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On 28/06/2018 at 13:20, nissanjuke said:

sunny days 

2 hours ago, LRF4N said:

GT4s came in yellow and black only, with the anniversary wheels. Curious to why you thought the sunset in rays was a GT4?

Maybe the one above? Not sure.

https://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/02/ukdm-nissan-370z-yellow-a-special-edition-homage-to-europes-g/?guccounter=1

Apologies for necropost...

FYI, photobucket have sacked their CEO and realised they did wrong. I don't think it will save them, but...

By Greg Avery – Reporter, Denver Business Journal
May 17, 2018, 2:47pm MDT Updated 8 hours ago
Photobucket’s experiment with being a $399.99 premium service is over, and so to is the tenure of the CEO who led it. The Denver-based photo storing service on Thursday revealed it has slashed its prices and restored millions of photos around the internet hoping to mollify millions of customers it angered last year.

“It’s the first step of many to restore the trust of customers,” said Ted Leonard, Photobucket’s new CEO.

He became CFO at the 15-year-old company in October, after it surprised users worldwide by starting to charge $399.99 for hosting a large number of photos and being able to post them on third-party blogs, ecommerce sites and elsewhere.

John Corpus, Photobucket’s CEO at the time, defended the change, saying a subscription model was necessary given the disparity between the online ad revenue Photobucket’s website generated and the expense of hosting billions of images its 90 million customers stored with Photobucket.

But the pricing, especially the $399.99 a year service that enabled posting images on third-party sites, didn’t convert a meaningful number of Photobucket users into paying subscribers, Leonard said Thursday.

“There’s not a one-plan-fits-all approach to image hosting,” he said. “We can build a subscriber-based business without charging more money than the perceived value of the service.”

Leonard became CEO in March. The company has spent the weeks since them coming up with new pricing and strategies to make 90 million customers happy and generate revenue.

The new prices start at $1.99 per month for 10 gigabytes of images stored and rise to $3.99 monthly for 20 gigabytes and $8.99 for two terabytes of storage. All the plans enable third-party hosting for a $2.49 monthly add-on price.

Photobucket on Wednesday also turned back on millions of users’ images that were still linked to around the web.

The move allowed the images to reappear in place instead of the stock speedometer image that had replaced them last summer. Leonard ruefully joked that speedometer might have become the most viewed image in internet history, though one linked to users’ anger with the company.

“This was weighing on us,” he said. “We wanted to see the images replaced and the internet to be put back together in a sense.”

A pair of Level 3 Communications engineers, Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, formed Photobucket in 2005 to help people to store and use digital photos. Photobucket became the fastest-rising photo storage startup as it grew in parallel with the popularity of MySpace, the first widely-popular social network, where many users of Photobucket posted images.

Fox Interactive, a division of News Corp., bought both MySpace and Photobucket in 2006, envisioning something that presaged Facebook and Instagram. But Facebook soon dwarfed MySpace, and photo-filtering apps took on prominence as smartphones supplanted desktop computers.

News Corp. sold Photobucket in 2010, making an independent, Denver-based company again.

It employed 120 people in downtown’s ballpark neighborhood at its height. Welch, its co-founder, returned to Photobucket at one point after it purchased his photo-sharing app company, but he since left the business.

Today Photobucket has 10 full-time employees and is based at a downtown co-working space.

Definitely recommend getting an air fuel ratio gauge added if at all possible as this will help with watching the running of the car. Especially with a carb which is essentially a controlled fuel leak 

If you have some spare change (it's not cheap!) laying about, MSD Atomic EFI (Electric fuel injection) plus an MSD distributor would transform the car, they even make it look like there's still a carb on it.

It's plug and play but it also self learns, so will adapt it's mapping to the car. If you have 15 minutes or so spare this video shows the differences quite well.

Sorry for rambling, I had a 350 small block in my truck, so I've done days and days of research into them and now I don't have one  On the motortrend on demand site there's loads of videos about/involving the 350 small block, if you want my login details, just ask.

shoving some gaskets in isn't a big job, it will just be rather fiddly because of the space constraints.

Shame about the focus in the back there 

so gorgeous, love it

1 hour ago, scobie140 said:

Not 100% on the technical specs of the blue but the heat is probably too high on the manifold for it. But there will be something similar out there that will cope with the high temps.

Yeah, I think you're right, possibly you need red however blue held well on my small block chevy V8 and two motorbikes. With the chevy it's all I had and as it worked I never bought the correct stuff. That's probably not the correct attitude to have though 

5 hours ago, TT350 said:

This is why I need a new garage. They said they'd sort it so the bolts didn't come loose again. 

surely even using locktite blue is an option?

Set the bag on fire so that when he stamps it out he gets poo on his shoe 

Absolutely in awe of your dedication and pursuit of perfection. Love this thread.

I'm late to the party, however on the fuel front, modern fuel killed the mocal high pressure fuel lines I had in my truck after a year.  After a bit of research I found that you can buy teflon lined fuel lines which are ok to run even pure ethanol on. Carburetors do not like our modern fuel though and all of the brass parts oxidise and you get a build up of green crusty stuff if the car stands too long. I envy most (ALL) of this build, especially the being able to buy decent fuel to put in it. I love the attention to detail you've put in.

I've had them weekly for a month or so. I think they've killed themselves.

6 minutes ago, Ekona said:

Who doesn't prefer a cheese toastie?! Food of the gods.

Do you believe or not. You're muddying the waters now. You can't mention them like this.

Also, singular, or plural? 

and lee and perrins or not?

14 hours ago, Ekona said:

Well, is this not the point? Every single scripture/book/elder scroll ever made is open to conjecture, which means none of them can ever be taken seriously. If you believed in what was written about yesterday, and I respect that you did, I don’t understand how you can still have faith when everything completely fails to come to pass. Everything. 

What didn't happen? No idea what you're referring to?

Why don't Honda just buy one for R&D

Really reminds me of this visually, and that's no bad thing.

Rose gold  

a procharger isn't a turbo, it's a centrifugal supercharger lol.

It's also significantly easier to fit as the exhaust isn't spinning the turbine, a belt is. There's no need for custom complicated exhaust systems, fitting turbos behind the engine etc.

Prochargers are cool, don't get me wrong, but they're definitely not a turbo.

Use the code PHOTOBUCKETKILLEDTHEMSELVES for 100% off the price of membership by signing up to someone else instead 

Rod bearings going is generally a sign of an oil issue. Could be too little oil, an oil pump failure/issue, oil pump not uprated to match other parts in the engine so not enough of it is being delivered, too thin oil, oil breaking down as a result of high temperatures, petrol in the oil causing the oil to break down, too high RPM's for a long time, too much clearance between the rod journal and the bearing would cause it to spin the bearing.

Gutted to see this, unfortunately there's a lot of possibilities that could cause it, I'd definitely start looking with the oil system though.

15 hours ago, gangzoom said:

 

Do you really think I've bought at £75K+ brand new car and pre-ordered another £35K+ one to save money??

It wouldn't surprise me if it was just to brag about all your money on forums to be honest. You'd probably have far better conversation about these things on an electric car forum...

Oh that's perdy!

I'd buy this Nova for the asking price, £23,000 seems like a lot of car for the money:

https://goo.gl/DVrJJc

I know someone who crashed a VX220 on the way home from buying it. A damp patch in the road caught him out with a new car, he didn't know how to react to having the back end go on a car and applied the brakes. Big bang ensued!

When I worked for Mercedes, they started giving free fast driving lessons to anyone who bought an SLR as their first fast car to try and prevent things like this. Scare someone on track and they might be more respectful of the car on the road. Didn't really work, but it was a good column filler at the time as they were a responsible seller.