Flashback

It will most likely a rev up being 2006.

Welcome along to the forum.

Mine are still spot on after two years.  Mainly road with the odd bit of track. Can't fault them at all.

My setup: GT1s, Superpro all round and 20mm drop from stock.

2 minutes ago, Flashback said:

Toyota launched its first production fuel cell vehicle (FCV), the Mirai, in Japan at the end of 2014 and began sales in California, mainly the Los Angeles area, in 2015.^[15] The car has a range of 312 mi (502 km) and takes about five minutes to refill its hydrogen tank.

Hyundai Nexo - rated at 500 mile using NEDC, projected real world at 370 miles range.  Launched 2018.

6 minutes ago, gangzoom said:

You haven't looked up how hydrogen fuel stations actually deliver their fuel have you?

 

If you think you can just rock to a hydrogen fuel station and add 400 miles of range in sub 5 minutes you literally have no idea what your going on about, for a start there aren't even a 400 mile range hydrogen fuel cell car for sale anywhere in the world.

Toyota launched its first production fuel cell vehicle (FCV), the Mirai, in Japan at the end of 2014 and began sales in California, mainly the Los Angeles area, in 2015.^[15] The car has a range of 312 mi (502 km) and takes about five minutes to refill its hydrogen tank.

32 minutes ago, gangzoom said:

The only advantage hydrogen had over EVs is refueling time, and these days with proper 100KW+ rapid chargers and good efficiency EVs even that advantage is now gone.

 

A 911 and Model 3 takes essentially the same time to do a 800km+ trip across Europe.

 

If your consider a brand new P Model 3 is the same cost as a new BMW M3/AMG 63, but quicker in real world (and lap times according to TopGear), and you have running costs of sub 5p per mile including fuel/service/tyres versus triple that amount on just fuel costs for a M3, I'm not entirely sure why anyone would buy a new BMW M3 instead of Performance Model 3.

 

Oh 250KW+ rapid chargers are now been deployed, on a car like the Model 3 your be able to add 160 miles of range in under 10 minutes.

 

From an article on EV chargers:

Ultra-Rapid DC chargers provide power at 100 kW or more. These are typically either 100 kW, 150 kW, or 350 kW – though other maximum speeds are possible. These are the next-generation of rapid charge point, able to keep recharging times down despite battery capacities increasing in newer EVs.

For those EVs capable of accepting 100 kW or more, charging times are kept down to 20-40 minutes for a typical charge. Even if an EV is only able to accept a maximum of 50 kW DC, they can still use ultra-rapid charge points, as the power will be restricted to whatever the vehicle can deal with. As with 50 kW rapid devices, cables are tethered to the unit, and provide charging via either CCS or CHAdeMO connectors.

So really its not negligible at present as that's still 5-10 times as long as filling up on either petrol or hydrogen.

Either way both can become viable options over time, but I think hydrogen would be much easier to scale as we already consume over 70 millions tons of hydrogen daily. 

Many of the arguments for either still revert back to having a sufficient and sustainable power supply, ultimately a green one or we're just robbing Peter to pay Paul.  Realistically none of them are right now, petrol or electric via either method. 

For me hydrogen power is the best way forwards, what better emission to end up with than water.  Once again though the cost in producing the fuels is a current challenge.

Hope you guys sill have a good meet.

Do like those tool boxes, where did you get them from? Zed Shed 2.26 looking great!

On 25/07/2019 at 13:07, docwra said:

An Aventador is a modern Diablo at the end of the day, the Diablo was a modern day Countach. 

 

Everything is a modern day something. 

Definitely keep the oil topped up and give it a check once every week or two.

At 120k it's likely using a bit more oil. You can also go up to maybe a 10w40 as a little thicker oil may help.

DEs have the worst dipstick design in the world ever. I always follow sound advice I gathered from the forum when checking oil.

That's a cracking place and a great read.

Sold - thread locked

I must say that after seeing this in the flesh on Saturday it's even better than the pictures let on.

Oh and yes I will get some new wheel nuts!

10 minutes ago, coldel said:

Car washed...and car covered in rain water again! 

 

At least it's not covered in mud like mine right now after a trip over to H-Dev. 

lol

11 hours ago, Adrian@TORQEN said:

Windscreen...

S is for Seibon...

That's a much more Bob look at the back. Love it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004cgm

Subjectively this is what the BBC produced around a month ago.

14 hours ago, Darkside said:

Just a couple of pics of the new look Darkside! 

Let me know what you think?

She looks fantastic with a great attention to detail.  You've done an awesome job there! 

No I got Craig over at HDev to do it. I did a full Superpro rebush on everything and stuck some MeisterR GT1s on at the same time .... Oh and new front and rear ARBs as they were past their sell by date too.

It does look to be a cracking venue, will have to get down there sometime soon.

She's looking good Daveo have you tinted the headlights?

6 hours ago, SHEZZA said:

No not yet, still in the to do list.  Funny you should mention it though, as I was looking into it again this morning. 

The superpro ones are pretty good, I have them and would recommend.

11 hours ago, Jack94 said:

I'm finding this thread really interesting, loving all the work you're doing to the car straight away. 

 

It is making me want a mini to scratch that supercharger itch though, I'd love to supercharge the Zed but something tells me that'd be considerably more expensive 

Only slightly..