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Datgirl rocks :D

Exactly, it's a hell of a lot easier to get it right first time than to try to stuff around and install one later.

I think we have a new Pinky :D Unusual to paint outside before inside? Looks great Rob :D

That was pretty cool :D Thanks for the heads up, Rob :D So many esky's. Looked to be a super rally!

Oh yeah, in general if there is an external kill switch, it'll be near the A-pillar, drivers side, I believe. It's in the CAMS manual, somewhere.

irokin: Generally, you'll need a killswitch inside the car within reach of the driver, and for more serious stuff (like circuit racing, targa events and I suppose if your car is very quick down the drag) you'll also need to be able to switch it off from outside, in case the driver is unable to turn it off himself. Most of the time people run a cable (like a bike brake cable) with a loop on the end to outside the car. This goes to the switch inside, so you still only need one switch. Then if you stack it and you can't turn it off, someone can come up to the car and pull the cable, which will turn the switch off. Some cars do run two separate switches, some have a switch that can be electronically triggered (relay?) so there's a button on the outside of the car that trips it. Lots of methods. For a daily, probably not required, but never a bad thing to have. The only thing to watch is if you have an external one, try to have a way to "disable" it or tuck it under the bonnet or something so that tom, dick and harry don't keep turning it off everytime you park your car somewhere...

Yes, it sounds very suss indeed.

Or you can just get a sheet of 1mm steel and cut and shape it to fit. Not that hard really, I did that to a few sections of Hal.

You can't put a 3T into an AE86 anyway, it's too old an engine.

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out. I have 2 cars and I don't get invited anywhere either. In fact, I have 3 phone numbers and I don't get any calls either. And I'm the sort of person who would have to pay for a date, so quit yeah bitchin...

Sorry, already had plans for tonight, and I'm a cheap date anyway :D

Too much trouble to get a 4age engineered in what car?

As a guide, my red top 4AGE was $850 (about a year ago), new belts and seals but otherwise stock. It had engine mounts with it, but no exhaust manifolds. And that was including swapping the inlet manifold around. Late model T50's usually start at about the $150 mark (for a bodgy), a reasonably good clean one usually start at about $250.

Just remember - if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off...

Teddy: I moved it.

Paint and thinners for Hal was about $250 or so (I keep thinking it was more, but that's all I seem to have records for). I think that was for 8L of white, 4L of black. I used up about 6L of white (because white doesn't cover well, and because our spray gun was broken, and because silly me used green primer), and about 1/2L of black for the bonnet, and I painted that twice (due to stuff up first time). Black covers VERY well. As Rob said, for a first time job, stay with the bright colors like white. Dark colors show imperfections easily, and believe me, your car will look like a million dollars in primer, and then you put the top coat on and all of a sudden it all turns to shit. Hal looks great (almost) from 20 meters, come up close and all the imperfections come out to play...

Umm, the spaces for licences are usually for renewals and stuff, or if you upgrade then you can stick a new one there. I'm actually not suer what happens once you run out (I've only got 1 more spot in mine I think), I guess they give you a new book... Active record? You use it if you're planning on upgrading your licence and the upgrade requires you to have done some stuff. Apart from that, most people don't seem to bother. Good idea to read the book, but there's a lot to read and from experience it makes a good bedtime book, guaranteed to fall asleep before you get to the end of the page...

Intending to live in it. At least for the first year anyway, who knows what will happen after that...

The one I'm going to look at is a 3 bedroom, 2 car garage. Very basic, but in my budget. It's a bit far away, but not too far (out west). I don't know if I'm going to get all my stuff together in time, if I don't then well... I'm sure there'll be more to come that would fit the description.

Seeing mortgage consultant today and tomorrow, looking at a property on Saturday. So yes, looking at buying soon. Looks like I, too, may have to put motorsport on the backburner for a little bit if this goes through...

thanks!

... yes it is!

I like public holidays, I recon we should have every Wednesday off from now on :D

Wow, that's very red! Looks awesome, much better than Hal ever looked :D

Considering most of us are from Brisbane (and I don't think any of us are actually in Melbourne), I don't think you'll be seeing any of us real soon...