My 12a Rotor Housings

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12-17-2003, 01:05 AM

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BigTurbo74

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so why does this only happen on 12a housings?

12-17-2003, 01:33 AM

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1Revvin7

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Yea fucked housings don't really keep a car from running, just from making power..

12-17-2003, 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

12-17-2003, 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....

12-17-2003, 01:29 PM

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86+ 13b or previous?

12-18-2003, 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!