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Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
February 2003
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want to help me tow a Celica home from Warwick (Qld)?
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Fri, 09 April 2004 12:47
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Hi folks,
anybody (in BNE) got a decent sized car that could:
- tow a car trailor with an 1100+kg RA40 on it
- do it this week before friday (am back at work then) or on the weekend
- put up with me complaining about how much money that goddam turbo has sucked out of my wallet...
i'll cover costs of trailor hire & petrol - and if your brave, some road-junk-food?
why?? ... the 18Rturbo decided that going up thru Warwick was a good time to run so fucken lean that i got the whole exhaust manifold and turbo snail red-hot...(long story, ask me another day) ... at 11:30pm on thursday nite !?$&^%!
...so i've obviously trashed the turbo bearing, shaft and exhaust turbine - and it's likely that the exhaust valves are also in need of maintenance... and ii'll have to do a comp test to see how sick the rings are... <grrr>
Wilbo has some raw vid of the glowing manifold & turbo on his camera but it'll need enhancing to make it viewable before we post it somewhere
the upshot of this fine adventure? ...the turbo's coming off, i'll NA EFI this engine with my Megasquirt hardware and run the engine into the ground <grrr>.
BUT WAIT THERE"S MORE... after returning to brisbane to get Wilbo's car, his cressida decided that the rear seal/bearing in the auto trans should fail while returning a loaner car to Toowoomba ... so we CANT MAKE IT TO THE NATS  
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