Chesterfield

Ive given it a quick go, its pretty good. The physics arent as good as Forza, but the graphics are on a par if not better in my opinion. The dirt racing looks mighty good, and probably just as good as that dirt racing game on the PS3.

Fixed it for ya. Note lap 47 for kart 4 Thats when I went ploughing.

Its not my decision to make, we are all equal on the team. We are discussing options though so should be able to advise soon.

No not really, there were some good karters but I didnt see any punches thrown when people were spun off etc.

Our team finished 5th out of 9, Jonathans team finished first. I think our teams lack of success can be partly blamed on my pork pie intake some years ago, and my experiment with the karts off road capabilities at one point during the race

Just a quick note to say thanks a bunch for the invite Jonathan. Tracy, my brother and myself had a cracking time. Very well organised and a cracking track too. Im still kicking myself that I didnt take the new camera though. Sorry about mine and my brothers lap times Beavis, we had to give yo some work to do! After reviewing the lap times for all cars over all laps, my claim to fame is the longest lap time of the entire event, even longer than most of the driver change/pitt laps! It was however the most spectacular "off" of the evening though I think. Full speed into turn 1 For a brief moment I did have visions of dissapearing over the bank. Still, it gave them an excuse to use the radio controled function to slow all the cars on the track down. We must do it again

Its true. Maybe they arent all going home to wash their pants, but there will be a number returning home that day from an extended holiday.

On those figures, that requires about 450 paying members. Even with all the good will in the world and a single site for the 350Z, I doubt a 350z specific site would ever acheive that number of paying members. Also not to put too finer point on it, as the 350Z starts to become owned by those who have never paid for access to a forum, ie. local cruise sites etc, then the number ow owners willing to fork out a membership fee for a club will continue to dwindle. Thats where the Z club is different, as it caters for all Z's, including marques that are perhaps owned by a generation that is more used to the aspect of paying car clubs, and as it caters for all models of Z car, it covers all bases. As various Z car models age, they fall away from "niche" markets and straight into the "Z club" audience. Having seen a copy of the magazine, there is a great deal of effort that goes into it. Its also great that they involve other clubs allowing meets to be shared, cross posting in order to gain as many Z owners at the venues as possible. Brilliant for everyone and a real owner focused attitude. There is no reason why we cannot look to produce an online magazine or newsletter, people can write articles, and if there is a budding publisher in our midst, they could put it together and it can be hosted for members to view each quarter.

The big brake kit on the GM car in the link I posted looks excellent behind the wheels. The disk fills the rim perfectly.

Post tidied.

The black ones need to be more powerful in order to shift the extra weight in bolt on parts that the owners put on to try and get half the attention a yellow one does.

Yeah the meta tags on the gallery pages instruct no following by robots.

Currently on the hosting side everything is ok. Although we have had issues in the past (frantically looking for wood to touch) we seem to be past those. The issue that we may come across, is that due to the site being hosted in the US, if we do require assistance, the time difference often hinders progress on an faults, also scheduled mainainance of the server is planned around US time zones, so while they schedule work for 1-am to 3am, that often hits us early to mid morning. Though as I say, things appear to be fine at the moment. Because of how busy the site is becoming, we do require a LOT of active conections to an SQL database in order for the site to function correctly. If Google spiders the site, these connections can rise dramatically, resulting in what appears to be an outage if the server is not configured to allow the number of connections the site requires. (this was a problem with the first host). Weare good for just under another year as far as hosting goes, as it has just been recently paid again, once we need to revisit this, or we outgrow the usage e are paying for, then we may need to consider other options, or pay for an extension/increase.

There will be lots of people taking a weeks holiday next week, using the bank holiday to form part of the week. They may well be returning on the Sunday to get the washing etc sorted and have a day at home before returning to work. I would predict higher than average traffic on that Sunday. May be wrong, but thats my guess.

Im helping the brother in law move on Saturday, but will be going down late afternoon early evening to stay over. Im not on any of the track time sessions, but thought Id turn up for the whole day non the less, get a few photos of you lot for the album, so big smiles all day!

Nah - choptop already has them, and Im about to get a kerbed alloy repaired. The missus needs to prove she isnt going to kerb any more before sticking anything like that on!

Steve, thanks for your comments. At present there is no way for members to donate to the running of the club. As you can appreciate, our whole ethos has been to remain 100% free for the members of the site. We have chosen that path in order for there to be no barriers to full interaction with every other owner on the site, and every event taking place on the site. Putting in place any kind of "voluntary contribution" option seems almost to be going against that primary objective above. Of course though, there will always be those (like yourself) that very generously want to give something to the club, and the idea has been discussed several times between all the team, though no clear way has ever come out of the discussions. There are other methods of funding the club being discussed - but I must stress that these are NOT taking place because we cant afford to keep it going in its current state. It is to improve what we already offer. We are not going anywhere, and we are NOT going to charge members - ever. What we can say is that any items we sell through the club (currently only stickers) we do make a small profit on (or very small in the case of small items), which all goes back into either the costs for the server alongside the money donated by the team, or purchasing more stickers. We will never, ever make a profit from members. If as we hope to in the near future we offer other items for sale, the same will apply. So perhaps the best way for members to contribute would be to purchase any items they like from the range we hope to offer, at least that way you get something tangible for your kind donations as well as supporting the community. Again, thanks for the comments Steve, its great to know that we are doing well enough to warrant such generosity. Another thing that we have discussed is that if we ever did accept donations, then the "accounts" would be publicly available to members, so they could see exactly where the money was going. Its a discussion we have been having for some time amongst the team, and please feel free to PM any of us with any input you feel could help.

I do Any particular hotel?

I wont be bringing my Z to support team custard Im afraid. As my brother and Tracy are coming, and my brother may be bringing his other half to watch, then it makes sense we only use one car. Unfortunately its black, so Ill be looking like a supporter for the opposition

You do need that may posts to advertise, however if the item is in the obvious interest of the Z community (i.e. not a Non Z related item) Then its fine. As the pop charger is a popular mod, Im sure its fine to leave the advert

Mmmmm - black ones on the UY sounds http://www.350zmotoring.com/forums/show ... 04&t=47760

Ive asked my brother and he is up for it - so if thats OK, we are back to a full team again. Beavis, remind me to have a chat about the wheel refurb - as always with these things Ive looked again and its not as bad when assesing it for the second time. Its in two places, just on the rim luckily and not the spokes of the wheel at all, its in two places (one going up the kerb and once coming down I imagine) about 3 or 4 inch long each mark, and quite deep. Needless to say she was slightly in the dog house, and was quite close to having a £150 metro from the motor auctions.

Have the karts got alloys? If so, keep them the bloody hell away from my mrs !!! Anyone know a decent place to get a GT4 wheel refurbed? On the plus side, it makes the argument for getting new rims a little easier.

Ive taken the liberty of altering the post to display the thumbnails - click each one to enlarge Lovely car - but of course I am a little biassed.

If you need email addresses for people here that you dont have yet Steve, let me know - its easier than sending numerous PM.s Just stick everyone in the BCC box to hide everyones email addresses from everyone else.