Duncan

each to their own....I learned racing in an underpowered front drive car rather than an overpowered rear drive car....and I reckon it taught me to get the most out of the available performance. Until you get to overpowered cars where they can't get traction, there is little to no advantage in rwd or even 4wd. most controlled race categories apply power limits so fwd is no big deal. look at btcc, fwd finishes ahead of rwd 90% of the time. In any case, it is all moot if some times were wet and some times were dry (or even if everything was in the wet). Wet track is a very small part of the time in Oz and requires totally different setup - so publishing wet results was somewhere between brave and meaningless.

I have no doubt IPRA rules will change in the next few years to be more turbo friendly in the next few years....they are even worse than sports sedans. None of which helps this event

totally agree there will be people taking it too seriously....nature of this sort of event. but they do have a national rule book - it is just that the 3 organising clubs in 3 years have all ignored it and done their own thing. Really does not help and it plays into AASA and Irace's "do anything you like" approach. If CAMS point of difference is clear and well enforced rules they are not doing it very well (their only other points of difference are expensive permits/licenses and difficult officals )

wet makes everything meaningless. those times in the first post are 20sec off what they are capable of.

good to hear. I will give them a call about production/registered cars.

hmmmm 3rd national supersprint, 3rd set of regs. If they would actually stick to the CAMS classes I would be happy....but production cars are not on the list. the only issue with the cams classes is improved production requiring a restrictor....I think that will be histroy within a year or 3 but right now it stops any but the most committed/mad people entering ipra. anyway...I'll be there! Just a shame there is no comparable class to defend the title in

I think you need a new "mechanic"

Duncan have a chat to Steve at Just Jap. He has imported the majority of the race and parts use GTRs. AUD is very strong atm so it is a good time to buy

there are custom 3.4l cranks readily available now days

just about to make the same change with my china ff plenum. fuel rails readily available eg ebay, and gtr injectors (440) are perfect for what I need. just need to change the injector plugs

cube = small car from nissan based on a march

there are about 10 other brands types, but they are either more expensive or perform worse than the ones above. And in most cases more expensive AND perform worse. do not worry at all about the width of the tyre varying by 1 notional cm. There is no chance you will even notice it. They are not actual tyre widths they are just notional/manufacturer names and different brands will be different physical sizes for the same notional size. Stay in the middle of the tyre manufacturer's range for your rim width and you can be sure the tyre will not be stretching or bulging on the rim. BTW Kumho KU36 are no-where near the tyres I mentioned (seconds a lap slower), but they are a great street tyre. I guess you need to keep in mind that a proper semi slick is pretty unfriendly on the road.

no way... I hate change!

17x9 probably...lots of options available. best performance, any price dunlop dz03g, 255/40/17 would suit (8.5-10" rim) best price/performance mix kumho v70a or toyo 888 semi slicks are always much wider than a street tyre in the same nominal width

oh hopefully not. that is a cnut of a job. more likely to be a split heater hose though, or turbo water line? both run around the back of the head

And I fitted it tonight...worked exactly right once I found the right wire for the speedo (thanks Sean for the lead). Link LK5 for nissans.

Sorry Marko we don't take paypal atm, difficult to administer an extra account and they charge us a fee.

pretty sure it wont fit in with standard plenum....if it would there would be a billion kits available

no mine is a 33 gtst head. but i have fitted a china front facing plenum - and they have both side feed and top feed injector fuel rails readily available. Since the current onces are very maxxed out, I will fit the gtr injectors + top mount fuel rail.

I do have a towbar from Max, and he rates it to 2000kg....but he recommends having it engineered once on the car..... I didn't bother because it is far from the only un-engineered thing on my car

no special challenge in my motor either....it runs 12psi not 30 or 40! And built with quite tight clearances (less power but more time between rebuilds). It really doesn't breathe at all. But FWIW...I have nitto pump, oil return at the rear of the head, enlarged block oil returns, restrictor in head oil feed, standard cam cover baffles with fuel cell foam behind, small oil/air seperator above motor, and catch can in the engine bay.

I would hope his car doesn't have oil pressure problems over the 8 or 9 seconds it runs!

just another state laws of physics difference....just like NSW has a SBS problem

I would expect the exact opposite....why would a small aftermarket manufacturer be able to make something that manages complex harmonics better than Nissan's engineers? Most factory balancers might be rubbish due to age, but at least you know they were designed and researched for that exact use.

I'm sure any releif spring can be modified to open earlier or later. it has given me some problems with smokey bush bearing turbos, I'm sure ball bearing ones would already have an appropriate restrictor