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  • #2289
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    The Wilwoods are great, but they aint cheap. I have also heard the VE is the way to go. Whatever you decide post up how you went about it, be a great tech post :)

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    Public holiday tomorrow here in SA :)

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    They probably didn’t expect us to be putting 1000rwNm through them :)

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    What a great idea for a thread, nice work (and tips!)

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    Yea mate, I cut a lot top and bottom, dummied it up with a piece of 10mm thick timber, then replicated it in steel. The idea is is takes the torque as it loads up, works great.

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    Cool, nice to see a different approach.

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    Engineering is very subjective.

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    Tbh no bloody idea. Old age. Seeing doc on Tuesday.

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    Just an awesome car, those twin TB set ups are just porn as.

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    Long week end, great weather, wake up with totally stuffed ankle, can’t work on car, seriously p’d off.

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    I think it’s VERY engineer dependant. My engineer for example didn’t even want to look at the brake lines I had made, his theory was more that it had to pass all the dynamic testing, if it did that I obvioulsy did a good job of the lines. Line locks might be a bit like brake bias adjusters, and Varex exhausts. As long as it can’t be reached/adjusted by the driver whilst driving the car they are OK. Again though dependant on the engineer!

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    Just got off the phone to Ryan who is making the drop box. It’s all don’t he will be posting it in the next day or so. Unfortunately I have bloody stuffed my ankle so haven’t been about to get out other than hp getbt up on the hoist and have a quick look at it. Doesn’t look like any oil leaks or anything good like that so as soon as I am mobile again will get it set up and see where it’s sitting dB wise with the new tune.

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    So once you start making too much for an M80 in an IRS Commie the choices become a little more expensive.

    Pretty much it comes down to some sort of fabricated Ford 9″ conversiion like the G Force, and the numbers start pushing $10k.

    The Aussie alternative is a Harrop 12 bolt, bolt, which is essentially a remanucatured Chev 12 Bolt. For the record the crown wheel is 8.9″ so I guess it could be called an M89 :) These are around the $5k mark.

    Either are a good option, imo what the Harrop has going for it is this;

    1. Its a direct bolt in replacement for an IRS VR
    2. Its an Australian product sold locally
    3. Its not Ford
    4. Harrop, although expensive, are recognized as top quality
    5. Its available in a full range of ratios
    6. The help, advice and service I have received by Mark at Harrop has been excellent.
    7. They are available in a range of ls options, locker, tru trac etc.

    To give an idea, this is the 12 bolt and M78 side by side

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    #2188
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    Btw, I went with Willwood brakes, absolutely awesome :)

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    Beautiful mate, if you can, post a pic up on the fb page and we will make a banner of it. The post is pinned to the top, we are looking for nice early girls :)

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    V8 on the dyno, doesn’t get a better than that sound wise :)

    #2182
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    Hi mate (and welcome) the attachments is just a quick way to load small images. The way the forum works for larger and multiple images is like most forums, if you sign up for something like photo bucket (totally free btw) you upload the image to that then cut and paste the image code.

    #2177
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    Not sure why but I love this pic.

    #2174
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    lol, welcome mate :)

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