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[Oz Striker]

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Nice stuff Tom, jeez there is a huge amount of thread on those struts. Anti freeze sounds like a great idea incase you have to do it again!

[Norm]

I'm still amazed at how hard that driveshaft nut is to crack open. Mine is still stuck to my hub so we're just gonna pull the LCA's to slot it directly into the engine when we drop it in lol.

[ChargeR]

How do you have so much space!

My stuff is spread out over half of metropolitan Melbourne, that's how.

Nice update mate. But what makes the Mugen shocks so special for them not to be able to be rebuilt somewhere in Australia? I hope the bill from Mugen isn't too dear!

Thanks. It's not that no one in Australia has the skills or tools to do the dampers, it's more that I think it's unlikely that Mugen/Showa will sell them the parts as a few bits need replacing. Rather than go through that drama I'd rather send them to Mugen and know it's done correctly.

Looking promising as always Tom!
I'll always remember what you said, anything that mugen make it's pretty much gold proof and the condition of the shocks is showing that!
Can't wait to see em rebuilt!

Thanks mate! Definitely looking forward to having them back after the freshen up, I'm sure they'll be like new.

Nice stuff Tom, jeez there is a huge amount of thread on those struts. Anti freeze sounds like a great idea incase you have to do it again!

Thanks, yep it took me longer to spin all the collars off than it did to swap out the rear Mugen coilovers with the OEM ones. Anti seize is in my top 5 favourite things, right next to the spot weld drill bit.

I'm still amazed at how hard that driveshaft nut is to crack open. Mine is still stuck to my hub so we're just gonna pull the LCA's to slot it directly into the engine when we drop it in lol.

You need a great big bar, until recently my 1m long 3/4' drive breaker bar had never been defeated when undoing those nuts!

[dnapol]

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Great update Tom! She lives!! Can't wait to see her again, simply stunning

I'm still amazed at how hard that driveshaft nut is to crack open. Mine is still stuck to my hub so we're just gonna pull the LCA's to slot it directly into the engine when we drop it in lol.

My mates and I snapped 2 breakers bars trying to remove the nuts! Till we realised we didn't have to for what we were doing -_-

[rookie]

Copper paste anti-seize? Where does one acquire such a substance?

Im assuming it's good in all applications? Or mostly just heat prone/weathered areas?

[andrew84tran]

@charger out of curiosity, how did you get in touch with mugen to sort the rebuild? i assume you spoke to an engrish spreaking rep?

[ChargeR]

Great update Tom! She lives!! Can't wait to see her again, simply stunning

Thanks champ, looking forward to bringing it out to a meet sometime soon.

Copper paste anti-seize? Where does one acquire such a substance?

Im assuming it's good in all applications? Or mostly just heat prone/weathered areas?

I acquired mine from Repco from memory, you should be able find it somewhere. I use it anywhere I don't want to seize up, but nowhere that is torque critical. Useful for spark plug threads and the like.

@charger out of curiosity, how did you get in touch with mugen to sort the rebuild? i assume you spoke to an engrish spreaking rep?

Nope I haven't had to try out my Engrish yet, there's information on the process for rebuilds with Mugen on their motorsports website. All I have to do is box them up, fill in a form with my details and whether I want them revalved (I'll get a Japanese friend to do this) and send it off to them, and once they have them and disassemble them they send me a quote, then fix them and send them back. Hopefully the whole process goes smoothly, I haven't sent them off yet.

[teee94]

@ChargeR please teach me your mechanical skills... I envy you so much..

Let me be your apprentice..

[DaRKNT]

@ChargeR please teach me your mechanical skills... I envy you so much..

Let me be your apprentice..

I was in line first. Sorry champ.

[teee94]

I was in line first. Sorry champ.

Who said we all can't join ?

[tRipitaka]

lol.

[ChargeR]

@ChargeR please teach me your mechanical skills... I envy you so much..

Let me be your apprentice..

I was in line first. Sorry champ.

Easy guys there's plenty of me to go around. I don't know much though, so it's better that you just work things out yourself, the same way I have. Most of the time when I was working on my car I was winging it, having never done it before and no idea what I was doing.

[knobosaurus]

winging it, having never done it before and no idea what I was doing.

Me everytime I work on my car.

[ChargeR]

Massive update. I had to move my car to my new place so I fitted up a new intake pipe after discovering the old one was split. This is the third OEM intake pipe so far for this car. The car is still as great as I remember it being when I last drove it 12 months ago.



All fixed. Excuse the dusty engine bay, it's been a few years since it was washed.



I've got a couple of other new OEM parts for this car, so I'll update again when I fit those. Unfortunately the N1 shocks are still sitting in a box in the back of the car, so it will be some time until I hit the track again in this car. I'm aiming for later this year though.

[Shakeel]

I really miss this red car..