_Spin_

I`ve seen and heard a few now and without exception they sound great are anything but too loud. See if you can chase someone up close to you and have a listen. Fitting one must be a challenge, cuase the expletives run thick and fast when you look under a car fitted with one. Its big. They are pretty good value if the price is still the same.

I`m not 100% sure. I`ll try to work it out today. Weekends only, I don`t drive it to work. Not long after I fitted them I went down through the Putty road about as hard as you would knowing how long a walk you`d have if you punched a hole in the scenery. Add to that a few drives up the mountains at 11/10ths. These are big heavy cars if you drive like an escaped mental paitent you`ll give the tyres a pasteing. I`m hoping the more precise wheel alignment I have now will help. The car does have 520 pound front and 310 pound rear coils, Bilsteins and Whiteline sway bars so, its going to put the tyres to the test. However I`m not complaining, if you want an omlette you`re gonna break some eggs.

ALL GOOD! Sorta.. I went a kilometre up the road and the home brew shop had ONE only 250 ml measuring cylinder. It doesn`t have a stopper so I get a bit of sulfuric on my hand shaking the solution, but it`ll learn me not to break the farkers. I`ll order the proper things now. My name would have been mud on monday with out the thing I found..

I need a 250ml mixing cylinder for work this weekend. It has to be the thing pictured. Any shop that sells them aint open saturday. If I order one online I won`t obviously get it on Monday... I`d beg, borrow or buy..

Gonna be some tadpoles swimming on keyboards with pics like these. Picture paints a 1,000 words. Just look! at that workmanship. Nay, CRAFTSMANSHIP.

This thread has gone to hell in a hatbox. Quinn feels emasculated, Pat`s barrin` up and Spiro has turned beatnik with the poems. If ol` Johnno is the only voice of reason we are in deep deep twubble.

No one`s going to argue that F1`s are an awesome tyre with a matching price. I`d never fit Triangles or instant death Nankangs, like a lot of folk I`m looking about 3 quarters up the price versus wear scale. I comprehensively smashed the beJesus out of my Marangoni`s. However I did consider F1`s and don`t rule out fitting them in the future. lolz0r, fit them to the rear of your car, Brandy.. Here`s one of the Marangoni`s, its not a good pic but the outside edge is blistered to the sh!thouse like a hire go kart tyre. Less than 8 months on car. Weekends only.

Don`t waste your time trying to reason with him, he won`t see the error of his ways. You could nark him in, but unless they lock him up you know he won`t stop doing it. But seriously that's about your only option. If the local coppers are aware of him, maybe they`ll take an interest him. Maybe they won`t.

lol uncanny.. I was going to post earlier: Try sending Mick from Pitlane a PM...

I`d wait till I got it home, lol.. One thing I learned out west as a kid, wait till dinner`s on the table, before you call the cook a cvnt..

Yuck, Pat. that's easily the most unsettling thing I`ve read this week. And it`s not like I don`t get around, either.

Updating _Spin_ doesn`t drive car enough. I ring a dealer to book I t in for wheel alignment. " Yeah mate, whats ya rego?? " " Ahhhh, okay I know this.. its.. " Its a PERSONALISED plate is what it farkin is.. Sigh..

Reckon I should ask for a rematch, Matt?

I`ve been looking into replacing the Marangoni Mythos I had on the front of my car. The Falken FK 452 kept coming up as a good gripping yet decent lasting, relatively quiet and well priced tyre. Bob Jane has the 245-35-19 my car requires on special till the 28th Feb for $299. I bought a pair, had Denmac Ford do the steering rack clonk noise fix and a wheel alignment. Its friggin awesome they are open till midnight eh. So, while they are still a tad green and have barely 100km on them if that I`d say that: They were keenly priced for a Jap tyre. They seem pretty quiet to me, certainly quiet for a tyre with such a silly aspect ratio and quieter than the Dunlops and the Marangoni`s. The grip really well it seems. Considering I crusified the Marangonis in .. ahhh maybe 8 months. Weekends only. Mileage will become apparent. So far I`m liking them.

9 second manual would be noice..

When I worked at a ply mill some years ago, one of the pie wagon owners, Bob.. Would arrive. He`d roll out of his Hi lux with the pie wagon back on it, swing both legs onto the ground and in one fluid movement stand and as he did reach around and poke his thumb down his arse crack and hoist his Stubbies up. He`d then, with that same hand grab his tongs and say: " Okay fella`s who`s first ? " One smoko I walked past his truck and serreptitiously poinked a dent in a jam donut that was wrapped in clingwrap. It was not only still there that afternoon, it was there next morning.. I can garrantee Bob did not unload that wagon.. That what does not kill, gives Strength!

You know, in spare moments I`ve pondered Spiro`s oil pressure loss.. I kept thinking, it must have eaten the gears, but surely they were billet?? Its certainly an interesting development. Mitigating circumstance of 77,000 klms and some considerable output has to be acknowledged though surely.

BAHHAHAHHAHA! We have a winner!

All we have on the wall of our dunny is a thing about not pissing on the seat.. :(

I`m exactly aware of what my car has cost because like a fool I keep all the dockets. While we`re not talking sheep stations, it is quite a bit for some slob on wages. No one made me do it.

I have 520 lb front kings stock height, 310 rears SSL with Bilsteins.. Its in my opinion as good as I`ll ever want it. It rides nicely and handles anything I throw at it.. Contact Pat at Wholesale Suspension ( a forum advertiser ) and he`ll hook you up. Or advise you on alternatives.

I blame safety. How would having the fuel tank on the front bumper affect your driving? Instead of an airbag egging you on to drive foolishly, there was a friggin` JAVELIN spring loaded under the horn cover on the steering wheel.. Just sayin`..

WTF colour is anyway? It`s not off white? It looks off white..

I`m still a bit dead in the arse, but I am feeling better and somewhat more upbeat. I`m glad I don`t have to have that shizzle too often. Touch wood.