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It's a common swap for the mi16 engine, the intake cam is more aggressive than the exhaust on them, when people move to a stage 1 intake cam they very often use the stock intake cam for the exhaust and call it a stage 0.5

After taking Ashkan for a drive last night and feeling how the back end of the car is behaving since i've done the solid mounts, torsion bars and anti-roll bar. I've decided i need to look at a rear wing/spoiler for the car as although now i can get traction at the front because the rear is nice and stiff, the back is too light (for the lack of a better word) and is dancing around a bit. I've been researching all day - and doing work in between and have decided on two looks that have proven functionality: the 306 maxi spoiler: or the f2000 205 wing: Most likely i'll be looking at them towards the end of the year but something needs to get on the back of it to help the rear stay in place. I"m currently prefering the f2000 wing Peter White in dunners runs this on his 205, which he's made himself - as to confirm what i've been reading it's the single biggest improvement to the car he's made:

You will actually find it's the dealers that put on the BMW123 plates on, i know the Peugeot dealerships where buying all the pugxxx plates up for customers cars.

Friends got me DRTDVL - not to sure why tho... Absolutely love the plate:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/S...n-263110144.htm Fresh paint, 6 point cage, New Toyo R888 tyres, Bilstein grp n shocks, solid rear beam mounts,Pagid race pads, goodridge braided brake hoses, Sparco corsa evo seat, 5 point camlock belts, Omp suede deep dish steering wheel, Lightened shell. Rego on hold. Fresh low milage alloy block Mi16 motor, rebuilt with new rings, bearings, seals gaskets, oil pump, cambelt, waterpump, tensioners, lightened and balanced bottom end, ported and flowed head. New EBC heavy duty clutch, lightened flywheel. 2 new Dellorto 45 dhla's fitted to jenvey inlet manifold with uni filter and ram tubes, 8 valve distributor with billet adapter. New battery mounted in car. radiator serviced and cleaned. Travelled less than 100km's since build. Selling due to new business commitments and just dont have time to use. This would most likely be faster and better handling than my 205... Damm cheap for the fun you could have.

haha yeah that gold e30 was funny... we found him completely lost on the way from rotarua to L&P land... he followed us there, where i think he met back up with you guys.

not really just depends how deep your pockets are or get your car sponsored by a strip club/brothel

not the caption! MONSTER TEAPARTY: Car enthusiasts take a break from the Infamous CannonBall Run.

MLM's folks found this in the North Harbor News: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news.../Wheels-on-show

here i was thinking it was actually called Homax Purple...

We get it in the IT world also... I don't so much deal with the public as internal employees and very often its AHHHH I need this fixed NOW! to do my work, higher up managers get involved as it's mission critical.... You call them up and they are too busy, they then say they will call you back when they are free and never do, then you get blamed for not fixing the problem and causing delays to the project.

There was a diy head porting thread a while back that had some good information in it.

247,000km on the 96 406

The 3g phone doesn't record video. Maybe the 3gs does but defiantly not the 3g model... Hell we had to wait for a major system update to be able to copy and paste text, forward text messages, receive and sent pxts, so ya...

I've had my iphone 3g for a year and a bit and i can safely say it's a very very average phone. Cell Reception is rubbish - calls dropped every time i go over the bridge / through spaghetti junction. I was out at the beach with some other guys they had 2-3 bars of reception and the iphones (there where two there) had no service. The camera is crap at 2mp and is not all that nice to use. It's a very usable device if it's not lagging a lot. I found if you install more than a couple of pages of apps the whole phone grinds to a halt... It's really annoying. The wi-fi functionality on my phone is also very slow. You have to use itunes to do anything on the phone, which i personally really do not like. My 2 biggest complaints with the phone is the lack of ringer volume, i can have it in my pocket and not hear the phone at all. You cannot make customised message tones, and the process to make your own ringtones is a pain in the butt! as you can't just use the mp3/music on the phone. You need to have special ringtone formated sound files - which you pay to download from itunes if you don't know the work around (creating new files, renaming extentions, copying back into itunes, uploading to phone, etc...). Battery life is also crap. If you run bluetooth and wireless you battery will not last 9 hours. GPS will suck through a complete battery in 45min. On the GPS side of things, the iphone (16gb for me) does NOT store the maps you have downloaded from google maps, so everytime you use the gps it downloads new maps even if you have looked at that area 100 times it's a fresh download each time - which you get charged for... You also can not use it as a removable harddrive like you could with the old ipods, it makes it very annouying when you want to actually utlize the 16gb of storage you have on the phone. I'd personally wait and see what the google phone is like... The iphone in my mind is an average pda, average phone, good entertainment device. The touch screen and interface is great when it's not lagging.

I'd love to get a copy of any pics of my car if you manage to find more than one...

Next year they are going to limit it to 200 cars (113 cars this year), and are thinking about making it a 2 day event. I got a call from the event organisors last night, the 4 and rotary nationals guys asked if the Cannonball run guys would like a stand at the show and shine... They asked if they could use the pug! whoooo it's nice to know they liked the car enough to have it on the stand, unfortunately its already been used for another stands display.

Bugger man... If i had of known i would have slowed down to say hi. At that time i was following the girls trying to figure out where the Mt. was as i'd never been there before

As above, didn't get many photos due to being at the back of the pack

Nope i did it all... Wash, and machine max... Andrea did a full leather clean/condition and cleaned the inside tho... She had a blast also. Naughty Lass is her plate. It's actually a friends that has a company car so she can't use it and has lent it to andrea for the last 4 years. Didn't get a pic of them unfortunately... Figured i would as we drove/stopped for challenges but the delay with the girls put a stop to that... Wait for next months NZ Performance car for more images... As i said 4000 photos from the contestants, also 400 from the Cannonball Photographer. Waiting for the video's and documentaries to be completed also, they arn't due till the 18th.

Well folks i've been asked to do a small write up for the event and i have to say it was a lot of fun. Matt (MLM) and I decided that the 205 would be a nice little car for the fun run and i quickly decided on the theme as i was hunting for costumes and found the evil mime outfit... At this point the logic kinda went like this... Mimes = French Peugeot = French DRTDVL = Dirt Devil = Evil Evil Mime = suits car = theme... I then hunted and found an evil jesters outfit for Matt to wear (without telling him). This was all good and fun until i realised that they where all US sites and it wasn't going to be cheap... I then happened by random chance to stumble across Party Dudes, a costume hire website based out of Queenstown and they had both the outfits by chance... WHOOO team theme completed. Costs where very reasonable, $55/$65 for the outfits and $32 for courier fee (included return postage) plus bond. As you can see by the photos below they looked very good. Next point of call was Shelley at Attract Signs for some driver (Evil Mime) and co-driver (Hells Jester) names for the 3/4 windows and some race numbers (666) in a funky font i found on the net. After a few delays on my side all the signage was complete and looked again fantastic! The theme was completed with a flashing orange light stolen(well borrowed) for the roof from my work for the weekend. The event day stated at 7:30 am offically but we where there at 7:15 just to make sure we didn't miss anything, everyone was meeting at the Albany Pub as that was the official start point. It was amazing to see some of the cars that where entered, a gt40 replica (7 year build project), shelby cobra kit car, Ferrari 348, lots of mint American Muscle, and a really nice mix of new/old, jap/euro, modified/standard cars to top it all off... The only minor dissapointment was the lack of costumes, we where defiantly the standouts in the crowd - well anywhere for that matter... The best family costume went to a couple and their 2 kids, mom was Peter Pan, dad was Captian Hook, the daughter (6-7) was Tinkerbell, and the son (4-5) was dressed as a monkey, there where some 70's people (go-go girls, hippie guys) driving a big classic Oldsmobile convertable... We got a nice short safety speach from a police representive and then it was all on... Cars where handed their mission packs as they left the car park, the missions where fairly easy (1st = drive to hampton downs and take a picture with as many drift cars in it as possible, 2nd = Drive to Tauranga Marina and find a boat and write down the name of it, etc...) the real fun came into the side/bonus point challenges, these included things like best roadkill photo, 10 points for every 69 photo, 300 points for your team and the team who's car you cover in shaving cream, steal someones personalized plate and take an interesting photo without them knowing, etc... There where also a series of landmark photos that you got bonus points for replicating the photo, these where things like the Kiwi 360 kiwifruit, the Cafe 27 (with the corrugated iron girl next to the numbers) which you can see below. Now just to clearly state i was not speeding during the day, the first car to arrive back to the pub was before 6pm and we got there at 8:30ish... There was a very good reason for me being soo far behind the main pack also... Andrea (My girlfriend) also decided to partake in the event, and on the way to hampton downs decided that her and the 4 other girls would like to stop for breakfast... showing up at hampton downs 25 minutes behind everyone else, being the caring boyfriend i am, i decided to stay and wait for them and drive with them for the day as 600km+ by yourselves would be kinda crappy... We did how ever for some reason manage to make up time on a lot of cars for some unknown reason at the time (later turns out we missed the petting zoo where you could get the pictures of the Donkey and Lama as part of the bonus challengers). Other challenges involved answering some questions after finding someone in a location (Bombay reststop and Mt. Maunganui). At the Mt. Maunganui question stop you received the rest of the challenges for the day, one of which involved counting the number of stairs at the small island at the beach... Please now picture an Evil Mime and Hells Jester walking/running across the sand of the beach. We where constantly being stopped to have photos taken with us, one person joked we where photographed more than the cars on the day. We ended up in Rotarua for lunch 3 hours behind the first car!!! He did however miss the Hampton downs stop and later won the award for getting the most lost. Now this is where it got interesting, we had a minor breakdown earlier in the day where the main shifter pivot on the subframe was working itself loose and we needed to stop and tighten it up, which wasn't a problem as i had that Powerbuilt toolkit i won for Movember in the car (it's now the racecar in car toolkit - THANKS OLLIE!) the girls also stopped which we thought was nice (unbeknown to us at the time, they just need the toilet and looked back to see we had pulled over 100m behind them - they also took this time to take a photo next to the big L&P bottle at the Mt. end of Paeroa) this really played in to their favor later in the day as in the second mission book you had to go to Paeroa and get a photo with the L&P bottle... This really really pissed me off as they decided screw us they are going to skip it as they had done it and just go from Rotarua to Bombay skipping the Paeroa mission and being nice like we had been and sticking with them all day.... So they head to Bombay and we head to Paeroa... Now we where sitting between 110 and 120 most of the time, from Rotarua to Paeroa to Bombay, for some reason we where 15 minutes behind the girls by the time we left the Bombay mission!!!!!! How the hell did that happen! All in all it was an absolutely fantastic day with some great conversations with other competitors (no we didn't finish last!) and some great memories to boot! Matt and I also won best costume(s) and i was kinda gutted i didn't win best sounding under 2.5ltr which went to a Rotary powered Black E30. Also best Euro went to a Supercharged E36. More information on what other prizes can be found here: Prizes WHOOO! I've already started to plan my costume/theme for next year... And will highly recommend anyone else to do the event. There was 110 cars on the day. Over 4000 photos where handed in. NZPC has 4gb of photos to sort through!... There will be a 3 page spread in next months NZ Performance car magazine for those that want more information and more/better photos of the event. OHHH there was only 5 speeding tickets if i heard correctly at the pub afterwards, although one was a speed camera ticket at 162kph... see you all there next year!

Can do... just let me finish washing and waxng the 406 and i'll do it after that...

Just a small update as to work done over the holidays. Full wash and machine wax. New speedo cable installed. Wheel alignment done. Current wheel alignment settings = Front toe = 1.5 degrees toe out Front Camber = 2 degrees negative