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dunno bout the strut brace Q, but welcome. i had and loved a 31 TI, also loved my 34, how long do you have to go before getting your Turbo licence?

thanks for the tape, also i realised after that i was explaning thespacers....to the guy i bought them from hahaha...long day. gonna try and get the eyelids, spacers and nuts on today, see how my day goes.

who owns the matt black c34 with the R34 gtr front end, chick driver? i see her on churchill road some mornings.

whenever i get anything electrical i always start with removing, scrubbing and re attaching all groundwires, they do the most random things when they dont get the contact they wish. chepaest and easiest things first.

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excelent article well written and unbiassed, all should read http://www.autonews.carsales.com.au/industry-news/2013/large-passenger/holden/commodore/the-holden-blame-game-40606

yeah man absolutly

just lower it and the wheels will tuck in nicely. looks good.

oh cool, whats the brand?

got some stop gap sollutions for my wheel nuts for the time being, before i can shell out $250 for project Mu nuts, they look better than the crappy little nuts leaving big holes.

haha thanks man, these pics just remind me how much more room i have for poke and lowering. sooo many things i want to do to the car, it just looks to me like "look at all the stuff im missing" ha so my list of things to do visually are: Days rear bar ad-on with black center days carbon fiber frotn bar center cover sideskirts of some description dolphin front grill (still undecided) dressy wheel nuts twin chrome exhaust tips eyelids fix rust slimline roofrakcs with thule wind deflector also i have a colour scheme which i have admired since it blew up on the "scene" which will be the following wheel nuts brakes rotors engine bits some subtle stickers all in turquoise .... i.e... combine these with some carbon fiber bits with my grey such as front bar inserts, wing maby...will look porn in my eyes

Oh finally a new page, time for some more picks this is where im up to atm, managed to get a camera out and take some horribly unprofessional shots but atleast its not off the HTC

like dis... i had them painted when we did the front bar. i am actually not sure if they fit properly, i have only test fitted, but i get light up out the top, dosnt seem flush but i havnt properly fitted anyway but yeah... how do people fit them, just realy heavy duty double sided tape or? for mirrors i was actually thinking about... but thats down the track a bit

good point

yep, also the price jump from a 235 -> 245 is substantial, almost a %40 increase. i do like the stanced look, i want to be able to push the wheel out a bit and streatch/ camber the tire in, only a little im not doing anything wild. also i do have the option of zeroing all the camber and putting up to a 265 tire on and get some real grip if i really wanted to. yeah well from thoes pics im running an 8mm spacer, so going out another 17mm is not much atall really. ill trial fit lower play with the settings, if they dont work or look odd ill move them on and try something less agressive. only testing can tell. ill get picks and show what i find. economy well i put in 60lt of premium and i get about 500km from it remembering i spend 30 mins per trip trying to get from cavan to thebarton which is solid traffic so not too bad. im sure if i did a hyway trip i would get around 650-700km to 60ltrs but i havnt tried yet. i also beleiave it needs a tune but the nistune will go in with a few other basic mods to get that done. also while im on thetopic, i bought a second hand z32 afm which has broken mesh...is this an issue? can it be used? i cant think why it would really be a problem?

year rear guards are rolled, their the only ones which needed rolling really but i got all 4 done anyway.

sooo many topics on this

not mine but i found this

also i have only just noticed my car has been debadged, never really noticed love that ass

Ok so the new wheels are obviously a much better suited offset at +15 vs +40 however increase in width from 7.5” to 9.5” basically means I only gain a few mm of clearance back. They do clear at stock height but we need to use an available 8mm spacer to be able to drive comfortably Fronts fit fine, basically perfect heaps of clearance in all directions, I should be able to retain my guard liner and still get some caster in there too. The rears although the fitment was fine, basically flush with the guard as before the strut clearance was minimal this gave me no option other than raise the car for now. I am planning to run some spacers to push the wheels out and then camber the back into the guards to I still have strut clearance and guard clearance, also want a decent looking stance….ya know. So having a well sitting car doing 700km a week I decided not to go for my usual bridgestones and went for the Achilles at sports. A mate of mine got them supplied/ fitted and balanced in 235/40/18 for $400 which is damn cheap. Happy with the stretch, 235 is not really meant to go on a 9.5” rim but it works. And daaam they are hard to get on, we needed more lube than an alterboy to get these over the lips, I don’t know if they just have larger lips than were used to or if the walls are just hard but yeah. to take care of the camber I bought myself some Hardrace adjustable camber arms, luckily they had some bushed type in stock, everyone else seemed to only have the spherical type in stock. cambered the wheels off the struts so we could drive lowered, still has a bit in it current strut clearance in comparison with the camber arms. current height is tame to say the least ignore the hell dirty car also set the dampers to front 20 of 30 (30 being hardest) rears 18 of 30 just got sick of being so bumpy, now its smooth and firm...... needs swaybars though yes, weight transfer on a wagon is....well allot. so I now have some 25mm hubcentric spacers for the rears. Time to go for more aggressive rear camber. Just had the guards rolled to accommodate. Hopefully get this done before the weekend.

was fine, most signs have english and they speak more english than you realise. they are so polite they will try their best to accomodate you. never got stuck.

thought i would throw my 2c in, i live in the dealer world, i run finance for a large sa dealership so we have obviously been all over this for a long time. on my side of the fence its a different story, were happy that we finally have an outcome from GMH and GM, not only will this boost our sales for the "last ausy car" last hsv last "ute" last big and the best gts the end of holden will be a big injection for us for the next 3 years. slowing sales in big cars...pffft we sell maby 1 or 2 GTS's a week, we sell more hsv than ever and more v8s than ever. they took off. people want faster cars, turbo barinas, bigger engines sports cruzes, then their suvs ect. proffit margines will go up and price of cars will go down. just to let you know what happens from here, the commodore isnt actually dead, not yet anyway. they are planning to import it. not in the range we have now but most probably have a simply badged "SS" and "Evoke" or something like that. the ute is gone in full, that was axed 6 months ago. they are already lining up for our replacement model/ models the lead time is 3 years which is why the date for closure is 2017. we will be getting a few test models through soon, see what takes and what dosnt do expect some randomnes over the next 5 years. sucks for the factory and their families, allot of older guys who have been there for 10+ years and they will struggle, elizabeth and the northern subburbs will drop a bit too as its going to stagnate somewhat. we will see people slowly leaving and they may closer ealrier than expected and just rund down a skeleton staff as people will leave for oppertunities as they can grab them, our dealership has put its hand up to employ as many as we can in parts and retrain for service, i hope others do the same. just FYI we have also began registering dealer/ business names under gm/ chevrolett and the liks, you may see the end of the holden name soon....just sayin.

their is a good chance i might get the head off you if its not sold too soon. whats the condition of it?

feeling random? i am thats just what i found on my phone, i mgiht post up a little album to here from my trip of places i went so people may get some ideas. go...everyone...it rocks