vivaspeed

XR6 Turbo

OS approved sedan car.

Next week is not great for me. Could do Weds at a pinch.

Week after?

I'm keen for a meet just to say hi and catch up on the last 8.5 years...

1 hour ago, rusty360 said:

I gotta buy x4 new utes for work, but as said above no one can tell me the tax is going!

They haven’t even formed a government yet, so can’t get any policies underway. 

A lot of fleet buyers are sitting waiting.

Yeah I think it will work at @Nominal place thanks.

5 hours ago, Mourning Cupcake said:

Lol that you thought we'd have space! We can't even store our own cars (thanks Joe!)

Glad you have many options though

I knew you wouldn't have space, but might know of somewhere.

Which you do...

The OS communal car storage facility in the Wairarapa operated by Joe.

Thanks that would be rad, and just down the road too. Didn’t know if you had space and/or wanted more British car junk cluttering the place up!

I’ll send you a message.

Hey local people, does anyone have a space to store and car and/or a trailer for a week or so in mid November? 

Doesn’t need to be indoors, but secure off the road and out of sight would be ideal.

We’re moving up and will have a few days before we get settlement on the new house but need to dump a car and trailer for a few days / maybe a week.

@Mourning Cupcake @AllTorque @Nominal @KKtrips
@Goat etc

Damn, would have been keen but I’m back up north that weekend  

You can go to the Nissan collection outside Yokohama and it’s pretty cool, but you have to book a tour slot well in advance online.

Toyota stuff around Nagoya is good,have done that before - both the museum and the factory tour.

Depending on where else you go, Hiroshima has the Mazda museum and factory tour.

Honda up at Motegi.

The internet has lots of info on car/motoring tourism.

What Joe didn’t add to his story was this thing also decided to pump all it’s fuel out in the engine bay, thankfully avoiding a fire. (But also causing us to have to walk back and find a jerry can of petrol)

It also (unsurprisingly, being British) dropped all it’s oil out on KYs garage floor and henceforth became known as the Exxon Valdez.

@La Viva 71 I’ve probably got a spare one somewhere but no guarantee on what condition it’s in, the diaphragm is probably perished.

I’ve always swapped out with a low pressure electric pump. They’re cheap enough and reliable so you won’t get stranded.

Good to catch up last night and have yarns. Thanks guys.

Shame about our quiz skills though...

Can do Tuesday night.

@GuyWithAviators pull finger and let me know what the plan is

I found this on my laptop a while back.  Probably appropriate for small bikes and the east cape.

Keen.

Not available Monday night or Thursday night.

I’ll be around the week of the 21st of Nov and keen to meet and have random yarns with strangers off the internet.

10 hours ago, Mop Head said:

You up again any time soon?

Nah next stint up there is Nov. 16th to 27th.

Keen to meet up then, although all my old cars are down south now. Will bring a turbocoon instead.

Oh man, why couldn't this have been next Thursday instead?

Hey @HighLUX @GuyWithAviators maybe do a weekend one when I'm up some time?  Keen to meet TGA locals.

@Roman you’re not allowed to use rally tyres at TECT park for autocross or motorkhana.

Find the cheapest open block tread pattern you can find. I’ve got some cheap GT radials with big open tread pattern.

Terrible as a road/tarmac tyre but ideal for the loose stuff.

On 07/03/2022 at 22:09, xsspeed said:

not sure about there being heaps of EP81/91 GTs anymore. I think @vivaspeed liked them before they were cool though

I had my EP82 GT nearly 20 years ago now. So much fun.

Don't see many now, a lot got thrashed and wrecked like all the fast cheap cars.