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Old 25-06-2012, 01:37 PM   #161
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Ordered Pair of smoked indicators the other week, and just ordered my LaminX Gun smoke Fog light tint.
was extremely tempting just to get the 'Tint' film for the headlights too... but thought it was a waste with the lenses i have

I promise to upload a pic of the window tinting tonight
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Old 25-06-2012, 03:16 PM   #162
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hmmm tinted headlights on the black spray internals you currently have.. either going to look ultra awesome or absolute crap
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Old 25-06-2012, 04:12 PM   #163
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yeahhh that's what I am thinking too!
when I get a pair with good lenses I will give it a try and see how it looks
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Old 25-06-2012, 04:22 PM   #164
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ahaha, so as it turns out... the pics i have of my window tint are Rubbish. lol

So here is one of them (cant really see the tint)



also, just decided to finally upload a pic of headunit.



p.s. as you can see... it was a very cold morning! ^^^^ lol

And sorry for the very poor quality phone pics
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Old 25-06-2012, 04:26 PM   #165
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Cold? Its not even near that yet, im still walking to work with no jumper yet, harden up!

HU looks good being red backlit
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Old 25-06-2012, 04:37 PM   #166
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Cold? Its not even near that yet, im still walking to work with no jumper yet, harden up!

HU looks good being red backlit
COLD!!! I woke up this morning to go to work and it was -3

yeah maddest thing about JVC!! any colour!

I generally run with white backlit display (because its easy to see in all conditions)
and have the red backlit buttons.
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Old 01-07-2012, 03:32 PM   #167
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For the small fee of driving me from my hotel to the meet and back. I did this for Aaron. Thanks man!


Aarons SP20 by Photographs_by_Ben, on Flickr


Aarons SP20 by Photographs_by_Ben, on Flickr


Aarons SP20 by Photographs_by_Ben, on Flickr


Aarons SP20 by Photographs_by_Ben, on Flickr

Looking at the first one i can improve on that. Needs more sharpness. Stay tuned.
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Old 01-07-2012, 03:33 PM   #168
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Love those rims and it's so clean, great work!
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Old 01-07-2012, 03:46 PM   #169
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OMG I love tht last one!
Thanks heaps Ben.... Sucks that you can see in the first pic tht my guard is one shade lighter than the rest

Oh well..... Make sure you come back down after the respray man!!

Thanks derb.... Really isn't as clean as you think
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Old 01-07-2012, 03:50 PM   #170
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Any chance of photo shopping that old dude out in the echo having seizures??
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Old 01-07-2012, 04:30 PM   #171
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awesome photos!!!
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Old 01-07-2012, 07:16 PM   #172
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Any chance of photo shopping that old dude out in the echo having seizures??
Lol
Hahaha, he was just jealous that your car was parked next to his!

Nice photos though!
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Old 01-07-2012, 08:07 PM   #173
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Any chance of photo shopping that old dude out in the echo having seizures??
Lol
Haha i tried to crop it but it looked out of place and small.

The only reason you like that one is because i spent 20 minutes cloning out all your stone chips I'll re-do the first one with some more sharpness and do the same to it.
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Old 01-07-2012, 08:23 PM   #174
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Ahaha yeahhhh.... Well 700k's a week in traffic and Sydney roads does that :s
That's why I can't wait for my respray
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Old 03-07-2012, 06:12 PM   #175
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Alrighty... Well...
As Ben heard on Friday night, had a lot of noise comming from the rear end of my car. Best description I can give is that it sounded like really bad shock knock.
Was 95% certain it was the swaybar.
Dropped it off the car yesterday (noise got a lot worse Saturday) drove it... Noise gone!
The sway bar was hard up against the subframe... And I think just the fact that the metal was a lot colder over the last few days which made it noisier.

Emailed Pete from wholesale yesterday afternoon. He got back to me lastnight!!
Story has it that his 2 are fine, but mine rubbed, and do did another bar on one of their customers car.
Pete was more than happy to help, but wasn't in until later this week.

So figured... If its already rubbing... May as well file 1-2mm off on that point.
So I did...
Also gave the subframe a gentle massage with a small ballpein
Just light taps to give an extra mm.

Just as a side note, pete said just to grind back the doughnut a little and/or massaging the subframe.

I just wanted a bit of confirmation from him before I did

So long story short... all is well... Definitely not touching anymore... Bout 2mm clearance.

Oh, I also changed across to the stiffer setting.
Not big difference obviously, but it is noticeable and definitely even better to drive!

Loving tht bar like crazy
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Old 05-08-2012, 03:41 PM   #176
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Done a few things to the beast... Just small things.


Here are the pics!

First... LaminX gunsmoke tint on the foggies and clear/smoked side blinkers.



Second... Was sick of the white/cream ish faced dials... So put these in:





And third... JDM tail lights (top parker/brake and bottom Parker) also with autoexe tail light covers.



So the dials do look very NFS as marc pointed out... but I still Rly like them

And it has been decided the autoexe covers will be painted blue... The same colour as the car at the same time as I get my respray.

Black looks ok... But just stands out a bit too much.

Let me know what you guys think of the dials and tail lights!
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Old 05-08-2012, 04:04 PM   #177
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Looking good man rear lights look sick, and hey the dials might be NFS underground 2 ish but its different and i like them aswell, looks sorta like the mx5 dials,

Over all looks good, and agreed with the colour match with the tail light covers
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Old 05-08-2012, 04:09 PM   #178
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Looking good man rear lights look sick, and hey the dials might be NFS underground 2 ish but its different and i like them aswell, looks sorta like the mx5 dials,

Over all looks good, and agreed with the colour match with the tail light covers
Yeahh... Kinda mx5ish I Spose. Way more NFS tho, still love em' as you said... It's something different.

Really was sick of those white face ones

Btw.. The ones that I have for you aren't yellowish white like the SP20 ones... They are actually white white. You will defs be happy with the dials I have here for you. But you should really get some gauge rings! Sets them
Off nicely.
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Old 05-08-2012, 04:25 PM   #179
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Yer i'm thinking about it, but i'll see what there like in just on there own, coz my facia is different to your's like the plastic face is flush like you can't see the indicator arrows or anything untill they light up, buylt well see where do you get plasti-dip from? I'm ganna do my badges in the mod day
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Old 05-08-2012, 04:31 PM   #180
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Ohk yeah fair enough. And plasti dip have a store on EBay. So just search eBay and the store will come up. Otherwise google plastidip and order from
Their web page.
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