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    Snapped Timing Belt cause.

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    Do you still have the motor handy? Pull the cam caps and check the journals for one that's gotten really hot.

    I don't think you could bend a cam on a valve, you'd just bend the s*** out of the valve or dig it into the piston crown before that happened, IMO.

    Subaru h6

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    The BHs are super well put together cars but they feel pretty dated now whereas the BPs don't feel outdated at all.

    Also the BH H6 is not the same as the BP one, it only has a single exhaust port on the heads, goes reasonably well but the proper 3.0 is way better.

     

    We towed a 15ft boat around for quite a while with a BP Outback and it had no issue with it.

     

    p.s. every Hyundai we've owned, or my friends have owned, has been a complete f***ing lemon. God knows why we were silly enough to buy a second one, I guess we thought the first one being a turd was just unlucky rather than them being systemically s***. My mate thought a diesel Santa Fe would make a good cheap tow rig, and it was, right up until the gearbox gave up on life just outside of Methven on a family roadtrip around the south island.

     

     

    Manual conversion - advice please

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    1 hour ago, Joker said:

     

    in theory yes I agree

     

    but in reality can people (the Greater-unwashed-Public) really be trusted to do bolts back up tight, or even use the right washer?

     

     

     

    By this logic you should have to go for a cert if you take your wheels off or put new brake pads in. Which the LVVTA once actually insinuated in a particularly dented Facebook post about brake rotors needing to be certed in case you installed the wrong size ones (???).

    Honestly they do my f***ing head in and I hope they read this, yes without them it would be very very hard (actually I don't know, would it?) to modify cars and they provide a framework for us to do that, but some times it's completely cooked.

    Literally from the NZ Car Construction Manual:

     

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    The approval system is provided, to help builders and modifiers, not to hinder them

     

    And it's just bulls***, over the years they've had some spectacularly useless rules that have taken years to peel back and cost modifiers thousands of dollars to comply with stupid requirements that, if someone engaged their brain for about 20 minutes, wouldn't have made it past the draft stage. When was the last time you heard of a driveshaft hoop that did f*** all on a modified JDM car with less than about 800hp?

     

    The entire organisation was built around the concept of bearded hotrodders (who are wonderful, btw) stick welding bits of car together in their shed, not the "modern" version of car modding which is basically Lego except larger, dirtier, and generally undertaken by people with lower IQs.

     

    EDIT: Apologies OP for derailing your thread. I guess the sparknotes is "be prepared for some bizarre obscure cert requirement".

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    Manual conversion - advice please

    in General Vehicle Discussion

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    Standard example of one of the completely dented areas of the LVV standards. If you use all OEM parts from an identical but manual vehicle it should be a VIRM issue not a cert one.

     

    If a compatible manual ECU exists I'd go looking for one. Will make your conversion much less likely to throw a million different error codes.

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    Consultation opens on warrant of fitness change for Classic vehicles

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    Agree that if your car's a bit ropey/on the decline it should get a 6 month recheck, not sure about some of your criteria though... I don't think my STI has had a oil change sticker on it, ever.

     

    Fundamentally this change is targeted at owners of proper classics that get loving care and driven 2000km a year, not some 80s s***box that is somehow still on the road. Unfortunately virtually all old Legacys and Imprezas fall into the latter category.

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    Looking for part, and shipment to the United States

    in Legacy & Outback

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    I can source a new one ex-Japan for about 500 USD delivered to NZ, but I think that supplier only ships to NZ.

    There would be hundreds of them at wreckers around the country much cheaper if you would tolerate a used one.

     

    The much trickier part would be getting one to the US without it costing an insane amount.

     

     

    EDIT: Actually, try Amayama: https://www.amayama.com/en/part/subaru/73210ae060

    As far as I can tell they will, in fact, ship to the US. I can vouch for them, I've bought all sorts of obscure parts from them.

     

     

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    What have you done to your car today?

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    On 18/12/2024 at 9:22 PM, Andy_Mac said:


    Have you seen the electric Volvo power steering pump people are trying these days. Not sure if there are any cert issues with it but it looks like a sweet option. Would mean the alt could get flipped the opposite way for a low running reverse manifold while still keeping AC

     

    This is relevant to my interests, then I could run one of those lovely PW manifolds and keep my AC.

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    What have you done to your car today?

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    21 hours ago, Gripless said:

    Fitted new gear knob not as nice as OEM one but leather stitching was falling apart.

    top writing on Chinese is directly printed on plastic.

    OEM one writing in on a layer covered by clear plastic.

    oem one also far heavier as metal core.

     

    I got a STI Duracon one out of Japan while the yen was swirling around the toiletbowl, as well as a few other STI option parts. Nice upgrade from the slightly peeling leather one.

    Avs C series canbus

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    These alarms are configured by connecting a USB cable and using a laptop. If your installer wasn't a p**** (coin-toss) the alarm brain will be a complete **** to get to. If they were a p**** it will probably be zip-tied about an inch above your steering column.

    Even if you can find it, you need the installer software, which AVS don't make publicly available because of AVS reasons.

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