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it can be called the crap car page lol with all of the reject cars that didn't make it into a month... shot gun middle :)
Tom
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wooh okies...
but I have a problem... maxi can't spin wheels :) he sorta jerks and then cuts out in 1st and sometimes 2nd... :D maybe fwd's don't need to spin wheels in motorkhana?
Tom
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man I have been so bad lol... today I ate 2 bowls of nutragrain... and then drove g/f to work.. came home had 2 sheppard pies... picked up g/f from work.. came home and had a big burger... and then some chips ... and now chicken, rice and salad.... no wonder i'm so damn fat lol .... far out... no wonder I have had health probs lately :D
I have a fantastic idea.. can someone kidnap me... take me to dessert and dump me in the middle of no where... I can walk back to brisbane ... there for loosing 25kgs and becoming healthy again... or get me some beer mmm beer...
Ton
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haha u know how slow i am getting around on here.... last time i was on the gold coast hinterland thread and notice nick asked me to organise some cruise out there... I think that was like months before i read it lol :D
Tom
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mmmm hungry... need food
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whats a motorkhana ? sounds like a hot dog mmmm hotdogs...
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Sweet.... I wanna do this race in maxi... soon as it gets fixed :) :) sob
Tom
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is this a race?
if its on normal roads does the speed limit/traffic rules apply?
hmmm
Tom
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Go lil dial up go!!!! .... only 8hrs 36mins to go.... :D
wooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo :) ohhh ooo those funny little men in white coats are coming to get me hehehehe :)
Tom
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mmmm yum... lets catch the crab and eat it :D
I'm bored :sad:
Tom
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Hey
I'm not sure if you want my car in it? Its kinda rough when you get close to it, but it looks good from far away... at night ... when its clean.. waxed & polished lol
I have some photos on my website that could be used if you wanna use em?
(Thats the one Unique Cars used)
I have the original 35mm film also the photo. I don't own a digi :)
Tommi
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what was>? what seaworld found or what the fishermen experianced?
I heard the fishermen were dragged around by a big bull shark... :)
Tom
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LOL haha ... ok Teddy did you wanna swap with Ruts?
Check out this unknown animal washed up onto the beachs of the gold coast - http://www.yowiehunters.com/New%20Crypto/W...a%20monster.htm
Inspected by Seaworld
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how can we find out what it was?
Here is the plan:
nitephyre: your job is to collect as many road kill you can! and stuff.
Grim: Can you find a boat for a couple of hrs... say 5hrs :)
Ruts: You swim around like your injured ... and we'll tie a rope around your waist to pull you in before anything can get you :D
irokin: Your on the other side of the rope
Medicine_Man: You can monitor the systems and drive the boat
Grim and I can hold the camera's .... I might just watch from the shore :D
Ok, when are we leaving :D
Tom
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Mini-Sub theory: when I was little my family was having a picnic by the river and I saw something that looked like a parascope it sorta came up and then went back down... no one believed me when I told them... could of been a sub? nah way to shallow where we where.... proberly a serpent of somekind... :D
Manta-Ray.. thats a bloodly big ray :) tho about the trace that reminds me of what my friend and I found ... a hook that wasn't snaped off... rather split/bitten but not accross it on an angle ... what ever did that had very sharp teeth.
I can't really see a large cod towing around a boat... mind you an anchored boat... yesterday I was in the water pulling on the anchor of a hire boat I used around Morton Island and even tho it was a small anchor once it dug into the sand it was near impossible for me to pull it out.
Who's up for a JAWS style hunt, go to the local butcher get half of a cow and barrel of blood.. drop it into some shallows in Morton Bay and see what comes along?
Tom
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.....I don't really wanna hear about your 250kg next door neighbour taking a swim in the sea .... :D
In 1999, 3 fishermen in a 5.1m boat were fishing at the mouth of Brisbane river when their boat was suddenly towed several hundred metres at speed greater then 10 knots by something submerged which was pulling on the boats 20kg anchor.
"The boat spun around in the water like a cork, it flicked the boat like a match box in a bath tub" -John Campbell Witnessed it from The Longtom(a fishing boat)
"All I known is that if those guys had been in anything smaller, like a tinny it would have been goodnight" - Department of fisheries representative who witnessed the event from shore.
'The boat suddenly nose dived, ripping the cleat from the boat' - gentlemen on the boat in question.
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I have seen 2 extremely large Tiger sharks approx 6m in lenght (Both of them dwarfed a fishing boat near by) which could be blamed for towing the fishermen around. Another possibilty is a Dugong. Both Tiger sharks & Dugongs are not well known for their speed & best described to be as sluggish.
But beside a shark or Dugong I'm all out of logical answers for what could have intangled itself in a 20kg anchor + line and towed a boat at speed for a couple of hundred metres? On the 10th I checked out the mouth of the Brissie river and all around it, the channel is pretty deep so something very big & fast has direct access to the river.
What do you think it could have been?
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Have you seen or heard anything?
Thanks
Tom.
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ok here goes:
Driving along in maxi I noticed a girl walking along a path (as all guys do) and then she trips on the path followed by a hop skip and jump and face plants into the ground.. pretty funny at the time :)
Driving to pick up my g/f from work and I'm going past the sunshine coast m1 entrence when I notice a speeding camry loose control fish tail and take out a cop car and truck.
Driving back from work watching a VS & Laser racing and playing on the M1, suddenly the laser drops back and I'm crusing with the VS when suddenly the laser flys up next to us with a guys arse sticking out of the window... :ninja:
A girl at work holding a yellow sticky note sctraches her back and the sticky note sticks to her back.. and for the next 2mins she runs around screaming "wheres my sticky note!!! wheres my bloody sticky note... anyone seen my sticky note" - at this stage i was on the ground in tears nearly peeing my pants.
One of my fave funny moments - Super Troopers (one of best comdeys ever)
Theres some things that have amused me :)
Tom
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1, Ferrari GTO model car - in Poland
2, Lamborghini r/c car - back in greece
3, Toyota Corolla II GP Turbo - current daily driver / project car (its a REAL car too!) I do over 800km's a week in it. I unwisely spent all of my money fixing the damage to the old 3ETE engine, and later I pulled it out and put in a 4EFTE (GT Starlet) engine & gear box,
MODS:
pod filter
cold air intake from the bonet scope!
2.25" exhaust,
15" 5 spokes,
stereo,
alarm,
tinted windows,
Boost gauge.
for a STOCK: car it hosts climate control, power everything - windows, mirrors, steering, central locking, fully adjustable drivers bucket seat and passenger seat with built in bass engines. Some other cool things the car has stocko front strut brace, 4 wheel disc brakes, electronic boost gauge.
Its a pretty crazy 1st car, so far it has cost me around 6-8 grand for the purchase price of 3 grand :ninja:
I have also own 2 dodge vipers and a black Diablo plus a Ferrari 456 GT also I have a racing yacht in the making. (*coughmodelscough*) :)
Tom
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I know how you feel... I drive from Brissy to Coast daily, it is 5H1T :ninja:
Tom
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TOMsGPTurbo - Tom :ninja:
White Toyota Corolla II GP Turbo - 4EFTE, Zorst, Pod, heaps of problems
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Heya
I'm not a big fan of the CT9/12 but I believe they are interchangable, but personlly don't waste your money, save up for a T25/T28 and get a new manifold banged up ... now you can have a decent starting point on getting more power from your engine.
One person I strongly recommend you getting in touch with would be Stasi, he is building up a 3ETE and his put on a T28BB from the latest S15.
Somethings to watch out for when playing with your turbo etc... your fuel cut on the 3E is around 12.5psi, the ecu will have trouble at anything more... the thing is a lot of people I have spoken to have had little gains when using the stock setup for performance.
1, Front mount intercooler
2, Turbo + Manifold
3, larger injectors
4, ECU upgrade (something suited to older 4cyl turbo cars.. I don't know yet)
5, might want to consider internal work
The best place to get ideas from is EP70/71 owners who have worked their 2ETE's ... which are 'small block' 3ETE's.
Hope it helps,
Tom
P.S: Email extract from a starlet EP71 owner
WELL DUDE ITS LIKE THISI HAVE A 2ET
WITH FORGED PISTONS AND RODS
CUSTON INTAKE MANIFOLD
CUSTOM EXHAUST MANIFOLD
65MM THROTTLE BODY
SDS STAND ALONE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
CUSTOM TURBONETICS T3/T4 HYBRID 60-1 + STAGE 3 .36 TURBINE
BLITZ BLOWOFF VALVE
440 INJECTORS
SPEARCO INTERCOOLER
LIGHTNED FLYWHEEL
RACING CLUTCH AND PRESSURE PLATE
HKS WASTEGATE
FULL JACOBS IGNITION SYSTEM WITH TIMING CONTROLS
MSD FUEL PUMP 125 PSI
AEROMOTIVE REGULATOR
AKIMOTO HOSES
MSD BTM
I SQUEEZED OUT A LITTLE BIT OVER 315AT THE WHEELS ON 21 PSI
SO I FIGURE IF I USE THE 3ETE AND BOLT ALL MY STUFF ON IT I COULD MAYBE GET ROUN' 360
WITH A WHOLE BUNCH OF TORQUE MORE
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I've always wanted a sprinter... but found maxi... damn maxi.. now I'm stuck with him put WAY to much money into him... and now I can't just leave him... ohwell....
Wish I had a spare 4 grand ish to buy your gze sprinter nick... wanna sell your one when it comes out of the shop :D
Tom
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P.S: Initial D is awesome but I agree with you nick, that boy racers will buy sprinters thinking their skills are 'god-like' and will kill themselves... on the plus side more parts... on the down side...wasted sprinters..(I should also say lives about now...)
ohwell.... :)
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every time i speak to him, he says he's busy (which I know) and that he is curious on what the porblem is with my car and he would like to help me find it, its just hard trying to get him to have a look at it ;)
I tried the 'drop in unexpectedly' approach - didn't work
I tried calling the work shop - no one picked up
I tried his emergency repairs mobile number - he was tied up with something else.
It may have been two months or so I've been bothering Ant about my car.. I won't quit tho... ;)
Tom
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Hey nick how did u get ant to look at ur car?
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I totally agree, Mountain driving is real life fun... risky too.. no room for mistakes or it will cost you your life or your car.
Tom
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Bad News....
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Bah... thats what I think of cars now... BAH BAH BAH!!!!!! I've come so far and I'm sick of it all... nothing goes right... everything is wrong.. so I've bought my self a nice Mountain Bike and I'm staying away from my car now.. use it to get to and from work...
But inorder for me to get my MTB and I need to get rid of all of this...
3ETE (1.5ltr SOHC 12v 4cyl Turbo) - $500.00(GC - minus fuel rail)
5sp gearbox to suit above engine - $200.00(GC)
Starlet GT Brakes (Disc + calipers + driveshafts) - $100.00(GC)
Starlet GT Radiator -$100.00 (VGC)
(I will take $550.00 bucks for the lot)
Who knows... after the ecu is back in.. suspension is fixed... I may consider coming back into the car scene... but right now its no thanks sob
yeh yeh I know this post should be in for sale section but hey.. thought I'll combine 2 posts into one.
P.S: If you have a MTB and be interested in riding with a novice :D I have a GT MTB nothing to fancy but its awesome :D but for now... I'm off to go Bull/Whaler Shark fishing :D
Take it easy and happy driving, humping, swimming what ever your doing.
Tom.
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