sneakey pete

Don't think i'll come tonight. Getting over this cold still so i'm feeling a bit shit.

great, i've got a throat infection. Can't stop coughing. I'm not supposed to have anything cold either. Pain in the arse. Hopefully these antibiotics will clear it up somewhat fast. Have you checked that the power cord is plugged in?

I get 10.5-11.5 per 100 with mine. Guess i drive like a granny, though it only being 2L must help a little.

Nothing like a good Motorkhana to show you how much you need to improve your driving technique. (particurally when someone else can get into the car and do a bloody amazing job of it. No blameing the car) Still, need to do some work on the front suspension too, a few degrees of camber wouldn't hurt at all. And i need some new shit tyres, canvas just started to show through on the pair i had. Ah the joys of motorsport expense...

Why have a sound system at all, if your going to be as serious as removing things like the rear seats.

Dealer finally came through and fixed the aircon today. Which is good. However I think i'm getting some kind of cold (unrelated to aircon), which is bad. Sigh.

Mechanical Engineering (at UQ). but don't get me wrong, even the 8am starts 5 days a week semesters.... could have had them all packed into a 3 day compact timetable. The worst was the fridays on that timetable. 8am lecture and that was it for the day.

What's going on with the meet tommorow night? I've been meaning to come to one for a while now, meet people, put faces to forum profiles and the like You'd have loved my timetable from semester 1 last year. 8am starts. every day of the week. What made it worse was all the business students (business area's of uni are a great place to study desipite it) who go "oh are you coming in on wednesday? no? oh well see you at 11 on thursday for our lecture"

I don't think anyone knows what the SR, RB, U (points for anyone who knows what those are. Without looking it up on google) stand for, if they do indeed stand for anything, but the D, E, T do stand for Dual camshaft, electronic ignition and turbocharging. As for the RB30ET being an australian developed engine (developed in the term of, holden throwing the turbo onto it), I wouldn't say that that's out of the question tbh. But i don't know either way who did it. go research.

Used to get up at 6am for uni (hour of messing around getting dressed and eating. i'm slow in the mornings) and an hour to get to uni... for 8am starts. 3 f**king years of uni and 8am starts for every one of them. until this year! Go go lazy uni student mode!

You can tow with a falcadore. Couldnt' live without a small trailer to move around stuff.

Yeah it'll be pretty decent (if its the one at banyo that i'm thinking it is. Dont have a FB account and not going to). They'll have a "all years" japanese day later in the year to, which will be good for us. (that being said in 3 years time r32's can start coming along...)

So it is. Buggered if I know where I got the idea that they could only tow 1700kg's from.

One has to remember of course that FEA is only an approximation. However, its an approximation down to such a fine degree that' its "good enough" for practically any application. (of course real world testing is needed to make sure you've done your calculations right). The hardest part about FEA isn't putting in the object (dead easy), or loading it up with the correct conditions, its understanding the results, when to use them and when not to. (eg the 10th natural frequency of an object calculated by the FEA is most likely to be ridiciliously wrong). In regard to rods themselves, my unexperienced but logical guess would be to buy pistons to suit your application. Sure xx H beams might be able to handle twice the power of yy I beams, but if you only want the sort of power that yy can handle.... get yy.

I think your thinking of the 10th of May 1940... Unless you sell polish cars.

Where's the meetup happening tonight?

Said in that thread that someone saw it parked near a centrelink. What kind of derro steals a frigging car and then goes down to centerlink? (what was he reporting it as a new asset? I'd carried around the card for that for the last 3 years after going once. Took it out of my wallet 6 months ago and of course i can't find it now!. Sounds good, i'll make an effort to get my arse there.

had to get up at 4:30 to drop my dad off the airport, in the lethal blindspotted corolla. (didn't have enough fuel in the skyline), in the dark, in the rain and half blind (going off orthok contacts and back to regular glasses). But i survived.. Of course, now it feels like lunchtime even though its only 8am.

Well that's the thing, the falcadores are only rated for about 1500-1700kg's of braked towing. Wouldn't be enough to haul around a skyline+trailer. On the other hand, as you said, if you have the proper attachments you'd probably be able to tow more on one without bending anything. You're also right about the mid size 4wd's. The newst falcon is the exact size as the Pajero. Yeah. I'd have to change it in 30000k's anyway. Thanks for the advice.

I think my car will hit 70000km's this week. Will probably do a pretty big service on it, as i've got no idea how the previous owner treated it. However, the big question is, should i get the timing belt checked/changed? Its only 70000km but the car is 18 years old. I've got no idea if its the origional belt on there or a new one. If so, who'd you reccomend on the south side to do it? Edit: disregard this one, I was meaning to post it somewhere completely different. God dam i'm turning stupid at the moment.

What, do the cops setup tractor RBT's out side your house or something? Quick zip up and down at night time and noone would be the wiser. Speaking of second cars (which i'm way off being able to afford right now), what is there in the way of tow cars that aren't utes or 4wd's? If/when i get the money and decide to invest in a trailer and a tow car, was kind of hoping i wouldn't have to get some huge beast that'd kill schoolkids etc if i ever tried to take it to the shops. But looking at everything, it seems something like, say, a falcon wouldnt be big enough.

Eh, you were forced to have to check emails in a location where a laptop wasn't possible?

drove my parents back from lunch in their 2010 corolla. Holy shit the A pillars in new cars are dangerously massive...

Going to have lunch at sirromet winery for my dad's 60th birthday. Then i get to play designated driver for the trip home for my parents and my aunt. Wonder how many helicopters will be there today

He doesn't post nearly that bad. Maybe i'm getting older and mellower and just don't give a shit, but seriously. As much as its tempting to be anal about it, i can perfectly understand what he's writing even if he uses the wrong grammer and misses out a few letters/words. Besides, there's much worse, like the example you gave.