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Good to see VW returning one of its cult nameplates. Unfortunately its probably not going to be a lightweight, but nowadays what is?

Posting for a friend of mine, was thinking one of you guys may want to jump on this:

Any REASONABLE offer will be considered.

I know they are not in the greatest shape, but they are in better shape than not having any at all. I can work with the buyer to get a new wheel. I have several vendors that can get them to replace the damaged one.

I DO NOT WANT TO SHIP!!!! I am LAZY (acutally with my job i have no time any more to do anything ) if the price is right i will consider, at buyers expense. I will drive up to a certain distance to meet up...


I JUST NEED THESE GONE!!!!...I NO LONGER OWN A SUBARU


I have a set of 18x8.5 Work Emotions - flat black in color

Bolt Pattern: 5x114.3 - fits 05 Sti
Offset: Will get that when i go out to the garage to look at them
Tires: Perrelli 225x40x18 with about 60% tread left
Condition: 2 wheels are perfect
1 wheel has some curb rash
1 wheel can not be saved, I have been doing experiements with it. I broke it on a curb
THE TIRE IS STILL GOOD
Price: Best Offer, best price takes them.
Shipping: Do to the hassle I will not ship these, so they are for pick up only
Location: Richmond Va
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Cell: 804.363.9711
Name: Gray

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anyone notice Rob's letter in GRM this month? Not feersty, but GQROB has a pic of his RS and kart on page 37, check it out.

Gonna be an awesome movie. Its got Joaquin Phoenix in it, you guys may remember him as Commodus in Gladiator. I will definantely be going to see this.

Trailer can be viewed here:
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Please don't tell me I'm the only Johnny Cash fan here.

I have decided to rebuild my turbo myself instead of paying someone $300 to do it for me. I have called every "trucking service" place here locally to try to get my "turbine shaft and wheels balanced" and I have had 15-20 rednecks laughing at me saying "why the heck would you need to do that!?" What should I do here? One place was real bad I could here the whole office laughing and the woman tells the service guy who is coming to answer the call "thats what he said, really, balance the turbocharger HAHAHA!!" So yeah, this sucks. I have the rebuild kit coming and the only piece of the puzzle missing is the balancing of the wheelsI forgot to mark them when I took them out. Ill post some pics of the tore down turbo when I get back from lunch. Anyone know of a place who wont laugh?

The eclipse is broke . Well i knew i had an exhaust leak, but upon further inspection we found a crack in the mani. No biggie, it can be rewelded, and i just gotta order a new DP gasket to fix the exhaust leak. The thing that is relly pissin me off is this. I went to crank the car up before knowing bout the manifold. Would turn over like normally does, but it wouldnt crank, i continue to try, nothing. I hear my Fuel Pump priming, look under the hood im showing fuel pressure on the gauge. So i figure its a spark problem, test my coil, get some funky numbers, replace it with my old one that was originally on the car. Car turns over and over for bout ten seconds, sputters, then cranks and runs. Turn it off to test again, nothing until about 15-20 seconds later it sputters, sputters, then picks up and runs normal. Drive aroudn the parking lot, car cuts off and wont crank again. I have yet to check my Spark plugs, or my wires, but i figured it woudl atleast crank and it would be missing being as the odds of all four of them going out is like slim to none. I have read were my injectors may be sticking open, and flooding the engine???? or it could be my cam sensor????? Any other ideas as to why my POS isnt starting???? Also, no weird smoke, no oil spraying everywhere, no fuel leaks. Battery is fine, starter is fine, alternator is fine.

Sorry for the lengthy post.

I am in need of a winter riding gear. Jacket and gloves for sure and likely pants. Where do you guys shop for gear? Do you know of any good (cheap) online stores?

I am thinking I will price it out on the net, and have my local shop order it for me.

-Justin

A couple buddies of mine got in touch with me last week and wanted to do some diving at Millbrook Quarry in Haymarket. Granted no-one really wants to go diving at Millbrook, but when you live in NoVA and have a desire to do some diving with no travelling it's all that's available to you. I'd recently gotten some new gear in preparation for my trip to the VI next month so it was the perfect time to test it out before I really put it through it's paces. The main thing that was getting tested was my underwater housing for my Fuji F10.

Considering it was my first time ever doing underwater photography, it's the quarry so visibility sucks, and I didn't have a strobe, the pictures came out surpisingly well.

Here's some of the highlights:

Bubble trail to the surface


Jon cheezing it up for the camera


Mike found a friend


One of the clearest pics of the dive


Jon's a Goofball


Mike at the platform


Jon found a friend too


If you want to see the rest of the photos you can go to the directory here. Be warned they definitely aren't the greatest quality shots, but hey what do you expect it was my first try at this.

http://bashbroz.com/MLeech/images/MilbrookDiving100805/

For those that don't know, OG racing is having a sale. When I spoke to them, I was lead to believe that the biggest discounts would be for suits but also the SA00 helmets are currently on closeout prices due to the release of SA05 so an entry level helmet can be picked up for low 200's.

And it is story/picture time:


Flash back! I'm in the middle of a top secret tuning session with the mad scientists, on an undisclosed road in Northern Virginia.

Minutes after doing a highly knock filled run I hear the dreaded sound: bingle bingle pop. I kid you not.

I slip the car out of gear and it dies.

Car refuses to turn over either by hand, with the starter, or by pushing it and dumping the clutch.

Further investigation that night reveals that piston number four has made contact with a valve...somehow. Much speculation is involved as the mad scientists and I wait for the tow truck.

Flash foward! Present day, at another undisclosed top secret location.


Outside it looks like any ordinary shop. But strange noises are coming from within. What are the mad scientists up to?

Step a little closer, my friend.


The mad scientists are in the middle of a tear down!


You have shown up late to the party. The turbo, intercooler and intake piping, both manifolds, the radiator and various other parts have already been removed. The wiring harness and all vacuum/fuel/water lines are also out of the picture.

But we're going to have to check on those piston rings!



As you survey the engine bay...you notice there isn't much work left to do.
Pull them axles out and bring the hoist over...this ish is almost out.


At this point you're wishing you were a mad scientist. We only have to label half the wiring harness.

Yo...guys....where is that hoist? Let's pull this motor and watch FnF2.


As a mad scientist...Rob knows that storing your hoist unassembled saves the most space. It just takes a few minutes to put back together.

One hour goes by.


Tada. Now it is time to get that bitch out of there.


Easy as RJ's mom! Zing...my first MM mom joke. Please tell me I worked it in nice. Like Maeng's mom! Wow, that is two in a row for me.


A couple of spoon motors would pull premium before race wars. Or whatever it is that asian guy says.


Time to see what happened to this motor.


Bottom of the cylinder head. Anyone see anything wrong with this picture?


How about now. Close up of cylinder four shows massive signs of detonation....plus the bottom of one intake valve has gone missing. Oh where oh where could he be?


I think I see something!


Our missing valve had fallen down into the cylinder and wreaked a little havoc.

And so ends your visit to the mad tyte tuner shop.

As you leave...you wonder how those damn piston rings are doing.

-T