sasha@lazytrips

The solution is to buy one and get two spares for breaking and park them at your garage of choice. As soon as something breaks, you go and sort it same day

If I was spending a few hundred thousand pounds on a car, I wouldn't give a monkey's as to how often it needs servicing. I'd get a Zonda instead any day as once you get to those levels of performance, Zonda's styling wins it hands down for me.

I have hated every Aston that has rolled out in the last couple decades and then I saw this...

you'd notice a difference in the thickness of your wallet.

The temptation is killing me...

Time to grab the popcorn. The fight is about to begin!

Are these gassed for a normal bonnet of cf?

A see-through bonnet would indeed be pretty awesome. Group Buy?

That sounds but is a whopping load of cash. LS9 type engines generating >500 before any tuning + installation doesn't seem very different far price-wise.

Depends on which service you're talking about. If you mean a P1 (ie you drive low amounts every year and this is the 3rd service), then this is a tad expensive. I live in Nottingham at the moment and use CS in Leicester for my needs. If you don't mind the half an hour to get there, you'll get a great service, top parts, good price and excellent customer service!

I have been looking at a 4th gen LS2 with centrifugal supercharging. Rumour has it that it could fit inside the engine bay and produce around 1k horses... As for the size of the wallet dent, I have absolutely no idea.

Try sending a pm to ZMANALEX. He may well be able to sort you out

Looked through the intrawebs and played with the search function but I am still none the wiser. What engines have been/could be fitted into a zed (+supercharged)? I have seen a few threads about cosworths, but trying to think in more general terms. There isn't any particular reason for thinking this other than this being my last day in my current job, but I guess what my question boils down to is to get some kind of list along the lines of: 1. Type of mod (eg. supercharger, engine swap - if so to which engine, etc) 2. £ wallet dent 3. Benefits From what I've seen so far, about £10k gets you 400-420hp with a supercharger, all the trimmings, fitting costs and all the auxilliary work (eg. dyno). *** Note that I am not looking to be sensible and I appreciate that for the money you could probably go buy much bigger & better things. I just want this to be reasonably hypothetical. On the other hand, I do want these to be realistic and mildly practical (ie. engines that won't explode every other day and no massive nitrous canisters instead of the passenger seat.) Also, I'm not particularly interested in things like making the car uber light, etc as style also matters I prefer to talk horses and torque rather than 0-100 speeds.

Apparently it is indeed a rusty variety underneath all that dirt which makes it look black.

I was thinking about this and aside from differences in the chemical make-up of the different paints, my thoughts are that black would be fastest in warm weather, ie summer. The two reasons for this are both to do with heat absorption and distribution. You would have both, better airflow over your car if your panels are warmer (My maths degree days are a little hazy here, but I think that's right) and your liquids will be a fraction more viscous (eg. oil) which is good I guess. I'm not sure how engine performance would depend on temperature though as it would probably be hotter in a black car.Naturally any air intake would provide slightly warmer air in a black car too as it will warm up on its way in. Thinking about it, you would also have marginally better grip and brakes as the wheel arches will be warmer and the air flow around the wheel will be warmer too.

Don't be silly Hes better off with a fully forged built engine & HKS twin turbos or a 2JZ swap Before forging the internals of the above, you're looking at 900+ hp

Shove a short-block LS2 4th gen engine into the engine bay & fit a supercharger with all the trimmings. Yep.

Time to fess up. I saw one on the M42 a week ago and thought it looked the nuts. Really really liked it.

Be an adult about it and use protection when making love to your new car. You never know where it's been before. STD is baaaad!

I'll sell you a keybob for one of those for £2k. Then I don't need to bother selling the car.

My car drifts to the left. It also drifts to the right. In fact, it can also do wheelies and doughnuts if I really go for it.

to the OP: Yes, technically it is wrong and I, personally, would never do this as in the case of a large claim, the insurers will do a thorough investigation and may well find out who uses which car (witness evidence, who goes to work in which car, etc). On another note, however, I believe it is possible to build up two lots of separate No Claims bonus on two separate cars. ie. If you already have NCB on your zed, you can start accumulating another set of NCB on your other car, so a year later you will have 1yr NCB on that and that will also be transferrable.

I'll pick it up off ya

One thing that baffles me is that almost every single person with a strong view on this issue is of the opinion that there has to be a Creationism vs Evolution split and that there is no common ground. While I am a believer in evolutionary principles as we have been witnessing some forms of evolution actually happening to certain species over the past few hundred years, I do not see why it has to be incompatible with religious creationism views. In fact I have known many a religious academic who would hold similar views. Fact is that our knowledge of the origins of the universe, matter and whatever is pretty much non-existent. What precisely is so hard to imagine about a world where some deity has created the world with evolution as one part of said world's natural processes? Different arguments could be put forward as to exactly at which point the creation happened, but given the omniscience and transcience principles, at any point from creating an infinitely small amount of matter for the Big Bang to creating Earth with creatures, etc, etc, the events that followed including evolution would have been foreseen. What I'm trying to say is although I am not particularly religious, I do not see any discontinuity between creationist and evolutionist theories. God could have created the conditions necessary for the Big Bang, could have created Earth and initial conditions or even a load of species. For all I know, the world could have been created 1 second ago with all conditions as they are today and my memory implanted. To be honest, I don't really care one way or another because I live in my own reality within the space and time restrictions associated with it. Whichever way you call things, something was around before me, something is likely to be around after me. Creatures which cannot adjust to their habitat die out. Other creatures in some way different to the ones which die out survive because they are in some way better equipped. That's fact. What name you attribute to this fact is something I don't really care about.

I'll give you £50 for it. Here's hoping you get no other offers.