Pezhead

Just found this info through another web site. Location is on the Murray River between NSW and VIC. I thought a few here might be interested in a big road trip weekend. Details taken from Event Web Site. Something for everyone at CARnival! There is something for every car enthusiast – and their entire family – at CARnival. For a start, everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a member of a car club to take part unless you want to take part in the menu of more than 20 timed club-level events over the weekend. However the majority of enthusiasts that attend CARnival will be individual car lovers who will want to share their passion with their friends and the public. Here’s an outline of the events that will form CARnival over the 1-4 October weekend: NON-COMPETITIVE EVENTS Just show up with your special vehicle to enjoy all the fun of CARnival. You’ll get the value of your entry fee back in our fabulous ‘Goodie Bag, with special CARnival merchandise, free admission to events and special food, wine and dining offers. Here are just some of the things you and your mates or family car do at CARnival: Shannons CARshine - The centerpiece and hub of CARnival will be the Shannons CARshine. Held on the grassed and shady reserve abutting the Murray River, the Shannons CARshine is open to all entrants, with vehicles displayed by club, make and model. Park and picnic with your friends and fellow club members and perhaps enter your special vehicle in the Show & Shine competition to determine the Shannons Car of the Show, with great trophies on offer. The Shannons Super Rig will be present to serve as a presentation stage and focal point of the display CARswap - A major automotive Swap Meet, covering car parts, accessories, garagenalia and automobilia will be a feature of CARnival. Share your treasured items with other enthusiasts in a secure, historic undercover venue Film, Photo and Motor Art Festival - A large motor sport and motoring Film, Photo and Motor Art Festival with associated motor photo and motor art displays involving regional schools Fun-khana. Novelty driving events on grass to ensure fun for all the family National Holden Motor Museum - Echuca is the home of the National Holden Motor Museum – a must for every Holden enthusiast Take a cruise - Cruise the Murray River on an historic Paddle Steamer or cruise with your club or mates to local wineries and restaurants as part of your CARnival programme COMPETITIVE EVENTS You can spend all weekend having serious fun with your special car at CARnival, with a menu of more than 20 individual events on offer. They include: Australian Interclub Championship (ClubNats) - This is a core event of CARnival that will pit car club members from around Australia against each other in a compendium of separate driving disciplines including motorkhana, autocross and speed events over the weekend, with the individual winner and winning team being crowned the 2010 Australian Interclub Champions. Event could be abbreviated to 'ClubNats' Airport Challenge - There are four separate events at Echuca Airport: two Speed Slaloms on the apron, an exciting acceleration and braking test on the Runway, followed by a timed standing 400 metre sprint. Motorkhanas galore! - If you like motorkhanas, we have a number of different courses on both sealed and unsealed surfaces to test your car-handling skills Navigation Trial - This is a great touring road event to test your navigational skills – something the whole family can be part of and enjoy! Economy Run - A family-friendly events based on a power-to-weight ratio including the vehicle occupants Rally Sprint - For loose-surface enthusiasts there is a series of five sprint events for historic rally cars conducted on different courses in the central Echuca-Moama area, including a dedicated speedway SPECIAL EVENTS Touring Car Legends - A display and parade of historic Touring cars on the Echuca CBD street course, many in the hands of their famous drivers Champions' Challenge - A series of four events for up to eight motor racing champions and potential champions/celebrity drivers in identical vehicles on different surfaces to see who is the champion of champions. Pit Stop Challenge - A shoot-out 'Bathurst-style' wheel changing competition for 6-8 V8 Supercar teams with a knockout series of events on the Saturday evening and perhaps Sunday morning CARnival Village - The major display area for the V8 Supercars, Touring Car Masters and other special vehicles and their transporters attending CARnival, with merchandise sales, driving simulators, et

Need a flashlight for working on the car? This is a CREE LED 330 lumen and runs on rechargeable lithium batteries. Thing is absolutely awesome.

CNC Benchtop Micro Mill For the Make Anything Do-it-Yourselfer

details sent, looking forward to this. Thanks Terry and crew!

Hey folks - only days to go now, I can't wait! So racing this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!! Plan is to just meet there around 1PM. I called them and they couldn't reserve spots but said they can pretty much always fit us in. I will call back on Friday to confirm - just in case they competely book the place out (do occasionally for parties and such). Since there aren't that many of us committed to going, lets all just meet up there. Then go racing. Afterwards, anybody wanting to get a snack at the Krispy Kreams can cruise on over to the one near the airport. See ya soon.

Bump - doesn't anybody need some cheap tyres for smok'n?

Ok so time I put GD2ILA up here. I've owned the car for 2.5 years. Recently I made the front lip (in carbon), added Carbon rear wing and changed the wheels for some dish. I plan so start doing some more external cosmetics, but I'm really pleased with the way it's coming along.

Sorry bout that - I'm in Sydney North Shore. And thinking about it more like 30% tread left. Was about 7-8 mm full depth from new and now there's like 3 mm full.

One pair of Toyo Transas Cruze tyres in 275 35 18 size. About 40% tread left on them. As you can see from the tread indicators in the pictures there's about 1mm left on the inside and almost 2 mm on the outside (slight 1mm camber across face of tyre). I'm sure would make good drift tyres or some burn-em-up rubber for a smoke show comp. $75 takes them away. I have a GTR so have to replace all 4 at a time. The fronts had camber wear too bad to use. Pick up only as not worth shipping. Left Tyre Wear Right Tyre Wear

Thanks! Functioning restraint/stock seat belt is fine.

Were you the group of guys we met near the R8 in Valet parking? Sorry, those of us that managed to group up went on to the pizza joint (in the pooring rain). Hope you didn't feel like we 'snubbed' you we couldn't find anybody else when we decided to leave. Hopefully catch you again on the next cruise.

Yup - boy, he must be quick

Your guess is correct and 33 & 34 GTR's do pre-load the system. No matter how slow you take off the torque gauge will register a little as soon as you start moving until you're rolling at least 20 km/h (from my experience). Then because your rears are smaller, the computer "thinks" that your rears are spinning and thus will transfer torque to the fronts to try to compensate. If the diameters are out enough will do it all the time - that is what is bad for the transfer case. It will try and engage the 4wd but due to the different diameters will force slippage in the transfer case. Over time this will burn it out - they are VERY expensive to fix so this is a bad idea. If you have to drive it to the tyre shop, swap the larger tyres to the rear so the rears are spinning slower than fronts. This is a temporary fix but get them sorted out quick.

And now a word from our sponsors... *blatant speed thrill Wakie Commercial*

See the shipping sticky. I used airroad direct to ship two sets of suspension from Sydney to Melbourne. Was easy to book online, they were quick, I didn't have to be present for them to pick up (Left on my porch). And it got there the next day. I was pretty impressed. Was like < $100 which is pretty good. I'll use them again in the future.

read the thread, the wood is for modelling only. I pulled the part off of the wood. I did wood so I can make another any time I need it. The part weighs less than a couple of kg, you can literally balance it on two fingers.

I honestly don't know how you could cover your door panels with flat unless you are just doing some of the inserts that are totally flat. Seriously have a look around a doing some covering, but you are going to be surprised how expensive just the raw carbon material is. It is about $70-100 per square meter in oz and about $30+ in the US.

hey hey - happy B'Day Niel! Birthday Bunny wishing you many happy returns!

Looks to me like its made from a clear piece of perspex cut to the exact same shape and then LED lit. Looks sharp. The ones with detail inside would be harder, obviously multi layer.

Hey, I think Grant is correct. These are mine 18 x 10 +22 (so 7mm inset from what you're after). Mine is sitting at about 345mm in the rear.

Yay! plans changed so looks like I can make it now. Will be along as long as it isn't totally pissing down rain.

Sorry, was too big of a job for me to talk on work. Took about 8-10 full days spread over about 2 months as I only get one day per weekend to dedicate to my car work. Most of that time was building the full scale model that I did out of wood. As other pointed out there are other materials that are faster to work - like foam. Check out the build thread and think that there's several hours between each photo.

That's right. Titanium is cool - light and strong. But unfortunately a very brittle metal. The springs and sleeve is to allow a little flex - or else it would just crack under the flex and vibration.

That's actually stage 2. Will be building a lip for the lip - hehe. 2nd piece will be an extension to ultra low. Mainly for just show-n-cruises. This one only clears the exit to my driveway by about 20 mm - my driveway sucks balls! So I needed a practical approach on my car.

oh darns! I just got commited to do someth'n on the same day at 4 pm. Not sure if I can re-schedule it. I'm iffy now. Sorry boys. was look'n forward to show'n off the new stuff on the car too