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This is the core of the issue... You don't think it's worth $80/hour to do, however for a skilled machinist in a shop dedicated to tasks like this it is...

They've got to pay Wages, overheads, Rent, Cost of Equipment and Consumables, Superannuation, Taxes, Power, Gas, Advertising and a skinny philo called mikeymike to sweep the floors. They're a business, if that can make a small profit after that they're doing well.

This is why I DIY as many things as I can, only going to specialists if its something that I can't (or it isn't cost effective for me) learn to do myself using my own tools.

Heart bleeds for small businesses

Denies them work

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Sometimes I miss my old VL. Steering racks leaking, buckling wheels/panhard rods from drifting into gutters on rainy winter days. Filling the boot with bricks to give more lows. Freeze plugs rupturing coolant into my driveway.

I need to buy another 80's shit heap to keep me occupied. What I would do for an old Honda City turbo.

guy back home had a little Honda city, thing was a monster smashing V8's all over the place.

dude was an ex gibson motorsport mechanic tho.

also had a VL calais, with full R32 GTR drivetrain awd and all, with some tasty gibson GTR upgrades to it. all this back in mid 90's

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Lol you're probably paying them to do what you are about to do youself..

Doesn't matter what they tell you they're doing

a file and sandpaper wheel on a drill....I suggested that already, but those tools alone will cost your 20$ of you buy cheap shit, ypu might get lucky and they wont break and do they job, or you may not and then spend more ...or for 80$ if you might buy good ones..and after all this you still may not be able to do it and crack the shits and finally pay someone else to do it and it just ended up costing you more than it could of...

been there,, done that,, will probably do it again too...

Ahhh, the legendary all wheel drive vl. Last time I saw this was on car sales afew years ago for a silly amount, something like 80 grand

which one? he apparently made 3

his was the silver, there was a pink one roaming around echuca I think and a 3rd up north blue off the top of my head

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hey hamish, your pretty tall

did you have to adjust your seating position or how you use the pedals in your evo?

am i retard? i swear its as if im almost clutch slipping sometimes when i grandma change gears

doing it quick its fine, but normal speed shifting it almost free rev's a touch when coming off clutch

i dont think its clutch slip as it handles full load on full noise no problems

am i being a retard????

My mate just bought a VL Calais turbo.. Genuine 180,000kms 100% original... I still don't see the point but each to their own I guess

100% do not see it.

Looks like a bag of dicks

Drives like a bag of dicks

Costs a fortune

Horrible, ugly, shit cars

which one? he apparently made 3

his was the silver, there was a pink one roaming around echuca I think and a 3rd up north blue off the top of my head

saw that silver one in street machine...probably still have mag somewhere, was awesome

and thats back when you couldnt find a wrecked out gtr for 5k...

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hey hamish, your pretty tall

did you have to adjust your seating position or how you use the pedals in your evo?

am i retard? i swear its as if im almost clutch slipping sometimes when i grandma change gears

doing it quick its fine, but normal speed shifting it almost free rev's a touch when coming off clutch

i dont think its clutch slip as it handles full load on full noise no problems

am i being a retard????

Seating position I lowered with brackets that bolt onto the stock rails. Now i see why you were saying you couldn't see the speedo, it's cos you have the stock seating position.

Stock seat height in evo's is TERRIBLE... It might as well be mounted on the roof for how high you are. Brackets will drop you close to 2"

Clutch wise, who knows... I have an HKS single plate so it's either on or off lol

yeah thanks, it kinda makes sense - ive got stock seats and std seat positon

i dont feel that the seating position is too high (at least, it seems OK)

but i swear, its as if i dont take my foot of the accel pedal enough (or properly) so its ever so slighty during gearchange, which makes it almost free-rev after clutch in/out

ill do a drive on saturday and log it and see what the logs show, it should show TPS not dropping to 0.30v if my thinking is correct on gearchange

very odd

is there a company who makes the brackets or did you do it yourself?

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