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Hehe - maybe. But from the little I know about the car and it's future intensions it's a "go in a straight line" project. And from what I hear it's planned to be a monster. I'm looking forwards to seeing the project finished. So in another twisty competition it still may get owned no matter what is done to it. Especially if like the last time it tries to do circuit work on Nitto's LOL. Chances are if the last DVD was a 1/4 mile comp I would have finished 3rd - not 1st anyways. So it's horses for coarses. I was actually a little suprised with the cars that turned out truth to be told. It was a track challenge and other than my car the Hypertech S15 was the only other car actually set-up for track. The others were either drag or drift cars. I have been talking to Simon about Serious Performance 9 DVD and doing a top speed challenge. In that the Silver GTR would probably own me - but I think the Ice Supra would have us both. LOL

When it gets closer we'll arrange a meet-up time and place and cruise down together.

I can't believe you suggested Scienceworks Bec. It's nearly enough to have your SAU membership revoked. My Mrs is Canadian and when her family have come over they have really enjoyed cruisin to places such as the Black Spur and the surrounding area's including Warburton. And wineries are a good one too. Nothing wrong with getting Sweedish chicks drunk mate. And is she's stella and worth a weekend away - go to Lakes Entrance as the beach option. 90 Mile Beach is the best beach. Otherwise if its just a day trip - The Prom. Sqeaky Beach is cool and they have all those parrot things down there to crap on your head if you take some bread or something. But don't go to Scienceworks FFS!

Once Dutton Vic is over we will plan a time for me and Scotsman to come to NSW and right the wrongs. Not going to that joke of a go-kart track you call Wakefield but will be keen for either Oran Park or Eastern Creek. There we can make sure (weather permitting) that both our times will be quicker than any set by a GTS-T and end the debate.

And check out Serious Performance 8 DVD and see me kick that cars ass! LOL

Troy - you sure can mate. When you come ask for Adz and he'll be able to help you out.

Due to front brake upgrade I'm selling my R34 GT-R V Spec front brake set-up (fronts only) 4 Pot Brembo's with 2 piece DBA5000 slotted rotors (machined). Hats are Gold in color. Rotors and hats alone worth over $1K new. $2200. Also - still have an EVC3 - $350 Genuine C West Dual Layer Aluminium GT-Wing - $450. (RRP $895)

Thats a bummer Kel - I was actually really hoping you guys were doing NSW again because I was hoping to find out if the events held this year were the same as in 2004. Cause I'm going to try and practise some of last years events - if I can find a good carpark! Anyone know of any? LOL

Ok - just heard that Tony is entering with his brother in his car as well. This thing is quick - just ran a 1.21 at Sandown at the Alfa day last weekend. Frank is entering in his car Maybe Chris we should bugger my car off and keep the White R33 theme going and enter in yours?

Also - the talk of these regs going across to all events is stupid. It means those of us with highly modified cars will no longer be able to compete in events such as the Dutton Rally's or GP Rally etc. We'll be limitted to club sprints and thats overated. Its seems to be a Porsche driven initiative as they would be the biggest winners by far to these proposed changes.

No I'm avoiding breaking my car this year - would be much more fun to finish it. But we'll have the back up GT-R just in case! The rumour going around now is that Frank and Aaron are teaming up together in Franks car to do the Dutton. Hopefully Aaron can get on here and confirm that. Also - I presume Jeff will be coming again this year - possibly in the new R34 N1 that he just did Targa in? Less than 100 Days to go so my count down is on! Started back at the gym yesterday for the first time in over 2 years just to get a bit fitter for this event. I can't wait!

hey - the giant french fries had to be payed for as well!

Tell us what you really think Geoff! :j/k: I dont have a problem with anything that you have said. I guess presonally I am happy with the continued development of the roads in Vic. Yeah I know we have to pay tolls for some of the roads but for the limmited times I use then I am happy to pay with the times they save me. Might be different if I used them every day. But I would hate to see the development and improvement of our major arterials stopped. I am not sure how much the state budget on roads in Queensland allows for to compare. I was only comparing to the roads in the UK which I found to be awesome and with the future development of the Eastern Link (Mitchem) it's only going to further improve the traffic flow in our ever increasing Melbourne population. My thoughts are that this continued development isn't coming for free. The Mitchem is reported to be costing $2b - which is 2 years complete road budget on one stretch of road. Thats a farken lot of money - and it has to come from somewhere. I was only really throwing up a couple of optioned based upon 2 different possibilities. Which was simply people thoughts on revenue being paid fairly by having those that use the roads more paying more - or by having those that break the road laws financing it. Its funny how people complain about the tolls on the Citylink - yet that is a 100% way of getting those that use it to pay for it. That would be the same thing as fuel increases per say. No doubt in my 2 option world the "fair way" is probably the right way - yet so far most that have voted have gone the other way.

See thats the catch. From what I understood from the last budget thingy was that they have budgetted $500m of the $1b for the roads from speed camera's. So they need to put lots of camera's in dodgy places and have stupid tollerances in order to get that $500mil. If they put the tollerences back to 10% and only put camera's in black spots chances are they would only raise say $100mil or less. Its a stupidly high amount of cases of fines in the region of above 3km/hr but less than 10%. So to raise that extra $400mil they might have to increase fuel taxes. So this was my point. I think I'd still prefer to run the gauntlet and have the revenue from fines than having to pay a lot more for fuel every day. James mentioned revenue from Rego's. There is somewhere in the world where rego fee's are based upon power to weight. The larger the more you have to pay each year for rego's. That would suck - especially if your leewang! LOL.

Ok, I got to thinking the other day after that "Budget Leak" that mentioned that all the money raised from speed camera's was being used to finance Road Works in Victoria. As much as I hate out Speed Camera laws that fact remains that revenue has to be generated from somewhere. This revenue isn't just going to maintaining our current roads but also goes towards funding our new freeways and the likes. I think back to what has been made since I can remember and the list includes the Monash (including City Link), Western Ring Road, Eastern Freeway, The Monash Extention... just to name a few. I can still remember that getting to the Airport from where I live involved having to go down Kingsway and onto Flemington Road to the start of the Tulla. Now I can get on the FWY at Thompsons Rd and go the whole way. In a few years we will have the Mitchem Fwy and I know personally I can't wait for it to open. The reality is all these roads - plus ongoing maintenence - costs money. Another country that has some great road systems IMO is the UK. Their series of M freeways are great. However - in order to fund their road systems they pay a HUGE price on fuel. Taking into account our exchange rates the last time I was in the UK their fuel prices worked out to be around tripple the amount of what we pay here. The increased prices was mostly in fuel taxes to fund the Road Works. So the point of this thread is not to bitch about the cops or speed camera's or anything else negative. More of just a question - taking into account the revenue has to come from SOMEWHERE. Would you prefer revenue came from fines do to extreme tight tollerences - but where if you drove completely within the law you could avoid the extra costs - or would you prefer to go back to the old levels of tollerence and be hiked with an increased fuel bill with high taxes added on?

I have seen some good results and some bad results from a lot of different workshops. There are a lot of different prices out there for tunes - but it does generally seem that you often get what you pay for. My guess is generally where a quote is half the price of somewhere else you will be getting half the time spent on your tune. Be an interesting thing to hear if people know exactly how many runs were done on their tunes? Usually the runs are logged sequentially. I'm pretty sure on my last dyno tune (which was after a significant set-up change admitidly) was finished on run #32. I'm not saying every tune needs 32 runs to get it right cause I expect most basic re-tunes to need far less. But I'd hate to have my car tuned somewhere that a quote meant "as good as we can get it in 10 runs". I'd rather go somewhere that would take the extra time IF necessary (at my cost obviously) to finish it off completely. And that could be the difference between a pretty good tune and a great tune.

Well Aaron - looks like you 2 boys will have to wave the skyline flag mate as it doesn't appear anyone else is participating from here. I was going to come up in the Rex but am going to the footy instead. Just make sure you whip that little c0cky Blaise dude. Thinks he's pretty good after Winton and needs to be put back in his box!

Mike - welcome to the club! We'll get you access to the members area's asap and hope you can join us on the members cruise on the 15th!

Hey - no one has mentioned it yet but Kudos needs to go to Berin for being the biggest Pimp Daddy of them all. I can wait to see ALL the pics of his car with the girls he got. Must have had close to 50 chicks he managed to get posing with his car. Fair effort really.

My contribution. Leewah smashes the AWD record with a bang! And we ALL love our Taco Bills.