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Spotted some nugget in a purple F6 yacking on the phone not paying attention and almost crawling up my clacker at a set of lights on Wannaroo Rd today :roflmbo:

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Hi guys, here is the current leaderboard after the first round of Ford Shootout 07

Dont Miss Out STAGE 2 OCT 20 2007

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Can these figures be beaten?

Next round will be held on Saturday 20th October, please see above for full details.

Hi ALL

The Expensive Daewoo Crew have just finished their Stage 2 Shootout Comp and we have some pretty impressive results for the Grand Final.

We now need all you Ford big guns to show them what you have got so that we will have similar results for the Ford Shootout 07Grand Final In December.

Dont Forget all National Finalists will Shootout in Febuary 08 for the Ford v Expensive Daewoo Shootout 08 at one exciting location.

So make sure you register for this Stage 2 Shootout to be able to qualify firstly for the Ford November Grand Final Shootout 07 and then The Ford v Expensive Daewoo National Shootout 08.

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Had an interesting and very long day yesterday.

For about a month I have had problems with the gearbox... second gear synchro just wasn't synchronising and hence it crunched into second every time. So I asked Allan his opinion as to whether it's fixable and how hard it is, and he offered his help which is greatly appreciated (what a champ! :spoton:)

Anyways I asked the parts department at ford for the parts needed to replace the synchros and they gave me 6 synch rings... also got a bottle of Transmax Z.

Got around to Allan's place yesterday morning to have a go at it and everything went quite smoothly up to the point of pulling the gears off the shaft... this is what FELL out...

which sits inside here...

Amazing it still operated fairly normally... unfortunately this caused some wear on the parts within the second synchro set (in the second picture, the inside thrust ring) which doesn't apply enough friction to the gear to synch it to the main drive gears... so new synch rings didn't help my cause. Thankfully Allan had some abstract thoughts and made a replacement part out of the inner race of a bearing. It made the synchro work slightly better but I will still need to replace the worn parts.

Its hard to understand how this spacer ring has broken into 4 pieces... there isnt a great deal of heat in the box, and it can't be under much load surely... the best explanation we could come up with was a manufacturing defect??

Thankfully the gearbox went together and back in the car much quicker and easier than it came out... any more nasty surprises and I think we both would have spat it.

So I can't thank you enough Allan for your help, I'm very greatful and as other members have experienced you are a top bloke for your efforts to help this community. Cheers mate!

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Kudos to Allan! :spoton:

Steve, I'm still surprised at how long your T5 has held on. It was bound to happen sooner or later though. At least it was being difficult and just didn't go "pop" on ya.

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Yeh there's nothing wrong with the gears they are pretty good... just the synchro which is fairly common under normal power. I have had 5th go in the past, and Kieren's did the second gear too I think

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Umm might have been me I was out driving that night there but I cant remember if I had any runs on karrinyup rd, heh.

Spotted a fair few cars today.

[Lion Hunter] around Cott, [Rapid XR6T] near Swanbourne and another one but I've honestly forgotten which car it was

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Whats the deal with Youngy's new car?? Did he put his old motor in the new one?

The new ute has the built motor and he put a new F6 motor in the maunal ute which he still has. The new auto ute obviously fly's but just lacks the character of the manual. It's the end of an era and sad to see the manual back on stock power. I'm still not convinced with this auto (rap though, in fact im put off if anything lol.

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Yeh there's nothing wrong with the gears they are pretty good... just the synchro which is fairly common under normal power. I have had 5th go in the past, and Kieren's did the second gear too I think

Gees.... least it kinda worked out ok and didn't cost you an arm and a leg! Big thumbs up to Ninka :)

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