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All forum posts should be taken as having been made while the poster was on the toilet, unless otherwise advised. Definitely goes a long way to explaining a lot of the sh*t that's typed.

Don't be modest Gaz - the effort that was put in was obvious. Hopefully a couple of the passengers will have their cars for the next cruise

Pffft You can't shave with that

True I would like some longer legs than the small turbo delivers - I reckon the GTX would be able to give me that, just need to convince Mick to get the gas to flow more and let me put one on Fuel came to just under $100 after filling up at Wallan at the start of the cruise - would be interested in rough ideas what everyone else would have spent (don't really get a chance to compare at other times - not trying to pinch pennies, just for interests sake)

You're not wrong with the coil-overs. I can't praise them enough - definitely the most rewarding mod I've done. Transformed the car in ways that any power mods can't touch, all without compromising comfort or day to day driveability. All I want now is better stopping power and I'll be set.

Haha - we had some footage from the drone demon1300 bought on the cruise this weekend. I said at the time the video from up there made our cars look like a scalextric kit. Will add one of them to the things I now "need"

Now that I'm a little more awake Fantastic company, roads, cars and meals. Definitely an awesome route and can't imagine the amount of prep Gary put into it. "There's a good place to pull over up here and I can go on to this point up ahead for some good photo shots" "Likely places for cake are marked on your maps" "This servo, this one and this one all have 98" "I've called the butcher in Wodonga and he'll have a meat pack ready for us (and onions - sh*tload of onions)" Methinks Gary did a little bit more than just pull up Google maps and plot a route that looked like it should be ok Was great to head back to Gary's room for a complimentary port (or 2 or 3) and watch some of the footage from all the Go-Pro's. Makes me want to buy one now. The drone was an awesome bit of kit and I was blown away with what it was doing. The footage from that was both great to see and a little bit scary Could imagine myself camping on the hill at Bathurst and having a lot of fun with one of them. Seeing all our cars from that height was a new experience and reminded me of a scalextric set Makes me want to buy one now. Thanks all for welcoming my son Aidan too - he'd been a bit crook all week and wasn't feeling quite normal. Thanks for not getting impatient on the 2nd day when the fast cornering got a little bit too much for him. He's taking a day off today - still feeling queasy, so it's a bit more of a bug that he's got than motion sickness :( Dropped my car into Pitlane this morning to get the error that popped up twice properly diagnosed (P0783 - 34 Shift). Car thought it was flaring on the 3-4 change twice, but wasn't driving or changing any differently as far as I could tell. Fingers crossed there's nothing major to worry about - the Go-Pro's and the Drone I NEED to purchase now are already costing me too much. Only other negative was a hidden boulder I scrapped when reversing at the weir wall - took a bit of a gouge out of the LHS skirt and (maybe) the bottom of the front panel. Is now the 2nd "ding" I've gotten - the other being on the same panel that a door fell on - at least I hadn't fixed the first one before the new one happened - can do them both at once. Was great to meet the new faces (to me) and catch up with Gary, Nick and Lance again. Was wrapped with how the car performed (except the ding and the error codes) and how fantastic the roads were (was able to wind the shocks on a lot further than I thought I'd be able to - the roads were that good.) Will definitely be pencilling in the Snowy Cruise for later this year. Aidan should have his learners by then and not be feeling crook, so a bit of open road for him to steer should make him feel even more a part of the group. Hope everyone made it home safe with no new stone chips. Thanks again everyone.

Have a go with oil, instead of foam/cream panda.

Fantastic cruise, thanks all. Just walked in the door and am dead on my feet, too knackered to do words Speak soon

We're all down finishing brekkie. Were wondering when you'd surface.

WPMO: The FG towbar I got cheap from a forum wasn't (an FG towbar) Best guess is that it's a BA or BF one. Just need to find out what it fits now so I can offload it correctly.

Have never had any luck with electric ones - keep trying them again every few years, but "a close as a blade" has never even come close.

Bought a couple of GTX 980's to run SLI on my "work" computer. Should make me more productive

Same age - I reckon if I went for an eye test I'd get the same diagnosis.

Missing the flappy paddles Steve?

Other way round - highways on petrol, curves on gas (gas is the fun mode). edit: are you right for a lift to the meeting point Keith? Am in Frankston so if more convenient am happy to pick you up along the way.

I honestly couldn't give a toss which way the roll is and put it on either way when I replace one. Usually the new roll just sits on top of the empty one anyway - or the sink. Unless I'm expecting a "visitor" of course.

Yeah - except when it cuts over to petrol I need to take it a fair bit easier (or switch to the petrol tune, which would hold everyone up and have a good chance of failing and needing a half hour extra to let it cool down to re-flash) Just means I go from "fun" mode to "cruising" mode til we get to a servo that has gas where everyone else is filling up. Just hope it happens on the long, boring bits and not the windy fun bits.

Damn - just realised - I'll need to leave Frankston about 6:30am to be in Wallan for the meet up. Oh well - the sleep in can wait til the next weekend (have been in desperate need of one for about a month now - things keep cropping up).

Mines ready to top up with fuel and gas and hit the road.

Evil, Are you able to give a quick rundown of the homeward route after lunch on Sunday? Are you planning on just straight to the Hume then south or are we doing a bit of sightseeing? (have got a trailer to pick up in Benalla, so might peel off from the group there)

I liked how the extensive medical and scientific study the other week into the validity of naturopathy (which found it as useful as a placebo at best) was claimed to be biased by the crackpots

There was talk of removing the option for non-vaccination for personal reasons - leaving medical reasons as the only valid one. Couldn't happen soon enough.

Also depends on how much of the billable charge filters down to you from your pimp.