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After almost 6 months of the insurance and repair debarkle the car is back on the road with a rebuilt engine and looking 'better than factory' showroom exterior.

HBF is one of the cheapest insurance people for skylines, to judge the quality of their dealings with members I ask that you look at how long it's taken me to get my car back before you even consider insuring with them. :P

All that is left to to go see the boys at hyperdrive to see if they would like to do the honours of putting in the new camshaft, something that would have already been done had the people at HBF paid any attention to the repair process as it was on going.

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the delay was due to a couple of things but, mainly due to HBF lacking comunication skills and a difference of attitude between head office and assesors towards quality of repair. You can count on HBF not telling you anything and even keeping tabs on the repair progress, which even if they did they wouldn't pass anything on.

The initial part was the argument over the quality of engine repair. I won that one but it took two months or so.

The positive side is that I had my brother do a complete respray of the car for material costs. The colour is slightly better than factory and has a much better finish.

the last time was 13.3 actually. After the motor is finally setup I think it will be able to beat 13.3 by about half a second on the same size rubber.

REV210 ..Congrats on gettin ya wheels back :P

Will you have the motor sortted in the next 3 weeks? I'm trying to drum up a big drags turnout on the 4th Feb. & would love to see it run :wassup:

I kept the metalic silver colour after all considerations but my brother tweaked it a little bit. I also went for a different grill with a chrome S for skyline on it.

I'll get the digital camera out later to have a few pics posted.

I'm just waiting on a quote from hyperdrive for the cam install so I can get started on that. I've pretty much ran the motor in now so the final stages are almost complete. I miss the nitrous kit though :)

BTW I'm still going to sell the car (as much as I like it) for tax reasons. I still might just go and get another skyline again anyway.

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