS 3E) so the only changes are shocks/springs, adjustable bushes, radiator and oil cooler, nitto oil pump, sump extension, power FC, undercar surge tank, front calipers and safety gear inside (cage, seats, harness, kill switch etc). Standard (n1) brake disc size front and rear, standard calipers on the rear. Standard cams, capacity, turbs, gearbox, diff ratios from GTS4 but otherwise standard too. And Matt...we agreed it was even worse than Neil's patrol on fuel, we were getting about 300 to a tank. On the bright side that was a lot of stop/revive/survie, or in Neil's case stop/pee/smoke

not really sure; 22 stages at say 20klm each, so maybe 400? Plus transport stages. It was pretty hot (>35) but I'm still a bit pissed off

Interesting, I'd only seen the separate lock bars before. Does it also remove the ball joint at the hub?

Well on the back of "What have you done to your Stagea lately" and "What have you put in the back of your Stagea lately", here is the Stagea towing thread.... We used the ours to tow the race car to Targa High Country at Mt Buller and back on the weekend, did a great job and didn't miss a beat on the way. It sits a little nose up; we could go harder springs in the rear but it gets used without the trailer regularly so I am happy with the current compromise. The tow bar is 2t and came from Towbars of Woden in the ACT; I spoke to them the other day and unfortunately they don't make them any more but I have seen a few threads from other shops in this section

Oh and BTW well done Larry and Liam coming home 4th, it was great to compete with you guys. And good to meet you John, shame you couldn't get a new clutch in but at least you made it through the event....hope to see you out there again soon

The car was awesome for the first 1 3/4 days but we lost the brakes on Sat arvo; the pedal did not work 30% of the time which made it an interesting guessing game. The boys worked most of the night changing and bleeding brakes, and then changing the master cylinder at 5am the next morning to get us back out but it did not sort the problem; it seems to have some sort of air lock in the ABS because it magically gave us more air every time we bled it; we spend the day on Sunday bleeding it after every stage. Also had a minor electrical issue which returned us to wastegate boost on an ad-hoc basis, a fuel pressure issue (which luckily was only a problem at idle) and a diff that was shaking itself apart. Can't believe how good these cars feel when they are behaving though, it was beautiful and totally predictable. Overall the event was excellent fun, the roads are very (too?) fast with plenty of time over 6,000rpm in top gear, although we never got to the redline in top. Some tighter stages but I enjoyed the open stuff. Kel is an awesome navigator and didn't give a wrong call all weekend; as pretty much a rookie I was lucky to have her calling the shots. And not just good calling, also knowledge of the rules and logistics that kept us on track and got us to a medal at the end despite the car issues. And finally a huge thanks to Neil and Mark, they worked their arses off to keep the car running and were always in the right place when we needed them. Plenty of experience with these cars mean they did everything quick, right and no fuss.

hmm well that didn't all go to plan. simply put, the tyres were not up to the distance in those temps. this was the better front that we took off before the last stage. I took 4 Dunlop mediums and decided not to spend another $1k on 2 spares so I just grabbed some 5 year old Federals I had in case of emergency (1 in the car, one on the trailer). The tyre shop were super confident the 4 tyres would be fine. They were wrong. I noticed the front left had delaminated on the stage after lunch on sunday so changed it for the spare, but since I only had one spare we had to roll through the next 2 stages with mismatched fronts, we lost about 20min in those 2 stages. We managed to stay ahead of 999 back to the base of Buller, Neil and Mark did a super quick change of the other front and we were able to complete the rally; even with the rooted and mismatched fronts we were only 10sec slower up Buller on the last stage than we were on day 1.

what is it, just an ELM 327 Bluetooth ODB2 adapter? If so there are billions to choose from on ebay from about $20

expensive list, eh? but you will love how much better it feels once it is back to factory tightness or better. If you want to tighten up everything you also need: ball joints for the rear steering arms at the rear hubs. They flow out and leave the rear end unstable Inner and outer rod ends for rear steering (still need them in good condition with HICAS lock kit) inner rod ends for the front steering

yep the guys were up all night with brakes including BMC change and looks like we are 100% to go this morning. Car has been great and Kel is an amazing nav. we were 4th last night with Liam right behind, looks like some overnight changes put us back to 6th. I hope Arnold has a new clutch in for today, and the guys in the gtst needed new upper front arms day 1, other than that I think we are all going OK. Super hot and super fast up here, it's awesome fun.

Yeah I guess the club is trying to make the best of a bad situation that is beyond their control. A shame they are the ones that will loose out on costs/entrants due to council's decision

Good to hear John, see you down there too. My prep (which I though was pretty much finished) has gone kind of backwards. Current state Since I need to leave 5am tomorrow I have a bit to do The bush that needs replacing.... THen an alignment in Canberra tomorrow hopefully, then head down on Thursday

have fun down there, never made it there myself and would love to give it a go sometime

well hopefully he won't answer because he is racing at the Hillcilmb Nationals this weekend , good luck! He also had some good news lately with the car, but I'll leave that to Neil.

Recce, eh? Sounds serious. Kel did say it's a thing now. Catch you down there