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WHY IS EVERYBODY SO SCARED OF LEAF SPRINGS?????

I don't think it's quite that much. The most I know of a K-head which has .125" off it. THAT was a serious grind. the screw driver mark is around .100" if memory serves. My old head had a new mark milled in because the old one had dissapeared. :angrybird:

It's my wife's life ambition to die with a HECS debt... :angrybird:

I hate to say it, but I'm a tradesman, have not been to uni, and I think it's a fairly good bet, that (last year not withstanding) I probably earn more than anybody else on this board. You CAN find good places to work in, they are about. Sometimes you have to travel to get what you want. At the moment I'm living in Brisbane, and commuting to Melbourne, Hobart and Launceston to work. I know some mechanics who do make good money, but they're also very good operators. Half the problem is that people don't like the money of apprenticeships. Possibly because apprentices seem to be older when they start now than in the past. $15K would be fine if you were 15 or 16 and still living at home. But If you're 18, have a car and want to have a life, you can make more at McDonalds flipping burgers. It all depends on what you want. If you want a trade, you put up with the crap money to get your papers. But once you have them, nobody can take them away, and you have something to fall back on. If you leave the trade after two or three years, what have you done except waste two or three years? You could go to uni, but I seem to remember they don't pay you to go there either. Bits of paper make the world go around. Nothing comes for free.

Hmmm, I'm down there until Staurday. Maybe I can stretch it another day. Hey Col, can I've a drive?? :angrybird:

Sidchrome is fine to start out with. No arguments there, as also know what it is to be a poor apprentice. But I would't call it "the good stuff." I intend to use my tools until I'm old and grey. I pay a premium for what I want, but I'll only have to buy them once.

I started with a sidchrome toolbox, and have no real complaints, apart from lack of warrenty back-up. Stahwille is good stuff, although I don't like the way there spanners feel in your hand. The reason I like snap-on is their quality and back-up, which is second to none as far as I'm concerned. But, you get what you pay for.

Truer words have never been spoken Jamie. rjenman: I can't use workshop tools because there are none. Each mechanic must have their own tools. This is generally the case in most places. Each Friday we get the Snap-On guy coming in to try and sell us stuff from his truck. A set of metric 3/8th drive sockets is about $300 and only goes from about 8mm up to about 19mm. I bought a Sidchrome set with metric and A/F, 3/8th drive with 5mm through to 24mm, with equivalent sizes in A/F, as well as deep sockets from about 12mm through to 19mm and equivalent A/F (51 pieces all up) for only $250! So if you do decide to become a mechanic, DON'T BUY SNAP-ON. You can easily get lifetime warranties from plenty of other brands. And Sidchrome is hardly an unknown brand ("You canna hand a man a grander spanner!") Well, I can tell you different. Sidchrome aren't what they used to be. Their "lifetime" warranty is not worth a pinch of pelican snot. I have tried a number of times to warranty their spanners for spread jaws and was told that they have to go back to Sidchrome, but the warranty would probably be rejected as this was "fair wear and tear". I now replace my tools with Snap-on where I can. Okay, I pay more, but I have never had an issue with replacement. Stahwille is another quality brand, and you pay about the same as snap-on for them. Use a Sidchrome rachet, then a snap-on one, then tell me which one you want to use every day for the next 40 years. I know they're expensive, but the quality is far superior. FWIW, I wouldn't buy Snap-on for home. Just my thoughts. R P.S: Decent mechanics are in really short supply in QLD. I know of four workshops scream for decent tradesmen.....

Mine was making 82hp ATW on the G&A dyno on SU's. (around 115 hp at fly). Had mine redone on the hardest dyno in BNE with Webers at 60 hp ATW. Go figure.... *shrug* 80HP ATW is nothing to be sneezed at out of a 3K. Good going!

Holden was always Australian. They made bodies to put on cars if memory serves correct. Sorry to disappoint. :angrybird: I believe the best part of NZ is the departure lounge. What's the capital of NZ? $2.50!

If it's the car I'm thinking of, it has a new owner this year. It actually won the RS challenge last year.

According to another board they're already looking for another shell. There's a lightly rolled one down i Vic at the moment for $15k which they're looking at. If the car in the above photo is the one I'm thinking of, it was rolled twice last year. Third time lucky!

Yes, we live to provide answers to questions for people who wont do research..... :dry:

No, it's an Impreza RS, 2.5, no turbo. They have a one make series for then here.

Is that the Ex- Glenny car from last year?

MMmmm, that was my thought.

It can be a false economy. Alot of the time the tyres they put on in packages..... well, lets just say I wouldn't fit them to my trailer. (Car trailer with chrome 18'S :) ) If you want good rims with good tyres, you often have to buy seperate. Depends on whether you want the look or the handling.

I've used a Motel sign as an a-frame to remove an engine, and then helped change the components over in one of the rooms. Not a mark on the carpet! :dance:

If you want to increase the lift of the cam, you grind away the back (smaller) side of the cam. As you adjust your tappets on this side, it will follow a larger lobe, thereby increaseing lift. You're not regrinding the whole cam, just re-profiling it.

Hit: Do it after a couple of stubbies. I did and got 79m straight away!

Tip for new players with the search, look for all dates, the default is set for 30 days. R

Don't even think about doing it. KE10 springs are about half the poundage of KE30 springs.

Mmmmm new Rollaclub challenge. 65m so far. Some serious practice going into this one.....

Not as far as I know. Anyone else?

Goodo.. :dance: