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I have never, ever heard someone refer to an A model chassis as decent haha. Brilliant.

Good old Pete, I'm guessing he's probably got spare parts to rebuild those steering boxes stashed away somewhere haha. Say hi to him from Tom Philbey, tell him my ke16 is going great.

It will last plenty if you don't drive like a dick, service it and build it properly. Mine cost me under 2k to build but I scored some good parts at killaaaaah prices.

My 69 doesn't either, I've never seen a ke1x with rears. Ever.

riiiiiiiiiiight. yeh I know it's a hemi not a 350 but you know what I'm saying.

The most hectic of the hectic 5K's will make about 100-130hp at the wheels. That's big cam, twin carb high comp country. If that's not enough, you're looking at the wrong donk.

Nice work on the tie rod ends. I've got a set kicking around ready for fitment as well haha. Just a question, where'd you get your steering box redone? I've got a KE20 unit that I'll pop in but I might look into geting it reco'd as well. Dare I ask what that cost you as well? LSD, you can fit the toyota 5.7" inch into the stock diff, but you will need starlet axles; i think U or X series, I will double check for you.

Hmm, 5.7" lsd centre with starlet axles?

Any idea what your offset is? And if you would be so kind to measure track, I'll work out the rest. Are you expecting a lot of scrubbing or is it pretty clear to the guard lip. Love it. 16 by 8 is massive but I do enjoy the way it fills it out!

Happy to look after that for ya!

Is it possible that you're the only person ever to be defeated by the French hahaha.

Wow nice. What rear end are you running? Is it a shortened one and what length? Love those rear wheels, they looke amazing.

Haha jono, no offence but you're the one running pajero shocks in a ke10 and you're ripping on the 1600's suspension! Keep in mind the 1600 is the same year as a ke10 (68) and I'll hands down vote that the the 1600 is a better design!

Actually something I forgot to bring up.... So I mentioned that the average house price to house income had increased over steadily over time. The chart is in the doc below, page 4 and it's pretty startling..... http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=house%20price%20to%20average%20income%20australia&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Feconomics.hia.com.au%2Fmedia%2FHouse%2520price%2520to%2520income%2520ratio%2520-%2520FINAL.pdf&ei=LuhuUPrePI-6iAfwiYGoAQ&usg=AFQjCNF9BKXryCnO4U6EShM4P8-BYemXpA That is until you see the data on the average house size!! This goes back to my exact point: people can't live with a poky house, they all want bigger and better. 40% increase in twenty years! Bigger houses = greater cost people!! http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Previousproducts/1301.0Feature%20Article262005?opendocument&tabname=Summary&prodno=1301.0&issue=2005&num=&view= Not only that, but the number of people occupying houses appears to be getting slimaller: the modern shift is towards 1-2 kid families, so we build bigger houses for less people. Even the number of lone occupant houses is increasing! Forget government, forget fiscal policy, inflation, interest rates and all that for a moment: look at what we are becoming. We have the largest houses, on average, in the bloody world. Are we surprised that we can't afford them! I hate big houses: wow three lounge rooms, how awesome. One gets used always and the other two I visit occasionally to clean them.... Oh look, big open plan living with lots of glass and nice hard furnishings. Sweet, it's so ʞ©$ɟing noisy I can't hear myself think. We're turning into space greedy idiots. Broke ones.

That's a pretty good article. Parrot, good point, I will admit I didn't pick up on the pajero point. Probably overdamped Jono.

Dude, they'll be fine; better off being hard to compress than not. My porsche bilsteins are for a 1200kg car with a very light front end with a low unsprung mass and they're almost impossible to compress. I've been observing a bunch of posts on here, not just this one but other ones over a few months; I get the feeling that people don't actually understand shock damping theory very well? Nobody EVER seems to talk about how their shocks match up to their spring rate (and unsprung mass for that matter)? I did some digging, although this is very wordy with minimal diagrams, there is some good theory on shocks vs springs. http://www.theoryinpracticeengineering.com/drift_mag/basic_damper.pdf Anyway; altezzaclub is right, there's different valving, one for the very high speed, low movement bumps and the other for the slower, high movement, cornering and braking loads etc. The article above explains this quite well, 3rd page, second paragraph. Shocks apply a reaction force based on how fast you squish them. Push them faster, they provide a greater resistance. Stare at the graph in that article a while, you'll see this. is clear. They don't provide any resistance force when they're not being compressed. (chart starts at the Zero line) Gas shocks are slightly different; they do add a little bit of spring rate because the gas is compressible. They should have marginal influence on ride height, they don't actually 'hold the car up', the springs do. Gas shocks will extend on their own as you've probably seen due to the gas displacing the fluid in one side of the shock. That force may be enough to lift the car, but it would be marginal. A straight OEM replacement should account for that I would have thought. Your shocks arent stuffed, they're fine. When a gas shock is easy to compress, then they're stuffed. Although I've not bought gas shocks that were strapped while packed, that's probably more to do with shipping economics than anything else.

I've been trying to avoid getting drawn into this thread.... Well said. I'm certainly not an elitist by any measure, but quite frankly, when I think of certain types of people who may well end up on a jury it sends a shudder down my spine. Same goes with parliamentary duty. Quite frankly, I don't think running the country is easy. I wouldn't dream of letting the "average joe" run fiscal policy. Having said that, I wouldn't dream of letting the labor government run it either Chortle chortle. Back to the housing thing though: I appreciate your sentiments Matt, that Houses are more difficult to buy. The stats are solid, the income to house price ratio has grown fairly steadily in five decades. If I wasn't on the iPad right now I would grab the chart off the abs website, but it essentially reflects exactly what you are whinging about to use your word. Orangelj's point is pretty valid though, it does seem that people aren't willing to buy a crap house with a Fahrenheit stove, cactus garden, brown carpets and matching pastel bath and toilet! They want stainless splash backs, mixer taps and split systems straight off the bat. I have mates like this, I've seen it first hand. But I know people that earn a shitload less than I do and still manage to buy houses and smash their mortgage. I've got mates whose monetary discipline is astounding I dunno... Not sure what my point is really. I can say though, if I was still in Melbourne I wouldn't have a 1200m block and a 70 square meter garage, rolling hillside view AND a 13km drive to the CBD. That's the upside to adelaide I suppose....

Nice one. Was it advertised? I never see these things come up for sale, murphy's law, as soon as you stop looking, they appear!

Yeh I also had mine done at complete exhausts. Good reasonable price.

Trust me... The u bolts would be a lot safer than the welds.... And less prone to catastrophic failures and all that good stuff. I actually saw this on speed hunters the other day didn't even realize it was an RC members car! Good One.

Wow another clean as one in Adelaide. I dig these things where did you find this for sale?

[quo Policy aside, the point I was making is that he was the last politician that we've seen who could implement policy with actual conviction and stick with it. He made, implemented and stuck out the shitstorm over some pretty full on policies. Half of our constituents wouldn't even remember the GST smear campaign and scare tactics that were trolleyed out at the time! Possibly one of the most difficult bits of legislative change in the last 30 years! Look at how many times the current labor governernment have backflipped on policy lately simply because they copped a hard time in the polls; the latest one was the bloody supertrawler! Howard didn't make housing unaffordable, good interest rates and easily available credit came as an upside to a strong economy. Plus, it was Hawke who reinstated negative gearing, possibly one of the major drivers for the boom growth in the housing market. Never Fear! Some day, the commodities market will dive, we'll be back in the economic doldrums like the early 90s, interest rates will be in double digits and houses will become affordable again!

Mate crow are one of the oldest and best in the business; there are so many things that could have caused that, I'd hardly write them off on that basis; regrinding old cams can always have issues. I'd happily buy from them, Wade or Tighe cams, based on reputation.

Oh. You mean like..... John Howard?

I remember seeing a clubman with a 1.5l v8 or similarly small. Maybe 1.8l