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Haha, for a pup he had a mean growl. Ill let yas know if im attending anyway, if i do ill b early for fuel.

Car sounds like its a go chris, hope you can take it for a test tonight

This should be a good night then, we have quite a fair few people turning up tonight it would appear 7pm south bound bp for you northies then on to meet chris at pizza capers then it's time to roll on over to the westies (Chris can lead in the freshly revived Subi)

Enjoyed the drive, roads were shit. Icecream average, anybody hear the backstreet boys on nova? Really enjoyed listening to that on my shitty stereo /cough.

34 goes like a dream clint.

I overclocked this morning, estimated 200. Looks like they have cut the wires:(

Very nice yours will hammer along nicely when all the work is done,

yeah the 34 is working out really well it has a few minor things to fix up now but the dream is slowly becoming the reality.

Excellent turn out shame you couldn't make it out handful and joe as it was a great little drive, The westies are always hospitable and amusing so it was worth the drive.

Ok so what's the plan for this week?

It will be a northside meet this week the questions are

what night?

what time?

where?

I vote Indian Brothers on either wednesday or thursday at 7 or so.

Thought's / suggestions ?

Oh yeah I took the skyline out to Kingaroy over the weekend drove really well and I got the Blue led dash kit in with no problems (tested all the led's before I reassembled it)

Weds or Thurs is good for me, haven't had indian in a while so im keen for that ^_^

Did you ebay the dash lights? ill have to check it out, im keen to do it to mine to brighten it all up. bit dull inside

either or is good for me too.

Got the go ahead today for some coilovers!!! need to go for a run in your car clint to see how the V1's are. but from what ive read so far they are a good bit of kit, esp for the price.

Hoping to have it all sorted for happy laps in 2 weeks time!!

Ive looked around, cant find a eecent answer to 2 qs.

400$ intercooler, anything wrong with these types? 700mm core.

And a normal boost tee, is it worth saving for electronic? If i did it this way i could spend 500 and get b

sounds like the night was good, sorry i didn't make it but i was around the 4500 K's mark away at the time getting tanked, if there is a little meet up this weekend i might be able to come along and meet up with a few people, one of those rare got nothing planned weekends

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