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Mike Beck
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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 08:19 am, by: Mike Beck (Gold_40gt)

Well I thought It would be nicer to post some pictures after a couple of coats of wax and a slightly more interesting background....

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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 08:23 am, by: Mike Beck (Gold_40gt)

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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 08:28 am, by: Mike Beck (Gold_40gt)

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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 09:33 am, by: Callum Finch (Sigeneat)

This thread not 56k friendly! =P

Nice stock example there Mike =P

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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 09:39 am, by: Mark Northcott (My91gt)

Ok well been a while for me too and I have since changed the wheels on the Soarer as well as had a change of scenery

Taken overlooking Darwin Harbour

Taken while on the NT roads before the speed limit came in

Was using a constant 15lt per 100kms BUT I found out recently that I had a faulty ECU so unsure what I really should have been getting.

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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 12:36 pm, by: Mike Beck (Gold_40gt)

Heh, I like the side shot while driving Mark

I bet you were holding the camera tight!

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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 02:20 pm, by: Brian Timms (Turbo_brian)

I have seen 180 on my speedo, same deal, in the outback before the laws changed....

Those photos are HOT!!!

Makes me desire a paint job to clean up the car and make her look much better

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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 02:37 pm, by: Mark Northcott (My91gt)

Suprisingly not really, just had the lanyard around my wrist...

I had one of 179 but it's to hard to take due to speed cut hitting, and the 178 wasn't the clearest photo so 177 is good enough and for those interested my gps was saying 174km/h so 3km/h difference at the top end of the speedo I was happy it's normally around 3-4km/h out before it used to be 8km/h with the rims that are in my profile. Don't understand how that one works as I used the rubber off the old rims to put onto these wheels.

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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 03:11 pm, by: Nathan Evans (Soarer7)

Heres a few of mine that a mate did one arvo and night.

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Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 03:15 pm, by: Nathan Evans (Soarer7)

was with Tim Appleton aswell.

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 07:29 am, by: Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt)

15/100 at that speed is pretty impressive Mark!

Mike, you can clean my car next

Is that One Tree Hill you are on?

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 07:54 am, by: Mark Northcott (My91gt)

MMM one would think however, the ecu has major drama's and is being fixed today or tomorrow. When I got to Darwin it was using 17lt/100km around town, i normally get 12's or lower so yeah they don't know how the car was still running... Bit of a worry considering I done like 4800kms in a week.

If you go to general chat and look for Bandiana to Palmerston Fuel Consumption it's what I used.

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 02:51 pm, by: Mike Beck (Gold_40gt)

Matthew Sharpe wrote on Monday, February 05, 2007 - 07:29 am:
Mike, you can clean my car next

Is that One Tree Hill you are on?

Haha, Too busy are you these days? Understandable - Its pretty easy to get what you want done being a student - Especially over the holidays, Still I'm now back at school for the finial year so soarer time devotion will have to be reserved to only Sundays! Hence why many wax coats, To keep it clean and protected...

Yeah One Tree Hill alright... Thats Mt Eden in the distance of the first picture.

They didn't turn as well as I had planed, The ones at my pals place on the road had a much better light....

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 04:36 pm, by: Maurice Diggler (Mau_rice)

Mark, shame on you, you are THRASHING the bajesus out of your car and it's not even up to the correct operating temperature yet.

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 05:54 pm, by: Dan McColl (Hoon)

It is within 2 degrees, though.

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 05:59 pm, by: Shane McInnes (Soarin_tt)

lol I was thinking that too Maurice, But figured at that speed maybe the air made it cooler???

But if thats not the case your pretty game doing 180km without the car up to operating Temp.

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 06:08 pm, by: Mark Northcott (My91gt)

LoL N00BS
That is my operating temp.
It went one bar higher but, that was taken after 100kms at least as you can see via the odometer.

And it sat on that speed for two days

Sad to say 178km/h now feels slow.

Soarer is in the workshop getting the ecu reman'd as it has •••• itself but by sounds of it has been gone for a while and I knew about some of the bugs too... Ie the car not starting correctly and giving an engine electrical light.

Actually I had been driving for nearly 3hrs. Looking at the time, also has new coolant and wetter water in it by redline.

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 07:10 pm, by: Ben Socratous (Socrates)

Guess I have to jump on the bandwagon now eh?

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 08:59 pm, by: Maurice Diggler (Mau_rice)

Mark Northcott wrote on Monday, February 05, 2007 - 06:08 pm:
That is my operating temp.
It went one bar higher but, that was taken after 100kms at least as you can see via the odometer.

From where I am sitting it looks like it's one notch below normal, but the pic could have been taken on an angle. Also? Who does 110km on the ODO prove anything? You could have done 110km, pulled over, had the car sit for 2 hrs, then get back in and hammer it in the guts before it's fully warmed up lol.

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Monday, February 05, 2007 - 09:13 pm, by: Mark Northcott (My91gt)

Maurice Diggler wrote on Monday, February 05, 2007 - 08:59 pm:

Mark Northcott wrote on Monday, February 05, 2007 - 06:08 pm:
That is my operating temp.
It went one bar higher but, that was taken after 100kms at least as you can see via the odometer.

From where I am sitting it looks like it's one notch below normal, but the pic could have been taken on an angle. Also? Who does 110km on the ODO prove anything? You could have done 110km, pulled over, had the car sit for 2 hrs, then get back in and hammer it in the guts before it's fully warmed up lol.

Well IF you read more of it, it clearly says I'd been driving for 3hrs.
I was on my way to Darwin so if you've ever been up this way you just don't stop for 2hrs in the middle of no where.... And I doubt the car would have cooled down in these temps anyways, considering under bonnet temps are now around the 170degrees mark not the 120odd you southern experience