Hi-Tek

I took these (well the Mrs did) at the BMW Museum in Munich.

Amazing cars in the flesh, will defo be at the Speed show

^^

Commodore in white?

Not really feeling the magic there to be honest. The stripes are a little try hard too.

I'd rather the E92 over this from a pure 'looks' perspective.

I call fake

^^17x9".

If you can find some wheels to put them on Dylan you're welcome to have them mate.

^

The wiper was a good investment regardless, there's not many '92 DTM parts floating about.

I was going to buy it and just shelve it for when I get another E30 M3

Magnetti Marelli

Something from Conrad, as seen on s14power.com

Looking good Josh, be good to see it out at Hampton on the 24th

Did you end up chopping a section out of the seat brackets and re-welding them to get the seat lower?

*edit , typo

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Dubman, just what the Nokia 5230 has inbuilt (have now bought a Qstarz BT-Q818XT Bluetooth GPS receiver)

Did a bit of messing around with a set of Performance Friction Pads that I was given (01 compound) they we're off an NZV8 car so were very close width wise to fitting in the factory calipers. The chap literally has shelves full of them!

They needed ~1.2mm machined off width wise, some slotted holes for the retainer pins and I had to take a few mm off the pad thickness as even second hand they are thicker than the new factory pads (15mm)

Best thing about them is that they were free ~$450 for a set of fronts new

Machined the front discs down as they we're, and still are pretty shabby, plus we're changing from an Endless N35s pad to the PFC01s

Messy job, the vacuum helped my lungs

Took around .6mm off each end of the backing plate

Slotting the retainer pin holes (~8x6.5mm)

Done

Bought some slicks too!

Also bought a set of 4.3 GTS-4 diffs front and rear for a bit more response

Cut the front brake backing plates off too (figure they'll be going anyhow when we upgrade to a bigger setup)

We just got a set of four almost new ex NZV8s slicks yesterday, so have a spare set too if you need some Ian.

Took the car out to an open day at Hampton Downs on Saturday.

Here's four laps of me driving poorly (constructive criticism welcome )

Managed a 1:15.1 lap on the RaceChrono

How does a noob like me embed the video into my post?

I call it poor taste

Definitely keen on this Andrew.

It makes sense to make a weekend of this in Taupo

Bimmersport trackday on Saturday and this one on Sunday

I agree, if someones tailgating you it may be because they're in a rush to get somewhere?

Move over.

I agree, the New Zealand attitude of I'm doing 100kmh so it's my right to govern the speed of all those behind me sucks..........

If you're in the two slower lanes and someone is tailgating you then they're being an ass, but if you're hogging the fast last with cars behind you then you deserve it in my opinion.

It was quite a shock to come back to New Zealand after 8 months and 20,000kms of driving in Europe. The 'fast' lane in Europe is used exclusively for passing and nothing else. You pull into the fast lane, make your pass and then move straight back into the other 'slower' lanes. You soon get the picture if you sit in the fast lane over there..........

*Sorry if this has been covered already*

For those interesting in Motorsport, arguably one the best circuit races in the world......

It's on right now, quite a few hours into the race but still a long way to go

There's a few other sites with live streaming also

Audi TV is steaming the race:

http://tv.audi.de/#/01

You can get updates by following Kiwi Team Nurburgring on facebook

http://adac.24h-rennen.de/

There is an iPhone app with live streaming and live timing.

http://adac.24h-rennen.de/

Porsche has a stream also.

http://www.porsche.com/microsite/motorspor...ernational.aspx

English commentary

http://radiolemans.0157.org/nplayer.php

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Cheers fellas , yea Josh hopefully if it's not raining we'll get to see how things feel.

Did a bit of fiddling today with the ride height and made some adjustments to the hicas eliminator bar.

How the car sits (from centre of wheel to top of wheel arch, 340mm front and 330mm rear)

Front: is just a touch over 4 degrees of camber (still needs the wheel alignment, only half done)

Rear

Fitted all the new Ikeya suspension gear

Taking it for a wheel alignment tomorrow to get the camber, caster and toe sorted.

Going to test it at an open day at Hampton Downs next Saturday (July 2nd)

Stock Nissan arms vs new Ikeya stuff

Front upper arms are 15mm shorter than the stock ones

Got the cut off wheel busy and cut off the rear brake backing plates

Rear

Front

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$30, defo keen on that then

If there are enough race cars for it to be worth it I will set up the transponder timing for free.

Keen on this James, what's required on our end for the timing to work?

We're a long way away from catching you mate, both in level of the car and driver skill.

This arrived a few hours ago from Japan!

^^

James

We haven't completely tested the issue but think it was the spark plugs.

We've re gapped ours and also have a spare set to try at the next trackday.

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There's going to be enough fruity colours going on under the car without a purple subframe

Ended up spending a couple of hours on the lathe on Saturday making some aluminium spacers and bushes for the rear subframe.

The factory Nissan bushes from the top of the subframe to the chassis measured 30.5mm at the rear and 28.5mm at the front.

The bush kit we bought reduced that down to only 9mm both front and rear of the subframe which raised the rear roll centre.

We machined up two 4mm aluminium spacers to put in the rear of the subframe to give us a bit more anti squat than factory which has meant the rear of the subframe now sits 2mm lower than the front

We might make up a few 'C' shaped spacers for the rear of varying thickness's that we would be able to slip into the subframe whilst at the track (would only have to loosen the subframe nuts off and slip them in on the go).

4mm aluminium washer for the back of the subframe

Washers and spacers done

Rear about to be tightened up (showing how the spacer slots inside the subframe bush)

Rear

Front

Diff bolted back up with new Powerflex bushes

Bit of an update fellas.

We've got a fair few suspension parts on their way over from Japan so will hopefully be installing those next week

We've dropped the rear subframe out of the car along with the diff.

We're solid mounting the subframe and replacing the diff bushes with Powerflex ones.

The G55AMG is my hero.

Some much coolness rolled into one car. Certainly the nicest SUV on the planet.

July 24th with full cage and slicks?