ReubenH

Post his number plate up, or PM it to me, i have access to the parts database from japan, that states exactly what it is. But i can tell you now, there was no RS wagon. There was however, GT sedans, and lots of them. For the second gen's, GT sedans were auto only (like the BC GT sedans), and most had full leather interior etc. As for the gen 1's. RS's were sedan only, and manual only. Auto sedans were GT's, and wagons were GT's, but available in auto or manual. That's pretty much as much as i know. ("Know", as in, "have yet to be proven wrong", that could easily happen though)

I've always liked the idea of such a thing. Maybe even a tiered license system. License to go on the motorway, added license to get 140k or shit like that. But the ideas always fall flat on their face the moment you consider that you aren't alone on the road. Imagine the carnage when a someone not allowed on the motorway... goes on the motorway, and cuts off someone doing 150k. Nope, it's either everyone should be specially licensed, or no one. Likewise such a thing like paying to go fast won't happen, cause suddenly you're mixing 60mph people with 90mph people. That's why i'll always support laws and legislation to make it harder to get a license, to make the tests tougher, and the drivers safer. Only when that is done, will raising speed limits be a possibility. One can dream though

Def not. I reckon go with a stock rear wing, they are nice and sleek and form to the body perfectly. BG's just look odd without any wing..

That's very nice to hear, glad you got lucky.

[quote name='ReubenH said: And subies have a universal joint in the shaft. I had a look under mine today, and immediatly thought of this... Turns out i was only partially correct. I remembered seeing a universal joint... but turns out it's at the diff, the one in the middle is a CV style, at least on BG's and up. Um, anyway, moving on. I've still yet to have a look under the B4... bad Reuben!

f***. Just saw the above comparison pic, the bottom spring rainter/cup/holder thing is totally different... Smaller diameter, and with that kink in a different place to the bilsteins... .... rage! It's either going to have to be spacers, or getting the front springs compressed.

Just went and got an alignment, fronts are all perfect, rears... less than ideal. Even the very minor squat the V8 struts have is enough to make the rear axles poit up, and the lateral arms are sitting dead level, less then ideal. And the rumor bout GDB struts causing positive camber in the rear is positivly true, +0.5º left, +0.1º right at the moment, with no way of adjusting it. So, i'm gonna get me some of these: Camber bolts I was going to go the fitting factory bolts way, but then saw they were only $20 USD, won't be more than $40 NZ by the time they get here, seems alright, and less rangi than modifying the rear stuts to fit stock front camber bolts. When i do those, i'll also chuck the rear bilstein springs on the KYB's, and get that arse back to a proper level. The guy doing the alignment was a cool guy too. At first he didn't really want me hanging round watching the alignment get done, but we eventually got to talking. Turns out he used to live in the UK, and knew Colin McRae, and was working on caterham 7's. Fucking win. Before: After: Ooo, new machine

Some back drop candidates.

The problem with the possum statue is it's about 15 mins walk away from the road, you can't get cars anywhere near it. Check out me sig though, tha's a good alpine shot I've got some more pics to chuck out as ideas, but photobucket just went down, will have to wait till later.

All very nice BUT. These are great photo's in 4:3, but website banners aren't 4:3. Would need to go with the specific aim of getting a good banner shot. And of course, cell phone pics are no good, would need a proper camera.

Gif's are a bit.... cheap... so to speak.

Meh, beggers can't be choosers Went for a wee spin round the block. Feels much the same, maybe slightly firmer as expected, won't be able to tell till tomorrow when i go for a drive. Biggest change so far has been the lack of cla-clunk eeeh-eeer over every bump. Fronts were knocking, rears were squeeky and annoying.

Got em in, in 2 hours all up, pretty good effort with a scissor jack yay for having no garage, or even park!

Link is an NZ company, so not only will you have good support for it, you're supporting your local.

Any and all. Keen to do something, visit dunedin, but will need to have the cash ready, and the days off.

I'm rostered on weekends at the moment, but may be able to sort something out? dunno.

Going to go install these today, w00t

I reckon S1 is way more staunch. BTW, you can't swap pre and post face lift rear ends. The chassis is all different back there between em. So you can only mess with the front ends.

You assume HID and Good are synonymous... I find my BG projectors put out far more light, and a nicer colour, than my dads BH HID's did. I really don't get the hype around them. That said, it was subaru's first attempt, I'm sure later models improved on them. But I still prefer halogen.

I don't know what to think of this post. It made me laugh at least. You seem to have figured it out on your own anyway... so... good work?

I'd rather be poor and having fun, than rich and bored.

Oh, so how did it go?

Well some do it quick. some don't. I got the CPL 2 years ago. Took six months after that to do the MEIR, and then started looking for work around Auckland and Northland. I had no luck, and by then it had already been a year since the CPL. I looked at Australia, but didn't want to go down that route, so ended up wasting about for a good 3 or 4 months. After that, i applied to get on the instructor course, that was supposed to be a 2 month wait till it started. 7 months later, they finally got the course up, and by then the waiting list of students had grown to about 50, and there was only 10 slots avail on the course, and only 4 jobs at the end for those 10... I was not one of the lucky 10. So that's that, 2 years passed, waiting for BS. So i finally said "f*** it", and 3 weeks after missing the instructor course, i was down in Queenstown... The reason i didn't go with Queenstown in the first place was mainly financial, the instructor rating would have been on the student loan, getting a job obviously would be paying for itself, but coming to queenstown involves me dropping about $15,000 of my own money on lessons. Since the other two didn't eventuate, that's what i went with. So far i'm simply chewing through that, every flight i do costs about $300, so can only afford to get one done fortnightly with my current job, usually about one every 3 weeks though. BUT... My god, i'm so glad i did come down here! i have no idea why i didn't go this route 18 months ago. The flying down here is epic, i'd rather be doing this than flying a bus for a low cost airline. Here's the flight i did on thursday. And the weather was suitably s***, this is what you call flying!!! We were practising valley flying, and doing reversal turns in valleys, as well as 'contour tracking' in order to get the most room out of a tight situation. This stuff is properly fun.