Clowndog

THanks for the replies guys. My car was basically undriveable, I limped it to my local mechanic friend and he's attempting to get to the source of the problem in the next day or so. Being a regular mechanic though, he will have to send the turbo off to get repaired/replaced and I actually think he's going to a local turbo specialist - but I'm expecting the cost to run into the thousands...

Oops - forgot the important info: it's an M35 RS4!

Hi guys - after I made it all the way to 150,000 km my turbo has finally decided it's going to that great junkyard in the sky. I live in Brisbane and am a little concerned about who can repair/replace the turbo and what my best options are. Has anybody got advice on either where to take my car, and/or what my best repair options are? I love you long time for help! CHeers!

thanks heaps for that dude, it's on the passenger side but your instructions should be more than enough. Appreciate the help

HEy all, can somebody out there please give me a description of how to replace headlight bulb in my m35? The bloke who serviced my car reckoned he couldn't get it out, but i think he was just shithouse. It's the left hand side. Any help would be appreciated...

Hooray!! Have now done my first mod to my m35 Stag. After a lot of people either telling me they can't get a dump pipe because nobody knows what the car is, or people just never getting back to me, I finally bit the bullet and paid the premium price that Ces racing charge to custom make my full 3 inch system. $2400 later, and i have to say, their claims of big power increases with their twin port dump pipe are well founded! Haven't ran a dyno yet, but throttle response is MUCH quicker than before, turbo spools earlier and that gentle gforce push you get from the stock gear is much more of a shove back into the seat. Feels to me like about 20% more power at the wheels, maybe more. If anybody in Brisbane is looking for an awesome power gain from standard, these are the guys. Pay the extra and get them to do it. Next up, copgyback system. Anybody in Brissy area done it on their M35 yet? Help me!!!

There's another m35 in the Redlands? WOW! It concerns me that somebody who owns such a mature car would be at such an immature watering hole. Bloody "Pit"

Lol, if you read the earlier post regarding that button!! Nobody mentioned twin sunroofs!!! Not many cars will give you that one.

Funniest reply by far

Silver c34 s2? at Victoria point shopping carpark Sunday morn about 9am. Wasn't driving my m35 at the time unfortunately, so no mutual spottsies then.

Got a quote from a place near Brisbane (CES) for a complete turbo back, high flow cat and magnaflow muffler installed for $1950. Ialso got a estimate from a place in capalaba for between $1200-1500. Ces use a custom twin head dump pipe that, matched with the full package, adds 40 rwkw to the r34 gts. They say it will match my m35. Apparently this custom twin dump pipe they make gives about 20rwkws over single pipe dump. Obviously awkw improvement would be lower, but the vq25det has truckloads more torque than the rb25 so it could still be a big improvement. Has anybody else used these guys, or heard muchb about them?? I am keen to spend a bit more if it yields gains as big as they suggest.

I am getting the same sound, and have done since i got the car about 2 months ago. hasn't gotten any worse tho, and doesn't happen alll the time. You're right about the rev thing - it happens to me at about 3 grand, only while pulling through torque at higher gears. if the auto kicks back, or I use manual mode, then it doesn't happen. feels like about 3rd or 4th gear. It's really hard to say the sound is consistant tho, I think it doesn't really happen all the time.

sweet, cheers everybody. but the preffered answer would've been "dude, you turn economy off and get 20 kws more power". Oh well. Better just get an exhaust. C.E.S. maybe?

Ahh, love the tambourine drive. Do it bout once a month with wife and little fella. C'mon brisbanites, we gotta set up a Tambourine cruise. head up to the brewery, and let our wives drive home after we beer it up!!! Cmon, you know you wanna

Probably stupid question. What exactly does the economy button do on the m35. I figured it reduced the aircon's power demand somehow. Like I said, stupid question, but being stupid is bugging me a bit.