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hi lads,

my name's jonathan stack, or "stacky" as everyone calls me back home, im 22.

just moved here from ireland about 2 months ago, starting to settle in sydney. got a skyline gtst last week, allways wondered what the big deal about the 6 cylinder nissans was...now im hooked!

below is a pic of my car,

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i have owned a few rwd turbos back home. i had

a 1997 200sx s14a turbo, vid of me back home in it... http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=f5YMZ8nwuwg

a 1993 180sx turbo,

3 toyota mr2's, my old blue one had a nice trd lsd. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-NJwKOXpI&...feature=related

the skyline i have now is by far my favourate though.

im big into drifting, and was hoping to get some practice in here but it seems to be difficult enough. was hoping to use the skid pan and small drift track in eastern creek but they sounded like they didnt want to know me on the phone!

anyways, i would really appreciate it if you guys could point me in the rite direction for geting in some drift practice here.

and also let me know if there's any regular meets, get togethers in sydney where i can get to meet a few members.

talk to ye soon.

Welcome mate.

Nice car,i like that blue.

Theres a Motorsport section on the forum and the Events section in the NSW section shows regular meets and outings.

Enjoy!

P.S Have You Heard?

Welcome to the forum mate :P

come check out the NSW section for all the cruises and meets etc

You just missed out on a drift day but im sure there will be another one soon

btw. what part of sydney you living in?

good to see a good sense of humor, ive seen absolutly every episode of family guy...f**king love it!

anyways,

im in manly nsw, living in a hostel at the moment, trying to get a house sorted.

im going to try to get drifting this friday in oran if its raining.....cant in the dry with the shit diff thats in it at the mo. i know its a viscus same as my old 200sx, but f**king hell the 200's diff was wayyy tighter.

is anyone here doing the drifting on friday?

cheers lads

I don't know anyone thats going out this friday.. unfortunately a lot of people in australia love drifting.. but hardly anyone gets out there and gives it a go.. a lot more people in to track work here instead. I know of a few people in the NSW Club that get out there as often as they can though.

I don't know anyone thats going out this friday.. unfortunately a lot of people in australia love drifting.. but hardly anyone gets out there and gives it a go.. a lot more people in to track work here instead. I know of a few people in the NSW Club that get out there as often as they can though.

used to get together back home and do it late at night in the middle of no where, couldnt piss anyone off and it was safe.

@slim...cheers buddy, appreciate it!

@mr xtc.... thanks man....tbh ireland actually has more jap imports by the looks of things, the place has gone drifting mad so thats where i got my addiction for those cars.

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