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a mate of mine from perth put a supercharger kit on his a couple years back, he said it was a monster, from memory it pulled just shy of 300 rwkw and enough tourque to reverse the rotation of the earth

from teh FAQ's on the site

have a read of the wiki and the article, the kranoplans that u see there are effective from 3 - 20m

this thread requires non-car related awesome Russian Ekranoplan 1987 was the year when the first 350 tons ground effect “ship” from the series of Soviet battle missile carriers was produced. It was called Lun after the Russian name for a bird of prey – hen harrier. Another name for this vehicle was Project 903. It carried 6 Moskit cruise missiles (SS-N-22 Sunburn in NATO classification). Hitting four of them causes inevitable sinking of a vessel of any know type and size. The second Lun-class battle aircraft was supposed to be produced in several years but due to the end of cold war and partial disarmament the project was changed to a rescue aircraft and it was never finished. This type of vehicle called in Russian ekranoplan uses so called ground effect – extra lift of large wings when in proximity to the surface. For this reason they have been designed to travel at a maximum of three meters above the sea but at the same time could provide take off, stable “flight” and safe “landing” in conditions of up to 5-meter waves. These crafts were originally developed by the Soviet Union as high-speed military transports, and were based mostly on the shores of the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. In 2005 crafts of this type have been classified by the International Marine Organization so they probably should be considered flying ships rather than swimming planes. It is also interesting to note that this aircraft is one of the largest ever built, with a length of 73,8 meters (comparing with 73 of Airbus A380). Lun doesn‘t have a landing gear, only a huge hydroski so there’s no way for it to get on land and for this reason a special floating dry dock was designed for it. This hybrid vehicle is driven by 8 turbojet engines. Functionally the body of this strange ship was divided into 4 parts: fore, middle, after-part and keel together with stabilizer. Fore part possesses pilot house and a pillar holding 8 main engines, as well as a room with secondary ones. Middle and after parts were fully equipped with test facilities but still have also a caboose and a toilet. The whole keel is filled with power installation for electricity supply during mooring and a complex of radio navigation and communication equipment. A room for a gunner is placed in a cross-line of keel and stabilizer at a height of 12 meters over the waterline. The ecranoplan’s crew consisted of 7 officers and 4 warrant officers. It could be absolutely autonomous for 5 days. Check the link for 3 pages of photos also here is the wiki

ahh kk, i'll put new fans in and reverse the flow when i get a sec. my phone line had been dead for the last 2 weeks. prior to that i had so much noise on the line i had to drop my line profile to adsl1 high reliability to even connect, i finally sweet talked telstra into sending a tech (i had sussed it was not a cabling issue within the house by patching a pstn phone onto the lead in cable, therefore i wouldnt be charged a damn thing) just did a speed test on the adsl 1 high reliability much better than the 400k my modem was synching at before the line died will test again when i have gone back to adsl 2+ annex M high speed :)

im running a shuttle atm, keen to do some fan upgrades on the old girl, cos my current summer beat the heat measure is to just take the cover off. can u reccomend good fans for them seeing as u have done the leg work with R&D. my biggest issue with the shuttle is i have shoehorned 4 HDD's into it lol... does not help with the heat

+1 on a stolen blue 34 seen doing 150+ down anzacs last night my mate who serviced the police chase cars said that the brake pads were metal on metal for the cop cars after the 10 min pursuit!!!! hope no one here owns that 34 cos it got raped

i feel dirty for raiding speedhunters... but i this is a great example of retro-tech RB26 C210

id hope ppl would slow down if i was changing a tyre on the side of the road.... i dont fancy being a red smear on the tarmac

+1

for teh HL2 fans

just spotted a hot pink r31 with r31house decals on it driving past the adelaide magistrates court

we should pick the best 12 and make an SAU cat calendar

lol thats awesome... abstract cat with no legs and 2 sets of balls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy8eDhZAuk0

stolen from another forum. thought i'd bring it here for teh lols here is my attempt

just strolled past Roo's stag parked on Gouger st looking nice n clean mate

I'll do my best to get down the bay. keen as to see seb's 35R

i have driven my 32 down the bay and parked it on the street for the last couple AJD's and have not had so much as a look from the 5-0. prolly better safe than sorry if ur entering the show n shine tho

still chasing one of these. the whole guard does not have to bee in good nick... just the vents and surrounding plastic