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Anyone heading down this sunday if the weather is good? Aidwin made noises about trying out his new turbo..

Zanda and I were thinking of a dams cruise in the morning followed by some drag action at Kwinana. Weather permitting of course..

rob its all in the clutch.

and of course a reasonable set of tyres, pineapple do help also

let your street tyres down a little dont completely fry them in a burnout they actually go off if over heated. and make sure if you drive through the water you turn the tyres before staging. it will take a few runs to get it right

but just get a feel of when it rolls away then into it.

Ok, if enough people are going I might go again. But can someone give me a hand tightening up my pineapples? I should have tightened them up when steve had it on the hoist at SST when he did the dump pipe, any offers? At least if I can get them tightened I can come down with you guys and get some tips on what I am doing wrong :D

This is what I am thinking too... I had them tightened to the torque setting by a mate and they came loose, so speedworks tightened them up again to the setting and they came loose so this time I am tightening them till they are squashed and wont come loose again. I got the whiteline kit same as rev210 and he's tightened the **** out of them and had no problems.

the two at the front are generally tightened with a hose clamp, if you have cut them to fit through instead of removing the subframe enough to slot them in

if they are cut ... and you aren't using anything to hold them together ... then it is an extremely didgy setup as even though they have the pressure from the subframe / weight of car, they can still snap out

there shouldn't be any torque setting, just tighten them to shit

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