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well this weekend auto box was pulled out all the pedals done dash cluster has been changed im ready to put the clutch in now but i have never done this before so is there anyone out there with a good walk through on how to do it and what else i have to pull off as ive taken the converter off the back and the auto flywheel thing and am not stumped in what to do :/

done my hand break tonight was a lot easier then what i thought it was gonna be i used a r32 handbreak and the front part of the r32 cable with the tailshaft out and Center console out and the carpet is already pre cut from factory and you just pull it back and cut it away and youll see a oval hole in the top of the tunnel from underneth there is a plate covering the hole i drilled out 2 spot welds and pulled the plate off and there was your bolt holes and big hole for your cable to poke down through the hole and i used 2 10mm bolts and nuts to hold the cable bracket done the r32 hand break cable has a bracket on the end of the first part of the cable you have to drill that off and it will fit right up in to the the laurel handbreak cable then all you have to do is drill the holes for the handbreak its self and work out where you want it its very easy



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awesome day today heap done getting the spigot bush out was so easy used grease and come out it few hits clutch and flywheel on manual gearbox on turbo housing had 90 bend welded and is all ready to do back on tailshaft has to be made to suit hope that dont cost to much im on the home stretch now had the best help from zach french sam allan and the master of all damo roach not to long till i can drive it now :)

so over this weekend ive done some of my final things in my conversion ive refit everything on the turbo side and have bleed the clutch and feels

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and today a friend come over just to have a look at the computer and everything on it as i wanted to see if it actually had a ems ecu like the guy i brought it off said as i looked at the ecu and seemed to look just like a factory one (G8) as my friend said it may be a patch inside the loom its self but we could not work out how it was going so good with just a stock computer and putting out so much power i then started to question the poncams and if it had any at all so we took the covers off to see what it had and was happy to see the tomei are real :)

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he then looked at the timing and said he was shocked as it was fully advanced and it can be really dangerous to the motor i dont really understand any of it and how it works as the car drove fine when it was auto i thought maybe some one else could tell me more about it??? and why it would be like this the 2 photos show what he looked at and now i worry :/

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well its alive and going few issues friday night with a leaking oil drain but fixed that and is driving awesome besides the tune up high needs a little touch up seems to fuel up and break down but to drive around normal its great

mate took some photos amazing

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i made myself up a greddy one with their engine adapter and thermostat oil filter re locator with all fittings (proflow) and everything for around $500

BIt expensive but you can customize how you want it like if you dont want a oil filter relocation you can just get a thermostat block. Heaps of options.

Also random question but can you snap a photo of where your pressure line for your power steering (the one that has the banjo into the p/s pump)bolts to your chassis after it comes out from under your sub frame. Cant figure if my lines been bent retarded or i just am trying to bolt it to a random spot lol

oh really yeah thats abit more then what i want to spend i was just gonna try and get a kit already made up with the filter relocation all with it

yeah ill get a photo for ya its not up in the air at the moment ill jack it up on the weekend do you just want a picture of where it bolts to on the sub frame?

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