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702ci V12 – 1960’s GMC monster
The 60’s and 70’s were an amazing time for cars. “The block is one-piece with oversized bore spacing for improved cooling, and it’s equipped with seven main bearings,” says Ron Quarnstrom, who is forming a strategy to dyno test this engine at his R&R Performance shop in Minnesota. “It also …
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The Interesting History and Evolution of F1 Helmets
Sony FDR- AX43 – Review
Hey Team, So with that many people out there now wanting to capture their adventures and share them with the wide web, it can be a mine field trying to figure out what system is best to invest in, I too had this struggle some years back and went with …
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Mike Pateys’ ” Scrappy” Bush Plane Build
Mike Patey, probably best known for ” Draco” one of the most iconic bushplanes ever made has almost finished his latest project Scrappy was a build intended to be ” low financial investment, huge time investment” the idea being to make the best Carbon Cub with spare parts and hard …
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PriceSpy – Game Giveaway on Twitch!
Hey Team, The awesome people at Pricespy have yet again come to party and are hooking you guys up some games! So here’s a word from them Nintendo pull in the clicks for May As life begins to feel a little more ‘normal’ in Alert Level 1, Empire has teamed …
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Book Giveaway – Buried Alive: A story of hate and acceptance – By Alex James
Hey Team Alex wrote this amazingly raw and insightful book, and we’ve got a couple copies to giveaway ‘My name is Alex, I live in Kapiti and I have written an autobiographical book chronicling my experience suffering sexual abuse growing up. The book is called “Buried Alive: A story of …
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Harman/Kardon Onyx Studio 6 – Review
Hey Team Checking out another bluetooth speaker, This one is a new evolution of something we’ve looked at before from Harman Kardon so its nice to see where they have updated it. First things First, Some specs Specs TransducersWoofer 1 x 120mm, Tweeter 1 x 25mm Bluetooth version 4.2 Bluetooth …
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B-17 ride along – Cockpit view and more
So my mate Nick was lucky enough to go for a ride along in a B-17 flying fortress, he flimed the whole thing with mulitple camera angles and all the communications
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Training update – Lockdown Lows and Surgery Recovery
Hey Team So of course its been a minute since we got stuck into this so I thought I’d say out whats been happening and where I am at, and plans moving forward. So Lock down right.. On the day lock down came into effect was a day we had …
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