rolla updates

new trophy truck style clutch fabbed onto the standard pedal box
more than twice as quick as the standard ratio for extra clutch kicky goodness
uses a standard gt4 clutch master, custom lines running to the w box and ogura clutch

willy wag tail updates

Getting my jive on in the uni holidays

done!

department of transport sucks ass.

my registered honda z50 build

Building a z50 that I can take to uni. Over looking for parks and spending so much on
fuel driving my hilux around. So this will be a bit of fun.

Pretty much finished it, just need to get the frame bead blasted and powder coated then I can
put it back together.

Alarm clocks are shmelly.

Alarm clocks and I never got along very well. I often sleep through them, I have a tendancy to set them way too early, and theres no such thing and a pleasant alarm tune.

This morning I discovered the worst possible alarm scenario. Its happened before but
other times it wasnt so much as a problem. I do work on peoples cars, this weeks is a smash repair
job on a jackaroo. Something weird has happened with the anti theft and it decided to go off by itself this morning at 7am. Thirty mins before my alarm. One thing I might point out here is my early morning sleep is vital, I rarely fall asleep until around 4 or 5am, I tend to lie in bed with my eyes shut as I cant turn my brain off. Anyhoo!, I woke up, sorted the alarm, decided to brush my teeth while I was up and go to bed.

I sat an lied there, in the most indecisive state of my life. Should I turn the alarm off, or am I awake enough to just chill in bed for a while. Should I check the time its going to go off any second. I basically sat there for like 25 minutes waiting for the sound of the alarm.

It couldn't have gone any worse. Curse you infernal alarm!

The Police Commisioner Bob is an asshole.

This chaps been making all kind of stupid road laws and changes in laws while Labor has been in power.

The latest is using old decrepit vans on the side of the highways (where the least fatalities occur) to make them more inconspicuous. This makes no sense, as instead of people braking for what they think might be a speed TRAP, they will be braking for anything and everything. Ahh well what can you do.




Write him an angry letter!
Commissioner@police.qld.gov.au


I'm sure if he read enough emails with a decent argument he will start to see some sort of errors in his ways, or at least have a bit more trouble sleeping. Either or works for me.

blighs end is nigh

I go through various political phases, where basically all that changes is my level of anger. Lately my angers been pretty high with all the absolute BS thats gone on in regards to climate change at the Copenhagen summet ect. With that crap cleared up and hopefully not going to rear its ugly head again any time soon, my anger was reduced.

Today I was mulling over abbotts latest and he seems to be a pretty good egg. So again, my anger for Turnbulls suicidal tactics were gone. My hopes for a coalition government were higher than ever.

Then I started to think about Anna Bligh, I pretty much hate her more than anyone. I was going over some numbers, and the Labor government that has been in control of queensland for some time now, has made an absolute abortion of the finances etc. WA and QLD are two huge mining powerhouses. This is on the basis that export is high, and income to the state through these exports is high. Now in a study recently taken, WA lead Australia in regards to finance and economy. You would assume QLD to be higher but ah well you cant win all the time. Then you keep reading, turns out QLD is almost last. Taking into account the huge gap between 1st and 2nd too.

What the hell has Beattie and Bligh done with all the flow. We have just gone down the tail end of a mining and export boom and should be in our best state yet. Yet we could no be any worse. It makes me so angry.

One positive from this is that Labors time in QLD is well and truly up. It seems more common than ever that everyone basically knows how poor of a state they have put QLD in. Bligh should have been stood down a long time ago, and its going to be a great day when her re-election is basically not going to happen. Or a labor re-election.

More info can be found here
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26572589-3102,00.html

I seriously laughed so hard when I found that Lucas genuinely tried to turn it into a positive thing. It was one of those sad laughs though.

the humble weasel

The weasel, to me, is without a doubt, the best creature on this earth.

All the weasel family, including and not limited to, the ferret, mink, stoat, martin, the lesser weasel, arctic weasel etc.

They are just awesome.

corolla update

Exhaust has been basically finished, just have to mount some hangers after I buy some "8" rubbers tomorrow. It mounts under the diff and so fat only just reaches to just behind the diff. This is because I want to run my car and see what it sounds like without a muffler. I ran the motor in the half cut without an exhaust and it wasnt loud really at all. It would be good to get away with it.

Also have sorted out a widebody front end that needs to be finished off.
Making good progress otherwise.

A video from a funny aquantance in brisbane

As most know I dont for a second believe in global warming OR the tooth fairy.

At least the tooth fairy gave me money.


Well unless you are one of those douche bags who exploit such things. Like those stupid people who sell reuseable polyethelene bags which will basically never biodegrade, in favour of the current plastic bags which have a lifespan of a year or two.

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people dont know how to raise children

We've been doing it for so long now that you think it would me an art form. Parents dont tell their kids anything, nothings passed from generation to generation, kids are becomming worse at a serious rate. They have more rights than they ever did for no apparent reason.

Heck you cant even smack your kid in public anymore, publics the only place they learn!

Someone needs to sort this shit out, noone eats around the dinner table any more, puts decent time into their kids. They just find it easy when their children can entertain themselves on the internet or the pokemons, with the goo goo kachoo.

But seriously, if you read this, and you have kids in the future, stop the downward spiral, hit the bastard if he miss behaves, make them eat at the dinner table, put time into their development. Theres too many flat brim wearing douche bags born from this misspractice.

Gotta stop.

kevin rudds an asshole

Ill go into more political details in time, but for now, ive found some startling evidence.

the gold old days

Everyone always talks about the good old days. Being in the year 2010 "already" makes me think just how far ahead we really are. I was telling a friend recently how good it was to buy lunch in primary school. A sausage roll for 50c and a chocolate breaka for $1.10. Im so use to thinking old people ramble on about the price of tomatoes too much until recently I was in woolworths. There upon a pedastil I saw lettuce for $2.75. Freaking $2.75. They were the smallest crummiest letti? ive ever laid eyes on. I used to work at a grocer only about 10 years ago and they were like 60c for big juicy bastards. I then went to the lamb section (I consider myself a lamb expert), freaking $27.99 a kg. For fatty little lam cutlets. I was outraged, I made a vow to never return to woolworths ever again. Id rather pay 10 bucks more to some hobo who runs his own shop and get decent produce than pay some "please come into our lovely shop, buy heaps of crap and get the hell outta here" kinda store. Like the pack your own grocery isles they have as well. Your basically not saving any money and packing your own groceries. What about in 10 years time when its not 10% of the isles, its 80% percent of the isles, and your teenage son or daughter has a hard time finding a job.

Reverting back to what I was saying, heres some videos that make me, and hopefully you, remember the good old days. When the word political correctness didn't exist, and people thought global cooling was happening.





Also a song from the good olds

practice what you preach

something funny I found, everyone who knows me knows that my biggest hatred is 90% of the stupid, overinforced, revenue raising traffic laws that exist in QLD and Australia.

Qld's Minister for transport Paul Lucas, who some time ago was found to have speeding tickets accumilated, that he blamed on his sometimes driver was demoted from his position and had to give public speaks about how what he did was wrong etc.

He was replaced by the new minister for transport Rachael Nolan, who prior to even being selected had 3 speeding fines. After being in position, she has recieved no less than 5 seperate speeding offences.

This is the lady who is advertising that speed kills, that the laws need to be toughened. Her 200k+ yearly salary makes it easy to pay the fines. But her reputation has taken not so much as a knock, as labor QLD continues to employ friends and family, who are uneducated, unsuitable for the rolls they fill, and should ultimately step aside and stop ruining our country.

Australia is so far over-regulated its not funny, and I for one am absolutely sick of it.

Soon we will need foot path lisences and a bus permit.

Theres a $100 fine for skateboarding without a helmet. Hows skateboarding any different to jogging, your just an inch higher from the ground. Will joggers have to wear helmets in the future.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25257468-952,00.html

Bullshit.

old people should be seen but not smelt.

After all the usual holiday shopping hi-jinks ive completed, ive come to the conclusion that I do really hate anyone middle aged, or old. Theres a bracket between say 45 and 60 where they go awesome again though. Middle age people are assholes, you walk around, they always just act like they are the only ones in the world. Walk out of shops with an empty pram and just go 2k's an hour right in front of you. Only to stop like 5 meters later to check that they arnt missing one of their illegitimate children, their laziness also sickens me.

Anyone over the age of 80 should be thankful they are even alive and dont pester the youth. Just because you CAN get out and about in public doesn't mean you should. I dont want to think about partially rotting flesh while I eat my wendies. Some say thats closed minded of me, but the problem isnt the quality of old people, its the quantity, what ever happened to good old plagues. Any day over 65 for me and ill be thankful and do what I can for the next generations.

Which is another thing that annoys me, is people who are in hostpitals over the age of 75, your times up, get over it. Some things about modern medicine arnt about the saving of lives at all. It makes me angry.

The end.

My race car

My race car has been through many editions, firtsly its a ke70 corolla, my favourite car for many reasons. Its my 4th ke70 and my 5th rear wheel drive 80s toyota. I love the 80s nature, the tan paint, the square shape, the snappy steering and slideable nature. Its me through and through and anyone who knows me knows this.

Its kept me sane for a long time, as I have ADHD I find it very easy to fritter off in a million directions and be destracted by thousands of things. Through this my rolla has always kept me grounded, given me something to look forward to, a reason to save money, taught me how to set goals and reach them, allowed me to meet hundreds of decent people most ill call friends. Its taught me to be a safe driver, its given me the ability to maintain my own cars and save thousands of dollars over a lifetime.

Part of ADHD is perfect for creating race cars. People have misconseptions about the thing, they thinks its the kid having a tantrum at the shops wanting attention, but thats not ADHD, ADHD is not being able to give people attention, always being lost in your own little world, having no perception of time. I have full conversations with people that are indepth and knowledgable on both sides, and literally seconds after the conversation will never consciously remember what was exchanged. I can wake up in the morning the day of an exam and freak out because I havnt studied, only to remember I only went to be 15 minutes earlier after an all nighter. Its a wierd thing, but I wouldnt have it any other way.

One thing ADHD does, is lock the brain into one side for an, hour, a day, maybe even a week, it takes away the ability to swap and change between either side of the brain as quickly as one would normally. Why do I love this?

One side of the brain controls artsy stuff, creativity, colours, imagination, design, inventing and so on. The other side is planning, time, maths, all the lock it in eddy type stuff. By not being able to access the other side of the brain as much as it would like, the brain creates fixes, so in the right side of the brain, it does things to work like the left, the left side does things to make it more like the right. This is great fun. For an example look at this post, I planned to talk about my race car and im telling you the wonders of ADHD.

The reason this is great for working on cars, is because for a whole week I can be very creative, design things that other people might'n think about, design things from completely different perspectives, find ways to make things that shouldnt work, work.

The flip side of this, is that post to this design work, I can be locked into a week of math like precision and planing etc. It makes me save every dollar, it makes me work on my car for nights on end, ive woken up under my car soaking wet in the rain at 4:30am wondering how that happened, with a sump literally touching my nose. I couldnt even remember how long I had worked on my car for prior to that or even what I was working on.

It sucks in day to day life, it makes having a gf troublesome, lucky for me my latest companion is awesome and understands that although im nodding, responding, looking her in the eyes, im not listening to her list of reasons why a ghd is a logical purchase, or am I?, I dont know.

Back to my car, ill try to keep the build updated on here more reguarly.

This is how I bought it, as can be seen it was raised in green pastures in a place called gnome, outside of townsville. I bought it from a lad named Clive, he was a good egg, he even bought a new battery for it out of his own pocket so it could be driven onto the car carrier for me, which I only found out from a note left in the glove box from him, telling me of the memories he had, and asking if I could please look after it.
I did look after to it to a certain extent. As much as you can while your doing this...
Here is a video of her in action, been a while since its done anything like that...

I basically put a bigport 4age in it, a t series with trd 2 way, bolt in cage, some suspension of sorts and had a great time on various tracks and street outings. Things got a bit boring when the 100kw just wasnt enough. I found myself yearning to select 4th gear and maintain wheelspin.
For these reasons I decided to buy this.This being a 275hp toyota 3sgte (gen3) motor. The main design process in mind being, make it handle, make it reliable, pull 4th. Then, and only then, drive home.
This build has taken me over a year so far, and as such is not even finished as I type this, but It shall be in the comming weeks as I am on university holidays and have time to work on it, money, well thats a different story.
Here are some pictures from recent doings, basically having to make a roll cage, fit fuel cells, mount seats, move the motor back towards the cab by remodelling the firewall to improve handling, fitting a different gearbox, strong diff and much better suspension. Im aiming for 300hp, the biggest part of this 300hp I want to perfect is the driveability, which is why I have opted to keep the standard intercooler and turbo setup, this will maintain steady predictable linear torque in large numbers, reliability etc. This is the reasoning for raising the bonnet etc. After these pictures updates will be discussed individually when they occur.

Motorsport, the gentlemans game

Ive participated in alot of sports at various levels, rugby union, hockey, tennis, motocross, bmx, wakeboarding, golf etc but most importantly, motorsport.

Motorsport to me, from my observations, is the sport of gentleman. Ive met all kinds of assholes at sporting events, infact I would go as far as to say that your more likely to run into an asshole at a sporting event. This is a feature motorsport finds itself exempt from.

It is basically free from douche bags. I attend everything from time attack, hill climbs, drifting, rigourous streeting in places of hilly nature. There are never douche bags. You can look to your local media for examples, every australian sport has some douche bag outsed for some lame crap.
Harrasing a girl, drugs, drunken antics, hell even tiger woods slept around and he was the highest paid sportsman of the era. How many mishaps or immoral things have you ever seen a racedriver do. None, v8 supercars, one of the most bogan of Australian sports, has never had a driver caught with wrong doings, hell you've never even heard of someone involved in the sport doing anything wrong. This goes from moto gp, f1, kart, everything.

People in motorsport are moral people, this occured to me when I realised, anyone playing with cars past 2oish is a car person. People dont become car people, they are born into the role. Ive been into motors as long as I can remember anything, I was going through old school stuff and found a story I had written in grade 1 about becoming a race driver and racing at Le Mans. My character was crudely drawn to resemble to Nintendo character Yoshi and it was funny as all hell. My point is any idiot can pick up a rugby ball and run 15 meters, throw in a few steps and do something fancy. Just in the same way anyone can drink to much and punch their wife. Thats not to say everyone does. Thats what seperates people, morals. Im not talking about the 10 commandments, good people dont need an excuse to be good.

I ramble sometimes but back to the point, an idiot cant put a car round a corner quickly lap after lap, an idiot cant build a car from the ground up for motorsport, anything as simple as an engine conversion I have found to be completely beyond 95% of people. Im not saying mechanics are smart or something, most of the best people in motorsport and building race cars were never mechanics. Closer to engineers if anything. Thats what motorsport creates, backyard engineers, and I for one love it.

Australians all too easily turn their income into empty beer bottles in a recycle bin, I respect anyone who takes the time to accomplish anything, and I tip my hat to all the backyard engineers out there.

All I am saying is in contrary to what the papers would have you believe, car lovers are reckless hoons who destroy lives and the environment. They would all have to be evil!

Put simply, they arnt, they are the nicest people in society by a long way, and most of my friends have come and gone, but the people from the car world stay and I hope till the end.

In a time of generation y being into drugs, booze, abortions etc, society should make it preferable to be into motorsport, as its the thin line between assholes and diamonds in the rough.

Some creatures deserve more respect.

Firstly, yonks since ive updated this page, big woop wanna fight about it.
Anyhoo something thats been annoying me lately is how some people react to some animals,
the stigma that some animals hold for no real reason. Im a big fan of things that a furry and small.
I have had every pet you can imagine from ferrets, miniature goats, rats, dogs, lizards of all kinds, various aquariums, even raised wild animals of various sorts from legless lizards to a murry river short neck turtle.

One thing that annoys me in particular is the humble rat.

Heres a pic of my little friends kirby and bowser;

Every person except for a handful think that rats are diseased, viscious, dirty and smelly.
I cant even begin to get through to people the contrary. Firstly the diseased issue arose
from the black plague, what people dont realise is that dogs and cats etc also spread the disease,
it was a disease carried on a flea, that was found on many animals. The poor rant took the brunt of this depiction.

Something to consider on this wavelength is the sheer number of lives that have been saved by rats. The amount of disease cured and wonders of modern medicine have all been at one stage or another tested and aided by the use of rats. I dont think anyone has ever thanked them for this.

Secondly, rats frequently suffer conditions associated from 'over grooming', not only are rats passionately clean, sometimes their drive to clean themselves can be detremental to themselves.

Thirdly, my rats (ive had over 15 all types male and female, desexed non desexed, raised wild rats etc) have never stunk. Even when I am away for a weekend or something and havn't been able to clean the cage for over a week it still doesn't smell. Mice stink, ive had mice, they make me gag, but rats dont. They are awesome.

One last thing, is the sheer personality and nature of these little creatures. They are so peaceful, relaxing and wise, they never bite or get angry, they like to snuggle, they are outrageously intelligent, and im not sure if I could ever live without at least one little friend.

I think if your ever in a discussion about rats, you owe it to them for all they have done and the little bad they have ever caused, to change peoples opinions. They are as good if not better than any cat or dog ive known or had, and its a shame they dont get the recognition they deserve.