Merli

I'd save the cams for later... Do your internals (pistons, rods, crank?) and put the GT30, high mount exhaust manifold and external wastegate and see what you get. If you're not happy, you can always drop cams in later, as it's easy to swap cams out... Just remove the rocker covers and swap the cams, no need to remove the head to do this (if you get low lift cams that doesn't require head machining)...

I'll give you $20 for the washer bottle... I need the top of it

Last time I went to EC Karts, they let us jump straight onto the 13hp karts... They only have that rule to stop kids jumping straight into the 13hp karts and wrecking them... Tell them that we all drive Skylines, and they won't have *ANY* problems in letting us jump into the 13hp karts. TRUST ME. :uh-huh:

Black R34 GTR.... Oh the things I would to get my hands on one of those.... :drooling:

I should have an OS Giken Twin Plate for sale by mid-next week... email me for more info: andrewho at viriumgroup dot com

They are manufactured for TRIAL, and TRIAL puts their brand name on them, and resells them. There are different specs: F8K/R6K (Street) F10K/R8K (Circuit) F10K/R8K (Street) F12K/R10K (Circuit) Excellent coilovers. They range in price from 348,000 - 425,000 for R33 GTS-t models.

This is very dependant on dynos... all it'll do is encourage people to dyno their car at the highest reading dyno in their area to get the best figure... I think the 1/4 Mile and Racetrack lap times are much better units of measurement for comparing our cars...

What was the reasoning about not chasing CAMS accreditation right off the bat? That was one of the things I was looking forward to the most from SAU.

I pretty much agree with everything you just said, except for the "too many cheifs" thing... I'm still undecided about that, as ideally, it shouldn't *really* matter how many moderators there were, as long as they were all mature and sensible. Of course this is but just a dream we call Utopia Again, the aim of this thread wasn't to start culling moderators. Not from my perspective anyway... :uh-huh:

I have nothing positive to say? Did you even READ my first post? That was all aimed at a positive future of SAU My role here is to browse the forums and post when I feel like it. Unfortunately I was privvy to the rants of a few disgruntled moderators, so I thought I should say something before SAU fell apart. The aim of this thread was to get people to say what was bothering them about SAU and the way it was being run, so hopefully moderators could take an objective view, sit back and see if people have a valid point or not, and then hopefully make inroads to fixing any problems. someone who spends a lot of time browsing, and is mature enough to make forum decisions, untainted by emotion, bias, grudges and personal vendettas? YES.

I have no say in who becomes a moderator. That is not my role here.

Observation, Attitude, and conversations with other Administrators/Moderators. Thanks for your time. If you don't have anything else constructive to add to what was an attitude and insult-free thread, please feel free not to post here.

I've been to Eastern Creek track before, and it's excellent. Much better than the dodgy little indoors ones scattered around Sydney. And go for the 13hp karts, they're the only ones I've used and they had a nice power level... Anything less would have been boring. Coffs Harbour? I don't quite think it's feasible to drive 7 hours to go go-karting, but okay Newcastle is do-able though... I have not been to that go-kart track before... Do they have a website Franky?

Duncan, you're more than welcome to come and do some runs with me! As is anyone else, but I didn't really want to advertise it, it's nothing special really... Those who like drag racing, know to check the Eastern Creek website to see when they're on... If you wanted to make an Event post about it, go for it though

I couldn't take exact quotes, because I thought the thread was deleted, but in fact it was moved to the Moderator's Forum. I thought I paraphrased your quote quite well, but here's the quote: Is that the kind of attitude we should expect from our esteemed moderators? I seriously think you have some kind of personality disorder... You just won't let things go... You hold grudges like no-one else I know, and quite frankly, it's extremely immature. Actually I said that I though that there was only a T517z and T618z, but you claimed that there was a T518z, which I had never heard of... After you gave me the link to the GReddy website, listing the T518z, I said something to the effect of "Okay... I guess you learn something new everyday"... How the hell is that "adamant that it did not exist, implying that I am a liar."?? Where did I say *YOU* made any comments about Mario's car? In fact I specifically said "This is not just limited to you two, but it seems like a lot of people are resentful towards people who do well for themselves..." You have serious issues Squizz. You think everything I say is hostile, threatening and arrogant. Even if I wasn't even talking about you or to you, you take personal offence at everything I say. It's actually quite amusing... I say something in jest to one of my friends and you will take offence at it... Amusing indeed. What's all that crap about your R32? Do you want me to congratulate you or something? What the hell did that have to do with the matters at hand? Nothing? Right. You don't have the maturity to wield powers of a moderator, let alone an administrator. You are rash, impulsive and are too quick on the "BAN" button. You weren't chosen to be a moderator because "you were the best person for the job", you were chosen because you posted a lot and spent a lot of time browsing the forums. Don't think for one moment that because you are a moderator, you are better than everyone else my little friend. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I'm in, dependant on date...

aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahhaha... Pete, you never fail to make me laugh Good on ya mate :bahaha: :bahaha:

Oops I just realised that I'm planning on going to the drags the night before at EC, so I'd have to wake up super early to change the wheels to make it for this trackday... I'll have to see how I go... Lots of stress on my poor car too

Phew... Okay, I'm still a little sleep deprived from the last two nights, so please bare with me I am so glad that this was recieved positively, and didn't draw knee-jerk reactions like I feared it would. Troy... I'll explain exactly what happened re: that cack photo. Basically, I had the photo of the GReddy pillar on my server for my For Sale thread. A friend of mine also had one to sell, but didn't have a photo handy, so he posted the photo I had on my server. I thought I'd be a funny bugger and change it to a photo of a "different type of pillar", show him, laugh at him, and then change it back to the original photo. Unfortunately, when I attempted to overwrite the cack photo with the original, I uploaded greddypillar.JPG, instead of greddypillar.jpg, and Linux and it's case sensitive filenames obviously didn't overwrite the intended file. My mistake, I'm sorry. Let this be the end of the whole episode, that Adrian so nicely labelled: "le phalus debacle de merli" :bahaha: The problem with the internet, is that it is a sterile, emotionless medium. We have never met in real life, so you have no idea of my personality, and I yours. So it makes it very hard to judge emotion, intent and tone of posts. When I see a post from kabab, I can take a very well educated guess on his INTENDED tone, humour and emotion, because I know him quite well. It is infintely harder to do so with posts from people I don't know. Please take this into account when you interpret another person's post as being "arrogant", as it may not be the intended tone in the slightest. meggala... I don't expect moderators to sit by their computer 24/7 to attend to reported posts, so it didn't really worry me that it wasn't addressed straight away. Thanks for deleting it when you saw the email! Kabab... I'd love to go racing with you, but I'm worried you'll go off into the kitty litter and I'll follow straight after you because I'd be too busy laughing to steer Adrian came up with a few good points and suggestions there... I pretty much agree with everything he said. Dino. At no point did I say that there shouldn't be a private Moderators Forum. Of course there should. Forum leaders should have a place to discuss the everyday running and future direction of the forums amongst themselves. It just worries me when these "closed forums" are used as stomping grounds for disgruntled moderators to insult and berate general members behind their backs. That is 100% unacceptible, and does not promote member-moderator confidence. Basically the whole point of my post was to try and get people to step back and think about what they want SAU to be, and how to achieve it. Double standards and over-moderation of posts/threads is what we tried to escape from when SAU was started, and I would HATE to see SAU divide because people didn't feel confident enough to vent their thoughts and troubles, instead bottling it all up until they exploded and broke away from SAU. VENT PEOPLE!!! Share your thoughts and hopefully Our Administrators and Moderators will take your thoughts on board and make moves to fix whatever is bothering you.

My Bigpond Cable has been down all day, and now I have to go out for a friend's farewell dinner/drinks. I'm sorry that I cannot respond to your replies, but I am very grateful that my vent/rant was left untouched, and even replied to in a civil manner. I shall address all points directed at me as soon as I can. Thanks again guys. This is how SAU should work. US, WORKING TOGETHER.

Okay here it is. For some reason, a lot of the SAU moderators seem to have a petty grudge against me. Which is fine... Squizz and Skyzerr are openly hostile towards me, and I back at them. This arrangement works for me. But when Moderators bitch about you behind your back, and act like the sun is shining to your face, that's when I get angry. ndr wrote: "I'm off to UAS in the morning,,,Bett I'll get an ear full off Nick,,,,But me thinks he's gonna get one back. As for Merli,,,he's just an arrogant sub-human,,,lots of money and lots of attitude. If nobody has spoken to him,,,,I WILL. I deal with his kind everyday." I shall come to UAS tomorrow... Neil, please call my mobile when you are heading there and this little arrogant sub-human will also come and have a little chat to you. To Squizz and Skyzerr33. This is not just limited to you two, but it seems like a lot of people are resentful towards people who do well for themselves... Is this the society we live in? Why can you not sit back and say "Well good on him. I'm glad he's done well, and I'm glad he's got a nice car/house/boat/mansion/island/country"? A good friend of mine, owner of a high-profile R33 GTR in NSW, ran a 9.7 second pass on it's first drag meet. Did people say "Congratulations! But I think we are yet to still see it's true potential"? Some did, yes. But the majority made comments such as "$500,000 and it runs a 9.7?! HA!" or "Mario, why is your car so slow?" We are all car enthusiasts, we all love our cars. This is what we are here for, is it not??? We will never have equal cars. Some will be better than others, God knows there are countless cars that would pound mine into a million little peices. Should I get all jealous and say "Damn chequebook racers" or "HELL! If I had $50,000, I'd be running 9s too!"? Well I don't think so. I'd like to pat them on the back and admire the hard work and dedication they have put into being able to afford such a beautiful car/house/boat/etc... Believe it or not, those people work bloody hard to be able to afford to pay someone to build them such amazing machines. Now I'll address all these people calling me arrogant. Yes. I can be arrogant. We all can. But my arrogance only shows when I am challeneged, or insulted. Yesterday, a friend of mine made a post which linked to a photo on my server. As a joke, I changed the image to a penis, and then promptly changed it back to the original image. Unfortunately I stuffed up and didn't take into account Linux's case sensitive filenames and it didn't overwrite the intended file, so the penis photo stayed. My bad. No worries. So this morning I wake to find Skyzerr33 had deleted the link to the image (more than fair enough, and I thank you for doing that), but felt the need to add "very thin ice Merli". For what purpose??? Was he going to ban me for making such a stupid mistake? Was he going to suspend me for making such a stupid mistake? Is that reasonable? Why would I be on thin ice? Personally I think a PM asking for an explanation would have been more appropriate. I replied: "what're you going to do? shake your finger at me? ban me? laugh"... This reply was laughing at the fact that Skyzerr33 actually took it seriously enough to think that it warranted such a threat. Then Squizz interjected out of nowhere and said "Yeah, cos it would be such a loss to lose your valuable suggestions of throwing truckloads of money at our cars to fix problems"... This was 100% uncalled for, and Squizz basically took the opportunity to take a cheap shot at me (with reference to money, see above). So I replied with "laugh laugh laugh, 'Jealous much?' cloud smiley, gay pink smiley"... Ex-Static, then came into the thread (btw, this was just an honest For Sale thread :bahaha: ) and said something to the likes of "blah blah blah, you're being arrogant, blah blah blah". How was I singled out? I was threatened for no real reason by Skyzerr33, and then attacked by Squizz out of the blue. Yet *I* get called arrogant for responding? I clicked on the "Repost post to Moderators" on Skyzerr33's post, which should have been sent to the forum moderators (meggala, ndr, YO88O), asking them to please delete all posts upto and including Skyzerr33's, as it did not pertain to the For Sale thread. This went unanswered, I assume because none of those three moderators were checking their email. Fine, so I then posted IN THE THREAD, asking for the same action to be taken, and I know at least three moderators were look at it, because they replied to the thread, but it still was not done. Instead, the thread was locked, and then deleted shortly thereafter. What's with the double standards? I make an funny, off-topic post in one of my friend's For Sale threads and it immediately gets deleted and I get a warning. Skyzerr33, Squizz and Ex-Static can run rampant posting aggressive threats in my thread at their whim, and ignore requests to stop and delete all offending posts? Nice. Why shouldn't we have a Moderator's Forum? Because people talk behind your back. "No bitching" claims Christian? "As for Merli,,,he's just an arrogant sub-human,,,lots of money and lots of attitude. If nobody has spoken to him,,,,I WILL. I deal with his kind everyday." What is "my kind" exactly? You work at BMW if I'm not mistaken... I ask again, what is "my kind" exactly, and how do you propose "to deal with me"? It's very easy to make such threats when you're in a "closed forum" isn't it? What happens now that your two-facedness becomes public domain? This is unacceptible. You "moderators" decide our fate on biased feedback from other "moderators", without giving us a chance to give our side of the story? A Moderator's Forum is needed. It should be used to make decisions on forum changes and development. IT IS NOT A PLACE FOR YOU TO INSULT MEMBERS BEHIND THEIR BACKS. Also, a lot of people seem to hold resentment against me because I was a moderator at SDU at the time when SDU executives moved to cut back the "idle chat" and move to a more performance based forum... It's quite funny because it seems you all hold me responsible for SDU Executives "taking away all your rights", when in fact I had no say in it whatsoever, and I would have moderated perhaps 5 or 6 threads during that entire period. Anyway. The move was made away from SDU (which I supported 100% and subsqeuently got into many an argument with SDU Executives about) because you all (myself included) didn't like how oppressive the SDU Executives and Moderators were. NOW LOOK AT THIS FORUM. Think back to those days in SDU when we were being told to put up or shut up. If you don't like it, leave. SAU was founded on the ideals that free speech was a basic right, and no Nazi Moderating will ever take place. Moderating was to be done only on truely offensive posts, and SAU would be a place where we all could say what we felt, whenever we wanted. Is SAU today, what you imagined it would be back then? Now alot of you old SDU'ers have been given the privledge by Christian to moderate these forums. It's not as easy as it looks is it? When you are given power, you are also given responsibility. Responsibility to enforce forum rules as Club Executives direct, and responsibility to keep law and order. You hated it when SDU moderators and administrators oppressed you, but now you have a voice as moderators of SAU. Think about how you may or may not be oppressing normal members on SAU. Are you doing the same thing that SDU mods/admins were doing to you 8 months ago? I have been contacted by several SAU "moderators" about how they are unhappy with the current stand of the forums, and how they are being run. If you think I'm talking about you, and the email you sent me, believe me, there are many others who sent me similar emails. You are not alone. There have been proposals of running rebel forums, and even breaking State clubs away from SAU and forming their own club. I do *NOT* want this to happen, and I have not encouraged it in any way, shape or form. Please remember the overplayed cliche: "Together we stand, Divided we fall". It's a cliche because it's true. How about we have a little less hate on this board, and a little more love? We're all here because we share a love of Skylines. That is our common bind. That is what makes us strong. When we lose focus on that, and instead concentrate on hate and trying to ban members, and seperating state clubs, it will only make us weaker or indeed kill us. Make this your new mantra, and repeat after me: SKYLINES ABOVE ALL ELSE.

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I just had a look at that pdf file you attached... I hope you never drive your car in the wet, because judging by the tread design on those tyres, your first drive in the rain will be your last. Go for the Dunlop D01Js or Nitto NT-555Rs... They wear reasonably, have excellent grip, and have much MUCH better water channelling properties than those BFG g-Force T/As... Falken AZENIS are reputedly better in the wet than the D01Js and NT-555Rs, but aren't even in the same league for dry grip.

I was going to reply too, but with a little less tact