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Nice work, looks

How close is that lip to the kerb? Cool pic.

Loves these test, thanks for sharing. Not much in it to my eye. I can't decide whether I prefer the aesthetics of a nice bead, or better sheeting which leaves fewer beads and fewer watermarks after the beads evaporate.

Both shell and BP have an app, also tells you if they have a jet wash for emergency rinses or if they only got the paint stripper style car wash. If you venture north of Fort William, email Gleaner with your route and they'll tell you their stations with super along the way. Very friendly customer service. Edit: as per Dan above a couple of octane booster bottles fit nicely in the little cubbies in the rear.

Ooooh I do like the moody, desaturated vibe of your pics. Really works with the GM. Feels like it should have a soundtrack of Vienna by Ultravox. Nice work.

I'd like to wake up to the sound of Grimshaw, drowning in his own blood. He represents the precise point in time where indie stopped being a music and started being a 'look' that you 'rocked'.

^^^^^^ that looks sweet! and good you can keep the lid and hide it away. Nice job.

So my Richbrook anti-theft valve caps have picked up some oxidisation and look rubbish, replaced with a new set. However this time I have given the new set two coats of lacquer, hopefully this will keep them shiny for longer!

Been in dialogue with Ewen on a couple of things of late. A truly top service, couldn't be more helpful and I can't recommend them enough. I'll be back for more, no doubt.

Christ on a bike, that noise is pantwettingly epic. I want one now! It's crazy how tall it looks compared to the other runners, the one I saw was ridiculously low.

What the hell is wrong with people? Even if the beer is being given away free, show a bit of restraint FFS.

I had no idea they were so well known! Maybe it's an age thing? I grew up with Diablo and Countach on the wall. Looked sweet though, I'd love to bring a car back from the edge to show room. One day I'll get that dry state mustang.

I bet they're a barrel load of fun Will. The rear tyres were insane, I think they're wider than they are tall! 500 BHP through tiny wheels, the torque must be outrageous.

So I went to see a man about a special Zed job today whilst I was there, I saw this. I was so excited to share it, even though its not exactly Zed related. Sorry for rubs photo. Never even heard of one before but it was amazeballz. The owner was there fortunately so he gave me some background on it's history and him buying it in bits and putting it back together, it's got a dirty great mid-mounted V8 (500bhp claimed at the wheel) in the boot which actually encroaches into the cabin, past where your elbow rest would be in a regular car!!! It was ridiculously low and had a real GT40 vibe going on. It wasn't in showroom condition (hence being in the shop) but it was incredible looking thing and the custom exhaust which just came straight off the being in the boot (couldn't see any cats or silencer) must sound like the end of the world. http://en.wikipedia...._Tomaso_Pantera

Do you still have your red gaiter? I'm going to be looking to get one ... Think so, I'll look when I get home. If it's there you can have it.

It wasn't until I went to the States that I realised how awful some service can be here. TBF, there's plenty of great uk based companies, but so many places get it so wrong it's untrue, most of the time the costs of providing excellent service over crap is a few quid or simply a little bit of effort. Always over deliver.

The gaiter is now black, but the Z is still red Just bear in mind that it will reflect off your rear windscreen so choose your scheme wisely.

Love to see pics once you're done! Mine is pretty scratched up too, might paint it to give it a tidy up if its an easy enough job! Like this? Just leaving the Z stock actually looks pretty cool. Can't decide if I like that more than the red I switched too.

I'll look into that mapsourse. After reading this thread I downloaded the garmin basecamp software, for adding proper google maps style routes to the sat nav with POIs and waypoints. I've made a great circuit of Paris I intend to run in the dead of night when the streets are empty. I think it could be great fun with zero traffic at 3am or some such. Basecamp is literally the most clunky thing ever and I can't seem to download the detailed maps, so it has to pull them off the SatNav via USB (you can imagine how quick that is ). Going to read the instructions next might make it a bit slicker. Also tried TYRE from tyre.co.uk which seems to use google maps, so it's a lot slicker than basecamp but it doesn't work on OSX so have to run dirty windowz on my beautiful iMac. I feel unclean...

I think 75-80 psi is too much, surprised they haven't broken free already

The real questions are: Do aftermarket bits weigh more and negatively impact power to weight ratio? Even if they weigh less, do they impact weight distribution and balance negatively? Do they impact airflow, air pressure or turbulence and increase drag at all? Or negatively impact any intended air flow efficiencies nissan intentionally designed in? I fear we may never know I just buy shiny things and loud things

How do you find it in comparison to the MX5 Dan, both in terms of sheer grunt and agility?

I quite like that.

With the right wheels and a BGW that could really be something...

IIRC from GCSE physics, heat can transfer by conduction, convection and radiation. So when the car is moving I'd expect heat soak to be reduced for conduction and convection, but not eliminated. Also as radiation heat travels through a vacuum (sun's heat to earth) the heat 'reflectivity', as well as the specific heat capacity, of the materials must also be a factor in heat soak, whilst in motion. It's been a while since I did GCSE physics, so that could be wildly apocryphal Edit: typos, sorry for sub GCSE English skills