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"I don't want ....... unusable amounts of power on the street"

"739hp/551 awkw @ 35 psi"

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They have arrived!





Sadly they ended up costing a bit more. Of course, customs got their finger in the pie. Not unexpected, but what really irked me was that FCP Euro have a core charge of $100 on each strut -...

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Yep - two rear bags, new pump and then labour to fit it all. The two fronts are en route and I will do those myself as they're much more straightforward....

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Picked the car up today - all fixed. No more dragging it's arse around. Also seems to sit a little lower than it did before (they recalibrated the suspension), which is fine by me. New front struts in transit, so I'll whack them in in a week or two after...

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The other week I did as I said I would do and went and had a chat to a guy who runs a fabrication shop locally. His work looked good, seemed like a nice bloke. We spent a fair while searching through his V bands to see if any would fit my turbo. Of course,...

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Yeah nah. Don't see the point. This strikes me as very poor value - were I to spend that much money on bolt-ons for a stock motor I'd literally be able to peel the mantle from the earth. Great that the aftermarket scene is supporting these cars, but...

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FTFY...

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Oh, I know the bill is going to be..! I remind myself that I could cheap out and get a coil suspension kit for less, but as above I rather like the Airmatic, so I'll be keeping it stock. Helps with resale as well, should I want to do that. But yeah,...

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So we are once again reminded that cars costing a cool quarter of a million bucks new can be bought for cheap, but they're still $250,000 cars.

There are three big things that go bang on these. The first is the SBC brake pump. They reach...

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So a small amount of investigative work has happened, with the new turbocharger. I whipped the old one off:



And I was going to just test fit the new one, but figured why not clock it properly and hook everything up in the hope...

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Finally got around to doing something about those aftermarkets fogs... they are clearly a higher rated bulb that factory because they kept blowing the 15A fuse, but I've not touched them in ages because we don't have much fog around here. Smashed the...