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 flatfourfan
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| posted on October 24th, 2012 at 10:14 PM |
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awesome build.............any pics of it straight on from the side. I like the whale tail. Goes well with the overall look.
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Doug Sweetman
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| posted on October 24th, 2012 at 10:53 PM |
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Looks brilliant Steve, nice indeed !
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| posted on October 28th, 2012 at 08:44 PM |
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bout time Carter!
can't wait to see it go round EC next May.
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| posted on November 3rd, 2012 at 06:01 PM |
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Hi
Thanks for the kind words.
The tail is growing on me, the wife hates it.
I thought it was time to fit a radio with blue tooth.
I'm going to put air conditioning vents where the stock radio hole is so I had friend fold me up an under dash bracket.
Im running out of room for things so a bit of a compromise with a sub woofer, I'm using a Fusion one which has built in amp.
BTW the blue stuff on the floor is aerobic mats that glued down in place of carpet to keep the inspectors happy.
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| posted on November 3rd, 2012 at 06:41 PM |
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Got to see this last night at the Wentworth
Cool car.
True German Looker
Love the colour - ok, shame its not air cooled -
but damn..... it just goes together well
Love it Steve 
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| posted on November 4th, 2012 at 10:13 AM |
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the wife hates it.
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| posted on November 4th, 2012 at 10:26 AM |
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The tail is growing on me, the wife hates it.
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I like it too Steve, but did you spray a stock lid in case you or the wife changes your mind?
Keeping it real !
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| posted on November 5th, 2012 at 12:42 AM |
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steve were did you buy the ally airflow ( MAF ) adapter ??
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| posted on November 5th, 2012 at 12:55 AM |
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http://www.gcg.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage...
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| posted on November 5th, 2012 at 08:07 PM |
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steve were did you buy the ally airflow ( MAF ) adapter ??
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I see you found them, they have got to be the bargain of the year
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| posted on November 6th, 2012 at 12:42 PM |
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Hi
I bought these LED warning lights on UK eBay, they work well but are little bright, I will put light some window over them.
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| posted on November 6th, 2012 at 02:21 PM |
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to make the LED's less bright you just increase the bias resistor for them. More voltage across the resistor means less voltage to light the LED's
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| posted on November 18th, 2012 at 07:58 PM |
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Hi
Thanks for that. Actually after driving the car more at night its only the high beam that bothers me, what size resistor would I need? Its a straight
12 volt feed from high beam.
I few goodies arrived last week.
A Griimspeed cross pipe, good for 5 HP and a AVO solid boost control actuator.
Steve
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| posted on November 18th, 2012 at 08:00 PM |
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Cool, will you be porting the end castings too steve.... I'm doing the notch soon as well
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| posted on November 18th, 2012 at 08:04 PM |
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Hi Damo
I've already done them on the head end out to the gasket, I will do them again to suit the bigger cross pipe.
Steve
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| posted on November 18th, 2012 at 08:11 PM |
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Dash lights look good Steve
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| posted on November 18th, 2012 at 08:20 PM |
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Hi Matt
Thanks, have you used yours yet? They are really clear and easy to see.
I've found my speedo a bit hard to read, the tacho needle is in front of the speed readout at most road speeds and when the needle is higher in the
rev range I'm not looking at the speed, so I bought a HUD the same as Joel's.
The HUD is fantastic, so easy to read
Steve
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| posted on November 18th, 2012 at 08:39 PM |
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No Steve, not used mine yet, love the idea of a HUD but need to upgrade to an L for that.......
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| posted on November 18th, 2012 at 08:42 PM |
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Matt wash your mouth out, all the beam buggers would not consider an L bug an upgrade lol
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| posted on November 18th, 2012 at 08:45 PM |
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nice work steve. maybe try one of these and see how it goes at different settings
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=RP3508&form=CAT2&SUBCATID...
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| posted on November 18th, 2012 at 09:08 PM |
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Matt wash your mouth out, all the beam buggers would not consider an L bug an upgrade lol
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Got a beauty in the shop at the mo. 2176, 44IDF's and fresh red paint with polished wheels. Really sweet to drive (now).
You don't know of any shells about do you?
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| posted on November 19th, 2012 at 05:24 AM |
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Matt wash your mouth out, all the beam buggers would not consider an L bug an upgrade lol
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x2 Matty..........
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| posted on November 19th, 2012 at 01:16 PM |
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Matt wash your mouth out, all the beam buggers would not consider an L bug an upgrade lol
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Got a beauty in the shop at the mo. 2176, 44IDF's and fresh red paint with polished wheels. Really sweet to drive (now).
You don't know of any shells about do you?
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Hi Matt
There is a rusty 75 near me, Glen Torrens might have a spare. When everything is right on a bug they are pleasure to drive, bigger motor just makes
them even better.
I'm a big wimp, just went to a Toyota wreckers and bought rear air con unit out of an 02 Prado, looks promising. The guy that pulled it out also said
the Honda Odyssey has a small rear unit as well. I plan to mount it in the boot and blow back into the air box.
Steve
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| posted on November 20th, 2012 at 08:40 AM |
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I few goodies arrived last week.
A Griimspeed cross pipe, good for 5 HP and a AVO solid boost control solenoid.
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That looks exactly the same pipe that I made for myself, I didn't get anymore power on the dyno, but with the headers ported the boost came on sooner
& smoother. Even driving it you could feel the difference
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| posted on November 22nd, 2012 at 03:41 AM |
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I'm probably going to make myself one over the holidays too.. Did you cut up an original to get the flanges Jak? What size tubing did you use?
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| posted on November 22nd, 2012 at 08:32 AM |
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I used the original flanges, 50mm pipe with an expansion piece just like the one Steve posted, looks identical actually, it cost me $25 to make, it's
no good unless the rest of the headers are ported though.
I'm amazed how small & restrictive it comes from the factory, I guess Subaru have their reasons?
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| posted on November 22nd, 2012 at 10:13 AM |
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Hi
My pipe is about 48 or 49 ID
Steve
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| posted on November 24th, 2012 at 01:56 PM |
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Good to see your back into this one Steve.
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| posted on November 24th, 2012 at 07:48 PM |
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Hi Simon
Yep back into it now, I'm reluctantly taking it off the road to get the gearbox noise looked at. I just cant stop wanting to drive it.
I want to give myself plenty of time get it ready for the drags at Sydney.
After the gearbox is done I want to get it tuned properly, and turn the wick up, I just have the basic SM4 plug & play map in it now.
Steve
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| posted on November 29th, 2012 at 08:49 AM |
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Hi
Well gearbox is out and I took to Michael Newton Automotive at Mulgrave to get him to strip it down.
His shop is small but impressive, he had a few million dollars worth of Porsche track & and street cars sitting around. He cant look at the box
until next week as he will be at the V8 stupid cars looking after a couple of Porsche cup cars.
He warned me that G50s are a noisy box anyway and as I've made it well mounted in the chassis that could be the cause of the noise.
After talking to to Reub yesterday who also has a G50 in a Beetle I'm confidant that my gearbox noises are abnormal.
To get the gearbox out again, I had to remove the rear bumper, rear apron and partially remove the rear mudguards, not something I want to be doing
too often
Steve
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