Surprise no one has beat me.


Another good day, although I think many of us SQers would prefer not to be running against the SPLers again. The judges weren't too impressed either.

Thanks to Marty as usual for organising, the Doran Pro Audio guys as well, the judges (maybe we need a cars notice, so we can get air con blasting before you get in), and of course the competitors.

I'll get some pics up when I get some time.

Having said that, I'm rather disappointed myself, got my poorest score yet.

Well I got my best score for the season so far, but I'm not quite in the top placings yet. I had a good day all the same, but yeah, the SPL boys and girls can make life tough for the SQ judges, along with the heat.

A big thanks to Marty, Mike and Hakki for setting up, judging and organising the cars. I thought the process flowed smooth and quick. Thanks to Doran for the great BBQ and keeping the competitors and spectators fed.

Looking forward to the final round already now that the car is finally in a worthy state for competition.

The lines were there before us. honest.


Maybe not then... A commodore with stockies.


Mark's always good for a smile.


Surpisingly this guy rated more than just a mention.


Rick, tried to hide some suspicious stains, but I got them.



Jono's lap was rather popular during the awards ceremony, so much so he didn't even get up to collect his trophy.

Did you grab any shots of my wiring?

Maybe

(I'm open to requests, I got everyone's car I think).

Nice pics Chris .... looks like you guys had a great day too

judges didnt like my car

hot vinyl seats and untined windows

results?

nice pics too

These are the results that have been sent to Marc for the leaderboard:

Amateur Show Round 6 2007
30 points - John Nassis (Daihatsu Charade)
28 points - Jack Horrocks (Mazda MX-5)

Amateur Street Round 6 2007
30 points - Daniel Hobson (Honda Civic)
28 points - Jonathon Hadley (Holden HZ)
26 points - Brad Thurlow (Holden Commodore)
24 points - Kris Wilson (Mazda 3)
22 points - Anmol Sagar (Nissan Pulsar)
20 points - Rick Formosa (Holden Nova)
18 points - Mark Wheeler (Holden Commodore)
16 points - Antony Hughes (Holden Commodore)
14 points - Chris Vidler (Ford FTP)
12 points – Matt Towns (Ford Laser)
10 points – Rahul Movva (Honda Accord

Pro Show Round 6 2007
30 points – Shane Dunn ( Mitsubishi 380 )
28 points - Hakki (BMW)

Pro Street Round 6 2007
30 points - Joel Cheesman (Nissan Pulsar)
28 points - Nathan Vlotis (Chrysler Valiant) - Moved from AM/ST
26 points - Marty Price (Nissan 200SX)

Encouragement Award
Rahul Movva

Judges Choice Award
Brad Thurlow

Am Street Leader board

142 Jonathan Hadley ( Holden HZ )
135 Daniel Hobson ( Honda Civic )
129 Antony Hughes ( Holden Commodore )
126 Rick Formosa ( Holden Nova )
110 Anmol Sagar ( Nissan Pulsar )
100 Brad Thurlow ( Holden Commodore )
96 Mark Wheeler ( Holden Commodore )
88 Kris Wilson ( Mazda 3 )
70 Peter Harlovic ( Ford Laser )
63 Chris Vidler ( Ford GTP )
55 Matthew Towns ( Ford Laser )
54 Nathan Vlotis ( Chrysler Valiant )
28 Craig Paddon ( Nissan Skyline )
26 Ben Chong ( Holden Astra )
26 Miko Penning ( Mazda 626 )
20 Joe Fortunio ( Holden Gemini )
18 Mark Pakula ( Mazda MX5 )
18 Anthony Walsh ( Holden Rodeo )
14 Blake Roberts ( Holden Commodore )
12 Scott Bosnik ( Ford Falcon )
10 Rahul Moova ( Honda Accord )
10 Anand Maini ( Nissan Pulsar )
10 Garfield McGuinness ( Honda Prelude )
9 Jack Chauvel ( Holden Commodore )
8 John Cross ( Toyota Corolla )

Leaderboard has just been updated for the last two rounds

Rick..Mark...Antony...Marty...what happened???

And how in the hell am I still in the top 10???

While I wasn't even close to being able to make this event (not having time, money or a system) I will see how I go with the next one. No guarantee's but I think the mid semester uni break isnt too far away and so there might be a very small chance of me making it as a spectator / judge.

I'd be surprised if my system will be complete by then and in a competition ready state even if I do have the time.

Sadly my heap had dead flat batteries (thanks to a rep not turning it off after auditioning two days beforehand) so neither the car nor the stereo could actually be started that morning. At least I got 10 points for safety judging I guess.

Bugger

There was noone there with a optima and a jumplead to zap you to life?

It never even made it there. It got as far as the driveway before I decided to put it back and settle for dead last. Remember the dual monitor can take hours to set up again and when you have a sound off to setup and run, you don't want to arrive at midday.

Finally a NSW comp with a sunny day. It was great, but a bit hot in the arvo. Sunny none the less so that was awesome! And we finished early for once Perfect!

Down on a few numbers in Am St this round, but there were still a heap of awesome cars, and scores still as close as ever.

Looking forward to the next round

Edit: Thanks Chris for taking a photo of my engine bay before i got to clean it... Bastard! haha

Oh, and thanks Marc for the leaderboard update. ETA on the other states, so we can see who is coming where?

Yeah AM/ST was way down this round.

Pete, it would be good if you could make it to the next round.

I know that i want to get as many people to listen to my car as possible for some last feedback for finals. As im sure everyone else does. We need as much feedback as possible, rather than scores/points for this next round i reckon. Just to get us all prepped.

Perhaps a test and tune day could be organised sometime? Though there isnt much time between Round 7 and Finals

Good idea Rick.

How about a test'n'tune day here (or somewhere) on one of the saturdays between the last round and the finals. I'll bring the RTA along so we can use that as well.

ill be inf or that

Ta mate Kudos to Joel aswell, we thought it up yesterday.

Anyways, the problem is, there is only one Saturday between Round 7 and Finals.

Round 7 = Sat 29th September
Finals = Sat 13th October

Theres only one week in between, Sat 6th October.

Another fantastic day, nice and sunny, if a little warm for the poor judges, watching those guys sweat inside the cars while judging, i really felt for them, so hats off to the judges for doing it all day long, car after car.

+1 to Chris's idea, a heads up to a competitor 1 car ahead, could allow us to blast the car with air-con and make it a little easier for the judges.

Thanks to the doran guys for the venue, food and general hospitality, nice bunch of guys. Oh yeah and thanks to Tarja/DD phil for the entertainment agian this round.. seeing DD cones floating around in a puff of smoke is kinda cool..



For me it was a new amp, new HU (9887) and running active for the first time and the fact that my new HU wasn't installed untill 3.30 am Sunday morning... kinda left me a little underprepared...

Well at least I have a month to prepare for the next round, so my tune will be as good as possible by ear.

This is a fantastic idea, all the NSW guys should get together down at FHRX and do a mass test and tune, having the RTA on hand would be great too, and muzzy's grasp on graphs would be greatly appreciated... I'll be in this for sure, anything I can do to help, just let me know.

How about that weekend then? Saturday 6th October? How does that suit everyone?

I'm always more then happy to do absolutely whatever I realistically can to help out, but my schedule really makes it hard. Between uni and work my only days off are Monday, Thursday and Friday and neither are likely to be suitable to other competitors.

Unless the tune day could be held on one of those days, or after 5pm there sadly isn't much I can do to help

I can't afford to miss uni time after last semesters results, and with the amount of days i've taken off work this year I'm lucky I still have a job...

There's little i'd like more then to be able to help and be involved in some way or other, but it's really difficult for me this year and will be even tougher next year.

wuss

(like I can talk, I haven't made it to one event this year due to football, CA and work...)

P.S. Muzz, where's that resume

Actually ladies and loungelizards, I just had a look at my uni timetable and saw this unpredicted bit of info:



I have two assignments due on the 5th and 13th of September, a Quiz on the 5th of September - after this my next assessment is due on 23rd October.

This means that means as far as uni goes...I'm free for nationals!!!

There are only a couple of hurdles:
1) I have no system
2) Work

If I can find a way to get around these, we may all see a new system debut for NSW at Wagga

Anthony: I'd forgotten all about it!! I remembered it at midnight when I went to bed one night and said to myself "do it tomorrow" but then by the next morning I'd fogotten again. So much runnign back and forth between stuff that It's just skipped my mind. I'll put it down on my schedule so I remember, and whip it up as soon as I get the time! I'll drop you a pm to confirm the type of position as well just so I can better prepare it

Fine by me Marty



Edit: Pete, thats exactly when my mid session break is aswell!

hmm spend a saturday down the shop, ill be there , and if things get boring ill take a kip on the couch in the aircon.

Was a good day, nice and warm and sadly its only gonna get warmer for the judges.

Sorry i didnt have my happy pants on gents and come and talk to y'all
I had a b'day on friday, then a day of go karting then a all nighter at a bucks party.

And me and my fat fingers cant add up and ripped myself off 10 points hahahaha. anywho glad I got up and came.
It'd be great to have a test and tune day!!!

ill be there (like almost every saturday)

The tune day sounds good. I need to do some fine tuning before the next round and I won't see my car for the next couple weeks due to good old APEC keeping me locked down in the city.

That reminds me dude, I need to come and grab your car for some more running in / tuning.

Make sure you beat some hippies for me will you! and carnies if they so happen to cross your path during APEC, i hate carnies!

Rest assured, if anyone gets in my way it will only be very temporary!

I'll sort that out this week mate, probably Thursday/Friday. Made some points on what I need to work on or next round.

Just to let you know honey, that wasn't me, that was my girlfriend, Lissy. My car is the little silver swift.

damn that is Confusing

i wont be able to make it to that test and tune. I'm taking off too much time in that part of the year.

i plan to come up and see you before next round tho Marty. still haven't made it to ur shop(i wont even call it "new" any more)since the move

Thanks to the Doran Chaps for opening their shop up for the day. i kno its tough letting strangers wander thru ur workshop to use the "facilities" was an awesome day the weather was a bit on the warm side esp being surrounded by light concrete. heated by the sun. its made my plan for wagga tho. without aircon

hey guys sounds like i missed out on round 6, finally some hot weather around, couldnt make it had relos here from overseas couldnt get out of that one.. bit of movement again with those scores, well done guys to whoever keeps on improving their systems throughout the year, improvement usually means more points.

Now...to find an Aircon Setup for my car...

ive got condensor heater box pullys brackets and compressor to suit a HQ-WB holden if u want to buy it?

im good

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Pics?

more Pics can be found here:

http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e162/Tar...%20August%2007/

No no, I thought Antony said he had some.

Nevermind.

I do, but i scaled them down and they are still over 2mb each. i'll have to reduce the quality, but i have to do that individually so it will take a little time. will be up soon.

Antony

I've got photoshop actions set. Resize to 1024wide 3:2 ratio, then save with JPEG quality 10 (of 12).

Gives me (with the 350D) a 1024x683 pic between 250-450kB which I just post up on photobucket.