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Clutch is a wear item imo. Unknown km and abuse too. Young kid, launches slipping the shit out of it.

Vw dealerships aren't doing repair costs any favours though. I had a 3rd party shop fix my rear haldex pump and it was $800 installed vs $1500 the dealership wanted.

On 11/10/2018 at 1:59 PM, dezz said:

Everyone always talking about skylines/silvias being ultra reliable, meanwhile pretty much every part on them has been replaced with aftermarket upgrades.

Yep. My upgrades have touched nearly every part of the car... and I have upgraded because they either broke due to street/track abuse or they were not fit for purpose to begin with :P

On a positive note, last week got some new keys cut for the skyrine after losing them over 9 months ago and having the car stranded in my folks backyard killing their grass. Can finally move it to the new house.

Started up within 30 seconds and idles like a champ, even on 18 month old E85

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On 11/10/2018 at 1:59 PM, dezz said:

Everyone always talking about skylines/silvias being ultra reliable, meanwhile pretty much every part on them has been replaced with aftermarket upgrades.

Pfft vast majority of those upgrades are performance sabotaging reliability. How many unopened RBs are/were out there with only the old highflow/afm/fmic/044/Injectors making twice factory power on decades old tech and parts and only the usual 20yo+ perishables like hoses and gaskets needing replacement. When I see a Skyline broken down it's cause some fk wit looped it into a gutter...when I see a VW broken down it's cause someone made the mistake of driving one.

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14 hours ago, Odium said:

I wonder what would happen if I actually hit boost on the old fuel... I've got 2 jerry cans with the same batch in the garage, how the hell do I get rid of that?

Would it have lost much octane rating? From memory the biggest danger with old E85 is water retention when not sealed properly or if there's spare space in the container.

Not sure how well sealed an r33 tank is, doesn't it have breathers etc?
The Jerries are the red plastic bunnings ones. They seal really well, shouldn't have much moisture in those. But its spent a hot summer and 2 winters in a garage on concrete.

Driving home Friday night I realised Princes Highway is now just BF/FG turbo falcon variants with 375rwkw upgrade packages, consequently a lot faster than the old girl

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Put a short ram intake on the Mrs Honda jazz so I get my VTEC fix from that instead

 

 Short ram is what the kids call it these days?

It's just an intake pipe and a filter to me

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