MBS206

I vote go red. Only because I hate keeping gloss black clean. Was no worries helping out either! Glad you've survived the rain outs of QLD

I can tell you now, when the bracket that the little hydraulic ram attaches to snaps, with a subframe, and V8 from an AMG C63 on it, it sounds like someone letting shotgun off right beside you. It leaves your ears ringing, and a huge thankfulness that you never ever put a body part under something heavy that's only supported by a hydraulic lift...

I also find it hilarious, everyone thinks chop idle tunes sound cool, and they do... Because they sound like an angry rotary engine idling.

I'll Chop Stick your Tuna!

No, no, don't do chop idle tunes. Just put a bigger cam in it!

It's easy to tap to the other CAN networks, and in addition, most of the stuff you'd want could be obtained by querying the data over UDS on the network available on the OBD2 port. That said, it's much nicer to just listen on the appropriate network to data that's being streamed rather than querying in steps using OBD2 or UDS.

The first year I did Putty Road I was driving the old Honda Jazz work car. Being the rear vehicle of the 2nd or 3rd group to make sure no one got lost. The GTRs in front couldn't work out how I "was with them in the twisties"... They didn't like it when they found out I was only cruising and chilling in the Jazz like it was a Sunday drive with my Nan in the car.

But that's the thing, the WRX doesn't come stock with all those things. But the old WRX looked good (not all of them). Same as like certain EVOs, Skylines, they looked good as they came from the factory. Stocko WRX doesn't look like anything more than a Subaru Outback except for the hood scoop.

Take all the black off, put stock wheels back on, and you've got a boring looking Camry with a good scoop. The factory WRX with no fancy bits, looks more boring than a modern Sportivo Camry. Or I'm getting old...

I was following a near brand new Subaru the other day. If it weren't for the fact it had a WRX badge on it, I'd have thought it was a pure pleb boring car.

I'd say one thing that may make you sell is the same reason the guy with the hard top roof sold his. He got old, and his back was giving him too much grief stopping him getting in and out... Old guy said he was 73! He looked and sounded younger than 73 to me! Or maybe I'm just aligning with old people more...

Nah, I'm not an a-hole, ha ha! I do like the colour match. Some of the carbon fibre wraps are quite freaking horrible. There's one a local company I know uses, and it looks damn good! Also very very expensive per metre to buy! ha ha ha It might be cheaper to respray the roof than use the good CF Wrap, ha ha!

That depends, someone might offer me a good price to resell it Mark... Ha ha ha! I can get it wrapped in a really nice looking carbon fiber vynil if you want?

I used to daily mine with a 6 puck button clutch. It drove (to me) like a factory clutch. Roll it off the mark all like normal, no jerking, no bucking. Hilariously no one else could drive it without dialling up about 3,000rpm and chirping the tyres off the mark, or stalling it. It's all about getting used to it.

So you're now accepting offers of 10% more than the cost of the turbo kit fitted?

January or Feb is it booked in for turbo fitment?

The front foot path. There's a little Asian bloke that drives around with a ute all the time. Lucky to have anything vaguely metal left on the footpath within 4 hours.

You're selling the SS?! How much are you asking on it?

My answer would be, that depends. If it's something that can be grumpy to start, runs a bit rich, and is likely an expensive engine, then yes, I would. But there's a few reasons why. Sumps aren't really sealed, there is airways to them, so it is technically open to moisture. Secondly, if as mentioned it has been started, and it's a fuelled up, I'd dump it, as chances are, fuel is in the oil. Next to that comes, how much use had said oil seen before it was parked up. IE, how much carbon, and potentially fuel/water did get in there while it was being used, and has now been allowed to sit, and slowly come together? For the most part, if it's just been something like a road car, stock engine, nothing wild, f**king send it if it's not near oil change spec.

I forgot to say Mark, you know how if you lack sleep, we get Grumpy Mark? When I lack sleep I'm Grumpy Matt. We must be the GrumpMa's!

I wonder if I can convince the boss to buy them and then take his Senator to the drags...

We're meant to be useful?!

If I don't do this, people want to be around me even less than normal. 8 hours is a minimum requirement...

I'm 22 years younger than you mark, and I'm operating in the exact same way! Ha ha ha

It makes you wonder, all these people starting to make a billet replacement head, I wonder if any have thought about trying to adapt tech from newer engines into them. You're already at the full design stage to make a billet head... Why not really spice it up and had some more modern tech into the mix too...