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Some small fixes made over the weekend. I've been trying to get the car sitting right on the 275's as well as reducing the rubbing as much as possible. I bought a guard roller but the lip within the guard is obviously made of high tensile steel because it took so much work and heat to get the smallest of movements that I totally flared my rear arches. It looks kinda cool. I also got inside the arches with a dremel to cut down the bumper and the bumper mounts. The first one (pictured) got a bit ugly but the next one was much nicer as I just cut slots and hammered them upwards. I gave it all a spray of primer too. I'm still scrubbing a little bit on passenger side but it has less camber than the drivers, so once that is sorted it *should* be ok. I drop a single corner down on the ramp to simulate that mismatch and see where it is scrubbing. Here's my flares. The car is lower than this now. Excuse the bush fire ash on the car. I also haven't had windscreen washer jets for weeks so thought I'd tackle that. It looks like a leak is coming from under the headlight. Just in there. See it? This would have been clearer and easier if I'd taken the front bar off, but basically the plastic hose connector has broken off the headlight sprayer. And because I couldn't be arsed taking the bar off and fixing what is already a gimmick, I just disconnected the feed hose and with some aquarium hose, circlamps and a drive shaft bolt I fixed it good. The hex piece I tried first did not seal too well (2nd pic) - not sure why I thought it would! 🤦‍♂️. Because I hate things being broken, I will fix this, but until I could be bothered to take my bar off, this will suffice. Note the BMW push-in hose connector. Because standardised fittings are too passé. I now have an issue with my adaptive headlights always pointing too low and sometimes shaking back and forth when I'm driving. I'm keen to have these working properly. On another note, I bought a set of EBC BlueStuff for the front. I looked at so many reviews; DBA Xtreme (not enough reviews), Ferodo DS2500 (Super expensive and hard to find), Hawk HP+ (hard to find, not many track/street combo reviews) and some others. Was able to get the Blues pretty cheap (~$250 delivered). Also there's a motorsport joint in Hornsby that will supply and install a RacingDiffs LSD conversion for $850 which is pretty good. I know its not a proper LSD but I'm just not keen right now to spend $3500+ on a proper one. I figure I'll give this a go and see what its like, if nothing breaks I can sell the diff with this in and upgrade later if I want. There are some streets near me I cannot get up in the wet at all and just spin a lot in the dry, it would be nice to have traction on these. (I live on a big hill). My first ever skid pan is coming up on the 8th of Nov. Can't believe I've never done one. Really looking forward to it.

Forgive me. I've not had a GTR for so long I'd forgotten the rules.

Looks great! The problem with that brace is nobody can see it!

Hi and welcome. What are you planning to do to the car or will you keep it stock?

Nice! I'll try to get into the gold with the MX5. I suck badly with the uber fast cars, I wont even try the other one.

Looks like a healthy scene. You've had an R34 before? What are your plans?

Hi Jay! Welcome to ! Are there many Skylines over there? Does the ---> mean you have converted it to turbo and manual? Very cool.

Welcome! I'm absolutely *not* the expert in this area so I'll leave others to give more info on your q's. Its pretty cool to me that Mine's use Australian turbos.

This is a great thread and going to be super helpful for me too. We moved into this place 3 years ago and the single garage has a really high ceiling, enough for a lift, but the car has never even been in there. I have so many BMW parts and even a heap of parts from my R33's, the last of which I sold about 20 years ago. I'm sure I still have a HICAS lock bar. I also have a saltwater aquarium and I have so many pumps and lights and supplements for that. I really just need to chip away. Sort whats to keep, throw and sell. Like you guys I hate dealing with people online when selling stuff and I try to avoid it but a lot of this stuff will be useful to somebody and we already throw so much out. I have lots of shelves, but they're not well organised or stacked so I need to start there probably.

Jumped in to do the trial with the Alfa around Watkin's Glen. I think I was around 1.16 flat which was good enough for gold at the time. The MX5 trial is tricky, its so had to keep the speed up.

Interesting to me to hear you say this because I've always wondered about this aspect with older cars or cars with fewer available parts. Will you leave yours as a race car or return it to a streeter?

Thats too cool. Like JD himself.

I was thinking about a hoist, the ceiling is very high, but half the garage has a half-height loft for storage and I dont think I'll even be able to jack the X5 up under it as it almost hits me in my 6'5" elevated head when i walk in there. And, yeah nah, maybe if I can convince Bec to let me get another car she'd be open to having as many as we can fit (cough @Duncan) but until that time you better steer clear! 🤣

Yikes. That might do well in the Automotive Abominations thread!

Its also very clearly made to take business away from https://theskylineshed.com/ which is legitimate and even has a physical address.

The 'About Us' got me .. I added something to the cart and clicked 'check out' and none of the payment options in the footer (ie those with buyer protection) were available. Stay the hell away from this one.

Damn it "The GR Supra Supercar will use Toyota’s 2UR-GSE all-aluminium, quad-cam V8 as its baseline engine." There might be no BMW in it! 😢 Regardless, this will be a great addition and I'm keen to see it.

Oh hell yes. This might be enough to make me watch again. Love my BMW's.

Damn, thats too cool!

Hopefully that helps. It doesn't include the forums that were only renamed, I didn't keep a log of those.

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Yep will do. I have a spreadsheet here of them all. I'll post soon.

I really need to work out better tagging for location or model specific content. The default tagging system is woeful.

The first round is complete!! You'll notice a lot of merged and migrated forums. I havent touched Australia yet and theres some others I haven't made a decision on. Any feedback welcome.

Welcome! Are you going to maintain it yourself?