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Saw it parked up there, looked bloody ace. Seeing the build thread on here beforehand made it even more impressive. 

On 23/05/2022 at 19:48, Nominal said:

Didn't notice if it was rocking a gt bonnet by any chance @Nominal?

Hey dabuzz does your sonar work? We just brought one and apparently there's supposed to be a magnet in the trailer plug flap or something that enables it, looks like ours is missing 

@dabuzzkeen on the fuel usage aswell we are looking at a titanium decisions between petrol or deez tho.

On 25/11/2021 at 01:32, deankdx said:

XE GHIA ^^
in Melbourne AU, between the headlights and mirrors and maybe some interior trim there's probably $2000 without needing much more than a screw driver to remove

Yea it was one of the old pisswags, we ruined a few ghias bit of a shame but will be keeping the good bits and scrapping the rest 

Pretty hungry. I've got a 3.8 surf 35s suck some power out but still goes pretty hard for what it is can handle a hiding aswell.

Was 6k+auction fees. Me an a mate were on a mission for some parts up chch way so called in on the saturday for a look was cleaned out with no paperwork. Won the auction on Monday and flew back up Tuesday and drove it home. When I picked it up they gave me the ownership papers and a stack of reciepts. The ended up totaling about 23k spent on it since about 2014. 

Sweet sounds like what I'm after, do you remember where it came from or was it just like rolled up bundy tube brake line type stuff?

Was that with PTC fittings @MRWEST?

What kind of hardline are you fellas running? 

Looks like the one tortron couldn't find any 8 pin ones on there though. Might need to get a pair of 12s and re-pin them 

Anyone know what kind of plug this it so I can source it's mate? Need to join onto this but not keen to cut connector off to join wires.

Brought an old ln106 hilux couple months back. Trucking along on engine number 2

1 hour ago, Guypie said:

Chur

Just found this thread too

 

Yep think I got them from comac in the end worked a treat

Yea just the outers @cletus after some 14x8s though

Any one have a contact at TWL for some AG rims. Not too keen on paying 195+ each for them lol. 

Elite wheels will be the next stop.

Just sold my ba xr6 had for 7 years and t5 was still hanging in there after 220kms. Definitely went hard for what it was.

Grabbed this from the rotary thread, anyone know a paint code or name for the Matt green rx2?

Haha thought I had seen those somewhere before

Place needs more warrent inspectors like this most wouldn't pick that balljoint wasn't correct especially if it was muddy/2nd hand looking with everything else but still ping you for something like no water in washer. I do all my own work and like having someone check over my stuff to make sure it's safe as it's pretty easy to forget to tighten a bolt after you've had your whole car apart lol.

Just now, Yowzer said:

Just had a LandCruiser in like five minutes ago where the customer had fit their own ball joint. It was the wrong one and the taper was too small, and therefore not seating correctly. So no, you cannot trust anyone.

In my case I'm looking at buying a cruiser with cert for 1uz and auto but now manual back to manual.

The cert is meaningless as it requires a recert, I guess it should be easier for recert tho as only the gearbox mounts/pedal box will need inspected or does the whole conversion need rechecked. 

Kind of off topic but we were on a run in a mates 68 Impala a while back fresh full build and a upper a arm bolt fell out causing the whole top arm to depart at 60mph, so no cant trust anyone lol

Haha don't get me wrong I think there should be requirement for a cert after a gearbox change.  

3 hours ago, Yowzer said:

Yes you would, because you are changing your car from its certified state. The same applies to anything else on the car. Once certified, you can't change back to factory wheels either.

If you don't like the rules, don't modify your car.

 

 

The way it was explained to me by a certifier was that after a cert that was essentially the new OE spec for the car, so any deviation requires recert, if the modifications don't meet the threshold then why would it require a recert?

Just now, Shakotom said:

Also think about it,

ol mate with diddles for fingers only puts half the amount of bolts in when putting a Gearbox in, -not ideal but probably not a big issue

yet half the bolts on a brake pedal or being a potato and forgetting to install the Clevis pin correctly / heating / cutting brake pedal may result in brakes failing in an emergency stop and that’s sort of important.

 

 

Those things would be modifying the braking system but swapping a pedal box is not. 

As I said before not having ago just a healthy discussion.

Let's say I have a vehicle which was originally manual but has been engine swapped and auto is stated on cert plate, then it gets changed back to manual. 

I go for a WOF and the man says no deal as its not certed for the manual, however if the braking system is not modified it doesn't need a cert. Then i would have to get a cert for something that doesn't need certified lol

Just can't see how one clutch pedal being installed automatically results in requiring a cert.

If you swap pedal boxes and the brake side of things are identical then you aren't really modifying the brake system.

Thus shouldn't require a cert for a gearbox swap.

I mean I think you should need a cert for gbox swap but according to the threshold the only issue is that the braking system IS modified by fitting a pedal box with a clutch.

Not having a go but its the whole interpretation thing