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I don't think the Territory brakes are up to the task. One of my girlfriends friends bought one for towing her horse float and was having big problems with brake fade so sold it, other friends were looking at the same thing and were advised against it. Understand your situation - I went through the same thing but luckily don't need to drive too much so was able to settle for something rugged and haven't looked back. Being commercial white I can also take advantage of the odd sneaky loading zone lol! Some other food for thought - you can pickup a Pathfinder Ti vg30 for $3-4k these days.

I've got an 03 rodeo dual cab turbo diesel 4x4 and it's brilliant for the price. Tough as nails, pretty good on fuel, tows my 32 no problems, fits four comfortably and I don't care if it gets dinged up. Plus can take it out on the 4x4 trails for a bit of fun. If you want something more pedestrian then a v8 commo or similar would be my pick. Only mildly ashamed to admit I actually like the latest ss 6litres.

Very very interesting read thanks for digging this one up Rolls. Interested to hear how it went.

You could start one?

Yes must agree there are some good deals to be had - I was on Vic Elec for a while was getting 7% or something for on time. I have been on the 100% green for a little while now but you don't get any of the good offers on it - they all seem pretty close price wise. Gotta help offset my fossil fuel burning habits somehow! This bit on switchwise is good for getting a rundown of the companies and any overseas interests http://www.switchwise.com.au/electricity/suppliers/ Vic Elec / Lumo is 100% NZ it seems TruEnergy is owned by China Light and Power after a quick browse.

One other thing to note is who owns the company you go with. There are a few with a large percentage owned overseas. Victoria electricity is about half owned by an NZ company, not sure about others - so your money leaves oz for the sake of a few bucks.

Nissan put this in the manual for a reason. Not just because it wrecks the drag co-efficient, but because it also looks like arse.

Ha yeah I was thinking young skyline driver here we go again... good to hear a different story for a change. Sounds like that lancer did some pretty serious damage... wonder if it was an evo.

GTRS is too big - you really want to look at increasing capacity to use them, on a 2.6litre you would need to rebuild the engine to run enough boost to get anything out of them. GTSS (Garrett -9's) will see you to the limits for an unopened engine. These will be ok with standard injectors and AFM's. Not sure about drag times.

First 12 odd months will be mostly training and track days to really get familiar and get the car set up well. After that targa tasmania and high country.

This is awesome for looking up paint codes - and confirms what your panel beater is talking about: http://color-online.glasurit.com/?language=8 There are several variations on KR4 that nissan have offered. Standard KR4, coarser, coarser and yellow and lighter. Hard to be sure if Nissan offered any of these options with the S3 GTR - usually easiest to compare a sample. Glasurit have sample cards - not sure what paint system your beater has.

I'm not even sure the westpac chopper could get down in there with the lines in the way. Looks like fun though!

Is this the one on My105? Just post a link instead

This is true. However controlling the hardware and operating system means transitioning to x64 was a relative breeze for Apple. Microsoft with its what 90% odd OS market share at the time, and zero hardware market share always needed to consider that x64 would require gargantuan 32 bit backwards compatibility for applications, and 64 bit drivers from thousands of hardware vendors (that lets face it often struggle even getting out reasonable 32 bit drivers). The press for releasing something that didn't work with everybody's favorite little 3rd party apps or hardware etc could have really cost them huge marketshare, only for being seen to be doing the right thing for progress - and only for a small subset of their customers. With print design applications being such a staple of Apple's compatible product suite, and being the industry standard - they would always have prioritising excelling with these memory intensive apps. Microsoft was never going to take it over easily, so prioritised remaining as compatible as possible with the open market. Don't get me wrong I am no Microsoft fanboy - I am the first to criticise any OS or agressive associated licensing. But it seems the tables have turned and now the limelight is on Apple, and you guessed it they are acting just like Microsoft did but on a grander scale because they (try to) control the hardware too.

Linux is great for servers where you spend a day setting the thing up then leave it to run for eternity - just make sure those log files are truncating automatically. But searching through forums to find some undocumented parameter in some damn config file somewhere is not my idea of living, I much prefer ticking a box in a preference window - something the linux devs will never have, they love their terminal windows so no good for a desktop for me. I do love the suite of network tracing and troubleshooting tools available with them so always handy to have a running image around. Someone said Mac = less stress!! They stress me out a million times more than anything else just trying to resize the windows ffs. You almost get there then the window dissappears. And the single menu bar.. wtf. Admittedly after Windows Vista I was sick of M$ and was considering my options for jumping ship for something else - but I need Windows for my work. Plus I think a lot of the problems were to do with the Nvidia 650/680 motherboard chipsets at the time making early Vista unstable - it got much more resiliant with updates. But Windows7 window management has saved me. Working with two huge screens, constantly working and referring to 3 to 4 apps at once is now a breeze. I would get less done on Linux or Mac just placing the windows where I need them screwing around sizing windows. Something so simple has a huge affect - and will literally reduce the severity of my impending arthritis. Have a look at the chatter in Mac forums about "windows snap what a useless feature".. get to the end of the thread and everyone is going "wow that is great - are there any utilities to achieve this on the Mac". Linux I am sure already had something similar, and would have implemented the same thing by now if you want it.

Old motor big end bearings from cyl 6 on left, good cyl 5 on right. Had been driving on these for a good six months... somehow they didn't spin. Chris reckons the old crank should be ok - barely any scoring on the cyl 6 journal. Thinking I might send the old crank and block off to get cleaned up and machined and have a go at putting a basic motor together for shits and giggles. New motor is almost ready to go.

Yeah definitely some pro welding going on there

Silver R35 GTR lurking around backstreets of Eaglemont, VIC - have seen a few times in the past few weeks seems we must be neighbours. Lovely burble from the exhaust.

I don't think you can ever trust what a tyre salesman says. KU36 being discontinued means "I can't get em so buy these bob jane all rounders instead". "Top of the range" means they are so hard they will survive through nuclear holocaust. I was told the other day Dunlop Direzza DZ03G's are discontinued and were beign replaced by Sport Maxx (i.e. I have these in stock)...... ok mate bye....

oreally? I can only see reference to "super racing spec" on their sites which I believe were the same thing, but everyone reports them as being discontinued. I am up for a set if this is true and someone can speak Japanese!!

Right so KYO-2 was listed against the Z-tune? This is what Glasurit has listed under KY0. I know they offered the colour on the z-tune exclusively at the beginning, so logic would dictate that its the "standard" option.

Bit of a long shot but does anyone know if Nismo offered variations on the KY0 z-tune paint? Looking to paint mine in KY0. Glasurit list a number of options on the paint - but I am hoping these came in as they started to offer the colour for other cars.

Hmm not sure about SA sorry maybe try trawling through the SA section. Are you getting heaps of black smoke out the back when you are having the problem?

Sounds like you need an experienced and trustworthy shop to have a look over the car. You really should not be driving the car in this state... if the fuel is leaning out you could have an engine build on your hands in no time. What state are you in?