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26 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

 

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

If you can't be civil. Please leave

 

Edit. That goes for everyone in the thread

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thought id try to polish out some scratches on the bike, instead i now have extremely shiny scratches ?

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30 minutes ago, IKnight said:

It's fine, it's an s14 ;)

why do you keep winking at me? 

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9 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:

why do you keep winking at me? 

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Cause ;)

 

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40 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

;);) ;);););););););) ;);)

39 minutes ago, IKnight said:

Cause ;)

 

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33 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:
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Only for you bb ;)

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25 minutes ago, IKnight said:

Only for you bb ;)

sorry .. i'm not into underage kiddos ... 

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Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

so we starting relationships in this thread? owo

honestly ... sounds like he is drunk .... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

... but back to cars now ...
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31 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

so we starting relationships in this thread? owo

Wellllll, I'm trying to, but someone's playing tough to get..... :)

29 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:

honestly ... sounds like he is drunk .... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

... but back to cars now ...

Oh please, I haven't misspelled even one word. I'm stone cold sober. :(

 

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My new impact sockets arrived today! Woot Woot!

 

Proto 15pc set (10-24mm)

 

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1 hour ago, Real_PhillBert said:

My new impact sockets arrived today! Woot Woot!

 

Proto 15pc set (10-24mm)

 

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Yep. Those are definitely sockets.

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4 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Yep. Those are definitely sockets.

Good, I thought they were, but I'm glad to have some reassurance. 

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I'm looking for new hubcaps for the Corolla, since the ones one the car right now are ugly and super scratched up, and I've found 3 options that I like so far. The Corolla has 15 inch steel rims, if you guys have any suggestions. What do you think of these hubcap sets I've found?

 

Plain matte black, just a black version of the hubcaps currently on the car:

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15 minutes ago, dcgreen2k said:

I'm looking for new hubcaps for the Corolla, since the ones one the car right now are ugly and super scratched up, and I've found 3 options that I like so far. The Corolla has 15 inch steel rims, if you guys have any suggestions. What do you think of these hubcap sets I've found?

 

Plain matte black, just a black version of the hubcaps currently on the car:

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Matte black with chrome lug nuts:

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Gloss black with red accent:

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Why not just paint the ones you have?

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1 minute ago, FuzzyYellow said:

Why not just paint the ones you have?

The scratches that my current ones have are super deep and they're also cracked in a bunch of places, so I don't think painting them would work. Otherwise I would have done that already lol

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Started respraying the inside of the GT-R boot (trunk?) lid and spoiler for the R33.

Just giving it a sand in some spots, then another few layers of paint then clear coat. 

Going to replace the end caps and the wing blade with carbon ones after i've got the exterior of the car resprayed. 

 

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5 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Why not just run the steelies without hubcaps?

Good point; the steelies by themselves don't look the greatest, but if I clean them up a bit they'll probably still look better than the hubcaps I have right now.

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1 hour ago, dcgreen2k said:

I'm looking for new hubcaps for the Corolla, since the ones one the car right now are ugly and super scratched up, and I've found 3 options that I like so far. The Corolla has 15 inch steel rims, if you guys have any suggestions. What do you think of these hubcap sets I've found?

Personally, if I wanted to make the wheels look better i'd just keep saving for some second hand mags.

If you're going to spend $50 on hubcaps, you may as well save $200 for a second hand set of 16's (and a can of plastidip if you don't like the color)

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3 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

Personally, if I wanted to make the wheels look better i'd just keep saving for some second hand mags.

If you're going to spend $50 on hubcaps, you may as well save $200 for a second hand set of 16's (and a can of plastidip if you don't like the color)

Oh, I didn't know you could get rims for that price... Thanks for the suggestion

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5 minutes ago, dcgreen2k said:

Oh, I didn't know you could get rims for that price... Thanks for the suggestion

You can get 4x100mm 15 inch wheels (like konig helium’s for example) for as little as $100 a pop new

 

then you could just move your tires over to those... don’t have to worry about buying new ones.

 

just a suggestion 

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Just now, dcgreen2k said:

Oh, I didn't know you could get rims for that price... Thanks for the suggestion

Second hand sure, my friend here in NZ just sold a set of GT86 wheels for NZ$200 (US$130) which fit a Corolla. Many of those Toyotas share the same bolt pattern/offset, So you are open to wheels from Corolla, GT86/BRZ, Prius, and others; and of course aftermarket multifit's. Theres also Audis, Subarus and VWs that share the same fitment. 

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The countdown begins :) 

 

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Last night apparently my car and my metal ice scraper shovel hanging on the wall got into a fight..... The shovel won 

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I honestly have no idea how this happened, either a truck rumbled by and managed to shimmy the shovel loose (it was hanging by the blade) or an animal got into our garage (the house smelled like skunk minutes before the crash; the garage had been open for about an hour while I was mowing yesterday) 

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11 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

I honestly have no idea how this happened, either a truck rumbled by and managed to shimmy the shovel loose (it was hanging by the blade) or an animal got into our garage (the house smelled like skunk minutes before the crash; the garage had been open for about an hour while I was mowing yesterday) 

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15 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Last night apparently my car and my metal ice scraper shovel hanging on the wall got into a fight..... The shovel won 

*SNIP OR HORROR*

I honestly have no idea how this happened, either a truck rumbled by and managed to shimmy the shovel loose (it was hanging by the blade) or an animal got into our garage (the house smelled like skunk minutes before the crash; the garage had been open for about an hour while I was mowing yesterday) 

Sorry to hear that, bro. 

 

That is seriously one of my greatest fears with my wall of large tools hanging next to my car aswell. 

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