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I have a fairly huge double garage in Karori that's only going to have 1 car in it. I'll talk to the flatties about it.

Mmm... my Zerosports 'adjusties' don't have an adjustable bottom mount and they're not exactly cheap gear.

The springs weren't captive so there was no pressure anyway. They solved it - pulled the strut out, put it in a vice, smacked the ring with a hammer a bit, then froze it with a fire extinguisher and did the old punch-in-a-notch trick and it 'cracked' and came loose. Then they cleaned all the threads up and now it moves smoothly. So now it has a cert

Got a cert And put all my mods on the insurance. Price increase: $0. Sweet, I guess I pay that much in the first place for a good reason.

How long do you need it for and how much access to it do you need?

The other 7 nuts were fine

Nah they haven't pulled the strut out yet, bit of a pain in the arse because you have to pull the back seat out blah blah to get to the studs. I'm a bit staggered by how stuck it must be though. I mean I've seen them be stiff as hell before but usually at the very least putting a punch into the notch and smashing it with a hammer is enough to crack it.

Stillsons = pipe wrench, if a 4ft long set with a jack handle stuck over them didn't move it I don't know what will. Can't heat it, gas filled struts = kabooom!

Nah they 'cracked' one of the nuts and got it to move but the other is stuck like a mo-fo. Kinda depressing really ;/

Have you given it a good driving yet? It may just need to settle a little... as long as it's not way, way out and making it unsafe to drive.

So my car is in for a cert for the adjusties... turns out the rear springs aren't quite captive. They went to wind the spring platforms up and one of the locknuts is seized tighter than a nun's... well, you know. They've soaked it in CRC overnight, tried big ass c-spanners, putting a punch in the notches and giving it a good smash, and finally a 4ft long pipe wrench with a jack handle for more leverage and they still can't get it to move. Any ideas?

Dropped it off for a cert, found out the rear springs aren't captive (kinda knew that, forgot to wind the spring seats up before dropping it off hahaha ooops) and the exhaust is a shade too loud ;/

I would say ~220kw.

Maybe a good option if he wants to build a 500hp motor but if it turns out the big end IS shagged it's way cheaper just to buy a front cut or some random un-opened long block off tardme... $6k, jesus I could probably replace my EJ207 for that.

Unless they're Subaru specialists I wouldn't get overly worried right away. All subarus make a variety of individual and unique noises Could be a little bit of piston slap... does it go away when it's warm?

Shit. This thing is reasonably worked from what I remember.

Either installed really badly or it's a towtruck job... A properly installed 5-star shouldn't be able to be driven away unless the guy has like 2 hours to play with it.

I'm getting it serviced next week so I'll get it checked out then. It recently got suspension changed so I have to wonder if it's a pinched/kinked brake line but I'm fairly sure it used to do it before they went in. It just happened at a very unfortunate time... overtaking a wonderful highway-80-passing-lane-115'er when the police officer hiding in the bushes at the end of the passing lane turned his radar on. I owe the guys at Beltronics a beer.

Subject says it all really... when braking heavily at highway speeds the car pulls very, very much to the left. ABS not kicking in. Under light-moderate braking it doesn't at all except sometimes when coming to a complete halt it will do a little shudder to the left. Znoelli slotted+drilled rotors, Brembo pads, dunno how worn. I think they were relatively new when I got the car ~15000km ago. Brakes have been flushed and bled ~5000km ago. Any ideas?

petrols got too expensive even for the mob haha You have to wonder if they've ever considered ripping off a petrol tanker. Even if you only managed to drain off a few thousand litres (presumably they're GPS tracked for that very reason) that's still a significant 'saving' Mind you they probably just nick people's plates and do drive-offs.

Set it up to only kill fuel. That way it'll just lean out and melt a piston when the police are chasing you

What would black power want with an old Integra though? They're more about the HSVs, FPVs and fast Japs - STis, Evos, Turbo Skylines. That kind of thing. This kind of car is more likely stolen by someone who knows their way around Hondas and needs a way to get home to Turangi.

Updated the first post with some more info.

My Version 7 runs with no AFM. It just has a CEL and runs really, really rich.

Mine did all sorts of odd stuff when the wheel bearing and hub on one side were completely shagged... does it make any squeaking/cracking sounds? Note, there was no play at all, it sailed through a WOF and several hours of my confused mechanic playing with it until we pulled it all apart just to check it.