Cobaw - AWD Big Day Out 9-8-08

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Cobaw - AWD Big Day Out 9-8-08

Post by Suberman » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:59 pm

Here's a few taster pics of a great day of challenging conditions. El Freddo and Alpine Raven have the action shots and vids to come.


We met at the BP station Carlsruhe. The fog hadn't lifted. El Freddo, Mick (Heath's Toyota 4wd mate) and Alpine Raven stretch their legs before we go.
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This maybe a Subaru forum, but chops where they're due.
Mick bought along his cruiser which had a 700 hp, 350 Chevrolet V8 whacked in out of a drag racer which did the 1/4 mile in 13secs with this donk in it.
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Mick's monster has a wonky fender.
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Heath's jumpy lil Leone does a running repair on the Toyota fender. El Freddo gives it a kick for good measure.
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A bit of milling around after arriving at the tourist track maps, the names and locations we left up to El Freddo. Alpine Raven is smiling but was really champing at the bit to get into some mud.
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The convoy arrives at the top of the first track, a few deep breaths, a check of the track etc.
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About 1:30 we head off to El Freddo's place for barby lunch.
Mick's monster was cooling down.

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Heath and El Freddo look at an empty table where soon the snags and Australia shaped mince burgers will appear.

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Post by El_Freddo » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:04 am

Nice pics and quick write up dave! I chucked up some teaser pics on the end of the organisational thread - i'll stick a write up in here tomorrow with any luck. Video will have to wait a little while maybe. Did you have any footage, I wasn't sure if you had still image or video... Glad you got some pics of your lib in the bush - with 2 cameras I still missed it!!!

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Post by Outback bloke » Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:30 am

Good pics. Nice looking countryside too.

BTW, who ever told you that the chev has 700hp had their hand on it. 700hp in a drag car that only does 13's? Something wrong there.
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Post by AlpineRaven » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:40 am

It was a great day out, was tirey drive home along Calder, was great meeting all these fellas, I would like to meet all again sometime soon! The overall day was a great challenge with your skills and your car and experience with other people.
Here is some photos below:
Heath's Lifted MY. - Nice!
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Suberman's coming down the hill with his Liberty.
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Heath -
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Line up - waiting for El Freddo to cut a blocked path's tree.
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Line Up for Lunch!

more to come...
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Post by AlpineRaven » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:41 am

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Heath... Oops! Uh Ho.. went deeper and deeper.......
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Checking out the engine.. yeah shes fine!
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By Passing..... thats better ;)
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El Freddo after Heath went thru.....
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Mick's Toyota's V8 in deep water..
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1995 Liberty "Rallye" - 5MT AWD, LSD - *written off 25/8/06 in towing accident.
1996 Liberty Wagon - SkiFX AWD 5MT D/R, Lifted.. Outback Sway Bar, 1.59:1 Low Gearing see thread: 1.59:1 in EJ Box Page
Sold at 385,000kms in July 2011.
2007 Liberty BP Wagon, 2.5i automatic
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Post by AlpineRaven » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:42 am

Heath & El Freddo going up rugged uphill..
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It was a chilly night before we left... Thanks once again everyone who attended, it was a great day out! See you all later!

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1995 Liberty "Rallye" - 5MT AWD, LSD - *written off 25/8/06 in towing accident.
1996 Liberty Wagon - SkiFX AWD 5MT D/R, Lifted.. Outback Sway Bar, 1.59:1 Low Gearing see thread: 1.59:1 in EJ Box Page
Sold at 385,000kms in July 2011.
2007 Liberty BP Wagon, 2.5i automatic
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Post by Suberman » Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:48 am

Nice shots there Alpine Raven. Even a couple of my old girl before she cracked a hissy fit and went to pasture at El Freddo's farm ;)

Here's a few vids of two of the tracks and happenings -

This first one was a big water hole

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uploading another batch to photobucket now.
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Post by Subafury » Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:11 pm

thanks for the pix and write up. good to see you fellas out there!
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Post by El_Freddo » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:08 pm

Subafury wrote:thanks for the pix and write up. good to see you fellas out there!
Matt, I haven't even started yet!!! I'm STILL uploading images, one by one. Currrently "reviewing" the video footage but probabily won't have any up for a while :(

OB - that's what we were told. It's cam profile put the power in the the 4000 to 8000 rev range. I guess the 5 to 1 low range would have helped out with that ;)

I'll tell you what - having multiple cameras is making it complicated while uploading images in order...

Overall a great day - I've got some tracks I want to give a go real soon before the weather starts to dry things out... Plenty of stuff to keep us entertained for a while yet - then there's the wombat forest (its about 4 times larger than the cobaw forest) :twisted:

My take on the day will be posted soon.

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Post by GTlegs » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:11 pm

Looks like you guys had a great day - spewing that I didnt make it.
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Post by El_Freddo » Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:21 pm

GTlegs wrote:Looks like you guys had a great day - spewing that I didnt make it.
Next time mate, you'll have to come. Bring a subi hack and leave your good Leone at home ;)

Or you can jump in my car.

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More Tracks and vids of the day

Post by Suberman » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:10 pm

Sorry, original url's had an error. These work now.


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Post by Venom » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:03 pm

Excellent work with the pictures and video. That cruiser sounds pretty tough. Pity i missed out, got that assignment finished at 2.30 am this morning.

most important question, when's the next trip?
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Post by El_Freddo » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:08 pm

Venom wrote:most important question, when's the next trip?
I'm planning one in the same area for the middle weekend of the school holidays - 27-28 September 2008. Idea would be to camp on back hill overnight for easy access to the forest...

I'll start another post about it when I remember...

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Post by tex » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:19 pm

Love the sherpa didn't see any pics of it in the scrub though!
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Post by El_Freddo » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:20 pm

tex wrote:Love the sherpa didn't see any pics of it in the scrub though!
Its just the paddock bomb and in this event the BBQ transport bitch...

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Post by El_Freddo » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:21 am

I've got the use of a mac laptop for the weekend (I'm in love with it!) - I've started the video on this already. I may not beable to include other footage as it won't get here on time. I will "archive" that footage for a later "hot shots" video.

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Post by AlpineRaven » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:00 am

El_Freddo wrote:I've got the use of a mac laptop for the weekend (I'm in love with it!) - I've started the video on this already. I may not beable to include other footage as it won't get here on time. I will "archive" that footage for a later "hot shots" video.

Cheers

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Sounds good.. Do you want vn borrow my 80 gig external hard disk?
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1996 Liberty Wagon - SkiFX AWD 5MT D/R, Lifted.. Outback Sway Bar, 1.59:1 Low Gearing see thread: 1.59:1 in EJ Box Page
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Post by El_Freddo » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:34 am

AlpineRaven wrote:Sounds good.. Do you want to borrow my 80 gig external hard disk?
Thanks for the offer AP - I've got our 500 gig unit connected to the laptop uploading to the net... its been about 4 hours and 45 million bites SENT! That's the most i've ever seen our modem send in one hit...

I hope its not going to be much longer, I was planning on an early night - its 2:30am now...

I'll probabily post it in the other thread that I started.

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