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Took it to the painters, will be looking pretty again by tomorrow night

It's taken 2 months and 6 days to get to this stage, have the 3 days between Easter and Anzac weekends off, so those 10 days will be dedicated to putting it all back together. If I remember how :?

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I should add it would not be at this stage without help from Mark (1I1) and Anthony (Anth_555), legends!
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Can't wait to see a hot pink AE111 Trueno driving around Palmy
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1I1 wrote:Can't wait to see a hot pink AE111 Trueno driving around Palmy


Why not Harlequin??
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~SlideWays~ wrote:
1I1 wrote:Can't wait to see a hot pink AE111 Trueno driving around Palmy


Why not Harlequin??


Do something different , hot pink AND harlequin alternate panels 8O :lol:
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Bought some coilovers from trademe to take apart and make custom coilovers for my corona.

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Oh and then I bought another tt132. This one looks to be in much better condition then my yellow one but I will have a look over the weekend when I strip it down.

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Winching poor old FXGT onto trailer to take to scrap metal yard.

SO rusty....

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Swapped from coilovers back to factory shocks and springs, so i can enter a gravel autocross/sprint up on Queenstown. Look rediculasly high after being lowered for the last 3 years or so.

Will update with pic tomorrow
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1I1 wrote:Can't wait to see a hot pink AE111 Trueno driving around Palmy



I thought it was just gonna be rattlecan matt black?
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Today i installed some aftermarket tie rods in my mx5 to get more steering lock.
Will gain a little more when i raise it to a sensible height and get an alignment.
Can almost do a u-turn outside my garage now.

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Got a new OBD scan tool ....cleaned and re fitted airbag plug and finally got rid of Airbag light on golf !! Also Bought APR turbo intake pipe for more wooshy noises and also getting rid of factory one with a hole in it .

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Ordered my new wheels 8)

Unfortunately gotta wait for them to come from Japan, but I spose it gives me time to save for tyres!
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Replaced turbo-manifold bolts seeing as 3 had fallen out and it was a bit embarrasing to drive on the motoway pretending to be a rowdy tractor.

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Broke out the dremel and cleaned up the ports on the head, lapping valves in tomorrow.
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Reassembled car after denying repco the sale of $60 for 1m of rubber 3/8" hose (retail $180 apparently).

Purchased heater hose instead for $25/m. Still a ripoff as supercheap has 5/16" for $12/m but didn't have 3/8" in stock.

Topped up with coolant and away she goes :)
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Brought my car home from the painters

I don't have any decent pictures yet, but as soon as I get a chance to take some pictures with decent light out I'll put some up, it's so shiny 8O
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snwtoy wrote:Reassembled car after denying repco the sale of $60 for 1m of rubber 3/8" hose (retail $180 apparently).

Purchased heater hose instead for $25/m. Still a ripoff as supercheap has 5/16" for $12/m but didn't have 3/8" in stock.

Topped up with coolant and away she goes :)


Mitre 10 has 3/8 heater hose $10 per/m sorry to tell you now :oops: I still have most of a meter left only needed a little bit lol
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Nuty|Mike wrote:
snwtoy wrote:Reassembled car after denying repco the sale of $60 for 1m of rubber 3/8" hose (retail $180 apparently).

Purchased heater hose instead for $25/m. Still a ripoff as supercheap has 5/16" for $12/m but didn't have 3/8" in stock.

Topped up with coolant and away she goes :)


Mitre 10 has 3/8 heater hose $10 per/m sorry to tell you now :oops: I still have most of a meter left only needed a little bit lol


Heh, would never have thought to look there, bunnings had no high temp grease so didn't even ask about hose :?
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Subaru has finally been sold! Has to be one of the first cars I never got an emotional attachment over.

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Sold the GF's AE101 Levin tonight for $1500. Bought her an AE101 Sprinter SE-G last week. 94,000km's, 2 elderly owners, mint condition. Not bad for $2250 :). First thing we're going to do is upgrade to facelift tail lights as the PFL ones look like shit, so that'll be a job for the weekend. Will do a facelift front bumper/grille swap at some stage too.
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