Murph

One important thing you've missed... THE BEER FRIDGE!!!

Also, is it normal to have a small light up under the passenger side of the dash, mounted to the back of the glove box? Buggers me what it's good for?

Also...I'm after the complete wiring diagram for a aus spec 260 2 seater. Any one able to help me out there please?

Any chance anyone has one handy, knows of one on the web or could take a pic for me please. I'm sorta desperate to get my hands on one, so it would be greatly greatly appreciated. Thanks, Justin

...that's fair enough.

My basically stock L26 averaged around 11L/100km on the drive up from brissy. Around town I'm now doing 14-15L/100km which is sorta hard to afford as a daily driver. I suppose I could do another liter better if I babied it everywhere.

Tommo: I think mdbrandy didn't mention that factor as it's sorta obvious. So maybe it should be "They set the speed limits at a speed for the lowest combination of driver skill and car ability, for the given conditions". But then again, we could write a page long list of factors influencing the posted speed limits. While I'm at it, I think these 24/7 school zones are a crock of $^!#. That's blatant revenue raising..... unless...all the surrounding roads are already 40 kph.

Ahh...now. Define excessive speed. :devious:

I'll join the comfortable at 70mph (112kph) onthe highway club. Well even 120 or so in good conditions, but I never really do that.

Another 2 stroker links: http://www.zhome.com/rnt/3.1HanveyProject.htm http://www.geocities.com/inlinestroker/ Sounds like an awesome package Gav!!! ...and speaking of sound....8400rpm! How good is that gonna sound! Good to see the power being made with the SU's too.

An interesting article for you all about speed cameras. http://www.cis.org.au/policy/spr03/polspr03-1.pdf

Any chance you could give me a brief run down on the basic specs of this motor?

Nice! That'd be crazy! I'll have one too thanks. ;-)

Sure does. More money than I have. Still a good price though.

Hey Gav, How much did you end up spending? This is something pretty high on my list as my clutch is almost totally rooted.

ROFL

Geezz.....How many smilies do you want me to use? ROFL LOL :D (damnit! I tried to put more smilies in but it wouldn't let me!) I was just having a dig Rick, twas not meant seriously. Just as a point of interest, how did you drive when you were my age? And I don't mean that so I can say "har har, you drove like a tool too when you were young". More of less looking for some discussion of how things have changed since then. Road law, policing and peoples attitudes.

Quiet! Westerner!

Stop teasing the southerners would ya.

*Datto grabs his shovel* So your telling me you never accidentally exceed the speed limit, not even by 3km/h? /dig

Well.... It really depends on where you are and the situation you're in. In normal driving, where traffic isn't to heavy and there aren't too many distractions, then yes, you shouldn't have any trouble knowing/checking what your speed is. The problem is when you get into a busy area, with lots of traffic, lots of pedestrians, or places you're unfamiliar with, then this can be a problem. For example when we were last down in Brisbane... Keep in mind that up here in Townsville people are generally pretty relaxed on the roads, none of the crazy hustle and bustle of the big cities. So we go down to brissy and it's this huge and totally unfamiliar place. The roads are much more congested, people are more agressive and you have added complexities such as that you must be in the correct lane at the correct time or you'll end up on the other side of the city. In this sort of situation you simply don't have the time to keep your eyes glued to the speedo and your speed perfect. You go with the flow of the traffic and that means that you'll often enough end up speeding, even if only for a moment. And if anyone wants to argue that I'd be safer justs taking my time and driving under the limit.......nooooooooo way. I really don't think I even need to explain that. Anyway, my point is normally there shouldn't be a problem. In some situations there is. Also, with the 3km/h "tollerance" down south, I can see drivers spending A LOT more time looking at their speedo's. Hey, ever k over is a killer right? By the same token every second your eyes are off the road is a killer too.

Ahh....can't remember. Tis all the same.

Damn that was one shocking film. I'm supprised anyone could understand anything from it! Was sorta cool to watch them smash all the cars up though.....but that's about it. Gotta love how the engine note of the stang changes through out the movie. It starts out sounding like a low revving lazy V8, by the end it sound like a highly tuned/high revving V8. :stupid:

On that note I have to acnowledge that up here in Townsville we are getting it a lot better than down south where they have a 3% speed tolerance. They're still using the 10% tolerance here AFAIK. Things were pretty bad here a year or two ago. We have this local councilor called Jack Willson that went on a mad anti "hoon" cruisade. His definition of "hoon" being anyone in any modified or hotted up car regardless of whether they broke the law or not. Not to mention that most people in nice cars are sensible and it's dumb kids in mummies camry or bogans in commodores screetching their tires on the strand. Anyhow he went on to make many outrageous comments in the media about owners of modified cars, even outright calling us ALL criminals, and saying that we owned and modified these cars purely for criminal purposes and to purposly disrupt the public. And with all this hysteria in the media all the joe blows that are incapable of thinking for themselves jumped on the bandwagon. And yeah, everyone copped some pretty harsh threatment from the police. Yeah well we spat the dummy at that. A large group (50 or so) of the townsville members of performance forums went and flooded the local paper with letters, all written to a very high standard pointing out that it's only a very small minority that do dumb sh*t etc etc. I was the organiser of a big cruise to which we invited Jack and the media, so he could meet us criminals face to face and see that we were just average people, not to mention doctors, lawyers, IT profesionals, engineers etc etc. We had about 70 cars and bikes rock up for the cruise which was great, everyone was well behaved (as per usual on the big cruises) and it did a great job of giving the general public a new perspective on the modified car scene. Another great out come was that we came to a few agreements between us, the council and the police, which meant that the police backed right off. The funniest bit though, the media managed to get an admission from Jack........on the local news, that he'd pulled skids in his car when he was younger!!! Since then the council has got right in to support the car scene. Recently as part of the Townsville centenary celebrations they had a 400 strong supercruise and car show on the strand. We had some huge numbers come to watch too. Wow....that turned into quite a long tale!

That's a good point that is also relevant to general policing of our roads. I personally find that getting pulled up for doing something stupid, having them go over my car, get a big lecture, me $^!# my daks, then get let off with a warning leaves me with a good bit more fear and more to the point respect for them and the law than if they just hand me a big fine and be on their way.