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my x8's

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the old faithfull chase2, rediculously reliable and irreplaceable:
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the jzx... nuf said:
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build threads in my sig ;)

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Hey bro! sweet ride! 8-) and welcome to JZX NZ m8! im pretty sure i've seen this car around? or probably pics in a site or something?
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall,
Torque is how far you take the wall with you."

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oh yeah another x81!

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Yeh these are cool, i want an x8. Good stuff man

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bit of an update,
dyno'd the jzx81 at 196kw atw.. very impressed
did compression test, 180,180,180,180,90,180... not impressed
did leakdown test on cyl5, air escaping into intake... not impressed

then this happened inside my gearbox:
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...also not impressed

am now very good at rebuilding w-series boxes :mrgreen:

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Jonno2002 wrote:am now very good at rebuilding w-series boxes :mrgreen:
Practice certainly helps!!! haha

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yea so aparently jz's have enough torque to split the rear subframe where the diff mounts are located, did a quick weld up today and will install a spare subframe from my pile asap.

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Website seems to be down so cant the view pictures, but im sure ive seen this car out and about a few times around NP, do you go out drifting in it?

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yea its up n down, its hosted on my home server nuff said lol.

id love to drift it but track days cost alot and cant really afford it, i take my cars to ferndene and do skids which keeps me amused and is cheap fun.

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no back road hacks? hahaha... ;)

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