Pictures

[CMF_White Knight]

Have all these great pics of the journey but cannot seem to download em from the file. Not my computer and owner not around. Will sort it one way or another.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

A long time ago in a distant galaxy someone posted a link to download to shrink pictures. Alex, Yom, Toma, Cisco ?? When you want to send a pic it asks you what size. Ones I have stored on this computer way to large but no way to get em down to say 120kb. Help a computer dummy please.

 

[cisco]

Here ya go mate.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Lets see

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Thanks Cisco. Not as stupid as I thought. Okay some pics coming. Above pic of Hack fully loaded for the trip.Dan our daughter had half the back seat. Hmm about 200 kg of people, luggage.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

"Go forth son and bring the force to Perth"
"Yes father I will"

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Hack getting close to cruising speed somewhere on the Nullarbor. The wife behind the wheel.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Hack meets the big Gallah half way across this great southern land

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Bit of a worry. Ah well camels Hack would go under no problems.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Thats it. End of Aussie. Next stop south Antartica.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Mixing it with the big boys and I mean big. Road trains 38.5 metres long. No worries for Hack.Who has the bigger turbo? About to set off from Ceduna early morning.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Talking of road trains here is the wife with the hammer down. These guys cruise at 110 kph so Hack was up around 130/140kph in passing mode.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Middle of nowhere.FIRE IT UP.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Royal Flying Doctor landing strip. About 50% wider road , 200 meters long. Why bother you could land a jumbo anyplace you liked.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Morning mist on the Nullarbor.Cold overnight and days mild around 18/20 degree C.It was great driving weather.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Road kill stuffed and mounted. Biggest one so far this year but evidently one last year was bigger.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Where the f...... is Hack??

 

[CMF_White Knight]

Hope I have not bored you with the pics. Its a trip we will never forget and would do it all agian tomorrow.Would never do it in summer but winter time is just great.Weather in Perth terrible. About 22 degree C today calm cloudless day and running around in shorts. ****e today would be our hottest day in Tassie.Still have not gone through a summer here yet but hell there's always the beach.

 

[CMF_jamm'n]

U lucky! lucky! bastard!
i love it.
on ya dave.

 

[cisco]

Wow what a trip.

I absolutely love those pics.

I bet it was loads of fun.

 

[CMF_White Knight]

All I can sat is that Hack went like a cut snake. Never a moments problem.Not many cars could say they sat on around 130kph fully loaded and achieved 12kl/litre.The car after the trip feels even better than ever. Maybe eventually the timing chain will have to be replaced but the motor is as tight as ever and will be good for another 100,000 kl.at least.To me it proves that a forced Micra at med/low boost levels in stock form is a long term investment and a good one.
CG13DE motors are tough little suckers. Next time I want to take Whitey but this will be an exercise in how fast from A to B.

 

[cisco]

Yeah I agree.

Its a good test out for a forced micra. Very good benchmark.

Definately proves that the investment was well worth it. Agree re:CG13DE's being tough as nails.

When I first bought blue monster, it was running 11.5psi forever, and never died. Factory internals on optimax.