Group buy FM Chassis brace (finished) Fitting day organised!

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Postby Steampunk » Mon May 05, 2008 1:50 am

Good to hear these things are worth it.
Congrats on a successful GB Mactype.
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Postby Mactype » Mon May 05, 2008 11:10 am

oh you'll have no problems with the frame rails denting once the FM rails are fitted, you'll be able to just slide over most anything I'd say.

Clearance on my car wasn't an issue and I've no rattling so far, appears you can run quite small clearances between the cat and the brace too. This will alter depending on what cat your running and where that sits.

It does tighten things up quite a bit and lessens the creaks and groans in the chassis so all in all quite a good thing I feel.
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Postby marcusus » Mon May 05, 2008 9:37 pm

Well I bottomed out today on some speed humps in a business park, but these things looked a bit perkier than usual ones. All my other speed bumps I go over on my way to/from work didn't cause me any grief.
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Postby Mactype » Thu May 08, 2008 5:51 pm

Did the stuck seat bolt guys end up getting them out?

Just we'll have to sort out when we're finishing off your cars
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Postby End User » Thu May 08, 2008 9:47 pm

Hi Darryl. This is Tommy. My car is good to go. I've pre-checked the seat bolts and all of them loosened without any dramas. :mrgreen:
Unfortunately, I have a pretty jam packed weekend coming up. I have to work 1/2 of saturday and all of sunday, so will only be available sat arvo from about 3pm and sunday from about 5pm.
Oh, and I'm free tomorrow night if you're keen!

Eric, how did you go with Mania?
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Postby marcusus » Thu May 08, 2008 11:18 pm

I saw Eric on Tuesday at the club tech night at Meguiar's. Seats were still bolted down then. I think he mentioned something about the weekend being busy for him as well, but I'll wait for him to tell the story.
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Postby End User » Wed May 14, 2008 11:02 am

Hey Eric,

How are you going with Mania? Will it be a go for this saturday?
I wanna get this thing installed in time for the MX5 club cruise on sunday!
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Postby Mactype » Thu May 15, 2008 12:30 pm

guys, this weekend I'm racing Sunday and its my sons first game of Rugby in the first IX on Saturday so have to rock up to that.

Friday night should be ok though if the other guys are keen on helping out,
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Postby End User » Thu May 15, 2008 1:12 pm

I'm in for Friday. What time?
I'll have to pick my car up from the clutch place after work, so the earliest I can get to back out North west would be around 6:30 ~ 7:00.
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Postby marcusus » Thu May 15, 2008 7:43 pm

I'm free because I have to work Saturday morning, so I can lend a hand. However I can't be there til all hours of the night due to work the next day.

I suppose I'll show up after I've gotten home and had a feed, so I can come round at maybe 7:30-8ish?
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Postby Mactype » Fri May 16, 2008 10:23 am

if you guys are keen - its not a problem.
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Postby Mactype » Fri May 16, 2008 2:21 pm

be home 6'ish tonight
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Postby marcusus » Fri May 16, 2008 10:03 pm

Bugger... only just got home from work now. How's everything going out there? Do you still need a hand? Perhaps I'll eat something quickly and duck over anyway just to see if the garage door is open. If not, at the least it'll have been a nice drive :P
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Postby Mactype » Sat May 17, 2008 3:26 am

now that was a long nights work :shock:
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Postby marcusus » Sat May 17, 2008 7:02 pm

Jeez... what time did you guys finish? Really sorry I couldn't hang around and help out more. If it makes you guys feel any better, I was on fire at work today :P
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