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Thanks for the great cruise today, everyone. It was great to meet you all and hopefully I'll see you out on the road! I put a couple of pics up on Instagram: user: mjcroucher

Thanks Cadmoon, I'll see you all there in the morning! Cheers, Matt

Hey, I just saw this. Is this a members only event? I just drove my Skyline up to QLD recently.

They apparently 'detailed' my car when it was repaired after being stolen, and I could still see marks from all the fingerprint dust and other misc scratches from the theft/time in the impound yard/being carted around on the tow truck. It' s really depressing when you give it a wash when you get it back and notice all these new scratches and chips on the bodywork, especially when you've spent so much time maintaining the car... I feel for you mate, but give it a good clay bar and polish and touch up any of the more obvious chips/scratches and hopefully it'll be as good as new.

The point to point speed cameras they were talking about earlier in the year were going to be on the main highways in/out of the state, so areas where you have nice long unbroken sections of road. Dukes Highway, Barrier Highway, etc. Not on North Terrace. They do already use them in VIC and I think NSW? Just be thankful that SA hasn't implemented the red light/speed cameras with the same gusto that NSW took it up with in the last two years. I went back recently and damn, in some parts, people were driving like South Australians... But there are point to point cameras on the highways in to Melbourne. The tram extension is awesome. 10 mins walk and then I have a free trip into town. No hassles with trying to find parking or having to deal with the traffic. Also, they did spend the money on the roads as well, remember what Port Road/North Terrance and those intersections used to be like before they fixed them up? It's now probably the smoothest section of road in the state. :S The tram extension - extension plans however... exercise in stupidity. They want to link it from the entertainment centre cross Port Road and then run them on the train tracks out to Port Adelaide/Westlakes... now that's exactly duplicating a service, whilst putting another crossing on Port Road, *and* not taking advantage of the best thing about light rail, in that you can run it where people want to go. It should go down Port Road or Grange Road, do something for those suburbs & shopping centres with no rail transportation. Or head out to the beach along Grange, then down to Glenelg and you'd have a nice tram loop. /train rant...

That's about what I get in my dead stock R33 GTS-T. In regular commuting traffic my fuel economy hovers around 10.5 to 11 ltr/100km, on whatever the pump 98 RON is I get. And that's with a mighty 128rwkW ;D

Spotted this morning, a grey Series 1 R33 coupe sitting off the road, on the grass behind a tree about half way up Montague Road.... dumped? Defected? Ran out of gas?

Ah damn. It'll still be worth it now doubt. Just watching all the Isle of Mann TT vids on youtube is crazy enough. From the crashes to the shots where the helicopter just can't keep up once the guys get out of the village and into the countryside..

Hey, where'd you see TT3D: Closer to the Edge? Is anywhere still screening it? I forgot it was on and seem to have missed catching it at the cinemas I don't think it'd be the same on a small screen.

Quick post on a problem I had this morning. I noticed my (factory) boost gauge was sitting on just under 0 vacuum, and only moved up a tiny bit above when on full throttle. After spending the rest of the trip to work swearing at it, and wondering if this had anything to do with the almost complete rewiring that it just had (long story..) I popped the bonnet when I got to work to hear a loud sucking sound. The end of the pressure gauge transducer hose from the rear of the intake manifold had split. It was still in place, but cracked enough that it was sucking air. It looks like it was just a press on fit, so a few seconds with the side cutters, and a cable tie to keep things in place and it works again. Hooray... sometimes it can be simple things that go wrong with these cars!

Spotted some Skylines out the front of the North Adelaide bakery last night, red R34 and a White (? memory a bit fussy, we'd just come from the pub) R32 with lots of stickers. I love that place

I had some suspension repairs and alignment done at Light Wheel Alignment and afterwards it drove like a drunken pig. I took it down to Boostworx and got them to check it over and Shaun got the alignment checked and each wheel was significantly out from where they should be. (The sheet's at home, but they were basically pointing all over the place..). So I'd be hesitant to use them again. I've since used Greg's Alignment Solutions at Regency Park. I was very happy with his work and he's very knowledgeable, but I got the impression he wasn't a fan of crazily modified suspension. Fortunately mine's stock height...

oh man, not another one, and they're getting closer to my area too I hope you get it back in good condition Ben, hopefully the rather unique colour will help. I hate parking mine out in the driveway overnight, but sometimes there's just too many bike parts covering the garage floor to get it back in...

Another +1 for Boostworx. I've had the 100k service and a 10k service done there now, and the only complaint I had was that when they've refilled the radiator, they didn't fill it up properly with Distilled Water after putting the coolant concentrate in. So when I got home and had a look, my overflow bottle was empty and I couldn't see any coolant in the radiator... having just driven 45mins in peak hour traffic, I was a bit freaked out... esp as they'd have done the dyno run like that. But it only took another litre of demin water to top it up, and it's been going fine ever since. But they're great guys to deal with and I'm quite happy with their services.

ahh...here we go, thankyou Google for bringing me around in a circle. http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Co...lb-t172056.html FYI, this is what the globe looks like..