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  1. OK. Sorry I only had time to check the forums now, but was shocked but also inspired to see the concern and support from the skyline community for fellow member Drew and those involved. Now bear with me..this is gonna be a pretty long rant and rave but I feel it is necessary to help us all think about what happened..and how lucky some of us had been. My view how it happened: It was medium paced cruise up to the meet point in strathalbyn, of which we all enjoyed up to that point. Then the leg home seemed a straight forward affair with a trip through to mount barker then a freeway home. As we were pulling off the curb, a police paddy wagon pulled out of a side street which seperated half the guys. So we all paused for 15 secs to allow him to pass and turn right at the round about. We all proceeded to turn left and on the way home. Now everything leading up to the crash is pretty fuzzy in my mind and let me know if I miss things here ok guys.. But I'll fast forward to the important section.---> I was travelling behind busky and could see that road was to split into an overtaking lane. You could see all the way up the hill and vice versa, it had started spitting down, so we all knew not to push it hard when overtaking. The next thing I know I see Drews skyline brakes light up and then the crash with festiva and his car spinning. I immediately stopped and just bolted towards the cars.In fact, not thinking of our own safety all of us did. One of the SES guys on the cruise took control of the situation and called out for us to stay away from the vehicles. He then said " I need one person to call the ambulance, one person to call the police and one person to call the fire brigade." He then tended to the injured. I called 000, and then they directed me to the right STATE, then talked to me through.. the guy on the phone asked me where I was.. ( I didn't know exactly ) and which road I was on and which direction. Then he asked how many cars and how many persons trapped or injured. I said what I could but in the end handed the phone over to the SES guy. He knew the drill so well.. and got the vital info to the operator. The other SES guy was tending to the victims too. I clearly remember one of the guys asking for a plastic bag then seeing a guy take off his jumper and shirt to give them to stop the bleeding I think. After the initial confusion and shock of the first 5 minutes they assessed the safety of the site and proceeded to direct the traffic. There was nothing more we could do but wait for help..... A few thoughts and reflection: Now looking back, I feel that it was a matter of divine intervention for some of us and not for others. IF that police wagon hadn't delayed our departure momentarily, I could only assume that it would have been either busky or myself involved instead. Busky was saying to me how he was about to overtake Night Crawler when the accident occured, and I would have surely followed. I had my girlfriend and her little brother as well as Nozilla in my car, so I too thank god for not being involved. But in saying so I do not wish it to happend to anyone else either. We wanted to stay but were told to go, but in all fairness, there was not much we could do but pray that all involved were ok. The car ride home was eerily quiet, with us all trying to digest what had happened. Unless you were there you probably wont comprehend the magnitude of the situation let alone the importance of having leaders with knowledge and skill. Without a doubt in my mind, the 2 SES guys that came on the cruise made a hell of a difference and I'd say they are welcome to any cruise I come on. In the Today's paper, the news only made it to page 8. To me it seems more like a brief mention and had less coverage than the divorce of Greg Norman. It also mentions that 4 nissan skylines were travelling north at the time. To me this only highlighted to the public the bad press that imports already have at the moment. The report on the news was also similar with images of the skyline shown and it briefly mentioning that it was a head on collision. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like imports aren't liked in the media. I wish none of it had happened, but it did. To Drew, I hope u recover quick mate.
  2. Especially if ur radiator aint up to scratch :laughing-smiley-014: ..lol
  3. Hey Andrew..can u also bring the missing centre caps from my rims thanks
  4. Hey I know this may be a silly suggestion, but wouldn't it be easier for you to just offer some one a turbo upgrade ( i.e. some one with a N/A r33.. ) and just use their parts.. so all you would be effectively paying for is the labour..then when u need to change back do the same thing.. ( after compliance then rego at regency?) I dunno.. maybe some one out there with a N/A feels like a bit of boosting action!!! Even if it's for a few months only Anyways.. congrats on the buy to ur girlfriend!! It's always good to see chicks driving nice rides, and the rides actually belonging to them and not their boyfriends.. haha My 2 cents.. the Duck
  5. Add me to the list please!!!!!! I'm in !!!
  6. Where u located? Interested.. depends on delivery costs. thanks. I'm based in adelaide. Cheers Duc
  7. Does the free delivery include to SA i.e. 5012 ? If so.. Deal
  8. Yeah I've seen that r33 on hanson rd....man I wouldn't park it there at night..lol...
  9. Any pics? and how much delivery to adelaide? cheers
  10. Hey, if u need the rims, just give nozilla a pm, I'm cool for you to borrow them, I got through regency on with my work wheels.. As long as you return them in a timely fashion....not to mention any names.. **cough** (andrew)... Oh btw I only got tread on 2 of them, funny that considering I lent them out with 4 tyres.. but yeah I think you have to buy new tyres anyways.. Hey Andrew... can can you give the centre caps to nozilla. Cheers iceduck out
  11. Hey all, Defect doomsday was on the 24th of March 06 for me... And guess what I passed After hearing all the others horror stories I was like..damn.. I'm gonna get shafted.. Ok this was my mods before I went in, 3inch turbo back exhaust, FMIC, Tanabe Coil-Overs, EBC (AVCR), Power Fc, HKS Pod Filter, Boomerang alarm ( turbo timer and auto start ) and a boost gauge. Basically the simple mods.. I got my mate to put a smaller restrictor pipe after the cat, and it managed to shut the noise back down to only 86dB, good enough. Had to buy R33 stock suspensions just to rip off the tops ( already had r34 stock struts and springs ) then thanks to nozilla, all my electronics was taken out. I left the FMIC and SECURED pod filter.. and had no probs.. Walked into regency with friend and gf, and a young guy name TIM came to inspect my car.. I was like damn.. I'm gone for sure.. Instead he was real nice, he actually named everything I had on my car before hand.. it was quite funny, he was like.. "so this was where your boost gauge was mounted." My car actuall didn't have the line going from the waste gate to the plenum feed back I think, and he was like, so this thing must go like mad.. I was why? ( knowing stuff all about the workings of my own car... lol ) He then explained that with out the hose I would being building boost and not releasing it. well something like that.. So I spilled the beans and said.. look, my mate went through this car and returned it to stock so that I'd pass regency.. He just laughed and said it was all good.. as long as it wasn't there on the day of the inspection.. Then his mate came and looked at the car.. I was like shit... Instead they were like ..yeah I like R34's.. I was like SWEET.... All in all, the guy was real nice and kept saying to me... why are u so afraid, I wasn't that mean was I?.. lol..I was like.. thank god.. So at the moment I've still got the stock suspension in, and she rides like a dream, no scraping, but instead looks like a 4wd landruiser. Will be getting white line springs or something similar.. I'm gonna buy and EVC to shut up the exhaust and that will hopefully be the end of it all. I've learnt my lesson.. i.e Make sure the cop testing the Exhaust is standing 0.5 m back and on a 45 degree angle..before I accept there decision again!!! Take it easy boys, and for the guys that got double defected.. Awww..nuts.. oh wells..maybe next time Iceduck OUT
  12. It'd be interesting to compare the actual weights of the 48T, 52T and 56T 71mm compressors. Edit. Nuts Iceduck312 forgot to log outta my PC (busky2k)
  13. Nah mate.. I dun play it much at all.. I prefer the game play in bf2... I suck at cod2 lol anytime ur up for a game give me a yell.. [email protected]
  14. Hey guys.. I can't believe you guys pay retail for the games..lol my suggestion, go to www.zest.co.th and buy your games there... cheaper just to buy cd key and download the game.. e.g.bf2 key--- after money conversion from thailand only $20 bucks... I bought my bf2 and cod2 there... and madaz... ur ventrillo server...I log in and half the time ur away..lol...
  15. Sorry about that.. haha..had my friend was logged in and I accidentally replied inunder his account!!
  16. Hi all, Was wondering if you guys can help me out and let me know where/who I should ring to find stock r34 suspensions.. I got defected for my exhaust but not have to get a full inspection. BTW.. I'm from adelaide..and have called nearly all the import places here and no one has them available.. Getting desperate now... Cheers Duc
  17. Hey Guys, Just a little update, I went to the exhaust shop the other day and before he even did anything to my exhaust he decided to test the noise. In his workshop with vibration and reflection of sound, we only got 90 dB at 3200rpm. This was done at the legal measurement of 0.5m on a 45 degree angle. The exhaust guy reckons to get the 95 dB the cop must of had it right in the tip of the car. He also noted that it would have been less if we were outside and my engine had time to warm up. So I went the cop shop and showed the officer the letter, but still he wouldn't clear it because VIS was ticked. So off to regency I go...... pissed mind you. I did get an extension till my inspection so I can drive home to adelaide tonight I guess it's a lesson learnt..... I'm definately putting out $180 for an APEXI exhaust valve controller ( EVC ) might save me all this trouble next time...
  18. My all time favourite is STAR GATE SG-1 "indeed" ( actually I've got the boxed set up to season 8.. just finished watching the 4th season ) I'm quite surprised so many ppl watch it too. I tell ppl and they are like star wars/trek...? I'm like no..STAR GATE!!! fool... others which I watch: Smallville... ( lana lane.. yum ) House... ( gotta love his humour ) O.C. ... ( lives of the rich and obnoxious breaking down..what's not to love )
  19. Lol, Thanks alot for the offer.... I'll see if I need them or not, if I do I'll PM you..
  20. Well...actually I might nopt be on coz the net at where I'm staying is playing up, but once I get back to Broken hill, for sure man,... Point farm it up in bf2
  21. I gotta get through regency also, I dunno if standard R34, 17 inch rims will do but if you need them you can use them first, coz I don't have my inspection till March 21st I got a mate who does all the compliancing so if you need anything else let me know.
  22. Hey Madaz, I was in your channel the one night a while ago but your comment had somthing like ( ... playing with skyline..) so I stayed for an hour while I played bf2 but you didn't come.. anyways.. point being, I suspect only hard core gamers would prefer ventrillo. I know it doesn't take much to use but too much effort for some. Personally I can't live with out it when u want to noob rape with a mate on bf2. I'm usually using GSA server, 203.13.37.55 port 3784 either in {NBJ} or #VCL# channel anyways.. keep it up, interest will come if you keep persisting!
  23. Yeah Thanks for the advice mate, but like they said I need a Full VIS, and that regency was the only place to go to or else wait for 4 weeks until they come up. Only thing is I'd have to be here in 4 weeks and have all the repairs done here in whyalla, becoz it costs around approx. $40 for a day permit, just to drive on the road or else I need a trailer... So I'm booked for the 21st of MARCH ... dooms day.. I'm hoping I can get the exhaust fixed up cheap here so I can get an extension from the cops to drive the car back to adelaide until my inspection date.. I hope I pass the first time, coz rego expires in April. More head achessss........argghh.. oh wellz...
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