April 11th, 2008

the interweb does exist in the desert

December 6th, 2007

Okay so I’m back on the net though in much restricted situations… I have like 6 days 20 hours of net to hi jack off this example of australian wireless broadband for rural australia. Yeah go you John howard it’s your damn fault we have shitty net out here, though we do HAVE it.

it’s intermittent, thus taking over a day to post..

msn does not work and I don’t see that it will, nor does email.

So far?

Plane trip was good enough went smoothy, fuck we have some good scenery and when clouds are viewed up close with polarised lenses FAIRY FLOSS!!! Yeah thats great till your plane gets struck by lightening.. which happened to the folks taking the plane BACK to perth. Whoops.
Im just south of port headland and just under camp one (the one that got taken out by the cyclone in 2006) oh yay. Though they love to reassure us that we’re safe here, well you know except for the flooding :p . When I say HOT I really do mean it, we’re not all that far from the hottest town in the country, Marble Bar. So 40 degree days are common and we’re due for some 50 degree + days.

The job is some bloody hard work;
Up at 4 am and off to breakfast by at the latest 5
start just before 6 am
work till 8 and break
work till 12 and break
work till 4 (yeah right, unless they aren’t RR rooms lets say 6pm)

The work is meant to involve about 30-35 rooms a day, but rooms used for fly in fly out contractors always come up in big lots on monday-thursday I had about 54 rooms on my list today (11 rotations, 7 from the day before and 36 for the new day). I couldn’t get to 23 of them by days end… holy shit they expect some stupid shit some days. I didn’t get 36 of those rooms until after 12:30, I’d have gone till 6 but people were coming back to their rooms..

Dinner starts at like 4:30 and I’m always late but the food is always there and always good :p so no complaints there.

You know I may actually miss the bank… nope I don’t, never mind…..

The people are good, but damn shift rotations to hell, the new people fricking suck, very much up themselves. But other than that, very good.

There’s an important note to anyone doing cleaning for a living up here: GLOVES and WATER!
I forgot my gloves today and fuck my fingers hurt from all those chemicals.

Doing this gives you insight into peoples/animals lives;

Never become an offsider unless your aim to to become a mound of dirt.
women will always carry too many skin/hair products than is ever necessary in the desert
miners are the hairiest things on earth besides the welsh and maybe a breed of husky dog.
Flies suck! period
we have the weirdest feral animals…

3 days down and 25 to go.

Matt.

Building a soarer Part 1

April 17th, 2007

So as it stands I’m building up my present car, the good old beefy Toyota Soarer (as stock 1600kgs <- OUCH) the lofty and lazy monster that it is.

The aim is to at least latch onto 300rwkw in the end and thus far the parts list is as follows

Modifications Purchased:
Modifications Purchased:
Work vs-xx (18x9 + 18x10)
Lowered
Pod Filter
Fmic 600x300x76
Custom High mount
Custom 3 inch dump + front
HKS/Garret - T04e
TurboSmart - Boost Controller
Turbosmart - Bov Kit
Turbosmart - Type II Sleeper series bov
Trust/Greddy - Cam Pulley
Trust/Greddy - E-Manage - Blue
Trust/Greddy - E-Manage - Harness - JZZ30
Trust/Greddy - E-Manage - Boost Pressure - Sensor - 3.kg/cm2
Trust/Greddy - Oil Catch Tank 1000 19mm hose
Trust/Greddy - Lightened Racing Pulley Kit
Hks 264 cam IN
Hks 264 cam EX
HKS DLI Ignition Amplification
TRD Thermostat

Next:
-Blitz Nur Spec Exhaust (Rampant)[Eta Unknown]
-Trust/Greddy - Profec E 01 (Nengun)[Processing]
-Oil Cooler [Sourcing]
-Trans Cooler [Sourcing]
-Walbro Fuel Pump [Sourcing]
-Bigger injectors [Sourcing]

Planned:
Mv Automatics Stage 1 or 2 and a Stall converter
Supra stick v4
Lightened Crank Pulley
New Plugs/Coil Packs
DBA Rotors
Line locker
Getting a new radiator and hoses.

How the Poor Engine Looks now

How the Poor Engine Looks now

The new turbo on top of the old

The new turbo on top of the old

When the turbo went bang, so much oil dumped down to the ic piping that I could probably bathe in it, that metal hose joiner (seen above) is stainless steel….

When the turbo went bang, so much oil dumped down to the ic piping that I could probably bathe in it, that metal hose joiner (seen above) is stainless steel….

FMIC

FMIC


FMIC

FMIC


The fmic that arrived this morning

The Bov adapter and type Two Sleeper series Bov

The Bov adapter and type Two Sleeper series Bov

 basic loom, being replaced by a full one

[Enlarge] basic loom, being replaced by a full one

Lightened Acc Pulleys

[Enlarge] Lightened Acc Pulleys

Cam gear for exhaust side

[Enlarge] Cam gear for exhaust side

Piggyback ecu

[Enlarge] Piggyback ecu

3 Bar map sensor

[Enlarge] 3 Bar map sensor

Stacking

September 5th, 2006

Well so far this week I’ve managed to stack four people in the supra and me being me, I’m impatient and dont want to wait till friday. So that means I’m going to .. stack four rims and wheels into the supra today and get these wheels home :p I hope I dont have to jam on the brakes for anything XD