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Hi ACT gang,

After the defect on Friday night from exhaust reading 95db, (i really have to check the ADR's on this... The guy measured it 4100rpm, i thought for a 6cyl after 1996 it was on 3600rpm), I'll be needing to get my FMIC and POD engineered. Now I want to get my wheels engineered as well, but I don't think I will be able to because the max on the tyre placard says 7.5/8.5" and i'm running 8/9", plus the rear tyres have a load rating of less than 91V (88W or 89W i think, they are the Federal 595's in 265/35/18).

First question I have is:

Can someone confirm that these are the correct details for Ray Spence;

Ray Spence

Canberra Motor Works

38 Hoskins St Mitchell 2911

(02) 6241 8777

Second question I have is:

Does anyone have some wheels with legal rubber on them that I can borrow next week (if i can get the car booked into Dickson)? Or does anyone know someone selling some cheap rims to put tyres on that will fit the 33?

Thanks in advance all

Cheers

Sam

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Hey mate, i know your pain to well. I have federal 595's on my car, went through dickson 2weeks ago and they where fine. They where engineerred ofcourse but they did make it through dickson.I had r17 40/255's on. Just get them engineered when you get the other things engineered, but make sure the engineer engineers a set of stock wheeels aswell, otherwise u cant put stock wheels on your car ever again.

Cheers for the replies guys,

I have the car booked in with Ray Spence this Thursday, and some standard rims coming down tomoz from Sydney.

I also realised that it is my front wheels that are the incorrect load rating for the car (88W 225/40/18). Federal didn't have 235s in stock at the time I put the rims on...

r33skyflyin, i can't see why you cannot put stock wheels on my car ever again once my other rims are engineered..................

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Ok, so I've just left Dickson rego inspection. Failed. Not happy.

They failed me on the exhaust being 4mm too low (96mm), so right now I have the car at Powatone (awesome guys out there) getting the flanges rotated and the middle muffler raised up as far as it can (there isn't much room, but I am praying for a miracle). And then i'm heading straight back to Dickson to get the green tick on the car.

Ok, so I've just left Dickson rego inspection. Failed. Not happy.

They failed me on the exhaust being 4mm too low (96mm), so right now I have the car at Powatone (awesome guys out there) getting the flanges rotated and the middle muffler raised up as far as it can (there isn't much room, but I am praying for a miracle). And then i'm heading straight back to Dickson to get the green tick on the car.

If that's all they picked then well done. It is a pain having to spend $$$$ for the sake of 4mm but not clearing the 100mm block is money for jam for these guys. When they start picking BS items is when it really starts to p u off.

Why would you need an engineers cert for a FMIC? As long as it's not hang out everywhere, shouldn't be a drama, it's just a larger repositioned OEM part.

Pod filters(AFM) need to be secured and the pod should be boxed for noise reasons to avoid defect.

Did you change your exhaust and did they actually test your dB at Dickson?

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