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I don't know about Aussie stuff, but the USDM S14 calipers have a marginally larger piston than the S13 in the back (3mm larger diameter I think) but the same rotor, bolt points, lines, etc (maybe even same pad too), so if you can get your hands on a set of those they should give a tad more force in theory, don't know if it's enough to be noticeable though... should bolt right in the exact same as your source mentioned. I have all the USDM S13/S14 piston/rotor specs written down around here somewhere but I can't find them at the moment glad I could help

actually I was referring to Jedd Fahnstock... white S13 coupe, does open track and drift events. I don't know if he worked there or just knew the people there and had his cage done there... can't remember, but I want to say he worked there...

I get so pissed off when I see crap like that... I've been known to rant quite a bit on a few other boards, but I guess you guys don't know me well enough yet, hahaha (probably since this site is populated by mostly older guys, and the younger guys that stick around have good heads on their shoulders). Anyway, my parents bought me an Audi in high school, for $2,800, so I could go to work and sports practices/games, and drive to school (half scholarship at private high school), etc. It's still running, surprisingly enough (we've had it since 1998 and it has gone from ~140k when we bought it to... about 230k+, dunno for sure, odometer stopped working two years ago, hahaha. it's fairly ragged out by now). I run into this dumba$$ type of person ALL THE TIME, since I'm 22 and drive (well, the times when I have it assembled ) SR-swapped 240SX. When I got the car (my own $$$) two and a half years ago I considered myself a "Bandwagon -jumper", but from the "good side" (RWD Euro stuff, not riced-out FWD econoboxes). It's night-and-day compared to the type of people I'm seeing now. 19-20 year olds with NO CLUE about ANYTHING mechanical, yet dropping 5-10 grand on SR swaps and KA-turbo 240SXes, most of them from the Honda crowd so the usual tackiness of cosmetic mods and complete lack of detail work (wiring harness stuff, hoses, setup, etc). What's worse is that the school I went to had some very well-to-do familys, but even though some of them got expensive cars (one girl got an X5 for her graduation present in 2000), they were good people. Not so much when I was in Raleigh at NCSU and saw the kind of stuff kids were driving around in Cary. I'm talking kids still in high-school driving CLK convertibles that were dealer-new or 1-yr old. Down in Charlotte some kid's parents gave him $6k to buy mods for the Evo8 they bought him for his 16th birthday. I mean WTF people. The kid has a stinkin-fast car, but has ZERO appreciation for what it was to begin with, what it is now, and has absolutely nothing that could be confused with driving ability, especially considering the capabilities of that car rant mode off

Does Jedd still work at Piper? P.S. +1 more vote for pics when it's done

USDM S14 rear rotors are identical in all dimensions to USDM S13 rear rotors, per the FSM.

Yes, it can be a hassle as far as sociability, but FA remains the place to go for tech information and good, solid research for mods. And what is wrong with in-depth technical discussion? I mean, I know most other people aren't engineers, but the nitty gritty tech stuff is what makes the cars perform. And it's obvious you haven't seen the pic thread lately. nothing wrong with keeping stock fenders. I'd like to see pics of the big wheels when they get on there. I will when I finish with all the suspension crap I'm doing and the car is driving again. And I will already have my retort ready: "at least I don't have bass boat vinyl pieced all over it" just relax man, a little semi-friendly ribbing is nothing to get heated about I actually like the way the car looks in that pic minus the blue.

11s? haha, here comes the joke... "What's the similarity between a 500HP Supra and a 900HP Supra?" "They both run 12s" Anyway, I must have missed that, is it in the track-test-all-the-projects issue that recently came out?

First of all, how the hell is the C6-R win a "romp"? They were losing most of the race and were slower than the Astons, the win was handed to them when the Astons pushed too hard and broke. And they're not really a "Corvette" either (same goes with every car in that class since Chrysler gave Vipers to ORECA so the French would fudge the rules in their favor), they have an LS2-based engine and that's about it. Anyway, onto the politics of F1. Being a follower since elementary school and knowing some people that have "ins" in F1 and international motorsports... I place the large portion of the blame on Bernie. People have been calling for his head for well over a decade because he runs the show like a self-centered 12-year-old. GREED is at the center of his decisions, not the good of the sport. This weekend just made that more abundantly clear. I can't see how anyone can blame Michelin. They're the top tire manufacturer in international motorsports, they aren't exactly a bunch of shadetree mechanics. Take into account all the factors that came together at Indy... lack of testing time, repaving of the track, Turn 13 being the ONLY banked high-speed corner in the F1 circuit, etc. The cars were going much faster this year. The grip was higher. The g-loadings were different. The tire formulas for this year are COMPLETELY different from previous years since they have to last the entire course of a race. There weren't "lots of accidents," only two. Only with two teams. The other Michelin teams had zero problems. The Bridgestone teams had no problems, but then again they are on the slowest cars in the field (Ferrari is certainly not a front-runner this year, mid-pack machinery at best). Do you guys have any idea how many different solutions to the issue were thought of that the FIA rejected? Michelin flew in replacements only for the unused tires, and not in more-advantageous compounds. That was rejected. The idea for everyone to get new tires was rejected. They suggested adding a temporary chicane before Turn 13... the Bridgestone teams agreed to allow the chicane, and IMS management agreed to put one in before the race started. Only Ferrari withheld... which is typical for those Italian underhanded twits (anyone who knows the competition history of the company and the personality of Enzo knows exactly what I'm talking about), just like the fact that they're the only team who likes the upcoming Concorde Agreement. The FIA not only told IMS that they couldn't add a chicane, but that their sanctioning would be in jeopardy if they added one due to the teams' wishes. The Michelin teams even agreed to sacrifice any championship points to the Bridgestone teams when the FIA said the chicane would make the course a non-championship no-points event. These are only the solutions that were made public. Bernie simply refused to compromise or find an equitable solution. Hell, EVERYONE except Ferrari had agreed to the chicane and the points consequences, even the track staff, but Bernie said "no." The issue here is not that one team wanted a competitive advantage over another, the issue was DRIVER SAFETY. Ralf Schumacher broke his back last year, and had a similar incident, and thank God was unhurt (great portion of that due to the new barriers). Imagine if that were to happen in race traffic during a passing maneuver. Understand why Michelin was hesitant to let their tires run, even though there were no discernable defects in the tires as of race day? Erring on the side of caution and on the side of safety. The issue is not that there was a disagreement over how to handle the situation, the issue is that Bernie wields absolute power over the entire sport, and greed has caused this egotistical basketcase to make one foolish decision after another. One man using the sport for personal gain circumvented the desires of the people who ARE the sport. Ferrari notwithstanding, ALL PERSONNEL AND ORGANIZATIONS were in agreement on a way to continue the race, until that proposal was shot down by Bernie, Max, and Co. And Ferrari withholding is nothing new, their company has a rich history of using political bull$#!+ for their team's benefit, be it F1, endurance racing, etc. But I can guarantee you that if the FIA had allowed the suggestion of the other ten teams, Ferrari would have followed suit and run the race without complaining. To give you an idea of how the teams felt, one needed only see the body language of everyone in the paddock, even the Bridgestone teams. Minardi won more points in this race than they might have scored in a full season in years past... and the first time that the camera pointed to Paul Studdart on pit lane during the race, he shook his head and gave the thumbs-down. I sincerely hope that this is the catalyst that helps destroy Bernie Ecclestone's iron-fist control of the FIA and Formula One. He has exploited the sport for far too long. The near-fascist handling of the legal and technical aspects of F1 has been ridiculous. They even banned BAR for two races (before repealing) simply because BAR publicly questioned the penalty levied against them for the fuel-cell incident. Anything that irks Bernie or Max gets you "investigated" and possibly fined. Yet Bernie likes to criticize everything with impunity, even going to the point of saying, in the middle of a downtown Indianapolis street where nearly every visible person was wearing a shirt/hat/etc of an F1 team, that he thought the F1 in the US "wasn't being received well enough." Hello? This was the biggest (or third-biggest, I forget) venue, as far as spectator number, all season. I am sure that the manufacturers were not pleased with this event, and that the GPWC proposal is seeming to be a much better solution to the upcoming Concorde Agreement each day. EDIT: I just read the FIA's official statement on the race, and HOLY F$%# THAT IS A CROCK OF BULL. If anyone was watching on SPEED, the Williams engineer explained it pretty well why putting a speed limit on Turn 13 with no physical barrier is an absurdity beyond comprehension. The drivers are paid to maintain and gain position, and they are the results of years upon years of fierce competition and pushing the limit. To ask a world-class race driver to voluntarily hold his speed down through one corner in the heat of a race is an idiotic suggestion at best. Do you honestly think that drivers of such a fiercly competitive nature could limit themselves, especially when another driver lets himself go a touch faster to gain a few tenths of a second? It would be less than ten laps before they would all be going flat-out. Ever read about the Red Bull driver search test at Paul Ricard? The corners had oversized aprons that were painted green (or was it blue?) to represent the end of the track, even though the pavement continued. Even with the drivers knowing that time penalties would be placed on those who shorted the course, once the first driver touched a wheel over the green, the other drivers were too, so as not to lose that marginal advantage, and by the end of the session the cars were almost completely crossing into the "off-track" paved area. It is simply unfathomable to make a suggestion simply from the driver's psycological point of view, much less the safety point of view. The safety point of view? How safe do you think a 150 km/h speed differential would be around Turn 13 (and the subsequent speed differential in the braking zone for Turn 1) during race conditions? The FIA claims that the team owners' request (INCLUDING JORDAN AND MINARDI, which the FIA release conveniently omits) would cause legal issues in the case of an indicident... how much less do they think their own idiotic proposal would have cost? The fact that the FIA announcement makes an insulting stab at the teams ("apparently, none of the teams brought back-up [tires] to Indianapolis") is just fuel to the fire. This is an OUTRAGE. Bernie should not just be released from his position, he should be stabbed in the balls and dragged behind a slow-moving S-class throughout London (the place Max Mosley made his decisions from -- completely removed from the event).

I think I recognize the screenname "chmercer" from FreshAlloy... and I think he needs a nice swift kick in the nuts for that exterior of the S14 (good wheels though). You know the FA guys would hound you to death if you put a pic of that up there Anyway, that is a squarish mirror, I think the only ones that look good on the fender are the black-housing round mirrors. Oh yes, more pics of your flares (ZG flares?) and the wheels... are they Circle Racing?

This is the only forum out of the numerous Nissan-tech-heavy forums I frequent that thinks the Q45 is an R200... I'm doubtful until I see it in the FSM.

I guess the SR is once again the odd engine out Different head design between FWD and RWD, and IIRC there are small differences in the block casting as well (might have just been the oil filter block though).

I know this is out of budget, but has anyone seen/heard of using the GT-R bellhousing on the Toyota V160 (MkIV Supra turbo Getrag... apparently same Getrag guts/unit that was later adapted to the R34 GT-R)?

the inline-5 was actually developed with help from Audi and Porsche... appeared in the 850 (and the S70? whatever came after it). There have been at least one (that I've seen) place that did a turbo I-6 from an S90 (960, later name changed when Ford bought them). As far as manuals... I dunno, I do know that the RWD guys have put MkIV Supra 5-speeds on the 4-bangers, so I'm guessing there'd be some sort of option, at the very minimum I'd guess one of the fabricators here could figure out a adaptor plate or something...

Changing barrels on a 2-piece wheel shouldn't be that much different or more expensive than changing barrels on a 3-piece wheel... then again I've never actually done either and I'm just speculating

lol, Peter Egan's articles are great Which issue was that particular one in?

If I mail you a box, can you send it back with some S13 Silvia headlamps in it? Just mark "return to sender" and avoid postage hehehe, anyway, have fun over there, and try not to be too taken aback by their strange pop-culture...

S14 240SX/Silvia calipers are a tad larger piston than the S13 ones, and the bolt-up part should be the same...

I've only skimmed the latest bit, as you guys are getting a bit more in-depth than I needed to, but I will address the Master Cylinder question: In the FreshAlloy thread, the mushy feel with Z32 calipers at all four corners is due to the small size of the stock 240SX master cylinder, which is 7/8" (ABS cars had 15/16"). The Z32 had various sizes, 15/16", 1", and 17/16"... varying by year and turbo/nonturbo, with the 1" being most common, then the 17/16"... with the 15/16" not being that common (there is also a variance in that some were Tokico and some were Nabco, and to date nobody has been able to figure that part out, since they're the same part number Sometimes Nissan just does things weird). Look at the percentage increase in piston area at the calipers, and I think you'd want to shoot for a similar percentage increase in master cylinder size.

I've seen two of their cages in track cars, one in Jedd's white S13 coupe (I think he works there) and another in the black drift S13 of a guy who works at Autothority. I've love to get them to put a bar or half-cage into my coupe but it will be a little bit before I can afford that

All RWD SRs are non-US The non-turbo SR20s all used distributors with wires, only the turbo models were coil-on-plug.

didn't know they had FWD CAs, the SRs are a bit more different...

well the much lighter weight of the SR or CA would be a benefit, but I agree with the lack of torque... and I dislike 4-bangers anyway (irony, since that's what I own, hahaha).

Hehe, I called it an "L28DET" a few days ago, but I was referring to the L-series with the hybrid/siamesed KA24DE head, so it's OK

typo, I meant to refernce the "S20 engine" he was talking about...

you have just stumbled upon ricers with money... just more stupid jackasses clogging our streets It's getting to the point where all the trend-jumping magazine kiddies are making me want to sell my 240SX, even though it's just now getting to the point I wanted it when I got it two and a half years ago