brillomaster

he wasnt a massive massive favourite... you had two outs on the turn (either of the remaining aces) so chances of you hitting one by the river are approximately 2 (number of outs) X 4 = 8%. and then once you hit your ace on the turn, he then has one out to beat you (the case 9) so the chances of him beating you on the river would be approximately 1 (number of outs) X 2 +2 = 4%. The fact that you beat him in the hand isnt so unlikely i'd consider a fix... admittedly you didnt have to rub his nose in it and hit quads, but fair play! To be honest its his fault for calling a preflop reraise with K9, especially knowing that with your reraise of nearly half your stack you're committed to the hand if he goes all in. (Man havent played poker for ages, writing that lot out reminds me how much fun it is!)

Mmmm does look nice... very 2013... but its a tricky decision between this and the new viper - i think the viper swings it for now by having an extra 140bhp, but when the sportier versions come out it will be a very close run thing! looking forward to seeing the racing version at endurance events over the year!

hmm, guessing by the comments that this one might be better viewed at home... NSFW?

hooray top gear is back. something to watch on a sunday until the BTCC and F1 starts up again!

no snow here in leamington - forecast for flurries overnight though, hopefully wont be too bad tomorrow morning.

Saw this, liked it so thought i'd share. Plus features a rather nice zed, not someones on here? Happy weekend everybody! P.S. Also an excellent advertisement for an old E36 trackcar :wink:

This is a barefaced lie if i ever saw one! Is there anything on the car you havent modified?!? Still, looking good, but i'm afraid you do have a terminal case of Zeditis - theres nothing that can be done for you!

whos mantra was it, the unholy trinity of motoring - Fast, reliable, and Cheap - you can only have two of the three! Yeah i dabbled in fast and cheap... but the engine blew. so now i've changed to not so fast and not so cheap, but a lot more reliable!

ah - but they are likely to fall apart/rust/blow up before a forged zed with only 25k on the clocks would...

yeah but a cayman will appear to be going backwards compared to that zed! its not about what else you could buy for the same cash, if i had a spare £15k kicking around i'd get it, no way you're going faster for less!

Wow that looks like a epic route! never really considered Spain as a driving location, but loved my time in the Pyrenees a few years back - somehow a very different feeling to them than the Alps. Also, make it three countries by having lunch in Andorra looking forward to seeing the pictures!

if your first priority is as a muffler or a silencer, then it does indeed work great... as its too quiet! if however you're looking to be the smoothest exit for exhaust gasses, then its less good... too many baffles (find the thread where someone opened one up) my choice on a budget would be a scorpion system - same noise as stock at low rpm, but a lovely growl when you put your foot down. the exhaust is the main reason why i dont like revving my engine out... above 5k the engine note really starts to feel strangled to me, makes more of a whooshing than growling. but then again my preious car was a 3 litre v6, with a decatted true dual exhaust and sounded absolutely when going for the redline.

Mmmm, everyone knows the zed makes a very decent cross country GT car! If my company provided free petrol, i would drive everywhere - definitely if its a jaunt across europe! So are there any opportunities for fun and games or is it just out and back, Péages all the way? Surely theres some chances for nice French A roads?

i think they better have got it right, as they've ran out of letters. on a serious note, im happy with my Xperia J!

yeah they look exactly like mine, and mines a 53 plate... correct shape on both sides and got the fitment hole on the drivers side. not sure about the cupholders as you say - if thats out a zed i havent found where it is yet!

alrighty, might well have a plan in place! am very excited already, but early days yet, not buying a car till the spring. will keep you updated with progress!

have to ask, what job do you do that requires driving to top european racetracks and gives free 102RON fuel? and more importantly how do i get that job!?

bought my zed just coming up to a year ago now, and when i bought it at least i was planning on keeping it for a long time - the first car where that was the case (all other cars were stop gaps until i could afford something better/faster, but the zed is plenty fast enough now and should be reliable, unlike my first proper fast car) However, that was when i lived only 2 miles from work... now i live 20 miles from work, the zed is costing rather more in fuel than i'd like and i'm putting rater more miles on it than id like... so am currently considering selling up and spending half the 6 grand on a efficient diesel commuter, and the other half on a mental weekend/trackday car... will have to see how we get on!

mmmm loving the arch extensions but hating the rest of the failside kit... maybe buy it, strip the exterior for parts and return it to near factory, then have a 550bhp ferrari troubler

give this site a go, used it when i considered importing and exhaust from the states. http://www.dutycalculator.com/new-import-duty-and-tax-calculation/

not for me... dont think its a looker at all, and its just a silly silly price... Metcalfe says its rarer than a pagani, but for that kind of money you can get a tricolor, of which there were what, three? I think id rather have a Ferrari F12 and £760,000 change please!

ahh thats too bad, Norwich is indeed a bit far from me, but good luck with it!

Welcome! £8k would get a very good early 350z if you want to avoid the tax hike - although from your previous cars i'd seriously consider the S2000 as well, as you already have a taste for VTEC! PS Gunmetal FTW!

ps as rabbitstew mentioned, theres no requirement for a car to be taxed or tested to go on track, as its private ground. TDOs normally ask that the car is roadworthy, but doesnt necessary have an mot - we trailered our BMW to events as it was not taxed or MOTed, and a lot of trailered cars would not pass an MOT anyway.

the trackday organisers i use are normally £100 - £140 for the first driver, and then £20 for additional drivers (hence why makes sense to share driving). Can go up to maybe £300-400 a day for premium tracks like silverstone and spa, but im happy with airfield days which are a lot cheaper. And then you'd probably use a full tank of petrol doing the driving, depending on how much time you spend on track. Helmet hire is normally £10 if you havent got your own ( i bought a relatively cheap one off ebay for £50). and then as for the car - you could simply buy a car and use it as is, but i was kind of expecting to have to change the oil every couple of trackdays, new tyres every half dozen trackdays (depending on the surface and how aggressive/sliding you are) new brake pads every couple of trackdays as well. The best thing is to buy a car that is light on tires and brakes, and then they last longer - caterhams and the like are easy on brakes as theres less mass to decelerate, and the tires are tiny 15s. its for this reason a zed is an expensive track car, as high levels of torque and 18" wheels mean tyre replacement is expensive, and 1600kg to brake will get through pads quickly. and then obviously once you've got into it, you'll want to modify your car... so bucket seats (£50 ebay jobbies up to £1000 Brides) harnesses (£50-£200), rollcage (more essential on an open top) slick tyres (£80 up depending on size) and so on, and so on... But id be looking to do things on the cheap - if money was no object i'd have a GT3 RS, but im more likely to start slow and upgrade things when parts wear out. Another thing to consider is insurance... there is no third party liability on trackdays, so if you want to protect your car, you insure it. if you have a colision with someone on track, then your insurance pays for your car, and their insurance pays for their car - regardless of who might be at fault. When we ran a BMW we did not insure it - we took the view that if it all went pear shaped then we'd just lose the £400 each we had invested. However, if your car was worth a grand or more, might want to consider insurance. As has been said, it is a great way of spending a day - probably one of the best days of my life was razzing an oversteering BMW round an airfield all day in the middle of summer - its a way better way of spending £100 than getting maybe three laps in a ferrari with an instructor telling you to slow down.