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Little Sticker on glass. Always on glass. easier to get off. Anyway, M35 has more nismo bits than 180!

Le Sigh. I'll get some more Pics up. Its only dusty cause the infield at Wakefield was quite dry....

Hello old Thread! Well, some updates. The Stagea got a full paint correction and detail by a workmate of mine, who does detailing as a part time job. Looks amazing. I was there helping out, and the levels that he went to blew my mind. Was a full day for the two of us, finishing about 5:30 in the arvo. The paintwork was brought right back down to the clear, APC washed, decontaminated with 2 methods (clay and ironX), and polished using a Sonax product and RO machines. A sealant was applied, and to finish it off, a wax. The awesome news is that when we checked the paint out with a micrometer, the paint thickness is consistent with factory paint all around the car. So that means it has never had a panel re-sprayed. A nice feeling to know. So here is a pic in all her glory on the recent Sydney Stagea Cruise. Now quite a few things have been going on with the 180sex too. I had terrible understeer issues at wakefield the last time I went out, so I set about improving this, and adding in some extra bits, and improving reliability. On the track, I had a turn where the power cut out, and I got swamped coming out. The motor cut out all together, and then re-started. When I got back to the pits, we had a look in the bay and saw that part of the Loom travelling down the passenger side of the car had got rather toasty. After the track day, I re-wrapped the loom, and then wrapped it up in protective heat tape. Should be fine now. I bought a second hand Greddy Profec B Spec II boost controller. I wanted some adjust-ability to the power levels so I could learn to drive it better on the track. I wired/plumbed this in before we went on holidays and booked a Dyno date with Jez to get it setup. I hate electronics, but honestly it wasn't that hard, just crawling round under the bloody dash was a right PITA! So, back from holidays, and off to Jez. Since it was running a boost Tee, and I never touched it, I had no idea what gate pressure was. Turns out its 10psi... hahahah. Anyway, a morning on the dyno saw the unit set up, and the mapping reconfigured to run in the low end of the map too. So now I have 3 power levels - 230kw @10psi, 270kw@16psi, and 289kw@18psi. So good result. We tried to push a little more boost, but have pretty much reached the limit of a track tune 98 oct fuel. If I want more, then e85 is the way forward. Doesn't bother me too much, as it has plenty of power. I got home, and the rear end of the car was bugging me. There has been a knock somewhere in there for a while, and I just wanted to get everything checked over. So I dropped the rear subframe out the next day. Checking over the bushes, everything was fine, unis and shafts fine. So I popped the diff out and got Award Gearbox and Diff at Seven Hills to check it out. This gave me time to degrease and clean up the subframe. It was annoying me how dirty it was, so I pressure washed it clean! Turns out the Diff was in great condition, so they sealed it back up, and gave it back. Good insurance to know. Didn't get a picture of this unfortunately. Reinstalled the subframe, bled the brakes, and while the diff is still noisy (this is normal for the type of diff), whatever clonk was there before was gone ! Now, with the 4 point cage, the rear of the car was quite stiff, but the front was not as rigid as I'd hoped. This manifested itself in the front end being a bit hard to handle on the track. So some Stiff was in order! I couldn't fit the Tomei 3 way strut tower brace because it fouled the turbo, so I went looking for a CA18 unit - Found and bought a Cusco Steel unit on the eGhey. Fits up good, should do the job well. Then I got recommended the Nismo power brace, which is basically the equilviant of a strut brace for the power part of the suspension. This ties the quite flexible front arms together and boxes them. Thought it would be a good addition, and who can resist some Nismo part whoring! So I'm installing that today This came from RHDJapan... slower than expected, but I got a Nismo Sticker that's going on the M35 Last, I got some cheap Bridgestone RE55S semis to try out instead of the R888s on the front. They were quite hard, but still had some life left in them. Mounted them up on the track wheels, and put them on the rear of the 180 to ***ahem*** clean the up a little. After the surface layer was taken off I removed them, and treated them with Grip tyre softener. Pretty awesome stuff. Stinks to high heaven, but works well. They sucked up the mixture, and feel much better. They are now curing before the track day which is late October. Also ordered a new Radiator hose, as mine had cracked internally and was slowly leaking, and some adjustable upper rear camber arms, hopefully to take some of the neg camber out of the rear for a bigger contact patch.

Nice work, glad your enjoying it. Any mods planned? Obviously some sway bars and susp mods.

Can tell you it bloody well is worth the hassle. Brakes on the stock single piston units are woeful. Sumitomos are so much better. Was one of the first things I did to my car.

Meh, was working. Couldn't make it. Can post? man, we just whored this build thread. How is the transgo shift kit, feel good Matt?

not what I meant... anyways. Where is my pie floater.

#lookingdownonyou

Camera ---------> cash converters ---------> moar Jim Beam colas! Dat Western Sydney Lyfe

You taped yourself leaving your kid on the side of the road...? Lol!

RIP...

The NA VQs are quite a bit louder than turbos. My car is louder as a NA, then when it had the turbo as a restriction in the exhaust. This is with the twin square style Nismo 3 inch. Dont forget there are more than one nismo exhaust. The other one is a single outlet, 2.5 inch, and is really really quiet.

There is, it's called the Mitsubishi GTO

310x30 vs 296x32 R32 have more meat to offset any diameter advantage. Also OEM R32 GTR brakes have curved vane rotors. Cause racecar.

To be honest, I don't really hear it. Different exhaust design can play a massive part in sound, as anyone who has seen F1 live this year can understand how different the Williams cars sounded. Sure, they might have found a different way to do things, but a form of traction control would be pretty easy to pick up by the FIA as people have said. Also, interesting that the RBR cars don't seem to have the straight line disadvantage this weekend that they have had the rest of the season.

Nope. You can get them in there, but there will be a gap with the front bar and it'll look silly. You need a bonnet and front bar to complete the look.

And a little grinding off the bottom of the alloy hub to fit the 32 mm discs.

Yes, mine came with a wing. Have a look at some of the option brochures, it'll give you an idea, but there was not "aero" style front bar.

Anyone got echidna pics? Dat nature.

Puters!

This. Came round the corner. I brake for echidnas, not idiots!

Always thought you had a screw loose

Stock v stock they are just about the same speed. The turbo has a bit more torque, but really, down the quarter you'd be hard pressed to call a winner I think. They have heaps of power for a hills run. Today shows that! They just won't produce the extra power of a turbo model with the same level of mods. Agree as above, brakes are shocking. Ditch them. Get sumitomos/brembos. The awd system is pretty good. Much better than the nm35

What a great day! Had a nice trip back down, a Hwy Patrol decided that he liked the look of the group and followed us for 2/3 of the trip! So, I saw lots of cameras and goPros round, let's see the pics!

That's right!We'll have a drivers brief for sure and outline a few things.