Oosh

Yeah we got impatient, and cut it with the die-grinder, sqeezed it with vice grips and levered it out with a screwdriver. Left a bit of a mark around the hole, but nothing major, cleaned it up ok. Popped the new bearing in, and the engine in too, got the car started. Would have finished the job but it got too late, will sort out the exhaust, and rest of plumbing/electrics tonight.

Good one, well definately give it a red-hot go, cheers!

Hey people, Basically I'm swapping a stuffed RB20DET out for a good one, the replacement engine is from an automatic, so as many of you'll know (and Rowdy and I were reminded yesterday) the spigot bearing is different to a 5spd. My question is, does anyone else have experience with removing these little suckers? The car had a manual conversion previously, and we can see on the old engine where the auto bearing has been ground and squeezed out, we can resort to this but if there's a better way... Rowdy doesn't think any of the pullers from his work are up to the task either. Ideas/Suggestions appreciated. Cheers.

Sounds good, make sure you get a nice big SAU pimp in there somehow! I thought so too but this was a recent ad on Autospeed, so something must be going on, wether new eps every see the light of day is another matter entirely.

Actually, as i mentioned earlier, they can't because you need to be a member for 90 days before you're allowed in to the trading forums.

Some general advice for online trading.

More, in regard to electrical items, possibly irrelevant to SAU

No new items was to encourage people to sponsor the site the others are a liability issue. As i said it might'd hurt to BASE rules/guidelines, they've been active for 5+yrs and have some experience, why reinvent the wheel? I've spoken to Baker who has pulled together most of the rules and he's fine with SAU using them and me reproducing them so long there's some SMALL amount of credit given if they are used, e.g. "Based on OCAU Trading Rules", just as a courtesy. Since we already have the first post:

It might'd hurt to try modelling the rules and enforcement on OCAU. http://forums.overclockers.com.au they use standard VBulletin and their trading forums are much more active than here and work VERY well in my personal experience. If you have trouble accessing it (you have to be a member for 90 days, anotehr idea which isn't so bad) i can get hold of them.

Thought it might be something like, makes sense, but it's not immediatley apparent and the error messages i came up against are VERY cryptic. I suggest this is made BLATENTLY obvious as i'm sure i'm not the first, nor will i be the last, to be confused by it.

Cheers. Is there a reason for this double login?

Look i quite like it, but i can't get it to work properly, if i'm being dense i apologise but i can see other peoples posts in for sale item but can't find how to make one myself. Also when i click "contact seller" i get told i need to register, i click register and it says "you're already registered", so i'm at a COMPLETE loss.

I have some photos of Rowdy's R32 from Sandown, not sure if any are calendar worthy tho... the attached one is probably the best of the bunch but his front bar would need to be "air-brushed" slightly Just make it an 18 month one, July '05 to Dec '06, get more cars in then as well.

Found this Ad on Autospeed today so I thought I'd venture over the border and give you guys a heads up. Maybe mention SAU and see if you can get a whole bunch of members involved?

I saw it in the carpark getting hauled up on to a tilt-tray. Hopefully it wasn't too :skull:

Apparently he put down a 1.31 in the final session.

I'm spewing, i helped him bleed his brakes (for the third time) then headed home before the final session and missed it. I'd already turned a lovely shade of pink so hadda piss off before i went completely lobster! Good day though, and great turnout, on the non-Skyline front I'd have to say the Ferrari 355 going down main straight and sounding for all the world like a F1 was a big highlight.

Only took a single image on the day, but it's not to bad a one, i like to call it "Sky(line) Scape" Any one after a hi-res (2272 * 1704 , ~1.5Mb) copy send me a PM. Cheers, - Oosh.