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There's a name in the Defect thread for a engineer...

Lol Chad, weren't you a Northern guy before you moved to the dirty South?! I'm so used to everyone spotting cars up North! Good to see more imports are being spotted down here lol

Cheers Ryan! Comes in handy when a car hasn't been driving in x amount of months, too.

I once got defected for my centre grill. The previous owner of the car had replaced the centre grill (which is barely 20cm's in size) with a mesh piece. Yes, this got written onto the defect notice and yes, the inspector at Regency literally laughed at that. That was amongst other defects the car got, but cummon... a centre grill with mesh? Since when is this a f*cking defect. It DOESN'T affect body structure, crash impact zones, etc. it's not like I replaced my chassis with broom sticks and made a cardboard boot and bonnet... I was done by 2 young coppers who were the 2 rudest cops I've ever encountered. What did I do? I made a complaint. Not only did they mistake my boost gauge for "a second tacho" but the mouthing that they gave me was pretty rich. I had a witness with me, too. So, I filled out the forms and happily made the complaint. By law, the branch which you submit the complaint to must follow through the complaint. You cannot make a complaint about a off-duty police officer, however. For more reading, plus the Act that it's governed under: http://www.pca.sa.gov.au/PCAmain.htm http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/cons...t/padpa1985434/ You can't complain about getting defected for a legit defect, but you can complain about getting defected for a non-legit (eg. Like my defect, or Vu's airbox defect). If you think you're being treated unfairly, etc. Just whip out a pen and paper. Ask for their badge ID and start taking notes... just as they'd take notes if they pinged you for something serious. You only need to ask for their permission if you're going to stick a voice recorder into the situation... BTW the car in my story isn't my GTR. Edit: Sled, spot on. MP's are usually the way to go.

+1!!

Just found out - removing the cable to the crank angle sensor will do this!

There's alot of talk of cranking over an engine without actually starting it to build up oil pressure.... noob question, but how do you do this?!

Stupid question, but how do you crank over an engine without actually letting it fire up? Do you have to disconnect an ignition module or something?

Lol oh okay. I thought you meant 22" chrome vault rims and LCD's mounted in the engine bay!

Long time, no nothing! How's things been?

the majority of sau don't do bling... lol

He's out to prove something...

Ouch! Scott, which suburb did you get pinged in and what did you get done for?! He strikes again!!

Can you go into the Devine office in Adelaide to speak with someone? Or do you have to call that Sales line? I'd rather speak to someone in person, though!

Wow! Sounds good, Ruby! Thanks for the advice, guys! I'll go down to bank SA to talk to them about the Home Start Finance scheme. I'll also speak directly with Devine to see what they can do for me!

Fingers crossed... but then again, nothing these days comes free

Mitch, the rough figure you're looking at for a standard RB26 from a front cut and then installed, old engine removed, etc would be roughly 7k I'd say (RB26 front cuts without the box and turbo's are roughly $5k these days )

They're huge rims, Mitch. What are they? 18", 19" or 20"?!

Ah excellent. Sounds like I'll give Aussie a go! I'm looking around the 200-odd mark, but I'll see if I can possibly roll my car loan into the mortgage loan. But yeah, it's very hard to find a bank which will give you a 100% loan these days. But I might give Bank SA a go, too... although, with the car loan, they only approved me for $13k yet I walked down the street and Savings and Loans approved me for $22.5k on the exact same wage! I guess it pays to shop around! Edit: Can you put your first home owners grant as a deposit for the loan if you decide to build?

Wow Ben, I thought most tint places would be happy to do it regardless if it's legal or not?! There's a Falcon around the corner of my place with the mirror-finish tint on all his windows except the front windscreen... it's crazy. You can only see in through the front windscreen!!

I know this is a car forum and not a 'personal advice' forum... but hey, we're all family here and I've noticed more and more that alot of people are selling their car and investing in houses! So: Alright, so I'm 21, still living at home with my Mum, have a car loan and am getting pretty ready to leave the nest and buy my first house. I'm one who's against long-term renting... or renting at all in that aspect. I can't justify spending $250+ a week on rent for 5 years... as after 5 years, you have nothing to show for what you spent! When you could be putting that $250 towards a mortgage. Not to mention, I'd say it'd be quite hard to save while renting? Anyway, so there's plenty of house and land packages cropping up down South. There's one around my corner in Huntfield Heights (the good part) and in Sellicks Beach. I'm aware that the boosted first home owners grant of $21,000 will expire on June 30th 2009... which gives me roughly 5 months to make a firm decision and sign my life away. AV Jennings is offering land from around $130,000 with a $9k stamp duty refund while Devine is offering $293,000 for a house and land with NO deposit. With Devine, the mortgage would be locked in over a 30 year period at a 7.7% variable interest rate for the first x amount of years. They've worked out the mortgage repayments would be roughly around the $300 mark a week, which is affordable on what I'm on at the moment. Also, I'd be living with another 3 people, but the mortgage would be in my name. So, there'd be 2 sources of income plus 2 sources of rent. Has anyone built with either AV Jennings or Devine Pioneer Homes? I've heard mixed reactions about Devine, as I've had a few mates build with them but there's been various hickups along the way... but I guess you'd get that with any builder. Also, would there be any recommendations on any banks to go see? I currently bank with Bank SA and have a car loan with Savings and Loans, and found that Savings and Loans are alot easier to deal with but that might be due to the fact that they're a credit union. And has anyone got this first home owners grant? Was it difficult to get (eg. huge amount of criteria)? Just wanted to hear anyone elses opinions on these offers, as I really want to take advantage of that first home owners grant while it's still active. Cheers!

Spun bearing would sound like putting marbles in a can and rattling them... or even running a stick along a corrugated fence... and you'll hear it when you first turn on the car and then it might go away (depends on how bad it is) but when you rev it over 3k you'll hear the sound again. If it's the head, check the oil filler cap for chocolate-milk looking stuff. If you find that, the heads blown. When's the last time you changed/filled up the oil? Sounds like it'd be using quite a bit of oil... But it sounds like a spun bearing. Low oil = massive bearing issues. How's oil pressure? But it sounds like you'll be needed a rebuild... which will be between 5k and 10k but can go up and up... depends on how well you want it rebuilt, and what the quality of the engine is (block is okay? etc).

Lol no offense taken, Jess! Glad to have your input here! We need more GTR guru's lol.

I disconnect my battery whenever I work on anything electrical in the car! Especially when cutting wires... Although, in your case, you disconnect your battery, you'd lose your tune due to having a PowerFC?