Nightcrawler

That is excellent news! Now we just have to make sure every single person we speak to will vote Liberal - spread the word people.

The Kadina show'n'shine is on June long weekend too ....

Holy Crap Matty! Did you make it through ok? Sorry I didn't make it out today champ - the weather totally put me off.

For the Labor fanboys: How Rudd the Dud dropped Australia in the alphabet soup {The Australian February 22, 2010 } Rarely has a government promised so much, spent so much, said so much, and launched so many nationwide programs, and delivered so little value for money and expectation. Two years of Kevin Rudd has produced 20 years of debt, and most of it cannot be blamed on the global financial crisis. This alphabet soup is self-inflicted. Asylum seekers. Unless the government can show otherwise, it appears that about 98 per cent of asylum-seekers are getting Australian residency. In contrast, the latest figures from the United Nations refugee agency show most asylum applications worldwide are rejected. The bulging Christmas Island detention centre has become a grossly expensive sham and a mockery of a core election promise. Beijing. Supposedly Rudd's strong point, the relationship with China deteriorated badly last year after a series of serious missteps with Beijing. Computers in schools. A million computers promised to schools, one for every student. This turned out to be much harder than it sounded. Debt and deficit. The Rudd government inherited a massive $90 billion financial firewall when it came to office, via a federal budget surplus, the Future Fund and two infrastructure funds. In two years the budget has gone from $20 billion in surplus to $58 billion in deficit. Net federal debt has gone from zero to a projection of between $130 billion and $180 billion. It took the previous government 10 years to dismantle the $96 billion debt mountain that it inherited. It took Rudd one year to build it back up again. ETS. The Copenhagen climate conference was a disaster. Rudd's emissions trading scheme is abstract, complex, expensive and polls show about 80 per cent of Australians do not understand or trust it. A T-shirt produced by Newcastle steelworkers distils the political problem: "Rudd's ETS: Higher Prices. Lost Jobs. 0.001 degrees cooler." Fuelwatch. Big promise, empty outcome. Grocerywatch. Ditto. Hospitals. Ditto. India disaster. Last year Australia degraded relations with the two emerging Asian superpowers. Juvenile justice. The plight of young Aborigines is worse than ever, with ideology trumping pragmatism. Children are shipped off to violent foster families while government exhibits a mesmerised inertia in the face of pockets of endemic violence. Kaiser. The aptly named Mike Kaiser, former ALP Queensland state secretary and state MP, became the umpteenth poster boy for the Labor patronage machine this month by landing a $450,000-a-year lobbying job with the national broadband network. The job was not advertised. League tables. The government's one-size-fits-all league tables for schools, plagued by glitches and misleading data, is another centralised scheme that serves as a substitute for tackling the union-imposed rigidities on teacher performance. Migration. Permanent migration to Australia surged 550,000 during the first two years of the Rudd government, the highest two-year increase in history. This is at odds with the government's rhetoric on reducing Australia's carbon footprint. It was also never mentioned before the election. National broadband network. Last year the Rudd government spent $17 million looking for a private partner to co-build the network. The process yielded nothing. The government will now build and operate the network itself at a cost of $43 billion. A money sink. Opposition theft. The Rudd government inherited the strongest budget position and banking sector of any major Western economy, which protected Australia from the global financial crisis. The government pretends this was all its own work. Power. The national solar power rebate is a political debacle. The GreenPower scheme has failed. The renewable energy trading certificates scheme is in disarray. Question time. Question time has blown out by 50 per cent over its traditional running time because of long ministerial answers and incessant points of order, while the time devoted to answering real questions, rather than Dorothy Dixers, has shrunk to less than 30 per cent of question time; a blatant corruption of the process. Roof insulation. Send in the fraud squad. A good idea gone bad. Rampant false billing and over-charging. Cowboys everywhere. People dead. Houses unsafe. Systemic overspending. A hapless bureaucracy detached from the realities of the building industry. School spending. The $16 billion Building the Education Revolution scheme is bloated with systemic overspending and over-charging. The problems were encapsulated by a builder who told me: "My company is involved in the BER work and it involves mismanagement, overcharging, schools being railroaded into decisions not in their interests, all hidden behind a smokescreen. It is the country's most expensive political stunt ever." Another money sink. Tax increases. The federal budget in May will begin to reveal the consequences of panic, hubris, overspending and waste as the government seeks to offset its profligacy with higher fees and taxes. Superannuation was just the start. Union power. The unions, having bankrolled Labor's election campaign in 2007, have received their payback, with an increase in union rights and powers. Union muscle-flexing is back, from the mining sector to small business. Endemic corruption, blackmail and violence in the building industry was finally curbed by the Australian Building and Construction Commission. Julia Gillard is shutting it down. Vanity. See B, K, O, Q and U. Whitlamesque. Spendthrift programs. Empty rhetoric. Self-congratulation. Deficit spending. Debt blowout. Two years of the Rudd government produces 20 years of debt and poses the question: worse than Whitlam? X Y Z Generations X, Y and Z They will be stuck with the bill. How anyone voted this absolute assclown in is beyond me. Bad times are still to come - the Rudd fallout will indeed go for 20 years. I told people to be very careful who they wished for prior to the election. Very sad.

I agree with Madaz .... and the seller even goes so far as to say he has been offered $13k cash from a dealer, and is desperate to sell immediately, so that is what he is prepared to let it go for. If a dealer is willing to pay $13k cash then he will retail it for anywhere between $18k-$23k .... so the car may well be worth that.

That old haunted cemetery cruise was pretty sweet! That was a looooong time ago Andy - back when you had the R34GTR if I remember correctly

Dayum - sorry to hear about that Cara. At least no-one was seriously injured!

I saw this on a USA G35 (what they call my V35) site and instantly loved it. Until I emailed the makers to enquire about price - just under $1,350 delivered!

LOL at cutlery unification .... at the long-gone "Fairview Park Chinese" shop the old Chinese lady used to always ask when she presented your takeaway meal "You want spork"? And they were sporks too.

Nah we want to be identifiable to other members .... not STICK OUT LIKE DOG'S BALLS

No idea Mark, but I am sure if you stopped by Wilall, Morpowa or Boostworx they would be able to explain it to you in a second.

I have just chucked 225/45 18s on my new rims that are 9.5" wide. Let me assure you it is more than enough stretch for me, and I can feel the degradation of the cushy handling of the car - I now well and truly feel every bump and pothole. But the look is awesome! I would suggest if you want any sort of daily driving pleasant experience you go the highest sidewall height you can go. Yes I am a soft old man. But I am still hard enough to chuck 18 x 9.5 +20 rims on a car that came standard with 8 +30s Bad pic I know (I just went and took it in the dark garage then), but you can see the stretch and the rim hanging out.

It's all good Interweb chatter Kels

^^ You, dear sir, should be an orator

Geez so the exec, (who all lead extremely busy lives as it is) should get together once or twice a week and discuss and formulate policy on every single little insignificant item that may pertain to real life, SAU forums and the SAU:SA club - is that right? I will spell it out for those confused. We had stickers made. I posted a pic of available stickers. I didn't explicitly say which stickers would be available to which group of people, but the smart people among us realised that the stickers explicitly marked SAU:SA would only be available to club members. The member who asked about the stickers picked up his non-club stickers and was stoked with them. Not that hard.

Yeah definitely don't sweat it Jeff .... has been a typical mountain made out of a molehill for absolutely no reason - some people have chips on their shoulders for some reason or other. They are just stickers ffs people, and we have already established that anyone can buy SAU style stickers, and only members can run SAU:SA stickers. Easy.

Everyone needs to calm the hell down. There is no "us" and "them" ..... SAU club and forum are closely linked, and always will be. The general public are not going to distinguish between member and non-member stickers, so who cares. Anyone wearing an SAU sticker should do their part to help uphold the SAU name either way. And if you want to enjoy track days, discounts, special member only meets, then join SAU:SA, if you don't then just stay a member of the forums. No problem, it is a free world. Why does everyone always have to get their knickers in a knot?

Kellie the "SAU" stickers are for non-members .... the "SAUSA" stickers are exclusively for club members .... duh And a new "Member of SAU:SA" sticker is on its way.

Yes I will be bringing the stickers and all of the merchandise out to the track day. Looks like we probably won't have our official club polo shirts by then, but we have sponsors sorted and are working on the final designs now. Obviously ONLY SAU:SA members will able to buy these (and they will be quite affordable as the club/sponsors are heavily subsidising). I will however have the SAU show series shirts at the track day, that anyone can buy. If you are attending any shows this year with SAU you can buy one of these. Pics of the current SAU stickers attached

I agree I am confused too, as surely when the temperature of the compressed intake air varies so wildly (even once intercooled) the ECU cannot adjust effectively enough to not pop the engine.

Yeah I only need the bar mate. Can you get a specific quote for me, as if it is $190 to anyhwere in Oz (Qld for example) then surely it is half that amount to get it to Adelaide which is 1/3 of the distance.

Yep finished ages ago mate.

Yeah me too .... wish I had a photo of Glen's face when he realised Domo was gone - THAT would make avatar of the century. Or a photo of his face when he caught me drawing a dick and balls on his Miata headlight would have been classic too. Yes, true Kristian - now I think about I shouldn't be so glad about having Titanium burnt nuts

Depends if the version you bought was fully patched or not - it might be fully done. If so you are lucky. You will know when you get to some of the missions in the Red Forest, as you won't be able to complete them, and you will find MEGA amounts of ammo keep spawning in the ammo boxes there. That was one of the last patches, so if you get through the Red Forest ok then you are fine and will be able to finish the game. If not you have to start from scratch, as the patch to fix it is not compatible with any past game saves.

Thanks Weezy - yes as Heslo said they are just heated tips. It was my number 1 'to do' item when I got the car. I was going to buy some Ti tips to put over the stock pipes, but found this axle-back stainless exhaust with them on already, so on it went! I love the look too. Will tie in well when I put my LMGT4 wheels on (later this week) with titanium burnt nuts - should look sweet. Then when I buy and put on some Brembo calipers/rotors the look will be pretty much complete.