[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

and for plod 

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

I got offered a nice line in Axminster carpet

for free and so….

 

 

 

easy on my ol’ knees … and just needs a vac now and then 

 

 

 

• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by  Smitty.

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

not here though

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

pir4te wrote:

Smitty wrote:

… boohoo I spent nearly 8 years of my work life there

What work did you do at Holden?

 

pretty much most things.. admin/office/finance wise

I worked in the foundry/fettling areas working out how much good stuff they made daily
I was the inventory controller in the Supply department, I ran the VAP vehicle costing department
(which worked out what/where and the cost of what was spat out to traffic from each VAP daily)

.. thru to ‘New Models’ where I worked with the engineers at Lang Lang and FB on breakpoints for new parts introduction as well as new models as well as stuff like involvement and support with the introduction of Brocks HDT Commodores

As I said, lots of things… 

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

cava454 wrote:

What the fuck is that fugly ass excuse for a heater hose doing just sitting there. Smitty was this your doing????

 

 

haha.. no, not responsible ( I left at the end of ’85)

that heater hose thingy is a …V8 engine sound enhancer 

and no.. I have not been drinking coz that is what it actually is

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

missing lumbar discs   :(

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

… boohoo 

I spent nearly 8 years of my work life there

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

.. not missed mine

 

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

.. I have a couple of workshop rated Armstrong jacks, a Total Tools ‘truck’ high lift jack

and an alloy low profile ARCAN jack for race days at the track

Can never have enuff good jacks  ( I stopped buying crap from Kmart years ago)

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

Immortality wrote:

Smitty wrote:

Immortality wrote:

Hey, Just thought I’d pop over and say hello So, Hello Cheers

geez.. you bump into people everywhere

That’s not a bad thing is it?

no..not a bad thing at all   

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

Immortality wrote:

Hey, Just thought I’d pop over and say hello So, Hello Cheers

 

geez.. you bump into people everywhere  

 

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

…a shot of the showing the front tow strap

 

 

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

VRSenator065 wrote:

^how nice does that look, would be a lot of fun?

my online sig for various forums says

Club circuit racing…the best fun you can have with your pants on

 

 

 

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by  Smitty.

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

benk wrote:

Has anyone got front and rear tow hooks fitted for CAMS track days? Trying to work out a neat way of fitting it to the VS.

 

I use a nylon tow strap at the front (available most motorsport places) which is bolted to a chassis bolt ( that also is where the front bumper bolts to) and on the back a steel CAMS hook that goes thru the bumper and is bolted thru the rear chassis rail. Looks like this..

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

couple from me….

 

 

 

 

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

.. I agree with this 
especially the banner design update .  The grey ghosted + signs remind me of  cemetery crosses

dunno anything ’bout Photoshop but I do have a pic or 3 so will have a gander tonight and see what would look good

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

.. what do I do?

well after getting 96% for accounting in high school
(and 90 for Economics, 51 for English but failed maths and physics in Year12)
I thought I would be an accountant

Then after 2 Uni degrees (Business and IT) and 40 years of working in finance for real businesses (ya.. know places that MAKE THINGS!  …like GMH, Cadburys, Dunlop)  I now work for a medium sized Australian owned business (500 employees etc)  making a large range of water control devices. I am in charge of the administration of the 8 ! factories in Australia (3 in Qld and 5 in Victoria). Funny thing is I don’t do much actual accounting these days ( as I work alongside theNational Operations Director)

I don’t have a job title (my business card just has my name and contact details) and I don’t have a job description.

I work for the Finance Director who has told me my job is (just 3 words) – MAKE IT HAPPEN 

 

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by  Smitty. Reason: spelling
• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by  Smitty.

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

hsv865 wrote:

…………..hopefully Mick might find his way over

… know lots of Micks who frequent car forums (and Daves’ and Petes’     )

but are you talking about the ‘nut?

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

.. just bend the accel pedal arm towards the brake pedal

(thats what i did on my race car.. plus I also swapped pedal pads to help here)

 

 

[SmittyParticipant MelbourneGEN-F R8 SV340 HSV Tourer, VK club touring race car and Kwaka ZX12R View build HERE Member since: July 23, 2015 Posts: 47]

.. bloody ‘ell Damo

u here too?? 

 

 

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