A menacing sight - 80 highway patrol cops hunting mods cars

[Blitz]

Well I have never seen this before.

Upon driving to pick up a friend in collaroy tonight i noticed an unusual amount of highway patrol cops once i hit pittwater road (Northern Beaches) 5 in the space of 1 km.

Through the night between Dee Why and Whale Beach we counted over 40 police cars pass us, every back street we ventured down we passed more. There was also a Police helicopter with a spotlight in operation.

Can anybody shed light into this?

After entering Avalon we found a defect setup on barranjoey rd with 7 SS commodores on the left side of the road, 2 on the right and the side streets on either side of the main road litteraly PACKED with more highway patrol cars.

Every 100m we passed another.

One of our group was tailed and pulled over,abused, hassled for his standard looking and only slightly modded R33. Handed two defect sheets, one of which was a defect for the following:

"Modified non standard cover on front number plate" this was in fact a standard altrex plate cover as sold at auto one/kmart etc.

He also received an EPA request.

On being told off the officer mentioned that they believed his car was stolen and the rest of us were also driving "stolen" cars due to the fact we were driving "one behind the other" - and he ordered other officers to take off after the remaining two of us

Something big is / was happening so anyone in the area please be careful.

Tonights operation (more like a police cruise event) involved officers from as far as ashfield and earlwood so it was no small thing.

On my way home same deal, every few hundred metres there was another SS with lights flashing on the roadside, some carparks has more cops hassling more people.

anyone care to comment on the reason for this?

[d0p3y]

Because NSW Police are ****ing wankers with nothing better to do. Well they do have something better to do - LIKE PULL PEOPLE OVER WHO ARE REALLY IN THE WRONG, AND GET RID OF HALF OF THE ****HEADS WHO ROLL PEOPLE WALKING DOWN THE STREET, but jeez, why would they want to do that when they can DEFECT PEOPLE FOR NOTHING AND MAKE MONEY!!!!!!

[JiMb0]

And Ashfield isn't THAT far away

[akira]

They must be too lazy to hunt REAL criminals.

Thanks 4 the heads up dude.... i'll be sure to stay away from all the donut shops along the Northern Beaches:D

[PranK]

Nick, i got pulled over twice, both times the cops were pretty nice, but it was INSANE, i couldn't get over it - see my thread in NSW.

[Doctor]

WEll last night I was working on the car at about 8.30 when I hear the ****ing car turbos blazing flying down forestway. He was doing 180+ easily. Got a quick look at the lights. It was a Skyline. About 3 sec later a copcar chasing the guy flies past.

Maybe thats whay they hassled a few Skylines last night.

Doc

[PranK]

hmmm... true, it would explain why the other cop thought that nicks car was stolen...

[Doctor]

Christian you should of heard the mother ****er. My brother came outside and goes "what the **** was that"

Like to see him hit that hard left onto Warringah Rd, that would have been good for a laugh.

Ben

[Doctor]

By the way, fitted my EVC tonight. I wound up the boost to about 8psi with the new 34 turbo and holy **** it pulls so hard in 3 & 4 it was scaring me.

Then again I have been driving around with 4.5psi now for a few weeks.

Doc

[PranK]

what turbo did you put on??

and, do you live on forestway? and he was coming from terry hilsl way?? ha ha ha, yeah true, he would have been screwed!!

[Doctor]

I put on a turbo off a R34 GTT. So different to the stock one.

Yeah my house backs onto Forestway. The hard part about that corner is there is a huge f*ck off bump as you start to turn in, so getting airbourne at 23kmh is a possiblilty let alone going 100.

Doc

[PranK]

ahhh ok, what did that turbo set you back?

feel like coming out for a drive tonight?? i am meeting with some of the lads after work.

[Doctor]

Mate I would but, I have worked 36 bloody hours in the last 3 days getting up at f*cking 5:45 every morning so I am SPENT. Besides mycar is running like dogs balls at the mo, AFM, ignition and HICAs problems make me mad.

I might pop past under the bridge tomorrow morning for that big cruise tomorrow.

I can't beleive we haven't met yet. We should do brunch one day

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Doc

edit; turbo cost me $700 off R34 (SDU member)

Just got to fit my bar & plate cooler now.

[PranK]

What kind of turbo is it? is it the same as '33 GTST turbos?

We will definately have to meet up soon, its ridiculous living so close and not knowing each other!! there arn't many beach living skyline owners!!

[Doctor]

little larger than the r33. The boost lag is about the same as the stocker too which I was worried about. You can definetaly feel alot more air being pumped into the engine at high revs where the stock would run out of puff.

I don't know of many people doing this mod so far, but I am confident I will pull some goood times with it as soon as the fuel system is sussed, tuning is spot on an I get off my lazy ass to put in my cooler.

By the way, I thought it was going to be a good idea putting in the turbo myself. Saved $400, although, after the job I wished I payed the money. My body, ie back and hands were sore for days.

Oh well I had to spen $400 on new front tyres for rego anyway so I guess it was a good idea after all

Doc

[PranK]

its always a luxury getting stuff done.

does the '34 turbo have the same dimensions as the '33 turbo? like, will it bolt up to my manifold? it sounds like a nice cheap swap.

i am in the process of getting some 16's for my car so rubber is cheaper - my 18's are just killing me.

[Doctor]

I probably would not bother. You would be better of just buying a t3/4 and then selling yours to get some money back. You will have a far more powerful turbo that way.

The difference between the R32 turbo & the GTT is that it newer, bigger and each engine has 66kw between them. Yours has only got 11kw difference, me thinks it would be a wasted exercise.

I bought it because I wanted to keep the charactertics of the car fairley stock whilst getting more power at the top end. I dont particularly want to run 20psi through my engine. Not at the moment anyway. I made the right decision as it still drives like the day I bought it, which is a releif. Lag in RB20 is not very good, so thats the reason for my purchase.

Doc

[PranK]

ahhh ok, fair enough.... so you think it'd be better for me to go a bigger turbo and custom manifold etc.. just pay the extra bit?

Christian

[sidewaymambo]

Hi, Doc

looks like the EVC does the job well? :uh-huh:

[HUSTLR]

I think all the cops had there periods all at once last night:uh-huh: :uh-huh: