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Old Dec 17, 2003 | 01:05 AM
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so why does this only happen on 12a housings?
Old Dec 17, 2003 | 01:33 AM
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Yea fucked housings don't really keep a car from running, just from making power..
Old Dec 17, 2003 | 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by BigTurbo74' date='Dec 17 2003, 02:05 AM
so why does this only happen on 12a housings?
they ahve updated the design on teh newer cars on the surface
Old Dec 17, 2003 | 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by kahren' date='Dec 16 2003, 11:58 PM
they ahve updated the design on teh newer cars on the surface
Err, I've seen it on plenty of 13B housings too....
Old Dec 17, 2003 | 01:29 PM
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86+ 13b or previous?
Old Dec 18, 2003 | 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by kahren' date='Dec 17 2003, 11:29 AM
86+ 13b or previous?
Both RX4 and 2nd gen 7's. Admittedly more common on the RX4 engines but then most of them had done much higher miles, especially when they had been rebuilt several times over...



One of my S6 housings was starting to lose the chrome at 170,000 km's. Errm, no, I didn't reuse it!
Old Dec 18, 2003 | 02:00 PM
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i remmber reading in one of my rx7 books that they updated the chrome plating on the housings not exactly sure which ones i think it was 86+
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