SIMEX NITE PURSUIT & Cheezy,s Friday night!! VIC !!

Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Location: Greenbank

RUFF wrote:

So you were Spotting for Guts?

Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia

RUFF wrote:

So you were Spotting for Guts?

Yes

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:02 am

not so much spotting !!!
it,s a navigation based event !!!
with special stages , where winching may be reguired !!!!
but we didnt need any !!!!! The Finger

I even had to ride in a LUX all wk/end !!!!
top truck thou !!!!
Guts's usual nav !!!!
sc lux , 2.0 litre , twin x-cases !!
rear detroit , front ARB !!
33 x 14 b0ggers , bead locked !!

OH yeah , SUPERCHARGED !!!!! ( with an on/off switch !!!!) AWSOME !!!
had an absoulte ball , all weekend !!!!

as for Guts's diff !!!!! /--0--\ about that !!!! Shocked

the Q78,s were smoking !! driving in a straight line on the tar !!!! Shocked

Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Location: Sitting on Miss Janes lap.

Did it look something like this?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:47 am

, worse !!!!! Shocked

will try & get pics !!!!
it,s still in vic !!!!
hidden at a secret location !!!!! Razz

Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Location: Brisbane

Yep was a good event except having to drive around all bloody night with cheezy in my ear yelling "GUTS ARE YOU AWAKE" Rolling Eyes

I think the thing that really got him was when I swore I seen Ned Kelly in the bush Shocked

I was that tired by the end I was seeing things Rolling Eyes

Damage report

Drivers door
Front housing
Front shaft
Front diff (I think)
Flat batteries.

Also because of my stuffed front end I did most of the event in 2wd Shocked

Now will I do this event again? YOU BET YA Very Happy

Joined: 26 Oct 2002 Location: Melbourne

Sounds like ya had fun and thats what it's all about 8)
Maybe needing the lockers on to get the Lux and the trailer up Cheezy's gravel driveway was an omen Laughing

Still LMAO over that............................

Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Location: On the end of the phone

Thanks Moose for filling in the 2 foot holes in the middel of the driveway that Guts dug when trying to drive up it in his Lux. :wink:

Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

Guts wrote:

Damage report

Drivers door
Front housing
Front shaft
Front diff (I think)
Flat batteries.

Also because of my stuffed front end I did most of the event in 2wd Shocked

Now will I do this event again? YOU BET YA Very Happy

I got some pics.........will try to post them at work tonight....gotta get the software on the work computer.....should be interesting !!!!! Confused

Guts, your car looks like a NAS car with the angle of your front wheels !! Shocked

Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Location: On the end of the phone

Yer and we drove it like one today too. Shocked

Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

Cheezy4x4 wrote:

Yer and we drove it like one today too. Shocked

So what was that smoke coming from it when you kicked it over Question

Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Location: Sitting on Miss Janes lap.

Are any of you guys going to the presentation tomorow night?

Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

I was at Cheezy's today, he and Moose both said they were going

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:31 pm

Yo Drafty, go along for us and pick up our booby prize, haha.
Not sure how we went, but after we finally got going, we had a heap of
fun, damn good event!
Good to meet a few faces off of here and Gutz'es lux was very shiny at the start, glad to hear you didnt have to drag that cable up any hills Cheezy.
The tracks were interesting and there was always stuff tokeep you awake, but it would have been a fair bit harder had it been wet.
Congrat's to Mooney and the other organisers on a well run event, and lookin' forward to next year. 8)

Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Location: Sitting on Miss Janes lap.

Did someone say BOOBIES :shocked!:

Moose or Cheezy could you get a copy of the results for me please, or at least find out where my brother and Juzza finished. Their team name was Bellarine Boys.

So Juzza what do you think of the GQ's setup, Drew said you had a drive.

Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Location: On the end of the phone

Yep, I am going tommorow night and will post up the results. Shocked

Hay Juzza how did you go finding everything, what about the SS's Question

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 10:39 pm

Yeah guy's, post up the results when you get them if you can. 8)
Joe i didn't drive it any any real difficult stuff but it gave me a good idea of how capable it is.
Firstly you already know i'm not a fan of wagons for this sort of sh!t so i would be getting the grinder out quick smart.
Next, throw that f**kin' GPS out the window. It handles a lot better from the driver's seat than it feels like in the passengers seat. As a passenger it feels like a big tippy whale but when driving it yourself you can feel that it can be flicked around pretty hard but is still within the limits!
Good power but it's up too high in the rev range,( a TD42 singin' between 3000-5000 rpm hour after hour can get a bit hard to listen to) for me anyway.
Otherwise she's set up pretty good and just needs a lot of little refinements.
I'll be honest though, the rooflights did not compare to Matt's aircraft ones, dunno wether different filters would improve them but they are definitly more suited to open road. :wink:

Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Location: Sitting on Miss Janes lap.

Yea i agree with you on all those points, especially the GPS and lights, Matts are awsome no 12v compares to them.

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 10:48 pm

Yeah, i think we found pretty much everything, though the first question on the 'A' stage had us f**cked until we rolled back in at half-way.
As for the ss's our teammates had to do one small winch on the 'A' ss as his rear locker air line had sheared off so that slowed us down a bit and the fast ss was a mad, frequently sideways sprint that could have ended in carnage very easily. Was great fun though and we were doing that one just as it was becoming light on Sunday morning. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 10:54 pm

How/where did Gutz banana the front diff housing???

Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

I heard it was at the Nissan Trialls.....according to Cheezy, Cheezy had to encourage him (a lot) as he was driving like a Question

Joined: 09 Nov 2002

So CHEEZY it must have been a great experience to have been in a TOYOTA such capable 4bs and all
So is the Mavnissan thing up for sale or wot
I know where you could get a real truck (TOYOTA)

Madshort

Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Location: On the end of the phone

But I do own a Hi Lux ( Q78's, Hi steer, crossmember, Custom tray ect, ect.) I dont enter into the Toyota/Nissan BS, I take every rig on its merits and Guts did have and Matt has a top rig that I would be happy to own.
But yes it was different, and no wheel and peddles for me. Shocked

I have some results of the Simex
1- Criss Hummer third year in a row.
2- Birdy and Mark
3- Mike Smith
6- Drafty,s Brother and crew
9- Snake racing
ect ect.
I will post all tomorrow when I get the sheet.

Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Location: Sitting on Miss Janes lap.

Thanks for that Cheezy, just called him with the results, very happy.

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 11:16 pm

between 10 & 4 , I think , there wasnt much in it at all !!!!!!

if only we had done the tyre bead breaking event quiker !!!! Confused

they have to handicap Team ATOC next year !!!! The Finger

4 years straight !!!! 8)

Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Location: Brisbane

Poor cheezy keeped crying everytime I short sifted it at about 3800rpm Laughing

but then he nearly spoofed himself when I took it out to about 4500rpm Rolling Eyes

but he was having fun on the slippery conrners as we were going around them at about 45degs (well on a couple of them anyway)

Now cheezy I know there is NO WAY!!!!!!!! my lux would go or drive like an Nas car, ITS TO FARKING SLOW!!!!!!!!!!! Rolling Eyes

Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Location: On the end of the phone

It was cool and did the job well considering we were in 2WD most of the time, pitty about the driver always stopping for Ned Kelly all the time. Embarassed

Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Location: Brisbane

What was the area called that section A was in?

I want to go back there oneday and have a play. Me want to play in the big ruts again Rolling Eyes

Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

Guts wrote:

Now cheezy I know there is NO WAY!!!!!!!! my lux would drive like an Nas car!!!!!!! Rolling Eyes

Here's some pics !

Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

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