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you think?! your opinion, but i think the exhaust note of the 20 is quite boring. whereas the 25 as more character. havent heard many 26s though. ive had 4 exhausts on my car and havent really been happy with note from any of them. they need lumpy cams to sound good. nice and racey.

like zymotic said ING doesnt give 10% but like your calculations i assumed that it did. theres not much difference between borrowing to put money in a fund than borrowing to put into property. except ING is a set return. 50% accumulated comes from 10% for the first year, plus 10% for the second, etc, for 5 years. its accumulated because its earning interest on interest, so it works out to slightly more than 50% for the 5 years. compared to your example of 20-30% for the five years. you said that you can earn x amount from property and only y amount from a fund. but you can only earn x by borrowing. so if you borrowed and put money in both, then with the above figures the fund would still on top, even after taking out fees. BUT the key here is that no fund offers that much. and when you say that a return of only 7% is not that good. Well thats pretty standard when you look around at whats happening. example: melbourne rental market is running at around 4%pa at the moment. so returns are quite low. im just saying that you have to be careful with property cause alot of people view it as easy money. but its not. eg: Docklands in melbourne has alot of "mum and dad" investors upset cause the values have dipped. thats cause they expected the values to rise magically. but they dont always rise in the short term. but you can be sure they will in the long term.

i dont understand why so many people spend sooo much cash on their cars then they get wheels that dont even fill out the guards! WTF! makes an ugly car look like a half arsed job!

before you do anything, make sure your exhaust is at least 3inches all the way through. so get rid of the twin 2inch muffler and get something with a larger diameter (a single 3inch tip is larger than two 2inch tips). even better to go for a 3.5inch cat back exhaust.

that sounds all well and good. but your comparing 20-30% increase over 5 years to over 50% (acummulating interest) over 5 years with ING (thats assuming ING offers 10%pa, which im pretty sure it doesnt). you could borrow the same amount of money and put it into the fund, and not have outgoings like property does. and im pretty sure you can claim against the borrowings in a similar way you can with the property. so all in all ING at 10% is a safer bet. im not saying dont go for property, im just saying its not as easy as that. i would personally go for the property option, but it must be treated as a long term investment. im not a property knocker, its just a hard thing to get into, thats why not everyone is a property investor and only some are succesful.

since when do ING offer 10%. that would have to be the higest gauranteed return offered anywhere in the world. last i checked they were 4.1 or something. and there are a few others that offer a little more. but yeah what others said. i personally wouldnt pay 25grand for 89. stick with property or maybe start a pyramid scheme

sorry to disapoint, but the rb20 in std form is not going to sound like a 25 or 26.

you dont need it day to day. but you need it to tune. can be borrowed off someone, or can find a second hand one around. they are the same as for plenty of other cars so shouldnt be too hard to find.

yeah thats my favourite car too. even better when its something like an audi a3, jeep wrangler or bmw 3 series!

Unless you go to Burwood Vicroads, then it shouldnt be a problem. My car was passed with a big top mount turbo at South Caulfield Vicroads. It even had miss matched rims and the guy out his hand on the turbo to see the engine number. if they say anything about the bov then its just plain bad luck.

ive got a second hand Power FC for the RB20DET. This does not include the hand controller. these are very hard to find! it took about six months to find the unit $1600 negotiable

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i have one and never use it. i was under the impression that std turbos dont need one to cool down cause thats what the water lines are for. so if you have an a/m turbo with no water lines then you may need it. but you could just drive in vaccuum, not boost, for the last few minutes before you get home.

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C'mon guys. Yes this is expensive for a powerfc. but thats when you compare it to the models which apex actually made a unit for. you might be able to get this slightly cheaper through an importer, however you would have to wait a few months to get it. this is unit is here now, ready to be installed. .

yeah unfortunately i'm not getting much loving. would think about swaps, but at the moment i need the cash to pay off some debt. need to sell people.

the 89 model cars shouldnt really bring the price of the 92s and 93s down too much. just because "my mates mate got an 89 for 7grand" it doesnt mean a 92 is worth less. example: all cars still have a decent price difference between age of cars within the same model. as we have seen with people trying to onsell their 89 cars, most people are asking around 13-15 (i guess everyone who has imported a car knows about the extra costs incurred to get a fresh import up to a good standard). so that means that a clean 92 or 93 with the usual extras should be more like 16-17. yes it is more than some 33s, but there are people who are willing to pay it. .

get an aftermarket computer. like a powerfc. thats reminds me... i just happen to have one for sale buy it

C'mon guys. Yes this is expensive for a powerfc. but thats when you compare it to the models which apex actually made a unit for. you might be able to get this slightly cheaper through an importer, however you would have to wait a few months to get it. this is unit is here now, ready to be installed. .

a mate of mine was pulled over and they said you cant drive a 33 on Ps. He didnt believe them so he called the cop station, or Vic Roads, or someone, and they said that its only the GTR that Ps cant drive. They removed his fine or warning or whatever, and never heard anything of it again. .

its pretty funny that you say that, cause the guy that engineered my car had no idea about my turbo. the compliance guys convinced him that it was just the stock turbo on a different manifold. he must have been stupid cause he believed him and signed it off. Vic Roads wasnt a problem either. The guy actually put his hand on the turbo when he was looking for the egine number. the only tricky thing is RWC... .

whats the spool like with the 0.63 rear housing? mines got the 0.61 rear housing

Still need to sell the Power FC hard to find.

cause it is. the t67 is a bigger turbo than the td06