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Parts: THE GREAT COLLECTORS AUCTION Over 400 lots! Enamel Signs, Oil Bottles, Tin Toys, Pinball Machines, Vintage Qantas Travel Posters, Vintage RAA, Club and assorted other Badges., CARS and MOTORCYCLES include 1981 VH SLE Commodore V8 5lt, 1985 Ford Lazer Turbo, 1950’s Hillman Minx, Wolesley 24/80, 1980 International Scout Traveller V8, 1984 Corvette C4 Targa, 1979 Lotus Eclat. 1947 ACME, Kawasaki KD80 and Honda Elsanor. HISTORIC NUMBER PLATES include SA 652, 1530 1570, Grand Prix “84”, QLD Historic Q7070, Q6060 and Q1880. Inspection Saturday 8th May 9am to 12noon, Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th May 9am to 4pm Day of auction 9am to 10am Condition: old Price: it's an auction Location: Scammells Contact: Can online bid or go in person http://www.scammellauctions.com.au/catalog...2cbc988c5a5fe6c - it gets better further into the lots :jamie: Admins- If this is in the wrong place, could you please MOVE it and not DELETE it?

hello :bash: it's been a while... those clips i posted up with video and audio are with the old, old, OLD set up, it's changed three times since then! I'll have to get more vid with what it sounds like now and post it up. nothing really new with the car. I got the cheap fix with a view to getting the whole lot fixed...the money I saved went to the dog... literally! he tore his cruiciate ligament and had to have a major op, I'm actually thinking of taking vixie off the road for a couple of months to give me a bit more time before it dies in the arse, at the moment she's being babied. Oh! I got in the car today and am ashamed to say there was a SPIDER and it's WEB, running from the windscreen wiper control, to the beginning of the arch of the instrument panel, back over to the steering wheel and over to the vent.... That little blip in the photo is the spider.....I haven't cleaned the interior for a while...*adds it to my "to do" list... I also picked up the 2 from the crash repairer (again) - thanks Karl for the lift! - so we're back to having three cars, so I can clean out the shed and put the rolla in there while I figure out what to do. first up I think I'm going to sell the bluebird and put the money I was going to spend on the rolla into an IS200. Then keep the rolla off the road for about 4 months (while driving the IS200 and saving more money for the repairs). THEN I think i'll get the 2 all gussied up and all the electrics fixed and then put the rolla in for repairs...that'll take the rest of this year I think. I'm going to really TRY not to spend money on the IS200, but most likely i'll put in a stereo, tint, uber rims, and then i'll stop i think... I don't know, i'm not feeling as enthusiastic as I was about the car, and logically I know I should sell it, but i'm too emotionally attached to it. So we'll see..... KARL: i really liked the old Super HD Clutch from Repco (that was my last clutch) and this one is an exeddy, which is WAY heavier than yours....yours is a girly lightweight clutch...but I don't like the exeddy, but after our conversation today i realise that that's our only option now.... SportivoPSI: I haven't actually wound up the boost, I do have a high setting on the controller, but i don't use it...ever... the standard manifolds on the sportivo's are crap.... with a capital C, this is my 2nd genuine one, AND i noticed the fault after only about 6 months, they're sub-standard pieces of Crap. I have been really careful, with warm-ups, cool downs, and it hasn't made a difference, I DID get it welded up as a temporary fix about a year ago, and it helped a little but it cracked in other weaker places, there's no way around it, I have to get a new one made up and the new one is going to get ceramic coated to help the heat distribute a bit better, I think the extra $200 is going to be so worth it in the long run, i'm also going to get the exhaust housing done too. I was really happy performance wise after the CAI, I'd love more power, but I think: it's FWD (which sucks in the wet), it's only a 1.8lt, and when I want to put the boot in a bit, it gives it, overall it's never going to have the power that my husbands 2 has (although with a quick gear change i can get him!!) and it's a unique, head turning sort of car, so I acknowledge her limitations (and only occasionally call her a lemon!). EDIT: my engine was replaced shortly after I got it, so the reason my engine sounds different may be because of the age of it???

redline gearbox oil is FANTASTIC!!!!

depending on where your pod sits, you may want to think about a bracket to support the weight of the new piping and pod. Mine is mounted behind the drivers side escution plate and it kept slipping off the turbo, at one point there was so much movement, the piping rubbed against the radiator and caused all sorts of problems.

I too am out. My dog's just had a major operation (anterior cruciate ligament) and he's not allowed to be left alone for the next week to two weeks.

ahh i can speak from experience, you need a reducer :lolcry: I ordered mine from AutoPro, I think it was 52 on one side (from memory) the IHI turbo is itsy bitsy :) I used the verniers and measured from the turbo and then the piping.

PS: Love the rims on the REX :yes:

HEY!!!! Welcome :hmm: Good to see another Sportivo on here (we get lonely :yes: ) Can't wait to hear more of your updates, do you still have the grill that you took off? If it's the original one, would you be interested in selling it? >| Lesley

well, *shrinks in my chair* i'm actually going to keep it....for the time being (probably for another year), but I've decided the bluebird is getting traded for an IS200, just have to convince hubby of the idea :happy:

I've been really depressed not having my car :lolcry: I was horribly upset that she wasn't ready to go to TS2010 (i'd put so much work into her the last couple of years and really wanted to see if I could take it out a third year in a row), anyway, that plus hubby's car was in at the paint shop (also missed out on TS and it had received a massive overhall over the last 6 months) and then I had to drive the bluebird :lolcry: that just topped it off. I did the calcs on how long I would be without the car and it works out to the beginning of April, I just didn't think I could go without her for 5 or 6 weeks. I managed to get on my husbands good side (cost me a G19 Keyboard for valentines day and I asked for NOTHING) and he agreed that I could go ahead with the cheap fix, and book in the major repair job in April. And it's true, material things CAN make you happy....I've been smiling since I picked up Vixie this afternoon, she's not running the greatest, but she's home...and I've discovered that my Corolla is MY stress reliever. I had a good chat with Bill at Adelaide Turbo Services, and he's made me feel really comfortable with the big job, he answered all my questions, explained the intricacies of the job. So bring on April, at least I'll be driving a corolla til then :happy:

well i picked up vixie today, I ended up doing the cheap fix as my garret fund wasn't as robust as I thought (what can I say, I'm a girl and I spend lots of money :happy: ) so the temporary fix is only to last 2 months so hopefully, she'll make it to OSNA

spotted Mystik, Karllos, Valandor and FXGT down at Toyoshow, well done guys! :)

hey, good luck tomorrow guys, i hope you have a ton of fun :) I'll see you around 1.30pm ;)

no, it WAS going to cost $4K, the quote is in and the more accurate figure is $4970 to make a new exhaust manifold, put in a garret T25 turbo, modify the dump pipe, well modify all the piping, ceramic coat the manifold and exhaust housing, do the helicoiling and labour. when you break it down to individual costs it's actually not that much... 2000 - 2500 for pipe work 1250 for turbo 95 gaskets 770 labour 330 helicoiling 250 ceramic coating and I've decided. I'm getting her fixed. I can't sell her broken, or with a cheap fix, so she's getting the full fancy pants modifications, i'll keep her for 6 months and revisit. But i'm thinking of selling the crapbird straight away and getting the IS200, because at the moment, i'm SO OVER the bluebird, then I can teach youngest to drive in the IS and when she finally gets her licence then either one of these: KQ Laser N15 Pulsar EG Civic So that'll put my plans of the RX8 back a bit, MAYBE it all depends on finances

also emtech do the indiglo gauges which rock!

ok, both cars i was going to enter aren't back from various repairers so i'm out, i will come down for a visit on sunday but I won't be there for set up. i have the rollaclub sign :hmm: if you want my big gazebo, let me know i have a fold up table, again, let me know i can loan 4 - fold up chairs let me know when/who wants to take responsibility for my stuff and pick-up and drop-off, I'm happy to travel half way I'm devo that our cars aren't ready :y: lesley :bash:

government departments and their our of control bureaucracy thinking it's ok to send our last three years of financials to my husbands ex-wife AND not removing the BSB and Account Numbers and also not removing our Credit Card Numbers so now she has all our financial history (private and business) effing arseholes....

:)

what about an IS200? Hubby and I went looking at cars today (that's how we do valentines day in our house :P !) i REALLY like the RX8's - they're so pretty, tiny back seat, but I don't care about passengers!! :) (but shitty gas mileage) the Lexus has 9.9 (as opposed to 12.6 in the RX and 7.3 for the rolla)....still deciding....

*facepalm* and of course he would have had to have put his helmet on AFTER he put the ladder over his head......if he was in an accident, his head would get ripped off....

i hate driving autos! need to have a manual... i'm still making a decision...

ok, I shall look - how did it get there?! OH that's right... YOU put it there!!!

I'm not sure if you can see it properly ..... there's a woman on a scooter, with a big mirror in the footwell - I can't help thinking what parts of her body would be severed if she had an accident, and I wonder how she goes with balance? Some of these people on scooters are insane! I saw a guy in t-shirt, shorts and thongs on one in the middle of city peak hour traffic....

i think the online form is working now :)

well as I'm the one with the marquee, and I so want to be involved, I'll be there too :), so Karrulta park kmart at what time? who's got the rolla club sign? who can bring an esky with ice? who can bring some drinks (or do we each want to bring our own to put in the esky) has anyone thought about a club display??? or what we can do for a club display?