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Drinks have already started!

spose we'll have to carch up tomorrow :cheers:

cal- how is the parking at your hotel?

phil- i had a look at google map & our hotel has plenty of street parking & the rooms are pretty big with a kitchen. might have the get together at our hotel?

tomorrow is going to be awesome :D

This Post will change as I edit a few photos, but anyway. Here are the edits I've done so far.

Phil: Your car Is quite photogenic if I'm honest lol. Few photos of it turned out quite well without even touching them

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Ok something I Should have done is photos like these, Thought about it when I got home and did these to give people an idea of what I mean. There quick photos but not to bad

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I'm playing with some more photos now while uploading some to Flickr. I'd like to put the whole lot of them up (in JPEG form) and have everyone tell me what they want me to (TRY) and do with the photos lol. I'm not great with photoshop but I can try stuff. But I think theres to many. I Think I'll just slowly work through the better ones and edit them for now

Will get CD's/DVD's to whoever wants some. Just let me know what you want (As I have 2 copys of all photos, In JPEG which is your general photo your point and shoot camera will take, and RAW which is unprocessed and good for editing in photoshop as you get a few more options to play with them)

Anyway... Enough from me. Was a good weekend, think everyone will be happy to be home but haha. Have a good easter (whats left of it) everyone

Few Un-edited photos

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I'm annoyed, I spent so long on that one of the back of your car trying to get it straight, then I thought it was right, and now it looks crooked by like half a degree haha

I'm done for the day but, Might edit some more tomorrow.

Anyone know a site that automatically resizes the photos as you upload them? If someone does then I can put all the photos up for people to look at. It just takes to long with Flickr and Photobucket

Was a good weekend boys, definetely great to finally meet every one. Will definetely have to organise something again in the future.

Also turned out my highway economy tuning paid off, ended up averaging 9.6L/100km for the whole weekend! Wohooo! No more 20L/100km bullshit haha.

Good photos Cal, i'll have a flick through mine soon to see if any of them turned out ok.

Matt, just gotta say it again, your car is pure pornography :wub:

Photos look good Cal thumbsup.gif

I had a great time, won't be so great when i try put my foot in my work boot tomorrow (f**ken god damn hill/garden). Going to bed early tonite sick.gif

Just struggle into work and claim compo because you "stubbed your toe at work" :P

Wish my fuel economy was that good...... I really need to get a wideband and start tuning.....

Yeah man you gotta get one and lean that shit out lol. For like the past 3 years I have had pretty shit fuel economy with the Microtech. This is the first time I have gotten it back to being good. I couldn't believe that it was 9.6L, had to triple check my maths to make sure I got it right :P

I feel like shit... Still.

Had an awesome weekend though. There are some photo's of Saturday night that are just... Bad. Great to meet everyone though! Next time though, midnight runs down Shute Harbour road. ;)

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