lacitpo

sad to see a highly respected shop losing its familiar faces but like the mayhoe said good to go out with a highly respected name dad will be pissed, he was rather happy about being the first car that ever got a service there and how yous went about business (JRJ 1 - shiraz S14a, 17" sparco's, suspension work, stock mechanics)

on the flip side wait till you have to build 8005ted

of course their going to be making more money but what im trying to say is its not as much as people think. If someone says house "x" was 100k lastyear, and now its 150k, the builder is making 50k easy - not so. You can complain about having too much work, the same as not having enough. It stretches friendships, stresses out workers and is generally not a healthy work environment. My construction manager mate works from 7 till often 10 at night with no set break. Hard work The post above shows why your paying heaps for a new home. Greedy tradies charging the earth for their services because there are limited trades BUT, we can sit here and bitch about tradies being greedy, but if you were in their position im sure you (and i) would do teh same. catch 22

ok mate you seem to know it all ill leave you to it. Excuse me while i play internet mechanic

man i havnt read so much shit in a long time until i came into this thread *workmanship getting worse* *lower quality* *zero to builder in weeks* *things not getting done on time* *insane price rises - greedy builders* I work for one of the companies mentioned in this thread, i was drafting, now im supervising and i can say most of the crap getting spoken in here is rediculas. People diss others who are "internet mechanics" same goes for you "internet builders". Unless your one of "us" learn your facts first. For a start workmanship is generally not poor unless you get a duff trade which if it happens once, generally doesnt happen again. Hell, if a supervisor has over 30 jobs to look after and he is getting one bad trade x 30 - do you think he is going to want that extra stress on his shoulders - no. That tradie will either pull his finger out or he will be looking for work with another builder. FACT. To be a builder is more then a 5 week tafe course, more like 7 years before you can become a registered builder. You can do a trades course sure, but if your shit you wont get employed - refer above rant. As someone else mentioned these trainees are generally under the wing of someone experianced, and if the trainee does a shit job its on the other dudes head Things not getting done on time. Surely you watch tv and read the paper - There is a huge lack of trades atm. Plasteres, grano workers lack of materials; bricks etc. This is why things aint getting done on time, not because the builder is slack. With the huge amount of work on and the lack of trades things are taken their time - and when you hassle and hassle and hassle all thats happening is the supervisor is pulling his trades off another job, to do yours to keep you happy. So another job gets delayed - chain reaction Price rises, this applies to the above. The price rises aint there for the builder to take advantage of the industry atm. The rises are due to the "few" tradies out there getting REALLY greedy and charging insane rates. If the builder says "we wont pay that" the tradie goes to somewhere that will. Materials are getting expensive aswell. So ontop of this builders raise the price to slow down the amount of people that are signing up with them. "Why would they stop sales, thats dumb?" i hear you ask - Exactly the opposite. They are the smart builders. They know how many jobs are in the system, they know the lack of trades and the building time so they limit their intake to what they can handle comfortably. Easiest way to do this - put the price up You might think a smaller builder will have a better turn around time. Wrong. The big companies out there usually have more of a "say" with their suppliers. A brick company isnt going to give a small builder priority when they might spend little on a few houses a month whereas a big builder is spending huge dollers in the same time frame with lots more houses. So generally your smaller builder with a smaller budget will have a harder time finding materials, getting the site loaded on time (material delivery times) and getting trades out on site. For those first time home buyers out there. Push yourself, but not too hard. Whats 'comfortable' now (mortgage wise) might not be if intrest rates go up. HER 32 - if you need any advice or have any questions regarding who i work for pm me ps - sorry for rant

nice work brad ill be calling you soon regarding that tiling we spoke about awhile ago....

dont forget i want a ride brad

aaagh, feel the love

pitty i dont have the money for it tho have to sell my s14 first. have you had your car on the dyno yet ? would be interesting to guage its performance

97 s14a 200sx 104~ kays - serviced and worked on by josh @ jspec manual cd player hybrid style fmic with stainless piping by josh @ jspec (A+ welding here for those that dont know) K&N pod - month old ? Oddysea battery due to ic piping BOV (woo) Greddy duel pod guage with one (haha $$$) EL boost guage HKS Hiper 3.5" zaust with one piece turbo to cat pipe RG pads front slotted rotors with new bendix pads to rear Vertex body kit (full) just put on about 2~3 months ago by spoiler shop needs - springs and some dirty big rims to make her look sweet. reason for sale - i want to spend more money on the house Asking for $23000 but will negotiate http://www.antilag.com/personal/gary/vs14/v1.JPG http://www.antilag.com/personal/gary/vs14/v2.JPG http://www.antilag.com/personal/gary/vs14/v3.JPG http://www.antilag.com/personal/gary/vs14/v5.JPG number plate on fmic has been replaced with sticker above can be called on 0412 448 308 - dont come on net 'that' often or [email protected]

for those who are interested, cannington auto wholesale has a nice autech version out the back being complied as we speak not sure on pricing yet, but id dare say it would be around 40k ?? i was having a look at some of their stageas yesterday and ended up driving one. its no rocket, but nothing mods cant fix i was impressed with all the little bits and pieces that make driving and owning such a car more enjoyable. the door handles in the rear cargo area that make the seats drop down is a winner

brad - talk to lumpy, he did alot of work with c-reds stagea so he should be a plethora of info for ya

awesome. im gonna come round sometime brad.... and i was a hoon around the block

if i can do a trade in.... its done

brad ! its gary here (olds live close to you, you know s14 blah blah) ive jsut found this stagea part of the forum, been thinking about trading the s14 in on one and doing the 26 install. Went to see kris last week and he said you had bought one and was doing the same, i was steaming. hahahah thought it would be something original anyway i wanna see your car, sms me or something - 0412 448 308 btw - i was looking on the cannington wholesale site not long ago, saw a nice 96 one with mags, zorst etc - bitch, that must be yours now hey ?? gary