Parsnip

Pah, amateur

1 Bike (and wheels)

Pair of skis

Ski Boots

Set of bike rollers

3 offshore bags of junk

Xbox

Rucksack

Assorted other crap

Me

Was fun driving though, had to look through a bike wheel to see the passenger wing mirror

EDIT - Nice strut brace

Pistonheads, youtube and ebay - working the last week of my notice at this job before starting the new one - so not doing much of anything productive!

Welcome

Another Aberdeen type here - Orange GT with the shouty exhaust bits

A meet would be good - seems like we should be able to get a wee hoon sorted (weather permitting )

Got my Berks on a couple of weeks ago now (along with some Nismo pipes ) - well worth the money, the car sounds absolutely lovely now.

Of course, you cant just go putting HFCs on the stock exhaust, you need a full cat back as well for full on shouty Zed goodness

when I bought other cars it always had Ghia , cc , etc

 

GHIA?????

 

How old are you??????

I'm 24 and still remember being run around in my mum's Escort Ghia estate, was brilliant, even had a turquoise (colour matched to the car, naturally) sunstrip

Was thinking this actually - after the Piston Heads run the other week and a decent blast up the cairn (?) just outside Banchory this weekend - hooning season is most definatley upon us!

Problem is that I don't know enough good roads around here (Aberdeenshire) yet to organise anything myself - need someone to hold my hand

Saw this on B3ta - think they lob the wrapper in the back of the van.

More importantly, what type of johnny was used? I imagine an extra safe requires a higher inflation velocity than a pleasuremax for example

No pictures of my own, but seem to have been snapped in a few of the ones on PH - was also behind the MG with the GoPro on the roof for a fair bit so waiting on the footage from that

Either way, had an absolute blast, spent most of today wishing I was out hooning instead of working - roll on summer!

Good meeting you mate, cracking day and good clean fun all round

Will add mine to the mix (crap quality phone photo alert):

Black flake metallic on the plastic and gunmetal on the Z + clearcoat - all from halfords rattle cans. Was a surprisingly easy job - sanding the Z down was a bit of a mare and I did get a bollocking for (ever so slight) overspray onto the kitchen table, but other than that, job was a good un!

Only problem with it is that even with a couple of coats of clearcoat, it seems like it will scratch fairly easily, nothing yet though - even using the Z as a removals van and jamming a set of skis in there

Said my bit on there.

As with anything on PH, there is a lot of good info, but a lot of bellendery as well - some posters seem to just post utter drivel for the sake of it and you know to always just skip what they have said.

PH is a great site, but being so big, there is obviously going to be a percentage of people who use their arse as their primary talking device.

350z not quick? Some people aren't living in the real world... it isn't quick compared to a 911 or a Caparo or a R18 - but it isn't supposed to be...

'simple, but in a good way' was my favourite comment I think.

Some "interesting" replies on there.

Said my bit anyway, mostly through boredom than the want to say anything constructive

If I was just working then it wouldn't be a problem, unfortunately I'm working in the wrong country and am stuck at work for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (and I'm on nights, whinge whinge moan etc... ) - unreliability comes with the territory...

If I'm about, going out for a hoon is pretty close to the top of the list of things to do, but unfortunately I need to have a way to do something to pay for the car's v-power drinking problem!

Currently running on about a pints worth of Norwegian rocket coffee - horrible tasting stuff, but enough caffeine in it to give you the shakes. God I hate nightshifts...

At home if I'm lazy, the Nescafe instant espresso is luverly. If I can be bothered with the paraphernalia and the effort of doing it properly, I have some good stuff from coffeesofhawaii.com

Definite no for me now I'm afraid, just got the call that I'm off to Hammerfest (find the arctic circle and then keep heading north...) to go offshore on Friday

Fitted mine this weekend and love the noise.

No difference that I can feel in the power (JWT claim 6.5hp or something - no idea if you would feel that, but sounds a massive gain for what it is) but the noise is brilliant. At pootling about town revs (i.e 30-40mph in 6th) nothing much different, but went for a bit of a "spirited drive" on Sunday and the noise going up through the gears is eargasmic - the car just sounds so insistent now - go on, a little bit more throttle .

Found myself double clutching every downshift just to hear the little blip

I guess other filters are avaiable that do the same job, but the JWT seems fairly well made and fits like a glove - the heat shield could be a bit better I guess, but not a major gripe - losing a couple of HP to heat soak is worth it just for the racket it makes.

Ok, I know it's not really a Lotus and that it will probably be ruined with logos at some point AND all of the cars with the sharkfin look a bit rank, but god it looks good!

Gutted for you, can't get my head around why someone would do that, complete mindless idiocy. Would hate that to happen to mine and would hate even more the consequences of catching someone in the act of doing it (i.e a lengthy prison sentence for GBH)

Have done ok with a Nissan touch up pot on my (orange) zed, and the results are surprisingly good - without knowing where the dings are it is very hard to notice them - but most of mine were smaller stonechips and not in such a visible location.

My sister managed a decent repair on the back of her Golf using rattle cans - I was really skeptical, but it looks all right - no idea if it is possible with a more metallic finish like your blue or even if it is possible to get close to the colour with rattle cans - hers is white.

If the scratch is really as deep as you say, it may not do any good, but the T-Cut scratch repair and wax did a presentable job of hiding a few scrapes in my old blue Polo - would bother me a bit about the exposed metal rusting with this though.

Personally I am not a huge fan.

Way over the top for a road car. Put a drift/race livery on it and use it as a track car and it would be lovely, but as something to use on the roads, no thanks.

I think there might have been a 008 when the were running the DBR9s and I think the Ickx Lola Aston was 008, but it wasn't a Aston/Prodrive factory effort.

Was really disappointed with the AMR-ONE last year - as optimistic as I tried to be about it at the time, you got the feeling that it was never going to be that quick or reliable - going from the Lola Aston being one of the quickest petrols to retiring after a handful of laps was a big step back from them.

As hideous as the Delta Wing is (http://www.highcroftracing.com/deltawing/) should be good to see it racing - great to see a franchitti driving it too.

Group C are there as the support race - always an absolute blast to see the old fire breathing monsters tearing around. Would love to see the 787B there as well, but 2 years in a row might be a bit much to hope - not sure my eardrums could take it again!

Anyone going this year?

Entrance list just announced:

http://www.lemans.org/wpphpFichiers/1/1 ... s_2012.pdf

P2 looks like it will be a right scrap, hoping that Toyota put up a fight in P1 and get in amongst the Audis - will feel funny wanting someone to give Audi a bloody nose after supporting them for so long when racing Peugeot , little disappointed with the GT field, as long as the Porsches have the pace to keep up with the Ferraris and Vette's it should be good.

No Aston V12s in any form running this year - truely tragic - listening to that engine (either in a DBR9 or Lola-Aston) has been the aural highlight of my year for a long time (although hearing a LP-640 and SL65 blasting through the tunnel at Rouen last year was pretty good also )

Going to be heading down in a convoy from Aberdeen methinks - potentially hilarious petrol consumption with a M3, a Pajero, possibly a Boxter and me in the Z...

Ever so slightly excited and it is only February...

Well, if you are what you eat, I'm sure Gillian McKeith has eaten an old bag at some point. On her program she tells people to look at how they live their lives, while holding a Tupperware filled with someone else's poo? Irony much?

No, if you look closely, they are clearly "Bombeps" - the product of some overzealous loading of the bike into the uplift wagon...

Used to have this:

Then foolishly decided I needed a downhill bike and so bought this:

But due me being a complete eejit, I clipped a barrier during a race and did this - I have a few better pics, but the face on the guy in the background makes this one :

1 broken tailbone and a severely bruised ego later (could have been much worse, snapped the armadillo plate on my pressure suit, thanks Mr. 661) I decided to quit the MTB game and become a roadie. Loved it (and still do) highlights include riding the Paris Roubaix - those cobbles would be tough on a MTB, let alone a carbon roadie with no suspension and skinny tyres:

Sold that bike and now have the dream bike for next year - the only non carbon bits are the brakes (they are Ti ) - 6.9kg of joy:

Apologies for the photodump and for trying to pretend I am still a cool MTBer, when in reality I am a lycra wearing road geek