Whats arrived for your Roadster today

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Post by Angreal » Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:09 am

chris wrote:Mannn I want one of those braces....

But then, well then nothing would be manoeuvrable
It doesn't stiffen the car up, just makes gear changes good

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Post by Kieran » Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:29 am

He means he will scrape more

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Post by Angreal » Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:47 am

Actually yeah, it hangs lower than the butterfly brace and catches things if I'm not careful and my car isn't particularly low, just has not great bottom clearance these days

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Post by siren676 » Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:57 am

:D Carbon Fibre!!!!

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Post by authentic » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:24 am

Aww yiss

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Post by WideOpenThrottle » Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:28 pm

they for the pooch?
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Post by CordedBowl » Fri Dec 21, 2012 3:09 pm

Nice authentic! I'm running HSD's in my NA too :D!

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Post by Donovan » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:23 pm

Authentic, may I ask how much you paid for the HSD and where did you get them from. Do you know the spring rates?

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Post by REDBEN » Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:30 am

Donovan wrote:Authentic, may I ask how much you paid for the HSD and where did you get them from. Do you know the spring rates?
Id like to know as well please :D

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Post by authentic » Sat Dec 22, 2012 11:39 am

I got them for about $1550 off Trade Me. The rates are 9kg/mm Front, 6kg/mm Rear. I'd been looking at these for a while, but the guy was always out of stock. The waiting paid off though :D

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Post by siren676 » Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:04 pm

Torsen arrived today. Was funny watching a huge truck try to back all the way down our driveway to get it here :lol:

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Post by Furai » Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:08 pm

DORIDORI! :lol:

Only takes a few hours to fit, clean up the drive shaft and try not to lose too much gearbox oil.

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Post by siren676 » Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:04 pm

Oh yeah need some diff oil. Any recommendations?
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Post by Mr. Shine » Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:21 pm

Redline's supposed to be good. I feel the need to replace the oil in my S2000 and will probably go with Redline.

Got some Spoon reservoir covers and a J's Racing oil filler cap to dress up my engine bay last night :)

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Post by chris » Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:27 pm

authentic wrote:I got them for about $1550 off Trade Me. The rates are 9kg/mm Front, 6kg/mm Rear. I'd been looking at these for a while, but the guy was always out of stock. The waiting paid off though :D

Damn, looking at those top hats they could probably go fucking low!
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Post by Furai » Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:30 pm

siren676 wrote:Oh yeah need some diff oil. Any recommendations?
got the TRD stuff from Toyota, just relabelled Cusco stuff but slightly cheaper.

I looked into Redline but its not worth paying twice the price.

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Post by Snapfrozen » Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:17 pm

Mr. Shine wrote:Redline's supposed to be good. I feel the need to replace the oil in my S2000 and will probably go with Redline.

Got some Spoon reservoir covers and a J's Racing oil filler cap to dress up my engine bay last night :)
Not sure about S2K's, but EVERY other honda gearbox is reknowned for eating itself without using Honda MTF...

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Post by Mr. Shine » Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:22 pm

Snapfrozen wrote:Not sure about S2K's, but EVERY other honda gearbox is reknowned for eating itself without using Honda MTF...
Oh, I was talking about the differential. For the gearbox, absolutely, although in the S2000's case it's roughly the same 6-speed found in the MX-5 :)

Honda doesn't make differential fluid for the S2000, though.

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Post by Angreal » Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:17 am

Woohoo. Tomorrow (or today actually) my stuff should finally clear MAF after having to fight Customs (bunch of thieving bastards) for a month...

Will finally be on track to getting all my stuff installed :D Will have to take photos

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Post by Angreal » Fri Jan 11, 2013 5:38 pm

Picked it up and was impressed that it all fit into the car... Have photos but will stick them up when at work or something since my internet is super slow lately.

Those RPF1s are really light compared to my current wheels :D

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Post by brownie » Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:05 pm

siren676 wrote:Torsen arrived today. Was funny watching a huge truck try to back all the way down our driveway to get it here :lol:

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Thats well packed,like a big Christmas present :D

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Post by Angreal » Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:49 pm

Time to hijack this thread again :twisted:

Long story short, picked up my stuff from the States last Friday:

Really struggled to get it into the car and for a moment there when the crate was sitting next to the car I was actually worried about how to fit it all in...

1 Glad I didn't take the MX5 to try pick it up... would've been super inconvenient :lol:
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2 Looking into the boot
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3 yeah tight fit but I got it there
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4 All the stuff on the garage floor
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5 New wheels :D Much lighter than the ones that came with the car
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6 Finally put the Nopro and CF aero wing on 8) Everyone needs some CF love
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7 Frog arms. Started putting those on but it got super hot in the garage and I started drinking beer which meant I gave up pretty quickly. Sadly these are the crazy lime green I was after
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8 Camshaft to do the Exhintake mod finally... Will do cambelt/waterpump etc at the same time
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9 Coolant reroute - Will do at the same time as radiator/supercharger
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10 Sexy smoked indicators - I put them on the floor and forgot about them...
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11 Fuel rail which I'll put on with all the other engine related stuff
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12 Koyo radiator to fix my one which is now leaking slightly. Timing was good I guess :)
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13 Ah the supercharger. Used as the garage door stop for now...
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14 Wheel spacers I mentioned before in another post - Will grind the existing studs back a bit for more clearance. Mental note to self, if I ever get spacers, get the big ass ones for ease of installation
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Can't wait for my stuff from Japan to arrive via container now 8) can't be far away...

Also gave up on taking photos by the end... There are other things which I've forgotten about but I'll give them a mention once my car is back up and running

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Post by siren676 » Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:57 pm

:lol: Hahahaha that car was packed! I think you need to book a week/month off work to fit it all
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Post by Angreal » Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:59 pm

siren676 wrote::lol: Hahahaha that car was packed! I think you need to book a week/month off work to fit it all
I know... So much to do, so little motivation (too much beer) and probably need a bit more knowledge to install it :p Ah well, it'll get there

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Post by dylann » Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:29 pm

oh my, it's like christmas! you lucky man :D

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