The blower has been received at the Japan warehouse so it won't be long until it is in Oz. The post I did the other day about it leaving Japan actually turned out to be it being shipped from the seller to the warehouse, email I got just stated freight charges so I thought it was on it's way to me.

Edited August 20, 201214 yr by Trev

I stripped the GZE down today and found that number 1 piston has a rather bad detonation or hit mark right on the edge of the crown, not sure if I wanna use them at the moment so I am going to look at removing the damage with a file and see how it comes up otherwise I will get a P & A on a new set of Toyota 8:1 c/r pistons in STD and OS as I am not sure how the bores will look after a hone.

give me rods :P

I have got a spare set of rods.

Stick it PPQ and TMR and they will give you what you want :)

 

So neat street and ocational strip car. I like it.

Wow you did get onto one of those mythical HKS blowers! Only ever seen pictures, lucky you.

Subbing for future awesomeness.

So neat street and ocational strip car. I like it.

Wow you did get onto one of those mythical HKS blowers! Only ever seen pictures, lucky you.

Subbing for future awesomeness.

 

Yeah I want to be able to have a nice comfy car for the whole family for cruises etc but I want it to be mine.

 

I put up the wanted ad as I had tried yahoo Japan etc (search items can be hard though) and carbonboy said about importmonster so I typed it into there and one came up, it ended up costing me $1148 once postage and fees were added which I think is quite good.

 

I just hope it gets here soon and I can sort out a top water outlet to suit the blower since you end up with this much room:

 

 

Edited August 28, 201214 yr by Trev

Wow that's cheap!!!

I like your plans, something different is always refreshingly good.

 

Cheers Stu

Got an email today saying that shipment from Japan to Oz will be another $276 (air) so I have asked them to send it via sea which will take approx 6 weeks and then how ever long it takes from Victoria to me.

Thought it had left?. They look sick in the bay

Thought it had left?. They look sick in the bay

 

So did I, read post 46.

Oh the memories.

 

Off to a flying start with this one!

Yeah I hate waiting for sea mail, it's usually 6-8 weeks as the boat sits on the docks for 2 weeks so depending on if it gets sent when the boat is about to leave or when it just gets back to port depends how long, air freight is usually a week I got something sent on Saturday from japan and got it Monday!

Oh the memories.

 

Off to a flying start with this one!

 

Thanks Matt, yeah I thought it might have.

 

Yeah I hate waiting for sea mail, it's usually 6-8 weeks as the boat sits on the docks for 2 weeks so depending on if it gets sent when the boat is about to leave or when it just gets back to port depends how long, air freight is usually a week I got something sent on Saturday from japan and got it Monday!

 

Yeah the turbo setup I got for my old 71 took 3 month to arrive.

 

Hoping that it will still be around my original quote since I am going with sea:

 

 

Dear Trevor,

 

This email is to notify you of an update to your order. The change to your order is:

 

Order update for item HKS BLOWER (18430)

Japanese Domestic Freight confirmed at 3,150¥

This results in a saving of $-11.69 --> Order total changed from $1,154.53 to $1,142.84

Balance changed from $-154.53 to -142.84

Edited August 30, 201214 yr by Trev