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Well the laurel has rego, and is wheel aligned.
Must say, it's absolutely amazing to drive.

Power delivery is so smooth.
Velo feels awesome.

Haven't given it the beans yet, as I want to make sure it's all running sweet before I give it hell.

  • 3 weeks later...

Haha, cheers mate. I'm pretty amazed with it.
My mates laurel is still defected with a blown turbo.
Unfortunately since he picked up a sponsor and a team car he seems to have forgotten about his laurel. :(

Got some custom fixed mounts made up last night for the driver and passenger velos.
Sits alot lower and in a much nicer position now. $200 well spent!

Got a cruise on this saturday that I'm taking the laurel on, so will hopefully have some decent pics.

So here finally is an update worth posting.


Took the laurel on the SA R31 skyline clubs annual cruise this saturday. Was easily the best cruise I've been on in years.

Rad roads, rad cars, rad mates.


Here's some pics

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Few mates convinced me to enter it in the Show n Shine at the SA round for DCA.

Entered for a laugh, expecting nothing.

With the bunch of f**king awesome cars that were there, apparently I walked out with a trophy for "Best Hella Flush"

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  • 2 weeks later...

So it seems I need a new turbo. Killed mine on the weekend.
What do people suggest?
Car's mainly going to be used for drift. I don't want massive power right now. But I figure I might as well upgrade while I'm doing it.

Had a few suggestions so far:

Garrett 2876 to keep it responsive, will be basically limited to 260ish kw.

Garrett 3071, obviously it'll be laggier, but it should be capable of 300kw

Kando td05 Not sure on trim sizing

Kando td06 again not sure on trim sizing.

I'm open to ideas. I may just end up putting another neo turbo on it for now.

Ended up going some ghetto ebay turbo for now.
Needed something cheap and right now as I have a track day next week. Haha.

Will sort out a decent turbo down the track, over building it. Time to thrash the nuts off it.

Thanks man. :)

  • 2 weeks later...
So, china turbo is on.

after cracking 2 water drain lines and then throwing a fit and getting a braided line made! Haha.


Feels good! Runs 1 bar off the standard actuator.

It's noticeably laggier, but realistically full boost at 2600rpm was pointless considering it dropped off so early.

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Comparison shot

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Entered a private day with a few mates up at Tailem Bend. That's happening this saturday, so it's been a mad rush to get the turbo on and everything sorted out.

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pictured

2x 17x9 xxr's

2x 17x9 koenigs

2x 17x9 work euroline s2

2x volk c ultra


not pictured

4x 16x9 random roh wheels of alans.

2x 17x9 xxr's


Finally bought and fitted a water temp gauge also. Since the engine swap the factory gauge has barely been getting off the cold mark.

AM gauge says it sits happily on 76 degrees.


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Hopefully everything going to plan, I'll make it through the day with those tyres. Not having a tyre fitter there means if we run out, it's end of the day haha!

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So the track day this saturday was f**king awesome!

Laurel behaved and ran flawlessly all day.


Melted a bunch of tyres.

Got a f**k load of slap marks on my rear guards from delam.

Rubber spray f**king everywhere from my front tyres rubbing on the guards all day.



Got a bunch of videos and shit but currently can't upload them anywhere.

Youtube is having a cry about the format (even though they've been converted to .avi)

Vimeo won't take anything above 500mb because f**k paying $65 a year to upload bigger.

and Photobucket is just a shit flamin mongrel.


I'll probably just find a program to compress them down. Anyone got any suggestions?



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No stand for the BBQ?

No problem.

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The Ghetto Garage crew.

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  • 3 weeks later...

So, the laurel decided to destroy another left hand inner CV last night.
This is the third time it's happened.
Always the left inner CV.

Anyone else had this issue? It's starting to piss me off, and I'm assuming it's not just the fact the shafts are old as it's only the left that it happens to.

Any ideas?

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