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Thread: Javal's Mechanical Spirit Guide / 18RG XT130 Hate Machine

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    Hahahah, thanks for the background. I've also been given the wookiee nickname because of a bad photoshop at work.

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    Glad to hear that the car performs well on a long hills drive Javal, congrats on a wicked build!

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    Yeeeaaahhh tingy
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    So after all of that, there was only really one thing left to do - get it back to Melbourne.

    I had a few options for transport but in the end the most practical one was to just drive the thing over.



    The drive went incredibly well, no real issues to report. I did leave later than I would have liked and subsequently was paranoid about collecting a roo as dusk set in between Stalwell and Ararat. Luckily I didn't, I just collected a squillion bugs instead. Thankfully, after washing all the insects off last night, there are no stone chips to report. Winning.

    Plans for the short term -

    Drive it
    Get the nice pictures I had taken posted up.

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    Hayashi CRs
    Chin spoiler maybe
    Velo maybe

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    Turdbro
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    Awesome.

    How was the ride comfort through the terrible parts of highway around Kaniva after crossing the border? Some shit road surfaces around that end of vic.

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    My main issue was ergonomics, as while it's great to sit in for 2-3 hours, after 5+ it gets uncomfortable. There are indeed some terrible stretches of road (overall it's much better than it was 5 years ago) but it handled them well. It's faaaaiirly 'reasonably' sprung with 5.2kg fronts and 3.5kg rears and thanks to the big tyres, potholes aren't the worst. I might go to a 4.5kg/mm spring with a longer free height in the future also, but these do have the engine mounted a good 25mm further forward than xE7x's so keeping the higher rate i've got in it now might be good. Time and testing will tell.

    On a side note, the actual chrome parts of the car are a dick to get watermarks out of. The polished stainless just wipes right off but the chrome bars and mirrors need a very very light polish to come good. PITA.
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    glad to hear it all went well

    how is the stereo?
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    There is no stereo. Yet. I've got a few pieces for it packed up in boxes but I still need a decent head unit. I drove with my ipod on speaker.
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    Spot on

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    Hayashi CRs have always been my dream wheels for this car so they'll definitely happen. I keep looking back at that photoshop I did ages ago and thinking that it really does kind of need a chin spoiler to help toughen it up a bit visually. We'll see. I've got plenty on at the moment so any further progress on this is probably going to be glacial.
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