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Thanks Duy!! I almost crashed today when i was too busy staring at the reflection rather than driving :P

Have you had a look at your engine mounts? Is there an idle adjustment on the throttle?

Have you done any engine mods? First thing is check and change spark plugs

needs moar low. At 70mm height you'll still clear almost anything unless you are driving a Camry or chaser... yet that still doesn't stop them!

Then simply you have to roll it. Springs always sag after a while and go softer and lower. Also could be your shocks...

Why dont you just look under there to see where its rubbing?

Why so exclusive ? can i bring my car ?

^ sututuuu

You get what you pay for.

You can make them handle pretty well, but yes, its alot like polishing a turd... *flamesuit on* I shouldnt have said that on here... haha

good man hahaha ;) nice work on the car. How does it feel with all the sussy in?

Yeah same as alister

I would keep it Dave, if it was worth fixing. To bring it to the level I want it would need a reshell and engine rebuild which isnt feasible for me :(

you should be able to wobble the wheel aswell.

hey men, niec car. wen r u getting rotas?

After all the work that I did on the car, I decided to go up to Winton on the Australia day public holiday with a few mates. With the sole intention of having a good time and savoring the moment, I wasn’t really pushing for a PB, and with the scorcher of a day it was I knew that it wasn’t going to be easily achievable anyway unless I pulled out some crazy skills (which I don’t have lol) First session: Went out on track with Jo (woot woot), car felt really good, heaps of grip than ever before but the first thing I noticed was it was lacking a lot of power compared to last time, in fact I couldn’t even get it up past 140 on the straight! :( Everything else with the car was spot on though. 2:08.5020 1:48.1720 1:46.6830 1:46.3360 1:52.2880 1:47.4950 1:46.9000 1:50.4440 ;)The vest and drinks and clamps were found, unfortunately the hose wasn’t. We hacked it up with some clippers to ditch the cracked edges and with some help from Frank we managed to pop the hose back on with proper clamps.I went for a spin around the pits and revved it a few times to get oil pressure up and seems like the leak had gone!... lets get back to racing!! 2:28.6630 1:59.4090 1:49.4140 1:47.1070 Third Session: Managed to bring Bway along for a spin this time. The track was scorching hot at this stage. We warmed up the brakes and had a good dice with Andy and Mick in the sedan, and a very angry Gemini who got caught up in our fun. The brakes got a good workout this session as we sat on the tails of the two cars ahead. Pretty sure Brian was surprised how well my brakes pulled up and the fact that there wasn’t even a hint of fade either ;) haha The tyres unfortunately were goners after 2 laps and became really greasy, still they were very easy and predictable to drive on. They did give me a scare when they started vibrating whenever we turned right, but it was only a chunk of rubber stuck on the tyres lol The car began to get hot and we brought her in early. The oil leaks had stopped, with only slight dripping, which we assumed was just the residue dripping off from before. 2:12.9050 1:47.1490 1:47.0380 2:26.3210 2:01.7740 1:50.0030 1:51.7800 Last Session: This time I decided to go out by myself, with no passenger and no passenger seat the car felt very different. A bit more taily and throwable in the corners, it did exactly what I wanted. There was only a slight increase in speed where I was now hitting 145 on the straights (I was getting 155 to 160 last time!) I had Tim in his EP3R following me, and the cars were very even in lap times. I was quicker through the corners but on the straight I would lose any advantage I had worked hard for… there ended up being only 0.05 seconds between us at the end of the day! Not bad for the tired and smoky 82 against a well tuned K20! Ended up with my best time of 1:45.1080 for the day. 2:15.4750 1:47.1480 1:45.8020 1:45.1080 << PB of the day 1:47.2640 1:45.3290 2:23.7300 I think if I had more seat time with myself alone in the car I could’ve taken half a second off easily, and if the weather was cooler another half a second. The motor on the straights drained any extra driving I did through the corners… :( Big thanks to Jo, Steve, Brian, Andy and Frank for all their help and advice on the day, and to James for taking all the snaps! Much appreciated. And to all those who came to the track day I am glad you all had a great time!! :) Over the course of the 2 years that I have owned it, I have gone from a 1:49.6 to a PB of 1:44.4. There is more potential in the car but it always come to a point where you need to say enough is enough. It kills me to say this, but this brings a close to this chapter of the 82’s life… With a few things popping up over the last couple of weeks this also means that I am unable to build the SX. This opens a new opportunity and something that I never thought would occur, but the 82 will be moving on toward the end of the year and many of my bits are already up for sale.

braided lines make a fair difference, would i change them again? probably not... Ive got those lips and a 626 lip i probably wont use, youre free to have them back if you want Dave! I would take that once i pull all the performance bits out lol probably a camry or magna. something cheap and reliable. I need to recuperate funds ;)

I wouldnt say so...

Looking good Dave! front looks a bit empty without the lip though. Can you feel much difference with the brace in? ..or maybe you should buy mine Jaay? :P

Looking haawwwwt bruhh I really rate these cars now, very suprised how they handle and it feels very planted! Goes ok too but needs more vtak or sututu... or both? ;)

doesnt matter, free candy bro. still awaiting pics from James so i can put my post up...

Yes, go join jdmst and get an opinion from the hundreds of circle jerkers on there! All the responses in every single thread is: "thats a cool car dude" "looks really jdm" "are those rotas? ur a fgt." Not to mention the douche-like and paranoid behaviour at meets...

re-edited ;) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=455727517814657&set=a.454962877891121.105611.454938667893542&type=1&relevant_count=1

Damnn!!! now i want one even more!! Funny how they bet the turbo blitz BRZ around there... slicks>turbo (jeff take note)

Geez thats one ugly rear bumper!!