Smokeyjoe

Im currently looking for a BMW 118d.. 50mpg average with 60+ on the motorway, BMW build quality, handles well, still pulls well and you can get them mapped to act more like the 120d. Post 2008 is £30 a year tax.. PLUS RWD!

That looks (and sounds) epic!

Have seen 40mpg at 50mph on the motorway when I was running my spare.

Driving sensibly with a bit of heavy footing I'm getting a 28/29/30 mpg average

Looks pretty awesome actually

^ Just looking at your facebook page and realised that I think I met you breifly at one of last years BDC rounds as I was working there, I remember thinking to myself 'I don't usually like R33s..but I like that one'.

I'm not sure if you're allowed to do this but im sure the mods will remove if not.

Basicly I spend my time teaching people to drift and race on experience days. This is great and I work for a few schools. But as the race season comes to a close; so do the experience days. This wasn't too bad as I was doing some doubling work in a new film and that kept some money come in. However now thats over, I have maximum of one to two driving days a week and i'm struggling, bored and worst of all; having to sell the Z. Since I graduated this year i'm applying for graduate schemes left right and centre but nothing has come through just yet.

So my question to you all is does anyone have any work? or know of anyone who needs another employee. Temp, part time, full time it doesn't matter. Just so I can try to avoid selling the Z and actually buy some christmas presents for people.

I'm not going to produce my whole CV on here but:

Im based in Horley, Surrey.

I have a degree in Motorsport Technology with Management 2:1

Work experience includes a lot of driving, promotions, filming, modeling, working in a small office and working at a magazine. Ive also reshelled an RX7 and done all my own work to previous vehicles, drift and road so I should know my way around a car.

I know this is random and a strange approach but hopefully everyone on the forum will understand what it would feel like to have to sell your Z.

Thank you.

Joe

Surely the money you save DIY outweighs any losses you may make on resale. As long as everything is recorded. TBH with some of the writeups on here people could write FFSH - Full forum service history.

That was a ton of smoke you were making from that 33 done well

looks awesome to me.

Ive luckily only had one in a fence but the stuff we do is a little lower speed. And the higher speed stuff we do at airfields with lots of run off. I cant say its the most fun when someone looses it in the atom at 60mph, youre just along for the ride!

 

What's really good fun but hard work is doing rides around the slalom course in the Caterhams. (burning rubber and been a hooligan.!!)

I'm speaking to the manager at the caterham events at the moment. Just waiting for him to get back to me with a driving interveiw date. Excited to get behind the wheel of one of them. Ive always wanted to be the guys doing it at Autosport lol.

Ive luckily only had one in a fence but the stuff we do is a little lower speed. And the higher speed stuff we do at airfields with lots of run off. I cant say its the most fun when someone looses it in the atom at 60mph, youre just along for the ride!

I expected it to be a little longer than that, but good read. I'm still umming and ahhing about it. Ive applied to some graduate schemes in unrelated fields and ive got 3/4 schools that I may get into to do some more teaching. At a bit of a junction at the moment career wise, it could go either way.

Il go out and get it now..

Maybe I miss remembered then..Half right I suppose

Enjoyed that read. Car sounds great, Im 23 and only have a 350z, where did I go wrong? I think I need to work a little harder!

Abbey's project Zed engine is what you are after. =)

 

Yep, as long as you don't mind rebuilding after every mile or so.

Its ok.. just live your life a quarter mile at a time..

The 370z has the same wheel base as the 350z but is has a slightly wider track. This makes it more square, this may be why you have less confidence in it. (comming from an Infiniti manger)

 

He lie.

This upsets me

^ Well im sold, ill stick with this a bit longer then, see what I can make of it. Sounds amazing to me.

The 370z has the same wheel base as the 350z but is has a slightly wider track. This makes it more square, this may be why you have less confidence in it. (comming from an Infiniti manger)

Im sorry, but there is no way id take my car to Halfords Autocentre for anything.

I only went there for an MOT and they managed to mess that up. I have little faith in letting them do anything else

Longsh07 - I was looking to do that course as it sounded quite fun glad it was what it said on the tin.

Dedman - Thats random Mercedes not even using their own company. What do you do now if you don't mind me asking? Its just im questioning if instructing is a viable career choice, I currently work for 3 schools and im struggling to get work, I have three more in the pipeline so fingers crossed, but im not sure if I should have a real job and use my degree?

whacky will that sounds amazing! I want to do that now please!

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Not all its cracked up to be, spending hours in a open top sports car in the piddling down rain at Brands is not fun.

 

OK in the Summer.it gets a bit boaring doing lap after lap on the same bit of tarmac.

 

I also did a bit for Driving Ambition at Millbrook with their Porsches, that was fun

We've got an Ariel Atom where I work and I know what you mean about the wet days, its just not the same. I'm calling MB world in a bit, see what they say!

Thanks for all the positive comments guys.

whacky will that sounds amazing! I want to do that now please!

Well that's pretty awesome. How'd you score that gig?