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Had my line for 1 1\2 yrs now and learnt some hard lessons along the way.

First DONT drive over drive gutters fast! If your stuck go at a huge angle or back out, you drive in and its fine but try to get out! Your front bar will love you.

If you have no ABS expect to lunch front tyres as some idiot pulls out in front (twice), these are a cast iron block, I now run a harder compound which seem to handles it better.

Drift is quite tricky with the Hicas trying to correct you, allthough the harder compound makes it easier.

If you change anything on the standard set up, alot more needs to be done than just the one thing.

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Hey this could be a really good thread if everyone chips in a bit on what they've done and shouldnt have.

Here's mine. If you've got vents in your bonnet so you cover up your air filter with, say, a plastic bag to stop water in the intake when you wash the car, REMEMBER TO TAKE THE BAG OFF BEFORE YOU DRIVE IT!!!! Ive only had my skyline two weeks and i already stuffed up.

Need a new air filter now... laugh it up

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Cheek up on wat mods you want on this form chanses are 1 of us has been there and done that + we should have a thread about the good products we have brought and make it a sticky

+ dont lend it to your misses and let her drive with high heels she will put the heel through your car carpet

When shopping for fully sick jap wheels with heaps of dish, make sure u take into consideration not only offset but brake disk clearance! Just because the wheels have the correct offset and look good doesn't mean they'll fit properly. I learnt the hard way.

dont accelerate around corners in the wet, unless you dont like your neighbours front brock fence.

LOL DID THAT after i got my line for 2 month!! smashed into "Welcome to Strathfield" sign !!!!! and cops drove pass....gave me a hard time and a fine!!!! they didn't even see the accident!!! OMG

SO DON'T REV TOO HARD IN RAINING DAYZ ON 2ND GEAR!!!!

Had my line for 1 1\2 yrs now and learnt some hard lessons along the way.

First DONT drive over drive gutters fast! If your stuck go at a huge angle or back out, you drive in and its fine but try to get out! Your front bar will love you.

If you have no ABS expect to lunch front tyres as some idiot pulls out in front (twice), these are a cast iron block, I now run a harder compound which seem to handles it better.

Drift is quite tricky with the Hicas trying to correct you, allthough the harder compound makes it easier.

If you change anything on the standard set up, alot more needs to be done than just the one thing.

Oh bro, thanks for the tips man.

So, i shouldn't dive into driveways @ 40 kmh.

I should watch out for idiots pulling in front of me, coz my cast iron block ruins my tyres. Must get harder compound tyres.

I shouldn't attempt to drift with the Hicas enabled. Can i put a switch to it bro, so i can turn it off when i wanna drift. Again, must get harder compound tyres.

I shouldn't change anything on the standart setup or be prepeared to change more than one thing.

Thanks again bro, your words of wisdom really helps. This should be a sticky.

OH also, i must not accelerate around corners in wet.

lol.

yeah gutters are bitches. gutter rash is not yout freind.

corners in the wet is fun if you know how not to end up in fences or poles.

hicas and drift.... disable hicas if you want the car specifically for drifting. otherwise dont worry about it.

and most of the other stuff is common sense. :angry:

and most of the other stuff is common sense. :angry:

Common sense ??? WTF does that mean...? Are you calling all his senses common..?

I would like to add some valuable input to this thread as well :

If it's raining, do not go outside unless you are prepeared to get wet.

If you are running low on fuel, go and fill up. In a most likely event, you will run out of fuel.

If you just had a shower, put clean undies on. Dirty ones must be washed.

Whatch out (is this a new term for clocking off ?)for some cars that like to rev alot and break into lots of wheelspin too. (EDIT: Damn it someone else mentioned ity already)

Don't drive with your high heels on unless you are from Perth. :)

Hope these help.

if you get a stagea, be prepared to get called a volvo driver. then get blank looks when you tell them its a stagea. then watch the jaws drop as you pop the hood, showing them WHY your volvo smashes the idiots fully SIC SS commondore.

oh and finding ANYthing for your car bodywise is a bastard. operator? get me japan!

no. i mean......

this whole thread is really just common sense. like anyone could tell you that not taking gutters sideways in a low car will f**k your front bar good, or giving it a heap of shit in the wet will cause it to go sideways.

if you dont know stuff like that..... you proly shouldnt be driving a skyline.

no. i mean......

this whole thread is really just common sense. like anyone could tell you that not taking gutters sideways in a low car will f**k your front bar good, or giving it a heap of shit in the wet will cause it to go sideways.

if you dont know stuff like that..... you proly shouldnt be driving a skyline.

Just piss off with your common sense bullshite dude...

If you don't have anything valuable to contribute, than don't at all.:(

Here are my other pointers that i learnt the hard way :

If it's too dark to see, turn your headlights on.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Man piss in wind, wind piss back.

He who sleep with itchy asshole, he will wake with smelly finger.

Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again !!!

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