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hey guys its abit of a WA topic sorry, but i was wondering if any of the other stagea owners are going to checkout the WA SAU cruise at City West? theres a meet for the north people at woodvale shops at around 8:15pm from memory (check the WA section for correct upto date info) then we are heading to city west from there to meet the rest, should be a decent turnout by the looks of it :)

get your stageas down there ;)

im not cruising after the citywest meetup but ill be there until they leave so come say Hi if ya there.

so we got Stage-A, Wildcat, Mr Gtst, Red sky II, mcnamg, and a couple of others from WA with stageas, so who is coming for a looksie?

cyaz there (its TONIGHT btw)

Brad

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I will be there.... So count in 1 more stagea..... we are just deciding on whether we wil be bringing down just the one or both of the stageas... I am trying to convince Wildcat to bring hers as well :)

sweet see yas there then, we need a cruise in the day one time to get some photos of all em the stageas together.

so lee are u coming to woodvale first?

wildcat and brett are you's going straight to citywest or woodvale first?

Sorry guys and girl but only just got home and didn't see this until too late

How was the Stagea turn out?

and yeah a day time one with photo shoot would be good

wasnt bad, had me, stage-a, wildcat and mr gts-t all show up but rain made it abit of a shitty night in the end, i bailed early for some fun on private roads with a couple of lunatics in external gated early model soarers, awesome fun, except i got highly embarrassed as mine is gutless :laugh: even got a bit of sideways action with my 4000rpm limiter cause it was wet haha

130hp yerrr baby :whistling: not fun for me but others had a ball.

got some photos of me and my mates saorer at a petrol station under the lights, ill post em soon if they look decent

if i see one more r33 gtst ill puke hahaha, gets abit boring with 3 billion of them and another 2 million r32 gun metal grey gtr's.

we need to start a rare model car club, for stageas, early model saorers, chasers, aristos, etc etc for abit of variety, one car make just gets too much.

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finally chucked the centre coilcover on which looks 100 times neater :D

ill put a few up tommorow when i can be bothered :)

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you guys know what??! I got this crazy idea!!!

We all(imean everbody in this stagea discussion forum) all agree to meet in one place that we all agree on and we ship pur cars to the specified place and stay there for a few days!! Places thats got good raceways, good pubs, good rivers or sightseeing ETC. Charter a truck to truck our cars down!!! What do you guys think!?? We need a real good planner as well.

Great night!! :) good to finally meet some of you guys n gals (wildcat) even thjo i still gotta say wildcat cheats from the lights (said she cant run above 4000RPM then smokes me hahahah) :D Then Mr GTSTs black manual S2 just pulled away from me hard from the lights ... both very nice rides!!

Cruiseliners pics dont do any justice, that is pure cream material!! cant wait to see it fully tuned :(

Good turn out tho n some very nice peeps

hahhaa we had to pull out early n found our selves in the middle of a WRX cruise ... hhehee had sum more fun :D

should have new turbo etc fitted in time for the next one so watch out wildcat :D

Lee

Lee you so funny :) .... I only got to 5000 rpm :D Still havent really pushed the car hard...stuck to all the speed limits :D Have to say though i smoked you from the lights but you flew past me after that :D

Ill be waiting Lee....have a few tricks up my sleeve i can pull out incase you get close :D

Was finally nice to meet you lads too...put names to faces--hopefully we will catch up soon :(

Great night!! :D good to finally meet some of you guys n gals (wildcat) even thjo i still gotta say wildcat cheats from the lights (said she cant run above 4000RPM then smokes me hahahah) :D Then Mr GTSTs black manual S2 just pulled away from me hard from the lights ... both very nice rides!!

Cruiseliners pics dont do any justice, that is pure cream material!! cant wait to see it fully tuned :(

Good turn out tho n some very nice peeps

hahhaa we had to pull out early n found our selves in the middle of a WRX cruise ... hhehee had sum more fun :D

should have new turbo etc fitted in time for the next one so watch out wildcat :D

Lee

hey lee, u got smoked by a chick?? u poor boy ;) haha jk, was a good meet, and the stageas definately added some good variety to the long list of skylines.

was about 100 cars all up i read on the WA thread

nice to meet you guys and gals too, we gotta get some good day shots and a nice day cruise when the weather is sunny :) and i need more power to keep up haha :)

heres another shot, the rest are way too dark to see, and my mate ended up locking his keys in his soarer and he had to smash the rear window to get in, which he wasnt happy with them being sooo rare.

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i gotta grab a couple of videos of mine that we took in the tunnel and my mates soarer with his external gate and 3rd gear spin at 100kmh was pretty awesome :D sounds like a jet.

Good night I reckon....

Good to meet you boys too... :)

Highlight of the night was the brief run with the 33 GTST from the lights and the look on the passengers face when they werent pulling away... especially funny considering he got a little headstart and only had 2 people in the car compared to my 5 :(

Oi I want to see these vids brad!

ok heres a couple of links to a few. mines not very good with a 4k rpm limiter but it still shows u abit of cruisn, and mates gt30 7m mz20 soarer is pretty crazy with ext gate.

we dragged a series 8 rx7 in it today and cained it pretty damn easy so i'd say its got around 350rwhp and could run a high 12 at the moment. its only a home tune job with a safc and me and my mate tuning on road but its no where near how it should be and only running 14psi.

check em out :)

nuthin is illegal on the videos so no need to worry ska :)

mz20 take off from 80kmh

pretty boring i know but wait for some ext gate action from mine in the very near future :D im dieing for my tune to be done after going on the cruise and fanging around with mates with big power :) mine actually sounded the most stock of the lot ahhah :P

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Those videos are an understatement of how good Brads car sounds and looks!!!! :P

Have to say also that Lee's stag blue is mad...never seen a dark blue before !!

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