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Yeah mate it does, that is a pretty common sort of thing with dedicated electric vehicles, the GM EV1 also had that feature. Some electronic speed controllers on electric radio controlled cars have that too ( in this day and age they probably all do!! )
Very expensive indeed, no question about that, but VERY cheap to run, i cant see it being expensive to service, and performance is sort of inline with price for what you get i reckon, 0-60 in 3.9 seconds for the standard model and 3.7 for the sport is pretty respectable ;) Mo has done a top job on that Corvette and a huge thumbs up to him!!
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I think youll find its more an exercise in passing emissions, cause he was starting to have more and more issues getting the 396 to pass the test each year and got sick of it all. I remember reading the thread about it. No trouble passing now!!
On the lead acid batteries, he probably will only get about 30 miles, but he was or is going to put in Lithium batteries if he hasnt allready, which will lighten up the car, give it alot more range, and probably make it abit faster too. He said the car was lighter after the change even with the lead acids in there, so with lithiums in there is should be really light for a C4. I think there is a company called AMP that converts a Saturn of some sort, dont know alot about it, havent looked into it. If you look into the Tesla Roadster Durango Boy, itll go about 240 miles or so on a charge, and its fast. I can count on 1 hand the amount of times ive driven more than 150 miles in day let alone 240!! Then if you put solar panels up on your roof, you pretty much power the car for nothing ( with the cost of fuel, the solar panels would pay for themselves reasonably quick... ) Not for everyone though.
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There is, tons of work, and its totally pointless. The MSD suggestion is very good, however not til the exsisting unit REQUIRES replacement!! Quote:
Exactly right Bill, i dont think the vent will do anything period. Ive heard of just as many version 2s fail as version 1s. When tested, i would be prepared to bet a very vast majority of the "failed Optispark distributors" are probably perfectly fine and nothing a new cap and rotor wouldnt fix. As for the 94 1/2, no such animal that im aware of. F and B body cars got the newer version 2 in 1994 models, Corvettes didnt get it til they went into the 1995 model. I havent seen anything ever to contradict that. Quote:
Damn straight. I would buy the MSD if it was $1,000 more, cause its a better built part. Not saying the OEM unit is not a good part, cause it certainly is, but the MSD is substantially better. It wont make the car perform better or go faster, but it is certainly an upgrade for WHEN THE TIME COMES TO REPLACE A WORN OR FAILED DISTRIBUTOR and not before that time. No sense throwing away good parts!!!
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Im still not sure what boxes youre meaning here, there is only one box, and its creamy grey in colour. You can only see part of it!!
There are very few American made electrical components sold over here that i have ever seen, and ive never seen a circut breaker or RCD that was not encased in plastic. All but one of those in that box there is made in France by Hager. 2nd from the left is made in Australia by Clipsal. There is no more plastic or colour in there than there is on any electrical system that is colour coded correctly in this country. Red insulation indicates 1st phase, white indicates 2nd phase, and blue indicates 3rd phase. Black is neutral. Green and gold is earth. Electric Orange is the colour used for plastic conduit that is HEAVY DUTY for underground use. Grey is used for medium duty. That is an Australia and New Zealand standard colour coding. I guess id have to see some pictures of what youre used to seeing to know what parts in a domestic setup are different over there. If you can show me some ill be able to understand where youre coming from!!  If youre not an electrician, you shouldnt be doing your own electrical work anyway. Glad to see you dont, cause anyone that does without the proper education or guidance is mad. You could kill yourself, burn a place down, or kill someone else. Electricity cant harm you when it is turned off, but if things are not correctly done when you turn it on, you or someone else could become dead very quickly!!
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That is really quite exceptional work there.
Posted on: 2009/12/23 11:07
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Yeah its an issue, as i said above, when my Corvette was in VETTE last year the guy that wrote the story managed to change alot of it to suit himself, and even told me a couple times "they didnt come like that" when talking about changed parts....
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94 Corvettes had the first type. You will know if there is a vac line, it goes into the side of the intake duct between the MAF and the throttle body. Corvettes didnt get the newer design til the 95 model.
As some sort of indication as to just how much of a fable the optispark has going for it, my 94 did over 160,000 miles on its original one and it was still working fine. I replaced the cap and rotor in it once about about 95,000 miles, but it made no difference cause the one that was in there was still working fine. This was an original 94 unit with no venting.
Posted on: 2009/12/23 10:37
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Which parts do you mean mate? Ill explain abit of it for ya, just from that statement you made it appears you are in the electrical trade or have seen abit of it. The main switch on the left has 25mm copper cable going in at the top, and the ones comming out the bottom are 16mm each, two for each phase ( one lot feeding the first 3 pole breaker, and the 2nd lot feeding the 4 pole RCD ), and all plastic coated. I bent them up like that myself. As far as the breakers and 2 RCDs go, ofcourse they are plastic, what else would they be? This is a domestic switchboard, no reason to go any more overboard than i allready have, with what is coming in cable wise, you could feed 3 very large sized houses from that. Our voltage here ( 230volts on single phase and 400 volts on 3 phase ) is higher than you have there, so our cable sizes dont need to be as large, cause with a higher voltage, more work can be done with less current. Since the human body requires an AC voltage about 50 volts or higher in order to overcome the resistance, and it only takes a current of around 200mA to cause cardiac arrest, these higher voltages are no more dangerous than the lower voltages used in some other countries. Does that clear it up for you? Im not quite sure what bit you wanted to know about!!
Posted on: 2009/12/23 10:27
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I agree with that mate yes, as far as i know over here they are all usage based, pay a certain amount to have a certain limit, pay abit more and get abit more etc...
Posted on: 2009/12/23 9:49
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Mate we have all seen worse, at least this one looks to be in one piece, i do remember seeing an advert for a 96 that was claimed to be some special edition magical model that was never released for the common man to buy (cause it had been crashed and you couldnt buy them new that way) and was asking some crazy price for it, someone wouldve bought it and thought they got a special crash edition 96 LT1 Vert for a steal....
You know how these things go...
Posted on: 2009/12/22 17:46
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Get out the Milwaukee V28 cordless angle grinder mate.... You wont even need to run a cord out to the car.
Posted on: 2009/12/22 17:02
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Shit mate, some young fella will love it.
It aint got a Mercedes Benz 3 pointed star on it so it wont be me.... HAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Posted on: 2009/12/22 16:51
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Its Wednesday here ;)
Been busy wiring in my new place, later on today ill wire in the 3 phase socket outlet and a couple single phase outlets. Here is a quick pic of my work anyway: Attach file:  P1000839.JPG (350.47 KB)
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Its Wednesday here ;)
Been busy wiring in my new place, later on today ill wire in the 3 phase socket outlet and a couple single phase outlets. Here is a quick pic of my work anyway: Attach file: P1000839.JPG (350.47 KB)
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If you were in Australia, and you wanted all that rubish, it would cost you around $30-$99 AUD a month. Some people love it, i just cant justify that kind of money for something you can easily live without. Could pay off alot of debt with that kind of money!!
I currently pay $10 a month, for that, i get the first $25 worth of calls and SMS for free, and my call rate is 10cents per 60 seconds with no flag fall. Bargain ;)
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Im still using a phone that will only do basic text messages and voice calls. Id still be on analog if i could!! We havent had analog phones here since September 2000, they were slowly phazed out starting in the cities from about late 1996. Since 2000, everything has been GSM digital which kicked off over here in about 1992, up til about 18 months or more ago when the 3G network was switched on.
Posted on: 2009/12/22 4:22
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Josh, the MSD unit i pulled apart was perfectly well put together and nothing moved in any way it wasnt meant to. The factory original was very old and still worked fine, but there was play internally and yes there was play in the perforated disc. I wouldnt go so far as to say it was "wobbly" though, as it certainly wouldnt move on its own.
The distributor its self didnt have any markings on it to suggest where it was made that i can recall, but the box said MADE IN THE USA on a sticker with a representation of your country's flag. I doubt they meant they only made the box there!! I was not suggesting that a Chinese knockoff be from another company, im suggesting it may be being made where the other MSD items are allready made in China. If the quality was really not that notably better than OEM, i cant help but wonder. The sensor and the perforated disc in the MSD i had were indeed slightly different. It also mensioned something about that somewhere in or on the box. Quote:
The reason i did pull this part up is cause the MSD unit is the unit said to handle the high RPM that the OEM unit will apparently not. Not saying its not an interesting piece of information and im sorry if you took it that way, cause it shows the MSD is a capable piece, but its also said by MSD to be able to take high RPM, where as the OEM unit is not. Quote: The piece you call a "wheel" is the "rotor". Quote:
My mistake. It wasnt all that firm in the OEM unit i had after all those miles either. Thought you meant rotor, sorry mate
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If it gets to that stage for me, its over. If such things are said and mean something different, its over. Once its over for me, that is it. Its over.
Posted on: 2009/12/21 14:10
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They are the same yes. Just go back and have another look at the pic in the first post. If you look at where it says RPM 16, youll see how many RPM it was really spinning at that point, and my eyes are seeing 6,972rpm. Quote:
Ive heard of quite alot of them failing above 6,500rpm. Lots and lots of them. I never knew why, cause i never saw one fail, apart from pics, which to me looked like the rotor could not take the centrifugal forces any more. Its spining nearly 60 times a second. It wasnt originally designed to be spun that fast. This thread is not about what you did with an MSD Optispark, which most certainly IS of a much higher quality than the OEM unit. Its about the factory unit, which it seems thousands of people knock it for its "lack of reliability", although its very reliable. The piece you call a "wheel" is the "rotor". Even my 160,000 mile plus old factory original optispark wasnt "wobbly as hell", it has some play, but very little for the work it had done, and the MSD that went in its place had NO PLAY WHAT SO EVER. NONE. NOT ONE BIT. If yours did, you or someone else hadnt assembled it properly. I did open them both up before installing the new MSD, and i compared the two, the MSD was indeed of SUBSTANTIALLY better quality. If you couldnt see that, then maybe you got a Chinese knockoff. Its better in every respect. No question about it. Anyone that knows what they are looking at will see that fact as soon as they open the box. Having said all that, when i did replace my original unit, it was still in perfect working order, even after more than 160,000 miles. I do however expect that the MSD unit would outlast most of the rest of the engine.
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Andrew, his engine is capable of taking it without an issue, its built pretty strong, as was mine. Far from stock.
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Not yet mate, i have really had time to look too hard, ive been doing all my electrical work in my new place so i can move in soon. Im not sure which one ill go for yet either, i do very much like the W211 E55s, i wouldnt bother going up to the E63 in the W211, but i have also looked at getting a brand new C63. All depends how much ill be able to get to buy one when the time comes and how much they cost then.
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Gday Mike, i hadnt reved mine that high, i did change the cutoff RPM settings at one stage and wound the tacho til it was pointing at the right hand indicator arrow, DataMaster called it just over 6,500rpm, and it was still pulling quite well.
I set it back to the way i had it after that, the way i drove it i didnt need to rev it that hard!!
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Here is a dating song to go with your list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b65Zf6r-RE
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Lucky you pulled up ok mate eh?
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Seems no matter what is said mate it will fall on deaf ears. Cant help that i spose eh. Not like as if we didnt try though!! Quote:
That design in your first picture i have NOTHING against, i think its a good design, and it clearly retains an adequate opening for the PCV system. Im glad you posted this, cause it seems everyone wants to have a crack like this ( not saying you are though ) with the new TBs having it intergrated, or the LT5 TB having it intergrated, but this is not the point, the point is the conventional and seemingly most common design of screw in airfoil has potential to block a PCV system. Quote:
Its clearly not adequate and well shown in that pic, and all that black shit is headed dirrectly into the IAC path.
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Pretty much yeah, they couldve made a fair dinkum effort of it and made it an LT5 car, which wouldve made it a more special car...
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Mate in Australia, VB is a brand of beer!! Its not one i personally recomend, im more into XXXX or Tooheys. Recently ive taken the advice of ABoatGuy and moved on to Stout. HAHAHA!!
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Mate is a term of endearment in Australia. Over here, chances are youll be called mate whether someone likes you or not. Its nothing to get upset about, and youre just being a sook if you do. Simple things in life should never be taken so seriously, especially on the internet. Stress is the number one killer in this country so im told, and i had a very minor stroke a few weeks ago, so im staying stress free from now on ;) Quote:
Thanks mate, i knew i wasnt dreaming!! HAHAHA!! Anyway, i dont think ill say much more, i saw what i saw and ON THE APPLICATION THAT IS THE C4 CORVETTE which is what is the question here i wouldnt bother with it.
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That is really what the Grand Sport SHOULD HAVE BEEN in 1996.
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Horsecrap? Mate i dont think i quite get what youre suggesting here.... Are you saying i may be speaking in dubious tone? Cause it seems as though you are. On some years? Like 85 to 96 with the exception of 84? And what is a PVC? Last i heard it was still poly vinyl chloride, and had nothing to do with engines or mechanics. I saw it first hand, and so have others. The airfoil DOES have something to do with that, it causes a potential obstruction to the PCV system. No two ways about it.
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Im sticking with Central Coaster 100%, cause the man is correct enough for me to agree.
No explaination will convince me otherwise, cause at the end of the day, this device has the potential to impose an obstruction to the PCV system, and no amount of horses gained is worth damage to the engine. But while im here, im just reading the above post, now explain this to me again slowly cause i dont follow it the way its written....: Quote:
Youll have to clarify that, cause its all over the place. It looks like as if youre saying you got more pressure with the airfoil? More pressure on the manifold side or pre TB side? Ive got nothing against them being intergrated into the BBK TBs, but i DO have something against them being retrofitted as probably 85% or more are, cause this is not how the system as a whole was designed to work.
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Bloody good idea mate, ill 2nd that motion ;)
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Id hope not, when did you say you were coming over here?
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Tach filter mate yeah, id say there is a fair chance.
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Shit mate give me the girl with the act together any day. Its much easier to not have to do everything for 2 people!!
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Yeah mate it flows through the top of the throttle body there where the screw goes to retain the airfoil. That is where it was blocking up quite badly over time.
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I dont care what any flow bench or any person here says.
I will tell you from first hand experience. My 94 had one when i got the car. When i started looking into engine issues, i found out this item was causing a blockage in the PCV system, and that is not good. I cleaned it up, and fixed the issue, then tried it both with and without, and it was a better without by 3 horses according to Datamaster. It pulled harder in 3rd gear without the airfoil than it ever did with it. Im not the only one to have seen PCV issues when having this item installed, and i wont be the last. Waste of money, and i gained 3 horses acording to Datamaster by removing it, so dont kid yourselves. I was using a 48mm TB and making more horses than most of you will. The stock throttle body is perfectly adequate as it is.
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No worries mate, anytime. Im an arsehole but im not too bad of an arsehole!! ;)
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Letty, this is something ive always wondered myself.
There is no really good answer for it, but some guys are just like that. Its just how it is. My old man was like that, my mum did everything for that arsehole, and he still cheated. The man has issues. Not only did his attitude cost him his marriage, it cost him his only son, and recently cost him his only daughter. He only had his mum and his brother left, cause he lost the respect of his sister about 18 years ago. I say HAD cause he recently also lost some of the respect of his brother, and probably his mother as well. I spoke to my uncle a few days ago for the first time in many years, and not through lack of trying on his part and mine, i didnt have his number, and he was told by my ex father that he didnt have mine. The tides have now turned, and im back in contact with the rest of my family. At the end of the day, that story may or may not relate to what you say above, but i dont know why they do it and i dont care to know. Its not worth your stress. Youre a better person than that, ive known you long enough and talked to you enough to know that much. You know im always here if ya need to talk to someone ;)
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Its very warm here!! Gets to almost 100 during the day. I was 6 storeys up a poll a couple days ago changing a couple light bulbs. Im normally not one for heights, but when youre strapped onto the poll, its not an issue. I couldnt believe the view up there!!
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Yeah i dont mean the arsehole bit literaly mate. Youre dead right about attitude being everything though, and looking for things to be miserable about is not a good way to go about things. Start looking for things to be happy about. Look at what you achieved in your life. Quite alot more than many others ill bet. Nothing to be miserable about there.
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Mate youre an arsehole, and i think you know it. So what? So am i. And i know it. HAHAHA!! Smile. If you take that the way its meant youll have a laugh.
You and i never got along very well. Doesnt mean i dont give a shit about your situation, and doesnt mean i wont offer you advice no matter how little you think of me for trying. I dont know anything about your illness, im no doctor, but if there is any advice i CAN give, it is be positive. You may not think that is worth a shot, but i think it is, and i dont think youve got any more to lose than you think youre allready losing. You may as well be positive. Sounds fucken hard though doesnt it. It may very well be. But it is no harder than being sad. People beat all kinds of things with nothing more than a positive attitude, so its always worth a shot. Give it a go mate, and never be afraid to ask anyone for help. I can always be available to listen if you ever need to talk to some arsehole youll probably never ever meet.
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Id look to the O2 sensor myself.... I didnt read every post in detail, so it may have been mensioned allready, but that is where id be heading with it.
Disconnect the battery for a couple minutes and see how it runs straight after that. If its smooth and over time drifts back into it's rough running self, id really look at that O2 sensor and consider replacing it or at least testing a known good one.
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Cheers mate, i have always taken care of everything ive had to work for, and as your comments indicate, it really shows i was doing my job!! Thanks!! Quote:
Yeah mate thankyou too, it turned out very nicely and i was always happy with it, it seemed when it came to my Corvettes, people always loved what i did with them. The new owner of the 94 has called me a few times to thank me again for selling him the car and to tell me just how much he loves it, and im really VERY happy when i get a call like that, cause at the end of the day he is happy with the car, which means it has never let him down ( nor should it ) and im also very happy cause its gone to the kind of home that can appreciate the effort i put into it. You blokes ( and you too Letty!! ) all know money cant buy pride in your efforts and your work. Since i sold my 94 i dont think ill own another myself, and there is reasons for that, driving both mine almost every day for 11 years is one big reason, but my pride in the jobs ive done is still there. It always will be. I devoted a pretty decent chunk of my life to series 4 Corvettes!! Quote:
If it was here with me i could do quite alot with it for ya, especially with it being a high mileage car, and now that im a Mercedes Benz man i love nothing more than to see high milage!! Would you settle for a late christmas pressie? 
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Hot water systems are a rare cause of fire, unless they are let run dry, and to do that they have to be mounted higher than the outlets. There should be a fuse or circuit breaker that is designed to prevent damage to the cables or system, so once the current limit is reached the breaker will trip of the fuse will blow. Being a MIMS element there is really nothing there to catch fire, cause its mineral insulated, metal sheath, and the tank should be copper. Its just a pain in the arse more than anything, i cant see there being a fire hazard as long as the proper circuit protection was in place ( and not a bloody big piece of wire taking place of the fuse wire )
After all the trouble youve had lately though i dont really think you need any more. You need to take a break from things before you wind up a shaking wreck.
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Yeah thats a real shame that, im not much into BMWs though, but if that was Mercedes Benz id be abit upset, and id be a screaming wreck if it was an AMG Mercedes Benz...
Thanks for thinking of me buddy ;) For those that havent yet seen what my engine in the daily driven 94 looked like, here it is, these are at varying stages over about 4 or 5 years: [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/Casethecorvetteman/My%20cars/KCsengine.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/Casethecorvetteman/My%20cars/enginebay.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/Casethecorvetteman/My%20cars/CorvetteClassic005.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/Casethecorvetteman/Magazine%20shots/CORVETTE_KCL98_001.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/Casethecorvetteman/Magazine%20shots/CORVETTE_KCL98_006.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/Casethecorvetteman/Car%20work/goldones.jpg[/IMG] Here is a link to the VETTE magazine article too for those that never saw it before. The bloke that wrote the story, nice as he was, didnt really pay much attention to what information i gave him, so there is quite abit in there that he changed unfortunately.... http://www.vetteweb.com/features/vemp ... rolet_corvette/index.html
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Haha!! Youd love it here, its summer time and good beach weather!!
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My eyes are about -3.50 in the contacts i get i think, ad ive been wearing contacts for about 11 years or more. I wouldnt think youre going blind at that rate. Sounds worse than it is mate.
Once you sell that house Vetteblondie, youll have to come to Australia for a trip
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Id suggest KONI yellow adjustables, they are great, have a lifetime garrantee, and you can set them the way you like.
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Bloody marvelous mate, thankyou!!
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Here it is, knew i had one here ;)
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