Shuff's General Chat Thread ... #73 - Talk about anything and everything...  

What did you try to buy?. I don't know why people bother doing that shit!

not good when that happens Slav. way to piss a person off, i don't know why a seller would bother misrepresenting their car.

It was a Toyota Supra. Not only did he lie on the advertise, he lied to me in my face. He said engine is reconditioned but when I drove it struggles to rev over 4k. Whatever idiot

I don't know why an owner would treat their car like that. Very sad

What I love about Gumtree is that most people use it because they don't like Ebay...and actually it's Ebay. Well played, Ebay.

It was a Toyota Supra. Not only did he lie on the advertise, he lied to me in my face. He said engine is reconditioned but when I drove it struggles to rev over 4k. Whatever idiot




I don't know why an owner would treat their car like that. Very sad

Hi guys, I'm Joel, Shuffs son.
This has been a bit hard to write but just wanted to let you know dad had a really serious stroke on Friday morn and died early this morn.
He really felt part of a community on here and had a lot of time for you guys and considered you very close mates and he'd want me to let you know what happened.

None of us knew it but looking back now the signs were there he had health problems leading up to this just we didnt realise how severe and the stubborn old bastard refused to go to the quack despite pushing from mum.
45 years of smoking had done its thing and one carotid artery was completely blocked and the other 70% blocked so it was a ticking time bomb, I'm just glad it happened while he was still in hospital recovering from his hip replacement and not at home where help might have been much longer to arrive.

one of the frustrating parts about this was after living with the pain for so many years he only got to enjoy his new hip for 2 days before this happened.

Anyway i just wanted to say thanks, you guys have no idea how much enjoyment dad got from here.
I haven't been real active on boost for about 6 years now but he was always talking to me about it and loved to have a chat or share some car knowledge where he could.

Thanks again guys
Joel.

BREAKING NEWS

Police in Perth today pulled over a local car enthusiast and were amazed to find the car registered and insured.

It wasn't stolen and there was no stolen goods or drugs found.

The driver was sober.

He had a full licence .

A police spokesman said they had no option but to fine him $80 for wasting police time .

hai guise.. havent been on here in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages..

Ah Jesus. He was the one of you I hated least by far.


Joel, condolences, condolences.

It always struck me that he seemed so damn casual about going into what was clearly a very serious surgery with plenty of room for complications. Life sucks sometimes, but it does get better.

Hi guys, I'm Joel, Shuffs son.
This has been a bit hard to write but just wanted to let you know dad had a really serious stroke on Friday morn and died early this morn.
He really felt part of a community on here and had a lot of time for you guys and considered you very close mates and he'd want me to let you know what happened.

None of us knew it but looking back now the signs were there he had health problems leading up to this just we didnt realise how severe and the stubborn old bastard refused to go to the quack despite pushing from mum.
45 years of smoking had done its thing and one carotid artery was completely blocked and the other 70% blocked so it was a ticking time bomb, I'm just glad it happened while he was still in hospital recovering from his hip replacement and not at home where help might have been much longer to arrive.

one of the frustrating parts about this was after living with the pain for so many years he only got to enjoy his new hip for 2 days before this happened.

Anyway i just wanted to say thanks, you guys have no idea how much enjoyment dad got from here.
I haven't been real active on boost for about 6 years now but he was always talking to me about it and loved to have a chat or share some car knowledge where he could.

Thanks again guys
Joel.

funny thing, i saw that Musashi P was on special at the supermarket - it's in the catalogue, may have been woolworths, i'm not certain now offhand, but hadn't bother to post details up about it since i hadn't seen you here in a while.

Who the hell will troll me into posting by randomly mentioning me now?

Haven't bought musashi for awhile. Usually go to chemist warehouse or nutrition warehouse and by 2kg tubs

can't remember the name of what I got atm

Sorry to hear about your Dad Joel...
My condolences go out to you and your family.. I know what you're going through, i just lost my
dad in Novermber. You will learn to deal with it but you will never forget him. he will be in your thoughts every day..

rip Shuffs..

You have to carry ID to ride a bicycle in NSW from today

Cyclists aged over 18 in New South Wales are expected to carry photo ID when they're out riding from today, March 1, under new laws introduced by the Baird government.

The fines for a range of offences are also increasing by up to 600% as part of a new safety program introduced by NSW roads minister, Duncan Gay.

The penalty for not wearing a helmet increases from $71 to $319, along with holding onto a moving vehicle, while riding at night without lights increases from $71 to $106.

A number of other offences just 600% to $425 - the same penalty for motorists, who also receive 3 demerit points - such as running a red light, not stopping at a pedestrian crossing and riding dangerously.

Failure to carry ID will lead to a $106 fine from March 2017, with the government offering a one year amnesty as the new laws are bedded down.

Last Thursday, in Sydney's CBD in a major safety crackdown, including 210 for not wearing helmets, 103 for disobeying traffic lights, and 80 for riding on the footpath. Another 64 cyclists received cautions or warnings.

The changes are part of a new safety program, which also will expect motorists to maintain a 1-metre distance from a cyclist when passing at speeds of 60km/h or less, and 1.5 metres at speeds over 60km/h. Failure to keep the minimum distance when passing a bicycle rider is a $319 fine and a two demerit points penalty.

WOW! One of the very few times i've been upset,i was organising to see John again too. Could you please let me know when the funeral is Joel,i would like to attend.

You may not know me but i am the guy who met your father when i was riding the red Busa.

Thanks for the kind words guys, really appreciate it and Doc, sorry to hear about your old man too, not an easy thing to go through.

Wolf I think he was actually looking forward to the surgery just to lose the pain he'd been living with for so long and get life somewhat back to normal.

When one of the nurses there said she saw him out on his trike the day before he told her just taking it for one last ride and the last thing he said to mum before going in to the surgery was have fun spending my super so maybe he knew.

He loved that trike and has had it for 18years now





Gday Dai, yep dad has told me about you and showed the pics he took that day
I'll PM you soon as i know the details, but should find out tomorrow.
thanks again, Joel

What has gone wrong with the NBN?

The latest leaked NBN document gives us more insight into the project which was meant to be about "nation building", but which is now turning into a politicised quagmire, writes Paddy Manning.

Yesterday's leaked internal document revealing that the NBN's rollout of fibre-to-the-node has been well behind schedule is further confirmation that Malcolm Turnbull's version of the NBN is proving to be much more expensive to deliver than was originally hoped.

Remember that the only merit of Turnbull's "multi-technology mix" (MTM) was that it would be cheaper to build, and arrive sooner. There was no question that it was technically inferior to the former Labor government's mostly fibre-to-the-premise network, which then shadow communications minister Turnbull derided as a "Rolls-Royce" option.

But if the Coalition's NBN could be delivered cheaper and sooner, there was a good argument that the earlier arrival of revenue from business and residential customers could fund subsequent upgrades to the network.

It hasn't worked out that way.

The MTM network has blown out twice in projected cost - first, from $29.5 billion to $41 billion, and then last year to "up to" $56 billion. And instead of delivering 25 Mbps by 2016, now the MTM network isn't expected to be finished until 2020 - only a year earlier than Labor expected to finish its rollout. NBN's own chairman has admitted meeting this 2020 target will require a "heroic" effort.

The NBN debate remains a giant political "he said, she said" in which neither side gives the other any credit. In a Background Briefing program late last year, I tried to cut through the thicket of NBN politics to discover the truth of where our largest, most significant infrastructure project stands.

There is a non-partisan way through the debate, in my view, but it relies on an analysis of an ever-receding counter-factual scenario: what would have happened under Labor.

The PM and communications minister Mitch Fifield are being cute when they say - as they did again yesterday - that reverting to Labor's fibre-to-the-premise NBN would take an extra 6-8 years to complete and cost an extra $30 billion. That is an estimate of the cost of going back to Labor's NBN, after having embarked upon the Coalition's version in 2013. It is not the amount that Labor's NBN would have cost if it had continued as originally planned.Obviously, it is much more inefficient to change horses mid-stream, then change back again.

Forget Labor's numbers for a moment, Malcolm Turnbull's own strategic review in December 2013 came up with an estimate that the fibre-to-the-premise network would have cost $73 billion.

It is true that Labor's NBN was behind schedule and over-budget when the government lost office in 2013.

But as a matter of degree, they were only a year behind, and only a few billion over-budget, on their own figures - which, by the way, respected former NBN chief Mike Quigley stands by to this day.

Labor had very good reasons for being behind: firstly, they were negotiating a one-off deal with Telstra that would see the ageing copper network - which Telstra's own engineers thought was at five minutes to midnight - retired. Then Telstra chief David Thodey was convinced it was the right deal both for Telstra and the country.

Secondly, the NBN was not only starting from scratch, with all the inevitable teething problems - it had to build the national transit network, the "backbone" of the NBN. This was another one-off, up-front exercise that was expensive but was duly completed and is relied on by NBN today.

A more substantial criticism is that Labor's NBN rollout lacked any market discipline: there was no attempt to target those areas that were readiest to pay for fast broadband, such as business precincts. Instead, some unlikely regional areas were targeted, and while this might have been defensible for nation-building reasons, it also undoubtedly made the rollout much more expensive for taxpayers.

A huge component of the cost of the NBN is debt and the quicker you can earn revenue, the lower your borrowings need to be, and therefore the lower your ongoing interest bill. It was imperative to target suburbs with the highest likely take-up rates.

Lastly on Labor's errors, there was the rejection of fibre-to-the-basement connections to the hundreds of thousands of apartments in Australia's most densely populated cities. Even the staunchest defenders of the fibre-to-the-premise network concede this was a mistake, which would have led to a crazy rewiring of recently completed tower buildings that already had perfectly serviceable internal cabling capable of gigabit speeds. (Admittedly, it's a different story for the suburban three-story blocks of flats which were Labor's primary concern when devising the policy.)

For all that, Labor's all-fibre network would have been built, for somewhere between the NBN's contemporaneous costings of $44 billion and the Coalition's estimate of $73 billion. Once connected, it would have been a readily- and endlessly-upgradeable network with fibre servicing 93 per cent of homes and businesses, and would have been a highly-attractive proposition for institutional investors.

Thanks to the Abbott and Turnbull governments, what have we got instead? The promise that underpinned the original MTM network, that all Australians would have 25Mpbs or higher by the end of 2016, has long been broken.

Since the NBN's corporate plan was released last August we have known that costs have blown out to between $46 billion and $56 billion (and we all know that when a project proponent specifies a likely range of costs, it is wise to assume the upper estimate). Based on the upper estimate, that's a 90 per cent increase, or almost a doubling in the cost of the project.

One of the key cost increases was in IT, as the NBN's computers had to be upgraded to cope with the extra complexity of integrating the new mix of connection technologies, a direct consequence of the switch to a MTM.

The latest leak confirms the copper-based fibre-to-the-node component of the MTM - which will bring fibre through to fridge-sized cabinets on many street corners - is proving difficult. One of the well-known disadvantages of fibre-to-the-node is that the nodes require power. That there have been delays due to negotiations with electricity suppliers was predictable and can only be considered a failure of network planning.

Again, this should not be a surprise: one of NBN's own directors, Simon Hackett, said last year that fibre-to-the-node is a "dud", and NBN has already started trialling faster technologies that will rely on bringing fibre closer to the home, to what is known as the distribution point or "fibre-to the-curb", potentially replacing fibre-to-the-node altogether but increasing the rollout cost again.

Reusing and upgrading the Hybrid Fibre Coaxial network - the pay-TV cables bought from Telstra and Optus - was defensible in theory but is also proving more difficult than expected in practice, with a leak last year suggesting the Optus network was unfit for purpose and would need to be overbuilt at a cost of more than half a billion dollars. HFC trials so far have been encouraging and there is no doubt that the planned DOCSIS3.1 technology can deliver superfast internet speeds, but it will not be cheap and the major rollout will not begin until 2017-18.

The upshot is that we have a NBN which gives some lucky home and business owners a fibre-optic connection courtesy of Labor's abandoned rollout, while the rest of us wait for our HFC cable to be upgraded or make do with a much slower copper-based connection that will probably need to be replaced.

The whole hotchpotch will be worth $27 billion - less than half its likely construction cost - when it is finished and put up for sale, according to a recent estimate by PwC. There is no doubt Labor's NBN would have sold for more, improving the return for taxpayers.

If really pressed on his NBN role, the PM resorts to a rhetorical defence, blaming Labor for starting the project - his preferred wheeze is the Irish joke, "If you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here" - and mounting an elegant-sounding attack on the very idea that anything can ever be "future-proofed", a theme he hammered home when he took over the leadership. This is unassailable high ground for Malcolm Turnbull, but it is completely wrong-headed.

NBNCo is leaking and, if what I'm hearing from former staff is right, morale inside the organisation is abysmal, management is hostage to every expensive consultancy in town, and senior staff are leaving, disillusioned, as what they thought was a nation-building project is turning into a politicised quagmire. As one former employee told me: "I'll be amazed if it ever gets built."

This is an unforgiveable state of affairs for such a vital project and, whoever wins the next election, the NBN will need to be redesigned again. Hopefully it will be done with the national interest, not politics, uppermost in mind.

2017 Acura NSX - Jay Leno's Garage
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Published on Feb 29, 2016
Acura's Ted Klaus and Michelle Christensen deliver the long-awaited NSX for a test drive - and tell Jay the whole story of how it came to be!

1955 Chevrolet Convertible Custom "Payback" 2016 Detroit Autorama
ScottieDTV

Published on Feb 29, 2016
The 1955 Chevrolet Convertible Street Rod "Payback"....Built by G3 Rods and debut at the 2016 Detroit Autorama....For years Hot Rodders have been putting a small block Chevrolet in everything they had....It wasn't until recently that the manufacturers made it easier for builders to make the car and the motor match...So why in the world would someone put a 427......sohc Ford Motor in a....1955 Chevrolet???...For payback!!!..lol....Here it is Ford fans the Car Y'all have been waiting for...Check it out!!!...For more coverage of The Detroit Autorama please visit www.scottiedtv.com The Coolest Cars On The Web!!!

1961 Chevrolet Impala "Double Bubble" 2016 Detroit Autorama
ScottieDTV

Published on Mar 1, 2016
The 1961 Impala bubble top "Double Bubble" built by Greening Auto Company. They started out with a 1961 bubble top Impala and added another to the rear to make a way cool Hot Rod Wagon...They debut it at the 2016 Detroit Autorama winning a Great Eight Award....So much work...So much money....So cool....Check it out!!!...For more coverage from the Detroit Autorama please visit www.scottiedtv.com The Coolest Cars On The Web!!!!

manual pedal assembly conversion is coming along nicely, just waiting on the clutch slave cylinder to arrive then i can put the rest of the dash back together. :hsdance:

need it all done prior to saturday for Rotary Revival #2 at QR :burnout: