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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Al » Sun Aug 24, 2014 6:55 pm

Topped up the oil in the RX-8.

Put Corolla rego on hold and decided to part with it....
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby loudstealthGT-Four » Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:35 pm

Took the Mini out to Teretonga for a skid. Managed a 4th overall in the sealed autocross/sprint (on road tyres), would be good to have a set of semi slicks for it.

http://youtu.be/178tQCyqWEM
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby 85AW20v » Sun Aug 24, 2014 11:11 pm

loudstealthGT-Four wrote:Took the Mini out to Teretonga for a skid. Managed a 4th overall in the sealed autocross/sprint (on road tyres), would be good to have a set of semi slicks for it.

http://youtu.be/178tQCyqWEM
And an LSD....
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby 1I1 » Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:01 am

Washed it for the first time in 6months 8O

Also removed the muffler and put on the obnoxiously loud straight pipe.. forgot how loud that thing was lol
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby loudstealthGT-Four » Mon Aug 25, 2014 2:11 pm

85AW20v wrote:
loudstealthGT-Four wrote:Took the Mini out to Teretonga for a skid. Managed a 4th overall in the sealed autocross/sprint (on road tyres), would be good to have a set of semi slicks for it.

http://youtu.be/178tQCyqWEM


And an LSD....


Yip an LSD wouldn't go amiss either
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Kiwi-Corolla » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:13 pm

Installed some spherical shifter cable bearings and bolted the shifter itself directly to the floor:

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Grrrrrrr! » Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:07 pm

ImageCourier finally delivered...

2 digital EGT/temp/pressure/voltage gauges with 0-5v output for logging and over/under limit relay output.
EGT probe
3bar Map sensor
and a shiny new passport.
Reality: A nasty hallucination that is caused by excess blood in the alcohol stream.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Kiwi-Corolla » Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:53 pm

Put some new shiny metal things on:

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby duddley » Sun Aug 31, 2014 7:10 pm

Found out how shitty Achilles tyres are in the wet.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby 1I1 » Sun Aug 31, 2014 8:19 pm

duddley wrote:Found out how shitty Achilles tyres are in the wet.


Which tyre? I had an expected D1 drive when driving on some old Achillies 123 in the rain at Manfeild once.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby duddley » Sun Aug 31, 2014 8:25 pm

I think they are 123's. Wasn't even going quick and the commy thought it was a D1 taxi.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby 2jayzgte » Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:32 pm

Drove it and then found this online.

http://bwarp.net.nz/?p=487

Bird $hit on bonnet..

Road Warrior lol..
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby ~SlideWays~ » Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:37 pm

2jayzgte wrote:Drove it and then found this online.

http://bwarp.net.nz/?p=487

Bird $hit on bonnet..

Road Warrior lol..


Did you have a Mad Max mask on?

Car does look good.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Kiwi-Corolla » Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:10 pm

2jayzgte wrote:Drove it and then found this online.

http://bwarp.net.nz/?p=487

Bird $hit on bonnet..

Road Warrior lol..


Haha nice. I would've taken a pic too. Speaking of which, my GF saw two black Supras on the way home from work the other day.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby 2jayzgte » Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:09 pm

~SlideWays~ wrote:
2jayzgte wrote:Drove it and then found this online.

http://bwarp.net.nz/?p=487

Bird $hit on bonnet..

Road Warrior lol..


Did you have a Mad Max mask on?

Car does look good.


After thinking about it I went to Bunnings in Lyall Bay and found a bunch of netball girls who were fundraising so let them wash it while me and GF were looking at shower cubicles.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Jdawg » Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:33 pm

duddley wrote:I think they are 123's. Wasn't even going quick and the commy thought it was a D1 taxi.

Spun the Stagea on a roundabout, yes, Achilles in the wet. Don't know how I missed everything.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby duddley » Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:58 pm

They may be ATR's actually, it was a roundabout that caught me out and put me sideways. I have F1 D5 eagles on my subbie and they are 100 times better.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby MR2SIK » Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:14 pm

Drove it!!



Ever so briefly to work, then to workshop to get brakes overhauled and hopefully woffed & rego'd
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Hey, at least it sounds like a 3s.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Boosted_162 » Thu Sep 04, 2014 11:14 pm

Thought that since I had a spare afternoon after work and a garage, that i'd finally get around to sorting my front suspension. What fun that was :lol:

So pulled coilovers out, disassembled them and swapped the front springs. New ones are 65mm Swift springs, 14kg and 200mm free length. Then reinstalled with new SPC camber arms. Measured everything but height still came out wrong :lol: sitting too high so will see if it settles otherwise will adjust again. But so far it rides sooooo much nicer. No bottoming out, turns in nicer and smoother too even tho they are 4kg heavier.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Looonie » Sun Sep 07, 2014 6:43 pm

Coupla days old... but on Friday I got the most expensive piece of tin plate I've ever bought...

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