What Have You Done To Your Stagea Lately?

[stageaharts]

nice work stageaharts , heaps of tuff C34 stags in adelaide now..be good to all meet up and see how all the different combos go

cheers

darren

Thanks mate, I've had the old girl for a fair while now and it's been a long process but I'm really looking forward to the final product. When it's done a cruise would be a great idea

[GH05T]

productive day today,

Tinted the front windows, played around with the idea of matching the back tint but as its so dark and would be illegal i decided to keep with legal darkness,

also the colors will never be the same so it will never truly match the privacy glass.

also found and fitted a pearl white Dayz front bar, still needs to be tideyed up but looks allot better imo,

also found allot of the bolts were rusted so replaced the lot.

next in line is coilovers amongst a long list of other things.

also did not realise that the days front bar uses different foggies?

[MikeH]

$1360 later...Finally transferred the rego for the stagea into my name with Victorian plates, now I can start changing some bits n pieces

[Pft shh 89]

fitted some Hardrace adjustable camber arms so that i have enough adjustment to stand my wheels up and get some decent wear out of a set of tyres, just need to get a proper alignment done now, and to see if i need to invest in the adjustable toe arms as well.

[GH05T]

fitted a brand new set of splitfires and a brand new oxi sensor to the fridge today,

i dont think its ran right in the months i have owned it as it has a heasitation and missfire even with new plugs and all frwesh filters so, idles bang on now, keen to take it for a drive home and see how well it pulls,

hoping i get better fuel economy now too.

[pipster11]

Checked the timing yesterday properly, plugged an old plug lead between the coil and the plug to put the timing light onto as i was unsure of the reading i was getting from the blue loop at the back

turns out it reads exactly the same

In the process i had to remove the j-pipe

Turns out there was quite a lot of oil residue in there

Thoughts? Turbo oil seals (its after the intercooler tho) or blow by?

[GH05T]

fitted a brand new set of splitfires and a brand new oxi sensor to the fridge today,

i dont think its ran right in the months i have owned it as it has a heasitation and missfire even with new plugs and all frwesh filters so, idles bang on now, keen to take it for a drive home and see how well it pulls,

hoping i get better fuel economy now too.

Pulls Well

[poohkies]

New Number plates "260RS" sucks as i've only just got them and moving to brisbane, well car is in brisbane least i can have them 4 6 months or so till i change my rego over

Edited October 22, 2013 by poohkies

[pipster11]

gumtree delivers! neo turbo in perth for $150 (postage should be sub $20)

[SABBAi]

Fitted up the Tommy Kaira dash into my Stagea. I need to modify an S2 instrument cluster to suit. That way I can keep my tiptronic and the gear selector indicator. Also, for some reason my phone wont take a pic where the LCD doesn't look like it's not working right. Also think an LED conversion is needed.

[GH05T]

ordered coilovers today yay.

can someone confirm, for a 99 C34 RS4-S manual AWD, is the rear a fork or eylet type strut?

i assume the RS4-S will be specific?

[Aegats]

Fixed the passangers window and seat controls as well the boot latch issue.

[pipster11]

ordered coilovers today yay.

can someone confirm, for a 99 C34 RS4-S manual AWD, is the rear a fork or eylet type strut?

i assume the RS4-S will be specific?

RS4S is definitely fork rear mount

[poohkies]

Non Stagea, but managed to build up my 26 for my vl , pain in the arse to get the flex plate on the rear, but that's all sorted, now just have to get an rb30 auto spiget and I can put in, went to the wrong repco and couldn't get across town to the other that had it in stock in time before they shut yesterday, so after all the engine stuff was sorted put new springs, adjustable upper control arms and different 3 inch exhaust for the rear, Just have to change the shocks over.

Edited October 27, 2013 by poohkies

[scotty nm35]

What was wrong with the rb30?

The 26 is nothing special as far as engines go...

[poohkies]

a lot more special than a 30 ever will be

[scotty nm35]

I understand the fanboi aspect, but you really think the 26 is so much better? Why? Smaller capacity, oil supply issues, pita throttle setup. I would have shoved a neo head on the 30, or just left it two valve.

I have a customer's car about to go on the dyno, VL with built rb30, it should hit 500kw with good response from the Precision 6766. I don't personally think the (non VCT) 26 is an upgrade over the 30. Unless you can shove the HKS Vcam on it...

[poohkies]

fanboi aspect, I also understand the hater aspect, the aspect that people don't know what there doing, Just my thoughts, but everything you have written in your above post scares me that your a tuner builder.

good luck with that dyno figure

[4bidn1]

Ha ha another miss informed rb26 engine of the gods believer I'd have a neo 25 over a 26 , oh I do

[4bidn1]

but everything you have written in your above post scares me that your a tuner builder.

Hmmmm everything that scotty has written is fact ,if your scared it should be from the realisation of the fact scotty is correct !!!! I'm not bagging the potential of a well set up 26 at all , I love them! But they are def not the be all and end all of rb's .

Go for gold scotty on 3.0 will be watching with interest , a " similar" set up to what heading for on the c34 ATM.