Police put brakes on drag racers - news.com.au

[paullys 32]

like the victa harbour and goolwa areas aparently thiers hp evrywhere

[Redback]

Originally posted by hippy

hahah they were mostly P platers .. must be like fast and furious .. i mean everyone is a rich kid .. can afford 20K plus for a car .. plus the 2K insurance ..

i dont know what your aiming at but i have to defend my self from the P plater image.

i Fully own a R33 GTS-t and a 1997 Ford EL Futura(travel car). and i pay over 3000 a year total on insurance. i still tell people that im paying it off just so i dont get the daddy's car rumor going. i happend to inherited enough money to buy my dream car by the time i was 18.

sorry if i miss uderstood your msg.

on another note. cops in general are ass holes. i have been pulled over 22 times to date. the day i got my car i was pulled over 7 times. was asked to get the lift out of my exhaust end (the irect look) but couldn't get in to do it for another 4 days. the best thing to do is auctually go down to the police station and talk to them about it. said i was getting my car fixed ass soon as possible. also went down there the day i got my cooler put in just to show them in the park.

if your getting hasled the best thing to do is show them you dont give a shit.

second... the street racing thing. i met up with a couple of Perf. car owners down here, there is no were for us to legally have fun. even after appoching the council and police we were put down with lafter. something needs to be done. at the moment the only time im game enough to give the car abit of a fang is in my driveway in neutral. yet a vl can soar passed the cops tailgating me with cut springs, no exhaust, loud stereo, ricy nion shit and P plates on the window. yet heven forbid if i put it above 2K revs.

[paullys 32]

yeah na i waswnt directing it a p platers as i am also one payin g off my car and paying bout 3500 insurance a year for my r32gtst

the continuall police harrasment is ridiculous and the police should target the commodore drivers cause there the ones that wrap automatics with like 50rwkw around trees the police are just pissed off that we own better cars than them

[hippy]

i wrote that a month ago but i think i was actually refering to the article saying how all the cars were imports and then mentioning a gtr ?? so they were implying that all these kids are hella rich ...which i very much doubt ... i've never seen one of these street race things but i would assume its mostly VNs and fords... so yeah i think u did take it the wrong way ... doesn't matter ...its all good ... and even if u had rich parents i wouldn't care ... more power to u ... its none of my business ...

[Rob]

A P plater with a High Performance sports car... pfft how about you learn to drive first then get a powerful car.. this goes for any performance car be it a V8 or Twin Turbo.

And dont give me this bullsh*t about "I can drive, I am great blah blah blah"

A person on there P's has no where near enough experience to properly handle a performance car if the going gets tough.

Minimum you should be made to do an advanced driver course. For that fact anyone should be made to do it.

The fact that police are targetting imports over locally delivered cars sucks, but I can sure see there point.. you can pick up a R32 GTSt for as little as 15k and this will eat nearly any V8 LS1 commodore out there valued at triple the value... e.g. Imports are cheap and easy for P platers to get hold of.

If you don't like it well meh live with it because it is not about to change ever.

Rob.

[CheekyR32]

Rob, what about if you have had your "P"s for 6 years.. haha does that mean their experienced?

[Redback]

ROB

im not syaing and have ever said i was a good driver. i know how far i can go and it aint anywere near as far as what the car can go so dont give me that shit. you leave a great first inpression for someone visiting this forum.

and when you say the "when the going gets tough" if your not speeding how tough could it get. the occational panic break or kid dodge.

ive been rallying for nearly 5 years. ive been driving a late model ford since i was 16. i got the skyline this year and i can tell you know only the bravest people can push them to there limit.

i wouldn't mind doing an advanced driver course and i have been looking for to it happening hopefully soon.

another reaon they go for us import drivers is how much we stand out. whats easier to see, a commodores ass end or a skylines. the skylines unique and stand out for miles.

im not syaing its going to change. whats the point of winging here if i wanted it to change.

anyway every one has there opinions. by the way thanks hippy for not taking it to heart.

[TIMMMAYYY]

IMo I think that driving courses make the drivers more arrogant and "Im so good I did a driving course" attitude is not the one we want to have on our roads, be it in the hills or just puttin around to church.

[cyrius]

Originally posted by aussier33

also no cat and momo wheel the list goes on so if its that bad I picked a real bad  time to buy one I do have a cat that just bolts in ,does anyone really know about items like the cat is there a fine or not i hear 1000 10000 dollars but that sounds like bull  .I would bolt the old cat back on before regency surely bald tyres are more dangerous than a missing cat (ps extra 8kw on dyno ) you dont get a huge fine for that.

Alot of defects are based around emission laws.. Australia is starting to get really harsh on these laws partly because they dont want our air turning into what Japan has. After removing the cat.. all the shit that would normally b absorbed through the honeycomb stuff goes into our air instead.. same laws go for BOV's emissions need to be burnt back into the exhaust.. im not sure what other emissions defects are out there to get us.

The one defect i have never been able to understand is the defecting of turbo timers.. i see nothing wrong with them considering a lot of trucks etc.. use them.

[EnricoPalazzo]

Timmayyy: I agree however if they made these driving courses compulsory and then awarded completion of it with a pass or fail ( and not revealing score), then there is nothin really to brag about when passin it and hopefully young drivers wouldnt become too ****y.

[TIMMMAYYY]

yea thats a good point dean.

i can never see this being approved though.

Wouldn't want to make our drivers skill level any better.

Lets target the cars that are well maintained and meet safety standard and the ones that dont have any rust instead.

Sound like a good ida.

We should dress up in cop uniforms and defect all teh fags in POS's down at the bay hehehehe

[Steve]

I still think the protest park in on King William st is a goer - that'll sort em - get a bit of media attention:) Polititians hate negative press:p

[cyrius]

OK.. when do we start the protest.. I'll make sure im holding a banner there..

[EnricoPalazzo]

Hmmm me dont want another defect

[MADGT4]

I would so be in on a protest.....

I mean people all this stuff is getting out of hand with cops and their ego's and them not practising wot they preach, its a load of B.S.

My old man knows a few pollies and has met with them before etc. so i will ask him wot he thinks of the idea.....

We need to take action because if continue to use SAU as a bitchin ground we are gonna get no where, we are all just bending over and taking it and i dunno about the rest of you but i'm sick of it!

[Redback]

im in on the protest. when.....? where..........? im there.