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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 29, 2005, 07:35:46 am »

Doesn't help that I only have 3rd party with fire and theft cover... Means I'm covered for the other person... But I have to pay for myself :/

But considering I'm 19... Comprehensive insurance is over a grand a year untill I turn 26 :/ So 3rd party will have to do

Had a big laugh last night... Saw some guy in a fairly well done up NSX being tailgated by a scooter About 150 Metres or so down the road, the scooter overtook him, then the NSX sped the hell up as if he was wanting to race... Probably a bit embarrased to be passed by the scooter...

To add insult to injury... It happened outside a McDonalds carpark full of "ricers" on a car cruise... Some of them were laughing so hard they were crying

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 28, 2005, 11:47:27 pm »

lol... Yeah... It's cheaper without going through all the red tape and insurance companies :/

That and if you go through insurance companies, they tend to ask lots of questions that you don't really want to have to answer... Like why your car has a pod filter, blah blah blah...

Perth, capital city of Western Australia...

On a sidenote... Both accidents that have happened, I've given out my insurance details, and never had a claim made... First one the dickhead broke the law by not giving details, the second one I moved the bumper on the other car less than 5mm... And some mild scratches... Wow

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 28, 2005, 09:15:04 am »

irockash: Welcome to real forums

Just_J: That wouldn't surprise me, the other thing as bad as car dealerships is little old ladies in Fords who don't look where they're going (Not a scratch to her... My front end looks like someone hit it with a claw hammer :/)

That's another $300.00 I'll be spending on repairing the front of my car... At least now I've become effecient at it and it won't take as long as before... Perth drivers SUCK!

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 26, 2005, 04:40:39 pm »

The 'states had the MY04 WRX STi with a supercharger option... According to a subaru dealers website in the US I found ages ago... Can't find the URL in any logs though, so I'd have to search through all the google results for it... Not really in the mood for that

Thursday night I went rallying with some friends... Got a GTiR bogged due to the idiot owner lowering it and trying to clear some really soft sand, but he was most embarrased to have himself pulled out by a Charade Turbo At the end of the night we had a race in teams of two, ended up being a tie between my friends MY98 STi and an EVO III, due to the EVO nudging us on the last corner and sending us a little wide, else we'd've won hands down :/

Such fun in Pine Plantations

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 25, 2005, 07:36:26 am »

The octate level dictates the ways the car is manufactured, according to a subaru enthusiast that my dad works with. He got a 2004 Liberty top of the range last year, just after they stopped making the B4 (Twin Turbo), as the junk that was in the fuel we have here (Before BP Ultimate, which caused a riot in the High Octate fuel ranges) was extremely detrimental to the engines, thus the cars were tuned down, or simply using different components in key areas, thus reducing performance.

I still think that the MY98 WRX STi is the best one that Subaru ever released, what with a GReddy T66 and 205Kw... It's the fastest production one they've made... Apparently Australia gets a special edition over the next few years, since there's been some sort of outcry about it (Automotive writeup in the paper a few months back), that sees the STi go "Back to basics", ie: It loses most of the optional extras that come as standard, back to the beefed up engine design and a lighter body... At the sacrifice of some of the comforts, including climate control (Still gets aircon though, or free air, ala WINDOW).

So it just goes to show that if a country such as ours complains a lot and buys a huge amount of their '03/'04 stock... We get a little bit of a bonus (More like bribary, but they're bloody good cars)

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 24, 2005, 06:48:13 am »

Do you know why the car is "Watered down?"

It's our octate content in our fuel It's almost done on purpose... So if you want the extra bits of power, you need higher octate in your fuel, notice how we can't get it over 100ron points even with a bottle of octate boost?

A ricer fanboy... Please leave the country, you know where the airport is, or does Sam have to show you the way?

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 23, 2005, 09:31:07 am »

6.0L LS2... Very sweet engine

Nah, not that... With cops, they have a limit on how much they can do with the car before even they can't drive it as a pursuit car. And as it stands the WRX, oddly enough, allows for them to do more with them. Cops arn't allowed to lighten the car in any way, can only do underhood stuff and add in a screen between the front and rear seats for when they have a criminal in the back

If the GTO in the 'states has an engine, we have it too, goes there via export... And as I remember from the launch of the GTO with the LS1 in a few years ago, the speaker asked a few people in the audience to comment on the car, and one person said "It's a great testiment to well built american cars" to which the speaker replied "It's actually an Australian built car"... Needless to say, a lot of people were surprised

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 23, 2005, 07:07:03 am »

They shouldn't be out of the kitchen, right? Haha, lucky my girlfriend doesn't read this, I'd be dead (She works, I don't... Oh the irony)

Holden import Opels into Australia for sale under the Holden Badge, we also export the Monaro GTO to America as the Pontiac GTO (The new VZ Monaro has fully functional bonnet scoops... Woopde do :/... It has nostrils!)

The image of that car before is the same car that we call the Barina, little 1.4L DOHC 4 cylinder job. Over here it seems good practice to rice it up, with body kits, lowering blah blah blah... I've even seen one with a turbo!

One European car I wouldn't mind getting is the new BMW M5... Mmm They're nice, but apart from that, most of the cars I want are Australian made (Holdens), although the police here are now using WRX STi MY05's, EVO VIII's and Astra Turbo's (Not sure of the Opel name for them) as undercover cars... Simply because their normal cars can't keep up with the rice burners here (For a side note, the EVO's can't keep up with ANYTHING )

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: initial d 4th stage ep. 11 and 12

« on: March 22, 2005, 03:24:51 pm »

From what I can see of the new intro and how the story has progressed... It wouldn't make all that much sense to just chop it off now... Would leave all these things in the new intro that would very possibly be in new episodes, just gone... A big tease in a way

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 22, 2005, 01:08:46 pm »

The website is slow... I tried it on the 100mbit link that I have at a temp work, and it was slow as

It's okay coobluedab... I had to read it a few times before realising that you were on about someone else... That and I would NEVER buy a 300ZX... Engine maybe, but pfft... My Holden Commodore VL rules (They came with the R31 Skyline engine, what more can I say... An RB26DETT fits in perfectly)

For all the car orientated people here who know what they're on about... What would you rather see under the hood of an R32 GTR... The "stock" layout of the RB26DETT, or would you rather see a nicely worked RB26DESC (Supercharged)?? I was working out the rough power figures, and got to within about 15 hp (Supercharger was 15hp up on the turbo at lower rpm, didn't go all the way up the powerband)

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 22, 2005, 08:26:18 am »

The one we'd installed was supposed to be rated to hold rigidity to up to 300km/h, but... Eh...

We need a new R32 body now

The alloy we're looking at is the same sort of alloy used to make the blocks in cars, especially the new Holden (Uhm... Pontiac... I think for you US people) Alloytec V6 and V8 engines (192Kw as an NA engine... Yummy), but that's up to the people who race, I just tune the suspension and a few other things.

Considering the impact and everything, we were able to recover most of the block, both diffs (GTR), gearbox, and 50% of the fuel system... Ironically, the bracket that had been put in for a NOS bottle was completely destroyed on impact, thus making us relieved that there wasn't a bottle in there, else it'd be a different kettle of fish :/

NOS is death in a bottle

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 22, 2005, 06:45:13 am »

chichin0: Cage was rated for a certain amount of movement, top and front point bars snapped on impact... They're supposed to bend, not snap. So we're useing an alloy this time, not hi card stainless steel forged.

5 point harness? 4 points are quite adequate, and all we can afford to use...

What questions was there to answer, and where? I don't own a 300ZX that claims to do under 10s, I'm more interested in track events, say... 280 and 480 hp classes... The only times I even think of drag racing is after tweaking on my own car, and it's nothing impressive at the moment, still running stock times of 16s (Funny, my car is still stock!)

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 22, 2005, 04:40:13 am »

I have nicknamed roll cages deathtraps, since every experience with one in a crash hasn't ever worked out...

Maybe it was just bad design, although I doubt it, considering they had been inspected by an engineer before the races, but they didn't work at all when you hit the barrier (K rail for people who want to know... It's a BIG concrete slab, steel reinforced... Even tanks can't get through them, and even have a hard time putting a hole in them with a shell), it seemed to do stuff all...

Car was doing roughly 160mph on a 300m straight just before a 45 degree right branch, got around there easily enough, started to brake down for a 90 degree left, cornered, hit a patch of oil, and just went sideways (drivers side), into the wall... Driver walked away, but the rollcage, the car, was about half the width of when we started (I was annoyed, spent 8 hours tuning the damn suspension :/)

Oh well, another 9 months untill we get another race spec car :/

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 21, 2005, 04:50:41 pm »

What a surprise... Seeing that the storyline is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT...

That, and not once have I seen cops in Initial D... So I don't see how in any way it's a ripoff...

If there is a way, someone explain it, please

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 20, 2005, 08:25:18 am »

14"s or 15"s have too much rubber on them, not enough width in the profile, thus less grip, plus the ability to sway the weight of the car on the tyre.

My car has 14" wheels on it at the moment, and it's only 1.2 ton, but I can still sway the car on the wheels when cornering and even in straights, before the tyres even begin to lose their grip.

16" with a 225 profile would be nice, but 17"s or 18"s with a lower profile but wider... Much better!