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  1. Yes, Xanavi site is gone and I no longer do the conversions at all.

    There is a company in Sydney doing the language conversions at about 2 times the price I charged.

    They have not made any effort to promote them selves so I am not going to do it for them.

  2. Wheel bearings failing at 93'000km's...... That is not a good sign for the accuracy of the km's the car has travelled.

    My 03 ARX had 169'000km on mine when sold and had no problems with wheel bearings.

  3. Looking Good Mark... now I believe there is a Roll bar.. lol

    I love the idea of and Hard Top and keep watching them for sale but I love the convertivble aspect of the car (plus it is the only way to keep the heat down).

    I just fitted QFM A1RM pads with DBA T2 4000 rotors. I am a happy boy so far.

    Also just ordered new tyres, Federal 595RSR to fit on the stock 15 inch wheels.

  4. Looks good. I have moved the same way from the Stagea to my weekend MX5.

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    Have a look at the MX5 Plus rollbars. Not sure they are CAMs approved but a great design and easy to fit plus they are better for the over 6 footers that drive MX5's.

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    I think my mod list is very similar but the budget... where did that budget go..

  5. I wish more Australian cars had this feature as it scars the crap out of me when you are behind a timid (read bad) driver and they nudge out but dont go, then reverse back and leave the car in reverse.

    I sit there praying they will realise before they go for a gap.

    :wacko:

  6. The rear suspension toes out under compression (even more noticeably on lowered cars).

    IMO this is the reason Nissan made the hicas standard with the LSD - it's too easy to get the car into oversteer without the hicas fighting against the extra toe present on hard squat under acceleration around a corner.

    I spose the reasoning behind it is that a majority of the mums & dads out there don't necessarily have the wherewithal to cope with a big oversteer moment in the wet

    Ask me how i know what oversteer is like on a LSD equipped car with no hicas. :O

    The HICAS in the Stagea is only active over 40kmh. When active it only moves about 1.5 degrees steering in the direction of the steering.

    It really only helps reduce bdoy roll by reducing the arc of a turn at speed.. a little bit towards crabing.

  7. It's far better to have LSD and V-Hicas than no LSD and no V-Hicas.

    I personally don't have an issue with the V-Hicas with my setup other than I have way to much grip when in 4WD.

    Jetwreck lives again..., :)

  8. I wonder if that had something to do with my issue? Stao told me to drill mine to 4mm.

    That seems very large. I did mine with 3mm (think that is what is was, was more like find drill bit to drill after 10 hours under the car changing turbo).

    I agree with scott, 2.5mm max.

  9. best bet, talk to Jetwreck as he has sorted through these problems for someone at least once before.

    mmm.. Nagoya...

    Have you changed your aircon filter (in the passenger footwell behind glove box) I pulled one out for someone and it was marked that it was changed 2 years prior at 70k. Only thing was the car was purchased in Oz with 42k 2 years prior.... the plot thickened.

  10. Can you give us a little more info? What model and year?

    When did you get the car?

    As I am assuming you are talking about a series 1 NM35 (2001-2004), that does sound like really low Km's.

    I bought my car in 2008 which was a 2003/3 model ARX with 43k on the clock. At the same time Jetwreck bought a 2002 model ARX with 70k on the clock.

    I do suspect your KM's are not right.

    Beside that, why did they service the transmission at 45k? The transmission does not require an oil change till 100k.

    THen you need to use the right oil. use the wrong oil and your transmission will stuff up.

    So I would be thinking 1) you possibly have the wrong oil in the gearbox 2) the transmission has done many more km's than you think and may just be getting old.

  11. It is a brilliant upgrade and recomended. Shifts are faster and still smooth.

    I would disagree with Leon about the downshifts. I thought it was a good improvement to downshifts but they can be slower than desired. I found if you use a little throttle on the downshift the gearbox was more willing to change faster.

    You can get the very odd shift that is a little firm but my wife did not even pick the difference.

    I also got an improvment in fuel economy.

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