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Let's see, my dealings with Steve - he advertised a newly rebuilt RB25DET gearbox with an OS Giken Cross Set on the forums here.......I bought it off him, put in in my car to find out it wouldn't go into 4th at all - it was stripped by Western Suburbs gearboxes in Brisbane to find out it was a completely standard box with a blown 4th gear synchro & 3 smashed keys (had never been rebuilt in their opinion). Steve promised to repay the outlays for the repairs, never saw all the $$, doesn;t answer calls, emails etc.

I reported it to the administrators on this forum but for some reason they have not added him on the bad trader list!?

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yea slapper i had a similar dealing with him. payed him for a safc II only to be fudged around for a good 3 months on stories as to why i have not recieved it and that it had been sent but has vanished and blah blah blah. after sending a message saying i was going to go to the cops if i didnt get my money back i finally did. I think skylinegeoff is mates with him who is a fairly respected vic person.

Lets talk about the gearbox......

yes indeed. it should be interesting having a rear wheel drive with a 1000hp reving to 12grand. the synchros love it :D

im asuming you are geting it fully tubbed with a nice 4 link setup?

and then thers the fuel budget... :P

but should be fun. we have a new lagmaster charlie ;)

no ofence intended to anyone, just my 2 cents, we all have our own definision of a quick set-up i mean err spastic street car.

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