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brushless is so good with modern batteries and chargers.

I had a nitro car a while back and it was a constant pain in the backside, annoyingly highly strung to get going

VW own 90% of the company Italdesign Giugiaro as of 2010 anyway

As much as this is technically not castor as the KPI won’t change, can you not wind in the front tie bar as much as poss, then wind the rear one out until it’s tracked up suitably, which should pull the wheel forward and extend the wheelbase as much as possible?

Only saying this because that’s how you set my rally car up but with it being a different strut design it does add caster

Only difference between 240/260/280z is engine size (2.4/2.6/2.8). They are all commonly S30 fairlady

Can you add more castor to the short wheel base car?

I've been watching a load of these too.

Group A 2.0 era was great

You can pick up Boxsters for really sensible money but they can be money pits

2wd sierra cosworths were just as bad, they were prone to coming on boost mid bend at medium speeds as you went from 2nd to 3rd

Any UK car post 2004 has suspension changes which made it more predictable i think.

My Dad worked for Honda for a while and then a friend of mine had an S2000 for a really long time, it was hard to not absorb some of their nerd factor for it

Aren't all UK cars AP1s? AP2 refers to the US market car with the 2.2 engine.

Post 2004 face lift cars are still an AP1, granted they changed the spec from 04 and again from 06 but they're still an AP1?

they have notoriously unpredictable handling also don't they?

Good ones seem to go for a fortune at the moment

Yeah i felt a bit like that, I also thought the term Rallyist was weird.

Yeah we watched that a few years ago, I've since joined the same car club here (OSCC)

Tony Johnston in that Capri is a bit of a local legend, he does a lot of prep on local cars

Dunners is NZs best kept secret.

I think professionally here careers are a bit restrictive, most of the Kiwis I know have worked abroad for a few years and returned to start families really

Formed in Christchurch, no?

I am aware there's quite a Dunedin sound music scene but tbh it doesn't really align with my taste.

We moved to Dunedin (aka, the Antarctic riviera). Apart from struggling to find a house to rent for a few months, it's worked out great for us so far.

Insurance is funny here, esp because of ACC.

I thought that was a kiwi plate. Where have you headed to so far? We moved here 5 months ago

SLS doesn't use filament, it's a laser sintered nylon powder.

It's the very similar as the material in the wattshop link you sent

has quite the 555 impreza vibe to the colourway

Yeah i saw it was made official. Sad times

Isn't there some sort of soft agreement that if one team pulls out the rest will too?

A colleague of mine and his wife are Land Rover nuts, they have an old defender and 2 discoveries.

They also owns a modern 4x4 Panda which his wife (an equestrian vet) uses and says it will go through boggy fields to tend horses far better than the disco will

Loctite 638 i think is what you want

Yeah, 2.0 non-turbo would be 15"

This was fun, many stickers though