MaXiMuS007

who's up for a barby on elwood beach say meet 1pm?

Oh well, doesn't look like this cruise is happening???

Heheheh didnt mean to offend you, but surely you don't think i'd mistake my squeaky brake pads (which they are) for a scraping in the engine bay. I'm open to all help. Oh yeah, u coming tomoz phat?

i've never installed brake pads in the engine

nasty metal on metal scraping noise, sounds like a bearing from the air-con but not sure

Oh and does any1 wanna come fix my car while they're around?

I'm cool with my house being the meeting place, but what time were people thinking...?

Hrrmm...aii iz got kno parken orr bakyard, butt mai parantz iz gon awai. Translation: I have no parking or a big backyard but my house is free because my family is away, and i am pretty close to brighton/elwood. Whateva

well if nothing gets organised then lets just meet at elwood... or bbq at my place

Funny dave, because when I got mine rego'd they had 1370kg in the computer, i didn't have to weigh anything

yeah good one horus, keep us all in suspense why don't u

We don't even know whats happening yet

Thanks Gohan Yep, its calculated by the known tare and power, so no matter how much crap you have on it, it makes no difference. Maybe it means you can have a fully blown 500hp hyundai excel and its fine, but not a 250hp GTSt?? hehe And yeah the hooning thing, its funny because I notice that of all the cars driving along side me, I tend to accelerate the most smoothly and actually keep to the speedlimit. Yet I am the "dangerous" P plater in the powerful car. What a crock of SH1T

yep I've had no problemo with the GTSt , just don't go around and give us P platers any worse of a name and hoon around

As long as there's a barby... elwood could work

What about caulfield park?

Count me in

I went to another mechanic (my usual one), he spent 15 minutes listening to stuff with his little stethoscope thing He says its not coming from the cams but from the airconditioning or something so not to be too concerned and get it fixed when i can. And he seemed pretty certain. Strange, but at least i can give my car a thrashing again

actually that brings me to another question, what tools would I need to open up the cam cover? Don't flame me, coz I really have no idea about what to do but I'd like to know

Hrmm thats not too bad. Thing is, I don't actually know whether its the idler bearing or not, thats just what the mechanic said he thinks it could be. Can't tell til I open her up. Maybe I'll give it a go over the weekend? Any1 wanna help???

^bump^

Well yesterday when i came home from uni, i arrive to the sound of a loud cyclic rubbing/grinding noise eminating from the cam cover... I first noticed the sound on sunday when i went to the airport, it was actually the longest drive i'd taken in the car yet, but it was extremely faint and it sounded like it could have been the fan belt. I started it up this morning, there was no noise when it was cold but as the car warmed up the sound returned. Anyway, I went to the mechanic, he reckons it could be the Idler Bearing, but he can't tell till he opens the thing up ($$ in labour), I had the timing belt changed 2000 k's ago. How much is an idler bearing gonna cost me? I did find a thread that said something about $220. Is that right? Help -Max (the man with what is starting to feel like a lemon R33:()

Hrmm... i think the munkeh is right we might need a 3rd poll lol, but we can take destinations and activities here then make another poll of the best ones How about meet at Brighton beach (for a nice view) then drive 12 k's down North rd to huntigdale sidetracked (go karts ppl)?

and that would be? btw, we are taking suggestions, i will add them as they crop up

OK well since the other poll has obviously gone to the wasteland, I thought I'd start a new one. No rigging of the votes either please.