The Sa Wasteland

[RubyRS4]

hmm apparently i need a ca20e not a ca18

much cost difference do you think??

i can't afford $1800

any1 interested in giving me charity??

I've seen a handful of CA20s at U-Pull-It in the past. Try there. If you know someone who can rip out an engine for you, should be able to pick up one for a few hundred $

[pokie]

i suggested that to my dad but he doesn't really want to do that

might see if my brother will

if not bye bye car *cries*

[typevu]

Everyone have a read of this! Really makes you take a step back and think! Long story short - guy was on his way back from a cruise still a bit heavy footed, loses control of his car near a blind bend, motorcyclist comes around bend and takes out the side of his car and received serious injuries and he went to prison.

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h...442266&i=40

I caused an accident after losing control of my car. It was sideways straddling both sides of a B road, a motorcyclist coming the other way came around a blind bend to be confronted with a car blocking the road. The impact launched him over my (destroyed) car and dumped him on the middle of the road, unconcious. His bike had been thrown some 14 metres back the way it came. My car dangled precariously over the edge of a drop past the verge.

After about a minute or so of getting my breath back following the airbag deploying, I realised I'd caused a very serious accident. I'd seen the motorcyclist only for a split second before the impact imploded against the B piller behind my head and shattered every window on the car. My sunglasses had disappeared from my face, glass from the door window was mingled with blood dripping from my face.

There was no way of opening the drivers door, I clambered over the passenger seat and observed one of the worst sights of my life.

For about 50 metres down the direction I'd come from, were the tell tale black lines of a skidding car. These were only interrupted by gouge marks on the road surface where car had met bike. In the middle of this lay the biker, motionless, unconscious, a mess. Onlookers, other motorists, were out of their cars but nothing more than background fuzz.

By the time I got out of the car, some other bikers had begun trying to help the badly injured guy laying on the centreline of the road. For a long minute, he didn't move, he didn't seem to breath. I'd just killed a man. Then some movement, some spluttering. Blind panic from someone who's just woken up to wish that he hadn't. His girlfriend, who had been a few minutes further behind on her own bike, arrived. Screaming and wailing, wondering how this has come to happen. No doubt a million thoughts all arriving at once. Most of them fearing the worst.

First aiders helped on the scene, I didn't know how to help medically. I was guilty, impotent and wondering how I'd gone from an enthusiastic drive to a potential killer in the space of 50 metres. It only took 3 or 4 minutes for the Police to arrive, I volunteered myself immediately as the guilty party. I was breath tested and questioned on-scene, sat in a Volvo, bleeding on the back seats whilst in full view of the prone motorcyclist, by this time being worked on by the paramedics who'd arrived, hoping the patient could last long enough for the air ambulance to arrive.

I'll never forget that poor man, lying there screaming for his helmet to be taken off, his girlfriend in tears and despair and me, not badly injured, no reason to have caused this, other than wanting to enjoy the road.

The motorcyclist spent days in intensive care, being treated for most of his right arm being smashed to pieces, his collarbone wrecked, serious head injuries, damaged eye socket, chipped bones on his ankle and a massive nerve injury. A year later and even after a number of operations, he still has many to go to correct his broken body and his impaired eyesight. The nerve damage to his dominant right arm means he'll never regain full use of it. He can no longer support his children by working on the rigs as he did beforehand.

My car was impounded by the Police and kept from the day of the accident, 30th April 2006 until the July. I was first formally interviewed in June 2006, then again in September. I was charged via postal summons in November last year. Magistrates passed the case to Crown Court on 13/12/06, as their sentencing powers were not sufficient and at that point I knew I was going to prison.

10 days short of a year after my accident, I pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment and banned from driving for 3 years, for dangerous driving. Aside from the odd speeding conviction (I was driving 65,000 miles a year for the previous 10 years), I had never been in trouble with the Police before.

There was no feeling, no shock, no crying or anger when I was sent down from that court room. Just numbness. As the judge finished his sentencing, I had just one opportunity of shouting to my other half how much I loved her, before being lead into the downstairs of the court. The guard, a nice guy in his late 50s, explained that he had to handcuff me to himself, and down I went. Immediately down, through a number of locked, barred gates, to a booking in counter. All my possessions, and my belt, taken. My height measured. All my details recorded. Then 4 hours in a windowless cell with nothing but a wooden bench and contemplation for company.

4.30pm on a sunny Friday afternoon, leaving a happy looking Carlisle, but for me, in the back of a paddywagon. Watching people leaving school and work with a smile on their faces, looking forward to a weekend of choices. I was heading to HMP Durham.

You can say what you like about prison, and how easy it is, how great you think the facilities are, how prison is like a holiday camp. It's none of those things. It's a demeaning, soul-less place full of sad and sometimes evil people who have lives none of us would ever want or even imagine. All the freedoms you take for granted are removed in the name of control and security to the point that you're constantly reminded how little value society as a whole places on your miserable little existence.

I could write reams and reams about the prison system and the feelings being in it evoke, but I fear to do so would be heavy reading for the casual PHer. I would be happy to answer any questions people have about prison or my ordeal, though.

Further on theres a couple pages of his diary when he was in prison and a letter from the injured motorbike rider...

[Dohmar]

Everyone have a read of this! Really makes you take a step back and think! Long story short - guy was on his way back from a cruise still a bit heavy footed, loses control of his car near a blind bend, motorcyclist comes around bend and takes out the side of his car and received serious injuries and he went to prison.

While its sad it happened, I have to say that this is a risk any cyclist takes. 100 ways to get taken out on a bike. I remember a paramedic friend telling me one day that he'd attended an accident scene in the hills on a bend, a biker had leaned to far in to an oncoming bus and the helmet caught on the front of the bus and ripped his head off his body... they found the helmet with the head still in it attached to the front of the bus... sounds like this guys conscience is heavy (as it would be) and its not the best circumstances... does make u think to go easy on the drifting around blind corners ;P

-D

[RubyRS4]

Sad story. Shows someone showing some real remorse for his actions. Life changes in the blink of an eye.

Most people don't grasp that until its too late.

a biker had leaned to far in to an oncoming bus and the helmet caught on the front of the bus and ripped his head off his body...

Love these dramatic stories I've heard different variations of that story.

Then theres the one where the motorcyclist lost limbs by an open car door I've heard them all. Most are fabricated to deter family/friends from getting their bike licence.

Oh, and motorcycles are dangerous haven't you heard? They jump out of trees and attack people

[Dohmar]

Sad story. Shows someone showing some real remorse for his actions. Life changes in the blink of an eye.

Most people don't grasp that until its too late.

Love these dramatic stories I've heard different variations of that story.

Then theres the one where the motorcyclist lost limbs by an open car door I've heard them all. Most are fabricated to deter family/friends from getting their bike licence.

Oh, and motorcycles are dangerous haven't you heard? They jump out of trees and attack people

Wasnt fiction Rueben. it made the paper the next day...

Point im trying to make is no matter how good you are in a car or a bike, you can't anticipate everything. And in a car you at least have a pretty hefty metal frame to keep you protected from the initial impact, and a seatbelt to stop u getting catapaulted out the window... when the old man came off his harley a few years ago and broke his arm, it was cause of a dodgy pothole on a corner in the wet... doubt he'd have broken his arm if he was in his mercedes ;P incidentally the harley was barely damaged, just some scraping on some components on the left side but he had em replaced under warranty.... he didnt have medical insurance tho... and yeah he felt that as badly as the injury heh

-D

[GTR-32]

Thats an intence story. Does make you step back and look at things.

Know im not going to go drifting in the hills.

[Madaz]

Amanda as Roo said you should be able to find a CA whatever for cheap look on NS for someone that got defected

don't go to wreckers and don't necessarily get what is in it look for a DE engine

[adelaidebloke]

Ryanrb25

Do you work at aussie discount mufflers or whatever its called exactly?

Cnr port and south rd?

Very random, i met some guy tonight, started talking cars he told me to take my car and ask for ryan at aussie discount

He said you used SAU

[Ryanrb25]

bhwahha who was this dude?

i work there most afternoons to help out as its my mates business....aussie dyno n tune or aussie discount mufflers and brakes, they are the same business but they deal in everything....What are you after mate? What needs to be done?

[Madaz]

ryan *cough* o2 sensor you heading to the dinner tonight?

[fullyhyperlite]

Everybody hug Charmaine

lol that emote says

"everyone molest Charmaine"

"hug" or "molest" ... same thing really depending on who's giving and who's receiving!

Learnt that in catholic school

LOL

..........

Im keen.

So anyways, went to the doctor last night - Apparently i have a highly contagious infection, so coughing and runny nose and whatnot.

So no hugging (or molesting ) on my cruise....incase i give you my infection lol.

Im staying home from school today SAU better entertain me lol

[rad100]

how do ppl transport engines? do u lift the engine onto the trailer with a engine crane?

do u need to put something under the engine?

cheers

[Damo_R34]

ohh fullyhypernshitissick no good!

[fullyhyperlite]

Im fully sick

[pokie]

Amanda as Roo said you should be able to find a CA whatever for cheap look on NS for someone that got defected

don't go to wreckers and don't necessarily get what is in it look for a DE engine

well i found 1 on the r31 forums, the guy is giving it away woooo

just waiting hear back from him, hopefully he still has it.

said it might have a broken valve on it though but that can be easy

fixed can't it??

[rad100]

your fullyhypersickshitnallyo

[RubyRS4]

well i found 1 on the r31 forums, the guy is giving it away woooo

just waiting hear back from him, hopefully he still has it.

said it might have a broken valve on it though but that can be easy

fixed can't it??

You'll need to remove the head if thats the case. Might as well throw a gasket kit at it while you're there, just to be sure. Drop the sump and replace the con bearings while you're there ... hell, re-ring it too. Check for abnormal wear and tear.

Best to spend an extra day and $300 freshening up the motor, just to be sure.

I did it will all my engines I picked up for cheap.

edit: oh, while the head is off, remove the valves and clean them up too.

Edited August 15, 2008 by RubyRS4

[RubyRS4]

Im fully sick

Bugger!

No molesting for you then Fullyhypersuperkallifreakinawesome!

Get well soon

Edited August 15, 2008 by RubyRS4

[pokie]

You'll need to remove the head if thats the case. Might as well throw a gasket kit at it while you're there, just to be sure. Drop the sump and replace the con bearings while you're there ... hell, re-ring it too. Check for abnormal wear and tear.

Best to spend an extra day and $300 freshening up the motor, just to be sure.

I did it will all my engines I picked up for cheap.

edit: oh, while the head is off, remove the valves and clean them up too.

yeah my dad was saying to get the 1 i have now re-ringed but apparently it has

an oil leak (says the cop)

so i'm probably better off with the other 1 if it's still available.

oh yeah i will get it checked out haha, the RAA guys down the road will do it for me