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[Aaron]

I have cursed this joint every single time it thumped the floor. Now I can happily say it’s gone!

I made a video of it being started for the first time. It’s just start and idle so I could listen for leaks.

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[Aaron]

Now onto some actual touching up the car.


Backside up in the air and finally the old slightly dodgy exhaust is off the car!
Hardest part was the nut on the cat end which is obscured by the cat. But swearing creatively got it...

[Aaron]

Yep, it’s an ideal day to be fucking around with the car.

But some pre-Black Friday shopping adventures.

Some pretty basic Brembo pads for the rear end, naturally I had also ordered a matching set for the front,...

[Aaron]

Either option shows Lewis for what he is....

[Aaron]

Blotchy can be:
- wax applied to heavily, and unevenly
- wax not allowed to dry fully so areas where it was still wet will be oily or blotchy
- Not properly mixed in the bottle, a lot of retail stuff sits for ages and the heavier components...

[Aaron]

Is that a “mother-in-law door” like they have in places where it snows a lot?

[Aaron]

I can hardly see Toyota doing different metalwork/doorskins to the BRZ. Surely the cost saving of platform sharing means only changing plastics (which still lets them make the nose look like a badly tucked tranny.

[Aaron]

Fronts will also see more stable ground/rock/stuff before the rear, rears nearly always churning in crap already churned by the fronts.

[Aaron]

Why pay “professionals”?

So while I was out of town for a couple of weeks I left the car with the local Gearbag shop to fit up a new clutch, slave and master.

Get the car back and from a mechanical standpoint it’s mint,...

[Aaron]

Science experiment on the original centre caps. They’re really tatty so I figured I’d try a soak with some oven cleaner to get the rattle can black off.


After an hour or so in the bag in the sun. And a blast with the...

[Aaron]

^ Brilliant

[Aaron]

I probably should have used by italics.

It’s pretty obvious he had no issue with the throttle initiating the skid, and maybe it did break because he didn’t have a pedal stop in the cabin and instead tore the end off the chinabay T...

[Aaron]

But that’s what the spring is meant to take care of.

Seeing that setup makes me wonder why you wouldn’t just run DBW and never have to worry about cable routing again.

[Aaron]

LOL throttle stuck, at 100%, and how does a throttle that’s spring loaded to close “stick” at 100% while pretty much idling up a crowded street?

And how the fuck did that retarded build get past rego?...

[Aaron]

Does none of us car hobby people any favours with that kind of thing. Speed humps would have prevented this...

[Aaron]

My bad, you’re looking at 957’s (facelift of the 1st generation) cars? No wonder I’m getting confused with the seeking of off-road options which I’ve not really seen in the 958’s I’m looking at!

Its universal though, a lot of...

[Aaron]

That’s be right. Worked like 2 weeks ago and I hadn’t used it since....

[Aaron]

Mine sat in my driveway while the insurance company fucked about. For like 7 months. I know owners of a few modified things also ripped out mods and pretty much gave no fucks for reassembly, with a. Dual-cab you may find similar things.

[Aaron]

And this is what the completed wheel will look like.
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Decided the brakes are due some attention.

There’s a massive range of pads that suit these things so choosing something “right” isn’t going to be fun or...

[Aaron]

It depends. A lot of people have done very well picking up gaol-damaged (economic write-off, aka repairable) cars in Canberra since January.

However my experience of owning one of the cars that was written off was “thank fuck I don’t...