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I'm sure they're fine.. just check the reviews online (if there are any) and just give them a call and go with whichever one gives you the most confidence in getting the job done to your satisfaction

morning all, happy Friday 🕢

morning all, happy Thursday 🕖

by then you'll likely have a supercharger or twin turbo's or something on your Caprice haha

you have to remember my car doesn't read "over" it reads "under" so when I said it hit a reasonable speed, you wouldn't have been that far in front all good, my car's slow AF but that's why the driveline stays mostly in one piece haha

It's a shame we didn't get a chance to jog your caprice against my -box would have made for an interesting jog, power-to-weight wise (I'm sure you would have won, but not by a lot). Shed bits arrived/arriving/assembled today?

haha yeah, I'm fully aware of my limitations as a mechanic.

Indeed... only go by the calculations that work on your favour my "labour" cost to work on my car would never be worth it and I should just pay a local mechanic to do any work

That sounds like me doing my own mechanical work... always takes me ages so the calculation ends up being a waste of time as I know I'll be disappointed with the outcome, from a financial perspective haha morning all, happy Wednesday 🕡

definitely an exciting time to be alive, on annual leave just relaxing at home haha

Yep, forgot to say I'd already applied the poison powder (well, at least Kelli did as I helped move them around with a dustpan brush...)

yes yes, big wins, little wins etc... made it home and the outside is crawling with ants everywhere.. gee, leave the house for a week and it gets taken over some ant poison powder to distract/kill 'em and hopefully some vigilance will have it all back to how it was.

Much love to you and your family great people, intense/winding conversation, a lot of dog/human cuddles, good banter, reasonably slow repairs to my car (because I'm a backyard mechanic), maybe a turned tyre or two and desert weather.

morning all, happy Monday 🕠 Heading back to home today but have had a great time at @Puffwagon's house; thanks to his whole Family for making Kelli and I feel super welcome, even though there were some hiccups and the weather was/is oppresively hot.

Washed it... And washed @Puffwagon's car. It was a team effort to wash both, of course... bloody hot day to be doing it, but the result was worth it, after the car was covered in all sorts of road-trip-grime and Puff's a bit covered in crap after he decided to show Kelli and I the sights around his town, down a dirt road! haha. Good to spend some time up here in Adelaide Cheers for the hospitality to myself, Kelli and our two dogs , Puffster & Family... Puff also lended some mechanical help haha... had neglected my car a bit in lieu of the house purchase/after-purchase-work and found a few issues Dump pipe was only held on by one nut! and there was 2 studs missing of the 5, the 4th one pictured is one spare that Puff had haha Puff found some bolts with the same thread, which were too long, so out comes the angle grinder and the bench grinder to cut them to the right length and then to clean up the cuts haha... now the dump pipe is nicely tight and hopefully won't come loose again so easily... oops... Funnily enough, most of my exhaust manifold and turbo-to-manifold bolts/nuts were loose, too... torque'd 'em all up, as well. Fiddly bastard to get a spanner on some of those, as anybody who's had a go at those can attest And to top it all off, found a loose bolt for the exhaust housing of the turbo; luckily it was the one where the oil drain is otherwise this probably would have backed itself out all of the way and be on the road somewhere... All this "loose" stuff, was probably caused by this damage to the impeller blades Amazing that the turbo is still holding together and making reasonable boost amongst all of those vibrations it'd probably be causing with that sort of damage... still no shaft play and the blades aren't touching the side of the housing, either, so... got some time before the turbo will need some work haha Also had only the front-passenger-side down to metal-on-metal; another oops... not so bad on the front-driver-side, interestingly... new pads and discs today are on the agenda.

morning all, happy Sunday 🕔

morning all, happy Saturday

Shift to 5th first manually first. Shouldn't be planting it in 6th anyway.... Take it back to ask which condition the ZF was in before it was replaced as it might not have been in perfect condition.

That's definitely one way. Haha.

morning all, happy Friday 🕟

and potentially not far from a beach or two, eh?

looks a little toasty haha

hell yeah!

morning all, happy Thursday 🕓

The silver XR6T. Enjoying overtaking that it does so easy on these long drives