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Before I go further, have you checked the earth behind the battery on the inside of the guard? That's where the cluster earths, its a pain to access but start there if you haven't already. But sounds something is switched around there, has it alwasys done this or is this something which was...

Bit of a thread dig, but if anyone is keen to check out some drifting Round 1 of the 2024 Championship is on This Saturday at the Calder Park Thunderdome. 9-5:30PM.

Lol, I'll point out the owner of the trailer and paddock are different mates too. Anyway good to see that everyones agreeing that the HT is likely the way to go rather than conflicting opinions. Will go see the tyre shop when I get some time and get it happening.

See its not my trailer nor my paddock haha. I do like the separate rears idea, but can also not see myself being bothered changing wheels to suit the weather either haha.

@Fu Manchu could you please confirm yours works with your 92092444 relays? I bought one specifically to test those and it doesn't seem to do anything, works as expected with the smaller IN 0511 relay but with both the 444's its just solid red unless you're holding down the test button in which...

Highway terrains are my general thought too, but the trailer I currently use is stored in a often wet paddock on the side of a hill, and these sort of similar situations where I'm trying to manauver around on less than perfect surfaces (often whilst towing) makes me think maybe AT's. Generally...

These showed up today American Racing AR62 16x8 0, bloody cheap for a full set of wheels so couldn't resist. Now to decide what tyres to go with highway terrains or all terrains. But will be on the ute sometime soon.

Very cool that you have the production line photo

Better get that sorted before the trip in a couple of weeks then ;)

When I was at uni the split for engineering was 99% blokes 1% females. Nothing stopping them but most women I know aren't/wouldn't be interested in my line of work and visa versa with my thougts on their chosen industries. Nothing wrong with that, but the whole quota nonsense is just rubbish as...

Probably wreckers is your best bet, probably be all of $5.

Ended up bridge the coolant hose which had run through the factory heat exchanger, due to it being suggested to me to keep the fluid flowing as RB's can be fussy with this. No photos of this as seen above gettign photos of this kind of work is nearly improssible. Did manage to finish all the...

Service history and actual condition trumps k's every day of the week.

Yep, mine VZ is at 229 currently, although its still my daily. No way I'd be paying 36k for a VZ SS, before I bought my Maloo I was specifically looking for a VZ 6L and even then (2017) people were wanting the same money for 6L's as I got my Maloo for. For 36k you should be able to find a...

So I mounted a little Australian flag to the back of this and took this down to the Hastings car meet on Australia day, amazingly the little flag stayed on for the whole 90 minute round trip. Amazingly got a parking spot on main street too (not easy) so actually got a couple of photos snapped of...

So story time, Yesterday my mate bought a 'new' GQ patrol, whilst testing its features last night whilst on the way to the Tooradin Tractor pull, he hits the button for the electric arerial and to the surprise of all 6 of us (7 seater) it works. Works so well it fact it pushes the aerial all the...

Similarly, I have one USB plugged into mine full time which resides in the glovebox with a couple of thousand songs which is my normal go to. But my second USB port has a 1m USB which comes out in the centre console, and is my android auto plug for when I need it. Came out looking fairly factory...

Couldn't help myself and finally found some diecast Ftrucks with the correct (bricknose) fronts on them. Admittedly the US version is still slightly different from the AU version with the headlights but very happy none the less.

So this is taking way longer than I'd hoped but getting a little bit done when I get the time. Removing the gasket off the side of the block was a royal pain, done with brake cleaner and a razor blade on my back at arms reach. 45 minutes later the surface was clean and could put the new oil...

How far do you get before it cracks the sads? Like are you able to get into fault clearing before it does or does it not even let you get that far? As silly as it sounds have you tried removing and reinstalling the cartridge too?

I do similar just on my Instagram story with just general cool cars I see out and about, or what interesting stuff comes in to work here and there. The amount of people that get a kick out of the weird stuff I come across is actually quite surprising. Easiest way is surely to whack em on Imgur...

Made up the return line from the cooler to the filter the next day but forgot to grab a photo. Then went about removing the factory oil filter block, this turned out to be way more of a saga than I'd hoped. With its location under the intake manifold and the general lack of access from both...

Cheers, slowly getting there, trying to source wheels now, but in typical fashion what I want is hard to come by They have their place, but from the post you quoted I was doing suspension bushes with the wheels off, so ramps wouldn't of helped much Literally my entire Christmas break it was...

Took it down to Hastings for a spin on NYD, made the most of the good weather. Also my airbag setup arrived over the weekend. Now if Melbourne would quit this whole raining in summer thing I might actually be able to install them.

Got to the end of sorting out all of my hardware, a mix of new and used stuff. But atleast now its all sorted and easy to find when I need it. Didn't anticipate it taking 5 of these to sort em all out though.

Troy on here years ago had a VZ with a Calais front, looked bloody good and different.

I think he was referring to the front bumpers with an exec front, so yeah a Calais or SS/SV6 bumper is interchangeable.

So the suspension itself is the same except for the shock mounting between the two, but that's irrelevant if you're just talking about springs. Best way to find out is to check the part number on the springs and compare that to the Kings catalogue. as also what happens is people actually have no...

Took a lot longer with all the random junk which had no home that was on the bench to begin with haha

Started plumbing my oil cooler today, I had a Taarks filter mount, but wanted to mount the filter above the rail on the Drivers side near where the cooler piping passes through. With this in mind, I bought a Raceworks filter mount as this allowed the lines to pass through in the same direction...

Cleaned my bench for the first time in probably 2 years, took far longer than it should have. Also added more sound foam around my compressor, not sure how welll it works but it was cheap and hopefully dulls the sound a little from the compressor. Need to get some more though so I can do the...

Very unexciting update, but noticed the negative terminal on the battery was cracked so did a quick swap out for a new one today.

Wanted one of these for a while and finally treated myself to one with the boxing day sales today. Also grabbed these 1/2" hext sockets as I needed to remove an 11mm hex bung in an oil block and of course I had no 11mm's in the 40 odd bloody allen keys I have here.

Merry Christmas everyone

Its coil springs in the front, which can be shifted to suit, but if I can run it at the 20mm higher with the airbags like I intended on originally it should be more practical which is the aim.

Cool as, but I opened this thinking you had a new project, slightly dissapointed.

Be aware too that sale applies to order in items too....

So, small updates. A week before the end of the working year I decided I should finally get round to lowering/levelling out the rear of this. Did some measurements and worked out it needed an 85mm drop to in the rear to bring it level with the front. Should still give me reasonable bump stop...

Not super relevant to by 33 build, but kinda close enough as I don't have any decent update on it. Last weekend Vicdrift had a private day at Calder Park on the Thunderdome and one of my mates got me to drive his BA Falcon setup with as a camera chase car. Its a 2 man operation with me driving...

Id look for one of those cabinets if possible, they pop up on facebook marketplace fairly regularly for 200-250 or so. Its how I started my vapour blaster.