Jump to content
SAU Community

Vic Wasteland Thread

R31Nismoid

By R31Nismoid,
in Victoria

 Share

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 84.1k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Birds

    7929

  • joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo

    6791

  • Sunkist

    6123

  • UNR33L

    4177

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo
joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo

probably worth more than your D1R's

Mohsen
Mohsen

i kinda want one. name him al pacacino.

Birds
Birds

You laugh now, but when I'm at a formal occasion with a shitty DJ and they need someone to drop Dre beats...I have something up my sleeve.

Posted Images

dezz Grand Master

dezz

Posted
Posted

Just... Try not to ride the tank, sit halfway back on the seat. This way you are better positioned for anything control related, it also looks better.

Really?

Thought it was better to have your legs tight on the tank and control the bike that way?

Rimspec, haven't ridden on the freeway yet, but doing 100km/h on the roads around me with paddocks either side, blows your head around a fair bit lol

Also doesn't feel right that it's revving at like 7-8000rpm at 100 in 6th, but I guess I'll get used to it..

JEPPE Mentor

JEPPE

Posted
Posted

Really?

Thought it was better to have your legs tight on the tank and control the bike that way?

Yah grip the tanks with your legs... I just mean don't get too homo with the tank. You can still grip the tank comfortably if you're halfway back on the seat and it tends to keep your upper body at a better distance from the handle bars with your core strength supporting your upper body rather than your arms. It's harder than just leaning on the tank and your wrists so of course you're probably not going to want to bother, but it's the correct technique, is good to get into the habit of and in the end with give you a safer faster surer ride :)

Birds Grand Master

Birds

Posted
Posted

Yeah birds cruised around the streets near my house til I got used to it then rode to my parents and girlfriends (subtle) house.

Don't know what I look like on it but it doesn't feel small so it's good.

Slow to anyone with a 'real' bike but feels fast to me, was in 6th gear doing 80, opened it up without gearing down and it had no trouble going past 100.

Meh don't worry about perception of speed, the first time even the most "hardcore" of riders got on a bike it would have felt fast. You're still quicker than 95% of vehicles on the road and, as you now know, it's a totally different world to cars. How good's the field of vision lol...no blind spots!

And yeah as Charmander said, sitting back further gives the bike a better weight distribution, you better control (brings you down lower to the bike) and looks better. Doesn't have to be all the way back, but enough that you can still hold the tank with your legs. In the end whatever is most comfortable is probably going to be the safest, but no harm in practicing good habits early on. Give us a yell when you wanna go for a ride!

Rimon throw up some pics of your bike?

llama_au Grand Master

llama_au

Posted
Posted

It's a Fkn scam mechanics can do whatever they want sure they have guidelines but they are so open to interpretation it's a joke only vicroads should be allowed to do the inspection not some crook who wants to weasel $$$ out of ya

I'm sure a car rolls in for a rwc and they just rub there hands together for easy money

The first one was my regular mechanic who I thought would be more leniant, I was wrong. Apparently a couple of nicks out of the very outer edge of the rim and some more marks on the sidewall are considered unroadworthy. Hilarious. If either posed any threat I think they would have reared their head in the 4 years they were driven on in that condition. And apparently you can't have cosmetic foglights, they have to be connected and working or not there at all. Oh, and I got told my windscreen needed replacing - it had tree sap on it FFS, I cleaned it off in two minutes with some metho. There were some genuine things that needed attention but there were some absolutely ridiculous things. The shell cost me $2,500 to get running and some paintwork fixed up on, $1,100 for RWC, $650 for rego...yeah I made next to nothing back and the time and stress it caused certainly weren't worth it. I know next time I'll really reconsider offering a RWC on a low value car.

Borci88 Veteran

Borci88

Posted
Posted

half a tank disappears.

Yeah ended up being 3/4 of a tank after driving to Phillip Island, race track + beach run and then back home.

The first one was my regular mechanic who I thought would be more leniant, I was wrong. Apparently a couple of nicks out of the very outer edge of the rim and some more marks on the sidewall are considered unroadworthy. Hilarious. If either posed any threat I think they would have reared their head in the 4 years they were driven on in that condition. And apparently you can't have cosmetic foglights, they have to be connected and working or not there at all. Oh, and I got told my windscreen needed replacing - it had tree sap on it FFS, I cleaned it off in two minutes with some metho. There were some genuine things that needed attention but there were some absolutely ridiculous things. The shell cost me $2,500 to get running and some paintwork fixed up on, $1,100 for RWC, $650 for rego...yeah I made next to nothing back and the time and stress it caused certainly weren't worth it. I know next time I'll really reconsider offering a RWC on a low value car.

So damn true, should definitely have some sort of Vicroads backing.

R-SPEC Grand Master

R-SPEC

Posted
Posted

Rimspec, haven't ridden on the freeway yet, but doing 100km/h on the roads around me with paddocks either side, blows your head around a fair bit lol

Also doesn't feel right that it's revving at like 7-8000rpm at 100 in 6th, but I guess I'll get used to it..

already doing 100ks? havent even gone past 60 yet lol

my red line is at 19-20k so im guessing it'll be sitting at 10k+ on freeways

Rimon throw up some pics of your bike?

post-31699-0-35654700-1333890590_thumb.jpgpost-31699-0-63658000-1333890640_thumb.jpg

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Shoota_77
      Shoota's R33 GT-R RB30/26

      By Shoota_77 · Posted

      @soviet_merlin Thanks mate!  Nothing too major but will hold me up for a while. I've got lymphomas to get taken off the back of my neck and the middle of my spine which always conjures scary thoughts!  It sounds worse than it is. Yeah great, conjuring more rabbit hole deepening , just what I need! 🤣  
    • RP1421
      S15 Spec R

      By RP1421 · Posted

      I'd argue the F50 kit I got is very good value. For ~2k I got the calipers (refurbed condition), adapters, pads, brake lines, rotors, and top hats. I think you'd be pretty hard to get Evo/GTR/350z brembos + the additional hardware for similar money. Used market for a pair of front calipers alone I've seen tend to run anywhere from $1500-2000 depending on condition.    That said, something like a GTR or 350z brembo is a lot easier to adapt to the Silvia. 
    • Milkmun
      S15 Spec R

      By Milkmun · Posted

      Is there a significant price difference between the Evo/gtr/350z brembos vs the F50? Looks amazing.
    • Dose Pipe Sutututu
      R33 fuel setup

      By Dose Pipe Sutututu · Posted

      I was actually being a tightarse at the time LOL... My OCD is tickling me into running a 2nd 8AN Teflon hose all the way down and removing the 2x OEM hardlines. My other side of my brain is telling me to run 2x hardlines front to back (also acts as a fuel cooler, so win win).
    • RP1421
      S15 Spec R

      By RP1421 · Posted

      As I mentioned in an earlier post, I had some trouble with the Silvia's brakes dragging back in 2023. I managed to sort it out then, but the same problem came back to bite me late last year. Just take a look at the picture – I had a feeling the handbrake was acting up again, and I was right. Anyway, I'd been wanting to upgrade to bigger brakes for a while. Not that the Silvia's brakes were bad, but it was more of a "want" than a "need", you know? It was funny, though – at the time, I couldn't find any Evo Brembos, 350Z Brembos, or GTR Brembos for a decent price (of course, tons of them popped up online after I already bought my kit!). I ended up going with an F50 Brembo kit, which came with adapters, brake lines, 330mm rotors, and top hats. The F50 Brembo caliper was used in a few other cars too, like the FPV. I also decided this was the perfect opportunity to ditch the Silvia's ridiculous rear brakes and that awful handbrake (some of you were definitely right about that!). I picked up some R33 calipers and all the necessary bits – rear drums, backing plates, and new hardware to refurbish the calipers. Of course, it wouldn't be a project without a few hiccups. Turns out the brake master cylinder was playing up and basically (to put it simply) keeping the brakes engaged. I had it overhauled, and after some adjustments, everything was working again. The whole process took a while, as you can imagine. To top it off, the front right wheel bearings were shot and needed replacing too. This is a rare occasion where I'm posting an update while it's all still fresh! These pictures were taken just this afternoon.
×
×
  • Create New...