Hi Veloce, I put new shock bushes in the billies but they haven't been revalved or anything... they seem to operate fine and I'll see how they go for now.
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Finished off bits for the gauge cluster... ebay fascia didn't arrive as yet :/ but I did score an AWD one from a CR.net member.
Hi Veloce, I put new shock bushes in the billies but they haven't been revalved or anything... they seem to operate fine and I'll see how they go for now.
Hi Veloce, I put new shock bushes in the billies but they haven't been revalved or anything... they seem to operate fine and I'll see how they go for now.
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Cheap shocks then hey? 
Make something idiot-proof, and somebody will make a better idiot.
2007 Limited Edition (back in the saddle again)
2007 Limited Edition (back in the saddle again)
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Happy New Year y'all! I returned home yesterday just in time to see the new year in from one hell of a good week driving all up and down the east coast in what is starting to become a yearly tradition of driving somewhere, having the plans get borked up and something going wrong in the interest of making the trip more fun. This year the bar was raised considerably so I can't wait to see what the next mission will bring us! 
The mission: Drive to Melbourne in the MX5 to pick up a '94 Jaguar XJS V12 my pal the Doc has bought, drive as much awesome road as can be squeezed in, and stop via Sydney to pick up Tbro's hardtop that has been in the care of Dweezle.
For me this trip was all win... I took a lot of photos and it was quite an interesting week so I hope you'll all indulge me the lengthy writeup.
26th December: Toowoomba to Sydney
I had sorted picking up the hardtop from Sydney on the way down so the plan was to get to Sydney on the first day and Melbourne the next, which was a lot of distance to cover and still cram in some non-highway action, but having scoured many threads in the Twisty Roads section I'd had a good idea of how this whole trip would go long before it was time to hit it.
A map of the downward route:
To Sydney it rained quite a bit but wasn't a bad days driving. Travelled down the New England, and from Uralla we drove the Thunderbolt and Bucketts Way which was a much nicer way to go, some of the Thunderbolt is excellent, with not too much in the way of broken or bad road. We stopped at a very nice lookout at Giro:
Made good time overall and arrived in Sydney just on dark... Google maps got us straight to see Dweezle's brother (Carnage) to pick up the hardtop and talk shop a wee while.
Stayed at The Rocks and was able to view the bridge and Opera house at night which I had not seen before... it was quite a view.
27th December: Sydney to Melbourne
Despite the help of Google managed to get a bit lost trying to escape Sydney. I am also waving my fist at many of Sydney's roads. What is with the very regularly spaced cracks?? Those roads are hellish!
This day was the most boring day of the trip, it was all this:
The Hume is really unexciting to drive but it gets the job done.
We did have a good stop at Holbrook though when we saw the submarine! We just had to stop and have a look around.
The mission: Drive to Melbourne in the MX5 to pick up a '94 Jaguar XJS V12 my pal the Doc has bought, drive as much awesome road as can be squeezed in, and stop via Sydney to pick up Tbro's hardtop that has been in the care of Dweezle.
For me this trip was all win... I took a lot of photos and it was quite an interesting week so I hope you'll all indulge me the lengthy writeup.
26th December: Toowoomba to Sydney
I had sorted picking up the hardtop from Sydney on the way down so the plan was to get to Sydney on the first day and Melbourne the next, which was a lot of distance to cover and still cram in some non-highway action, but having scoured many threads in the Twisty Roads section I'd had a good idea of how this whole trip would go long before it was time to hit it.
A map of the downward route:
To Sydney it rained quite a bit but wasn't a bad days driving. Travelled down the New England, and from Uralla we drove the Thunderbolt and Bucketts Way which was a much nicer way to go, some of the Thunderbolt is excellent, with not too much in the way of broken or bad road. We stopped at a very nice lookout at Giro:
Made good time overall and arrived in Sydney just on dark... Google maps got us straight to see Dweezle's brother (Carnage) to pick up the hardtop and talk shop a wee while.
Stayed at The Rocks and was able to view the bridge and Opera house at night which I had not seen before... it was quite a view.
27th December: Sydney to Melbourne
Despite the help of Google managed to get a bit lost trying to escape Sydney. I am also waving my fist at many of Sydney's roads. What is with the very regularly spaced cracks?? Those roads are hellish!
This day was the most boring day of the trip, it was all this:
The Hume is really unexciting to drive but it gets the job done.
We did have a good stop at Holbrook though when we saw the submarine! We just had to stop and have a look around.
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28th December: A day in Melbourne... err more like 2 days!
We stayed with a friend of ours who happens to own a Velocity Red SE. The morning started with going to pick up this Jag, and then go for a bit of a drive.
I was very keen to experience the SE, never having dríven an NB before let alone a boosted car, and the SE's owner had not dríven an NA before, so for this we swapped.
As it was just a run around the city I didn't do anything maniacal with the turbo factor, but it was nice to feel how a turbo behaves. The SE felt very different to drive, my car squeaks and rattles and is really stiff and noisy... this was quiet and made next to no noise. Suspension seemed verrry comfortable unlike the stiffarsed Slug Seats were great I think I could go those in my car over the NA seats. I could certainly go an SE after now having dríven one, but I still love the character of the NA more.
I was glad that my friend liked my car as well... Like a gokart and the suspension is tight for going hard in turns he says.
And the mission objective:
Very very well kept looking car and it certainly looks like the V12 gives it plenty of go!
Later that afternoon I eagerly headed to South Melbourne to catch up with some of the Melbourne forumites; Cheyne, Bensale, Lee and mxfive95. Was great to meet these excellent guys and gal, and being able to check out these cars I've only seen in pictures is always a blast for me.
We secured a very nice lineup of cars right in front of the restaurant
After dinner we headed down to Docklands to a really nice spot for pics... I took many more and am probably posting too many here but this was a lot of fun.
Definitely a highlight of the trip for me
29th December: Let the excitements begin!
The plan was to start the journey home. After procuring supplies we plotted a route and the Doc was following me in the Jag.
After only a short way I suddenly notice he's not in the rear view mirror anymore, and by the time I had pulled over myself, the phone was ringing and the news was: major issues! So back up the road I fang to a service station whereupon I see the jag covered in fire extinguisher residue!
Now the Doc, crazy as he may be for buying a V12 Jag, is not without some sense and had done a lot of research on the car before buying one, so when he suddenly started losing power along the road behind me he was cluey enough to have an idea what was happening, and thankfully was right at a servo to pull into when the car conked out a few seconds later.
Smoke was coming from under the car and looking under it he did see a lick of flame, so he was onto a fire extinguisher quicksmart and just doused the thing.
Awesomely entertaining but also incredibly frustrating
It did put an abrupt end to the mission as planned. The car was towed back to the dealer and it will be another week before it can be worked on as all the shops are out for the holidays, and will end up coming to Queensland on a truck or train.
The problem is very likely the rotor and cap. The V12 has two ignition coils and two separate rotors inside the cap, and the assembly is quite prone to failing due to shorting and other fun issues, particularly in the aftermarket piece. So if one side fails the other side keeps the engine going but the dead side just fills with fuel, fuel pools in the cat converter, heat sets it on fire. So it was lucky to have it happen while still in Melbourne and not somewhere on the way home, and it was extinguished quickly so no other parts of the car were fire damaged.
Its a really well documented issue with the V12, and there's ways and means of preventing it from happening again, even if you do have to put up with rotors and caps that are likely to die, so its not all bad
So the return journey was to be in the MX5 only. With all the excitement we didn't leave Melbourne til later in the afternoon, but made it to Albury via Reefton and Marysville, a really very nice drive.
Somewhere around Reefton:
We stayed with a friend of ours who happens to own a Velocity Red SE. The morning started with going to pick up this Jag, and then go for a bit of a drive.
I was very keen to experience the SE, never having dríven an NB before let alone a boosted car, and the SE's owner had not dríven an NA before, so for this we swapped.
As it was just a run around the city I didn't do anything maniacal with the turbo factor, but it was nice to feel how a turbo behaves. The SE felt very different to drive, my car squeaks and rattles and is really stiff and noisy... this was quiet and made next to no noise. Suspension seemed verrry comfortable unlike the stiffarsed Slug
Seats were great I think I could go those in my car over the NA seats. I could certainly go an SE after now having dríven one, but I still love the character of the NA more. I was glad that my friend liked my car as well... Like a gokart and the suspension is tight for going hard in turns he says.
And the mission objective:
Very very well kept looking car and it certainly looks like the V12 gives it plenty of go!
Later that afternoon I eagerly headed to South Melbourne to catch up with some of the Melbourne forumites; Cheyne, Bensale, Lee and mxfive95. Was great to meet these excellent guys and gal, and being able to check out these cars I've only seen in pictures is always a blast for me.
We secured a very nice lineup of cars right in front of the restaurant
After dinner we headed down to Docklands to a really nice spot for pics... I took many more and am probably posting too many here but this was a lot of fun.
Definitely a highlight of the trip for me
29th December: Let the excitements begin!
The plan was to start the journey home. After procuring supplies we plotted a route and the Doc was following me in the Jag.
After only a short way I suddenly notice he's not in the rear view mirror anymore, and by the time I had pulled over myself, the phone was ringing and the news was: major issues! So back up the road I fang to a service station whereupon I see the jag covered in fire extinguisher residue!
Now the Doc, crazy as he may be for buying a V12 Jag, is not without some sense and had done a lot of research on the car before buying one, so when he suddenly started losing power along the road behind me he was cluey enough to have an idea what was happening, and thankfully was right at a servo to pull into when the car conked out a few seconds later.
Smoke was coming from under the car and looking under it he did see a lick of flame, so he was onto a fire extinguisher quicksmart and just doused the thing.
Awesomely entertaining but also incredibly frustrating
It did put an abrupt end to the mission as planned. The car was towed back to the dealer and it will be another week before it can be worked on as all the shops are out for the holidays, and will end up coming to Queensland on a truck or train.The problem is very likely the rotor and cap. The V12 has two ignition coils and two separate rotors inside the cap, and the assembly is quite prone to failing due to shorting and other fun issues, particularly in the aftermarket piece. So if one side fails the other side keeps the engine going but the dead side just fills with fuel, fuel pools in the cat converter, heat sets it on fire. So it was lucky to have it happen while still in Melbourne and not somewhere on the way home, and it was extinguished quickly so no other parts of the car were fire damaged.
Its a really well documented issue with the V12, and there's ways and means of preventing it from happening again, even if you do have to put up with rotors and caps that are likely to die, so its not all bad
So the return journey was to be in the MX5 only. With all the excitement we didn't leave Melbourne til later in the afternoon, but made it to Albury via Reefton and Marysville, a really very nice drive.
Somewhere around Reefton:
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30th December: Snowy Valley Way
This was a most excellent day of driving! We headed East from Albury through Corryong and up to Cabramurra and Tumut.
This is one hell of a drive and the landscape is fascinating with the bare white trees. The roads are very well kept and the twstiness is just superb!
I've got a really large panorama here of some of the scenery up there, better to just link this one its really wide!
After hitting the Hume again having spent so much of the day on the Snowy Valley Way we had a long freeway mission again to make it to Newcastle before it was beyond late!
31st December: Last leg
The last day we did a mix of freeway and twisties again, though we ended up getting back to Toowoomba quite a bit later than we had anticipated after a few misjudged ideas for the route!
From Newcastle up the Pacific Hwy detouring on the Wootton Way, very nice very nice! Then more Pac Highway turning off to go to Dorrigo. The Dorrigo road really is great, and for the most part in good condition... but in a couple of parts the entire outside lane had just fallen away and the construction going on is pretty extensive. So it was a bit slow to drive up but worth it regardless!
From Dorrigo we went to go via Nana Glen but I forgot about the dirt and gravel section and we didn't want to do that, so back and through North Dorrigo and up to Grafton on a very technically challenging road but unfortunately some poor condition and serious potholes (really though the rain has hit roads hard everywhere)
It was getting on dark by the time we hit and left Grafton heading up through Casino, Kyogle and Woodenbong.
I'd read great things about the Mt Lindsay Highway east of Woodenbong, but I can say absolutely that the section West through to Killarney is diabolical! I'm sure there is a lot of damage of more recent origin with the serious rain but it would have been quite poor before, it is single lane, with precious few markings and the road really is ripply and potholed such that we could manage only 20-30km/hr through it and it did smack the car around quite a bit. At least for the time being it is not a good road for your MX5! It added quite a bit of time to the journey taking it very carefully and was pretty unpleasant, especially being totally dark by that point.
The last stretch through Warwick up to Toowoomba and we had made it back just in time to muster a little party mode before the year ticked over.
Conclusions
Well I have managed to drive a lot of the roads I've scoured Google for in the past and I am very happy for that, though I am going to have to go again... because they are so awesome and I really should take my partner on one of these missions!
My car was just rock solid the whole trip and I was really happy with that! Not a single issue, it never even looked like it was going to heat up and the mileage even with the significant amount of hi revving twisty action was quite respectable with a 7.5L/100km average across the whole trip and nearly 4300km travelled.
I have discovered though that the car in it's current state is terrible for long periods of freeway driving. Without aircon its either really hot having the windows up, or slightly less hot and really noisy with the windows down. So I think I really should get aircon into the car. Also, it needs tinting on the windows. We both got a lot of sunburn from the lack of tinting and the wind from having the windows down all the time.
The suspension changes have really improved its handling in turns and I like that a lot, but its still a very stiff ride for crappy roads and most freeways, and while the NB did feel a bit like 'just a car', it was worlds apart in terms of comfort and it will keep me thinking about more I can do with the suspension for a while yet I think.
Even with issues like this I still love every second I am in the car driving it!
This was a most excellent day of driving! We headed East from Albury through Corryong and up to Cabramurra and Tumut.
This is one hell of a drive and the landscape is fascinating with the bare white trees. The roads are very well kept and the twstiness is just superb!
I've got a really large panorama here of some of the scenery up there, better to just link this one its really wide!
After hitting the Hume again having spent so much of the day on the Snowy Valley Way we had a long freeway mission again to make it to Newcastle before it was beyond late!
31st December: Last leg
The last day we did a mix of freeway and twisties again, though we ended up getting back to Toowoomba quite a bit later than we had anticipated after a few misjudged ideas for the route!
From Newcastle up the Pacific Hwy detouring on the Wootton Way, very nice very nice! Then more Pac Highway turning off to go to Dorrigo. The Dorrigo road really is great, and for the most part in good condition... but in a couple of parts the entire outside lane had just fallen away and the construction going on is pretty extensive. So it was a bit slow to drive up but worth it regardless!
From Dorrigo we went to go via Nana Glen but I forgot about the dirt and gravel section and we didn't want to do that, so back and through North Dorrigo and up to Grafton on a very technically challenging road but unfortunately some poor condition and serious potholes (really though the rain has hit roads hard everywhere)
It was getting on dark by the time we hit and left Grafton heading up through Casino, Kyogle and Woodenbong.
I'd read great things about the Mt Lindsay Highway east of Woodenbong, but I can say absolutely that the section West through to Killarney is diabolical! I'm sure there is a lot of damage of more recent origin with the serious rain but it would have been quite poor before, it is single lane, with precious few markings and the road really is ripply and potholed such that we could manage only 20-30km/hr through it and it did smack the car around quite a bit. At least for the time being it is not a good road for your MX5! It added quite a bit of time to the journey taking it very carefully and was pretty unpleasant, especially being totally dark by that point.
The last stretch through Warwick up to Toowoomba and we had made it back just in time to muster a little party mode before the year ticked over.
Conclusions
Well I have managed to drive a lot of the roads I've scoured Google for in the past and I am very happy for that, though I am going to have to go again... because they are so awesome and I really should take my partner on one of these missions!
My car was just rock solid the whole trip and I was really happy with that! Not a single issue, it never even looked like it was going to heat up and the mileage even with the significant amount of hi revving twisty action was quite respectable with a 7.5L/100km average across the whole trip and nearly 4300km travelled.
I have discovered though that the car in it's current state is terrible for long periods of freeway driving. Without aircon its either really hot having the windows up, or slightly less hot and really noisy with the windows down. So I think I really should get aircon into the car. Also, it needs tinting on the windows. We both got a lot of sunburn from the lack of tinting and the wind from having the windows down all the time.
The suspension changes have really improved its handling in turns and I like that a lot, but its still a very stiff ride for crappy roads and most freeways, and while the NB did feel a bit like 'just a car', it was worlds apart in terms of comfort and it will keep me thinking about more I can do with the suspension for a while yet I think.
Even with issues like this I still love every second I am in the car driving it!
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Great write-up of the trip.
I bought my SE from Melbourne and drove it back to Brisbane via the most direct route so wouldn't go that way again - BORING!!! The 17" Racing Hart rims and stiff suspension didn't make the trip very comfortable and have since been replaced with 15" 6UL 15x8s and BC Racing BR series coilovers for a much more civilised and better handling ride. The air-con was great though.
As soon as you mentioned that there was a problem with the Jag I guessed it would be engine related since Jags were notorious for engine bay fires. I think your friend was quite ambitious thinking he could drive it that far. I knew a mechanic in Adelaide who absolutely loved his Jag AFTER he replaced the V12 with a Chevy V8 since he didn't trust the V12 at all.
I bought my SE from Melbourne and drove it back to Brisbane via the most direct route so wouldn't go that way again - BORING!!! The 17" Racing Hart rims and stiff suspension didn't make the trip very comfortable and have since been replaced with 15" 6UL 15x8s and BC Racing BR series coilovers for a much more civilised and better handling ride. The air-con was great though.
As soon as you mentioned that there was a problem with the Jag I guessed it would be engine related since Jags were notorious for engine bay fires. I think your friend was quite ambitious thinking he could drive it that far. I knew a mechanic in Adelaide who absolutely loved his Jag AFTER he replaced the V12 with a Chevy V8 since he didn't trust the V12 at all.
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Garage Thread: http://www.mx5cartalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=76716
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Got a couple of tasty MX5 pressies for Christmas.
A new Pioneer headunit with proper iPhone connectivity which came just in time for the trip as somehow the headunit I had completely died a few weeks ago.. I think it might not have agreed with getting rained on the day we changed the softop!
Also a Boot-bag from http://www.boot-bag.com/.
I've been wanting something to use as extra storage for the long trips when needed, and these are a good option that means I don't need a boot rack as well. Haven't used it yet but it will be good for future trips to Melbourne where we are likely to do a heap of shopping and need to bring home loads of loots.
A new Pioneer headunit with proper iPhone connectivity which came just in time for the trip as somehow the headunit I had completely died a few weeks ago.. I think it might not have agreed with getting rained on the day we changed the softop!
Also a Boot-bag from http://www.boot-bag.com/.
I've been wanting something to use as extra storage for the long trips when needed, and these are a good option that means I don't need a boot rack as well. Haven't used it yet but it will be good for future trips to Melbourne where we are likely to do a heap of shopping and need to bring home loads of loots.
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A development!
We've bought an NA8... more details and we decide what we're going to do with it...
We've bought an NA8... more details and we decide what we're going to do with it...
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We've bought an NA8... more details and we decide what we're going to do with it...
Oh, I like the sound of this....
+ You won't need a four seat convertible when you take friends out.
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So I've had both the 5's in my drive for a few weeks driving both.
The NA8 is a '93 with 320k on the clock, stock as a rock. The paint isn't good at all but the body is in good shape, hasn't had damage, and it came with the hardtop.
The plan is to turn this into the Slug 2... or is that a Slug 8?
What can be swapped from the Slug 6 will be swapped over to this car, including the softop we just put on the 6... the top in the NA8 is cactus. The Slug 6 will become the Doc's car and be turned into a racecar for which he has already nabbed a turbo B6 (thanks Gussy!).
The 8 has all the things I would have eventually wanted to get for the 6 such as aircon and the bigger brakes/diff etc, so thats a bit of a bonus for me. The only downside we've encountered is that the engine is not in very good shape. Does seem to run ok but has a tendency to start overheating after a while. Evidence points to a head gasket change and radiator change at least, and we'd probably find more if we pulled it apart.
For expediency of getting it robust I'm going to buy another engine and do a straight swap for now. That way we can pull apart the other one at our leisure and rebuild it into some option for the Slug in the future. I figure the cost and time to do a straight swap will outweigh what we'd start with pulling apart this motor to fix now.
Other things that need work... a new windscreen (it has that very fine pitting of an old well travelled one!) and the headlight switch intermittently seems to not activate the popup motors, though the lamps do work fine (popup switch in the centre console always works to raise them!). Electrical gremlins yay!
New motor will happen very soon and nearly everything I'd done to the 6 can be swapped over.. though I forsee another 'Once more into the breach dear friends!' to do a bushes swap... ugh!
The Doc has got plenty of fun planned to do on the 6 once it becomes his car, so the sooner I swap motors in the 8 the sooner we can start on that.
The NA8 is a '93 with 320k on the clock, stock as a rock. The paint isn't good at all but the body is in good shape, hasn't had damage, and it came with the hardtop.
The plan is to turn this into the Slug 2... or is that a Slug 8?
What can be swapped from the Slug 6 will be swapped over to this car, including the softop we just put on the 6... the top in the NA8 is cactus. The Slug 6 will become the Doc's car and be turned into a racecar for which he has already nabbed a turbo B6 (thanks Gussy!).The 8 has all the things I would have eventually wanted to get for the 6 such as aircon and the bigger brakes/diff etc, so thats a bit of a bonus for me. The only downside we've encountered is that the engine is not in very good shape. Does seem to run ok but has a tendency to start overheating after a while. Evidence points to a head gasket change and radiator change at least, and we'd probably find more if we pulled it apart.
For expediency of getting it robust I'm going to buy another engine and do a straight swap for now. That way we can pull apart the other one at our leisure and rebuild it into some option for the Slug in the future. I figure the cost and time to do a straight swap will outweigh what we'd start with pulling apart this motor to fix now.
Other things that need work... a new windscreen (it has that very fine pitting of an old well travelled one!) and the headlight switch intermittently seems to not activate the popup motors, though the lamps do work fine (popup switch in the centre console always works to raise them!). Electrical gremlins yay!
New motor will happen very soon and nearly everything I'd done to the 6 can be swapped over.. though I forsee another 'Once more into the breach dear friends!' to do a bushes swap... ugh!
The Doc has got plenty of fun planned to do on the 6 once it becomes his car, so the sooner I swap motors in the 8 the sooner we can start on that.
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slug_dub wrote:Finished off bits for the gauge cluster... ebay fascia didn't arrive as yet :/ but I did score an AWD one from a CR.net member.
Hi Veloce, I put new shock bushes in the billies but they haven't been revalved or anything... they seem to operate fine and I'll see how they go for now.
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Sounds like a great project, good luck! I enjoyed reading your travel diary =)
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Some Nakamae Door pulls arrived today.
Now all I need is some time to pull the door cards out and do a full number on them with a bunch of stuff to add.
Now all I need is some time to pull the door cards out and do a full number on them with a bunch of stuff to add.
The American wrote:hella sic stance flushing pard harker yolo something something.
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slug_dub
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Re: Slug Dub's NA
I just can't help myself when it comes to gauges... courier lass brought me these today.
The American wrote:hella sic stance flushing pard harker yolo something something.
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Jeo
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Re: Slug Dub's NA
So incredibly jealous.
Pics the instant they're installed please.
Pics the instant they're installed please.
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