Jetpilot

I think your spot on, or the salesman is. I mentioned in another thread, in general most people stick to a particular marque. I had an interesting chat with a couple of mates last night, one has just bought a Ferrari California, his business partner has an SLS for a while. I asked the guy with the SLS if he had had a drive, he had, so i asked do you prefer it to your SLS, he said its a great car but he prefers his SLS, its just more me was his reply. Given the choice of the two i would pick the California every time

This in my experience describes 99.9% of most Porsche drivers, they dont want them because they are very capable cars, they want them for the badge! A mate of mine bought a Cayman S, he sold it in 6 months for some ropey old 911 cab, couldnt tell you which variant. He had zero interest in the fact the Cayman was a better drivers car, he just wanted want he saw as the pinnacle of Porsche ownership, the 911.

Unfortunately this is the whole problem with cat c & d, you can never find out what was damaged, unless your fortunate enough to find the owner who had the car at the time and documented the accident/damage etc and the subsequent repairs. A Vic test does not much more than check the vehicles identity (its not a ringer) and that its roadworthy, it checks nothing to do with the quality of repairs! So imho, unless you can find out exactly why it was written off and the invoices to prove it was repaired properly i wouldnt buy one without that info.

If you get a plastic hawk/owl etc make sure you move it regularly, birds get used to it being in one spot and realise its no threat! You could try tying a couple of old cd, s in the bush, when they spin and reflect the light it spooks the birds, worth a try as its probably free

Another thought i had whilst discussing with a mate, whilst Marquez sat behind Lorenzo there was an air of excitement, could he pass?? I know the logical (perhaps obvious) thought was yes, but i still found myself glued to the screen wondering, when and how, will Lorenzo be able to put up a fight etc? So the great thing about this was, you didnt definitely know it was going to happen and how! So what i am getting at is, we didnt know because they dont have the ship to shore radios like F1 where you pretty much know exactly what each driver and team are doing. Lesson for F1 if you ask me, go back to pit boards!

After my last Rx7 went it was a choice of two, the Rx8 & 350. I wanted to stick with a rotary as its what i knew but always wanted a 350z. I had a 13b lying around that i seriously looked into putting into a Rx8 but the cost put me off and throwing huge sums at a forced induction Renesis with limited results was the nail in the coffin, but i would agree with Lexx, if my driving time was more track than a 50/50 track/road split, i would have had the 8. I seem to remember TG pitching the 8 & 350 together and they were exactly the same time around the TG track.

Apparently thats the talk in the paddock, I think there are too many variables though, mechanical failure, tyre failure, other riders taking him out, rain etc Awesome ride by little Dani again, still have to keep reminding myself he weighs about as much as a packet of peanuts. Lorenzo just has no answer to those 2 at the moment. I know Rossi did ok again, but you got to wonder how long he will hang about getting 4ths or whatever?

Another record broken! First rider in 47 years to have 3 pole positions and 3 wins at the start of the season! Very mature ride today and a pretty good race I thought, great track too

Yeah you're right it is still big & gay. Not to mention completely contrary to what he needs, grip at the front Looks like some kind of additional extension to the existing spoiler if you ask me!

Well i never, still my comment stands

That's just the normal Type-R spoiler, but angled up quite a bit I reckon VTEC Yo kicks in he does a wheelie for 0.058 seconds On the white one?

You got to love a HUGE big gay roof spoiler on a front wheel drive Civic

I have had interest in the spats so if anyone wants just the bumper, £100 + postage

As above in black. In an ideal world the bumper needs spraying as there a few blemishes, nothing hideous though, no cracks,splits, big dents etc The bumper has a very small central reverse camera which i will leave in for the buyer. Nismo spats were painted last year so are in good condiiton. Will split but would want a buyer for each. £150 + postage or collection from Zed Shed area

Or two pm's i have sent, lol

Well I am not too hopefull we shall see a battle up front today, Marquez being pretty much a second a lap faster all weekend, on just a 1.37 lap! Its a consolation he is great to watch but will get boring for the season if this continues, perhaps some late race tyre wear might save the day

I think some people need to get out more after reading that thread

Need to know widths & offsets to be accurate, being they fit a 350z though means you probably wont be a million miles away

My mum and aunt are very into spiritualism, i was lost my way with life in my late 20's and they suggested i go see a spiritualist, of course being 20 odd i was very sceptical but went anyway. Some of things he described only I knew and were way too offbeat to be random points or guesswork that someone might relate to. A couple of description of "past family members" that were with him were also incredibly accurate and trust me, i was not feeding him info or prompting, all i was saying was yes or no! My sister died last year and very soon after passing i had a couple of things occur. My pc is at a window, the window has a pelmet, on top of the pelmet are a few items. One of them is a Snap On Ford F100 hot rod on a flat base, the base is roughly 10" x 4"! Perhaps three quarters of an inch of this over hangs and is centred on the pelmet right above my pc screen, so if it fell, it fall directly onto the screen, it hasnt moved in 8 years. Sat one day typing away and the thing literally came flying off the sill and covered about a metre and hit the return wall. There is literally no way if it had just over balanced it would travel any distance. If it had just fallen or toppled off i would have thought nothing more about it, but it didnt, it had forward motion She also had a personal reg plate, it was something like 066OCO, we used to call her Coco, as with any rubbish plate she said it said Coco, ever since she got it, i called her Oco. A year to the day of her death my niece had arranged a little rememberrance down the beach, let off a few chinese lanterns etc, me and my nephew didnt want to go (reasons i wont go into, famaily stuff). About 5 mins before i called him and said, come on we should go and he agreed, i walked out the door then and there, turned onto the main road and the car in fronts reg plate was W6 "OCO"

Its makes no difference which way the grooves are running (unless specifically stated), it is all to do with the vanes. Some are straight, so it would again make no difference, some are curved so they would need to turn into the direction of rotation. http://www.racingbrake.com/v/main/rotor_vane_design.asp

Thanks for the offers guys, all sorted and on route

I dont know much about j17, but I would say thats pretty good service, they could have made it a lot harder for you Enjoy the car

S Tunes didnt come out till 05 (according to wiki), mystery solved Just to **** on your bonfire that modfied website were road testing them in May 2004 doesn't mean they were on sale but we're produced in early 2004 at least Only going by what Wiki says as mentioned, obviously its not the font of all knowledge. But would be surprised if they made an S Tune within a year of its release either way

S Tunes didnt come out till 05 (according to wiki), mystery solved

Mine has red springs and silver shocks so it must be a Nismo S Tune Sorry should add, will have Nismo written on them