What Have You Done To Your Stagea Lately?

[Hertz Donut]

Sweet, thanks.

[Reaperblitz]

Religious oil and filter change.. found an oil leak somewhere in the turbo vicinity below rocker cover but above boots.. *sigh*

[Lakes101]

Religious oil and filter change.. found an oil leak somewhere in the turbo vicinity below rocker cover but above boots.. *sigh*

oil return line maybe? Edited February 27, 2016 by Lakes101

[Reaperblitz]

I took the undertray off and the oil return (under turbo) isn't leaking. It looks like it's possibly near the top (just above turbo?) as there was a bit of fresh oil there..

[Reprieve]

Mine was the same but turned out to be the rockercover gasket leaking at the back corner lol.

[Reaperblitz]

Nooo.... I already replaced it once.. ughhhhhh the first time it was leaking in a different place haha.

[joshm35]

Looks like it didnt seal correctly. .... some gasket goo will help this.

Today i installed front swaybar (hardest setting), daleo front brace & ox rear brace i picked up for a steal. (Yes i know ive done this twice before). I also installed 1 part of the dolphin intercooler piping as ill need to modify the oem turbo intercooler piping where it bolts to the turbo for the 2nd bit to attach.

[Reaperblitz]

Gasketgooed it upon installation to tack it in place and ensured flat seal all round. Il find out when I pull it out again. Will upgrade other stuff while I'm at it. Really wanna finish my harness /loom for the EMU...

[joshm35]

Also swapped over my HKS panel filter back to the K&N panel filter.

Edited February 27, 2016 by joshm35

[Trex]

Something I've been working on

[Hertz Donut]

Did an oil change (only 6,500km late...) and had a quick look around for issues. I think I've identified the source of an annoying tinny rattling noise that's been going on for the past couple of years - the outer skin of the Y-pipe has corroded. My wife asked what the means and I gave her a big grin and said "new exhaust time!" I don't think she was amused, she'd rather just keep complaining it sounds too girly compared to our Commodore (which is a Mootec with a foghorn-spec pipe on it).

Also noticed the sway bar bushes look very dry and cracked, could this be the source of creaking under brakes/cornering sometimes? I ask because Scotty's mentioned it's likely to be the compression rod bushes and they're not where I'm expecting them to be and I'm too embarrassed to ask where they are.

Furthermore, the tyres are getting low on tread so we're now at the "upsize or make do" crossroads. Has anyone run 235/50 R17s on stock M35 rims? Theoretically they'll fit on the rim and are close enough in rolling radius but they'll probably look quite bulgy.

I'd love to splash out a few thousand on a set of 18s but we're in the middle of renovations and preparing to sell a couple of houses so money's not exactly flowing right now.

[scotty nm35]

Haha. follow the compression rod from the bottom of the hub Matt, back to the body, you can see the large bush taking the rearward load of the hub. Press it out and replace with a Superpro poly bush.

[Hertz Donut]

Ok cool, thanks. I've only done rod bushes (and every other front end one) on the Commodore previously and they run forward of the hub, I thought I was going nuts. Do they take much to press them out? I don't have a hydraulic press and had to get an engineer to do get out the Commie's LCA bushes.

I should also report that happily the outside temperature reading has started working again all by itself. Great success!

[KiwiRS4T]

I'd love to splash out a few thousand on a set of 18s but we're in the middle of renovations and preparing to sell a couple of houses so money's not exactly flowing right now.

I got a set of 18s off a Skyline GT sport or something like that for about $600 with good tyres...e.g.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/wheels-tyres/alloy-wheels/auction-1042008275.htm

[Jetwreck]

Tripped over these pictures today!!!!

Still miss the Black Cow!!!

[Brick]

Tripped over these pictures today!!!!

Still miss the Black Cow!!!

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Pull motor and gearbox out of v-Tard insert into stagea of awesome!

[scotty nm35]

Pull motor and gearbox out of v-Tard insert into stagea of awesome!

You forgot the most important step... 'insert ghey rismo stickerz'

[conan7772]

I got a set of 18s off a Skyline GT sport or something like that for about $600 with good tyres...e.g.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/wheels-tyres/alloy-wheels/auction-1042008275.htm

Or get some 350Z rims and make some space for those big brakes Matt.

They look awesome on the Stag, perfect offset, hundreds for sale too.

[malialipali]

Servicing the other half car yesterday , I got a good look at my wheels, different vantage point.

The clear coat has seen better days on the spokes.

So with a few hrs of daylight left I got into them with sand paper and metal polish.

Getting there

Not a perfect job but a damn sight better

Got two done before it was too dark , this morning the other two.

Not a fan of blingy blingy but its better than peeling clear, and will tide me over till I find something that will fill out the guards better.

[Philr32]

They came up well!