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On ‎2‎/‎5‎/‎2019 at 4:03 PM, blah_blah said:

Nice, 

 

hows the lag and transient response feel with the new EFR turbo?

 

Any plans for E85?

Hey blah_blah

 

It feels very nice from about 3K onwards. It doesn't feel overly laggy or anything like that. Definetly no plans for e85 as I drive the car everyday and just want to keep it that way most probably ?

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On ‎18‎/‎02‎/‎2019 at 12:05 PM, Looney_Head said:

yeah the lumpy cam idle. my 254's don't have any lumpy idle.

Hey Looney_Head, after driving it for a while now I can honestly say I dont think it has that lumpy idle either. I'm not that good at describing things really lol. I only just finally put some descent tyres on the car today and got another wheel alignment done. Car already feels a lot better to drive now, compared to the cheap Chinese Sunny branded ones that were on there. Will take the car for a descent drive in the weekend hopefully give it a bit more shit lol.

  • 3 months later...

Managed to get out and clean the car today. Just a small update, have slowly been getting used to it. Still havent tried high boost but car was serviced and is now running descent rubber all around. Got recommended from a mate to try Potenza RE003's. And can say that the difference is night and day and they are a great tyre for sure. Car feels so good to drive and even manage to have traction in Second Gear. Over all am loving it ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Cant wait to try the high boost at some point.

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Nice!  I am trying for the life of me to remember where I've seen this car, but I am certain I've seen it around.  Next time I see it I'll link it to this thread haha

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8 hours ago, Looney_Head said:

cars looking good, yeah the RE003's are a great street tyre. will have to try and do a cruise over summer

Yeah I'm definetly looking forward to some better weather over this summer and go for a nice cruise or something.

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5 hours ago, Lithium said:

Nice!  I am trying for the life of me to remember where I've seen this car, but I am certain I've seen it around.  Next time I see it I'll link it to this thread haha

I thought you ment in real life for a moment there lol, interesting I havent really posted about my car anywhere else apart from here and the a couple of places on Facebook. But yeah if you do link it!

1 minute ago, K-LESS said:

I thought you ment in real life for a moment there lol, interesting I havent really posted about my car anywhere else apart from here and the a couple of places on Facebook. But yeah if you do link it!

I do mean real life :)  I live in Wellington, what I meant is if I see it again I'll know that the car is actually a bit of a weapon... I am pretty sure I've seen it and wondered in the past

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7 minutes ago, Lithium said:

I do mean real life :)  I live in Wellington.

Lol ohhhh nice, yeah I Drive it most days, as I'm not a fan of fixing up a car and just leaving it to there. Definetly built it with "Daily Driven" in mind. I used to be out quiet a lot back in the old days when people use to go meet up on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays etc. Not so much these days as cant be bothered with the problems that come with that certain crowd of people lol

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2 hours ago, Lithium said:

99% sure you just drove past us parked outside Armstrong in town, we are in  @Looney_Head RB30 GTSt

Ahhhhhhh thats entirely possible, I was out and about. I went and caught up with a friend who I had not seen in a while. What colour? I missed ya's and only saw this now.

Black 4 door, we gave you a wave when you were in a line of traffic waiting to head around the bays from Kilbirnie area - unless it wasn't you but either way the driver looked perplexed haha 

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That was definetly me lol ahhhhhhhh, I think I do recall that, it was the first time id been out in like probably almost 8 years lol. I wish id seen these earlier ahhhhhh.

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Just now, K-LESS said:

That was definetly me lol ahhhhhhhh, I think I do recall that, it was the first time id been out in like probably almost 8 years lol. I wish id seen these earlier ahhhhhh.

Same with both of us - had no idea where to go or anything, but was fun to go out for a bit of a lurk about :)

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22 minutes ago, Lithium said:

Same with both of us - had no idea where to go or anything, but was fun to go out for a bit of a lurk about :)

Was definetly fun going for a lurk, went for a drive earlier on too after dinner and had some fun on the motorway with a Maserati Gran Turismo ?

 

17 hours ago, K-LESS said:

Was definetly fun going for a lurk, went for a drive earlier on too after dinner and had some fun on the motorway with a Maserati Gran Turismo ?

 

Haha that's not fair on them. I couldn't find anything fun to play with on the motorway. And wasn't keen to go down Courtney place with the clutch

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Its been a while I guess since I last updated, Ended up having to get new seats so got some R33 GTR Front Seats, and got the catch can redone so it now has a drain etc.

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2 minutes ago, Looney_Head said:

nice, still need to catch up and have a look at this in real life.

Im definitely keen, might have to organise a meet up some time or something :-)

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Most Thursday nights I have a low key group of car mates who meet up and yarn in Lower Hutt, there are 2/3 Skylines as regulars but its really just across the board (@Looney_Head included) - welcome to pop down sometime if you want.  PM me if you are interested and I can let you know details, watching the weather for tomorrow night as it looks borderline atm haha

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