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6 hours ago, The Bogan said:

 I'm not keen on dropping $1500 on a new one from Mazda

Sigh....

Who are you to deny yourself?

I’ve said this many times to myself and apart from getting what I really want, I go quiet for a while whilst working out what I just did to my savings and how will I afford what it cost, then, next payday…

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1 hour ago, Watermouse said:

Who are you to deny yourself?

I’ve said this many times to myself and apart from getting what I really want, I go quiet for a while whilst working out what I just did to my savings and how will I afford what it cost, then, next payday…

Whilst I typically don't cheap out on things, if I can save some money, like $1000, on a clean straight panel, that gives me $1000 to spend on other stuff, basically free money really 🤔 🤣

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27 minutes ago, Ozdavroz said:

Is the toolbox that damaged the boot seal the same item that fell on the car during the storm a while back?

Nah, the one that hit the boot was a big steel locker, around 6 foot height, 4 foot wide and 2 foot deep, empty it weighs about 15kg and had about that amount of stuff in it

The photo didn't give a good representation of the actual damage, the large ding on the passenger side was about a inch deep, the one on the driver was about 1/2 inch deep, right on the curve, where the inner boot frame doesn't let you get behind it with a dolly

Basically the same issue with getting behind the damage on the centre of the boot

We could have filled it all with bog, but my OCD would be triggered every time I looked at it, knowing what hides beneath 

As for the locker, I did get the shits with it and put it in the scap metal bin, but, I pulled it out and it is now sitting in the garage at home full of car servicing stuff, cleaning gear and random tools, it's going to pay for it's indiscretions

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MX5 Mania send me a video of some cams we are looking at installed in a NC, this only has a quick tune loaded up and it will hit the dyno tomorrow to see how it actually performs 

Will need to do the valves springs and retainers "while we're in there" for reliability 

LOL....chop chop chop chop chop chop.... 

 

 

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Fark, I cannot get the vid sent to my message thingie to actually work in here

Needless to say, the chop chop sounds epic, and David said it will be amazing in the 2.5

 

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