Duncan

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.

good to hear, see you there moo guy and demon. watch out....I drive on white lines....no point wasting track.... well done getting the car running again so quickly though

yeah my tip is its a prick of a job, give it to a workshop you need to press the bushes out of the front of the diff which means somehow supporting the whole heavy thing at the same time. thats after the stuffing around on the ground to remove it, and before the pain of getting it back into place. let someone with a hoist and proper press do it. I've used noltec and superpro ones and can't tell the difference

Yeah the FCD sorted my problems out, straight back to a nice even curve. that was front mount, zorst and 14psi boost. If you want more a remap (nistune, yoshi, whoever) or emanage or hks fconv or unichip or any other piggyback would be the choice assuming its auto. If its manual or you're not too worried about the longevity of the auto, any other ecu for rb25 can be used - powerfc, link, motec, vipec, haltec, microtech, autronic etc etc etc. Not too sure why people are happy to put vipec on mild tune cars (unless there is a good salesperson somewhere) as they are expensive to buy and install compared to say powerfc, and do not have the shift logic built in for autos so they are as bad as every other ecu. has anyone ever tried the minor rewiring requiring and then running a stock r34 skyline ecu? I think it might be a good option for mild tune cars (up to say 200kw)

we're now running kumho V70A. they are great for the price. btw ando I'm running slicks at the sau day too, kumho on the front and falken on the rear. so i am cheater^2

you better be scared radical boy. i'll give you a decent run * *until your slicks warm up

yeah could do....hope you've got big friends tho. you can get utes with an engine crane on the back. but the best way would be to put it somewhere reasonably flat before you start....current location sounds pretty dangerous to me

that radiator is outrageous. and i also like the fastening system keeping the LHF part of the splitter together, are they genuine dodge

I liked how he thought, until he sold out to the russian mafia. in fact a tamora is the only car i would sell the z for. but his issue was losing repeat customers when the killed themselves. that and I have a sneaking suspicion that they were so vocal against driver aids because they couldn't get headlight wiring reliable, let alone traction control. but their 4l straight 6 motor is a monster.

damn straight there are. stageas standard ecu is very intolerant of changes like more boost, zorst etc and starts to pull timing out of the tune and dump extra fuel in much sooner than the ecu in the skyline (same motor, different tune). what mods, if any, have you done? assuming that is the problem you should add something like HKS fuel cut defender or SAFC. Or if you have plans for future mods consider an aftermarket ecu.

ahh yeah not exactly busy with all the other stuff going on atm I did pick up the wheels from craved the other day (they look swoit!) so I guess I better get some slicks sorted. Its actually about 70% ready but that last 30% is going no-where atm

I heard the car was entering the sau track day. not sure if merli is driving or it is just a town bike to share around everyone

the kumhos in 235/40/17 for 400 are an excellent buy. they are our new control tyres, I run 245/40/17, they are 1300 a set new, wear very well and are within 1/2 sec of the dunlops and bridgestone. far better than the crappy yokos.

well....groove in itself is not a problem if the wear is even on both sides of the disc, even across the disc, and even across the pad (not tapered for leading to trailing edge of the pad). and as long as the thickness of the disc is above minimum. if you are getting uneven wear of the disc or pad there are a heap of things to look at. caliper pistons, disc centreing, wheel bearings etc etc if it is just working hard you can either be happy you are getting good performance out of the current setup, or upgrade to something bigger. I reckon the d4/d2/ksport 8 piston kits are a great upgrade for $2k.

anyone one else heading along? at this stage we are not full (far from it) and want to make sure the day is a success

umm yep, basically. high performance pads are hard on rotors, its that simple. you can get really agressive pads (i haven't used the qfms you mentioned) that provide great performance under track conditions with marginal or undersized calipers - but you don't get anything for free....pads like this rip into rotors.

sure is...that's Markland's Gibson R31 Group A car...outrageous in a straight line against the group C "big banger" v8s isn't it....just 2l pushing it along.

as far as I'm concerned they can come over and take all their shit back! ewwww

this was the view rfom our front door this morning