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So I got a Skyline the other week and I just got an ebc installed the other day and I thought it's playing up ... not holding boost. Someone suggested I need to put the engine under load to get boost, going up hill for example.

So I'm like hmm .. there's a hill just down the road from here.. pretty steep and long. It's 2am, what are the odds there are cops patrolling out there ?

So I gun it up the hill to check the boost .. and see 8psi or so and a grin appears on my face as this was about 3/4 throttle only. I'm thinking, yeah it's fine I've just been worrying about nothing. So I slow down at the top and then take the next left. The whole time not noticing I'm being followed. 10 seconds later, lights are flashing behind me and I get pulled over ... "Good evening mate. Do you have any idea how fast you went up that hill?" I'm like, hmm shit .. 70? 80?

Nope, 105. And I'm like ooooohhh shit. There goes my license. So he asks me to get out of the car and look at the radar reading and yep there it is, 105. And I'm like, "okay I'm not gonna bullshit you guys, I just got this car and it's been playing up so I thought I'd try taking it up hill a bit faster ..but I thought I was doing 70-80 tops <most sincere look I could manage> To which the officer sitting inside replies, there's a motorway entrance just near here (and I'm thinking to myself, it's nowhere near here..it's a 15 min ride, but decide it may be better if I make no comments at this stage)

They send me back to the car and 10 mins later or so one of them comes back .. with some good news, situation considering. They've decided to write it up as a 15km over the limit fine approx. $230 and 3 points instead of 4 points, $609 and 3 months no license ... plus I get the complimentary "Ignoring no right-turn sign" $180 fine and 2 points.

So all up, my retarded little idea of doing a boost check in a suburban 60 zone (even though it's 2am, 3 lanes each way and no cars in sight) cost me approx. $400 and 5 points. Could have been worse, a LOT worse.

I guess it just goes to show that not all cops are arseholes. Having no prior driving offences and having not lost a point in 6-7 years helped too I'm sure.

So yeah, if you're up for a 400m hill climb at only $1/m and need the perfect location, let me know - I know a good'un! Thanks, I just thought I'd share that with the class.

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I know I'm lucky .. should have lost the license and it would have cost me more money too. What shits me is now I have a record and next time I get pulled over for anything minor I won't get off with a warning. Farrrrrrk.

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very lucky dude but yeah it helps heaps having a clean record and beening completely honset with the copers. I also got lucky once geting out of $3000 worth of fines and impoundment fee's and lose of licence years ago with one of my falcons they let me go with a $75 fine and 3 points i'd be buying a lottery ticket.

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