Leewah

Looks like you may make more power than me than I think vision maybe a problem though. "Ensign, Warp 10....Engage"

Hey Denham, does that mean yr driving without yr bonnet now??

Done!! Speaka de Engrish Mon!!!

It would have been nice to be invited but as AS is a show car expo and not performance based, I didn't really expect an invite as my car looks pretty stock. Not sure what the highest dyno figure is but I think there were some pretty big numbers from SubZero up in Brisbane. Also it's hard to tell how accurate the numbers are as they use different dynos around the country.

Car : 2003 Mazda 6 Colour: Metallic Silver Best Feature: 4 cup holders in the front, sunroof, leather, reverse parking sensors, 7 speaker Bose sound system with 6 disc in dash stacker, 10.1L/100km/s (Compared to 22L/100kms in the beast). Simply put it in drive and off you go. No hassles, no worries of anything breaking. Worst Feature: None really to speak of. I can't complain about it. Performance: Can't do 10.4 sec 1/4 mile passes. Would I drive it again by choice: I bought it so I guess yes... What would prefer as a daily driver: BMW E46 M3.

Excuse me??? Is it just coz it's been a long day or are you mental??

Whotcha talking bout Dox?? You claiming that my car actually looks good too?? :shake:

If they ain't paying for me to go, then I guess me and the car ain't going either. That's ok though. I only wanted to go in the dyno comp anyways and see how I go against other GTRs and 6 Cylinders. More go than show in my car....

Take yr time. BTW, I've still got the head gasket with yr name on it if you still want it,

Nah, I thought I would have at least been invited but when I checked the results in the AutoSalon mag, my name wasn't there as an invitee. Don't think I can be farked heading up with the car anyway unless they pay for it.

Nup, no email, no phone msg, nothing.. Guess they don't like me very much

Seems like Nittos are hard to find these days Guess I'm just lucky to have my own set of 275/45/17 On the other hand, if you want to buy Nittos, I can organise them. NT555R 245/45/17 $438.06 NT555R 315/35/17 $515.76 NT555R 305/45/18 $636.06

You'd think that some of us would have been invited, but to no avail. Maybe it was coz the way my car won the dyno challenge but I though 495rwkw was enough to justify an invite even though the car looks stock externally.

Hey Matt, I'll try ya I reckon this sounds like a SAU meet is in order. Anyone for Heathcote, 5th Oct???

"Do you realise what speed you were doing?" This is happened multiple times to me. Of course not. I watch the road when the broken lines become one solid one I ain't got time to check the speedo. I'm a safe driver.

When I was in Hawaii back in 96, I was at a bar and a chick asked me after talking to me for bout 1hr, are you from Dallas?? Not such a bad question unless you notice that I have a rather solid Aussie accent and am ASIAN!!!!

No. Leewah = LeewahGTR

Today Tonight won't publish anything like this because it defaces the value of a govt funded initiative. They generally only pubisise things which private organisations or people do to rip off the everyday Joe. I wrote to them previously offering an insight into our circle after they ran the story of illegal street racing and the hoons associated with it. They didn't reply. Typical.

Yeah, I got all of mine. They're quite happy sitting around my TV

I haven't had the experience of leaky diffs, starying rear ends. Thank Christ. The can be leaned out over time though during the running in period and good tuning. If it continues to run rich, you gotta let it go and trade up. The headlights generally are a problem though unless you don't mind carrying a bit of extra weight. The race spec with less weight generally take out things like xenons but it's simply a design flaw as I don't think they were designed to drive at night.

Oooopsy. As said previously, I'm running a bit slow today. R32 GTS-T should be closer to the 10k-12k mark for a clean one. I saw one advertised not so long ago for 5.5k. Don't think you'd be looking at that one...

The latest round of shock tactic television advertisements from the Victorian Transport Accident Commission is nothing but a blatant slap in the face to all Australians. How stupid do they think we are? Mindless lemmings without sufficient brain power to think for ourselves, obviously, judging from the thinly disguised propaganda they're dishing up to us... The most sickening -- and disheartening -- aspect of the campaign is we're swallowing it whole. In case you're not familiar with the advertisement in question, it's a victim's view of a road crash that left Rachel Roberts in a coma and fighting for her life. Rachel tells us her boyfriend was driving at 5km/h over the speed limit. The suitably authoritative voice-over suggests that, had he been sticking to the speed limit, the crash and this lady's trauma which continues today, may not have happened. Let's look more closely at the circumstances surrounding the event. Let's go beyond what the TAC is prepared to disclose in order to get its "Wipe-off five" message across, and look at the facts they chose to withhold. Rachel Roberts wrote an account of the crash for the Teenagers' Road Accident Group (www.trag-vic.org) website, and it's very revealing. Firstly, the road is the Ringwood-Warrandyte road in outer Melbourne; a typical outer suburban road; narrow, badly surfaced and with no gutters - just mud on the verge. The road on the TV ad is inner suburban; smooth, good gutters, footpaths, the best a man can build. Second, the real car is a 1978 Ford Escort four-door. Nothing wrong with that. The average Australian car is 10.1 years old, according to the government's own data. The car in the advertisement is a 1993 Ford Laser, which the TAC says it chose "for its similar size and safety features". Ford must be happy to hear its small car safety went nowhere in 15 years. Third, Ms Roberts' own words say it was raining at the time of the crash. No rain on the TV version. Interestingly no rain on the police crash report, either. Photos of the crash clearly show a wet road. Fourth, Ms Roberts' own words say the tyres on her boyfriend's Escort were bald. Her father and her future brother in-law had been telling the driver to "get new tyres on his car". Again, no mention of bald tyres in the ad, and no bald tyres noted in the police report. Fifth, the driver was on his P plates, and in Ms Roberts' own words "he was inexperienced". The vehicle's speed, which is the crux of the advertisement, was deemed to be 5km/h over the limit. By who? Witnesses, that's who. How accurately can you judge a car's speed? Try it sometime, and discover how widely your estimate can vary based on the proximity of roadside objects. There is no doubt that Ms Roberts is the victim of a tragic set of events. There is also no doubt that these events can be avoided. But is wiping 5km/h off a vehicle's speed the answer? Would tyres with tread have performed better than the car's bald tyres? Would a more experienced driver have read the situation better? Would a better maintained road, without muddy verges and without trees right alongside have resulted in a different outcome? The most alarming question to come out of this commercial is the abysmal level of intelligence the Victorian TAC attributes to the average driver. Is everything we see on television God's honest truth? The TAC pursues its 'speed kills' campaign for one reason and - shock horror - it's not the safety of road users. It is to legitimize its use of speed cameras to raise revenue. How else does a government department meet a traffic infringement budget forecast of $392million? That's up $101 million on the previous year. Want to know how ludicrous this situation is? If more money is expected to be made, then more people are expected to speed. If the government itself predicts more speeding drivers, then clearly people aren't slowing down. If people aren't slowing down, then the road safety campaign is not working! Or is speeding not the real cause of crashes? Glenn Butler Editor, CarPoint Australia http://carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/news/blanks...ory.asp?ID=4909

Oooops, I'm a bit slow atm. Short chicks have their benefits. Can't comment on mine now though. She's ave height for a asian chick.

I reckon you find a pretty clean one for round the 20k mark. I know two that were sold recently. One went for 18.5k and the other 22k so I just averaged them out. With the new compliencing laws though, prices may go up soon.

You must stop your vehicle if requested to do so by a police member, and you must obey any lawful direction given to you by a police member. You must state your name and address when requested by a police member. You must produce your driver's licence on request (if you do not have it on you, you have seven days to produce your full drivers licence to a police station) The vast majority of traffic offences apply specifically to driving on a "highway". You must be licensed to drive a motor vehicle on a highway. Penalty: a possible prison sentence for driving while unlicensed, suspended or disqualified. In Victoria, if the police have reason to suspect you are carrying a radar detector, they may inspect your vehicle to look for and confiscate it. (Penalty for carrying one is $2000 maximum.) The police do not have a power to search you or your vehicle merely to see if you are carrying anything irregular. Whenever you are spoken to by the police you have a right to remain silent save for situations where parliament has passed laws that oblige you to give information. A driver of a motor vehicle on a highway is required to state his name and address otherwise he may remain silent. Answering police questions usually helps the police to prove an offence has been committed. When the police ask you for your reason for committing an alleged offence it is in your interests and within your rights to remain silent or to deny committing any alleged offence rather than offer any explanation for your actions. If you are asked for your reason for committing any offence, stating a reason can be interpreted as an implicit confession to having committed the offence, but is rarely accepted as exculpation for it: e.g. "Why were you travelling in excess of the speed limit?" If you say, "Because I was late picking the kids up from school" it can be taken as an admission to speeding but is not a reasonable excuse for it. Usually the police won't exercise their discretion to "let you off with a warning" unless you have an extraordinarily meritorious and believable excuse, or your denial causes sufficient doubt to linger in the police member's mind. Answering police questions is generally not in your interests and is often very damaging to your defence. It is easier to defend charges if a driver has told the police nothing more than his name and address. Every word a driver utters is usually 'another nail in his coffin'. If you think there is something important the police should know, your lawyer should be able to communicate it to the police on your behalf. If, despite the above, you decide it is best to answer police questions, you can insist upon the conversation being tape-recorded. There are tape recording facilities at every police station and you have the right to insist that they be used before you answer any questions. (Make sure the tape is in and the record button is pushed before you start the interview). A significant percentage of cases in the Magistrates Court involve people who believed they had 'nothing to hide' and who voluntarily attend police interviews only subsequently to regret having done so when they discover that the result of the interview is that the police nevertheless lay charges against them. It gets even worse when the defendant's lawyer advises the defendant that had they chosen to remain silent and not to attend the police interview the police would have had insufficient evidence to prosecute the charge. This probably happens daily. A registered owner of a motor vehicle must give information known to him that may identify the driver of the motor vehicle at any particular time (penalty, up to 2 years licence loss). http://carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/news/blanks...ory.asp?ID=4989