hardsteppa

while I have advocated use of spacers in posts above, I'm not a fan of bolt on spacers, or spacers of any significant width. In fact I really only advocate use of hubcentric slipon spacers no more than 15-18mm thick, with extended studs fitted. For the reasons - Bolton spacers create twice as many nuts that can work loose, especially the ones underneath securing the spacer to the hub that aren't accessible to check and keep tightened. Going to a wider spacer also creates the excessive strain on suspension components mentioned by other posters; I don't believe that stock hubs and wheel studs are designed to such fine tolerances that even a slight change of track width is enough for things to start breaking....from what I've seen of the jap engineering they over-engineer too much for that to be a factor... but start pushing it with a much wider spacer and the risk grows.

agreed, they are the Santa Claus of the tarmac. I would ignore the Porsche too...in fact I do, plenty of 'em round these parts, only every now and then does one of them really catch my eye if it looks beefy enough.

Agreed...do you have a pic of the well made item you're referring to you can put up instead?

already a big thread about this, and will say again, the thing is you're claiming a title that's not been earned. You say you're studying to be a doctor...but you don't go around telling people you're a Dr yet do you, cause, you're not. You may well be one day and you can enjoy the success of having earned it then. Same deal with wearing the name-badge of a GTR.....

thanks fellas, and I think gtsboy might have a possibility with the accidental tune bit too, it's just weird that if I leave it in 2nd and run it all the way to redline it won't come in with the same kick, only happens in drive and around 100k....on full throttle at that point busy watching the road but seems seems around 100 every time. Bit more background, there's 3in bellmouth dump/blitz exhaust, 100cell metal cat, fmic, apexi pod in custom airbox, 3in metal intake pipe, td05 turbo running off wastegate only at 13psi with greddy profec B for spool assist only - no duty cycle, exhaust cam retarded 2deg, tomei fuel pump, good state of tune with even comp across all cylinders, splitfires, injectors cleaned, iridium plugs. Safc neo being tuned at moment (which is why i'm now asking about the stock ecu tuning thing, covering all bases) and no bagging out the safc lol, it's doing exactly what I want at this stage, minor little touch ups on the afr...I can certainly see the limitations of it now after having played around with it firsthand but on the other hand am even more convinced it's good for minor tidying up, the low throttle/rpm has picked up nicely) with aem wideband gauge. Afr's are around 11-11.5 between 5500-6500 with 1% adjustment on the safc so nothing really needed there, maybe it is just the stock ecu hits the 'right' point then?

fluid is fresh as can be, I'm using Penrite full synth. Have a fairly decent B&M trans cooler on it too. I recently did a valve body upgrade (twice, cause one of the separator gaskets had a slight leak the first time) so it has well and truly been flushed out and fairly new fluid. It doe still flare a lot on the 2nd-3rd change though so you could be right, maybe the 3rd gear lockup engaging at around that speed?

so r33 with basic usual mods. It's auto and I still have stock ecu - have found that it's average performance wise, until it hits 100k's, then it's like the tune comes alive and it starts pulling hard. Doesn't happen like that at any point below 100k, and I had a search but can't see this being discussed anywhere. Anyone know if this maybe something tuned into the stock ecu for overtaking ability or anything like that?

Yeah they are the sort that work loose and kill people. Cause there is no longer anything to centre your wheel.

There u go, thats the spirit, searching will def reduce flamage your way when you do ask q's

and I have plenty of smartass answers...feel free to fire away

Thats just a new form of wastegate porting, similar to VTN. Garrett is developing it right now, i swear. Ballbag. See...?

thank you. My advice is to type it as 'spacers' and not 'spacer's'. When you say 'several' that doesn't sound like a lot, otherwise you would have said 'a lot'...? If you had been a career person in the automotive trade and they were a big problem I would imagine you would have seen 'a lot'. Could you give a specific number, like 5? And how many vehicles did you see with wheel-stud issues of some sort during your career that didn't run spacers? I would imagine, a lot...? I can think of 3 stud issues I've known of personally, that had nothing to do with spacers and it's not even my trade..

Mozzmann how many failures did you get to see firsthand over the years?

easy done son, glad it fitted for you too.

My apexi pod bolts straight to afm. Justjap only had a cpl different models, one was listed for skylines so got that one, fits grand.

I fail to see the connection between enjoying the sound of an rb25 unrestrained, and enjoying the company of penises. Maybe you're hearing what ypu want to hear...

I will also add unless you're getting it very bloody cheap, go for a hg hiflow. Effectively a brand new turbo for what, $875 or something?

My r33gtst could be available, for the right price...few panel dents n dings, nothing photoshop won't fix. How many of the bridesmaids are single?

alright i'll say it...you're lucky that 100-shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake. but I know nothing about drag racing sorry, I prefer corners, all I know is in a street race, always launch on the count of 2.

does remind me of something actually... 'you have your accessories....silencer, loudener"

I love the way this OP thinks. Metal intake pipe helps with loud induction noise. I have a worn out Blitz nur spec exhaust, frequently get told 'why is your car so loud" and alot of dirty looks, alot of approving looks too cause it sounds sweeeeet and is straight thru. Would recommend.

that is PLUSHHHH

that's the spirit ...I stand punctuationally corrected.

PS Funkmaster Flex I give you full credit for having a fair amount of knowledge about car related stuff as I have said before, and am doing nothing more than trying to get you to not take it so serious, what's it matter if it's called sway bar, not like he's called it a hulahoop rod.

but hang on there G-Money, you're getting confused again with 'your opinion' being the 'correct term' and only possible option. Another equally correct (and for the purposes of sh*tstirring I will say 'more correct') term is 'stabilizer bar'. WHY aren't you calling it by its CORRECT name of stabilizer bar?? Also Vanilla Ice, ever seen a tree swaying in the wind? the upper branches sway in an arc from a lower roll centre, the whole tree doesn't evenly move side to side as one unit. So you see MC Hammer, it's a petty point that only pedantic mofo's would bother making a deal about, and you've once again made me waste 5 minutes of my lunch break pointing this out. Although if you would like to tell me how you feel about coilovers I am all ears.