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Old 13-08-2012, 12:18 PM   #761
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Old 13-08-2012, 03:04 PM   #762
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Both! Pics or it didnt happen
Oh it happened haha. I got no pics, it's still at the persons house. Pics will come though.

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It's actually a friends car. He's moving to America with his Father and needed it gone. He had it advertised for $1200 with roadworthy but didnt sell it. He fly's out tomorrow and needed it gone no matter what so he just said pay for the transfer fee and the roadworthy and you can have it. So, that ended up to be about $168 or something haha.

The paint is absolutely rooted and it overheated when on the highway. Would say it needs a new rad as it looked to be the genuine honda from factory!

So it should be a nice little project for little money. I've always wanted to screw around with paint but never had a car crappy enough to do it on haha.

If i can paint it and fiddle around and sell it on for about $1500 im going to be really stoked. But it's not really for the money, more a learning experience for me.
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Old 13-08-2012, 03:45 PM   #763
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Nice ben. As long as you don't set it on fire I doubt you can reduce the value

My new manifolds rocked up this morning. They're sex. Absolutely stoked when I saw how good they are. Now I just need a flash tune ecu & harness
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Old 13-08-2012, 04:02 PM   #764
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Old 14-08-2012, 06:35 PM   #765
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just got home from doing onsites all day.. i need nom noms and then bed !!! then get up and do it again 2moz :-(
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Old 14-08-2012, 07:10 PM   #766
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Put in chopped lovells springs this afternoon. Slightly softer than the Autoexe's, but now the front sits just right tucking about 5mm of tire. Very happy i invested in spring compressors :P
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Old 14-08-2012, 10:07 PM   #767
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Put in chopped lovells springs this afternoon. Slightly softer than the Autoexe's, but now the front sits just right tucking about 5mm of tire. Very happy i invested in spring compressors :P
*facepalm*

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Old 14-08-2012, 10:41 PM   #768
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Its becoming a trend (cut springs that is) :/ really wish it wouldn't. What was wrong with the autoexe springs? There great?
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Old 15-08-2012, 03:56 AM   #769
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and here I thought the autoexes were soft enough....
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Old 16-08-2012, 10:56 AM   #770
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Just came home from dentist 2nd time round (Went a few weeks ago if you remember)

$6900 to fix my teeth. Let me just go out to the shed and get some pliers. That'll be cheaper.

Thats like criminal. My car is probably only worth that.

Luckily i can claim about 2k of that back, and the rest can be paid off over 12 months.
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Old 16-08-2012, 11:01 AM   #771
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Damn! Root canal? Gold caps? Grills?
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Old 16-08-2012, 11:07 AM   #772
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I'd find a new dentist.
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Old 16-08-2012, 11:08 AM   #773
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your not going to your machanic are u???
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Old 16-08-2012, 11:14 AM   #774
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If only it were grills haha.

Nah, wisdom teeth removal. What has happened is i've grown a lovely batch of wisdom tooth and they've pushed all my teeth out of line. Causing some nice un-even wear...

So have to get them removed and then some form of lovely piece of metal needs to be attached to the back of my teeth to move them back centre. Its like braces of some sort, but not. Since my teeth are in line, (Not crooked) but aren't lining up in not the correct order if that makes sense haha. The metal just stays there and moves it back slowly over years. Wont be able to see that i have metal in my mouth though. So thats good.
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Old 16-08-2012, 11:26 AM   #775
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Ah yeah, i getcha. I had wisdom teeth issues a few years ago - they were growing sideways (as in 90°!) and pushing my lower teeth all forward. Funny, i suffered through years of braces back in the late 90s and it sucked - i don't care that my lower ones are all crooked now!
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Old 16-08-2012, 11:58 AM   #776
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You'll get some for of a titanium strip I have it behind my upper and lower teeth and its permanent since my braces in year 10
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Old 16-08-2012, 12:05 PM   #777
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yer i have had a bullbar behind my lower teach since 2000. its great
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Old 16-08-2012, 12:37 PM   #778
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Old 16-08-2012, 04:26 PM   #779
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^^ Nice, they match!

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yer i have had a bullbar behind my lower teach since 2000. its great
Bloody expensive bull bar if you ask me. Going to hit my rents up for half of the $3000 deposit needed. Otherwise that wont be happening for a good while lol
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Old 23-08-2012, 01:30 PM   #780
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Enjoying getting up late...

...As i got retrenched from my job yesterday. Usually economic downturn bull****.

Will be back there as a contractor every so often, and have a few other freelance gigs to tide me over for the moment. But meh.

Oh, and a mountain of parts (and cars) that need my attention.
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