Komisiripala
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It's TIP-tronic!! Not TRIP-tronic! It meas you can tip the gear to and fro and change men! It's not a gear box to go on trips with!!
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Adey yes congrats on your purchase. Was following this thread and noticed you were partial to a starlet. Upload some pics. We're always find of auto-babies (cars bought from AL advise) like bracket's BRATT! -
Looks like bullfighting the Viking took the last bit of meat out of my brake pad. Apparently I had been braking with a pair of castanets afterwards. Pads replaced. Good to go. That's the fastest I've ever chewed through a set...
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She can remove the external device. That looks like a regular hearing aid. The receiver and cochlear implant is hard wired to her brain. The surgery was done 10 years ago and her first processor went kaput after a decade of use. This one is maara high tech. Comes with a remote for noise cancellation and equaliser presets!! Only the external device you see in the picture is 950,000!!
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Pet#o had them. Mine was a gift to my mother from Canada. But it's there on eBay
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to all my fellow autolankans who helped me fund the cochlear implant for little Apoorva Sewwandi, here's a result of your kindness. i managed to raise the 950,000 for her external audio processing device, which she just received from wickramarachchi opticians. thank you so much. you have given her the greatest gift of all.
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I've worn the brakes down to the wire men. Paying the price for performance! Lol. Got the pads replaced
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Not the best person to ask. I have to deal with the noise level of a built b18c. Can't hear myself think after 4000 rpm
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I had a fire breathing thrash from Balapitiya to mount in the wee hours of the morning. My god the difference. Credit where it's due: thanks to don and kelum_wj for pointing me towards maxxis
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Machan my dad has had a pulsar as his car for the last 15+ years. Over the times we have grown to love it so much because it is a reliable, economic, understated, trouble free workhorse. It has grown to be a father-figure amongst the cars in our family. So much so that it's in my garage right now as the backup vehicle because my Teg has broken down. Again. You will not gain any long term benefits from LPG conversion. You will only regret the day you did it. My dad is a very silent man. Doesn't talk much but watches with a smile on his face while his sons stumble through life figuring things out, learning by experience. Helping only when they're down, to pick themselves up. His car, I feel, has the same personality.
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I've actually done this for a Subaru sti conversion. They ask for the receipt of the engine you bought. That is essential. Get one even now from the place you bought. Theyre not gonna tax you on it dont worry. And they do scrutinize the car. They do a summary check. They're not very strict on it, but something like a huge ass beat barrel might blow some horns there. Just go the with infinite patience and humility and try to talk your way through any issues. They're flexible, and amiable. Just don't piss them off. Don't offer bribes. FYI: beat barrels piss them off!!
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My brother had a toyota vista 301- lpg conversion. It was the latest top of the line kit offered by laugfs. It was a disaster. What he did was take a perfectly good 2.0liter engine (i believe there are only 6 petrol vistas in sl) and ruin it. This was an efi system but it sputtered when switched, never idled properly, maintenance was high, and performed worse than a bullock cart with an asthmatic bull! He loved it and stood by it. I hated it and him for it. Sometimes i wonder how we even shared the same womb!!
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Dehiwala guy does with a heat gun. Even mine were opened and cleaned to look like new. Microwaving them would be a shoo-in for a Darwin Award! -
Ok so it's Taiwanese? And j dawg I assume you meant the speed hunters Teg?
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Yes. Agree with kalana on that. Maxxis have an islandwide dealership. Did some research on them locally before i bought as well. Don is one happy customer i know of. The old stock victra goes at 12,500. New stock goes at 13,000 to 13,500. Went with victra because i love that tread! The closest dealer to me was the guy opposite karagampitiya police station on hill street. Even amila tyre deals them and i twisted their arm to get me a pair for dealer price. On a seperate note: vvti, instead of posing photos i took of your stone, why dont you tell us a story of your alfa? You dont have to call it "project this" or that! But you know there are many other lonely souls out there who fap to a good italian ass every once in a while! And so far she has given you less trouble than my teg...
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took her for drive on galle road. pushed it a little. grip is much much better compared to the previous tyres. no skidding when braking hard. no ABS engagement. rolling noise is minimal. alignment feels good. no wobble on thrashing or braking. this is all relative. and i was running shitty tyres due to budget constraints. will eventually swap out the rears for a pair of these as well.
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Last I checked it was made in Indonesia? I remember don verifying this too. But maxxis has good reviews internationally. Scored above 90% in some multi point tyre assessment. Not propaganda this was off some test conducted in USA. So hopefully less trouble this time
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more on this: despite sanka doing their job, i was still unsure since the wheels LOOKED like they were all askew. so since i had to get new shoes anyways, i had amila recheck the alignment. no fancy computers there, just good old physics and lasers. turns out sanka's alignment was perfect. maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me. so ended up paying the price for bad camber. two new tyres. upgraded from the chinese tyres i had to maxxis victras. love the tread on these:
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Sanka alignment. Just past gamsabha junction on high level road.
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a little activity i would like to blog on after a long time. this might help our newbie Sierra Charlie as well. here's the result of my negative camber on the front wheels. chewed through brand new tyres within an year. its gone down to the wire on the inner lip. i'm buying a new pair tomorrow. this is not a result of me neglecting it, but of me not knowing what else to do after correcting the camber with adjustable upper arms on the front sus. learned later that you get adjustable upper arm mounting points, and got them down only this month: these give an added 3 degrees of camber either way. to clarify, all this brouhaha is because i have an uncorrectable negative camber on the front passenger side wheel. even with full positive setting, there was -2.08 on that side. why only that side i cant figure out. maybe a previous accident. who knows? but as you can see it had its impact on the tyre. now tho, its all aligned perfectly. to add to this, there was a toe out of the rear wheel. this too i didn't know there was adjustment for it. the gut at the alignment center suggested this, and i got down the adjustable toe arms as well. so now the rear alignment is spot on as well. finally. on a separate note, i had some trouble with the AC, and as always, the culprit being our makabaases thinking "ooh this looks like it'll fit! let slap it on!". my compressor packed up, and when we looked into the matter, apparently i've been running a toyota compressor. now the interesting fact is that toyota engines crank one way, and honda the other way! so not quite sure how this managed to work this long even. bottom line is, we had no sample to get a new one from, and after much hunting and frustration, sourced a condenser and compressor off a b20b CRV engine. perfect fit. to clarify my loving fan(s): 1. the camber kit, front and rear, (not available in SL) cost me 50$ 2. recon IACV valve (OS at tech, 27,000) cost me $30 3. shipping for above $45, tax 1500 4. makabaas = NOT indika. not a repair i did.
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US wadduwa?
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like i said man, superlatives fail me. great to see it coming together. looks like you need some fender work, so now you have the reference points. those wheels, my god, those wheels!
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I saw this in nawala last week!!
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Try euro Lanka spares too. You'd find them on fb
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They propose online and then trend the video
