Greeting and intro

[StretchGSK]

Hi

There does not seem to be a general into type section so I thought I would say hello here in NZ.

I moved to NZ, (Wellington to be exact) in Feb last year and am loving it.
The fact that I purchased my dream car here, (R34 GTR)may have something to do with that. But the people are great and the weather is not as bad as people make out, I wont mention the great roads and silly speed limits :-)

Stretch

[GravelBen]

Howdy and welcome to the nuthouse

How about some photos of the Datsun?

[RobDickinson]

Wow our own Ricer!!

Welcome to PH/NZ!

[Esprit]

Welcome in Stretch

Yeah, please to be posting some photos of your Banzai Turbonutter Tofutaxi Those R34s are proper mental!

Does yours have anything done to it modification-wise?

[Kylie]

Welcome aboard. Glad you got your dream car and your enjoying life here in NZ

[CRM]

Welcome

[Kiwi XTR2]

Welcome aboard

Pics & specs of the GT-R would be good.

There's some interesting looking sprints/hillclimbs in the Wellington region if your keen.

[StretchGSK]

She is fairly standard as GTR's go.
Cat back exhaust
HSK F-con Vpro tuned by Andre at Speedtech
1.2 Bar boost

276kW (370hp) ATH
444Nm ATH

Next mods are going to be cosmetic as that really is enough power for the road, for now anyway :-)

Edited by StretchGSK on Saturday 10th May 11:40

[Esprit]

Nice... that's PLENTY of power anyway. Similar power to what Kylie's beast is putting out and that's mindblowingly fast when it gets up on boost!

[Kylie]

eerr when it was in stock form

[Esprit]

Kylie said:

eerr when it was in stock form

370bhp at the hubs is probably about 420-430bhp at the engine, so not too far off what Memphis is laying down

[Kiwi XTR2]

Esprit said:

Kylie said:

eerr when it was in stock form

370bhp at the hubs is probably about 420-430bhp at the engine, so not too far off what Memphis is laying down

You've been warned about that before George.

You'll get no sympathy from us if you accidently get a knee in the Meltdown

[Kylie]

Wise words Graham

Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
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Yeah I know but....the name will come like good things take time right!

[Esprit]

Kylie said:

Wise words Graham

Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis
Its not called Memphis


Yeah I know but....the name will come like good things take time right!

Like I said Kylie... he's called Memphis until you've arrived at a suitable name.... he just needs a real name is all


Stretch, is your username a GlaxoSmithKline reference, or does GSK stand for something completely unrelated?

[StretchGSK]

I take it that Kylie has taken to long to name her car?
What is wrong with Memphis anyway?

My GTR is called Erin as I think all cars are ladies

I only noticed the GlaxoSmithKline after I started using the nic.
Seeing as you asked GSK refers to G-Spot King which is something my wife called me one night ;-)

[RobDickinson]

My forester is called Frodo.

its ugly , short, bit hairy in places and takes ages but gets there eventualy

[Esprit]

StretchGSK said:

I take it that Kylie has taken to long to name her car?
What is wrong with Memphis anyway?

My GTR is called Erin as I think all cars are ladies

I only noticed the GlaxoSmithKline after I started using the nic.
Seeing as you asked GSK refers to G-Spot King which is something my wife called me one night ;-)

Yeah, Kylie's last Esprit was called "Black Beauty", a rather apt name. She said she was going to have to come up with a name for her new one, but has yet to. In the meantime, the PH collective came up with the name "Memphis" in reference to the Esprit 350's fragile reputation (Memphis being derived from "Memphis Meltdown", which is the name of an ice-cream here). Obviously Kylie's not too taken with this and until she comes up with a proper name, her S350 is to be officially known as Memphis.

As for my car, it's probably not a good juncture to point out my new one doesn't have a name. The old one was 'Liz, the Silver Bullet.... Having said that, everyone calls it "the SEXIGE" because of the plate, so I guess that's close enough to a name for me

As for GSK... I think that's probably TMI

[StretchGSK]

OK I can see why she is not keen on the name.
I will have to give this ice cream a go as I have not tried it but the ad does crack me up.

[RobDickinson]

Big Bikkie!! Lovely stuff considering theres no Ben & Gerrys in NZ.

[Kiwi XTR2]

Esprit said:

Yeah, Kylie's last Esprit was called "Black Beauty", a rather apt name. She said she was going to have to come up with a name for her new one, but has yet to. In the meantime, the PH collective came up with the name "Memphis" in reference to the Esprit 350's fragile reputation (Memphis being derived from "Memphis Meltdown", which is the name of an ice-cream here). Obviously Kylie's not too taken with this and until she comes up with a proper name, her S350 is to be officially known as Memphis.

It was actually because of one particular type of Memphis Meltdown







. . . and I had nothing to do with it.