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alex_r33

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First things first...welcome!!! Nice looking car you have there

Crap Isaac!! Alex, just go to your "My Controls" area and change it to whatever you want it to say!!

You can only change that if you are a mamber of the club!!!! I couldnt change mine till I had joined

thanks for the advice, I just go to the gym there and thought i would snap a couple of pics after i washed her today. (Isn't it annoying how many inperfections you find when you wash a car for the first time ?!?!)

Also, I was thinking of putting the car on the dyno just to see how it goes as a starting point and also to check out a noise im hearing (there is a high pitched whistle when the turbo spools up only happens for like a second on full boost between 4000 and 5000rpm i think it is). I rang up FIST performance and they quoted $95, does anyone have any dealings with them to speak of? or anyone else to recommend?

I have only heard very bad things about fist :O

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First things first...welcome!!! Nice looking car you have there

You can only change that if you are a mamber of the club!!!! I couldnt change mine till I had joined

I have only heard very bad things about fist :mage:

Thanks for the positive comments, there is definately an active community here.

I was actually wondering what they do in a "dyno tune" as opposed to a power run. Is it worth getting a tune if i have just the exhaust and hks pod?

SMR33 Grand Master

SMR33

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Hi Alex

Welcome to teh forum :mage:

If you want to join SAu Qld please see this thread http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...howtopic=104137

Feel free to PM me any questions you may have which I haven't covered

i'll let someone else explain the RB20E thing but basically its got to do with the amount of posts you've made on the forums

This is correct

Crap Isaac!! Alex, just go to your "My Controls" area and change it to whatever you want it to say!!

This is also correct

Also, you don't need to be a member of SAu Qld to be able to change this :D

Rhinorebel mentioned Chilleh Night...basically we get together and have a dinner somewhere...check my sig for details -- hope you can come along :)

Kind regards,

Karen - SAu Qld Treasurer

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thanks for the advice, I just go to the gym there and thought i would snap a couple of pics after i washed her today. (Isn't it annoying how many inperfections you find when you wash a car for the first time ?!?!)

Also, I was thinking of putting the car on the dyno just to see how it goes as a starting point and also to check out a noise im hearing (there is a high pitched whistle when the turbo spools up only happens for like a second on full boost between 4000 and 5000rpm i think it is). I rang up FIST performance and they quoted $95, does anyone have any dealings with them to speak of? or anyone else to recommend?

WELCOME WELCOME ALEX! kaos-panda28.gif

FIST... well... as I personally haven't had any work done there, I can't say... but there are things that just don't sit right. They tend to not take things seriously. They will overcharge on items. And they tried to sell me a car which had work done and was tuned, yet still seemed to make piss-poor power figures.

Anyway, welcome, you should come along to Chilleh (it's at ChilLan this week) :mage:

Ciao, Anna xo

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