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i'm thinking like the last one, but the centre and the spark covers in chrome

been trawling and found some more examples

and before you know it you'll find your first grey pube!!!

their populations are exponential and their need for resources is the same. go look at the increase in car sales over the last 5 years in china and india. if we weren;t short on fuel now we will be in the near future

lots of options for that budget and lots of traders with a variety of products have a browse through the likes of Tarmacsportz Redline styling cougar store all zed specialists I've lost track of who does what, there is some cross over between them, work out what you want, who'll give you the best price and get shopping

depends on the wheel, but i think some are close in weight to the rays. but weight goes up more as soon as you add larger 19" tyres

very true, its why if weight is an issue you want the lightest wheels possible to account for the increase in tyre weight. you can get some of the benefits in 18 by going for a wider 18" wheel, and choosing a tyre with good strong stiff side walls or reinforced tyres, most reinforceds have the letters XL next to them. so if you see 2 identical tyres but ones more expensive its often becasue its reinfoced, or a different compond designed for a specific manufacturer. if its manufacturer specific, it has extra letters (code for each manfucaturer) the only ones who tend to have these are audi, jaguar, merc, porsche and ferrari are the most common. you can go lower profile on zed 18"s but you might suffer TCS issues, but turning it off fixes that if i was purely interested about tracking the zed for maximum benefit. i'd go with the lightest 18" with a wide stance and add lower profile tyres. i would have shed the unsprung weight improved the grip and reduced the tyre roll and increased steering and car feedback.

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theortically a larger rim adds a smaller profile tyre, and a wider foot print. this in return gives more tyre contact to the road and more grip, and with a lower profile less tyre roll and more accurate feedback from the wheel. down sides include an increased unsprung weight which can have a larger impact on performance than added sprung weight. but we're talking minimal amounts. if you change up to decent light weight forged wheels or split rims it can be a decent upgrade. with minimal impact on unsprung weight. things like volks or BBS are a good choice due to style and weight. enkei offer a good selection of lightweight cast wheels. if you bung on larger cast copies or cheap wheel then the benefit is purely cosmetic with some grip enhancement. to put into context (sorry for using jaguar as a model) the X100 XKR had an optional upgrade to 20" BBS wheels from the stock 18" (they also did a 19" as well, but most have the 20") but cars that had them fitted were also fitted with a larger oil sump in order to add more oil to the engine for increased G in cornering i.e so the oil didn't all slop to one side and leave the engine momenteraily out of oil. so cars with 20" have an 8 litre oil capacity where as cars that came with 18" have 6 litre capacity.

Keep the cage if you can, its not easy to get them on their roof, but if it is managed they do have a habit of crumpling like an empty fag packet. roll cage in makes minis 100% safer. great find though will save you so much ball ache with the rust. easy thing to do with them if rust is bad is take shell of and strip car right back to chassis any way, so you would have had to have taken it all apart any way. this will give you a brillinat base for the car and something that will last for a long time. refurb the engine as stock is a good idea, keeps the insurance low to start with but then you will have a great car and engine that she can mod in the future. as she earns her no claims etc and gets experience she can start to mod up the car. and you'll have given her the perfect platform to start on. a great thing for future father daughter projects. and i too am looking forward to followingf this more than zed stuff i love interesting car projects

in the process of sorting out new carbon dipped interior, just sourcing parts at the mo. but when done you can exchange your old stuff for new shiney interior parts. can also do it a bit at a time if you want to spread the purchase.

loo roll centres and gaffa tape would do a better job than crap speed. in fact you'd probably have more reliabilty if they were made of chocolate

could things be sticking, i.e when you pull on the handle things are being left in place? would spraying a liberal amount of wd40 on the mechanisms help free it all up. or some good 3 in 1 oil.

as long as the build quality is better than japseed you should be alright, and the fact your self fitting makes a big difference. for people paying others to fit them its about a 10-12 hour labour job. so most people really don;t want to have to do it again to either replace them or fix them.

ignore that, just realsied you've got into the car, but can't open the door to take the card off. think you might be a bit fubar on this

can you get in through the boot?

i keep looking at cerberas love the older classic porkers, one of my neighbours has i think an 89 t bar one, its loverly. you've got the MX5 so i would say not to bother looking at S2000, but it looks like something driver focussed could be on the cards.

http://www.photoshoptroll.com/mustache/ this one had me laughing

sounds like a right control freak glad to see you got out alive

if you liked it before there's no reason to not go back, when it comes to cars i'm like a kid in the sweet shop, i want to try everything, i wouldn't stick with a sherbert dibdab everytime i'd want to try them all. and for that reason i don;t tend to get the same car twice, only had 1 manufacturer i've bought twice and that was honda. while we're on food analogies, when ever i order takeaway i always have the same dish so i suppse there is comofrt in what you know, and no worry of disappointment if you got something and then found you didn;t like it. zeds not a bad car, its a great all rounder keep it on your list i'm intrigued to know what else is on your list and also where you looking at moving too? you coming to join me in suffolk?

i think when i upgraded a few months ago, the S3 was £80 and the oneX was free. i preferred the S3, but couldn't see the point of paying for it. if people really want the phone i'd say wiat a few months once the rush has died down they usually drop on contract price.

just noticed they have frozen your post count

way to go yet sunshine