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Yes. Imagine you have the car on the ground, and you mine away all the ground under and around it, except for the area directly under each individual wheel. That's exactly how it'd look, except the ground will be what ever you make the bit under each wheel from

You do as I said. Make some platforms that the cars wheels will sit on when the car is lowered. Imagine even just some concrete blocks all stacked up. But you need it to be damn stable!

What blows me away, is watching some of the US guys, like Tony Angelo at Stay Tuned. LS1, buys a set of heads for $1200, drops a mild cam in, pulls all the electrics, drops a basic inlet manifold with a carb, MSD thing for spark, and roll it out to make 550hp.

All of your suspension bushes/bolts etc, should also only ever be tightened when the car is sitting with full weight too. IE, jack it back up, shove a heap of stuff down so you can lower the wheels onto so the car is "on the ground" but you have room to get under it. It's why when properly done, you should be able to remove the shock and spring, but the arms won't go to 100% droop. If you don't do the above, you'll destroy your bushes.

I wonder what your thoughts of a "long nose, short deck" are if that were said in a kiwi accent...

I read Duncan's post, said the same thing in my head, scrolled down, and had De Ja Vu...

"Sally" it's a very hairdresseresque name.

Suzuki Cappuccino beats them all... But the Toyota Will Vi beats the Cappuccino too... And I love the Dodge Viper, but not because it looks like/similar styling to an FD.

Are you saying hes a bit Gregged up?

I'd need to check my notes at work Duncan, but I'm pretty sure most of that is purely OBD2 on the display. How quickly is it all able to update? Do you have any internet capability in your workshop with a laptop?

I second this. Just add a little bit of caster to keep it pointing straight. Also really thick rubber soled shoes in case he needs to press the pansy slow down pedal...

If there's a next time, next exit after mine is Costco 😛

Did you hit the one 5 minutes down the road from my place before heading back south? 😛

find it funny everyone claims different fuel chains, do different things with their fuel blah blah blah. We don't have that many fuel terminals in Australia. The fuel tanker trucks drive into the terminal, fill up, and drive directly to the service station and dump out. The majority of fuel you get, is coming out of the same terminals. The variation is actually at the individual service stations and how good their tanks are, as well as how much turn over they actually have. Older fuel stations, that haven't had their tanks replaced are going to end up with the worst fuel. Also a lot of older stations have shit design, and shit maintenance, and end up with more water absorption into the tank. This is when you then get a bad batch of fuel. Other shit things happen, like tanker drivers have a f**k up, and starting to unload the wrong compartment on their truck into the wrong tank.

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...