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4 hours ago, Leroy Peterson said:

Damn, that sucks. But even if you do a basic inspection of the second hand goods you wind up like birds waiting 12months for barry

My kinder surprise was an overly shaved head that was way too high comp and some rough machining on the deck...machinist took forever to get around to it. Not at all saying my man hasn't sidelined his engine builds for drive in drive out mechanical type work, but that's been a major hold up for us. Talk is end of the year for completion so fingers crossed.

But yeah luck of the draw with second hand engines. Have to ask yourself; there's usually a reason the engine is for sale - either the car got thrashed out and trying to offload problems, a part out (why?) or stacked, in which case strong possibility of a hard life pre-stack too. Lot of shit engines out there. My seller didn't lie about having issues with the engine before I bought it - it was worth more in parts than what I paid for it, which is why I took the risk. On the bright side I got a chance to make it powerful and near bulletproof.

54 minutes ago, BBGTR said:

Has anyone got any recommendations now Mick has hung up the spray gun?. I want to do a windows out full car respray with my 32.

Andrew

I can recommend my panelbeater if you want to PM me. Just had a respray done by him and I'm very happy with the job. He does a lot of hotrods and muscle cars and those guys are pretty fussy. Very passionate about his work and it shows, but he's always got a full shop so could be a wait.

1 hour ago, Birds said:

My kinder surprise was an overly shaved head that was way too high comp and some rough machining on the deck...machinist took forever to get around to it. Not at all saying my man hasn't sidelined his engine builds for drive in drive out mechanical type work, but that's been a major hold up for us. Talk is end of the year for completion so fingers crossed.

But yeah luck of the draw with second hand engines. Have to ask yourself; there's usually a reason the engine is for sale - either the car got thrashed out and trying to offload problems, a part out (why?) or stacked, in which case strong possibility of a hard life pre-stack too. Lot of shit engines out there. My seller didn't lie about having issues with the engine before I bought it - it was worth more in parts than what I paid for it, which is why I took the risk. On the bright side I got a chance to make it powerful and near bulletproof.



The word Bulletproof should never be written on the same page as an RB, let alone to describe an RB!

If anyone is bored, drifting live streaming from Sydney:
http://live.worldtimeattack.com/

Keiichi "Drift King" Tsuchiya says hi

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10,000 people here. Not bad. Sydneys reputation for bogans holds true.
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26 minutes ago, Borci88 said:



The word Bulletproof should never be written on the same page as an RB, let alone to describe an RB!

I said bulletproof not starvation proof lol

21 minutes ago, Leroy Peterson said:


Keiichi "Drift King" Tsuchiya says hi

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10,000 people here. Not bad. Sydneys reputation for bogans holds true.

pretty good live coverage, apart from the 10mins of ads just before 

P plate Golf R gave the toot of acknowledgement after dropping behind in a rolling - is this the first non D-bag Golf owner in the history of the world?

 

 

You don't count, Hamish

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