wmr1980

Oh I hadn't thought of privilege. Thanks for the tip. The daft thing is I've had performance cars before but because I had a company car for a few years so has basically put me back to ground zero! At least I'm not in my 20s else I fear it would be worse. It's just a shame that they cannot add my NCB from both private and company car policies!

Annoyingly I sold my private car 4 years ago when I got a company car. So my private insurance no claims stopped accruing. Although I had a work insurance policy I only clocked up 3 years and a bit of NCB. So despite my 10 years of no claims and my additional 3 years of no claims they can only take my last 3 years no claims as too much time has passed since my private policy was taken out! It means that my quotes are getting in just under £1k! For someone in his mid 30s with 15 years clean driving licence it's quite depressing. I guess I live in London so it's to be expected. And fully comp insurance etc.... Still Chris Knott are looking most competitive so far... I'm pitching them up against admiral at the moment... We'll see what the outcome is! I haven't even bought the bloody thing yet! Lol!

That's what I've been doing wrong all these years!

Another mod I plan to do - especially living in London, it gets used a lot!

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread - as I'm getting closer to getting my Zed, this is something I plan on doing. Personally, from the list you've given, I tend to plan on doing #2 - but perhaps without the sub. I'm a fairly n00b to car wiring/audio, I've always paid others to do it for me! For the wiring loom to be able to use the steering wheel controls you need to get the cables from here: http://incartec.co.uk/nissan/1929/1034/2056/radio/Browser.aspx That's as much as I know! I believe the only issue with 6.5" aftermarket speakers is the depth of the speaker and how it sits in the door - you may need a spacer to fit it. However, again, I don't know from experience, just from my browsing of this forum! Good luck , and please can you post pictures of what you do so that I can learn from your experience!

Brilliant vid thanks for posting!

^^ well said. The cop sort of engineered that to happen, but the guy in the car shouldn't have been such an arrogant arse about it all.

I guess they don't know the concept of merge in turn, wherever that video was filmed (probably Russia again ). It's still something people don't "get" over here - especially when coming up to lane closures/lane merging. Rather than being a self righteous do-gooder, it's safer to let 1 car go, and 1 car in - rather than trying to be the bigger person and stopping people from filtering in. Mathematically/and from time/motion studies, merge in turn is more efficient than queuing up from 17.34 miles away into 1 line. People think it's "cheeky" to come in at the end, actually it's just much more sensible. Now, in this case I accept that the 4x4 driver was being a noblet for assuming he had the right of way. I was just talking in general terms of driving etiquette and style.

I have to say that it was a clash of stubborn gits, and both really are just as bad as each other, but the "payback" was innovative!

I went to a friend's jeweller who custom made the engagement ring I wanted, and was very competitive. Makes a high street jeweller look like a rip off. I had the ring valued at Hatton gardens and at the lanes in Brighton and they both came back with a Value of about 4-5x what I paid for it. I'm happy to pass on the details, and if you tell him I sent you he'll look after you well. His office/factory is in Basildon but he's worth the journey. We've had our wedding rings made there and 3 of my friends have used him since and gone back for more work. He is a genius. Here's a pic of it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9d91qjd5iy3091/2101472-800.jpg

Cool shot!

Love how he then overtakes to chase him at the end.

I saw this a few years ago when it was first reported, it's amazing to see how it has spread across the world reaching even the poorest of places. As for a window, it would create more heat, and glass is expensive, furthermore if you use Perspex, which is expensive too, would cloud over. This stops moss building up thanks to the bleach, and actually refracts the light, more than just a straight window would offer, it provides illumination.

Also we were given a brain and free will, to do whatever we felt was the right thing to do. We cannot mitigate our responsibilities as human beings to one another or to the laws and political sanctions we have set through years of wars, exploration, and civilisation development over the past several millennia.

I get this even when driving my other half's dented, flakey paint, scratched R reg 1.6L corolla! I think it's just owing to the lack of driving standards on the roads and a lot of egos. What's worse is those that tailgate you, then you hit a corner, and suddenly they're miles behind, and then on the straight tailgate you again! Don't rise to it, just let them do their ignorant behaviour, I just let those people pass, and just not worry about it, as long as I keep a safe distance and feel I'm behaving safely I don't really care what others do after they're a decent distance from me. Some people are just very strange.

Who do you pray to though? God? Buddha? Jesus? Mohammed? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? Which made-up person do you think can help you? Serious question, despite the flippancy. I pray to "God" but I don't believe in a God, if that makes sense? I dunno, I'm not expecting anything to be answered from my prayers but it's comforting to believe that there is someone listening With that reasoning why not pray to Cheryl Cole at least if she does hear your prayers if they get answered its a win/win Meh, she doesn't do it for me Hard to explain, it's an act of desperation which I get comfort from That pretty much sums up religion for me, depressed, unhappy people with worthless lives longing to believe in something to give their life purpose... Sorry if that offends the billions of religious people out there, I fully intend to burn in hell as I know thats where all the dirty girls will be Imagine if you weren't able to touch them for eternity! That WOULD be hell!

Not sure many people go to church and chant "the reverend is a w@nker" Your parallel does make me smile however It wasn't meant to provoke negativity, just the slightly hypocrisy at times from some people who snub organised religions. And no I don't think that would go down to well... however, by that I meant a lot of the either deprecating or encouraging chants that supporters do. Heck we do it in rugby (usually swing low sweet chariot, though!) I have nothing against football (I'm a rugby man however) but it was e closest parallel I could draw from my experience in this country.

What I find ironic are the football mad people who effectively go to worship at their temple (either the pub or stadium), all have mass chanting and following, idolise, iconise certain players, pay money towards it, and repeat this routine and demonise those that do not follow their views. It's a pretty interesting parallel.

I think that science fills in the gaps that religion cannot answer (the tangible, cause and effect and so on), and religion helps to give us clarity on the things that science cannot answer (assumptions, faith, acceptance). I don't believe them to be mutually exclusive, I think as long as both are progressive and inclusive they can live together synergistically. I am Christian myself, but not a bible basher, perhaps more spiritual than and out and out bore about it. Does it make me better than others in my eyes? No. Am I stronger/weaker for having beliefs? No. Does it help give me an extra layer to my life, and helps to draw strength from something intangible to give some sort of rationality when times are dark? Yes. I quite like the Buddhist way of looking at life, I think that's probably a very sensible way of looking at philosophy the world and the universe. As for death, I think there's more to us than we know or can explain, though from a practical point of view we are just atoms, mainly carbon life forms, and when we decompose our atoms are then joined to others and create elements, either oxygen, a salt or goodness knows what carbon based molecule... A such when we decompose, our particles bond to others,and are effectively regenerated. There is a finite amount of molecules and elements and they just forge and change depending on the physical environment and elements surrounding them. I quite like that concept.. As for soul, well, who knows, I'd rather imagine we have some sort of ethereal existence than not, but it's totally irrational and intangible so can't expect people to accept that. As for the universe, as an engineer and having studied physics I love it, I love day dreaming abut it, and love seeing the universe around us (especially from a telescope, I've seen the rings of Saturn with my own eyes nada it was a humbling experience). We are so small and insignificant in this still expanding universe tact we have no idea on what is out there. What we have worked out (based on our current knowledge) is that all the other elements of the universe are made from the same things as we are here on earth. I can believe n the concept of parallel inverse or quantum universes, or at least multiple time lines, heck we've proven on earth that we can skew time after the Hafele-Keating experiment giving more weight to predictions of special and general relativity. As much of a genius as Eisenstein was, he did say "God does not play dice with the universe", off the back of the research and theories on quantum mathematical divergence. However, this did lead him to dedicating time to develop a grand unifying theory for relativity and quantum mechanics. As the science becomes more complicated the more I'm inclined to realise that we want necessarily find the answers or enlightenment through 1s and 0s and some of it will be less tangible and harder to prove. However, I'm happy to accept some things on blind faith.

Very cool, I look forward to seeing it in action/built/progress. I love this sort of thing!

On the subject of spacers, other than making the zed look awesome stance wise, does it add much stress on the wheel bearings? I used to have them on previous cars, but needed to fiddle about to keep the scrub radius with the offset etc... I guess doing a geo after fitting would be important?

Oh I like that!

I just try and puff my chest out and look threatening.... I end up being asked if I'm ok or just constipated...

People will exploit weaknesses, or opportunities they see - or they'll innovate around it. It's pretty simple, lock your doors, and/or don't have valuables left on show inside the car.

Do you have to buy a touch screen then? Presumably this software runs off windows and then just launches a GUI that you can interact with, and has all the different modules/hardware/software running on the pc? I guess you need Bluetooth and so on so that you can interact with your phone, and install a GPS receiver on the pc too? Seems interesting, although not much help to you now I'd be keen to see your progress on this kit when you make a start on it,