LTSJayce

Ages ago HPi featured a dark purple(or maybe black?) Impul 33 4 door that really won me over. Maybe one of us SAU'ers has this car? soooo neat. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool 32 GT-R guy, but if I had the cash, I would love a 33 Impul as you have for a daily driver! The only thing I'd prefer more would be the Autech 4 door, but that's quite a jump in price and practicality for a 'regular' road car. Whilst I think you're aiming at the highest end of the price range for your car, good luck with the sale!

The WRX better sell, 'cause I wont listen to lame excuses for the sale of another GT-R!! (Hint: keep it for as long as you can - you'll never forgive yourself otherwise!)

Second that!!

Excellent purchace! Congrats! The more ladies driving fast cars, the better the world will be! (P.S. I've been told I drive like a girl...)

Useful to know if you don't already know what each is. Explanation of Common Tools: DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly-stained heirloom piece you were drying. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned guitar calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "YEOWW CRAPP...." ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age. SKIL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short. PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. WELDING GLOVES: Heavy duty leather gloves used to prolong the conduction of intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub you want the bearing race out of. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2 inch socket you've been searching for the last 45 minutes. TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper. EIGHT-FOOT LONG YELLOW PINE 2X4: Used for levering an automobile upward off of a trapped hydraulic jack handle. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters and wire wheel wires. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps neatly off in bolt holes thereby ending any possible future use. RADIAL ARM SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to scare neophytes into choosing another line of work. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 24-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A very large pry bar that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end opposite the handle. AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw. TROUBLE LIGHT: The home mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids and for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts which were last over tightened 30 years ago by someone at Ford, and instantly rounds off their heads. Also used to quickly snap off lug nuts. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent to the object we are trying to hit. Home owners primarily use it to make gaping holes in walls when hanging pictures. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use. DAMMIT TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling "DAMMIT" at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

That's where I was going to suggest. If you do call, say Jayce & Erica (along with Mick!) suggested them! I like the AutoTech guys, too, but ESP's is an AWD dyno, and know they were keen to get a day happening...

Make it as 'tasteful' as you can, run it by some of your more sensitive workmates, and if it doesn't cause too much of a stir, give it a whirl!

Whilst it will be a little while before the heat of Summer fades (read: not conducive to turbo'd cars & dyno results...), IF there is enough interest, I'll put my hand up to organise a dyno day in late Feb' or March. If the Supra Club has someone reading this, or if anyone knows a contact in their club, I have a good, GOOD location/ setup in mind...

Very funny, agreed!

Little Tony was staying with his grandmother for a few days. He'd been playing outside with the other kids for a while when he came into the house and asked her, ' Grandma, what 's that called when two people sleep in the same room and one is on top of the other? She was a little taken aback, but she decided to tell him the truth. ' It's called sexual intercourse, darling. ' Little Tony said, ' Oh, OK, ' and went back outside to play with the other kids. A few minutes later he came back in and said angrily, ' Grandma, it isn't called sexual intercourse. It's called Bunk Beds. And Jimmy's Mum wants to talk to you. '

lesbian

I'm with Mick: what car? Seriously, sad to see another SAU'er putting their Skyline up for sale. What's in the pipeline, Andrew? Or would you rather keep it quiet? I personally hope it involves an RB26DETT...

Tourette's

Having worked in spares + accessories, I can appreciate this more than most... A woman called an auto parts store and asked for a 28-ounce water pump. "What?" asked the confused parts guy. She said, "My husband says he needs a 28-ounce water pump." "A 28-ounce water pump? What kind of car does it fit?" "A Datsun." As the parts guy wrote down her request, a light went on in his head. "Oh, yes, ma'am. We've got 28-ounce water pumps. We also have 24-ounce and 26-ounce pumps." "Finally," she said. "You're the first place I've called that knew what I was talking about." "Yes ma'am," he said, smiling, as he jotted down "Datsun 280Z water pump..."

Really? Oh, so sexy!!

Seriously??? !!

Britney

I know where there's one going on the cheap...(just jokes: ever called a Hollinger Seq' 6 Sp cheap?!?)

Simple fix: PPG Dog box...

A.C.T.

G

I'm with MIVEC on this one; as much as it pains me to say it, but "might has right". This rule will never apply to Commondore drivers whose rides are heavier than mine...I shall not bow down on that front!!

Yeah, I have been a bit quiet, huh? Sorry 'bout that crew; it's been a very lean year for me. Will be rectifying the friendship side of Skyline ownership thing shortly. Due to the bank owning a LARGE chunk of both my soul and my ar*e, the GT-R will be a lot further away from getting spotte... : (

Yesterday arv', spotted a gunmetal grey 32 GT-R parked in a driveway "somewhere" near the 'big' lake in Jerra' - a new owner, perhaps? This morn', I was fortunate enough to be flanked by a 34 4 door( FoX; maybe a immediate relative of yours? I think that was you in the front pass' seat...), a dark 33 GTS-T with a JDM-angled 'zorst and a lowered white S14 with black rimes...Nissan happiness! Ah, I've missed you lot!