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72 here. What do I think? They've done well on the actual content (> BC), it'd just be nice to be able to actually log in without sitting in an hour+ long queue.

So I drove home yesterday totally oblivious to the fact that somewhere I must have popped the plastic pins that hold the plastic underbody tray on my R34 up and I'd be dragging it along for some time. No idea when that might have happened. Must have had my stereo up to loud because I didn't hear the noise until somebody pointed it out to me as I was driving up my driveway at home. Anyways. I really liked this year's drive out. Was a nice view! I thought the venue was a good choice to. Thanks to the organisers

1/4 tank, including the trip to aspley and home

Add this one: People who change lanes in a multilane roundabout as if the lanes don't exist. This includes: Driving straight through a 2 lane around about (outside lane -> inside lane -> outside lane). There are lanes, they curve round. use them. Being on the inside (right hand) lane, and exiting on the outside (left hand lane). If you were looking you would be thankful I could see your stupidity from a mile away so I was able to avoid you taking the front of my car off! Note, it's perfectly legal to change lanes on a round about.... You do it the same way as any other lane change. LOOK first, then indicate, then change lanes! As always, physics says I'm more entitled to the section of space my car is in than you are.

When you go for quotes, be sure never to make any mention of the word "insurance". That should reduce the price of the quotes considerably.

Yeah it's normal: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/disc-brake2.htm <- good read. It's a side effect of floating calipers. There would be minimal friction or wear since while the pad is "touching" there's no pressure from the brake pistons forcing the pad against the rotor. Without that pressure the pad is free to float far enough away from the rotor to allow it move freely, without it moving so far into the caliper that it requires excessive pedal travel to get it back against the rotor..

Turbo -> Dump -> Front -> Cat. Look for 1 piece Dump & Front, preferably split.

lol, last year they just kinda did a lap of the car park, and that was pretty much it, no defects Year before was the same, quick lap around. No problems.

That would be me! What part of the gateway, I don't remember any other skylines this morning?

It implies being a pump as well IMO, a turbo's compressor wheel compresses the air in the same way that a pipe with one end larger than the other would compress air. Where as your typical supercharger just takes air and pushes it through at a greater rate than natural flow. Any compression happens post-supercharger. I'm happy to be wrong on this though.

EF with a K20A I believe. It's less than 800. Actually... http://www.sportcompact.net.au/Glenn_Alcorn.php It seems it was his brother (Glenn) that ran the time.

I have a friend (who I work with) who drags his N/A Civic in some of the various comps up here and around the place. The last time I'm aware he ran was an 11.6, though I believe he's close to high 10's by now. He took me for a drive in it and the cam switchover is rather noticeable. Of course, in his car it's upwards of 7-8000rpm by that stage. Very impressive for what it was, though far beyond your "standard" civic.

AFAIK Turbochargers are internal compressors (The air is compressed leaving the turbine). The fan blades are designed to compress air coming in, as opposed to just being a pump. There are different types of superchargers, some are internal compressors (and essentially work the same as a turbocharger) and some are external compressors, i.e. they're just a pump and the compression occurs in the manifold. The term "blower" would then refer to any supercharger that acts as a pump and not a compressor. My friend wikipedia has more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger - Note "compressor" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_type_supercharger - Note "pump"

That's a fair call. I know the principle behind what you need to do, but without actual experience I'm really not willing to put my hand up and say I'll do it considering the nature of it all (And I probably don't have the set up to do it either). I would have a call around a few of the data recovery places to see what they can do. The principle is the same. Once you get an 1:1 image (especially if created using the unix dd program) you can then mount (load) the image up (in linux or similar) and use it as you would a normal drive rather than using the original, burn images to CD's et al. Recently one of the hardware guys at work needed to do some data recovery and used these guys http://www.datarecoverylabs.com.au/ (they're local in brisbane) and I believe he said they charged $99/h. Which is damn cheap. If it's worth paying that, I'd be giving them a call, as I can't see why they couldn't do what you needed. They'd also provide a much better guarantee. I'm not familar with ghost or acronis (beyond knowing they're both good at what they do). Because it's QNX, it's most likely running on QNX's proprietary file system (e.g. Not something either Windows or Linux* typically supports). I can foresee that being an issue with both of the above software, unless they're capable of doing a blind 1:1 copy. * Though I know you can add support for this FS in linux.

I really depends on what the file system is and whether Ghost supports it. A quick google brings up this: http://quics.qnx.com/cgi-bin/dir_find.cgi?.../os/utils/disk/ and this in particular: http://quics.qnx.com/cgi-bin/print_des.cgi...X_drive_copy.gz It will require a bit of unix knowledge to understand and get running, but it's a beginning.

I know of QNX, but I don't think I could be much help to you (I have zero experience with it). If anything, I imagine you could do a possible create an image of the HD using something like dd, and work with it that way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)

APC... Do a search for people's opinions of them... :|

When installing my boost tee, I originally ran 4mm, but found I couldn't wind in more than 9psi or so. Replaced it with 6mm and it was good to go

I stand corrected. Thanks

I don't think it makes a difference, same wheelbase.

Haha, that was you! I had no idea. I was just going to sit there in case you hadn't seen me as you went to cross, but in the end you waved me through. I think RRR34 is the other 4 door 34 on the peninsula. And for my spottings, as usual there is a steady stream of skylines into the RACQ EMP. Today was a black R33 with stock wheels at VI, and a silver R34 4 door in the customer car park (350-JJD?)

I imagine it also would just provide a small amount resistance past the point. Not making it overly difficult to push past that point, just so it's noticeable, not so that it effects your right foot.

LOL, big back seat.... I remember cramming 5 people into the car for the trip from brisbane to sydney. Fun and games. I don't think there'd be any noticeable difference in performance.

There was a blue V35 in the RACQ staff carpark. nice and shiny. And there was a white stagea pulling out of the road next to the glen at around lunch today.

Ouch, what happened?