pyro-ns

ahhhh shit. i got my servos wrong

I can't tell you who to go to, but i can tell you NOT to go to Auto Perfection. I unfortunately bought into the last SAU SA group buy, for two cars, the front windows of the stagea and full tint for my Chaser. Both times I was told to get there in the morning before about 10 and car would be ready by around lunch. Both times I did not get the car back until 5 or 5:30 then was palmed off some bullshit excuse that differed wildly from what I was first told, or told again when I called to see how the car was going. The second time my wife and I spent the majority of the afternoon (4hrs+), sitting in the waiting area, listening to the pig of an owner verbally abuse his receptionist repeatedly, then whenever an angry customer arrived (we counted 5 in the time that we were there, out of about 7 customers total), he would scurry out the back, telling his receptionist that "he wasn't there", to leave her to take the beating. One poor woman who was also waiting on tint and had dropped her car off at around noon, came back just before we were leaving, to see that her car hadn't even made it into the workshop yet. What's more, I now have a 3-4 inch long scratch on my driver's side window, pin-prick holes on the passenger side tint and the tint looks like it hasn't bonded to the rear windscreen properly. But i absolutely REFUSE to take it anywhere near them and will have nothing to do with them further. This is my personal experience. Not my friend's friend's friend's (although I have heard those as well). If I had my time again, I would have paid the $30 or so that I saved in the group buy and gone to somewhere like instant windscreens, where they're nice, they do their job in the timeframe they specify ad you get quality work.

???????? mod plates and compliance plates are two totally different things. in qld, if you modify your car and it is certified by an engineer, you then get a mod plate to say that your modifications are legal. the mod plate won't be recognised down here anyway, beacuse laws surrounding modifications are different from state to state. i've never seen or heard of a mod plate trying to be passed off as a compliance plate. something's a bit sus with your car mate and i'd be asking questions.

oh and what about mixing oils? The current oil is a shell helix 10w30 (semi synth i think?), all i have now is 10w40 in a castrol or a penrite (gotta check the shed).

cheers guys. i'll check it again when it's cold. still... 5L?

i think MV automatics is only in Adelaide. I don't think you'd have any problems getting them to send a new valve body to Sydney though. Our stagea has an MV Automatics shift improvement kit and it's a LOT better. 10/10.

Hi guys, got a bit of a strange problem. Just changed the oil on the stag (was a little overdue) and filter. Had a brand new 5L bottle of oil that i put in (the whole lot now... i remember stags taking 4.7L?) and the reading on the dipstick was a little below full (3mm or so)... I took the car for a short spin around the block (400m maybe?) and now the level on the dipstick is sitting about 2mm below low... So, i got on my push bike and rode the same track that I drove the car on and there's no oil, anywhere. I gt off the bike at certain intervals and checked closely just to make sure, but there was no oil anywhere. I can see no evidence of leaking from the sump plug, nor from the oil filter. Now with the car sitting in the garage, there is a very small pool of the old oil, but i'm pretty convinced that this is from when you take your filter off and it spills all over the front dif, then slowly leaks off. Where else can it go? Pooling in the head and not coming back down? No warning lights are appearing on the dash. And i don't have any more 10w 30... Think i've got a 10w40, but would rather not mix it... Any help would be appreciated guys Josh

that's a really nice stag with a reeeeeeeally nice mods list for that price, i'd be jumping for joy, regardless of it not/being a "factory" autech

gave and received a wave from a nice blue M35 on Gulfview Rd on Tuesday i think. sounded veeeeerrrrry nice also, got a toot from a (bayside?) blue c34 on thursday or friday morning this week just gone, when i was turning right on to sherrifs rd. sorry mate, i didn't see you until you had gone past me that may have been me... i was in the area around then i think

i'm curious, what did they say? surely it's shit them more than it would us even, because they'd be spending allll day dodging the bastards, albeit with softer suspension, but they'd still feel it.

slightly o/t, but what is a slip light?

i don't image it's going to be easy, but you may be able to somehow retrofit the tiptronic setup from the C34 stagea? there are a crapload of variables though and i don't even have the slightest idea of how similar the auto-trans setups are between the c34 and v35.

another -1 for boostworx. they told my wife that the ticking noise in her CA was just normal sounds that you get in the head, over time. "don't worry about it" they said. it was a piece of the piston floating around the chamber with a bit of the top ring... fortunately we moved to QLD about a month later. unfortuantely, we drove the sil up. it got us to qld, but that was about it.

short-sighted waste of time and will not "work", just like it has not "worked" in any other state. goodbye more civil liberties. easy target considering the percentage of those affected that do not have a right of reply.