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Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:37 pm**

Anyone goin to be there either competing or marshalling?

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:16 pm**

Havnt heard of it, got any details or links to some?

Mike

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:49 pm**

http://www.4x4action.co.nz/UpComing_events.htm

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:59 pm**

Details as far as i know are ,First stages are on Thurs night 3 night stages ,8 day stages on Fri,another 8 on Sat with 2 night Stages,4 more on Sund finishing around 3pm ,The Outlaw class are starting there stages on Friday,Weve been told most day stages are 2-3 km long and 2 of the night stages are 8-10 km long so by the time they put 25 or so trucks through it should be a long night,,Dion and i will be there competeing in my pile of sh***t its a yellow safari ute with a ext cage that looks like a jungle gym ,so if your there call over and say hello,It would be good to put faces to names....Steve

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:05 pm**

I'll be there, I'll be with the Guy bros, I can't wait. Looks like the weather might even be kind, maybe.

Cheers, Jeff.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:39 pm**

I'm there competing, same as a few others on here, will have to change the tyres though.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:05 pm**

Hey, it looks like a big giant Jaffa now

Posted: **Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:14 pm**

Chocolate insire too :lol:

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 4:42 pm**

My bro was at it again, taking heaps of pics, soon to be printed and also all for sale to competitors (or anyone else for that matter) to help fund his photographic addiction :wink:

Drop him an email at ishotimages@gmail.com if you're interested, or just want to be added to his mailing list.

He's uploaded a few samples for your viewing pleasure at...
http://picasaweb.google.com/ishotimages/WhakataneWinchChallenge

Here's a few of ORE members in action:

Shrmin on the way to 1st place:

Steve and Dion breaking stuff:

GQTROL:

4wdbits:

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 4:52 pm**

Cool pics, whats with that hilux having the radiator on the back? Have the rules changed or is it a big oil cooler?

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 5:11 pm**

Jono was competing in the 'outlaw class', a one-off class for trucks that don't comply with the 4x4Challenges rules. So nope, you can't have a rear mount radiator.

The outlaw class was something thought up by Pete Weatherly, the organiser, and as their were only 4 or so teams competing in the outlaw class with Jono being the only non-local, it's unlikely the class will ever be run again.

The latest version of the 4x4 challenges rules will always be available from http://www.4x4challenges.org.nz if you're looking for them.

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 6:50 pm**

Cheers Jermery, thought after i had posted, that may have be the case.

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 10:20 pm**

Are the pic's working?

How did Donald & Roger do? Did they compete?

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 11:22 pm**

Flufee & Dave were second, Donald & Rodg third

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2007 1:13 am**

That looked like fun

all that mud :twisted:

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2007 8:46 am**

PR wrote:That looked like fun all that mud

Was an awesome event, but some of the tracks were pretty unforgiving on panelwork on larger trucks like Patrols / Landcruisers!! Our truck never did look too flash in the first instance, but it looks quite second-hand now.

Hopefully Pete will run another one in the future, would be a shame if it were to be the last.

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2007 4:33 pm**

NJV6 wrote:Are the pic's working?

Sorry, pics are working now.

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2007 7:17 pm**

Is that the second event that Shrnin(not sure drivers name)has won of late or I'm I confused with same event?

Is there some over all results for this event ?

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2007 7:45 pm**

Correct, it's two from two for the Sherminator now.

Cheers, Jeff.

Posted: **Sat May 05, 2007 8:53 am**

Shane wrote:Is there some over all results for this event ?

Can't remember them all, but Top 5 as follows:
1st - Tony White / Mike Graham in Shrmin,
2nd - Fluffe / Dave Morrison,
3rd - Donald Preston / Roger McKay,
4th - Aaron Smythe / me,
5th - Justin Wynyard / Mike Porter

Posted: **Sat May 05, 2007 9:41 am**

Anyone got some cheep C.Vs :lol:

Posted: **Sat May 05, 2007 10:55 am**

mudhaw wrote:Anyone got some cheep C.Vs

Bahahaha!. not as many as you guys go through!!, you need nissan shares m8 :lol:

I'll have to dig up that pic of the "graveyard"

Posted: **Sat May 05, 2007 1:54 pm**

We figured it out they are only good for seven years and the after market ones are only good for seven minutes

Posted: **Sat May 05, 2007 4:39 pm**

Or 400 metres whichever comes first...Steve

Posted: **Sat May 05, 2007 8:12 pm**

mudhaw wrote:We figured it out they are only good for seven years and the after market ones are only good for seven minutes

Are you serious? You used aftermarket ones, not 2nd hand Nissan ones?

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2007 8:56 am**

We blew 3 nissan ones first :oops:

Posted: **Mon May 07, 2007 1:38 am**

Give me a ring Steve. We have some left from when we ran a GQ front.

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2007 8:24 am**

Hehehehe, heres that pic of Mudhaws carnage from Whakatane, pity Bobby Long dosn't make CV's for GQ's :wink:

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2007 3:36 pm**

Looks like mudhaw mind need to get a GU frontend or something :wink:

I did see on outerlimits that someone was going to be making ultra tough GQ CV's. I also saw that someone was thinking of making a hybrid GQ-80 series housing so they have really big diffs AND CV's.

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2007 5:07 pm**

Or time to get some nissan CV's treated...

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