Duncan

good work for sharing the trick dan. in any case....replace all the stock crap with a direct braided line

Tom, most often a whistling noise near the turbo is a blown gasket - turbo to dump, manifold to turbo or head to manifold. normally comes with free broken studs to remove! get someone to do it for you unless you hate your knuckles

beer of course. overall number of road accidents have been increasing steadily since they banned drink driving.

pretty much all aftermarket dump pipes have thread for the larger 33/34 style o2 sensors. there are some adapters out there somewhere, but while everythings apart its a good time to put new 02 sensors in anyway

well....why did the pump you see die? I am yet to be convinced there is some basic issue with n1 oil pumps. they get used in lots (most?) builds? those motors get treated very hard (otherwise why did the owner spend 5-15K to build it?) anything goes wrong in the bottom end...first place a bit goes to is the tight clearance oil pump. put any shit through it and it breaks. once the pump breakes due to the other problem the whole motor dies very soon after. first thing you find when you pull a motor apart is a broken oil pump. bottom line is....finding the *real* reason a motor dies is very very complex. oil pumps do not often die on their own but they are very often the first symptom of the real problem

that....or you could give them a call and ask? 02 9648 4264 ali-turko...I firmly beleive that the only good oil system for a semi serious to serious track car is a dry sump pump. only 2x the cost of a full on standard style oil pump but far, far safer. but for your average build that sees a track or drag strip every now and then just go n1

no idea. i bought a pump that had a good design for an excellent price through my engine builder. I think they sourced it through CRD in sydney

haha i thought I was the only one who had to bring a t-car

I honestly don't understand your concern? almost every product on the market was built in a chinese factory to copied specs, has a brand stamped on it, and is for sale. these pumps have not been on the market long, so the only factor for me is do they look like they have address some design issues....to me the answer is yes they have done some thinking so I'll give them a go. If you want a tried product just run an n1 pump they have been around for years (and like I said earlier I don't beleive they are some sort of engine death sentence.)

lol I bought a nitto pump because paul told me to, no other reason. I would have bought a link/vipec too but until recently it had not been proved in applications where 4th gear was required....seems it can handle that OK after all. of course since then it has survived 2 major bearing failures and all it has needed is a good clean. as for long term durability...considering its been on the market for less than 6 months its a bit soon. I recommend coming back in 3 years and asking again. by then I will have plenty of info as I run my engines very hard in the race car and I have 2 of these pumps on 2 motors

i saw it sitting around, covered in dust yesterday. looks like merli has fallen off the face of the earth, but his car has not. I think the best thing we can do is blow the cobwebs off it at oran park on sunday

very sad to hear that Greg, no-one needs that sot of challenge, support is hard enough to gain for these events. Andrew I have the required license and will happily represent your sponsors....just hand over the keys.

unless the link has logic to control the auto trans shifts....it is no different to any other aftermarket ECU. ie in the long term it is likely to cause damage to the transmision due to full power shifting.

haha don't worry about salt....many of these case spent their lives on heavily salted snowy roads in northern japan

hahah new grass this time stu...turn 1 is very different on the short track, challenging in a totally different way great to see some new names coming along too

now if only late model had the same freedom as early model (no restrictor for standard intake and boost) I'd be there in a flash. only a production car but I need to give barbagello a run one day still, hopefully some good cars will make the trip over. what's the date?

beautiful wheel....i bet that was not a $20 ebay special. i've got something similar in the race car it is brilliant

well my experience is, apart from cooling, they are fine stock. by old 33 did a track day a month for 3 years, 8x 20 min sessions a day....by the end of that it needed new rings (fair enough after all the high reving) but that was all. not sure why spending more magically makes them better.....at 400kw you are making twice what the factory engineered in for. put some steel wheel standard turbos on it, turn the boost down to 12, make about 200kw it will last much longer bTW 5 lap sprints? I reckon they are very easy on the car compared to 20 min sessions so you may well be ok. 1 warm up, 1 cool down, no more than 6 min flat out so they won't get hot in that time. intercooler, oil, water, gearbox, fuel all will be much better than if you have to run for long periods flat out.

I don't know anyone that's racing them and doesn't have to rebuild regularly. maybe some people don't up to it. having said that, I reckon with good monitoring like one of mountainrunner's engine monitors, and sticking to light use light supersprints where you only knock off a few laps at a time, I think it will last a while.

yeah its a nasty trick they play getting people to admit there own guilt just after the bit where they say "i am informing you this conversation is being recorded". I reckon it works 95% of the time too. problem is if you dont play that game you are likely to end up with a defect for something which is even worse to me. BTW Jay....stop speeding. get it out of your system on the race track. none of us are angels (except kel of course lol) but with cars like these we just have to be careful as

this thread delivers. pete why arent you bringing your 1billion awkws to the track day girly man

just space the wheel out a little? what size wheel and offset?

haha im surprised how much better built stageas are considering they are the same platform. anyway....get someone to pump the brakes hard while you watch the master cylinder.....you will see it moving as the firewall flexes. not sure if that is what you are feeling but it definately flexes without a brace

hmm what a strange co-incidence. my car's going to be down at phillip island the week after for the national supersprint

woot! that's 2x r31s entered. Ray Dean has entered his targa r31 gts-r as well.