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  1. Rage quit. I could NOT make them fit properly, plus I wound up with a pinhole inaccessible by welder. Also my ocd can’t cope with the franken-look bits and pieces all welded together so I’m going to start again. Will have to be after new year at this rate. How annoying is it to spend hours on something which then becomes scrap metal? Maybe I can chop it up and use a couple of bends to fix up the old one…. Oh well, off to the beach.

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  2. I’m getting there. I’ll post an update in due course. The benders have given me a couple of off the shelf 90 degree bends which will get me over the line I hope. The outer pipe ended up being ok. I have to make the inner one fit it now. I didn’t want to get too upset with them as a club member works there and hooked me up with a solid deal $ wise. 

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  3. 36 minutes ago, Willdat? said:

    I guess because for you it's a work vehicle that's probably quite different to a typical owners experience? In theory the new govt are chucking a bunch of chargers in too instead of subsidising the clean car rebate.

    I hadn't thought about that company car issue, probably something that people would want to negotiate with their employers if possible? A huge part of the EV benefit is refuelling at home.

    As a private ev owner I mostly charge at home but if I ever need a quick topup when out and about I fully identify with @flyingbrick . It’s a shit show out there.

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  4. The pipes are bent up so I have been mucking around with fitting them up. I’m hitting a wall with the secondaries, I can’t make them fit. 
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    Look how far apart the ends are. They are supposed to come together to weld into a collector. Also they should be on the same plane in the vertical sense but…

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    There are other problems too. I can’t lay them as per the factory ones due to slightly different bend angles so I’m simultaneously hitting the bell housing and the chassis rail. Tell me, am I unreasonable in expecting to be able to fit up the pipes with minor trimming? This part of the job (bending 2x pipes and laser cut flange ran to $215+GST. They had my original as a pattern and supposedly use 3D scanning. At this rate I will need to cut them at nearly every bend and add or subtract sections. What would you recommend?

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  5. 17 minutes ago, igor said:

    How old are those things now though? Prob getting near the end of their design life.

    Depends… the Leaf seems to change the battery recipe every 5 minutes. 2014 seems to be a sweet spot as mine is approaching 100,000km and still at 78% SOH. Will still do 110km open road.  But look at a 2013 and they’re nearly all buggered-even worse than the 1st gen. And yeah, for some reason the 30kwh one seems cursed too. I still think EVs are great around town and the burbs, but increasingly silly for most other tasks with current tech. No pun intended 

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  6. On 01/11/2023 at 19:06, NickJ said:

    I have a cheap one, its crap.

    good for primer thats gunna get a sand or motivation to purchase a nicer gun

     

    What brand and price point are we talking? Total bodyshop is clearing some at very steep discounts. Italco brand

  7. 4 hours ago, cubastreet said:

    Shall we do a group buy and import a boatload of old leafs before the rebate ends?

    Give it a few months and you’ll probably find the prices of leafs will magically reduce by about $3.5k anyway to offset how they were magically worth more in Japan 5 minutes after the govt announced free money to buy them….

    The most noticeable thing that happened imo was dealers started importing much lower SOH cars than before.

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