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  1. My VF34 and my friend's VF23 both whine at idle-low revs and when you turn it off. Personally I love the sound, it's almost like a little supercharger hiding in there somewhere. It's just a BB center thing.
  2. That's a major low-ball bargain-hunter price, if it's genuinely tidy they probably won't take you at all seriously on an offer like that. I picked up a quite tidy 2001 V7 STi for $14750 about 9 months ago, so $12-13k I reckon is still the bottom end of the price on a nice one.
  3. Ok, roughly... I only had a clean-rags-bag handy... Washed with soft brush and water Dried with a towel Cutting compound + coarse rag Polish/buff with a soft rag (re-cut the bits you missed, then polish some more) Pledge + soft rag then RE-Pledge + soft rag + 10 minutes of elbow grease Lots better. Can see my reflection in the plastic even. And headlights are noticably whiter + brighter.
  4. My V7 had Motul 5w30 (I think?) in it for a while, ran bloody well when it was fresh, I want to say noticeably better. Cost an arm and a leg though. Back to edge 5w30 for me.
  5. I've got a Singapore Spec V14 STi I'll sell you. 2 wheels for weight reduction, straight aluminium handlebar steering wheel with independent front and rear braking, handlebar steering wheel gear shift... comes with 2 cranks, both say Shimano on them. It's an STi, honest.
  6. At least they locked some bastards up. If you're lucky they'll have a bunch of priors and get the book thrown at them in sentencing.
  7. Make sure you get actual proof that the cambelt has been done... Also listen for banging from the rear diff, especially if you turn it hard lock at low low speed, like on a petrol station forecourt. Other one is brake hard then accelerate and see if the rear diff goes CLUNK on either of those. Other than that... check the engine temp when you first get in it... if it's cold, don't be too surprised if it runs like a bag of balls for a few minutes, they're forged motors and take a little while to sort themselves out. If it's warm however the guy has obviously pre-warmed it for you and might be trying to hide some nastiness when it's cold.
  8. Yours look pretty good already! Mine were like... piss-yellow. Maybe my HIDs will be whiter now too...
  9. Ok, tried some random internet advice from a small aircraft forum for polishing plexi windscreens - Pledge furniture polish. In the short term, RESULT. Headlights look great, plus smell lemony-fresh! Have to see how well it lasts but for 10 minutes with a cloth it's not the end of the world if I have to re-do it once a month.
  10. I wonder if that polish they use on aircraft windscreens would work. Meant to be pretty damn good. EDIT: This stuff: http://www.ingear.co.nz/Plexus-Plastic-Cleaner.aspx
  11. A friend of mine gained 2hp on the dyno going from a pod to the factory airbox with the resonators taken out of the 'snork'. Just saying.
  12. So today I gave the headlights on my V7 a real quick cut and a damn good polish. Before they were all cloudy and yellow, now they're almost clear, looks WAY better. Is this the correct way to get them looking nice? How can I KEEP them looking good?
  13. Cut and polished the ol' bug eyes. Not yellow any more! Car looks 25 million times better. Bad feeling I'm going to have to keep doing it over and over though to keep it looking good
  14. I had no idea where it was... noticed a Noel Leemings in the background so searched for that on Google Maps then went looking for the storage tank nearby, plus some train tracks. And I'd taken the day off work and wasn't doing much, so decided to go for a drive
  15. Tag. Nice bit of road. I apparently have quite a bit of bump steer ;o
  16. I have whatever's in a stock V7 STi exhaust sitting around. The rest of the pipe has been chopped off them though, I think.
  17. Damn that car looks tight in black. I'm guessing this is somewhere out the Hutt way?
  18. Might have to re-check the height but yeah, the tyres definitely touch the guard liner at full lock.
  19. Bamp - reset tag as per my post about maybe rule change?
  20. At 35mm drop with 225/45/R17's on standard V7 rims I get quite noticeable inner guard rub when cornering hard...
  21. A 50mm drop would be pretty low. Mine's down about 35mm (Zerosports coilovers) and my mid-pipe is roughly 15mm off the ground when going up parking building ramps...
  22. boon

    help!

    I've heard some mixed things about old myaudio... but then I'm really, really biased Seeing as I do some work for a shop in town which isn't that one...
  23. 880wrms? My last system ran a touch over 10kw. That took a fair bunch of cable to say the least...
  24. Brembo rotors for them are approximately $8000000 or so. I'm running Znoelli slotted and drilled but I don't like how they feel, will look for something else when it's time to replace them.
  25. Really, really, REALLY needs a V3 or newer bonnet. The old flat ones look pooz as
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