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[vicelore]

Its official.. The dub is gone and the suby is in the shop for its new goodies.. 3 weeks from now it should be me driving it home..

[Adam]

That makes me sad!

[vicelore]

Gave me another 8.5 k to spend on the engine .... Plus 1 less rego, 1 less insurance ..

'ing sad for me.. I was nearly in tears.. But it happens..More cars in this world..

And im going to be so happy with the suby..

One of the main things that thru me was the suby community.. compared to the VW.. i made one real friend in the VW community in 3 years..

[simon]

Dope dub mate. Would have been a sad day.........but your lib is going to be slick!!!!

[Beckers]

Dope dub mate. Would have been a sad day.........but your lib is going to be slick!!!!

+1
It's gunna be 1 mad as car

[vicelore]

Well guys.. after dropping the car off at my tuners i recieved a quote to take the car up to the 300+kw mark i was asking for.. the total of the quote including the 6.5k engine rebuild came to a whopping total of 23.5k.....

After getting back up off the floor i started cutting apart the quote and chopping things off that i wanted cheaper.. I started with ordering a jim berry clutch and dropping the plans for E85..

after that i went about getting rid of the after market ECU and a bunch of other goodies.. Boost controler etc etc etc..

Now we have ordered some extractors for around the 1k mark.. But his exhaust from that back came in at around 1.8k... So im after some opinions on cheaper decent options ??

Would love a cheaper and proven option like the jim berry clutch.. that without hearing about it on here i would of had a 3k double plate exeady..

Cheers Again Vice

[Sam]

Should swing us the quote or some rough figures so we have something to play with.
Surely you can get a cheaper exhaust made up. $1800 is ridiculous!

[vicelore]

Id be happy with spending around the 1k mark... Im not that familur with AVO but they sell some expensive stuff..

[Sam]

Someone recently told me to stay away from AVO. Can't remember who it was, but you would be able to get a 3" stainless steel quality exhaust for way less than that, including a dump pipe!

I have a KLS 3" dump pipe, it is really good quality! Quite cheap too. ~$270 mark.

[allpaw4]

My advice here is to post up a copy of the list (without prices, preserve a bit of the tuners business) and see what the guys in the know say you need for that power level, and what you can safely drop. Once you have that list, then look at their pricing. See if its over the moon as compared to other shops. If it is, question them.

I suppose the only bugga is you have the car there now. Would have been better had they given you a quote before you handed your car to them. More time to look and think.

[Murf B4]

xforce mate , get some kando headers and ceramic coat and wrap them,

If your in Victoria , IMO the best engine builders/tuners are springy motors , Phil Lowe just did the heads for my B4, mental!!!

[JRod]

Yep, agree about the cost of headers being a joke. Ive got Tomei replicas. Paid like 500 from memory. All tig welds don by robot. Absolutely beautiful. Work of art.

Ive got an exhaust from TCP. It was a gc8 one that was extended to suit the lib. Also had the hangers cut off and made shorter to tuck it up higher. Maybe call up some exhaust shops and get a few quotes just so you know what the going rate is.

[Scuba-Roo]

Don't touch AVO.

Nugget turbos.


I've heard a few reports that the poorly casted exhaust housings are quite prone to cracking.


I loved my potato (GT2860RS).

Is that what you meant Sam?

[vicelore]

So I got some sneak pics of my brakes Cruzin has been working on... Got slotted rotas and new pads to go with them aswell !!

Great work dude.. They look awesome.

[Adam]

Nice!!!

[Sam]

Is that what you meant Sam?

Hahaha yes! Exactly!

[Jovi]

Oh and shes back on her wheels after 6 months on stands !!! Going to the tuners to have a the FMIC, exhaust, turbo, fuel system, injectors, new engine, etc etc fitted next week ..

Just got the little fiddly bits finished last night..

Finished off the pedel install.. Swapped over the full gas and brake pedal setup, But only swaped the pedal cover on the clutch as the lib one was different to the wrx one..



The interior is going to remain at this stage untill all the electrics have been checked .. So ill be driving like this for a bit..



I also finished up setting up the ball joints on the hubs, steering linkages etc..













Good times ahead.. Vice

Is that My old hubs and lower control arms and engine x member???? i should have sandblasted the lower arms for ya...( they would have looked clean as...but i think one was done years ago...

[vicelore]

yea they are mate. they still look good I think

[Jovi]

Hehehe now im thinking i want the hubs back as i need to do wheel bearings in one of my cars, coz they were done a year ago... dosent matter ill do it again new ones.

[vicelore]

Sorry mate.. They are now well and trully in the car.. Expecting it back driving in 1-2 weeks