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http://queensland.snarl.com.au/incidents/single/288655
rumors of people using diesel on corners for drifting.
i dont know about that , just as likely a prickle farmer dropping some.
the northside of Mt Mee was signed roadworks and 60ks all the way on sunday.
must be from the clean up.

Yeah, after the rumours of someone deliberately tipping diesel on the Nebo road turned out to be a leaky R32 Skyline, I'm dubious as well.

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I call shenanigans on just a leaky R32 Skyline, unless of course you mean it's leaky due to the fact it spat all six rods out of the block dumping the full sump worth of oil on the road as it was being hektically limiter bashed for a phully sic drift bro.....

MattR wrote:I call shenanigans on just a leaky R32 Skyline, unless of course you mean it's leaky due to the fact it spat all six rods out of the block dumping the full sump worth of oil on the road as it was being hektically limiter bashed for a phully sic drift bro.....

Story I heard through the motorcycling community (and second hand from them) was an R31 (not R32, sorry) dumped its entire contents during the journey down the hill before the engine seized, so yeah, would have been the entire sump.

Probably someone not doing a sump bolt up tight or a dodgy install on an oil cooler.


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Slightly off-tangent, speed limit on Nebo has been reduced to 70km recently. Noticed it mid last year and made a point last time I went up to pay attention to road signs, and going up from The Gap i only saw one, perhaps two, 80km toward the beginning then the rest (besides <70km ones) were 70's.

That bites.

Don't want to open up a COW, just stating fact.

It's all part of the dumbing down of speed limits to boring status. I get little joy from a drive these days.

Steampunk wrote:Slightly off-tangent, speed limit on Nebo has been reduced to 70km recently. Noticed it mid last year and made a point last time I went up to pay attention to road signs, and going up from The Gap i only saw one, perhaps two, 80km toward the beginning then the rest (besides <70km ones) were 70's.

That bites.

Don't want to open up a COW, just stating fact.

Been a month since I've been up there, but I think it's 70 to roughly the Brisbane City Council boundary and then 80 outbound until the Nebo village, don't recall it being different to previously. The Jaffa's due a run up there, I'll report back.

JBT wrote:It's all part of the dumbing down of speed limits to boring status. .

Yup and a piss poor effort at that because all they did was replace the previous signs on pre-existing posts and half of them are poorly positioned and/or inappropriate. There's a 50 signed corner that's not worth a sneeze at, whilst there's one 80 (or maybe now 70) signed corner which is a bit hairy even in an MX-5 and one which should be posted as 50.

Havent been over Glorious since April '15, hopefully its unchanged there.

Was the owl incident April??


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Vat wrote:Been a month since I've been up there, but I think it's 70 to roughly the Brisbane City Council boundary and then 80 outbound until the Nebo village, don't recall it being different to previously. The Jaffa's due a run up there, I'll report back.

In early December it was 70 all the way down from Nebo village to The Gap, apart from a very short 80 section where it looked like they had run out of 70 signs to put up at the time.

slug_dub wrote:Was the owl incident April??
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Twas before June. T-shirt and jeans was the uniform that night

JBT wrote:In early December it was 70 all the way down from Nebo village to The Gap, apart from a very short 80 section where it looked like they had run out of 70 signs to put up at the time.

Saddens me to confirm this - it's 70 pretty much the whole way except for a very short 80 km/h section in the run up to McAfee's Lookout. Similar stretch at 80 downwards, although it seemed a touch longer. The road's not discernibly different heading down - if anything it tightens after an open section.

I took video up and down this morning. I'll put it up and link it.

Outbound - 80 zone starts around 400 metres before Bellbird Grove Road, finishes a bit after the short 'slow vehicle lane' and the "McAfee's Lookout 300 metres" sign. Around 90 seconds worth of driving if you're moving well. Guessing it's only there to allow overtakes in that short section.