Loren
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0.6 mm might be too big... also try new leads.
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22 hours ago, Bugle said:
Sign up for Uber and you are a professional driver
Context is everything here. Not talking about driving trucks, trains, buses or taxis for a living.
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I get where you are coming from... and I can be the same too... but cars are supposed to be fun as well... so relax and have fun
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Jesus dude, stop worrying so much. It'll be fine.
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2 hours ago, Bugle said:
Ken is a much better showman and businessman than rally driver
You can't compare him to a professional driver... he's a rich guy living the dream.
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Yep totally get that time attack stuff is the business and it looks really cool and it does work.....on a time attack car.
Given that its not a time attack car and gymkhana is more about show than anything else, it deserves to look nicer.
Well gymkhana is about car control... Ken Block has turned it into a spectacle ... but the key thing here is that it's low speed... so aero is pointless.
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15 minutes ago, ginganinja said:
The wing ruins it for me. Also if they went for a more rally style body kit, but more aggressive it would possibly look nicer than this time attack looking kit.
Also Is it just me or does it look like the front was designed by a different person to the back?
From what I have seen, time attack cars are 100% business... looks do not come into it.. so at a guess what is at the front just works... as does what is at the back... style doesn't come into it.
Could be wrong... also, this isn't a real time attack car... so probs just some s*** house designing going on.
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36 minutes ago, Andy_Mac said:
@Loren it is quite a fugly looking thing, dunno why so many people are gushing over it. All of Blocks ones have been super aggressive while still actually looking good.
I don't understand why they put all the timeattack style aero on for basically an autocross car.
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46 minutes ago, ginganinja said:
Agree with that. At least do it to a 4 door then it would be very close to a S201. And also keep it 2 tone.
He should remove that body kit and do a 22B wide body to it with 22B bumpers and leave the S201 running gear in it to make it a 22B replica. It would almost be worth what he wants for it given that a real 22B is over 200k these days. And the S201 running gear is good stuff.
If you could simply convert any coupe to a fake 22b and get $50k... there would be a lot of people doing it... i for one would do it.
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I thought you could just check availability here https://www.kiwiplates.nz/create/
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Prestige in wgtn might be the closest/best bet... better check they can tune it though.
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1 hour ago, ginganinja said:
At least make a retna look like a 22B not an S201........the ugliest subaru ever made.
Second ugliest, after the Casa Blanca.
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11 minutes ago, pedro said:
And it cant be a typeR if its a retna really..Or can it?
It's a retna with possibly a Type R/RA drivetrain... and an s201 (ish) body kit. Real value? Not $50,000.
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2 hours ago, Dairusire said:
I mean, for the few hundred that blast plates cost, vs the cost/risk of breaking teeth of a dog gearset, I'd choose the blast plates.
maybe, but think of how many things you could add to your car that *might* work. Blast plates weigh a tonne as well... so not something I would do on the off chance.
I've looked into a bit... just by doing internet searches... the guys that made them originally admit they didn't do any RnD... they were just desperate and tried something out that seemed to work at the time.
I will ask Al @ macbilt if he has any experience with them.
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If I'm still having trouble with teeth breaking after spending $$$ on a dogbox... I'll be putting a match to it and taking up golf.
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4 hours ago, dmacnz said:
Look into blast plates. They attach to the side of the box to stop the case flexing. Normally the reason most 5 speed break. Even with good gear sets.
I have seen them... look like snake oil. Straight cut gears don't cause the case to flex... so is the ultimate solution really. No big fat assed 6-speed is ever going in my car.
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51 minutes ago, Gripless said:
I got that but not dog box ones. Just OEM style but better material.
last gears I got cut the metal they used was the same as the 900hp hill climb cars and not straight cut. The cutting and time was the cost.
If i had known that that was an option I might have done that.
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But there's more important things to tell them... e.g. "stop driving ugly as f*** cars from WWII".
tell that to the vw guys
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As said above, I am waiting for a new gearset... I ordered it 2 months ago when the box before this one broke and was hoping this "temporary" box would last until it arrived. It's still a month awaySo why not get the gears made in stronger material. It’s actually not that bad of a price last time I got some made.
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18 hours ago, Gripless said:
What is failing in all these gearboxes?
Do you have short shifters fitted?
Teeth... 2nd gear twice... now third gear. No short shifter.
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I blew another yesterday, the third in 12 months... it only lasted 3 events. dogbox is on the way but not in time for the 7 events i have entered for the rest of the year, so will need to try another $500 piece of s***.
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yeah mate... been dropping panadol all day... you see the results.
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yeah, they are usually in a v5 sti ra engine bay.
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