Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Hey Adam, you got big swaybars on your car? if not you need them only about $120 each ;)

They were really fast times, well done everyone....its very unusual to have more than a couple of cars under 1.12 at a wakfield day

  • Replies 153
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted Images

Just had a good look at some of the picks of my car cornering, it looks like the side walls are actually folded on the front left wheel, this might explain why when every I pushed the car too far I had traction issues. I might need to run more the 32 PSI?

traction issues meaning some sideways action eh?? lol that pic of you looks MAD...but im sure you want to actually get around the corner quickly not sideways lol awesome car btw! i was standing enxt to your wife on the hill while she was telling your baby how you were NAUGHTY for going off the track a few times and were gonna be sent to the NAUGHTY mat (her words) LOL

Yeha paul I used to run up to 40 hot on road tyres on the track.

but what you really need are cheater tyres.....you know you want to.....

BACK TO THE NAUGHTY CORNER!

Yes, I we relegated to the Naughty mat once I returned to the pits, Tam (my wife) had Bailey (my little Boy) saying "No Daddy" putting me back in place.

Drunken, yes I will try and look around for a set of R34 or R33 GTR rims and them some slicks, I think I would enjoy the confidence of better tyres. Rims first then hunt for some tyres. What are your thoughts, 17" or 18"?

re55 suck

druncan and i proved you can do 6 laps and canvase them

but boy they were a quick 6 laps

:) those tyres were amazing werent they, best thing I've ever driven on :P I still only knocked 1/2 sec of your time in the gtst when i was driving the bloody race car




  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • @joshuaho96 Hmm considering the drama you've seen/experienced, have you looked into getting a built complete long motor shipped from Australia?  Considering the AUD is basically monopoly money when compared to the USD, at a glance this seems like a good option?
    • Bloody Skylines, they put you through the bloody wringer! Stick at it! Stunning drag strip BTW! Where is it? Can see part of the name on the slip and probably should just Google it!
    • I mean the other day I had to walk someone through diagnosing why their timing belt was walking off the cam gears. At least one of the issues was a bent tensioner stud. Local mechanics have found runout on the CAS mechanism causing weird failures. I'm also no saint here I've documented some of the things I've had to learn the hard way. Something I discovered recently is that my CA emissions catalytic converters weren't even welded correctly to align the downpipe to the main cat and they tossed the support bracket that goes from the transfer case to the downpipe to support everything there. I spend a lot of time chasing down these decidedly unsexy problems and the net effect is it feels like I never actually get to the original objective (flex fuel, VCAM, oil control, cooling, etc).
    • At times with how you make everything sound, all I imagine Americans doing when they see a gtr is standing there looking at it and bashing it with a gun like how a caveman would with a club and hoping it fixes itself 
    • I think this is just a product of how the US market works for this stuff. Shops are expensive and there's no real way of knowing what kind of results you're going to get, people don't really have the institutional knowledge. I have heard too much at this point to really put faith in anybody "full service" except maybe DSport and they aren't really a full service kind of shop. If you go to the right place I have no doubt they'll get it right for you. Some locals have set it up right but the cost really is nuts and even now they're still fighting issues. And you know I'm a crazy person who thinks things like twin scroll, relatively short low-mount cast headers, PCV recirc to intake, recirculating BOV, right-sized for ~400 whp, MAF load, validating all of that to a standard comparable to OEM test programs, etc are relevant. For what it's worth, multiple local owners at this point have been stuck in a perpetual cycle of blowing a motor -> getting someone to rebuild it -> some missed detail causes the bearings to wipe and spin just outside of break-in mileage or drop valves or some other catastrophe -> cycle repeats. I usually only find out about this because I'm perpetually helping random friends with diagnosing car troubles, Skyline or otherwise. The single turbo stuff if I'm honest is mostly secondary, it just doesn't seem to achieve the numbers in the ~2000-3000 rpm region that I would expect given the results I've seen here or in Motive's videos. I don't really know what we're missing here in the US to be causing this. Lots of people like to emphasize the necessity of finishing the project first and foremost, but I'm not made of money and I can't afford to be trashing a 15k+ USD engine build with any regularity. Or spending my relatively limited garage time these days unable to triangulate problems because too much was changed all at once. Also, even if it isn't a catastrophic failure I would consider spending the cost of single turbo conversion with nothing to show for it to be pretty bad. 
  • Create New...