The Sa Wasteland

[nicr4wks]

if anyone is keen on a few photos on Sunday, meeting up around 1:00ish, pm me within the next hour for my number. wont be a cruise, just driving to locations for some snaps. i aint no pro either, just getting used to my new SLR.

Any ideas for photo locations? PM'd.

IMO somewhere with some greenery could be cool, before summer turns everything brown again.

[Damo_R34]

youll see a long trail of metre wide brown skidmarks. its kinda dried up now, but you can see where it was.

VVV Nick, its more towards gawler place/grenfell intersection.

[nicr4wks]

haha shit

i gotta walk that way to the bus stop after

Might be cleaned up by now, was on the corner of Grenfell and King William about 40 minutes ago and didn't notice anything 

[Damo_R34]

Any ideas for photo locations? PM'd.

IMO somewhere with some greenery could be cool, before summer turns everything brown again.

was thinking of starting somewhere like mt lofty, but ill let you know.

[DamageInc]

what a shit past 24 hours ive had !

set off from home yesterday morning at 7am to get a car trailer to go to vic to pick up my white R33,

we got to stirling and there was smoke coming out from under the car, looked to be coming from where the headers join the exhaust so i assumed it had blown an exhaust gasket..

continued up the highway towards tailem bend and it was still smoking but was driving fine, pulled up for some lunch and continued driving.

got to coomandook and jacked the car up in a way side stop , checked the tranmission out and it was roasting. let it cool down for a bit and kept going after checking all the lines to it

ended up getting 10km out of kiki and the car gave up, needed transmission fluid bad!

i remembered when passing kiki there was a garage there so we started the 10km hike back there to see if they had fluid, got there, garage was shut !

luckily a women that lived next to it offered us a lift to the next town which was yumali.

got there and bought 2x 1L ATF top up bottles , the women that gave us a ride told the store owner what had happened and he ended up giving us a lift back to our car thankfully !

got back and started jacking the car up , took one of the lines off for the trans and started bleeding in the ATF, took for ever to do but we got about a good 1 or 2 L in to it , went to try it and nothing

car still wouldnt even move!

let it sit for a good 30 mins and it started to move along so we crept along the highway towards coonalpyn, got into coonalpyn about 4pm and found a mechanics that was open but he couldnt help us,

all he said he could do is sell us some fluid.

ended up buying a 4L bottle of ATF and then bleeded most of it into the trans. didn't do much , got the car moving once again and decided to head back towards adelaide!

ended up getting about 10km out again and bam , nothing at all.

by this time it was 8:40pm , we thought there's no way we can sleep here and there's no way we can get home so we walked back to coonalpyn.

got back there at about 9:40pm and went into the pub , spoke to some of the locals and ended up getting towed back into the town.

at this point we hadn't eaten since breakfast and had pushed the car pretty much 5km with a big car trailer on the back of it , i was f**ked and couldn't give a shit , i needed sleep!

ended up getting a room at the coonalpyn pub and all the bloke wanted for dragging the car into town was a scooner so i bought him a couple of rounds.

decided to hit the hay and work out the car tomorrow.

woke up at 9am and packed our stuff to go back to the car, thought oh yeah might aswell see if the thing will move but nope wouldn't move,

by this stage id spent roughly $80 on fluid and $80 on getting a room , not to mention trailer hire and fuel costs.

my mum ended up calling so i got her to check my netbank to see how much i had left , had about $300 which was good to hear , rang a tow truck company in tailem bend and they said $500 to get back to my house with the trailer,

i said yep great let me get $200 together and ill call you back, my dad rang his sister in melbourne and she transferred $200 into his account and rang the tow truck, after about 1 hour he showed up, boy was i glad to see him !

loaded the car up and hooked the trailer on the back and started the journey back to adelaide, at this point i was tired, sore, sunburnt and broke , i really couldnt give a shit what had to be done , just take me home!

ended up getting back home about 1 hour ago

f**k im glad im home now , im wrecked , not just physically

oh and our phones are disconnected so we couldn't make calls !

all of this head f**k to get my other car

FML !

[heslo]

Wow, real shit luck there!

[scandyflick]

side skirts are finally fitted.

core itself doesnt make any difference.

but with the plate and relo block, they should have little arrows (or simply, "in" and "out") on the ports.

on mine its the outside port on the block adaptor linked to the outside port on the relo block, then the inside port of that feeds the oil cooler core, then the coil cooler feeds the inside port of the block on the engine.

ok on the left is my plate that sits against the block, on the right thr relocation plate.

now u can see the two holes on each which go through to the hoses..

which is in and out?

there are no labels on them at all..

all i can tell you is how mine was setup. if you get what im saying there. if not, and youre at the dinner tonight, ill show you what i mean.

Edited October 9, 2009 by scandyflick

[J - Rad]

[Inline 6]

looks nice jarrod, bit of spit shine required on motor but very nice

[kralster]

what a shit past 24 hours ive had !

set off from home yesterday morning at 7am to get a car trailer to go to vic to pick up my white R33,

we got to stirling and there was smoke coming out from under the car, looked to be coming from where the headers join the exhaust so i assumed it had blown an exhaust gasket..

continued up the highway towards tailem bend and it was still smoking but was driving fine, pulled up for some lunch and continued driving.

got to coomandook and jacked the car up in a way side stop , checked the tranmission out and it was roasting. let it cool down for a bit and kept going after checking all the lines to it

ended up getting 10km out of kiki and the car gave up, needed transmission fluid bad!

i remembered when passing kiki there was a garage there so we started the 10km hike back there to see if they had fluid, got there, garage was shut !

luckily a women that lived next to it offered us a lift to the next town which was yumali.

got there and bought 2x 1L ATF top up bottles , the women that gave us a ride told the store owner what had happened and he ended up giving us a lift back to our car thankfully !

got back and started jacking the car up , took one of the lines off for the trans and started bleeding in the ATF, took for ever to do but we got about a good 1 or 2 L in to it , went to try it and nothing

car still wouldnt even move!

let it sit for a good 30 mins and it started to move along so we crept along the highway towards coonalpyn, got into coonalpyn about 4pm and found a mechanics that was open but he couldnt help us,

all he said he could do is sell us some fluid.

ended up buying a 4L bottle of ATF and then bleeded most of it into the trans. didn't do much , got the car moving once again and decided to head back towards adelaide!

ended up getting about 10km out again and bam , nothing at all.

by this time it was 8:40pm , we thought there's no way we can sleep here and there's no way we can get home so we walked back to coonalpyn.

got back there at about 9:40pm and went into the pub , spoke to some of the locals and ended up getting towed back into the town.

at this point we hadn't eaten since breakfast and had pushed the car pretty much 5km with a big car trailer on the back of it , i was f**ked and couldn't give a shit , i needed sleep!

ended up getting a room at the coonalpyn pub and all the bloke wanted for dragging the car into town was a scooner so i bought him a couple of rounds.

decided to hit the hay and work out the car tomorrow.

woke up at 9am and packed our stuff to go back to the car, thought oh yeah might aswell see if the thing will move but nope wouldn't move,

by this stage id spent roughly $80 on fluid and $80 on getting a room , not to mention trailer hire and fuel costs.

my mum ended up calling so i got her to check my netbank to see how much i had left , had about $300 which was good to hear , rang a tow truck company in tailem bend and they said $500 to get back to my house with the trailer,

i said yep great let me get $200 together and ill call you back, my dad rang his sister in melbourne and she transferred $200 into his account and rang the tow truck, after about 1 hour he showed up, boy was i glad to see him !

loaded the car up and hooked the trailer on the back and started the journey back to adelaide, at this point i was tired, sore, sunburnt and broke , i really couldnt give a shit what had to be done , just take me home!

ended up getting back home about 1 hour ago

f**k im glad im home now , im wrecked , not just physically

oh and our phones are disconnected so we couldn't make calls !

all of this head f**k to get my other car

FML !

I would say that if you are that financially strained that you should get your priorities right and not buy cars... true i know hardly anything about your situation but yeah.

[DamageInc]

I would say that if you are that financially strained that you should get your priorities right and not buy cars... true i know hardly anything about your situation but yeah.

i've already made up my mind mate , im over this for now

going to move on soon

[craig R33]

DAMO ANSWER MY MSG MANG!!!!1

[nicr4wks]

Put my first ever mark on the line, I cried.

[bezender]

Put my first ever mark on the line, I cried.

i did the same thing the 1st time i drove my car when i got back from thailand.... i drove it into the shelves in my shed at about 1/4kph, put a tiny scratch on the front bar

[craig R33]

tis definately a tear jerker when that happens....

looks like ill be getting my fat ass back in teh skyrine sooner than i thought

[Weezy]

Mitch, I gotta say to continue driving up a highway with smoke coming from under the car is a completely stupid idea, and it was destoned for fail... Smoke coming from an exhaust join? If you can see actual smoke coming out of an exhaust unless your gassing it etc you would think *something is burning*? It is unlucky, but a bit more common sense would tell you to head back as soon as sh!t started going down hill.

[rad100]

buy a coke or sauce or bread roll and get free burger!

http://imgur.com/wiypE.jpg

[DamageInc]

Mitch, I gotta say to continue driving up a highway with smoke coming from under the car is a completely stupid idea, and it was destoned for fail... Smoke coming from an exhaust join? If you can see actual smoke coming out of an exhaust unless your gassing it etc you would think *something is burning*? It is unlucky, but a bit more common sense would tell you to head back as soon as sh!t started going down hill.

well to begin with i wasnt actually driving my dad was , and secondly go read the full story on my facebook because i cant be effed reposting it.

[writeoff]

Nice R Jarred but you do realise that when you own an import you are forbidden to park any closer than 30cm to the curb so you never risk scratching your rims.

I will forgive this 1st offence but please be mindful of your proximity next time you park your car.

[Luke_ENR34]

Well I just got defected. Done for cage, suspension, steering wheel. First defect on the car ever. Off to regency I go