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I can't wait to see how that other chick's build goes, Kyleeee or whatever. She reckons she is doing a rb20e conversion in her V35 and then she is going to do a live axle conversion as well. WIll be well shit.

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Hmm... I think there's some good lessons for us newbie's in those threads. But hey, everyone's got to learn think before they speak and maybe copping the wrath of strangers over the internet for saying things that are pretty silly would be a good way to learn it???

I bet those conversations would have gone veeeery differently if those involved could actually hear people's tones - there would've been a punch up really early on! ;) Haha not really, but you know what I'm saying, too much open to interpretation here!

I hope both those girls work out everything they need to in regards to their cars and just, you know, getting on with people but I have to say Kyleeeee's build sounds a little odd. Each to their own I guess, I just hope she gets a kick out of it,

And thanks guys... for the welcome and for helping me get to 2 pages in my intro thread :thumbsup:

Great work :)

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Helping advance thread to page 3 now...new goal :laugh:

Welcome and no doubt you will learn a lot here. Just spend a lot of time reading through the forums first before you start to try and work out what you want to do. You will be able to work out most things without asking stupid questions that way.

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That's cuz you figured out how to change posts per page. Only a few people know how to do it, they say it is more accurate than an IQ test at discovering prodigious genius. I would be expecting a call from NASA sometime within the next couple of days.

All the best with your new career, think of us when you are colonising Mars.

YoVette Apprentice

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It looks like a stock gunmetal 32, just lowered a little, but I'll post a pic soon.

Good advice about searching through old threads for info, too. I've spent hours already trawling for answers, I read as much as I can to work out the general opinion of people, seems to have worked so far :)

Interested to know though, if other owners bought their Skyline's coz they love corners, straights, skids or all of the above... Or something else?? For me it's corners and probably skids when I finally graduate from a skidpan to dry bitumen sliding.

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