Duncan

hey Jason can you just pm me your address and the next time you are leaving your stag alone unattended?

I've never used AD08 but I have done some track work on high end street tyres. They generally work best with high pressures too (and low aspect ratios) to make up for weaker sidewalls. If I don't have a starting point I use the following guide: Street Tyres: 38-42 Semi Slicks: 30-34 Slicks: 28-32 Of course lots of tyres are different, and the heavier the car, the more pressure is needed. But it is a good starting point. Duncan what works with the r35 dunlops? being run flats I guess the rules are different again?

I agree with all of that for motorkhanas....but just wanted to mention that I would never recommend rear toe out on a street driven car. Its the sort of thing that makes you end up backwards in a telegraph pole on a wet night. will definately help on the skid pan though.

wilfred did not miss that boot, did he

good looking setup, and it will be interesting to see what you go with and what you find. some things I know: with big power cars, the more fwd, the quicker it goes. right up to 50/50 split you will then blow up your front diff and break front driveshafts so they need looking at if you still have lots of fwd on corner entry you will get significant corner entry understeer (in particular if you have a mechanical diff) so really the required setup is relively simple, you could get OK results with just a brake light switch instead of g sensor.

what happened with these tyres in the past few years by way of history. around 5+ years ago the v700 were the control tyre for IPRA. those guys get every last 10th out of their cars due to fairly restrictive rules and they found these tyres were actually pretty good. But especially so when buffed (ie some of the "new" tread depth removed). So everyone started peeling 70% of the tyre off, got good performance, but they were expensive to run becuase after the buffing they would only last 1 or at the most 2 meets before being below the tread depth indicators. they still worked fine at that level, almost like slicks, but were not legal because there was not enough tread left. in the years since, for whatever reason, they were not used much or well regarded. I think this was a mistake, the v700/v70A are a good tyre. Some people like Ben, and for that matter Tony Sullens used them for good effect at events like targa (especially the soft compound). 2 years ago kumho V70A won the production car control tyre contract in NSW from yokohama. That is where I first met them and used 4 sets over 6 rounds trying different pressures etc. There were a further 30 cars running them including the commodores like I said. We found by accident and rumour that they worked best hot (ie people accidently letting them get too high, finding good results then checking pressure to their surprise). Mine definately worked better at that pressure but some guys literally run them at 50+psi getting the best results. Make no mistake these guys are dead serious about lap times because the front running cars are very similar, they would not run these pressure unless they gave results. John from fsport was obviously all over the pressures and results people were getting - no wonder he recommends high pressures too However, in the low profile tyres (35 and under, like 265.35.18) they started to fail at these pressures. the distributor rightly pointed to over inflation but in the end, due to perceived ureliability they were ditched as the control tyre for safety reason. we now run an open tyre list and the same cars are running 1 or even 2 seconds quicker on the same tracks using dz03G or re55. no disrespect to ben's experience (hell he can farm potatoes like no-one I know), but targa experience and track testing/development are totally different. there is absolutely no doubt these tyres work better at much higher pressures than others. FWIW I run the dunlops at 32-34psi so I am not some crazy high pressure fetishist.

lol no idea why anyone listens to anyone on the internet. 82% of people are talking shit with no experience and 87% of numbers are just made up on the spot

maybe too late for this weekend. but there are the 3rd best tyres I have run behind dz03g and re55s, and they are 30-50% cheaper. so a clear winner on cost/performance. If you have to win (ie cost is not a factor), the other 2 are the only option. Like I said I ran 42-44 for best results on the gtr....but heavier cars like commonwhore ran even higher with good results. of course we are way outside sensible/manufacturer recommendations....just saying what actually works with these tyres.

I only kind of agree with that - ball joint spacers or longer ball joints help but do not restore the factory geometry/roll centre unless you adjust the upper arms as well, which is hard to almost impossible without major changes.

I've used these for a couple of years on my stagea (circuit and road), and 350z (circuit, motorkhana skids and road) without any problems. might be a bad batch, might be bad luck...either way I would not accept anything but replacement or refund.

no idea about the "vipec momentary inputs"....try searching for "link momentary inputs"

yeah if its just centre there are lots of options. I run standard diff with shims in my race car for about $500. who the hell breaks an r200 (except Mark, at Targa Tas, yesterday)

you have way too much rear camber for any use, let alone a road car. use the adjustable arms to get it back to about 1.5o your existing rear toe arms are already adjustable, they are used from factory to manage toe. no need for adjustable "traction" arm, it is only used to adjust bump steer for track use, even then most people buy them and then don't set them up properly

I liked that so much I bought it. literally. it now plays tv on my dash. if anyone ever comes across an epson ej1 computer I will buy it. will happily sell my youngest son if required to fund it. he's a little bastard.

I put a tv in my dash thanks to the nice guys at Nismo....

ahh yeah my favourite is my stagea too....perfect street car. clse 2nd is my old 200b. wonder where that got to. dan better not have sent it to simmsmetal. maybe its time for my 3rd ownership of that car.

lol fix your tail light you bums! everything coming along OK? not long now....

they are both rev and speed limited from the factory. 7000rpm and 192klm/h

Hey Chris drop the front driveshaft out and see if that quietens it down. 4 bolts out she comes

no the opposite unfortunately. Ayresy in his immaculate 400R stopped to help and Wwilfred cleaned him up in the borrowed Rx-8. Good to see all the R35s staying on the track including domonic from here. Hope I didn't just put the mocker on anyone. My guys have had mixed luck, Kel is going great in the R32 (or ATTKD special if you prefer) in 9th in Early Modern. Mark is running a wide body gtst since he had to pull the front drive shaft after a diff blow up - nowhere on the board but still having fun.

sounds way too stiff to me. what tracks or do you mean for tarmac rally?

is he really going to pull the sump off? that's a shitload of work, just pull the motor out.

lol did you sleep with the cheif scruit's daughter daughter or something harry? Smity42, just so you are aware when all of these rules talk about original car they mean something more like "model". So for R32 skylines for example you can log book the car as anything based off the R32 chasis like gtst, gts, gts4, gtr, n1 whatever. my car started life as a povo gtr and is now officially a Vspec II N1 according to cams . Not sure if that works for your alfa...but if possible you should stick to improved prod - categories everywhere for sprints/hillclimbs/racing and not as hard to get near the front as sports sedan. That advice only holds for non-turbo cars - to protect the old rust buckets, IPRA have made any turbo car as uncompetitive as possible by enforcing 38mm restrictors.

we had the exact same prblem and just rivetted the ally sheet to the floor.

as long as a manfacturer made 10 of a car it can run. mazda made 10x turbo rx8s. Same story with the ATTKD Select R SP that Kel is in. yes, and its now a very good replica of a cube. snowcone managed to lose no time at all with that off...the stage was downgraded to non-competitive after they crashed! I want to go in a lotto syndicate with him, I've never met anyone so lucky! Hope Chris is OK since it was his side