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Eccentric bushes only is my understanding Serge, but I also hear that heaps of people cut and shorten upper arms to get camber (illegal).

No idea about the undertray, or if it was even there when I ran the car. MPC took care of the car as you know, maybe they have it because I know they needed to tidy up under the car quite a bit after we used it in 2008.

IMO, you're better off making an aluminium one that pushes snugly behind the lower lip, as the factory plastic one very quickly grinds the leading edge off on the road, and turns itself into a huge air scoop, and makes a horrendous flapping noise and bangs the whole car quite violently! First time it happened to us we stopped mid stage because we'd thought a wheel was loose in the wheel well!

The factory ones are far too expensive too, but I can assure you, I didn't steal it and take it home with me as carry on luggage :D

See what I mean? Rally Burnie, 2006;

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My understanding is only bushes too, but i've seen plenty of GT-R's running noltec syle upper arms. Also look at the N1 part numebrs in Nissan fast, these is plenty of standard parts on a N1 that arn't widely known :D

Yeah I have. Ralf and the guys there are good blokes and know a bit BUT they insist on using that damn laser alignment machine and sometimes you can physically see that what the machine is saying isn't what the alignement is in reality.

So they can do most of the mechanical set-up side but you're still going to want to get it string line aligned somewhere afterwards.

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