Duncan

+1, your engine is pinging and it is extremely dangerous. turn the boost down (or even off), don't use full throttle until you have refilled the tank with 98. If it still pings (light flashing) after a new tank of 98 octane, you need to get the computer re-tuned on a dyno

no mods or fabrication or buying required (except an extinguisher with a metal strap) undo the bolt that holds the bottom of the rear seat down and bolt the bracket in there. secure, no holes, easy to reach

Well, I've killed and rebuilt a motor or 2 over the years, and I've always had more luck when the turbos are cleaned. Your whole oil system is shared with the motor, so turbo bearings, oil cooler core, standard oil warmer, oil lines, cross block oil feed etc etc etc are all suspects where the last motor's bearings can be stuck. I use http://www.oilcheck.com.au/ for my oil analysis, they are cheap, quick, easy to deal with and happy to explain results. If you see shiney in the oil I would take an oil sample, drop and replace the oil and filter and go easy on it until the results are back. Sorry to be suggest bad news, but the sooner you find a problem the cheaper it is

umm no, it sounds poor to me. No shiney sparkles in new engines thanks. Do you have (and replace) the oil cooler/warmer where the oil filter mounts? Did you clean and inspect the turbos? You could always organise for an oil analysis check.

even better....but I guess it will slow down after a couple of days for regular updates

OK, updated (I think)

Bob those guys are unlikely to give out import papers for ADM cars, both cars I have papers for were SEVS (or the previous scheme) low volume imports

Makes more sense, I was pretty sure that the Group A cars run the Group A turbos (very modified of course) but still bush bearing and laggy as below 4000.

Actually, I have seen a copy of the application form, here it is: NAME: Don't you know who I am? CAR: Full sick orange BM man! REASON FOR EXEMPTION: My smoking hot gf wont be seen dead in anything without a v8 or turbo. FURTHER INFORMATION: Also, how would I impress people by free revving the motor at pedestrian crossings. People who think they are special and make it hard for genuine enthusiasts shit me. This whole thread is about the fact they we already have more than enough negative publicity in this community.

The whole drivetrain is pretty bloody good from the factory - only the most serious drag cars break anything except gearboxes. But to be honest a genuine 700hp would put you in the "serious drag car" category so no guarantees

no worries, I'll try and update the first post as people post up. And I've added my car's wakie time dyno details to add soonish too.

eyelashes Kat....practice fluttering them as hard as you can!

BTW I totally agree with this. no doubt rwd is the most fun to drive. it's just when you are chosing a formula/set of rules, it may not be the cheapest, fastest, or most competitive.

well on tarmac, the btcc fwd cars certainly show the advantage of being able to keep their foot down when the car starts to oversteer....those guys catch the biggest angle slides I've ever seen. If you were in a rwd you would give up and hit the anchors, going along for the ride, waaaay sooner.

love both of them I'm not that familiar with specs, are either of them irs? And is wikipedia right that your coupe is one of 120? "In 1979, 120 2-door coupé models were assembled in Australia, apparently due to a mix-up with Nissan Australia's kit ordering system." good to see people keeping it in the family.

umm I'm sure he had an option to buy a car that was not turbo or 8cyl. pretty simple right? people taking the piss on laws (or thinking because they are famous or have money that they can ignore them) are exactly what makes it so much harder for normal people. for every wanker like that, the rest of us have to work 10x harder at being good

Totally agreed. If you want to discuss how hectic you are try another forum. Thread closed.

hahah good movie. just watching it myself

mate if I'm the best you've got, you're in trouble. Haven't you met my kids?

lol attitudes are different in the stagea section. do you actually have tint on the car? the c34s came with "privacy" glass (not tinting) on the rears and cargo area that is very dark - but is legal

i lol'ed

what I have never understood about the tyre rule is.....you can comfortably make it through the event on a single set of hard tyres. everyone did for the first 15+ years of the event (unless they ran mediums and hoped not to get caught on tread depth) allowing tyres changes during the event just encourage everyone to run medium hard, medium or even medium-soft tyres. once one car does that, everyone has to. therefore....this rule just costs everyone money

a world before the internet? where did they get porn?

Interesting. This is dirt rally right? The only thing I know for sure is that none of the existing dirt formulas are being won by rwd cars over fwd cars. I have seen very few rwd in the forests since the 1600s all (mostly) died off, and all the new cheap cars are fwd. There are a handful of rwd around (I remember speaking to a guy in NSW having some success with a Silvia na) but very few. But it is very hard to do a fair comparison just based on the driven wheels, because so much else is different. Especially in production based cars because manufacturers dont generally make a big FWD, or a small RWD to compare. In NSW prod circuit racing it is AWD > RWD > FWD, but then again the fastest FWD makes about half the power of the RWD cars. Certainly BTC and WTC prove the FWD and RWD can be very close under tight enough regs.

well I guess how much you need to spend on your exhaust depends on how desperately you want to drive down to the shops with a 400kw dyno graph on the dashboard. Everyone modifying their cars, especially that seriously, has made a deliberate decision to spend a heap of money on it. Not surprisingly the RTA and cops want you to do it legally as well. And while I don't agree with that either, I understand why. A copy at the side of the road has no idea whether the mods listed on the certificate are the same as is on the car at a given time, so they make you get it inspected by someone who can check. Or, old AND driving a stagea. Let's not forget that there was a law allowing motorbike clubs to be banned until those clubs took it all the way to the high court. Let's not kid ourselves that car clubs have more power (or money) than the bike clubs. I guess I'm saying.....lets all face facts, modified cars are not a vote winner, quite the opposite. We will all continue to be targetted no matter how many angry people post in this thread. There are people whose every day job is to think of every possible way to make it hard on us (eg Ash's "suspicion" notices above, or the hotline to report a noisey car). Keep your mods mild, quiet and low key. Don't drive like an idiot in public, and do your hooning at a track - that is the best way to slow down and minimise the noise and pushback on our community. That's exactly what SAU NSW pushes, with good reason.