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    Awesome, cheers for all the advice. Wraith - you have a lot of cars!!
    Car will be in a shed, so yeah, guess I wont need to worry about a cover, windows, or rag in the intake.
    Think I will put it on stands though, mainly because I have only recently bought a new set of Khumo's for it, and prefer to give the flat spots a miss!
    I dont have any ICE worth mentioning, but will still disconnect the battery to be on the safe side.
    Hopefully she will be all good when I come back!
    Thanks again
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    Click here to enlarge Originally Posted by willhouse Click here to enlarge
    Awesome, cheers for all the advice. Wraith - you have a lot of cars!!
    Car will be in a shed, so yeah, guess I wont need to worry about a cover, windows, or rag in the intake.
    Think I will put it on stands though, mainly because I have only recently bought a new set of Khumo's for it, and prefer to give the flat spots a miss!
    I dont have any ICE worth mentioning, but will still disconnect the battery to be on the safe side.
    Hopefully she will be all good when I come back!
    Thanks again
    Yeah, about 3 too many ATM LOL as 3 are undercover and 3 left outside, have run out of space and hate seeing them parked outside, I've got another 2 garaged at my parents place...

    With yours willhouse, if your going to put stands under it, make sure you position them on sturdy chassis locations and not the floor pan or other thin/soft bits as they'll crumble under long term load...also place a rubber or other softer material between stand and vehicle.

    If you have enough of them (4) you could just use the factory jack/s at all 4 corners - problem solved Click here to enlarge

    The other thing you could do if you didn't want to dis-connect the battery and ' if ' you had another one handy is use jumpers on the spare one and connect them in 'parallel' ie. + to + and - to - or - from the spare to chassis ground on the car and that will give you twice the standby endurance time...

    The other thing I suggest for when you get back is: for the initial start up, just let it idle only without accelerating it for about 5-10mins. then switch it off for another 15-20mins. to allow 'heat soak' to loosen it all up properly, then re-start and fettle the throttle a bit from there...

    Either way with a little care as your doing it'll be all good when you come back Click here to enlarge
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