Duncan

you gotta be really careful with this sort of problem on a new motor. The first few minutes of running are really important for the rings bedding in, and if it is pumping fuel but not firing you can get "fuel-wash" which will glaze the bores and make it very hard for the rings to bed in correctly. yes the standard setup has a non-return valve in the tank, but if you don't have it now you might just need to crank it a second or 2 longer. I've run without the valve for years. I'm assuming from your post above that everything is OK now once it is started? get that motor run in, nice and hard, asap! a mechanical fuel pressure guage is under $50 - grab one and put it into the pressure line - it will tell you sooo much with so little stuffing around.

January: do every race I can at Oran Park before it closes. Right now that is Irace on 14-15/1 and the final meet on 23-24/1. And give Neil a hand at the last state supersprint on 16/1. March - Bathurst Sprint, Lake Mountain Sprint November - National Supersprint in Qld (I thought it was QR, but maybe Morgan Park?). And whatever else I can do when I'm up there. And as many rounds of NSW combined touring as I can

ahh was that v35 white? If so it was about 500kw and was built before nissan got around to doing the r35.....

hey where would the fun be if you didn't come close to losing your life every now and then?

johnny's upper arms?

hey kyle good to see you are still around....please help pete I want to see this car last more than 2 laps. what did you end up doing with the bonnet? what's next? you can't go past a basic bond cage for the price. a comprehensive cage can always be sorted out later if needed, I'm still running a basic cage in mine (then again I've never roled mine off a cliff)

haha you left your one mistake a year f**king late. speaking of mistakes I had an almost brand new jack break on me tonight which dropped the car, in fact both graeme and neil have used the shiney new red thing. never, ever trust a jack alone, always use stands.

why are you sure it is not a warped disc? I've only ever felt pad or fluid fading as a "mushy" pedal, vibration/noise would only ever be something mechanical, either warped discs or something caught in the wheel/caliper

you check that link tiger? metal brackets, good price

I had a quick ask around the guys I can contact this week - but no-one had new coilpacks in stock. If you can get your hands on the coils they are dead easy to change.

do you already have the coil packs? if so very easy job (I can give you a hand one night this week if you are stuck). If you don't have the coil packs - what model are they for? Also you should probably do plugs and their gaps at the same time.

Yeah that was Nathan from Grey Imports - but he shut up shop about 18 months and escaped sydney. Most shops aren't open atm but might be from next week, whereabouts in sydney are you?

If anyone needs a fire extinguisher - super cheap have them on special today. http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Su...ui-t301602.html

good find! we have a few who will need them for the motorkhana on 31/1.

Matt let me know if you can get out there, we can always use a hand. Chris I've got a shitload to sort before then too (eg I can only run 3 laps before I overheat ). working on that tomorrow and next monday when the radiator hopefully turns up - but lets face it this is the 2nd last run at OP (and I don't know the deal with the last race meet) so I will move everything I can to get there. Anything I can help with? Is it critical to fix before then? I can try and sort a shop if that will help, I have organised one for my car tomorrow

oh yeah ryan the first upload to youtube was farked so we had to repost it all....its not really ground hog day!

I wish mate....all I can hear from her is white noise! nah we are just having a bif of fun, I actually do pay attention to Kel and she did an amazing job with the calls. and the poor old rb wasn't singing....7psi thu a gtr is more like a crime than singing We will have it sorted properly next time.

good question! my tow bar was rated by the manufacturer at 2000kg - but they are not engineers. And I would be very close to 2000kg because the car is 1500 and the trailer 400 (+gear on the back) my "assumption" for what that is worth, is that it is like every other unengineered mod on my car. If an accident occurs and the insurer can show the unengineered part was the cause I would not be insured. and no doubt they would try their level best to blame those parts so they can avoid paying out. On my car this includes: motor front mount intercooler exhaust wheels (17") brakes tow bar tv seats tyres (too large) powerfc sway bars (larger) and god knows what else.

haha 36mm socket, and a breaker bar long enough to move the moon? Some of those nuts are a f**ker to undo, and I keep forgetting to undo the hub nights *before* I take the brakes off. If you are stuck I have the super multi geared nut undoer - it puts enourmous torque on the nut

holy shit there's some work in that one! is that the first car you've built (I guess not it looks like it's come together pretty well)

stu - probably no point entering the production car (depending on the regs). happy to drive your car for you though, I reckon it would surprise a few with it's times. but don't forget an event like this really needs you to buy tyres for the purpose ie soft compound that are unlikely to last the whole day. It was the same at Mt Buller and the Supersprint Nationals before - even big cars like skylines running on medium and medium/soft compounds because you only need to do a lap or 2 at a time. I still haven't seen regs posted so I assume they are more focussed on obtaining overseas competitors than getting local/amatuer entrants

actually - the real danger in sydney is the 50 new speed cameras where there used to be red light cameras. I don't know where they are, and I don't know how (if?) they are signposted so be careful places that used to be license safe may be no longer. I love the fact that when the road toll goes up......they try more of what is not working! go genuises!

(bit slow lol) yeah I need 2 because generally only 1 is working at a time the car you went in (the production car) is great but lets face it.....it is missing 200kw compared to most cars around. so Mark and I figured we may as well build something a bit quicker for fun. The production car is the serious one though and has the best of everything it can - this car on the other hand has cheap everything it's likely to be 12 months before it's finished - our old work location is no longer available and my house is 9 months away - so stay tuned for this time next year

shit liam that's no good! what wheels are you running and do you have correct hub locators. also always always use a torque wrench for your wheelnuts - over time incorrect (particularly overtight) will stretch then break the studs

yep....long way away but pretty interested but I also need to head up to QR next year for the supersprint nationals