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not for me husky; sounds bloody aweful, i prefer rally gear boxes

thats a bit of a bastad move. thats like telling your mate you fancy this girl, and them going off and shagging them the night before your first date. if it is the white one tell him he's bought a sh1t one

some intersting ideas, definetly has imagination. skills used aren't impossible, he just has the ideas and the time and patience. he has definetly perfected the carbon skinning skills though as that is a pig of a job. just goes to prove practice amkes perfect. i go tto about page 40 and got bored. his missus is hot though.

my guess is its a build up or road tar and brake dust. i got tar spots on my old wheels from newly surfaced roads, but they came off with a lot of elbow grease and a claybar. only a couple were imoveable. quite how you have that much is a suprise.have you tried bilburry? worst case scenario is a wheel refurb. if you don't clean wheels regularly they will build up the crap and then it becomes very hard to remove some stuff.

strip to stock for easiest sale.

as far as i was aware powder coating is far more durable than wet paint because its harder. wet paint was always an option if you couldn't get them powder coating. wet paint is also the reason why the wheels bubble up so badly on stock wheels as thwy aren't protected enough. and why alot of stock rims have to be refurbished in the first place.

oh then no worries, my old one is a lot more than that.

whats your budget, my old Zed is up for sale at the place i traded it in at.

best answer for a repair is a bodyshop and a respray on that panel. if you don't have or know a body shop then someone like chips away will do a good job. it won't be as good as a respray, but once repiared using smart repair technology they are almost impossible to find. my inlaws had a smart repair done and it was good.

reminds me i was going to look at moulds, never got round to it oops

my weather report only goes to monday and nothing is showing up on that for ipswich?

i really like the bini offroader, wouldn't have one, but i like the cheekyness of the whole range and the ease of modding them. if you love that, you'll love the new mini coupe due for release hopefully next year. its similiar to the pug RCZ jobbie, but mini style. and it uses the same engine. 1.6 turbo

Professionally fitted not always, i had my wing mirrors done by a "pro" wouldnt do it again. some shapes and angles, especially if small can be an arse to wrap. and keep down as it would seem. my guess is not enough heat or too much on the vinyl. both can have an effect. Rich we were talking about Colin's in particular sorry hugh. forgot to add that the mirrors peeled like that as well. i actually missed the important bit off the message

Professionally fitted not always, i had my wing mirrors done by a "pro" wouldnt do it again. some shapes and angles, especially if small can be an arse to wrap. and keep down as it would seem. my guess is not enough heat or too much on the vinyl. both can have an effect.

try dropping the pressure maybe a tad below oem reccomendation. i'm trying them out on my S2000, but the advantage i have is i'm running a lower profile and a wider tyre than the OEm rays on the Zed. plus it being a lighter car, its felt very good. i also had a full hawkeye alignment done and had some corrections done. i would agree that the steering was lighter slightly, but i only gained the extra turning after the alignment. but i also gained better feedback through the car. and am alot more aware of what each corner is doing. still need some more milage on them and then maybe a good back road jolly before i review them fully. i have found that the wet weather performance is good on the falkens. and it has been very planted in heavy rain when follwing the big dawg and tarmac overall for value for money and what they offer i'm very pleased.

i've fixed crash damaged bodykits before your best bet is to bond in some thin stainless struts to hold the 2 parts together, depending on the gap size (more than about 10mm) i would also use some tiny aluminium mesh (can be found in halfrauds in the repair section.) basically put the mesh over the struts to give you a solid surface to bond filler on to. then fiber glass over the whole lot on the inside. if the gap is only tiny use something like filler , if its bigger use something like isopon p45. sand and fill with a fine body filler, more sanding and filling etc etc. thats the diy job, a proper bodyshop would trim back the layers of fibre glass in a step pattern then fill and cross lay between them and finish with gel coating top. dpending o the break, they might brace as well. and also layer up behind.

in all honest if your doing an airfield day propely you'll hardly burn any of the tyre off. at most 1 mm. on the other hand if you spend the day deliberalty spinning out and trying to power slide and the tyres spend most of their time lit up then yes you should hopefully see the canvas in the tyre

wheel off to pop out jobbie. you could try and prise them out but you run a very high risk of damaging the wheel

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as good as $900 don't know if its better for you to ship from the US or from the UK think its about 900 quid in the uk.

tannabe sounds great motordyne exhaust is good, think it makes good gains as well. Team Lizard have it fitted to his race car.

a really good read; i really liked this quote "If you understeer off the road, you will generally see what you run into. If you oversteer you probably won't."

Actually, there is slight misconception in terminology that needs to be cleared up. It is not that a certain amount of backpressure is needed for optimum performance. A well designed exhaust system should not only relieve backpressure, but go one step further and create a vacuum in the system. When the next cylinder's exhaust valve opens, the vacuum in the system pulls the exhaust out of the cylinder. This is what's termed "scavenging". It just easier to call it as needing a little backpressure than it is to explain a balanced airflow system to the average guy on the street. The physics of airflow dynamics dictate that the pipe should be only be big enough to handle a given volume of air or in this case exhaust gases. Whether it be an exhaust system or a A/C duct in your home first consideration is the proper tube diameter. Many people think "Bigger is Better", but this is not the case. The smallest diameter that will handle the airflow of a given volume of air at a given air velocity should be used. This small diameter will generate the velocity (air speed) needed to "Scavenge" or create a vacuum in the pipe. In the case of a internal combustion engine, if the pipe diameter is to small for the engine it will pull hard at low rpm's but at some point in the higher rpm's the tube will not be able to flow as much air as the engine is pumping out, and the engine will "clock out " early, not reaching its potential peak rpm. In this situation it would require going one size larger in tube diameter. This is why the general rule of thumb is that the maximum exhaust pipe for a normally aspirated multi valve engine operating under 8000rpm should only be .75 to 1 time the displacement of the engine in litres. This vacuum in the exhaust system also has a big effect on the intake side as well. Because the vacuum is pulling the exhaust out of the cylinder this creates a stronger vacuum pulse on the intake side that pulls a stronger air/ fuel charge into the cylinder. If the pipe diameter is to big the Air ( Exhaust) become lazy and wants the intake side to push it out so in the case of an engine the intake charge gets contaminated with exhaust gases. If the pipe is to big for an application this can also cause restriction in airflow because it is moving to slow and will actually start to back up in the pipe. This is an over simplified overview in airflow dynamics but you should get the general idea.

back pressure is a myth

really??? the tractor was donated for free by John Deere UK and the livery was paid for by the Farmwrs Union. rural crime has risen sharply since the economic slowdown has started. if it helps to get more people uisng DNA marking and cutting down on rural crime i'm all for it. especially as no UK police force money has been spent on it. they'll already have liason officers being paid to do stuff so no change for having to pay officers to do it either.