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Agreed, my Turbo R31 copes exceptionally well with the stock item, and it's reasonably priced as well. I can supply genuine Nissan ones for $228.00

Desperate to find either a complete R200 Long Nose diff with any gear set, and then some 4.11's or 3.9 ratios. A non LSD is preferred. This is for the GMS DR30 that I own, that came with 5.11's in it. I ran Phillip Island with a borrowed diff, but desperate to find something before lakeside. Can anyone help, or know where I amy be able to find them?

To bust everyones bubble, I have just managed to source 4 sets from Japan, brand new, through my Nissan Dealer. As well as every single panel. Just in case.

We have been able to confirm that we CAN get Day CAMS licences for those who just want a day licence. However, the cost is $55.00. Please note, this is the CAMS charge, not CSA's. So the cost for a yearly licence is $110.00, and a day licence $55.00. You MUST also be a member of a CAMS affiliated club to race. Whether that is CSA, SAU, NDSOC or any other CAMS affiliated club. CSA can do nothing about the CAMS charge for day rates.

DR30 hotplates are as rare as rocking horse whit. R31 lights are still available new, so there is nothing special about them. I have six pair in stock. I have a three pair of DR30 hotplates, but wouldn't ever sell them, and that is the way most people with a set of these lights, and a DR30 feel about having tjhe lights. DR30 hotplates are worth whatever anyone is prepared to pay for them. In context, V36 rear lights are over $400.00 list per side. If you can pick up good condition DR30 light for $200.00 per side, it's still a very cheap option.

The past nats have been awesome at Shepparton. This event in Adelaide is promising to be even bigger and better. Please note guys, if you pay your entry to Mallala and nationals entry, you do not need to pay for concourse judge or park. $140.00 early bird pricing for mallalla is very cheap motorsport. If you already have a CAMS l2s licence and SAU, NDSOC os CSA membership, then you do not need to apply for membership status to run this event. If you are not a member of these clubs, you will require membership of a CAMS affiliated club to compete in the track day. CSA is offering weekend memberships with CAMS affiliation for $20.00, and this covers you for the week. You may look to pursue membership with SAU for the whole year, or CSA for $55.00 for the whole year. Any questions head to www.skylinenationals.com or www.classicskylinesaustralia.com.au who are the organisers of this national event. Or send email to [email protected]

No idea Ghostrider, but it needs some better ones. When the car is on the air jacks and warming up, the movement in the rear is unreal.

Pics of my engine bay. Straight after the fire in teh engine bay.

No, that car is mine, when it belonged to Terry Ashwood, it was taken out of the restaurant for that feature.

No it's on the limiter with 411 gearset, needs 3.7's at Phillip Island.

My Car looks very differnt under the bonnet to the car in that pic. That engine bay shot, is of the 85-86 cars. Even tho the program is from 1987, that doesn't mean the pic is. My air box, radiator and a heap of other stuff is different. My car also had more power for 1987, 276kw versus 246 in 1986. Mine does not have a rear stabiliser bar either. Mine was the only one set up for radials, so maybe this is why the roll cage is so different, no strut brace, and no rear stabiliser. My car had been rebuilt also before it was retired. Everything in it is new, including shocks, springs etc.

The log book from my car lists the following events. My car only ran for 12 months. 4/10/86 Bathurst 28/2/87 Calder 1/3/87 Calder 7/3/87 Symmonds Plains 4/4/87 Lakeside 4/4/87 Body Thickness test by Scrutineers 26/4/87 Wannaroo 2/5/87 Adeleide International Raceway 16/5/87 Amaroo 17/5/87 Amaroo 30/5/87 Surfers 6/10/87 Sandown 20/6/87 Amaroo 4/7/87 Oran Park 4/10/87 Bathurst 8/10/87 Calder 11/11/87 Adeleide Grand Prix - Last race

My car has never been fitted with a front strut brace, coz the roll cage extends into the engine bay and bolts up to the strut towers. My car has a completely different roll cage in it due to it being the only one that ran on radial tyres. I have seen footage of my car with hotplates. The books on the car (handwrttien Gibson Books) have listed in early 87 when the bootlid was reinforced (the bootlid had the reinforcements cut out for the refuelling spots, and CAMS said it had to have reinforcement when it was scrutineered), and at the same time the lights were changed after a fairly major rhs tap at Amaroo.

The race sheets on my car and Gavins car say that his was the 1986 car, and mine was the 1987 car. Gavins car was originally in the old Peter Jackson colours.

I am lucky enough to have all of the paperwork and race sheets for this car. But I haven't studied yet. My car for instance doesn't have a rear stabiliser bar, but the other 4 did. There are apparantly some quite unique changes to the roll cage in my car, and one of the early cars. I would have to see pics of them to determine what they are. It's interesting to scan through all the hand written notes of the blokes keeping the records at Bathurst and the like. I am in awe of the detail of every lap and pitstop. It's worth having the car just to be able to read this stuff.

If you check some early footage D it is seen racing with the imported lights. Only in part of the last year it ran with the local ones. I prefer the hotplates, they give the DR it true skyline look.

This car is still on the gold coast and finished now - see reply above. It competed at the last V8 supercar round in December 2008 at Oran Park with Glenn Seton Driving it. It look fantastic. Glenn carshed it into the back of Stubbers Torana tho, and the owner was none too impressed. The car is now repaired, and has been for sale for a while. I remember seeing these cars race too, (I am older than you), but wasn't a huge fan until the HR31 and GTR. I was buying new Nissan's at the time, so developed an interest. As I said above, it doesn't matter how old the audience is, if they ahve an interest in this level of motorsport, it can only be a good thing. To see the people crawling over and under the cars in teh pit garage all weekend, it gives you some insight into how many people love this form of motorsport.

You say hmmm interesting like you don't believe me. I would love to race on the original wheels Ghostrider, it would certainly have saved the 1200 bux a corner it cost me for these ones. I am only allowed to compete with wets or semi comps on the old wheels. And thats the truth. It's only because of their type of magnesium that I can't race on them with slicks on them My car hasn't been for sale on the Powerplay site Ghostrider, Gavins number 30 car has. And to make it perfectly clear, Gavin did not modify the car, he bought it already modified. This car will now be bought back to it's original 1986 livery, as Gavin has sold the GIO GTR, so now has the funds to get his DR30 back looking beautiful, and in the right colours. My car was for sale for a little while tho. The number 15 car has been finished for some time, and is now for sale. Glenn Seton put this car on pole at the last round of V8 supercars at Oran Park, and the car did exceptionally well, adn looked fantastic. Your $145.00 early bird special is for Sprint entry, show and shine and promo gear. As a member of the nationals committee, and one of the people who receives all of teh emails Dennis, I haven't seen one from you I am sorry. I have answerd your pm in here tho. I really do believe that the fact that young people are really pleased the car is back out on the track is a good thing, not a bad thing. It's fantastic to see such huge interest in this category of motorsport again.

I love the noise from the gearchanges. If you watch Seto driving his DR at Bathurst 1987 in the wet, his car makes exactly the same noises. Going to be really interesting to see if I can actually change gears in this thing lol. I have just loved the DR's since I saw Gavin's car. Until then, I didn't know much about them, but what a tough little car they are.

Not allowed to use them with Slicks, only wets, as they are magnesium, and they lose their strength over time. Have to use new one piece wheels with the slicks on them. So if it rains, you will see them on the car.

Yep, that was me. Oooh hang on, there was a female driver from Nissan, I was a passenger in the front seat on their first run out.

I can supply new genuine parts if you get stuck, at trade prices. A new rad fior instance is only $218.00

Owning it is quite expensive, but nowhere near the cost of the GTR's. I was so impressed by the reliability of the car, considering she hadn't seen a track in 22 years. This little baby will make some token appearances at CSA events, and as many others as I can get her too over the coming year. Here is some more footage of the car day before Phillip Isalnd when we were trying to get the boost issues sorted. In teh first part of the clip, car has no boost, and a second gear take off. (Holingers have 1st underneath reverse, so a bit confusing), the noise from the car towards the end of the clip is very ummmm noice.

See the thread on what the DR has been doing here http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Ge...in-t313783.html Car will be left as raced, and not restored. It does have to have some paint repaired after the fire. This was Rod Marklands first outing in the GIO GTR after his HR31. He was having trouble adjusting to the car, which I think is understandable. He spun in Race 4 at the end of the straight. Terry had fuel pickup issues in race three, after the foam in the fuel cell started breaking down. The HR31 has been sold to a local fellow, who will be bringing it out to play with us at most of the future events. The RX7 wasn't disqualified, but his position wasn't logged, as the car didn't have a log book. This is an awesome event, heaps of people on the Sunday, and lots of folks thrilled to see the GIO GTR and the DR back out there again. I couldn't beleive how popular the DR30 was. As always the Winfield number 1 car was immaculate. I am so in awe of this car. I had a ball, and thanks to all the helpers, and people who travelled from Adeladie to give me a hand with the car.

For those of you who already know me, I doubt there is any dispute that I am indeed a crazy skyline lady. Most would also know that I have been extremely fortunate to have been involved with Terry Ashwwod and Rod and Craig Markland with their historic events over the last couple of years. These guys, along with R31GUN, (hooks), have educated me in what fantastic events the historics are to be involved in. So, over dinner many months ago, Terry jokingly said that I should buy his Bluebird, and start racing with the team. I replied back to Terry, that as much as the Bluebird was a fantastic car, with heaps of history, even if I could afford it, I was a skyline girl, and if I was going to race anything, it would be a skyline. So the offer came up to buy the DR30, which after a couple of seconds of deep thought, I had said yes before I knew it. After many sleepless nights, wondering how I was going to pay for it, with unreal excitement built in there, the car is finally in my garage. There were many drama's in getting her home, but she competed at the Phillip Island Historics last weekend, and even though not running at full potential, managed a very credible 4th outright in race 3, and a 1st in class in the same race. So please indulge me, while I load a pictorial of the events over the last few months. After Eastern Creek Muscle Car Masters, I went and saw the old girl for the first time. There were 5 chassis numbers of the DR30 built by Gibson Motor Sport. One has been written off, One has been restored, One is Gavin Strongmans car, which unfortuantely was heavily modified, but he is currently brnging his back to it's former glory, One was an independant, and I think Ingle has it now, and the last one is mine, which is still in the condition she was raced in at the Adelaide Grand Prix in November 1987. This one is also the only one to run on Radial tyres, so the suspension setup and roll cage are quite different to the other 4. The car competed well at Bathurst in the same year. She has not been touched or seen a race track in all that Time. Terry Ashwood performed a major service on her when he aquired her, but nothing else has been done. This is what she looked like at Trackside restaurant. So money changed hands, and she went to a mechanic to be race prepared. We had a three month timeline to get her ready for Phillip Island. When the mechanic doing the job fell behind the mark, and then had surgey, we took the car out of there, and she went to Fernandez Motorsport in Sydney to have a hurried final prep for Phillip Island. There was so much work to still do that I never thought we would get there. Huge Thanks to Jetwreck (on this forum) and Rod Markland for devoting so much of his time to getting the car right. When the car was being loaded onto the transporter to come down to Melbourne, when the fuel rail popped off, and the car caught fire. Yep - it caught fire. The guys put the fire out really quickly, but we then had a dilema, of putting the car back together, cleaning it up, and still making phillip Island. This was all on the weekend before the event. Once again Jetwreck and Rod Markland put heaps of hours in to get the car cleaned up. Then Glen (My race mechanic and friend) along with a friend from Adeladie went up to Sydney to tow the car home, two days before the event. Pics of the damage from the fire. Thank God Fred Gibson loved Braided lines. I still can't believe the car got to Phillip Island, and running around 20 percent less boost than a safe tune, and all of the problems, and she did so well. Next items on the list, are to sort out the boost issues, put a thermo fan on the radiator, some non asbestos brake pads, and a really good cleanup. Would also like to put a passenger seat in, so that I can learn to drive her well. Thanks to Jetwreck for everything he and the boys have done, and for getting such a great result in her at Phillip Island. She came out of retirement kicking and screaming, but has now decided she loves the attention.