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You can't put colour aside because that is the very first thing that will tell you what oil the coolant is contaminated with.

Here lemme ftfy voila, fit TH400

Yeah nah I reckon you guys are on the money. Oil cooler fails, dumps hot oil into the cooling system, temp goes up, op shuts it down and shows us a lovely pic of the coolant filled with oil. Op didn't mention if he had an oil pressure warning but he did say that there was no oil on the dipstick when he shut it down. If there was no, very low or intermittent oil pressure then it is possible that some coolant got into the motor via the oil cooler. Depending on how hot it got it there could be head sealing issues after repairs are made, if it is the oil cooler. If it's the coffee maker I guess he'll have to file for divorce. I guess we'll have to wait and see the extent of the damage.

5 is better than a kick in the nuts innit?

If it's any consolation and you can spanner it yourself, optimistically there will some if not plenty of change from a grand depending on the failed parts.

I'm taking the car off the road in about 3 weeks as the rego will be lapsing and I hardly use it at the moment. I'm looking to modify it further and then renew the rego later in the year. I'll be doing the retainers and valve guide seals at the same time as the springs. For now I've only got some road tuning to do and one drag day then it goes in the shed.

Spewing then. One thing I'm not lacking in is space.

Cars ay? I love em all. Don't tell my missus but I'm definitely collecting some more that I have soft spots for.

Lol I've got a built 5.0 vn berlina. Single pegger for days. @k31th can you make a single pegger emoji please? The g6 guys deserve fair representation in the emoji scene

Yep definitely worth a check. After a while it's probably just worth replacing the trans cooler anyway given their propensity for failure and the fact that they are only a couple of hundred bucks to buy.

The milkshake would be more red coloured if it came from the trans cooler. That combined with no engine oil kinda gives it away to being a head gasket rather than a trans cooler failure.

That's what it looks like. You got some RAA cover?

It will be in the next 3 mods. I already have a 4inch venom dump, 5 inch cat into single 3.5 then into twin 2.5 then stock after there. I want to do something with that soon. That will help with valve float as well. I have to swap my hotside piping at some stage as it is comprised of some second hand bits I had floating around. It is 2.5 inch ali and it works but one part of it hangs a bit too low. So valve springs will happen probably after those changes.

Yerp. It has a different turbo, different intake and different cooler piping. I'll put more boost into it and hope the valve springs hold up.

Drags are on again at AIR on the 22nd. Hopefully I can go better than last time.

The second one is done mentally and the third is a physical check if necessary for me. Gotta have a good memory lol. I take the time to mentally check as it is much quicker than checking with tools. I didn't do anything with my car today. It has been 46 degrees for 3 days straight. I was outside working on some other stuff and noticed the car needed a wash. I've been planning a tuning day when it cools down. Tomorrow is supposed to be 32 so I guess a clean and a bunch of tuning is in order. I should probably have another try at finding that rear clunk.

Anywayyyy I bought a pressure cooker a few months ago. I think it was about a hundred bucks. If you don't own one then go out and get one asap. It pretty much cooks stuff 5 times faster than a pan or pot. There are so many recipes online, they are simple af and taste delicious! It brings batchelor food to a whole new level. Bolognese, stews, soups, chicken legs or tittays, lamb casserole the list goes on. I've even made what I like to call, "hotdog chicken". It has a couple of chicken breasts, American mustard, sweet chilli sauce, tomato sauce, a little bit of nandos medium peri peri and some honey. That should go well with quality pan sealed snags or chorizo instead of chicken. Tl;dr buy a pressure cooker and reap the rewards.

Fair points there skidxr6t. You mention that there aren't repeat offenders and that shows that the penalties are working as a punishment. What it also shows to me is that the current laws and penalties are not working as a deterrent. I think we should be tough on the offenses that have the potential to kill people. Perhaps a 90 day impound and a 12 month loss of license with over $5k of mandatory fines for a first offense, for example, may seem harsh but I think that would be a sufficient deterrent to prevent people from risking my life and yours. On the topic of racing events imo sh*t happens. You knew what you signed up for. Despite waivers there is legal recourse in some circumstance such as assault and personal/criminal negligence etc if it can be proven.

No point in speculating upon things that will never happen. There's a big difference to the Captain Cook Highway and a twin lane national highway. It used to be 100 the whole way from Craiglie to Trinity Beach except for the Wangetti and a couple of beach stops. That road needs to be slowed down if it hasn't since I drove it dozens of times just over 10 years ago.

Google it mate. It's nothing to set up. If a tuner can't use one then take your car elsewhere.

Free tune from helluva guys mates missus cousin. Sorted.

Maybe he knows a guy who knows a guy.

Pretty much yes and no. I understand what you are saying (small percentage of people that need to be controlled by laws due to their stupid decision making) but I think you worded it poorly. There's always going to be some dumb carnts who have to fark it up for the rest of us and yes the rest of us have stricter road rules to abide by. Ironically if you don't drive like a knob you won't notice these changes and they won't affect you much if at all. Just changing your vote will do nothing. You have to get the legislation repealed or amended. This means actually finding someone who will be willing to wear the public sh*tstorm that will come with changing laws that appeal to the masses that get their sjw boner from a biased media. Then there is the issue of reducing revenue which no form of government wants and the inevitable backlash and disassociation from political peers that will soon see them in the same category as many disgraced or "nutty" politicians. It'll never happen. Anyways I'm off to eat some chicken.

That or the 20 rolls before a gradual stop.

Most of the roads I drive on could have the speed limit lifted considerably. I think the main issue with raising limits is the apparent inability for what appears to be the majority of people to drive correctly at the current limits. Take Port Wakefield Road for example. It has a limit of 110 kph. So many times I've been held up in the right lane because some fool is going 95 kph in the left lane and some other fool is overtaking at 97 kph. Occasionally they'll just pull in front of me often with no warning or indication to overtake said slow driver while I have to get on the brakes due to their situational unawareness. Imagine the road now has a limit of 140 kph and fools are still driving 90 kph in the left and overtaking slow as sh*t on the right. I could stop in time (most of the time) as I'm focussed and aware of my surroundings. I've seen plenty of people on their phones or distracted while driving and that's where bad things will happen at speeds that most people are considerably more unlikely to live through. I don't think speed is the issue, I think it is more so the distracted and incompetent drivers that are the problem with driving fast.