Pritchard

im confused, why is everyone talking about Beavis?

BINGO -

Question number 2 here, It was Penalty vs Parking

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/money-saving-tips/10995722/Do-you-have-to-pay-car-park-fines.html

I had one recently from a general parking attendant thingy watsit.

there was something in the lineage on the tiket which meant i could phone up and say ''yea im not paying this'' which i did, which came from advice from a friend.

for the life of me i cant remember what it was, but it was on the lines of ''Penalty Fare' vs 'Penalty Notice', one is enforeced by council / police and you must pay. the other is enforced by a private company and so becomes a dispute.

with mine i phoned them up the day i got a sticky yellow tab on my windscreen and asked for evidence. they provided it 3 days later. at which point i had received said advice, so i phoned up and said im not payng. ''because i dont want to'', they gave some threats on the phoe, but that was that.

not one that fits a Leon, sorry

how many times has this been removed? lol

More want here! i like this colour

subscribing.

i'm Kent based but have been working is Basinstoke alot lately for work.

if it marries up ill pop along.

From changing the stock headers on my 2005 DE I gained the below but this is bang on what I was expecting .

 

+ 6 BHP and + 5.5 LB/FT

 

 

 

wy have i not seen this dyno before? it doesnt come up in searches.

good job on the before / after dyno.

which brand of manifold was this one?

cheers

(yea i also use manifold if im on Uk forums, headers in US. but i think Jez is actually accurate )

aha, cheers Shaun,

that explains it

well i have already booked time off work and ive been waiting for a few days to book. theres several people who havent yet booked and have had weeks to do so,

in which case i hope there will be no concerns if i start booking in hotels for myself?

im just checking the map and the proposed hotels... they dont match up.

Where is the start / finish line? as based on your hotels it isnt Inverness?

For those of us who need to drive for 12 hours to get there, we wil need an additional hotel for thursday night, what have people booked in?

....

also, no response from Iron Bru on here, or from PM i sent.

im not on the list of 13, which says closed.... do i book or do i not?

i was driving in the direction of Glasgow today in my orange Z, heading northbound

i didnt get past London though.

:D

well, if we go elsewhere they havent really lost any business... aside from a single round of drinks i dont think they took alot of money off us

There are a couple of Ace pubs in kent that would take us, been to a few with other car clubs.

but, u are organiser

Hey RD,

i know we exchanged PMs the other day, just see this thread of yours. if you get a build thread going let me know.

i'd also be keen to tag along to one of your dyno sessions, whereever it is, to do a back-to-back test comparisions of our setups

Ok, ive just read through the whole thread - just seen the numbers of the hotels and stuff. if i book those 5(i think it was 5 listed) hotels, thats ALL i need to book for the Route 66 right? obviously any hotels to the start and from finish ae down to me

Coming up from Kent, so i think i have the longest trip, its an hour to get to Chirag and Bradders in London lol

if i was there with my missus i would have made a right fus, but as i was with good company i didnt really notice the lack of food too much (dont tell her that lol).

but, how 1 - the watress didnt realise we hadnt eaten ?

2 - they never came back to offer us drinks, clearly we had been empty for a while

3 - that bald bloke moving us on, then he himself was never seen again.

how can the kitchen lose, or forget to cook, 8 main meals ? madness.

very Gentry of those to actually pay for what they had eaten, i wouldve walked.

but as said, lets try and stay on good terms. its a good venue.

heh, im burning now buddy. its my turn to be annoying

Any Spaces left?

I'd like to pop along.

Good to see faces again.

see most of you at Brighton

Chirag... you got a linky for that meet we spoke about please

ive spent my entire career self training. part due to acheiving nothing from school, and secondly from being self-employyed. i counted up recently and ive spent more on training! than i did on my house deposit.

ive found thats its invaluable, but some types of training arnt really useful.

if i was to go for a career change and i had just £500, i would probably spend it on a one-way plane ticket to somewhere hot, sunny, with a nice beach, and i'd find a hotel to work at.

Paradise

You would b e surprised. in our industry, many malware creators seek and exploit vulnerabilities not to actually use them in anger, but to 'sell' them to the vendors themselves.

''Hey Ford, through a vulnerability in your handsfree authentication I am able to take control of the car and steer it in any direction''

What do Ford want to do about that? say OK, or pay the man for his time and to disclose to them privately the flaw so they can patch it before it goes public and is found by someone else.

malware exploits, and the ''Grey Hat Hackers'' is a big earner. self employeed, working from home. They need to get paid somehow. By selling their finds they at least stay on the right side of prison.

Interesting, although i see no benefit or gain apart from someone wishing to cause possible road chaos.

true,

but if you can control central locking, driving direction, speed and braking ability from your sofa..... its an instant Suicide Bomber. Or, have you caught the wife cheating? The car has now taken her hostage and you are driving her off the end of that bridge while she thinks shes driving home!

edit - poor english lol.

There have been some high profile demonstrations in the last couple of years of Car Hacking.

by accessing the diagnostic port you can manipulate all sorts of car features. Just think of your ECU tuning for example, turning off warning lights and changing fueling. Theres alot more you can do - Park Assist? Yes, lets turn the car in any direction we want by using the Steering mechanisms, Cruise, and onboard cameras

You think Driverless Cars are safe? Nope. already hacked and made to crash with a simple Raspberry Pi.

This little blog post by someone with an awesome name got posted today, worth a read.

Are the wheels going to come off the connected car? You auto know.

i'm not sure you appreciate the magnitude of that task.

Doing a full dash swap on a like-for-like is a ball ache as it is. Now add the re-wiring that would be required, new clip points and fixings etc.

and that would be assuming its geometry is pretty identical.

you're best bet to answer this question (assuming noone else has done it) is to get down the breakers and put them back to back on the ground to size up.

Dislike.

i feel a vote coming on.... followed by Mark publishing a price.

hey guys,

just thought id make mention of this for those who went last year. Amy organised it and it was awesome

but ive just seen on their facebook page that the event WILL go ahead, but at a different location and date. It appears Leeds Castle have a different car show planned for May instead but i cant yet find details on it < the replacement may be worth a go too.

There, thats all i have. thought it might be a useful heads up for some of you

Cheers

Pritchard