Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Mate, done this trip afew times. look out for animals ie, camals, cattle, wedgetail eagles and buffalo as you get up past tennant creek. make sure you stop in at mataranka springs bout 100k this side of kathrine and go to the thermal pool this side of town. there are some awsome places up there and some wild pubs and clubs in darwin :D . have fun

  • Replies 46
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

i bought my car from queensland, the missus and i flew up and drove back over the weekend - most of australia i'd seen (prior to that i'd only been to melbourne lol). stags are awesome for road trips, very comfortable (even with coilovers) and sit on the road very nicely. overtaking is no issue either which is always a bonus.

my only suggestion is keep a KEEN eye on the road, wild life will often appear out of no where and last thing you want to do is hit it cos they you'll make a mess of them and they'll make one hell of a mess of your car at 100km/hr+

have fun though!

That makes three of us, although it sounds like mine will be the shortest:

Make that 4 of us: although we'll be driving all over the 'States in my mate's SL500 for 3 weeks: can't wait: white Christmas, then New Year's in Vegas!

I did this trip recently in our motorhome. It is a great trip, the road is pretty smooth and wide so dont move off the road when the road trains come past just stay in your lane as there is plenty of room. If you move over into the dirt all you do is make it harder for them to see. When approaching Wedgetail eagles which are on the edge of the road slow down as they are very slow to get up off the road. At one stage in the motorhome we had two wedgies, wings fully spread only meters in front of our windsreen. A magnificent sight. The number of times we saw roadkill and then a dead wedgie 20 meters up the road because they couldnt get out of the way was very sad.

Carry a CB radio as mobile phones are useless except in the towns. The little hand held ones will suffice. It can be a source of entertainment listening to the truckies. It is also a good way to tell the truckies you are about to pass.

I dont want this to sound racist but do not stop for the indigenous people who "appear" to have broken down. If you are concernd about them report it at the next roadhouse.

Do not stop at a small town called Elliot. You will understand why when you drive through it

Take you time to visit some of the little pubs and roadhouses they can be amusing. It is not everday you can do a trip like this so take the time to enjoy it.

Cheers Craig

Edited by oldie
  • 4 weeks later...

Got home 5am this morning. Cars got a few scars and its going to take me weeks to clean. Interior looks as nice as it would after having 2 people living out of it for 2 weeks. Belted 1 wallaby and had a few close calls on the way home, ABS kicked in a few times.

But I got pics! :D

After hitting the wallaby. Popped the front bar out, scratched it a bit, needs a respray.

IMGP2066.jpg

IMGP2870.jpg

IMGP2855.jpg

and the aftermath this morning after driving 14 hours straight, through the night.

IMGP2900.jpg

CAR BRA !!!!!

bloody wild life.

how was the trip ? the car hold up nice ?

great shots man

notice the UHF arial. have you got it located above your right knee ? im thinking putting mine there. just the arial im having touble finding a nice spot for it

nah UHF we just sat on the passenger floor. made a mount for the aerial and bolted it to a standard guard mount bolt, ran wire in through the door seal.

car went fine, not a problem. had aircon on pretty much the entire trip, did an oil change in darwin before we came back.

fuel economy didnt improve on the open road like i thought it would. averaged 13.3L / 100k's.

I didnt think they'd make a car bra for a stagea?

Edited by Silhouette31

custom.

some dude on here with a r33 got on, got it made up in coburg or camblefield Victoria.

my miss's is moving to warrnamboll in 4weeks, need to get one for regular trips up. think its between 500-600bucks and takes 30mins to map one out then 2weeks to make it.

you's is the same bar as mine, i'll let ya know how i go when i get one made up, wont be for atleast for few months. money drought

custom.

some dude on here with a r33 got on, got it made up in coburg or camblefield Victoria.

my miss's is moving to warrnamboll in 4weeks, need to get one for regular trips up. think its between 500-600bucks and takes 30mins to map one out then 2weeks to make it.

you's is the same bar as mine, i'll let ya know how i go when i get one made up, wont be for atleast for few months. money drought

Correct again Saint Agea.

I enquired about a CarBra. They hadn't heard of my Stagea so a custom must be made up.

Drive in, get measured, in a week or so you go back & hand over $550 and they give you the bra.

lucky the wallaby didn't cause anymore damage!

i've still got these wheels here if you're still interested :D

cheers dude, hope you're not holding them for me though, thinking of going 19's.

Glad to hear you survived the encounter with the roo...

You'll be cleaning the bugs out of the air-con condenser for months to come (we were after our Stag road-trip to the Goulburn Z nationals in '05)

Edited by BensDR30

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Reasonably hard, although I haven't run it with the new Endless setup yet. The old brakes were F50's on 335mm rotors and the car did a 1:40.6 at Phillip Island which is a reasonable time, I'm seeing high 600s on the temperature paint. A guy I know ran the Endless fluid at WTAC without issues and he was doing 1:33's I think (Evo) with a 355/332 setup. I don't get out to the track as much as I'd like but we put the car on the hoist and spanner check every bolt and re-paint mark everything, bleed the brakes, change the fuel, check the coolant system and re-bleed blah blah blah before every event. Motorsport is expensive, RB's are expensive so a couple of hours before an event is time well spent. It's also a net time saving because if you can keep your RB from self destructing it saves you time in the long term!
    • Welcome Alice......hope you have a bit more luck from here on! What was done in the build?  
    • Hello! I'm new here, I have an R33 GTST that is currently being finished up! Last year was pretty rough, blew two stock turbos so I decided to build the car. Has been down since November, but I get it back next weekend!
    • Hello, I believe my car was imported to America in the 2000s by Kaizo Industries. Would anyone be able to help me find more info on them? I've only found all the basic stuff like that paul walker bnr34, them being shutdown by feds, just stuff like that. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
    • I am using Motec M150.  I am not working on the car myself actually.  My workshop is giving all these info, they are quite reputable in the industry and are very familiar with Motec and RBs and have done a few big setups with VCam and single turbo on RBs.  In fact, they built and tuned my engine from day one.  But they are stumped with my engine at the moment and cannot work out how come the compression is so low with the VCam. They told me that they have now swapped in some Kelford cams (without the VCam) and can achieve around 130psi compression and the low end torque is better, but now the engine is doughy as.  It boosts and peaks at more than 1000rpm slower, with twin HKS GTIII RS, it doesn't get full boost until over 5000rpm. I have always thought the VCam was a bit disappointing at the low rpm. To a point I had to ride the clutch a fair bit to get up a small hill from stand still.  That was when I had a clutch.  Now changing to a 8HP, I don't have that luxury and this problem has become a major issue. I am beginning to think the VCam never work since the day it was installed.  Maybe it was just sitting at the most advanced point, that is why it went good at top end but very ordinary at the bottom.  Therefore, with the help of the Holinger 6 speed and paddle shift, as long as it was moving, it drove pretty good.
×
×
  • Create New...