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Birds Grand Master

Birds

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It's quite surprising what they do and don't know about vehicles when inspecting...when I had a cop inspecting my engine bay I was thinking to myself "there's so much I could teach you about looking for faults" lol. Yet they look in kick panels for aftermarket ECUs...

Bangaz Boy Enthusiast

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You sir, have never had the Knox TMU on your tail :)

Wanker or not, you don't always get left to your own devices but I agree you have much more chance of getting pulled over when you are driving like a wanker.

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Thats right, I got pulled over driving like a grandma doing 75 in an 80 zone along Burwood Hwy. Cop gave my the car a very thorough inspection asking why are the wastegates silver instead of the stock bronze colour and asking about the engine management if it was a Apexi PFC or Motec etc. My car and engine bay look very standard and in the end he got me for a boost controller. He also went through the inside of my car looking for the ECU and EBC. This particular cop knew more than enough to pick anything unusual (illegal mods) and by the way listing parts and giving me advice on my mods he was definitely very knowledgeable on the car front. My advice would be to make it look as stock as possible and hide anything illegal as well as you possibly can and avoid driving around these areas (knox, dandenong etc) on Friday / Saturday nights, good luck.

Birds Grand Master

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It's nice that they don't take into consideration the fact you were driving sensibly/sedately at the time of pulling you over for inspection, unlike, I don't know, 90% of the other cars on the road. Did he have you blocking a lane on Burwood Highway for the inspection too?

ChakGTR Enthusiast

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Paint the injectors the same colour as the stock ones....And if the cop finds something illegal eg PFC, EBC.. Just pull a gun on him, blow his brains out and get out of there fast..I heard that works well in America..

Bangaz Boy Enthusiast

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It's nice that they don't take into consideration the fact you were driving sensibly/sedately at the time of pulling you over for inspection, unlike, I don't know, 90% of the other cars on the road. Did he have you blocking a lane on Burwood Highway for the inspection too?

Yeah it was real nice of him. I guess he had nothing better to do. I would have blocked off a lane on Burwood Hwy, but I pulled over on High street road into a bus turn off for that very reason. Definitely won't be driving around that area at night again. Been a nightmare having to get / pay for all the stock components for the EPA.

perzn_34 Experienced

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thats the petite guy in knox area. ive heard he owns a evo him self, and also one of his family members died in a drag race so he promised him self to nail down as many imports as he can the kantt..

alr33x Grand Master

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thats the petite guy in knox area. ive heard he owns a evo him self, and also one of his family members died in a drag race so he promised him self to nail down as many imports as he can the kantt..

let the pettit rumours begin..

i hear his dog got run over by an import while it was poopin on a nature strip and the guy lost it sideways in a residential street.. so he promised to take it out on every import he sees...could be wrong though

Count Grantleyish Grand Master

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Yeah it was real nice of him. I guess he had nothing better to do. I would have blocked off a lane on Burwood Hwy, but I pulled over on High street road into a bus turn off for that very reason. Definitely won't be driving around that area at night again. Been a nightmare having to get / pay for all the stock components for the EPA.

Have you cleared the EPA yet?

Peter89 Proficient

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man up and run the larger turbo, make sure you sure use a low mount manifold. heat coat the turbo, leave the stock heat shield on (if any?).

another words, do it and hide it. if the engine bay looks like a race car, you ll get pwned, if it looks stock you should be fine.

i saw a cop checking over a friends skyline, even looked at the turbo, completely missed it was a HKS turbo.

in summary, basically every mod is illegal these days.

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Birds Grand Master

Birds

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thats the petite guy in knox area. ive heard he owns a evo him self, and also one of his family members died in a drag race so he promised him self to nail down as many imports as he can the kantt..

LOL. Petite rumours...the old wives tails of the import scene.

And it's not always Petite...not unlike Senator Palpatine he has since trained a few apprentices in the dark arts.

FrangaR33 Mentor

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LOL. Petite rumours...the old wives tails of the import scene.

And it's not always Petite...not unlike Senator Palpatine he has since trained a few apprentices in the dark arts.

Top call Birds. I find it so amusing that Petit is the whipping boy of of SAU Vic and most of us have probably never met him :thumbsup:

Bangaz Boy Enthusiast

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Have you cleared the EPA yet?

Nah mate not yet :D. I just found the stock exhaust and it was the last part i needed to get. So now i'll work on putting back what I can myself and then save up a bit to pay someone to do the rest. Hopefully sorted by the end of this month. Its killing me not being able to drive it. Did you get your beast fixed up from the GOR cruise?

Count Grantleyish Grand Master

Count Grantleyish

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Nah mate not yet :D . I just found the stock exhaust and it was the last part i needed to get. So now i'll work on putting back what I can myself and then save up a bit to pay someone to do the rest. Hopefully sorted by the end of this month. Its killing me not being able to drive it. Did you get your beast fixed up from the GOR cruise?

Man, EPA is a bitch hey?

Yes it's fixed from my GOR 'mishap' it was a damn clamp that broke, my wallet sure did copped a beating!

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