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i'll be going on the friday and saturday. oh, hang on, we aren't talking Tokyo Autosalon, but the Sydney Autosalon. funnily enough I wont be going. been dissapointed so many times it's not funny. so I'm afraid I'll be giving it a wide birth. I may just feed $30 into a shredder instead, at least I wont have to drive anywhere to do that! man I'm a bitch, but seriously been let down badly before. :laugh:

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Mate has his car in the mechanics and they are working frantically to have it ready in time to tow up from melbourne.

He wants to take the outright dyno crown just to annoy people lol. He has a holden/Isuzu rodeo V6 and if it all gets together in two days he might just win. He got an invite for winning the Melbourne round earlier in the year making from memory around 600rwkw.

Since then there has been some major hardware changes that will support enough power to break the record unless the engine breaks first haha.

He has 48 hours to wire in a new ecu, drop engine in and tune. Odds are against him to get there but if he does it will put on a good show.

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