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Clever work there Mark, better than what I did which was to shorten the existing connector.

Last I heard about the Corolla was he had busted his 40 year old gearbox and was sueing Toyota for a free replacement

Seem to recall that some rally cars with strut suspension had something similar done. Anyway I like it, nice work.

Pads could be moving around and putting side loads on the pistons under heavy braking. So make sure that the interface between the back of the pads and the pistons is low friction and that the pads are a very snug fit in the calipers. Metal shim plates between the pads and the pistons are a good thing.

Does that grey part at the front fold down? It looks like it may be hinged for that purpose.

Here we go, factory GT2 compared with a private R35 using launch control to start a stage of the recent Targa West AU. From what I've heard some targa R35's are using LC some are not. No transmission breakages yet.

Yes Dave you are a R35 fanboi Those parts are expensive but how do they compare with similar parts from similar performance cars? Thats a real world comparison.

Hope you didn't switch that LC on and bust the gearbox Everyone who drives them seems to fall in love, including the old model GTR owners.

First one looked real to me, I'm not familiar with Honda engine sounds though but whatever it is its pulling some revs.

Sounds a bit messy, you may be able to get away with what you are proposing but my experience says do everything right and don't be influenced by convenience. This monster going to be ready for the Nationals next year?

This is the present spoiler, its mounted firmly but looks messy. Fit it at the circuit, take it off before driving home.

See how the one in the pic below is mounted using strips down the outside edges of the hatch? I'm going to make one mounted like that but it will be a spoiler, not a wing like in the pic. A spoiler similar in shape to the Chino240Z one, which by the look of it should produce a lot of downforce and a fair bit of drag.

Pulling some revs Must confess I've a soft spot for Hondas.

This is what was done with my 2 seat 280ZX. Legally for a road registered car entry/exit cannot be compramised which dictated the 'door bar' design, what can't be seen are rails running under the sill/rocker panels. These are tied in with the rest of the cage and body. No padding at all was required by the approving engineer because no part of the cage was deemed to be a potential impact hazard. In use the body appears to be very strong, there is no indication of twist for example when driving over spoon drains diagonally, despite having a stiff suspension setup.

APS do have a poor reputation.

They are a good thing, basically the internals are made for a Porsche application and widely sold in the US as such. The business owner however made a R180 one specially for his Datsun race car, the only trick is that the outputs are splined for Datsun (720?) truck stub axles.

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Never done autocross myself but with my 'not a S30' Z for circuit laps and tight corners the following driving technique shows promise, where it suits to have any braking completed prior to using the technique. Come in a bit fast, back off momentarily on the throttle at the same time turning the wheel firmly into the corner, get back on the throttle immediately the car has turned in and drive out of the corner with as much throttle as possible. The idea is to turn the car in quickly while the extra weight due to the throttle backoff transfer is on the front wheels. For faster corners trail braking may also help by holding extra weight over the front wheels while turning in. Using weight transfer to get the car doing what you want is very satisfying as a driver, particularly when you don't get it right very often like me

Good informative post. Had a missing reaction disc problem myself with a 280ZX booster and 1" master cylinder setup, the symptoms are just as blue72 described. New ones are available, in AU anyway, and apparently there are several different ones. The right one for my setup is part # VH2013BK, well it works well so far.

The dash, soft dashes are good.

A picture tells a thousand words? Mate in the white 260Z held out the Audi but not the Evo, good thing is the Audi driver was thoroughly pissed off

With your power it would be a better solution to get rid of the understeer by working on the front setup, rather than by adding a ARB to the back. It would also be worth swapping the present springs around, have the heavier springs at the front, to see what that does.

The Irish +2 in this link is a knockout, its all in the detail http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=124666&page=21

I'd never solid mount, it may be easier but like most easy options its not a good one.

Autronic and MoTec are also very good aftermarket ECU's, MoTec is about as good as they get, took less then an hour to tune the MoTec M600 on my VG30DET engine. But service is at least as important as the ECU because its a pretty skilled business where errors can cost, a lot.