Jump to content
SAU Community

May Monthly Dinner - 26/5/2005 - The Great Northern - Pacific Hwy Chatswood


Recommended Posts

  • Replies 222
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

I was going to suggest Big John's, but making a booking there doesn't guarantee you a seat at 7pm. You'll be lucky to be seated by 7:30pm, but more likely 8-8:30pm.

We've made a booking once, turned up on time and STILL had to wait on the street for 2 hours. Bookings don't achieve anything there, and a firm booking is quite important for a school night for some of us :)

Great food, crappy service, but I like the place... I'm up for it, but be prepared to possibly wait even if you've booked!

Great Northern!!!!!! I can roll home from there!!!! A hop, skip and a jump to my front door. But Italian @ roseville is good and i can actually attend one as i now have changed roles @ work and now work 9-5 Mon-Fri.

But yeah Great Northern is awesome........heaps & heaps of space.....plenty of sexy bar chics, pool tables, great food, and best of all BBBEEEEEEERRR!!!!

I am up there quite a few nights a week

I vote for the Great Northern as I do not want to try to drive down south for bad parking, bad service and waiting for a table.

Also most of the regulars are northsiders (or inner west) so its best to keep it fairly local.

i am easy. QUOTE]

how easy!? :(

oh moaner. I am easy, but still have standards... ie. reastaraunt must serve some type of meat and either allow BYO or serve good beer. hey wait a minute, you were still talking about food... right?

oh moaner. I am easy' date=' but still have standards... ie. reastaraunt must serve some type of meat and either allow BYO or serve good beer. hey wait a minute, you were still talking about food... right?[/quote']

:( what else would i be talking about! :(

Also most of the regulars are northsiders (or inner west) so its best to keep it fairly local.

I'm happy to be proven wrong but I'll say it again - the reason I think so many of the regulars are *Northerns* is because we don't go anywhere south of the bridge!

cnr of pacific highway and mowbray road chatswood.

Oh my god , u serious????

i live in Artarmon!!!!thats soooooo close....i think i know this place , but where is the parking?




  • Latest Posts

    • Got the motor out and torn down. I'll be dropping off the block Monday. Luckily the scoring on Cyl6 is much less pronounced then the pictures made it out to seem. It can barely be felt. If you pass your finger over it 10x you'll barely notice it. Hopefully by some chance it will only require a honing. I'm not in the mood to buy one size larger pistons or another block. Oddly enough my 6th cylinder with the scoring has extremely clean intake valves compared to my other 5 cylinders. I'm worried the scoring was caused by too much fuel or Water/Methanol washing the cylinder. I'll review some old logs to confirm.  This was also the first time I pull an engine with the transmission still attached. It went much better then expected. I was worried my CD009 wouldn't make it easy due to its sheer size but it was much easier this way. 
    • From the pictures I have when doing the job the flywheel is the same diameter, I don't think they're playing weird tricks like putting weights at the outer diameter to increase flywheel inertia or anything like that. The OEM flywheel is definitely heavier, but it's not a huge difference. Quoted weight savings of the clutch is 2 kg so I can't imagine the flywheel being lighter than ~7 kg. Kind of regret not weighing it before the clutch went into the car but as far as driveability goes I have no complaints.
    • HKS trigger kit should be very easy to integrate with a Link. It's a 36-2 crank trigger. Hard part is finding the motivation to take off the timing belt and everything on the front of the engine to install it. You also need to cut out a hole in the oil pump housing so the sensor can read the trigger wheel. Changing out the cam sensor for a 24 tooth setup is probably good enough but as others have mentioned depending on what underlying assumptions are changed it becomes more of a problem. Reading the crank state off of the cam is an abstraction that works in the general case, but if you have an edge case it makes less and less sense. There is a GTX2860 gen 2 that can take a compact 5 bolt housing so it's direct bolt on but I'm not 100% sure of what's involved. Peak compressor efficiency drops off a bit on these turbos vs -5s, 77% vs 73% but you get way, way wider region of operation. The -5s have a really strange surge line in their compressor map that is all over the place. If you think the hot side on the -5s aren't open enough you can try the Tomei T550B turbos which a local tuner seems to be happy with:
    • i need a complete tail light for my R33 GTR if you have please let me know.
    • I need a great maintenance workshop around Idaho, if you know one please let me know..
×
×
  • Create New...