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finally back on the road!

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well, after 6 or so weeks my gt-s is finally back on the road!

after thinking the HFH or HFHOE was the cause of my water leak and after replacing the little bastards,
it became evident that my waterpump was actually stuffed causing water to trickle out through the weep hole

after sourcing the waterpump it soon became evident that the cambelt and tensioner pulley's were also looking a bit tired

so after sourcing all of that, it turned out that my alternator was actually from a celica or somesuch and i needed a new alternator

luckily lucas was kind enough to go out of his way to source an alternator and to finish off the massive task of fitting all the new parts and getting the car back to it's former glory

also got some sweet lowering springs from another club member and got my el cheapo wheels fixed

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again, a big thanks to lucas for making a plan!

bring on hampton downs!
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Post by Benckj »

Lookin good. Nice job.
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Post by Lucas »

'n Boer maak a plan :lol:
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Post by lsvtec »

so after another week off the road after hampton downs, its back once again... hopefully for good this time!

also, a free plug to tere and kahn at BNT glen innes for supplying me with 4 x new rotors (mountain (japanese) and rda (australian)), 2 x sets of mintex std pads & 1L of motul rbf600 all for under $600
and to paul at frank allen glen innes for supplying me with 4 x new hankook rs2 z212's for under $900 :D

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Post by kim0663 »

Mmmm

I run those tyres. Pure awesomeness rubbers they are.

They seem to go a bit hard near the end of their life... sadly :lol: they used to be so soft!!!
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Re: finally back on the road!

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Beautiful condition dude!!! Im very very jelous, ill get there one day!

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Re: finally back on the road!

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thinking of doing a mini all white sw20 mini photoshoot/gathering in auckland. u keen? my white g ltd and gt-s plus yours and paulusb and kiwimr2kid and any others that wanna come along

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Post by Absolut2 »

[quote="Redline"]thinking of doing a mini all white sw20 mini photoshoot/gathering in auckland.

all whites will be bored.. you need 2 candy red to spice things up a lil bit..
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