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they're definitely not great examples, the track heap is tatty at best but a mechanically a weapon i guess, the daily RB is a leggy, rusty old bugger still chomping the miles at a current total of 240234 as of this morning at work! lol!
Onto silver scene wheels and even went to the trouble of matching the bullets and side repeaters up with oe ones.
Excuse the obliterated splitter, daily use doesn't suit carbon stuff.....
as above, it's literally almost never a cambelt snaps, almost invariably its a pulley or something in the aux system then lunched into the cambelt side.
My first 172 i bought a totally unknown engine for it (bought car with 'belt' failure and a lunched engine, lol) and i stuck a completely...
Finally bought and installed this couple days ago.... They gave me the million credits too which was odd but don't look a gift horse and all that.
Not got ripped in enough yet to see any challenging handling characteristics, mainly been in the EDC trophy tbh and it's quite chuckable really...
It's more than likely just the sliders in the carrier, can be disassembled, wire brushed clean and then lubricated and put back together.
I do this twice a year to all sliders on all four corners when I swap back and forth to the winter wheels
Engine and gearbox both original, never been opened or refurbished etc. Had plenty of wheel and suspension changes over the years, exhausts etc but the heart of the beast remains as left factory 17 years ago.... Edit...nearly 18 now
I bought her from @The Boosh! a decade ago on a sprightly 103k