Cowboy1600

Feel like something really full on? Try Eve Online.

WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS? ALSO, DID YOU REPLACE THE FILTER? SORRY FOR CAPS, POSTING FROM PHONE AND SINCE THE FORUM UPDATE WILL ONLY DO CAPS.

Good price for a good product. I've had a set of YJs in over a year now. Had some issues with the first lot but they were quickly and painlessly swapped for a new set which have performed flawlessly since.

How can you get to > 3,500 posts and not know to check under someone's details for the "Business Trader" label? Not to mention having no idea about Toshi or his road tuning....

x2 What an awesome car.

The OPs car is waaaaaaaay worse than the car you bought from the looks of it. I had an S1 with a bit less damage than yours and couldn't shift it for $3k. Ended up swapping it for a very neat 2001 R1.

The second one was alright, but the rest of them were rooted, as expected. Shit load of kays, swapped motors, etc, etc. An S13 of R33 is the way to go for up to $7k.

An S14 for $6-7k? Where are you lot pulling these from? You'll just get an S13 for that sort of money. Any S14 for that money is f**ked. And an AU delivered one wouldn't have an engine in it for $6-7k. You will get a GOOD R33 for $6-7k or a decent S13 or a rooted S14.

woops!

Try more like $12-14k-ish for a good nick Evo 1-3. You might find a rooted one for <$10k but it'll be f**ked. As has been said, you will not find better than an R33 GTST if you want a turbo car for $6-7K.

WOOPS! http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/29/one-accidental-jump-later-one-of-eves-biggest-battles/ jumpfail I so want to start playing again but promised myself CCP would not get another cent of my money after they announced Dust 514 would be PS only. Faggots.

Oh. My. f**king. God.

That things rooted. Part it out regardless unless someone offers you $4k for it as is which is unlikely.

http://www.ripsltd.com/ TC vs SC isn't really the determining factor with torque. Capacity, stroke and turbo have a far greater effect. Forget the TC vs SC. NB: RIPS is in NZ so factor in a few hundred to a thousand or so for shipping. Still probably the best way to go.

http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/ford-falcon-2008-13676382?base=1216&vertical=Car&cr=143&page=12&eapi=2&__N=1246%201252%201247%201282%204294966463%204294966285%201216%20938&num=15&silo=Stock&sort=~Price Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

As Steve200b said, if you want to do it legally, it's going to cost you an arm and a leg.

Heh, you didn't go to Midas in Briar Hill by any chance? Whereabouts are you located?

I saw black R33 "Reqiem" at the roundabout on Burke Rd North and Lower Heidelberg Rd swapping insurance details with an old bloke in a Camry the other day.

There were some things I would have done differently in regards to the insulation scheme, but all in all it wasn't bad. At the end of the day all the money dolled out will be spent on beer, ciggies and rent and just churn through the economy again regardless of whether or not BAS were lodged or not.

That's an important point and one that is often missed. When the government tips money into a company like Ford or Holden, the vast majority of that money will end up in the pockets of the lower middle class. A lot of income tax will be paid on it and it will invariably be used by those people to live meaning it goes back into the economy and a lot of it employs others who will pay tax and then spend and so on. If you followed the money spent by government on bolstering car companies, you'll find that a vast majority of it ends up back in their hands anyway, so for say every dollar they give, they get $0.85 back, ie. pump in $500m and it they end up with say $425m back meaning it really only "cost" $75m to keep a few hundred thousand people employed for a few more years. That's actually a good investment. My figures are just rough guesses so it could be more and it could be less, but the point stands. That's the same with the like of the BER and insulation scheme. No money was wasted cause most of it was spent employing the middle class which in turn was pumped back into the economy.

Where in the west are you, precisely?

The Government doesn't tax imported vehicles "stupidly". They cop all the same taxes as a locally made car + 5% import tariff which is, by world standards, very, very low. China tariffs can be up to 40% depending on car make and type. I'm not 100% sure what the US tariff rate is, but I think it's somewhere around 25%. I could be wrong on this, however. What you need to realise is that the car manufacturer employ hundreds of thousands of people in Australia both directly and indirectly. Every other country with a car industry provides massive funding to their industry meaning if we want auto manufacturing, we have to do the same or else our cars will become far more expensive in comparison and no one will by them. If we were to withdraw support for car making, the economic ramifications would be far greater than the money saved invested elsewhere. To get out of car making we have to do it gradually, if at all. If other governments were to reduce or remove their funding of their auto industries, their cars would become far, far more expensive and would not be able to compete with locally made cars on a value basis. Giving money to auto manufacturers is a catch 22. Damned if you do, damned if you don't and at this stage the damning for doing is greater than the damning for don'ting.

It's an awesome car, but I find it a little ho hum. I'm more into stuff like the Juke R. That think is an engineering marvel.

I'd have an F6 in a second. You need to find a new job. Perhaps move to Melbourne and try for a job on the line at Ford/Holden?

I believe manufacturers are compelled by law to make available spares for like 12 years after a car stops being made. Or something to that effect. On top of that, just look at the people pumping out bits for XR/W/Y's, HZ/Q/Ks etc, etc, Mustangs, Kingswood and so on and so forth. There are so many EA-BFs and VN-VFs around that the aftermarket will pick up slack once the manufacturers start rolling back support.