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Prob should update this.

The last few weeks its copped two new 044's. My primary feed pump wasn't playing ball do they both went. As a result, my idle is grumpy and my cold start is junk due to the increased fuel pressure at idle. It goes in tomorrow to get this fixed up and chucked on the dyno for a quick health check before these track days coming up.

It also copped two new front drive shafts as I did a boot on each side. The passenger one was clicking. Grease everywhere!!!!

Ordered some new brake pads. These 2500's just won't cut it. Damn heavy whale!

New front diff oil yesterday.

Coolant bleed.

New engine oil tonight ready for dyno thrashes!

Having front sway bars link washers turned up. ATM, the front isn't connected. It's a tad taily but it makes it interesting!

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Good to see what u get and how much boost u going to run on the -5

The most we have run is 28 psi IIRC. A graph is here a few pages earlier. I normally just leave it at 25 psi.
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Let it be known I have experienced this car and it was a dead set ballistic missile.

Gears would wind out in the normal 'extremely fast car' manner, but each gear would account for a lot more than the usual 'fast car' speeds. IIRC 3rd gear was well over 180kmh and it got there like it had tiny short ratio. The most amazing part was the brakes, powering through 4th with less than 100m to stop I had to seriously consider if this was the end, but the car didn't even break a sweat.

Paul, your car really got me buzzing, I couldn't stand still when I got out. Cheers.

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Let it be known I have experienced this car and it was a dead set ballistic missile.

Gears would wind out in the normal 'extremely fast car' manner, but each gear would account for a lot more than the usual 'fast car' speeds. IIRC 3rd gear was well over 180kmh and it got there like it had tiny short ratio. The most amazing part was the brakes, powering through 4th with less than 100m to stop I had to seriously consider if this was the end, but the car didn't even break a sweat.

Paul, your car really got me buzzing, I couldn't stand still when I got out. Cheers.

now that's the kind of feed back I like to hear :)

Hopefully u can get that fuel issue sorted out Paulie.....sounds like a bit of a pain it I'm sure it will be fixed.

Would love to see track footage of the sperm whale in action

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Let it be known I have experienced this car and it was a dead set ballistic missile.

Gears would wind out in the normal 'extremely fast car' manner, but each gear would account for a lot more than the usual 'fast car' speeds. IIRC 3rd gear was well over 180kmh and it got there like it had tiny short ratio. The most amazing part was the brakes, powering through 4th with less than 100m to stop I had to seriously consider if this was the end, but the car didn't even break a sweat.

Paul, your car really got me buzzing, I couldn't stand still when I got out. Cheers.

Lol, thanks man :)
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now that's the kind of feed back I like to hear :)

Hopefully u can get that fuel issue sorted out Paulie.....sounds like a bit of a pain it I'm sure it will be fixed.

Would love to see track footage of the sperm whale in action

It's just a quick adjust to a few cells. All good

I'll have a few vids of this coming Tuesday.

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Awesome, look forward to hearing how the tidy up goes :)

Agreed with GTScoTT - best all around GTR I have experienced, I said it at the time... but I was looking forward to seeing how the -5s and 28 (along with cam choice etc etc) worked together but what actually REALLY wowed me was just how well put together the entire car was, and those brakes! Fantastic car, would be a weapon on the track :)

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Fantastic car, would be a weapon on the track :)

I went on a passenger run a wakie, with the boost controller off and on E30ish

Was a weapon.

Piggeh im stealing the keys next time!

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