there aren't enough sprinters left to make this possible.

GTRs
Wrx's
Corrolas

Maybe none...All cars may run on renewable energy!!!! And petrol will not be available.

cable is better if you plan on goin bush.

Not worth the trouble unless u have a very heavy duty clutch or problems routing the cable.

For starters...get hold of 2 32/36 webers

Dattoman_1000 wheres the hillclimb? what does one need to go???

Can I have whatever your on. (x2)

I disagree, The 250's win because they have a flatter torque where as the 125's
(2 strokes)are peaky. This means that they are harder to ride and more tiring.

Also the torque to weight ratio is more lobsidded. The 250's having a huge advantage.
Why on earth are 250's racing 125's anyway???????????????

As the saying goes....valves belong in toilets!!!

Daveman..my original post was aimed at LAGWAGON who said "you could do a decent job of welding the center"

My point was there really is no decent way..And I suggested brazing or resin. If brazing is no good, resin may be the way to go? If 1200rallycar put a decent size washer in every corner of the spider gears, then filled the whole center with fiber glass resin??? (the resin will hold the washers in place) then this may be a better solution to welding??? Fiber glass resin may be too prone to cracking, something with more elastic properties would be better.

By the wasy 1200rallycar...aren't you a big fan of the phantom grip???

the skylines had L series engines. The later ones had the RB30. Same as VL commodore, only difference...The Commi ones were built in Taiwan!

Your mostly right.

To anneal a metal you need to raise its temperature..ABOVE the austenite transition temperature. As you rightly said..that is 723 degrees.

Brazing can be done at temperatures above 450 degrees and below the melting point of the parent material. So if brazing is carried out at say 600 degrees. There will be no change in the properties of the parent metal. This is why I suggested that this may the way to go.

But the metal close to the weld, the metal which does not melt, but reaches say 800 deg. this metal ends up annealed. So you end up with a hard weld and a small surrounding of hard, brittle metal. But surround that...You have soft, annealed metal.

It does not matter if u tig, mig whatever..you still end up with this soft zone..the only difference will be it's size.

As for not heat treating axles....Are these "switched on" type people?? I swear black and blue that somewhere, sometime, I read somthin on the matter and if my failing memory is correct..it said the heat treatment should be done on axles? The material they begin with, would have been heat treated (annealed) to make it soft. This would allow for better machining and reduce tool wear. After the axles are made..they should be heat treated to harden em???

I've always thought that a rebuilt engine was one with new bearings and rings and not much else..while a reconditioned engine included all the fruit???