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spotted hotwire's legnum on south road down by the mitsubishi factory bout 11ish, but not being driven by lee (unless he's turned female LOL), so im guessin the wife drives it :laugh:

also had a heap of 32s and 33s go thru our worksite today.

spotted hotwire's legnum on south road down by the mitsubishi factory bout 11ish, but not being driven by lee (unless he's turned female LOL), so im guessin the wife drives it :blink:

Yep Matty, that's my wife driving. The baby capsule doesnt fit in the SP23 too well, so for now while Lachlann's in the capsule, Brooke has the legnum.

When he graduates to a seat (few months away) I'll finally have the legnum back full time ;)

spotted a white stag turning from lambert street onto elizabeth road in morphett vale tonight at 6.45, or last night rather. I was walking to my house just up from that corner u came out of. Sounded very nice, need to convert it to a manual, sound alot better, heard it spool up, then nothing, kind of a let down lol.

If you're ever wondering where all the crappy base model non-turbo CA18 R32 and RB20 R33 sedans went, I've found them all - spotted in Auckland...

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spotted Heslo this morning, or more correctly Luke jumping out into the middle of the road on Morphett Square to get my attention, im half asleep in the mornings but i eventually managed a wave! Im guessing you heard me coming hey Luke.....lol

Spotted RHR 032, A blue early model 32 in the seaford shopping centre car park.

And a black 33 with XPX 256 also in that car park, nice looking car.

And also i think it may have been Jacks (autobarn Jack lol forgot ur username haha) 33 in the same carpark parked out behind woolworths and big W? Looked alot like your 33.

All spotted this morning after 9 and before 10.

spotted a white stag turning from lambert street onto elizabeth road in morphett vale tonight at 6.45, or last night rather. I was walking to my house just up from that corner u came out of. Sounded very nice, need to convert it to a manual, sound alot better, heard it spool up, then nothing, kind of a let down lol.

lmao ! that was me grabbing an oz lol

yeah put foot down a little but didnt go on with it, sorry to disapoint :bunny: she's got 200at4w tho :banana:

cant do manual, too tall & no knees. auto stays =D

new wheels too, selln the GTT wheels cheapish

need to pull the circlips out and drop the springs down a level on the adj.bilstein shocks

too hard with no knees hey, went to pedders 3x lol and they didnt want to believe me how easy it is to do. idjuts

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Also was it dan 'the man's blue 32 GTR in the shell on south road at darlington just now?

nah wasnt me im a north boy n i hardly been driving mine lately. been busy with uni :banana:

i know there's 1 with cromies the same colour and another 1 driven buy a guy with glasses (my imposter) i seen in town once.

also i dont touch that nasty shell stuff :bunny:

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im doing all my oil swaps this week, anyone with a 32 gtr got any advice???

so far i got

engine: motul turbolight 4100 10-40 or 5-40

diffs: Castrol SAF-XA

gearbox: castrol syntrans 75w-85 or syntrax 75w-90

and the transfer case, attessa & powersteer can use the same: castrol Transmax Z

advice????? also oil filter advice? this my first swap on a modern car, used to simple escorts :banana:

Yeah Ben, that was me! We had just packed up and put the boom lift around the corner, got rained off and was headed home. Also saw Ruby twice, once on Grand Junction Rd and once on Main North Rd some hours later

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