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My front bar had been resprayed a week before the cruise along with my hood and now the front bar is wasted and the new hood has a chip Ahh well it was worth it!

I know there were plenty giving it some because I was trying to keep up LOL There were a few sections where I was trying to follow the GTR’s well off the clock around mild corners, that was scary.

HAHA RedLineGTR nice shot of the monster wing, sure you CBF uploading the rest?

I am either 34 or 35 in the group photo

Ferni, Dent and I watched the footage they took yesterday. Most of it looks pretty insane Hope they can upload it soon!

Can’t hang it on him for leaving you behind, you should have kept up

Did you count Ferni because he missed the turn off and kept flying for another 20ks!

Damn good drive guys! Was tough keeping up with the GTR's We did well cop wise overall I think

It dont matter you will still be in my mirrors tomorrow

Thanx for the time guys, took it to Ben today and he fixed it ... think it was mostly a dodgy knock sensor. Anyway, the car runs better and safer now. Cant really tell you what he did, just used some of that magic of his!

He said "your car is a shit heap now" Dont think that is it, the powerloss aint a big deal why does the engine ping?

Dont know Ash but the thread is funny keep it!

Thanx guys, I think Ben would notice things like fuel pump on the dyno mate. I dont have a bov so that eliminates that ... cool pipes are all okay and the dyno graph shows no loss of boost at all ;(

Okay about six months ago before I used the wrong fuel and detonated my engine I was making 223rwkws (the engine had just been rebuilt, don’t just 8000ks). Since then the engine has been repaired again replacing two pistons and all the rings. After running it in I changed the oil and headed down to Race Pace with Mobil 8000 in the car. After Ben made the necessary adjustments the car put out just 203rwkws. Ben played around for quite some time and couldn’t get the car to match its previous 223rwkw run. The 20rwkw loss is unexplainable since nothing in the car has really changed. The performance loss is not really the issue though. For some reason the engine was pinging on the dyno, Ben fixed this but whenever I boot it now the “Check” light goes off flashing. Basically the car is still ever so slightly pinging Any ideas on why the car might be making less power and why a well turned engine with good fuel oil and so on would be pinging?

btw... R33's are the new VL, not skylines in general Naturally because R32’s are better looking, newer cars and of course more expensive. I should sell my car and buy me a few R32’s

They are common but they are no VL, thats just down right stupid! When Skylines are worth $5K, and carry a Holden badge then you can call them a VL. Plus have you ever driven a VL Turbo? They go like shit, handle like shit and most of all look like shit! I own an VL with an RB25DET as well as my Skyline and there is no comparison LOL

Problem with that though is without the octane booster the engine will ping at high revs. You want to tune the car with what you will be using. Like I said my car was tuned with Mobile and like most guys who have done this find their cars either run like shit with Shell or in some cases ping like mine

HAHA its cool guys I was just stirring the pot I know ya car is making good powa!

DentR33 has a cool front bar, think he got it from Jet Speed.

dont think its a big deal mixing fuel but if you have more crappy shell fuel then the mix obviously wont be as good.