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CLASSIC! I like your sense of humor.

Alrighty heres where I stand, ive managed to get this far:

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Ive replaced the studs and at the stage of attaching the clover disk to the drive shaft. Everytime I push it in the shaft back slides back in. Im not to comfortable beating the crap out of it now. So im hoping to grab some advice of some people who have done this before.

Any advice would be good. Im about to cry as it has taken me a week to get this far.

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LOL damn man sorry to hear bout that, that thing looks awesome.

BUT, the same thing happen to me and a friend on a go-kart, he was driving along and the wheel just flew off and i was chasing it.

would have been funny to see it happen to a car.

once again though, sorry! lol

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At the time it wasn't so humerous but now i look back on it I see it as an omen and have a good chuckle over it.

I found a few things that definitely need looking into. At present it still has only 3 wheels but i have sourced a hub for $150 so I will get that fitted this week sometime.

Tomorrow I will order the custom carpet and roof lining which should be ready by the weekend. After that its a full service and tune then registration time.

After rego comes the paint touch up and she will be ready for show and tell.

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At the time it wasn't so humerous but now i look back on it I see it as an omen and have a good chuckle over it.

I found a few things that definitely need looking into. At present it still has only 3 wheels but i have sourced a hub for $150 so I will get that fitted this week sometime.

Tomorrow I will order the custom carpet and roof lining which should be ready by the weekend. After that its a full service and tune then registration time.

After rego comes the paint touch up and she will be ready for show and tell.

How much is the custom carpet and roof lining. When u say carpet, it's not the floor mats right? It's the whole bottom end.

Cheers! =)

Tofu Rising Star

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Full bottom homie.

Dunno how much its worth find out tomorrow when I meet the guy. I hear there is a guy in Cannington that is the shizzle for this. Hopefully he can whip up one in Calsonic Blue for me.

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sorry to hijack, how much did it cost to send it from the eastern states. I am thinking about buying a skyline in melbourne. did the seller handle the arrangements to get it transported or did you do it from perth?

also i noticed ur car is quite low, any transport damage? the car i am thinking of getting has a bodykit.

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Sup,

Hijack away. I went through Patricks Autocare and it cost me a little over 1400 to get it here. I went on word of mouth rather than what was the cheapest as i didn't want anything to happen to he car. If i had to do it again i would probably use someone else.

As for damage, from what I can see, there was none caused by the transport company. Just make sure you document eveything when it is recieved so when it gets here no yobbo has ganked your hard earned gauges/wheels/girlfriend.

As for the ride height, with the front bar fitted the car sits around 6cm from the ground. If you get one with a kit I would strongly advise having the front bumper taken off before transporting.

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