|ncary

Not required.

Epic double post.

That's a pulse dampener. Smooths the flow.

sh*t I feel real bad getting a free one now..

I've found, on average, the amount of times you brake per lap are proportional to the amount of time you can actually blink your eyes while driving this car per lap. About 1:1.

How many years till something like this comes along??

Have actually been doing that ^ today. Not quite 3.22 though. Need a wheel.

What annoys me about this, is well, a few things:

A. I take my slick-tires equipped madcore jump bike (and used to borrow my brothers very nice road bike, fast) and Loaded Dervish longboard down the same hills, and in full tuck mode can only reach 90 on the bike.. no where near that on the board before I drop the slide glove and bust a mad coleman slide. And I don't even have to cross the center line.

B. When the 'drift-trikers' from Auckland were on closeup a couple of night ago, they explained that they were the sun that shines out of jesus' arse, and that the 'reckless, irresponsible' guys from Christchurch were doing it wrong. The Auckland angels had a spotter car in front and behind them, never went at night, only did it during non-peak traffic times, and never crossed the center line...

BULLLLLLLL S.H.I.T.

C. The media seems to be on another witch hunt, looking to ban something else. Yeah sure if you ran over some guy on a drift trike or longboard you might be quite distraught, but in my quite long term experience of bombing hills on all sorts of things I can't recall a single incident where someone has hit a car. The thrill is not seeing how many bits you can smash your skull into when it hits the grill of a X5, but more identifying proximity to vehicles and other obstacles, adjusting for that, and making the closest pass possible. These are skills you learn from doing similar activities in a more controlled enviroment, say like carting, Downhill Mountain biking, wingsuit base jumping etc. Now that this 'sport' has been brought into the spotlight, we WILL see more people take it up, people who are looking for a general kind of thrill. These people are the type to head to the top of an unknown road and to just see how it turns out on the way down. Don't worry about checking the road, having a car in front, or safety gear. LETS BOMB IT BRO THEN HAVE ANOTHER WOODY.

You could also look into swapping an NA S14 TB on as they are bigger than their 13/14/15 Turbo counterparts which makes for a pretty cheap and easy upgrade.

Nah. S13 TB's are big, NA and Turbo.

And hey it is good to go, have done 2 track days with non-factory style wire tidynessness.

I just hit level 24 in A spec and am starting on B-spec now. You will realise that is actually an integral part of the game when you get this far along.

Because sometimes you just don't want to drive 5 laps of indy over and over again in a nascar in the american championship to earn money.

That said, the Seasonal event with the NASCAR was easy, 1mil and 100k XP, do it!

Saving for a Formula GT now

Don't do a 'BMW' one. Would probably be 5 times the price of heading out to ruapuna, walking up to the Canterbury Motor Racing School and doing an hour with 7000+-laps-of-ruapuna Andy Neale. I did 10 laps with him at a trackday and oh my god it took 5 seconds off per lap within those 10 laps. Ruapuna is a complicated beast in the infield...

In a full hour he will teach you how to do things like pressing the throttle and brake the right amount, then move onto taking chunks of time out of your lap with the proper lines. From there I guess it's all balls and feel. Especially on the fast left on the back straight, and coming out of the sweeper onto the main straight.

Why does my newly purchased M3 CSL (in black of course) have shitty, ugly, god-awful, convex standard M3 wheels?

Good ol C104

Ok, had to go buy it last night. Have just found the 2nd install thing, 50mins... Will hold off on that.

Are the graphics better in GT5:P? I think so.

Bought a type r civic and have been thrashing that for an hour now. Very fun. Good game. Menus are a bit full on, so many options!

That name above my avatar is my online name

*Oh and that Cape Ring track: WO!!

Would you like some M3 with your braided lines?

Plain awesome.

By the way, that dry-sump set up is fricken awesome.

Hmm I could go buy this today. I think I should! f**k tiding the wiring loom hahaha

Cause they are all budget arse builds like most NZ BMW turbo stuff hahaa. Ala: polleys comment

It's a satisfying feeling hitting 10k >>> http://www.vorb.org.nz/member/%7Cncary/

And merry bloody xmas to you too Glenn

Ahh first step would be to figure out where the oil is coming from. In most cases it'll be a gasket. If the steel oil pan is cracked (unlikely really) then it wouldn't be too hard getting it fixed .

I know the crunchy is a turbo charging legend here in NZ, but the best place to have a thread like this is here http://www.e30tech.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=23

All they use on that forum is Holset turbos.

I'd read every thread on the first 10 pages, then consider making a 'please advices' thread.

Cam is on the button ^.

Why so, Henry?

Just have a wee read of a 'torque vs horsepower' Google search. What the majority of people define as a car with 'massive power', rather than a torque-y car, is a car which keeps making more and more torque at high RPM. If you desire a car with 'torque', then you will want a small turbo. Like a GT28 sized one, maybe GT30. Not a holset bus turbo haha

Awesome. What a plate!

Almost went for them on my build. They are very, very good. Probably not worth it unless you can really afford it easily, just go offset M3 bushings (or 75D AKG ones)

and secondly I would be more interested in the torque than horsepower

That is painful to read.

Don't drop the subframe unless you have the set of 6 braided brake lines and at least the Subframe bushings - in 75D of course. Then paint at your will.

You know you want it:

7. Leaning one up on the battery. Front batteried cars won't have that problem.

Anyone measured how many crates fit in a boot? haha

BRB