jakesae101
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8 hours ago, Muncie said:
Rummaging around the plumbing today decided to clean the N75 valve which regulates boost as I popped off hoses and wiring became obvious it was installed wrong. Cleaned it fitted it again properly the right way round the weird boost surging has settled down.
Going to get the battery tested. My Range Rover had all manner of electrical gremlins when I had it but a new battery they all went and didn't come back, the old battery showed no signs of being dodgy it started the car fine but when all the gizmos fired up pre start voltage got a bit low and would throw up various fault codes.
Sucker for punishment......
The GFB DV are supposed to be plumbed in backwards to the standard valve it says so in the instructions.
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9 hours ago, MichaelJFox said:
I'm a big VW guy, but it seems that MK4s looove to fall apart on people.
I would concur I had one that was relatively low ks spent massive amounts of money on it keeping it on the road did drive nice tho when it was all going well,
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Wasnt it super common for landys to have nissan diesels in them?
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5 hours ago, oldrx said:
Its still legal in the long white bananna republic to import goods that contain asbestos
No its not it was banned last year on october 1st it became illegal to import asbestos containing products.
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Ive been using the 10Pks of makita ones for a while now dunno if they do 115mm but ive had a good run out of the 100mm ones.
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how much are you looking for?
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11 hours ago, oldrx said:
Been watching it for a while missed out on one for 190$ few weeks ago he originally wanted over 300 for that one
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I Have a warren & Brown 1/2 inch that is awesome i got it for like 80$ on trademe looks new had the original box and paperwork ect one day ill but the 3/8 version
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must be the 450s i was thinking of as that's what i have in my 4agte motor
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if you wanted something else intermediate to the stock size and the 440cc 4agze are 365cc and are the same physical size as the evo ones
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there are 440cc evo injectors as well as 510cc
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I found tonys tyres in porirua average as fuck, beaurepaires in porirua get my service now.
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So not too much has been happening whilst I spent money on safety gear, Purchased a new Sabelt 3 layer FIA suit , Second hand hans sport 2 and a omp helmet and a headset for the intercom.
However I had been looking for some cheap 15s and a something to protect the engine bay area. Some honda type r wheels popped up on facebook so nabbed them and a mate was selling a 6mm alloy bash plate that was on his runix race car so ventured to palmy today and picked the wheels up in levin on the way. With the larger front brakes the track gets pushed out 6mm so the new rims fit perfect on the front but the tyres are rubbing on the strut body on the back so have to run some 5mm spacers to clear they will be for gravel tyres only anyway as cheap second hand ones only come in 15 or 13 inch.
My mate also gave me a big bit of underbody plastic as he doesn't need it now his car is track only.
Now I haven't done nothing in between updates 63Ragtop saw a momo benetton steering wheel at a tip shop and posted it in spam knowing mine was really rough I asked him to get it for me and send it down.
Now I never thought to look to see if my old wheel was legit and I never had the horn center on it as who would copy anything so ugly its cool but turns out it was a fake!
I also installed one of these gizmos that gives me launch control and rev limiter easy to install and works really well and is easy to change
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So the shop replaced the spark plug and had it running mint they advised to change the air filter as it was extremely dirty and they were right. they also tried to fettle with the carb mixture screw but it is seized. now after changing what must have been a very clogged filter it was running lean with the new exhaust was getting a backfires ect and would stutter revving. Now my exhaust came with a ls650 jet kit so i thought id try the smallest one now it has factory a 125 main jet I swapped in a dynojet 138 main jet that may seem like a massive leap but a 138 dynojet jet = a 130 mikuni main jet and now its running mint ive tried everything to free the mixture screw but alas nothing has worked so il have to come up with something cunning but for right now its running mint.
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Definitely the place for such things.
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Welcome seen ya projects on the NZHS forum have to post something up about ya bike too!
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yea they are not up power wise with a sports bike 250 they make the same power as a vl250 cruiser, Ive had 250 2 smokers etc before. I only really use this to commute has a bit more power with the aftermarket pipe according to the bum dyno but it rode really easy on the motorway when I brought it back. I have seen a purple one this one originally was blue before it was repainted charcoal.
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yes it is this is just the 400 variant that was only made for a few years
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Fitted this bad boy today anyone that has a ls400,650 or s40 should do this only 50$ landed from amazon . Turns out my tap wasnt even working on the prime function ether so that would explain no difference when I put it on prime. Seems to run better at idle will take it for a ride tomorrow.
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So today I set out to do an oil and filter change as through the sight glass it looked extremely black and overfull, Now the overfull could be to do with what I suspect is a failing vacuum fuel tap and when I drained the oil not only was it the same colour as my drain pan it smelt of gas.
it took me a good portion of the day to get the drain plug out as someone had stripped the head and overtightened it unfortunately its location prevents a 6 point socket from being used, I tried everything from a normal spanner , flare nut spanner to vice grips and a cold chisel in the end I drilled through it and put a allen key through it with a spanner for leverage. Even with this it slightly bent a 5mm allen key just shows how tight it was on! My new manual fuel tap is in auckland so should have it this week to fit before it gets its fork seals replaced and the carb looked at on wednesday.
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Have started tidying up a few bits fitted exhaust it the old one was fused to the pipe it broke at the weld then i cut through the remainder and cold chiseled it off. The old pipe also was quite rusty and someone had attacked it with a flapper wheel and it was starting to rust so I put some lava wrap on it seems to run sweet with the new pipe but having a few carb issues ( leaking out the overflow and sputtering last week when riding but would clear) and my fork seal is still leaking so it will have a visit to the shop soon. Biggest improvement has to be the seat it is a brand new s40 1 piece seat I got from colemans suzuki for 100$ as they had had it for ages in stock and wanted to sell it makes a massive difference in riding position and is much more comfortable as the old seat was pretty saggy.
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how much do you think it will go for?
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On 05/03/2017 at 13:52, UTERUS said:
The only screwdrivers worth using are Felo.
somewhat true my wiha ones i have had for years and years have a couple of felo ones and they are slightly more comfy but early on their terminal drivers sucked balls and broke really easy they since changed the tip design and it was alot better. I feel the rubber on the wiha ones is a bit more durable and took shitloads more abuse.
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On 3/3/2017 at 10:09, Unclejake said:
I'm keen to play music from my smart phone through my car stereo. There's a few options available, but I really want a reliable unit that will interface with my factory dash and steering wheel controls. In my case it's a 2007 Lexus GS430, but if you know of a brand of Bluetooth adapter that's very reliable it'd be great to hear about it. My car has the 330 watt ten speaker Mark Levinson stereo (a $4.5k option when new) so it'd be good to keep as much sound quality as possible over bluetooth
I do not want to use the aftermarket handsfree calling if I can avoid it. The Lexus does that thing perfectly adequately. I'm just after a music source (whilst preserving the factory handsfree function). There's no auxiliary input for the Lexus stereo BTW
I'm tending towards the Vais brand SL3b-L bluetooth adapter, but there's heaps of others like Grom, iSimple, GTA and Crux
Any recommendations?
http://www.vaistech.com/product/sl3b-l/
https://www.sonicelectronix.com/cat_i1903_lexus-bluetooth.html
Had the dude at myaudio in Webb st chuck a similar unit in the missus mazda 3 no idea what make but it works really well, maybe have a yarn with him?
AE92 Performance Brake Pads
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I use/ used Mintex 1166 pads in my ae92 race car, But the rears probably wouldn't get hot enough to use em/ I just ran standard rears and never ran into any issues with brake fade ect