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MORE SOUTH CIRCUIT ACTION - VIEW ON THE BLOG The ARDC announced a week prior to the last South circuit event, that the competition was cancelled and will resume to be a practice day. Our original plan was to go to the Wakefield Matsuri which is coming up in a few days, but we figured we’d hit up SC once again. Kinetic Imagery was out and about again and managed to get a Vid of Benny and I in tandem, its bloody crazy how small his R33 looks next to the Stagea. Eiji from Team Redstage made the trek from the ACT to check out the South circuit, he got plenty of coverage of the Stagea too. Benny was killing it, laying down solid runs consistently. Starting to get ballsy on the first corner too … he managed to tap the barrier with his rear bumper, which resulted in it flying away haha. I wish I could say the same thing about myself. I was pretty sketchy most of the day and finally started getting some good runs down towards the end of the event. I need to work on my entry to the first corner a lot more too. It took me a while, but I managed to convince Julie to bring the S14 out and try the South circuit. She was a little bummed that we are no longer going to Wakefield, but luckily she enjoyed herself and considering it’s her first time out, she destroyed it! I would have thought the Stagea would behave and let me just focus on drifting, but it wasn’t ment to be. In the morning it started popping out the dip stick, something it’s never done before. Puzzled to say the least, I gave Anth a call and he told me to vent the catch can. After I did this all was well until I had a glimpse of the oil pressure gauge coming up to the first corner. It was dropping from 80PSI down to 20-30PSI on full boost. I babied it for a few laps just to see exactly what was going down. It was dropping consistently and only near full boost. So I kept going and hoped for the best. The Stagea survived the day and is running like a champ. When I got home I had a look at my previous videos from the South circuit and it was dropping pressure too. It seems some GTR owners have had the same problem, and their remedy was to over fill the oil by roughly 1 litre. I used to do this but I think I stopped after the oil cooler install. Hopefully that’ll fix it. I’d love to get my R33 front suspension together before the next day, or even just a wheel alignment and straight tie rods. I’ve been driving with bent rods for 3 maybe 4 events now. I’ve finally figured out why they bend too, which I shall touch on soon. Thanks to the photographers for the coverage!

These are still avaliable! I've had 4 people waste my time telling me they want it and never transfer the cash. Seems to be a common trend selling Stagea parts these days.. Open to offers, they need to go but DONT WASTE MY TIME

OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW - VIEW ON THE BLOG With the assumption that my ORC 409D clutch had given up at the last South circuit event, I wasted no time on getting a new setup underway. Choosing what to replace the ORC with was a tough choice, I had tossed up between quite a few brands and after reading various reviews and speaking to people with the clutches I was interested in. I decided to go with NPC. Many rate NPC as godly clutches, especially the Carbotic 5 puk setup they offer. Which is capable of handling 450kw whilst retaining a near stock pedal feel. This sounded like the perfect clutch for the Stagea. One of my goals was to change to change the clutch myself, in my shitty little garage with the help of mates. Mainly because the Stagea has sapped me from monies and it’s something I wanted to learn how to do. Upon removing the ORC, I noticed that the flywheel was a different design to what the NPC would use. So I went on a Hunt and Anthony happened to have a nice lightened flywheel kickin’ around at the shop. I ordered genuine Nissan pressure plate bolts too and a clutch alignment tool to make things easy. Once all the gear arrived it was ready to get it on the RB25. When the GTR gearbox was separated from the Stagea, there was a shit load of dust in the bell housing, I think it’s a safe bet to say the clutch was shagged. I was contemplating driving the car as is at the next event due to a lack of funds, but after seeing this plate I’m glad I didn’t. Shit could of gotten messy quick smart. A little hard to see in the pic, but there are a few cracks that Paulie found. While everything was apart, I changed the gear shifter bush for GK techs brass piece. Shifting feels nice and the shifter is a little firmer in movement which I think is good … it was pretty sloppy before. Once everything was back together I was anxious to see if anything would explode, but fortunately it’s all apples. Clutch is nice and soft but super bitey … and much more streetable than the ORC I had previously. Though it doesn’t make that cool shing sound when the clutch is engaged ha-ha f**k I’m a ricer. I had fun learning something new, as you do. Big thanks goes out to Paulie, Benny, Jeff and Chris for helping me get the box in and out of the car. Now I just need to baby it for a while then it’s game on!

OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW - VIEW ON THE BLOG With the assumption that my ORC 409D clutch had given up at the last South circuit event, I wasted no time on getting a new setup underway. Choosing what to replace the ORC with was a tough choice, I had tossed up between quite a few brands and after reading various reviews and speaking to people with the clutches I was interested in. I decided to go with NPC. Many rate NPC as godly clutches, especially the Carbotic 5 puk setup they offer. Which is capable of handling 450kw whilst retaining a near stock pedal feel. This sounded like the perfect clutch for the Stagea. One of my goals was to change to change the clutch myself, in my shitty little garage with the help of mates. Mainly because the Stagea has sapped me from monies and it’s something I wanted to learn how to do. Upon removing the ORC, I noticed that the flywheel was a different design to what the NPC would use. So I went on a Hunt and Anthony happened to have a nice lightened flywheel kickin’ around at the shop. I ordered genuine Nissan pressure plate bolts too and a clutch alignment tool to make things easy. Once all the gear arrived it was ready to get it on the RB25. When the GTR gearbox was separated from the Stagea, there was a shit load of dust in the bell housing, I think it’s a safe bet to say the clutch was shagged. I was contemplating driving the car as is at the next event due to a lack of funds, but after seeing this plate I’m glad I didn’t. Shit could of gotten messy quick smart. A little hard to see in the pic, but there are a few cracks that Paulie found. While everything was apart, I changed the gear shifter bush for GK techs brass piece. Shifting feels nice and the shifter is a little firmer in movement which I think is good … it was pretty sloppy before. Once everything was back together I was anxious to see if anything would explode, but fortunately it’s all apples. Clutch is nice and soft but super bitey … and much more streetable than the ORC I had previously. Though it doesn’t make that cool shing sound when the clutch is engaged ha-ha f**k I’m a ricer. I had fun learning something new, as you do. Big thanks goes out to Paulie, Benny, Jeff and Chris for helping me get the box in and out of the car. Now I just need to baby it for a while then it’s game on!

Julie has decided to get rid of her new skidders. Specs are: 16x8 -6 5x114.3 tyres are rooted Will need a 28mm spacer to clear S14 front brakes, and a 30+mm spacer to clear R32/R33 GTR/GTST brakes. Good condition, painted in gloss black. $450 ono Will ship at buyers expense Located in Liverpool region, Adam.

Might try come down in the Stag for this. See how we go

Photo dump: Full day drifts at South Circuit - VIEW ON THE BLOG So weeks have passed and pictures have trickled through from various photographers, covering the last South circuit practice day. There was a heap of coverage on both the Stagea and Skyline too which is pretty cool! Lets go through the pics. As soon as we had arrived, we were greeted by Krista from Kinetic imagery and Mitch from MPN Digital. Here’s Benny doing what he loves, looks like he is enjoying himself to haha! It was Paulie’s first time out on the South circuit, going over the vids he kept improving throughout the day. I like this pic that was taken by Seb from Slow & Serious, I think this was taken in the Morning session when the Stagea wasn’t acting up. Throughout the day Benny and I were getting some tandems happening, such a shame I couldn’t keep up out of the pits (clutch slipping under power). Was so much fun though, good to finally do some close driving with him again. If you were at the last South Circuit day, you would have seen the Stagea in this pose for most of it. I can’t remember how many times I came into the pits to fix shit. Another pic of Paulie’s R33. He let me have a drive of it in the arvo because nice guy. Had a crazy amount of rear end grip! was like learning to drive all over again haha. Benny was a maniac last event, but he always is. It’s the quiet ones you’ve got to watch out for as they say. Oh and he lost his side skirts as usual.. The Stagea was so good to drive for the brief moments that it worked properly. I started gaining confidence and the Stagea started smoking tyres.. As did Benny, ARDC let us drift turn 10, which makes for epic bakes. Sammy is a wizard with the Camera, always gets great shots. Thanks to Kinetic imagery, MPN Digital, Slow & Serious photography and StreetFans.net for the awesome photos!

Photo dump: Full day drifts at South Circuit - VIEW ON THE BLOG So weeks have passed and pictures have trickled through from various photographers, covering the last South circuit practice day. There was a heap of coverage on both the Stagea and Skyline too which is pretty cool! Lets go through the pics. As soon as we had arrived, we were greeted by Krista from Kinetic imagery and Mitch from MPN Digital. Here’s Benny doing what he loves, looks like he is enjoying himself to haha! It was Paulie’s first time out on the South circuit, going over the vids he kept improving throughout the day. I like this pic that was taken by Seb from Slow & Serious, I think this was taken in the Morning session when the Stagea wasn’t acting up. Throughout the day Benny and I were getting some tandems happening, such a shame I couldn’t keep up out of the pits (clutch slipping under power). Was so much fun though, good to finally do some close driving with him again. If you were at the last South Circuit day, you would have seen the Stagea in this pose for most of it. I can’t remember how many times I came into the pits to fix shit. Another pic of Paulie’s R33. He let me have a drive of it in the arvo because nice guy. Had a crazy amount of rear end grip! was like learning to drive all over again haha. Benny was a maniac last event, but he always is. It’s the quiet ones you’ve got to watch out for as they say. Oh and he lost his side skirts as usual.. The Stagea was so good to drive for the brief moments that it worked properly. I started gaining confidence and the Stagea started smoking tyres.. As did Benny, ARDC let us drift turn 10, which makes for epic bakes. Sammy is a wizard with the Camera, always gets great shots. Thanks to Kinetic imagery, MPN Digital, Slow & Serious photography and StreetFans.net for the awesome photos!

15mm spacers will work, but they will probably hit the guards unless they've been rolled.

Oh yeah by the time you factor in fuel and time spent, EC is deffinately cheaper. If anyone wants to sell their radiator shroud with snorkel cut out, I'll take it. I'd love to keep my intake temps as low as possible while I'm revving the cars tits off lol.

You bought his NA grille hey? Benny and I are inseperable hahaha. Depends on what you want to do, if it's circuit/grip Wakie would be cheaper, but for learning to drift EC is pretty good. Plenty of skid pan days on weekends too and all that jazz.

The mirrors are a normal thing with C34s. All the other shit isn't so common but I'd take a guess that car used to live in snowy areas of Japan. They had a thing called a 'snow pack' where the Stagea got extras for the colder climate, but I can't remember exactly what the differences are to the norm. Most have a red foglight on the drivers side rear tail light, rather than two reverse lights.

Thought I'd chime in. I'm guessing your Stagea is a RS4S? the manual subframe allows to run wider wheels, but that also means you need to run a lower offset. You may be able to get away with a 5mm slip on spacer. Another way which is fairly easy, is to make a spacer for the coilover. I run one in conjuction with my S14 subframe to give me as much inner clearance as possible. IIRC, the specs are 21MM ID, 27MM OD and 5mm wide. it slides between the knuckle and the coilover (where it mounts). Effectively spacing it out 5mm towards the chassis. As for the gearbox, you can try some Redline lightweight shockproof gear oil (smurfs blood). I had a gearbox out of my old MX5 that was a complete dog to get into 5th, would crunch and carry on and all sorts of shit. Anyway after putting in the smurfs blood I was able to get into 5th with ease.

I saw the tag, you need to accept my request to let me see your stuff though. Ah, that's exactly what I want to do! I've got the lid/snorkel covering my pod filter now too haha.

Selling a ORC lightweight flywheel that was part of the ORC 409D clutch kit. It's not going to work with my new clutch set up so it's gotta go. Looks like it'll suit Exedy, ORC, HKS, Cusco etc multi or single plate clutches. Will need to be machined. weighs around 6kg. $200 ono Will post at buyers expence. Located in Liverpool region. Adam.

A PAIR OF WINNING - VIEW ON THE BLOG A month or so ago I asked Benny to keep an eye out for some Euroline N2s every time he went wheel hunting. A few days ago he stumbled across a pair in epic sizes, and crazy cheap BIY (buy it now) price. I had to have them so I promptly contacted Jesse and now they are on their way to Australia. I’ve been craving to have a set of N2s for a while now, they aren’t a common wheel (Work only made them for a year) and the rear pair look pretty rad on the Stagea. I love my Viennas but the downfall with them is that I need to run a 15mm spacer up front to clear brakes. Anyway the specs on these puppies are 18×9 -23. Absolutely perfect for the Stagea, they are R disk too which means I don’t need to worry if I ever go bigger brakes in the future. The whole set is in need for a referb, fortunately the lips are all in decent condition so it’s just the faces that need some work. I’m thinking body colour with added flake and some black highlights would look pretty rad. I’ve got a set of mint Euroline centre caps on their way too.

A PAIR OF WINNING - VIEW ON THE BLOG A month or so ago I asked Benny to keep an eye out for some Euroline N2s every time he went wheel hunting. A few days ago he stumbled across a pair in epic sizes, and crazy cheap BIY (buy it now) price. I had to have them so I promptly contacted Jesse and now they are on their way to Australia. I’ve been craving to have a set of N2s for a while now, they aren’t a common wheel (Work only made them for a year) and the rear pair look pretty rad on the Stagea. I love my Viennas but the downfall with them is that I need to run a 15mm spacer up front to clear brakes. Anyway the specs on these puppies are 18×9 -23. Absolutely perfect for the Stagea, they are R disk too which means I don’t need to worry if I ever go bigger brakes in the future. The whole set is in need for a referb, fortunately the lips are all in decent condition so it’s just the faces that need some work. I’m thinking body colour with added flake and some black highlights would look pretty rad. I’ve got a set of mint Euroline centre caps on their way too.

Open to offers on everytang

NO LONGER FOR SALE! mods can delete this thread, kthnxbai!

You can run it in RWD by pulling out the front drive shaft it's only 4 bolts. I've removed the ATTESSA pump because I am running a S13 R200 pumpkin, it doesn't have mounting points for the pump.

Nothing really special to know, just be patient when you're cutting the boot carpet. I ended up doing 4 slits to allow the legs to slide through.

These are back up for sale, I am open to offers. FREE SHIPPING AUST. WIDE THIS WEEK ONLY!

http://run-it-hard.com/2013/04/video-dump-drifting-the-creek Time for a video dump! Over the weekend I compiled some footage of just the Stagea, there was plenty of content so I figured why not. After I had uploaded it to YouTube, I noticed in the recommended to watch section there was some outside footage recorded of the day, by MPN Digital. So I decided to watch it and saw the Stagea pop up straight away. I was chuffed. It looks and sounds the business from outside haha. I continued to watch and there was some tandem action with Benny too, yeah buddy! Here’s a vid I came across from Kinetic imagery, looks to be last months practice day I went too. Super cool seeing outside footage. Last but certainly not least, is Scott Mitchell’s latest vid covering the day, as always a good watch! There’s a photo dump coming up next, then time to get the cars ready for Matsuri.

http://run-it-hard.com/2013/04/video-dump-drifting-the-creek Time for a video dump! Over the weekend I compiled some footage of just the Stagea, there was plenty of content so I figured why not. After I had uploaded it to YouTube, I noticed in the recommended to watch section there was some outside footage recorded of the day, by MPN Digital. So I decided to watch it and saw the Stagea pop up straight away. I was chuffed. It looks and sounds the business from outside haha. I continued to watch and there was some tandem action with Benny too, yeah buddy! Here’s a vid I came across from Kinetic imagery, looks to be last months practice day I went too. Super cool seeing outside footage. Last but certainly not least, is Scott Mitchell’s latest vid covering the day, as always a good watch! There’s a photo dump coming up next, then time to get the cars ready for Matsuri.