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Last night several notices were issued to cars with wheels that were too big and others that had been lowered for better cornering.  

Cant have that, wheels might provide better grip, and cars that handle better - WTF is going on! Its bloody outrages...

Chief Inspector Rod Smith from Blacktown police said residents contacted police after hearing the cars screeching down 500m stretch of road in a normally quiet industrial area.  

So why didnt the local residents of the industrial area get done for squating??????

"It's a weekend problem the locals are becoming more aware of it and contacting police," Chf Insp Smith said. "The locals phone up very concerned that someone is going to kill themselves."  

Yeah, I am sure that they are really concerned - bunch of no life farks.

Australia is such an old fart country , i mean look at all the cooking version models they bring out in Australia instead of the good models.

Unfortunately this is not likely to change anytime soon if ever, Australia is just to small and the police are to bored, so for something to fill their doughnut breaks they come and pick on us.

Also doesnt help that residents are all old farts, and if u make a bit of noice you may interupt there viewing of All Saints or Blue heelers ...... heaven forbid!!!!

Makes u feel like moving to Japan , except im told things are uba expensive and the food stinks :(.. but still worth it to be able to go to a street drift event "any" time of the week... yes any night of the week!.. pretty cool huh.

Miss*33 and RedlinrGTR, its predominantly Subaru WRXs and Nissan Skylines because the others cant keep up. Lets face it only an idiot would line up their HK Monaro against a GTR. (ulless they had spent a sh**load on the monaro to make it go)

4door_sleeper, when you consider the cost of a fully built V8, dollar for dollar an old monaro would destroy a stock or even mildly modded GTR.

A mate in WA had a XE 351 that ran 11s, cost under 20k. Parts are soooo much cheaper, no need for ecus, no need for an intercooler, no need for a turbo, etc.

You are correct... when it comes down to it, it is a public street which has laws, and racing is breaking those laws. There are plenty of arguements we can come up with but when it comes down to it, if you take part in street racing, regardless of where it is, it's illegal.

Doesn't mean people aren't going to do it - same as drugs or stealing or killing. But if you get caught, there's no point bitching and complaining, because i..t i..s i..l..l..e..g..a..l

However I do feel that there is a difference between say going on an organised orderly car cruise, and fast 'n' furious style closed street racing. I guess they think that a group of cars on a cruise are out to go street racing... that's what I find annoying.

my 2c :)

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At least they were in an industrial non-residential area and not on the highway. If the driver is going to drag then they will do it regardless of whether the cops catch em or not, and if they don't know how to control their car, or they are taking the risk of dragging in the first place, then let em **** there car up and injure themselves, no-one else is being hurt. Better they are in an industrial area rather than a busier road (i.e. the highway) where there is potential for innocent people getting hurt

Well see the whole problem is the public liability BS.

If some dumb blond gets run over by the ricer in his type R who looses it there's a whoooole lot of problems...

That said... what i'd like to see happen is to find some kind of unsed industrial area or an area that isn't used after a certain time (where there are no residants in ear shot... like out at wetheral park or something etc) close the street during the set time close the street add in just enough orginisation just to keep the cops happy (maybe they could send a token cop to spectate or something... hey... who wants to drag the cop car ?? um no ... ok maybe not :D) ... but yeah...

if the gov can sanction herioin use in injecting rooms

whats wrong with with a few street races (which could be made legal by special permits or something).

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Originally posted by Liquid

if the gov can sanction herioin use in injecting rooms  

whats wrong with with a few street races (which could be made legal by special permits or something).

Well they do give us drag days, maybe they should drop the price on that :uh-huh:

u guys remember in fast and furious 1 where they were at that desert drag battle thing?? it looked like it was in an old air strip ... why can't we have events like that here ... make people sign something so they can't sue the organisers ... ???

and yeah i'd just like to say driving along anzac highway tonite ... there were so much mother ****ers in vns and vps and one in this wagon ... think it might of been an old toyota ... bloody dicks think they're race drivers ... cutting people off and shit like that ... did not see one copper trying to stop that shit ... if they actually cared they'd be out in force on friday and saturday nights pulling these ****wits over ...

well they are certainly out in force... but looking for the wrong things.

Instead they pull a mate over for talking on his mobile phone for 10 seconds, or stop people for stupid reasons rather than catching the maniacs risking everyone's lives doing their "traffic racing".

.. gee we moan and complain alot...achieves nothing :D

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So the cops are out to get us or so im hearing ive only had my r33 gtst for two months .Now i hear about it .so i am an old guy 40 but i dont know but if your car is modified ,but nothing to obvious they are just going to pull you over and defect you for the hell of it .doesnt it also rely on your attitude to the police ,and if you were being a dick before hand thats a different matter .Im banking that im a old guy the cops will go easy and think well he isnt a hoon so we will let him of but thats my plan . I dont want to get paraniod when i go out as my car has been lowered 35mm hksbov and turbo timer etc this is all illegal but much safer than a lot of other cars you see on our roads in sa . also no cat and momo wheel the list goes on so if its that bad I picked a real bad time to buy one I do have a cat that just bolts in ,does anyone really know about items like the cat is there a fine or not i hear 1000 10000 dollars but that sounds like bull .I would bolt the old cat back on before regency surely bald tyres are more dangerous than a missing cat (ps extra 8kw on dyno ) you dont get a huge fine for that. I heard that most cops dont know what to look for anyway are they going to measure the clearance height etc or just defect you I really would like to know .Attitude or cops bored

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