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My Girlfriend Told Me I Needed A Hobby

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i was sitting at home the other day minding my own business makeing sure the remote control for the tv stayed warm when my long time girlfriend and soon to be wife came home to find me where she left me. she mentioned that i needed a hobby to keep me busy on my days off, using my powers of translation i took this as gospel that if i did not clean out the garage i could stay on the couch just as long as i wanted. you're right darling i will get on to that right now (my show was over anyway). plus it was only a few boxes and she was just getting dinner started. cleaning the garage i soon noticed alot of my old car magazines, an article in one of them had a special on skylines and various modifications you could do, hmmmm i wonder. keeping that mag and chucking the rest i finished the clean up had my dinner and went to my office (dunny).

now i know she told me i needed a hobby, but she didnt say what kind of hobby i should take up....however my powers of translation was telling me that she said 'honey i would really love you even more if you did an engine conversion on your skyline and upped the power lots and lots.'

So the next day i did as i was told, i went to gun performance and paid for an rb30 series two engine and a new ecu, i am still looking for a turbo and better engine internals to cope with the added power but i am sure as a hobby this is what she wanted me to be doing. it should keep my hands busy and out of her hair for a little while anyway.

now all i have to do is figure out how to explain the missing car....

now where was i...oh yeah i wont be needing the whole rb30 series two engine or parts of my rb25 gtst engine so if your interested talk to jason at gun performance his web site is

http://www.gunperformance.com.au/

12 Duntroon Street

Brendale

07 3881 2164

cheers.

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LOL! Dude, you are either going to get hardcore axed, or live very happily ever after!

Either way, go spend a heap on an R/C helicopter. She'll go nuts running around the house trying to stop you breaking everything with it and won't even notice the car gone!

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she's apples mate my mrs is a bit of a rev head herself, some of her family is involved in dragsters so i know she likes hi-po cars. i might have to take her to indy this year to help cover up the missing car though....

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