Duncan's Race Car - The Most Overdue Build Thread On Sau

[Neil]

We paid $31k for ours, 1996 R33 GTS-T with 56000 kays. True M-spec I might add, not a car with add ons after the sale from factory. 

Ha Ha yea Duncan it's very amusing trying to explain to them about their cars, I get much enjoyment. One that always pops up is the Power FC, apparently they are junk, but they still get sold for big dollars.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

On 27/08/2022 at 8:44 AM, Duncan said:

Mate, there would be new skylines owners on these forums from American that weren't even born then...

Lol

I hope some Muuurricaaaannnnnn buys mine. 

I will then never own a Skyline again (I said that last time, and the time before I said I'll never buy a JDM shit box but ended up my 1st R33, now 2nd)

[Roy]

On 8/26/2022 at 2:50 PM, Neil said:

Sorry Ben, let me re-phrase that, I would have to be the longest single ownership person of a Skyline on SAU, Invoice date 06/09/2001.

I have you beat, Nov 99. What was the plate Duncan...HUJ-33 or something wasnt it?

[Duncan]

Yeah you are pretty OG mate....glad you've hung onto it all that time

HGE-33T, it was a great car

[MBS206]

On 8/28/2022 at 11:41 AM, Roy said:

I have you beat, Nov 99. What was the plate Duncan...HUJ-33 or something wasnt it?

Geez mate, they hadnt much earlier released the R34!

[Roy]

Uncle Dunc, Kel has been posting too many pics of your amazing home....Need more progress pics/updates on the 32. 

[MBS206]

On 9/24/2022 at 3:27 AM, Roy said:

Uncle Dunc, Kel has been posting too many pics of your amazing home....Need more progress pics/updates on the 32. 

Concur!

[Duncan]

Ha, well no progress lately so no updates. Given another upcoming wet summer I've been out on the tractor with the grader blade trying to get some driveway drainage in place, which in itself is an interesting challenge. And once that is done I'll have a few months of weeds to get ahead of for the same reason.

My guess is progress on GTR will be slow until later in the year. Kell is off to Great Tarmac Rally in a couple of weeks with Mel in a shitbox wrx instead.

[No Crust Racing]

Farken driveway maintenance FMD... 8-900 meters of it here and in some places it's 15-20deg

Oh and I've just noticed a few thistles sprouting... 

 

[Duncan]

No work worth updating on the race car, dealing with some minor surface rust / underbody / chipped interior paint etc. As they say in racing, its "good from afar, but far from good".  I'm also updating mounts for rally gear in the boot like spare wheel/jack/toolkit.

On the other hand, the 100m of the 1klm of driveways I have done went awesome in the big rain

The rest, not so much.

[No Crust Racing]

I did a fair bit of prep work before the rain and then we got less than expected and spread out so we actually faired really well, you guys got pumped (you are up blue mountains way yeah?) 

[Duncan]

We're a bit south of there but same general area. This was the little river behind our place after 50mm of rain (back during the drought it took 150+mm for that)

[No Crust Racing]

We had water over our driveway from dam overflowing for the first time ever recently, only a few inches, but it had to fill the dam and overwhelm the overflow first. 

This was because our neighbours dam had blocked/spilled over, then he unblocked it so we had the overflow and the spillage coming at the same time plus the rain. 

The water table is defs full. 

[The Bogan]

9 hours ago, Duncan said:

No work worth updating on the race car, dealing with some minor surface rust / underbody / chipped interior paint etc. As they say in racing, its "good from afar, but far from good".  I'm also updating mounts for rally gear in the boot like spare wheel/jack/toolkit.

On the other hand, the 100m of the 1klm of driveways I have done went awesome in the big rain

The rest, not so much.

Throw in some side drains on the low side every 50 meters or so

Control scouring with rubble drains, and put in the odd culvert 

I build alot of unsealed roads with work, drainage will keep it open longer, but there is only so much drainage can do

 

erosion-sediment-control-unsealed-roads-field-guide-120410.pdf

[Duncan]

Thats f**king awesome, thanks mate. I was just looking at the drains thinking they were going to need some larger rocks to stop erosion in the fast moving/steeper sections too, they are comparably cheap to bring enough of them in.

I've got a grader blade so regular resurfacing is no issue, I do need to bring in a massive amount of roadbase over time if I want to improve the actual surface meaningfully, but it is passable now, even 2wd in the wet

Culverts are a practical issue too....there are 4 places where I could do with them but that is a very expensive job - 2 lengths of pipe, excavator time to dig down, aggregate under them to keep them stable with a proper fall, headwall at both ends and a pit at the entry. For now I've just got a light ditch across the road surface at each location and just fill them back in every now and then.

We did put 2 proper culverts under the main drive - 4 lengths x 600mm pipe...cost about $8k but I've never seen them more than 2/3 full which is a win.

 Need to do the same under the mid dam road, it goes under all the time

Just had the lower dam overflows dug out, looks like they are 2x300mm which is probably not enough for big rain.

[Duncan]

All of which will seem like a hell of a waste of time and money in 18 months when the drought returns and we are watching the bushfires roaring across the hills 

[Roy]

When does the airstrip go in for the Cessna Bird Dog?

[Duncan]

On 18/10/2022 at 9:15 PM, Roy said:

When does the airstrip go in for the Cessna Bird Dog?

Took me a while to answer that....

Funny thing is, the across the river neighbour did put in an airstrip, built a hanger, and buy a cessna, because strangely they aren't allowed to build a house on the property but there is no problem building an airport terminal

They've used in 3 times, once for an attempted landing where they misjudged a little, aborted and missed the trees by so little that new underwear was required. Second time the landing stuck, then a few weeks later the plane left and never returned, so I don't think aircraft noise is going to be an issue.

Funny looking back through the last few posts too, I've spent a heap of time lately redoing the roads  and drains so I guess it is a 2 yearly thing to add to the calendar. Those big drains did overflow in the rain about a month ago so that is pretty disheartening....just a reminder that you can't stop nature I guess.

[The Bogan]

Uncle Duncan, send me some photos of the creek/drain/culverts, when it's low or dry, and also when it floods if you have any

Do you have an idea of how much water that part of the land and drainage would capture in a heavy fall

Does the whole creek/drain overflow up stream as well as downstream, or are the culverts the bottleneck, or is the water building up past the culverts and stifling the flow, or does the whole road go under

Are the culverts being blocked by dirt or vegetation during the event

A land survey would be handy to see where the upstream water is captured and drains down stream

I can roughly calculate the size of the drain and culverts required and speak to our surveyors and engineers at work to see what options there are

When it comes to culverts and drainage it all comes down to some math to work out what is required 

People often underestimate the size of a culvert/drain

In saying this I won't be back at work for a week or so as I had my right shoulder rebuilt 12 days ago

[MBS206]

On 5/6/2024 at 9:40 AM, The Bogan said:

Uncle Duncan, send me some photos of the creek/drain/culverts, when it's low or dry, and also when it floods if you have any

Do you have an idea of how much water that part of the land and drainage would capture in a heavy fall

Does the whole creek/drain overflow up stream as well as downstream, or are the culverts the bottleneck, or is the water building up past the culverts and stifling the flow, or does the whole road go under

Are the culverts being blocked by dirt or vegetation during the event

A land survey would be handy to see where the upstream water is captured and drains down stream

I can roughly calculate the size of the drain and culverts required and speak to our surveyors and engineers at work to see what options there are

When it comes to culverts and drainage it all comes down to some math to work out what is required 

People often underestimate the size of a culvert/drain

In saying this I won't be back at work for a week or so as I had my right shoulder rebuilt 12 days ago

Duncan just needs to start an epic open pit mine, let it store the excess water for him.

Call it a dam and the authorities won't say a word