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hulux-happy wrote:awsome day. hope the guys that rolled are all good

Where were you when the prize giving was happening Steve???

Sorry about ripping your bumper off the way I did! When Ric and Corey told me to, "GO GO GO Pete!" I was expecting your bumper to be made like mine and take a heap of forcing to get straight. I didn't mean to rip it off like it did. Sorry dude. Hope your trucks ok.

Sadam_Husain wrote:how much body damage the the 40 suffer Pete, is it a propper repair job or throw the top away and leave it a rough truck job?

Well. I'm on the fence really. Corey reacons it's only a minor job to get fixed. (but he's dealing with the sudden fame of being on TV3 news right now, so he feels bullet proof) But I was planning on getting a soft top made anyway. The most damage was done to the front end pannels and the bonnet actually.

There's no rush to get it fixed. i drove it home

you can get all that stuff in fiberglass if you cant find any rust free panels, bit of a shame for such a tidy body on that truck

PR wrote:The scoring was a joke if you went on to the course a stoped straight away you got 100 points if you went on and had to reverced (which most people had to do cause it was so tight) and nocked over two pegs you got 140 points. out of my 2200 odd points 1600 was due to revercing

Sorry for the newbie question but how does the scoring work?

I could see that as soon as forward motion stopped the stage was finished. Why do they make the course so tight when it's impossible for many to get around the very tight bends? Like that cabbage tree - OK if the vehicle had skid steering but for most they need to reverse. I noticed some stages had harder (tighter radius) bits for the vehicles equipped to make the sharp turns.

It may be easier if someone could just point me to an already published scoring system that these events use. Thanks - Tony.

You will have to get that pic printed out and framed Mr Petefj40

That's some impresive work

Sadam_Husain wrote:you can get all that stuff in fiberglass if you cant find any rust free panels, bit of a shame for such a tidy body on that truck

I agree.
But to be honest mate. For a, what I thoiught was a, "fun" event.?? I wasn't expecting it to be so naily or serious. Straight up..
If I had of looked at the course before signing up? I would of passed. I'm not that experianced (as the pix show). But hey, I learnt alot and had a shit load of fun and meet some great people.
It was worth every cent.

Cheers.
Pete.

kiwitonita wrote: Sorry for the newbie question but how does the scoring work?

You tell me it seemed strange

kiwitonita wrote:Why do they make the course so tight when it's impossible for many to get around the very tight bends?

In the pre event drivers meeting Rick from 4wd accessiores voiced his concerns about the tight turns and revercing they just said they did not care

petefj40 wrote:

hulux-happy wrote:awsome day. hope the guys that rolled are all good

Where were you when the prize giving was happening Steve???

Sorry about ripping your bumper off the way I did! When Ric and Corey told me to, "GO GO GO Pete!" I was expecting your bumper to be made like mine and take a heap of forcing to get straight. I didn't mean to rip it off like it did. Sorry dude. Hope your trucks ok.

yeh i wanted to be there for that prize giving, but the other half was getting sick since yesterday and she just wanted to get home and in to bed.

good to hear that you drove the fj home pete.
as for me i didn't break anything but bent the exhaust at the tip and bent the front drivers side front bumper in to the wheel, but pete sorted that out for me cheers.
truck is all good and drove home nicely.
can't wait for next year. bring it on i say.

was a fantastic day and thourughy enjoy it.

did anyone get a copy of the places. did i win anything

Cool photos and vids.

vid all made up, just compiling it

Sheffield video

Latest vid here

MATT4U wrote:Sheffield video

Latest vid here

Nice work

Danm IFS. yep blew a CV on stage four. Finished the stage in two wheel drive and only got 20points against me for it. Solid axle comming soon and I will see you all back there next year. I think there were about 4/5 rollovers for the day, but there were plenty of mechanical breakages. Had to go early as the daughter was starting to shiver and get hypothermic. great day still.
Al

had a good day
good to see everyone
im going to give it a go next time (have to show up PR )
might even pinch his lockers out of his truck when hes working

MATT4U wrote:Sheffield video

Latest vid here

Well done Matt! :thumleft:

did you like your part half way through??

Yeah I thought that was a nice touch!

PR wrote:

kiwitonita wrote: Sorry for the newbie question but how does the scoring work?

You tell me it seemed strange

kiwitonita wrote:Why do they make the course so tight when it's impossible for many to get around the very tight bends?

In the pre event drivers meeting Rick from 4wd accessiores voiced his concerns about the tight turns and revercing they just said they did not care

In the clip you get an idea of how tight it was. Even zuks were having problems on some of the really tight ones. Was able to get round some by throwing it in rear wheel drive and putting the back sideways but most there was no show of getting round.

In saying that it was a great day put on for us.

here is the youtube version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHF9E1xXR_k

Mint day first trial so did not expect to much
also went down with sav from nelson.
Only damage was a bent gard and damage window pillar for the heep
and we bend the tie rod end on the suzi
also sav got 1st in modified and we got 2nd in modified
hope to be there next year. great day

squeer peg round hole?????

MATT4U wrote:queer pig round hole?????

And it bloody hurt hitting that tree

perfect for the next event, but apparently not road legal, not sure why.....
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... key=579950

PR
Posted: 2007-09-24, 06:45:32

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And it bloody hurt hitting that tree

dooooooh your meant to drive around them

unlike me on the second round when nobody told me the course had been changed

hiriklux wrote:unlike me on the second round when nobody told me the course had been changed

How did the hilux go? Haven't seen it in action since the new mods

went sweet dave course just to tight for a long arsed pos like mine

did a couple of sections in 2 wd to turn a bit quicker

DaveM wrote:perfect for the next event, but apparently not road legal, not sure why.....
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... key=579950

what class would this be in?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Specialist-cars/Competition-cars/photos/a-119108384/p-49384379.htm

cool thingie anyway. i wonder how that would go in the mud. imagin there was a tracks class. hmmmmmm

gonna trade in on that now hilux-happy?

ca someone help me dail up is so slow i only got 1 pic up last night.

please i have 10 which are good shots of the trucks and about 30 more just ramdom ones

jono