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JohnH Newcomer Registered: November 2003	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks ! Mon, 24 May 2004 20:36 It's not about just been legal, it's really a matter of your own personal safety. Imagine driving down the road at 100km/h, and going into a fast sweeper and finding that you no longer have steering. Can't be a pleasant experience really IMHO. You are talking a key safety critical suspension component here, stuff with it at your own (and other road users) risk. Just by way of comparison here, Hokotel is just a high temperature version of the more available 7075 ali, and has a yield strength of about the same as MILD STEEL. (which is a lot for aluminium I admit). However, the material that the standard steering arm is made from, is something like a 1050, or even up to a 70 series forging steel, which is not only FORGED (ie grain flow that aids strength) but also maybe heat treated afterwards to increase it's bending strength. We are talking here a strength that is going to be about 10 times that of even the most exotic grade of aluminium, plus a fatigue strength of probably several magnitudes. Beleive me, they are this strong for a very good reason. And on importing from Quaife. Heres the way to do it. You need either a mate in Europe or England where you need to send the goods first. Then this mate re wraps them, with a new invoice for a lot lower amount, and then just sends them in a normal box. Chances are it won't be checked, and even if it does, you have a declared value of say $500 all up for "replacement parts". Believe me, I've done this p-l-e-n-t-y of times, and never once have I paid import duty. If you guys are serious about a group buy, then let me know as I'll be able to help in the shipping side of things. John [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	[AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Tue, 18 May 2004 13:23
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	shinybluesteel	Tue, 18 May 2004 14:59
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Tue, 18 May 2004 15:34
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	Satoshi	Tue, 18 May 2004 15:25
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	monkeymajik	Tue, 18 May 2004 21:50
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	takai	Tue, 18 May 2004 22:11
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	bubbles	Tue, 18 May 2004 23:37
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:03
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	purpleminiep	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:04
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	NickAE86	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:06
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:12
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	monkeymajik	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:21
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:36
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	NickAE86	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:33
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	improvedae86	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:33
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 07:39
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 07:51
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86trueno	Wed, 19 May 2004 08:54
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	oldcorollas	Wed, 19 May 2004 11:36
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	gabe	Wed, 19 May 2004 11:53
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	shinybluesteel	Wed, 19 May 2004 11:55
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 12:25
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	gabe	Fri, 21 May 2004 11:41
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	oldcorollas	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:38
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	improvedae86	Wed, 19 May 2004 06:49
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	Satoshi	Wed, 19 May 2004 09:24
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 09:43
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	kingmick	Wed, 19 May 2004 10:24
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 10:35
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	gabe	Wed, 19 May 2004 10:43
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 11:56
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	gabe	Wed, 19 May 2004 12:12
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	kingmick	Wed, 19 May 2004 11:55
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	monkeymajik	Wed, 19 May 2004 12:02
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 12:07
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	kingmick	Wed, 19 May 2004 12:08
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	takai	Wed, 19 May 2004 12:43
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	mrshin	Wed, 19 May 2004 13:32
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 13:45
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	improvedae86	Wed, 19 May 2004 13:58
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	Simon-AE86	Wed, 19 May 2004 14:21
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Wed, 19 May 2004 16:02
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae95	Wed, 19 May 2004 15:43
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae95	Wed, 19 May 2004 16:08
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae95	Wed, 19 May 2004 16:19
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	improvedae86	Thu, 20 May 2004 00:07
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	bathurst-91	Thu, 20 May 2004 02:57
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	NickAE86	Thu, 20 May 2004 05:35
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	purpleminiep	Thu, 20 May 2004 12:24
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	arena	Thu, 20 May 2004 13:21
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	Simon-AE86	Thu, 20 May 2004 14:14
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Thu, 20 May 2004 15:30
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	Steve-AE86	Thu, 20 May 2004 23:53
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	improvedae86	Fri, 21 May 2004 02:15
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	Rex_Kelway	Sat, 22 May 2004 00:49
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Mon, 24 May 2004 08:12
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	Hirogen	Fri, 21 May 2004 02:54
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	Youngy	Fri, 21 May 2004 07:09
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	kingmick	Fri, 21 May 2004 10:23
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	Youngy	Fri, 21 May 2004 10:48
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	kingmick	Fri, 21 May 2004 11:53
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	gabe	Fri, 21 May 2004 12:05
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	improvedae86	Sat, 22 May 2004 03:51
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	EVOSTi	Sat, 22 May 2004 09:37
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	JohnH	Sat, 22 May 2004 22:52
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Mon, 24 May 2004 08:14
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	EVOSTi	Mon, 24 May 2004 09:15
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	ae86drift	Mon, 24 May 2004 10:04
	Re: [AE86] Lets talk steering racks !	JohnH	Mon, 24 May 2004 20:36

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