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yeah you only have a gf with a equally suitable car.

hopefully my car will be road registered by Sat, otherwise I'll be thurr on trade plates... so can I run in RWD class? I promise to keep the switch on "drift" mode and not "wangan warrior" mode.

Only problem is my car's running really rich... hopefully by Sat I'll have had someone look at it. Geoff recommended advancing the timing.

Dane would bring the Clubsport up if that had a decent clutch in it.

I've offered him to co drive my car and he is still deciding if he's going to do that. (I'm tipping that he will!) Although my clutch is wearing pretty thin too.

On a good note though, we picked up a new gearbox for the 180 today so it should be back on the road by the time the next Sandown Club Sprints are on.

I actually don't know if a working bee will help. In order to get the old gearbox out and new one in you have to do the norm as well as taking the gate off which makes it a bit of a messy job.

But if you're offering go for it!

it will take 3 of us to get drunk and 1 do actually do it

Yeah, count me in for the drunk part, and 0.33 of the doing part

But yeah, since having to do my car, i doubt anything is such a mongrel :D

Just gimme a days notice so i can play around work etc. Im my own boss at the moment :sorcerer:

Just as a side topic - for anyone coming up this weekend - especially those coming up in darkness - be aware that there is now 11ty billion fixed camera's on the Hume. I did a cruise up to the Flowerdale turn off on Sunday and there was I think 4 new fixed camera's in that short section.

Thanks for the offers guys, really appreciate it!! :dry:

If you guys are up for it, then so am I!! I'm spewing that I'm going to miss DECA, such a killer. It's even more of a killer because I just had the box out of the car on friday doing the rear main and the gearbox seal, and put martini oil in it... BA BOW for me >_<

Just as a side topic - for anyone coming up this weekend - especially those coming up in darkness - be aware that there is now 11ty billion fixed camera's on the Hume. I did a cruise up to the Flowerdale turn off on Sunday and there was I think 4 new fixed camera's in that short section.

yeah, we saw them on the way back from heathcote

but at least it'll be a nice leisurely drive up

has anyone created a cruise up to deca thread?

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