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[Norbie]

Nope, nothing that modern. I did have one back in the day but I then I put it behind my 2JZ and this happened:



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[Norbie]

I have two spare W5x boxes actually, but I don't know what they are exactly. Next time I trip over one I'll turn it over in 5th and see if I can figure out what ratio it has.

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Definitely could (and possibly will eventually) but I'm looking for a solution I can implement right now with minimum effort and without spending any money.



This might be the correct solution. ...

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While the car is up on the hoist I keep looking at the diff and thinking about throwing in the spare Supra LSD, but as mentioned before this means switching from a 3.58:1 to a 4.11:1 ratio. With that in mind I threw together a spreadsheet to calculate...

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Well it took two days but I was finally able to speak with an actual human about my problem. Unfortunately they want me to send the parts back before they'll replace them so there's no chance I'll have the car back together by the weekend.
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Behold the power of network effects.

[Norbie]

Excellent. I nearly bought one of these a few years ago when I was looking for a "sensible daily that isn't too boring" but wound up with a Soarer barge instead. I still wonder if I made the right choice!

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Very good, thanks.

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Awesome, I've been looking for something exactly like this! Where did you get it from?...

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Since the car is stuck on the hoist for now I figured I might as well knock off a few little jobs. I've got some new suspension bushes on order so it will be a good opportunity to do that, and I'm also having serious thoughts about swapping in that Supra...

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Yeah I have plenty of other cars I can take, but I wanted to take this one dammit!

There will be a polite but firm phone call first thing Monday morning, hopefully they do the right thing and send me the correct parts, but we shall see.

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Today was the day to install the coilover hardware, but things did not go as planned. It started out fine though, I pulled out the struts and disassembled them:





Then measured the struts I just pulled out of...

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Thanks but I've already ordered some bushes, should be here by mid week hopefully.

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Hydrogen has a lot of things going for it, but "easily transported" definitely isn't one of them....

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It's a bit pointless but I couldn't resist doing a quick test fit of the coilovers. Here's the front strut just hanging there, I still need to get the lower section of the old struts welded on before they can be installed for good:


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This is the brand new MA61 specific kit which comes with 6 kg/mm springs front and rear, however I optioned mine with 7kg springs in the front.

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Fuck, I don't remember that at all - but I do recall there were always other car club happenings when the Nationals were on. Citroen weird beards are especially weird beardy! ...

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Today the mailman showed up with a large and rather heavy box:



They arrived much sooner than I expected! I haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet but I couldn't resist having a quick look.

Front strut:...

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I'm enjoying the weirdness, carry on.

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Very awesome, will watch.



Because Japan. ...