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This bit really cracked me up ... "he has no plan to patent fire, crop rotation or other fundamental advances in civilization". LMAO !!! - Adam

Hi all, I was sent this by a lawyer I know. Super funny and the government actually granted the guy this patent for a "circular transportation facilitation device" ROFLMAO ! The drawings and description of the "invention" in his patent application are side-splittingly funny. Check out the diagram on page 4 of his patent application LMAO !! LOL !! - Adam

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Hi All, If you've been to our website the last few days you may have noticed "save on this item in our pre-xmas sale" logos appearing on our site. This year instead of having an after xmas sale, we've decided to have a pre-xmas sale, which we're calling our "Save A Truckload Sale". Our pre-xmas sale ends on December 24. Our sale is strictly limited to current stock, so if the stock of an item runs out, the sale on that item is finished. Instead of using xmas time as a time to dump stock that is slow, we have focused our xmas sale on providing outstanding value and huge savings on our really hardcore parts which people really want Included in our pre-xmas sale are the following ... WORKS BELL RAPFIX II QUICK RELEASE The real deal 100% made in Japan, Works Bell Rapfix II Steering Quick Release is on sale at an incredible price that is a massive $173.79 (28%) off the Australian RRP and $81 below Japanese retail. Even if you jumped on a plane and went to Tokyo, you still couldn't buy one for less than our xmas sale price ! Buy now in our pre-xmas sale and you save a massive $173.79 (28%) off the Australian RRP and $81 off Japanese retail ! Stock is limited and our xmas sale ends on 24 December so if you want one at our special sale price, you need to place your order asap or you may miss out. Order yours now before they are all gone ! FORCED IGNITION IMMOBILISER The Forced Ignition Immobiliser has also recently been updated with a new design for the remote, which now allows it to be easily attached to a keyring or lanyard, so it's now even easier to use ! This Forced Ignition Immobiliser has a recommended retail price of $499. For our special pre-xmas sale, we have slashed the price to $399. Buy now in our pre-xmas sale and you save a massive $100 off the RRP ! SHIFT-I SHIFT LIGHT SYSTEM The Shift-I Shift Light System is made right here in Australia and is a perfect example of Aussie innovation at it's finest. It is available with both a straight housing and a curved housing, with either Green - Amber - Red shift lights, or Blue - Red shift lights for ultimate contrast. The Shift-I system is the most complete, best engineered and most innovative shift light system we have ever seen. This product has a recommended retail price of $176. For our special pre-xmas sale, we have slashed the price from $176 to $159. Buy now in our pre-xmas sale and you save $17 ! WORKS BELL TOSHIKI YOSHIOKA TOSHIKING SHIFT KNOB Also on sale is the Works Bell Toshiki Yoshioka ToshiKing Shift Knob. This is the exact same shift knob as used on Yoshioka's mindblowing AE86 Drift Car. The Works Bell Toshiki Yoshioka ToshiKing Gear Knob has an RRP of $119. We have slashed the price to $94. This price is below the retail price that it sells for in Japan ! You save $25 off the RRP (21%) ! THE TUNERS GROUP GIFT CERTIFICATE This year for the first time we are introducing The Tuners Group Gift Certificate. If your family are anything like mine, they probably would love to get you something for your car this xmas, but are not sure what automotive products are cool and what isn't. So we've come up with a perfect solution to make sure that you get exactly what you want this xmas ... and so that you can also give your friends and family who are car lovers exactly what they want too ... The Tuners Group Gift Certificate. Our gift certificates are professionally designed, individually serial numbered, are available in a large range of amounts (starting from just $25), and include your own personalised message for that perfect finishing touch to your gift. And if like me you tend to leave your xmas shopping to the last minute, our gift certificates are the perfect last minute xmas gift as they are delivered to you ultra fast via email, ready for you to print or email to the recipient. So when someone asks you "what do you want for xmas this year ?", point them to our gift certificates. MORE INFO ABOUT OUR XMAS SALE AND LINK TO PRODUCTS Remember, the sale only runs until 24 December 2008, and stock is limited, so if you want to take the opportunity to save a truckload on the world's finest parts, be quick to make sure you don't miss out ! As I said above, our sale is strictly limited to current stock, so if the stock of an item runs out, the sale on that item is finished. More info about our "Save A Truckload" pre-xmas sale and links to order the products on sale can be found on our site at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/xmas08.html - Adam

Hi All, Both the Works Bell Rapfix II Quick Release and Works Bell Toshiki Yoshioka ToshiKing Shift Knob shown below are now on sale in our pre-xmas "Save A Truckload Sale" Click here for details ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/xmas08.html - Adam

Hi All, Both the Works Bell Rapfix II Quick Release and Works Bell Toshiki Yoshioka ToshiKing Shift Knob shown below are now on sale in our pre-xmas "Save A Truckload Sale" Click here for details ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/xmas08.html - Adam

Hi all, If your family are anything like mine, they probably would love to get you something for your car this xmas, but are not sure what automotive products are cool and what isn't. So we've come up with a perfect solution to make sure that you get exactly what you want this xmas ... and so that you can also give your friends and family who are car lovers exactly what they want too ... The Tuners Group Gift Certificate. Our gift certificates are professionally designed, individually serial numbered, are available in a large range of amounts (starting from just $25), and include your own personalised message for that perfect finishing touch to your gift. And if like me you tend to leave your xmas shopping to the last minute, our gift certificates are the perfect last minute xmas gift as they are delivered to you ultra fast via email, ready for you to print or email to the recipient, so that you don't have to be at the mercy of the notoriously slow & unreliable postal system at xmas time. WHAT CAN THEY BE SPENT ON ? Our gift certificates can be used to purchase the full range of high quality world class automotive products that we sell, from our world reknowned Works Bell steering equipment and paddle shifters, the military spec Forced Ignition immobiliser system, the must have Australian made Shift-I Shift Light System, AEM electronics gear, and even the world's finest HRE Wheels and AP Racing brake products. If we sell it, a gift certificate can be used to buy it. Even better, our gift certificates are redeemable for a full year from the date of purchase, so the person receiving it has a whole year to decide what they'd like to spend it on, or can save up and combine the gift certificate with savings to buy a big ticket item. MORE INFO You can find more info about our gift certificates on our website at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/gift_certs.html That's the page to point your parents, friends, 'significant others' and family to when they say "what would you like for xmas ?" You can view the full range of amounts they come in (everything from $25 right up to $500 for some very lucky people) at this page on our website ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Online_Store/br...rtificates.html Time to start writing your letters to Santa, people ... let's hope Santa has internet access - Adam

Hi All, We've been hearing more stories of non-genuine SARD fuel pressure regulators being sold the last few weeks (some of which are non-genuine ones being sold with a SARD logo on them). Word is now spreading through a number of forums about this issue, so we have just published a page on our website about it, with photos of the real thing and links to pages with more info about how tell the real thing from the non-genuine ones . You can find our article on our site at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/TunerWire_Live/...nuine_sard.html - Adam

Non-genuine SARD fuel pressure regulators with SARD logo on them Hi All, We've been hearing more stories of non-genuine SARD fuel pressure regulators being sold the last few weeks (some of which are non-genuine ones being sold with a SARD logo on them). Word is now spreading through a number of forums about this issue, so we have just published a page on our website about it, with photos of the real thing and links to pages with more info about how tell the real thing from the non-genuine ones . You can find our article on our site at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/TunerWire_Live/...nuine_sard.html - Adam

I never said there was anything wrong with genuine innovative products developed and made in Australia. Australia has some truly innovative companies - just look at examples like Motec, Hollinger and Ecliptech (makers of the Australian made Shift-I shift light system which we stock). This thread has never been about Australian companies developing new innovative original products right here in Australia - that should be encouraged. - Adam

Great to hear you're so happy with your Works Bell steering wheel and other Works Bell parts mate The quality is truly great huh ? - Adam

We received these new studio photos from HRE today of the new HRE Wheels Carbon Series - absolutely amazing wheels ... Our HRE Carbon Series photo gallery is at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/lightboxes/HRE_...lery/index.html Our article about the new HRE Carbon Series Wheels is at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/TunerWire_Live/HRE_Carbon.html - Adam

LOL ! ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/TunerWire_Live/Gaffer_tape.html - Adam

They aren't just for looks As it says in our article at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/TunerWire_Live/HRE_Carbon.html ... The main advantages of the carbon fibre wheels are (as reported in this post by HRE COO Alan Peltier) ... -------- "It turns out that the stiffness of the carbon barrel is actually much higher than the stiffness of the aluminum barrel. In fact, in fatigue, the (carbon) barrels are load rated MUCH higher than the aluminum center simply because you have to design the rim around impact." -------- So there are not just a wheel with a cosmetic carbon lip - instead the whole barrel is carbon fibre. They are truly an incredibly exciting wheel. - Adam

Yes - the gunmetal or a charcoal powder coat on the centres would look incredible.

Hi All, HRE Wheels has announced a new line of wheels called the Carbon Series, which will be available from January from The Tuners Group here in Australia. They are an absolutely mindblowing wheel - simply amazing, and we're incredibly excited about getting our hands on a set asap. The strength of these new wheels is completely mindblowing. As it says in a quote from HRE Wheels COO Alan Peltier on our site ... We've written an article with a bunch of photos of the new wheels, which you can find on our website at ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/TunerWire_Live/HRE_Carbon.html I think we just found a new set of wheels for our Time Attack project car - Adam

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I have a pair of genuine Salomon hiking boots that I bought in the US in 1994 ... that's 14 years ago. I have worn them hundreds of times and they have never been resoled or needed any kind of repairs to them whatsoever. Even the internal liner around my ankle in them is still in one piece and has not worn through. I've worn them on every overseas trip I've ever been on, have worn them on horse treks, fishing trips, walked over oyster encrusted rocks in them, spilled fuel on them, waded through rivers with them on etc. They are the toughest pair of shoes I've ever seen. And no, they were not made in China. - Adam

The same thing happens with steering wheel quick releases. Works Bell invented the ball lock system for quick releases, holds the patent on it, and has NOT licensed their patent to any other manufacturers. Some people who buy a counterfeit or knock off of the genuine Works Bell ball lock quick release then have problems with the counterfeit or knock off, and then think that the design of the ball lock system has something wrong with it, which of course it DEFINITELY does NOT ... all they are seeing is the problems inherent in a counterfeit or knock off ball lock system, NOT the genuine system. I've even seen posts in forums where people who have bought a knock off or counterfeit then tell people that ball lock system in general is no good and only systems with splines are any good - which is ludicrous. That is a big part of why many manufacturers go after counterfeiters. I mean if people counterfeited Apple computers, and someone bought a counterfeit iMac which then failed, then some people might say "ah there must be something wrong with Apple computers" (in general). Whereas they haven't experienced an Apple computer at all - they have only experienced a counterfeit. We often get flamed when we post in forums about the difference between genuine Works Bell Rapfix II quick releases compared to the counterfeits and knock offs. I often post this photo which I took at Drift Australia at Eastern Creek of the wear on a quick release that is NOT a genuine Works Bell quick release ... So we posted this article on our site with photos of the multi-step manufacturing and metal forging process used to make the genuine Works Bell quick releases, why the real deal genuine ones are the go, and what can go wrong with counterfeits and knock offs ... http://tinyurl.com/6mgsvq As it says in that article ... At the end of the day, the only way to be sure of genuine quality from the original manufacturer is to buy the product made by the genuine original manufacturer. They will need to change that webpage now that the "Fake Trade" video has come out. At the end of the day, given a choice between a respected documentary film maker and some blog on the internet written by who knows who, I believe the TV documentary which actually shows the eggs being made. Go to this page, and you can see the fake eggs being made 22 minutes into the video. You can click on the slider to jump to that part of the video ... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5947862651880646162 - Adam

Well said. That fashion article you posted reads ... There is a line in that article that reads "If it weren't for widespread copying of clothing and accessory designs, there would be no such thing as a "fashion trend."". Quite simply, that is a complete crock of @#$% And there's a very simple way to prove that it's a crock ... Before clothes were widely counterfeited, fashion trends already existed. My brother-in-law owns an Australian clothing company, and him and anyone else in the fashion industry will tell you that what creates fashion trends is definitely NOT "widespread copying of clothing and accessory designs" - instead it is true innovation by designers, responding to the demand of retail customers for new looks every season. The paper that article talks about was written by "two law professors". It goes without saying that in the fashion industry and almost all other manufacturing based industries, the real business world and the world of academic theory and academic paper writing is often world's apart. - Adam

One of our customers is a rally team in Europe. They have installed one of the Works Bell Paddle Shifters to a WRX STi with a 6 speed manual gearbox They have this amazing custom made sequential shifting system that is attached to the side of the manual gearbox. When the drivers pull on the paddle shifter, it sends a signal to the sequential shifter system on the manual gearbox, which then moves the shift linkage on the gearbox into the correct slot in the H pattern gate. It's a truly awesome system.

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ROFLMAO !!! Mate that is way too funny - you made my stomach hurt from laughing so hard - Adam

Hi Giant, Do you have any more info on the modification to the paddleshifter that you are talking about there ? Was it an Australian modification or a part you imported from overseas ? The MCR paddle shifter kit is made by Works Bell, and the standard Works Bell paddleshifter moves with the steering wheel, so I'm a bit confused as to what modification you are talking about there - is it in terms of the connection between the paddleshifter and the contacts on the steering column ? I'm curious as to what the modification is that you are talking about above and if it is a modified part that is R35 specific or otherwise. Thanks, Adam

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