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Having just got married, you can do it sensibly.... The weddings I can't understand are the 50-100k shin digs that you invite everyone you don't really like, just to show them how nice your life is going to be... We had a "medium" sized wedding (100 people) and spent 10-15k (paid for by us) I wouldn't cahnge what we spent, being a bit more traditional in a heap of ways, its something we both put a bit of importance on, so we did it our way and all within our means. Diamonds, well, same can be said about gold/silver/gemstones/any precious mineral/metal/element. Why is something we dig out of the ground, that is (for the most part) useless for anything other than specific purposes, coveted and worth lots of money? I suppose its more to do with it being rare and a status symbol, which makes them coveted. Ohh and personalised plates, to me, kinda depends on whats on them. I can't stand plates with peoples initials and year of birth or anything like that. to me, thats pointless. Where as on a modified car, I suppose its just another modification (Same as nice paint, chrome bits etc etc)

something about a/m pedal boxes just always looks so sexy. New colour looks awesome! If you don't mind me asking, what was the film project that you had aired?

I had alfa linkages (same setup as yours) on my triples for a little while, I'm not sure if the issue will present with twins (depends on manifold) but they were always problematic to get both throttles opening/closing completely due to the "twist" or stagger cast designed into the manifolds (to clear inner guards etc etc) Welding the cable wheel on is definitely a cool idea though

I've got a serious case of "I missed something here" going on right now?

last wedding/car spam- have a few cool ones with the torries, but really wish we got more "car" orientated shots, but just ran out of time and light :(

rolling anything on a rotissery for the first time always puckers your butthole. Doing it on a homebuilt unit with a larger car is even worse!

ohh yeah... me too.

Thats the best part. Just being able to be on your own and do shit in the order, and at the pace you want to. one of the best ways to learn shit sometimes as well.

or that it turned into a angsty early 20s adult sitcom full of nudity?

Thanks Rob. Thats the way we have looked at it, we were expecting a third, this appears to be it (hopefully) Just makes it a bit hard to motivate yourself to spend 9 hours a day doing something you no longer enjoy, for a company that doesnt appreciate it.

yeah, on Wollombi road. Still don't really know what happened, all we really know is he hit a car head on, died at the scene. Media rumour mill is running wild as usual with bullshit. Just really really shit run lately. good friends mum died suddenly in the middle of the night a month or two ago, Then had a close friends dad killed in the bus accident a few weeks ago Now this.

Just sat and flicked through most of the pages of this thread, Took you a while, but looks like you got there in the end, what did you end up doing engine wise? still stock BP?

That sucks. Seizures are ʞ©$ɟing scary to be around, never much you can do about it and thats the worst bit. I had a shitty end to an otherwise good weekend, finding out a friend was killed in a bike accident just before lunch on Sunday morning. 32 years old.

that GIF is GOLD! hahahaha. top job Reed.

Option one were doing them as a "grey importer" (as in not a federal tyre approved dealer) that's why they were really well priced. Last time I asked they had stopped doing them and had become an archilles only seller as part of sponsorships with them. I used to buy my 235/45/17s 595SS for the VT from them and have them shipped down to me. it was still cheaper than any other decent tyre locally (even with friends in tyre shops)

I may or may not have done something similar with a plenum bolt when screwing an ecotec V6 together.... spent hours putting the thing together, only to have this bolt roll straight down one of the ports and jam partway into the cylinder past a semi-open valve (which made picking it up with a magnet near impossible) ended up just being able to grab it with the aid of a big ass magnet on a length of string (normal flexi magnets wouldnt budge the ʞ©$ɟer) If this is your daily, I take it you are walking to work at the moment? haha

hot shoe shuffle never ends well, atleast you knew what happened to it, unlike the times when you drop something and think you saw where it went.... only to spend the next hour looking for it, not finding it, buying or finding a replacement in the nut/bolt/clip collection, only to come across the missing original somewhere easily seen, just as you finish doing whatever it was you were.

I kind of like it looking ratty, seems to scare people. Its not exactly quiet either, which kind of helps with the whole obnoxious-daily theme. Karlie washed it for the first time in months on the weekend, and it actually comes up pretty decent. I;ve got another set of front seats to go in the thing as soon as I fix the windscreen. (drivers seat at the moment is missing some padding from the bolster) But I don't see the point in putting them in while the windscreen leaks and wets the passengers seat every now and then (heavy rain) I'll pop the screen out when the weather gets warmer and cut the rust out, might paint the roof at that stage too.

bought some KU31s for the torana, so old tyres from that went on Hiros old TE37 copies and finally found their way onto the car- Also helped my old man with moving some of his new toys into the shed- wheel balancer and tyre changer from a now sold V8 supercar drive day business New hoist too- He only lives 5 minutes away, which means I no longer have to work on the ground. I REALLY miss our old workshop though, 2 hoists, tonnes of storage and anything you could imagine, his new shed is close, but if we end up opening another exhaust + wheel shop, that will be even better! and have some dog-

Since all that its had a few oil changes and thats about it until a few weeks ago. I picked up some control arms (front and rear) and rear hubs, fitted with whiteline and superpro bushes, had only done a couple thousand kms, and were very well prices, so they went in- You can also see the bonus hole in the front bumper that some asshole left while it was in the station carpark one day, that sort of thing is the main reason why I've left it so ratty, people tend to park away from it, even though I would never even dream of running it into anything, regardless of how bad the paint is. The grille is so peppered with stone chips from the freeway, its hard to tell upclose whether it was black or red to begin with lol. These are the 2 main reasons I havent really paid too much mind to how it looks externally, basically, if I do fix the body up and paint it, you can guarantee some asshole will ʞ©$ɟ it up within a week. All 6 rear arms, rear stubs, and front control arms replaced. Made a massive difference to cornering stability and has made the whole car a heap more predictable. Although, having taken them out and put them back in, the swaybar bushes are fubar, so new ones soon I think. This was the front engine mount (new one lower obviously), pretty obvious why its been pulling the extractors away from the head and making leaks. I knew it was bad (that why I pumped the bottom with as much sikaflex as I could get in there) The sika was the only thing holding it together. Rear mount looked a heap better (still not real great, but it hadnt broken atleast) what a pain in the arse the rear mount is though! I ended up just dropping the rear cross frame and going from there (was undoing the control arms anyway) Short shifter on the left. Bought it from Nathan (knoxy) aaaages ago. Flicked some paint over the base as it had soem surface rust from sitting in the shed for so long. Lubed up the cup-ball section, sillicon sprayed the crap out of all the moving components. The throw would have to be atleast 30% less with the new shifter, feels "notchier" and if you're used to the OEM shifter, it can be a bit of a prick going to third (you can "skip" the gates like you can in the OEM) Had one little drama with this.... Luckily for me I didnt get time to put the console back together, so when the clip came off the main ball at the end of the shaft (haha...) and basically left the car with no gear selection while runing late on the way to work one mornign, I could get my chubby little hands in there and re-attach it (although that was a challenge in itself!) Was praising the car lord that I didnt get the time/lost motivation because of the cold yesterday to put the console and dash back together! would have been ʞ©$ɟed otherwise! old shifter goooone- and before anyone asks, yup, thats dog hair. The corolla makes an impressive ute when Carla needs to go somewhere (now that the HX is pulled apart) Ive got a tarp/blanket setup that keeps her off the seats and floor, but you can't help some of the hair that flies about the joint, or the hair that seems to come attached to your clothes and shoes. haha. Mind you, it hasnt been vacuumed in months, its the ratty, obnoxious daily, that would just ruin its appeal. lol. New shifter in-

I've had this little seca for something like 18 months, It gets the daily duties while the wagon and the torana hang out at home. wagon: Torana I've had/built 4 or 5 AE92/3s in the past 6 years, so when I needed a cheap car to leave at the station and drive the freeway in, decison was pretty easy. Picked it up like this, Freshly rebuilt smallport 4AGE, new clutch, new CVs, etc etc. Would later turn out some dodgy things had been done, but nothing major. photos don't show how rough the body is, theres rust in the front screen and lots of "whoopsie" marks around the body, someone colourblind must have tried to touch up the paint scrapes at some stage as they have been done with maroon paint haha, but never the less, everything is fixable and I'm still planning to fix some dents and blow some paint over it when I get the motivation. first thing that went.... Dizzy leaked like crazy, so found another one from a guy on Toymods. Bought that, rebuilt it as my original had a bent shaft, something that isnt easily accomplished... so yeah... someone had fun wrecking that before I bought the car. Struts were stuffed, and found a set of SL kings for cheap Lowered on superlows all round, new KYBs (cheap and nasty all over, but do the job) About this time I got sick of the thing revving its tits off on the F3 daily (4500rpm at 130) So decided to buy some larger diameter wheels. bought these off Hiro for cheap, tyres were shagged, but the price was right. (TE37 copies, some no name brand) I planned to get them on the car as soon as I could.... that was 12 months or more ago, and they only just made it on.... (I got used to the high revs.. lol) Next thing I found was that the cam covers leaked more than a sneezing granny. Rubber gaskets were hard as ʞ©$ɟing nails, obviously not replaced during the rebuild (although, IVe never seen a top end kit that didnt come with them...) Plug leads were rooted, one tube had disintegrated entirely (#4) and looked like someone has had a go at dodgying it up in the past, (I hadn't taken the plugs out of the thing since I bought it) The plugs also looked a bit old and funky (i.e. not replaced during the rebuild...) So, anyway, leads, plugs, gaskets, oil change done, cam covers cleaned up and painted black (was what I had in the shed) degreased letters topped I was planning to paint the lot black then polish the lettering, but thought about the maintenance (having to polish them in the future) and decided it was a bad idea. So I re-scuffed the lettering (had started polishing) and painted the lot black. and finished with cheapo calibre breather (replacing the cracked, shit filled inlet line) picked up a set of cheap ($50) genie extractors, they are far from great, but price was right! 2 piece design and the flange leaks like crazy due to the mating surfaces being warped (where it bolts to the engine pipe section this is) but they work fine for what this car is) Painted in a cast iron stove paint (goes a bit bronzey after heat) at 9pm on the nigth I was doing the exhaust, so finish is terrible, but not really a big deal. About here I discovered the little hanger for the exhaust, just after the flex and just before the cat, was ʞ©$ɟed. the rubber in the bit that bolts to the crossmember was stuffed. So I packed it full of tube and silastik, thats lasted 12 months until I just rebuilt it with sickaflex instead. Cam covers on- Then came the day the little temporary carport went for a ride in the wind while we wern't home... Most of it polished off, so nothing major, but still pissed me off.... added to the whole ratty look it had going on though.

I kinda think that both of you need to step away from the keyboard for a bit and chill (LRS and co) As usual walls of text never seem to convey things with the same emotion and tone that's possible with words, I can understand exactly where he is coming from, its a little strange, but he didn't run over your dog or anything, so its not really worth writing essays about (to me anyway) Dude has wheels, he is lazy, miscommunication ensues and backwards forwards essays ensue, seems like fun. Wgmg: mind games from a managing director and not knowing if he is asking me (marketing manager) to take control of other departments, or if he genuinely just wants me to be an asshole to the manager of said department until he quits....

Obviously its inevitable, the older you get, the more loss of life you are bound to endure (as parents/grandparents etc get older) but sometimes it incredibly tragic and shocking. A really close friend's dad passed away last night after a bus crashed through their house on tuesday afternoon. He was sitting in their front courtyard after just puling in the driveway 5 minutes earlier. Theres so many "if only" things that make this even worse, heart aches for the family, 18 and 25 year old daughters and his wife. Can't imagine what they are going through :(

some people don't get that the sillicon "squish" that you see on the outside.... is mirrored on the inside and has to go somewhere!

HUD built into the visor would be cool to simply show speed/revs/temps, but would need to be small and unobstructing. All the rest of those functions could easily be built into the bike and then used wirelessly with the helmet (keeps weight down)