V 4 & Rotary North Island Jamboree

[RAYDEO]

Who's keen on a cruise to this event?

[RAYDEO]

No one then?

[boon]

I'll be going up. Not sure if I'll take the silver ****box or carpool with a mate.

[Odie]

Def keen to go up if things work out with transport etc

[RAYDEO]

What do you mean if thisng work out with transport?

do you need a ride?

[chulozumo]

No doubt ill be there. Probably wont take my ****box up, might be in one of them toyota thingies..

[Scoobydoo]

I currently have nothing on that day.. I'm keen to carpool with someone

[Joker]

how much is entry and jazz, been a while, penciled on my calender

make a meaat of it? do lunch/hells pizza din dinns?

[RAYDEO]

Sounds like a plan j-rod

[Odie]

 RAYDEO said:

What do you mean if thisng work out with transport?

do you need a ride?

That could be handy!

[RAYDEO]

So its on Sunday 22nd March

Is anyone actually keen on a convoy to the event? or should we just meet for dinner after?

[Munkvy]

Personally I will be racing up Mt Vic that day. More my sorta thing!

[RAYDEO]

Awwwww is that on that day?! Sheeeet now I'm torn!

[nadz27]

 Scoobydoo said:

I currently have nothing on that day.. I'm keen to carpool with someone

Paulo, we thinknig of going up for a day trip, the Nine-K guys keep hounding us about going lol

You could always come with us for a small petrol fee?

[Scoobydoo]

 nadz27 said:

Paulo, we thinknig of going up for a day trip, the Nine-K guys keep hounding us about going lol

You could always come with us for a small petrol fee?

Sweet.. it's a plan then

[Joker]

who's coming to see what?

super lap?

burnouts?

"model" search"

drifting

gates open from 9am $25 kids under 10 free

Edited March 19, 2015 by Joker

[RAYDEO]

We're heading up Saturday night for speedway. Staying the night and up to manfield for Sunday from 9am.

going to look at EVERYTHING

[B4 2000]

ill be there as well, but im only coming from down the road -Palmy-

will keep an eye on this thread in case any planed a meet or something!

[Scoobydoo]

Am cruising up atm, almost there in fact

[Scoobydoo]

Pics of Subaru's I took

[boon]

Right, I'm going to go on a bit of a hater rant here...

The quality of the Subarus there was (almost) complete ****. This also reflected the standard of many of the cars entered, though.

I'm excluding knockoutgiant's BL here, which won best Subaru (deservedly). The mods on his car are subtle and might take a Subaru enthusiast to recognise (like the fact is has Brembos) but well executed and it's a very tidy car.

In so far as I could tell the sum total of all the mods on the rest of them was a little bit of lowering, a big exhaust and some Chinese knock-off rims. There was a damn good reason they almost all had their bonnets closed - nothing worth seeing under them except probably a peeling manifold and a pod filter. I see better modified tidier cars on my walk to work in the morning. There was a BE which was very tidy and also very stock, but I'm not sure they're old/rare enough to be show-worthy for being tidy and standard.

The GC8s were crap. If you're reading this and you own one of them, sorry, but what on earth were they doing in a car show?

There were definitely some cool cars in there and some quality engineering but so many of them were just ****. Chinese knock-off parts left, right and centre, crap panel work, crap paint jobs, incredibly stock cars - sorry RX-8 owners club but if I wanted to see a row of very tidy, very clean but completely standard RX-8's I'd go to a Mazda dealership.

The racing was much more interesting, a few casualties out there though - the quite badass, quite fast Subaru coupe suffered what looked to be a pretty major failure and caught fire, a VR4 looked to have popped the power steering line and tried to catch fire but just sat there simmering instead, and the Hell Evo went very very fast and sounded bloody good but then evidently something significant died on it and it came back in during the final session.

Aaron (A_Tiny_Chipmunk) and Craig (nztintin) both went well and I think took out second in their classes. Aaron was very smooth and my continuously joking about how he was going to either run a bearing or catch fire seemed to only spur him on. nztintin was fast and the car definitely looked and sounded the part.

I also concluded that I will never understand burnout competitions - I felt like I was getting stupider by watching it.

[Joker]

there was more than 3 of us there? nice to know

saw b4200's car, he park nearly next to me without knowing it

I liked the b-owts best since there was lack of other entertainment

[Joker]

and yeah even Amy said : oh that's just a B4 whys that in here (the Gen3) I did point out the slight enhancements (have only just twigged Paul posted pics on previous page)

[chulozumo]

Jeez was that all there was subaru wise? Almost should have entered mine! Didnt make it yest, had to drop the wrx off to get work done!

Looks like chipmunk did well, think he even won something..

[knockoutgiant]

Thanks for the exclusion Boon ahahaha.

Almost doesn't feel like I actually won anything considering the lack of even decent Subies there. Either way still pretty proud

As for that white 3rd gen, that was my fault It's a mate of mine I told to enter last minute on the day. It's clean and the very few mods it has are still at least decent. He's only had it for a month or so and the old owner put the rotas on not him (He hates the fact they're rots too). Though he should enter consider his car, even stock is a **** load better than half the cars that were in it last year.

Either way overall it was a pretty good time. Loved the atmosphere the day of the setup with everyone just chilling and polishing their cars.