SKY031

I will call him Squishy, and he will be my Squishy. ........I still need help. :bonk:

It's a little bit of metal that gets riveted onto the firewall, to say that the car meets Australian safety standards. OK, I'm confused. One would assume that in order for the car to be roadworthy, that it would already be complianced. Especially considering the fact that compliance involves structural elements, and things like seatbelts etc. This being the case, how can the say " RWC supplied, plus compliance cost." In Victoria, the amount you pay for registration depends on which area you live in. The further away from civilisation you live, the cheaper the car is to register. But expect to pay around $500 As far as insuring a turbo car while you're on P plates, you might run into a few problems. It's worth making the effort to call a few insurance companies and talk to them first hand. (You should seriously consider doing this before you buy the car.

I'm not talking about Nemo, Nemo is a little orange fish. I'm talking about Dory. Big blue fish. See pic:

That's what the forums are for.

Dear Wardest, I hope you can help me with this, last weekend I went to the movies to see "Finding Nemo", and now I am obsessed with a line that one of the fishys says. I spend all day thinking about this line, and when I'm not thinking it, I'm walking around saying it to people. Will people think I'm crazy, or will it just confirm the fact that I'm already as crazy as everyone thinks I am? Can you get locked up for thinking that you are a big blue fish that goes around giving names to jelly-fish? How can I get this line out of my head? PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will call him 'Squishy', and he will be my Squishy"

well..... this thread was short, sweet, and to the point! :uh-huh:

Yes, they do get stolen in Vic. But the bigger problem is probably break ins. Tachos & gauges, timers, boost controllers, stereos, and all the other 'bits' that people put in their cars are hard to trace, and must be so easy to resell... Not to mention other stuff that people leave in their cars, cd's, cash, phones, sunglasses, the list goes on.

bah im not going digging for it..... But i'll tell dave.

He's having withdrawals because the R31 forums are down for a while. :uh-huh:

close..... but one too many 8's Skyline Auto = 3.89:1 Skyline Manual = 3.70:1 Pintara Auto & Manual = 4.11:1 Silhouette GTS1 Manual Only = 3.70:1 Silhouette GTS2 Auto & Manual = 3.89:1

MCCR? Do you like being defected?

Forgive me for being an idiot, but I don't see a yellow GT-R in your sig? :confused:

pffffffffft! As always, don't even bother to mention the 31's. Excellent car for a P plater, not too pricey, easy to find parts for, and easy to modify when you decide you want more power.

This is an image which needs no words.

Just a suggestion for future reference: When you're organising events, a date is always a good way of getting people to turn up. 'Saturday' is a bit too general, as most months have 4 Saturdays, you're kind of leaving it up to the reader to decide which 'Saturday' you're refering to.

This is the only pic i can find that is similar. I have actual pics of the wing on a geocities page.. you will probably need to paste the link into a new window to be able to view them. http://au.geocities.com/nissanskyline88/wingpics.html

The way you say this, you make it sound like they didn't make any factory turbo R31's.

uh....... well I posted this mainly for his contributions to Nissan. I guess that nobody has heard of him... When Barry Sheene died, there were pages of posts for him, and I can't recall Bazz doing too much for Nissan. Marsden however, did great things for Nissan, and even if everyone here is too young to remember it, then they should at least be made aware of his contributions to motorsport and the Nissan name. :uh-huh:

(Source; The Age) Polite, urbane, charming and, above all, immensely knowledgeable about all things related to motor racing, Howard Marsden spent a life in the fast lane. But despite his 40-year exposure to the hyped world of the racetrack, Marsden always exuded a sense of calm dignity and understood that success, while mainly due to hard work and painstaking preparation, occasionally owed more than a little to serendipity and chance. The 61-year-old, who died last week after a seven-month battle with cancer, was a high achiever in his chosen career. Over the years the English-born Marsden managed race teams, drivers and competition programs at top international levels for companies such as Ford and Nissan and worked with formula one icons such as John Surtees - the only man to have won the world championship on two wheels and four - and Sir Frank Williams, for whom he was once company manager. In his most recent position - head of Ford Australia's motor sport program - the tall, lean, softly spoken Marsden was a familiar figure in the media room at V8 supercar rounds, from where he inevitably watched proceedings unfold on closed-circuit monitors. He was always happy to explain the ins and outs of the Ford teams' set-ups on different tracks and to decode the nuances of things such as tyre performance for journalists, this one included, who couldn't quite get their head around the subject. Never was he patronising and never did he take anyone's knowledge for granted. Although Ford teams were at this time regularly taking a pounding from the Holden squads, he met defeat with good grace and never tried to make excuses. It is a cruel irony that this year, the season that Ford has turned the corner and dominated Holden, his illness meant he was rarely to be seen. Before taking on the role as general manager of Ford Racing in 1999, Marsden had worked for Tickford Vehicle Engineering (now FPV) since 1992 as product planning manager. Dual Bathurst winner and 1995 V8 supercar champion John Bowe echoed the feelings of Ford drivers when he reflected on the legacy of success Marsden brought the company in Australia. "You look back to the early 1970s and it was Howard, Allan Moffat and the GTHO Falcons that were winning everything. Howard came in again in 1999 and he set about putting plans in place to see Ford return to the front. "He was fully aware that it was not going to happen overnight and this year's results with seven wins from eight races are due to the planning he put in place." Marsden started his involvement with Ford's European racing programs in 1963, while as a sideline he and the company prepared cars for the films Grand Prix and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He also helped set up a race team for American actor and renowned petrolhead, the late Steve McQueen. Marsden moved to Australia and in 1971 became manager of the Falcon touring car program, introducing the Falcon GTHO Phase III and Phase IV. After Ford decided to step back, Marsden moved to Datsun/Nissan, where he masterminded four Australian Rally Championship wins from 1976-79 with Ross Dunkerton, George Fury and Geoff Portman. In the 1980s he returned to circuit racing when he directed Nissan's Australian touring car championship program, scoring class victories at Bathurst. He was also part of the Japanese company's entry into world sportscar racing, including Nissan's bid to win the famous 24-hour race at Le Mans. Nissan turned to circuit racing in the 1980s and Marsden directed Nissan's Australian Touring Car Championship program before returning to Europe, where he was involved in Nissan's rally and sports car racing programs. Marsden is survived by his wife, Christine, and daughter Samantha and son Grant.

add to that: Do u want to be responsible for causing an accident at high speed and killing an innocent road user.

I still have that Do-Luck copy rear wing for sale if anyone wants it.

We have one of those, got it from e-bay. It has a heap of patterns, there is a little controller that you can switch to vary the illumination pattern. It worked really well for about 2 weeks, then one section stopped working.

Which motor?

No, because most truck bull bars are not 'modifications', they come out of the factory with them.

Vehicle Standards Information from VicRoads: http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/vrne/vrnint...04A171BCD2A5F8F 16. PROTRUSIONS A modification to a vehicle must not result in: o Any object or fitting, protruding from any part of the vehicle in a manner likely to create the risk of bodily injury to any person; o Any component, feature object or fitting on the vehicle whose design, construction and/or condition and the manner in which it is affixed, is likely to create the risk of bodily injury to any person; o Any bumper bar which does not have its ends turned towards the body of the vehicle to a sufficient extent to avoid any risk of hooking or grazing any person; o Vertical supports forward of the windscreen for use in conjunction with overhead carriers where such attachment will adversely affect the vehicle driver's forward field of view. See VSI 29 for more information.