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Postby gurutasker » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:31 pm

2LTR Rona wrote:wgtn to Taupo in 4hrs is easily achievable


Sounds about right... sometimes you can even do it in 3.5 if you're driving at a decent pace.
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Postby Brick » Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:52 pm

what about auckland to taupo?
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Postby spencer » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:49 pm

its pretty much 400km from down town wellington to our place in taupo (about 10min north past the race track) so 3.5 hrs would be breaking the law at some point
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Postby bluemaumau » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:53 pm

depends were in akld your going. but we did it in 3.5 hours on friday
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Postby pc » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:28 am

gurutasker wrote:
2LTR Rona wrote:wgtn to Taupo in 4hrs is easily achievable

Sounds about right... sometimes you can even do it in 3.5 if you're driving at a decent pace.

Only if driving at 3am, most of the time I head north I manage to average 60km/hour for the first 2 hours cos of all the traffic. That would mean I have to average 187km/hour for the rest of the trip to do it in 3.5 hours.
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Postby gurutasker » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:55 am

Sorry... edit to that leaving from Whitby which is already 30 mins out of wellington city. So yeah.. 4 hours apprx.

And yes normally our trips up are later in the evening so very little traffic.
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Postby ~SlideWays~ » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:02 am

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2LTR Rona wrote:wgtn to Taupo in 4hrs is easily achievable

Sounds about right... sometimes you can even do it in 3.5 if you're driving at a decent pace.

Only if driving at 3am, most of the time I head north I manage to average 60km/hour for the first 2 hours cos of all the traffic. That would mean I have to average 187km/hour for the rest of the trip to do it in 3.5 hours.


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Postby Dell'Orto » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:30 am

Yeah, 3 1/2 hours is probably a little unrealistic. It takes about 3 hours from Palmy driving sedately, so unless you're on a mission from 'nam, I cant see it happening.
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Postby B1NZ » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:34 pm

Mmm, Boost wrote:Yeah, 3 1/2 hours is probably a little unrealistic. It takes about 3 hours from Palmy driving sedately, so unless you're on a mission from 'nam, I cant see it happening.


Vietnam is a little further so you would probably have to add some more time on that as well :wink:
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Postby Dell'Orto » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:55 pm

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Mmm, Boost wrote:Yeah, 3 1/2 hours is probably a little unrealistic. It takes about 3 hours from Palmy driving sedately, so unless you're on a mission from 'nam, I cant see it happening.


Vietnam is a little further so you would probably have to add some more time on that as well :wink:


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Postby B1NZ » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:50 pm

Mmm, Boost wrote:
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Mmm, Boost wrote:Yeah, 3 1/2 hours is probably a little unrealistic. It takes about 3 hours from Palmy driving sedately, so unless you're on a mission from 'nam, I cant see it happening.


Vietnam is a little further so you would probably have to add some more time on that as well :wink:


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Postby XSVWGN » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:44 pm

i will be going. Need to give the New SC14 setup a nice work in...and going to taupo and back from welly seems like a good idea :twisted:
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Postby bluemaumau » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:31 pm

whens it going to be going matt?
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Postby XSVWGN » Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:21 pm

bluemaumau wrote:whens it going to be going matt?


Well just before Christmas it blew the head gasket and i had to get the head plained as it warped. So im awaiting the head to come back and then the new setup is going on and getting tuned. But it has to be going by early feb for the drags. So yea...soon. Long time coming tho....coming up on 18months now
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Postby slighty_looney » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:51 pm

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slighty_looney wrote:i know im going from palmy , going in a cruz up with a turbo s13 and a r32 det with antilag 8) taking my celica


A R32 DET with antilag, WHY? Ceramic turbos = breakybreaky with any kind of pressure around the turbine.


lol its not on a standard turbo lith :P
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