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tell them 3bhp

they are just messing with you. I listed the kit from the beginning, and quoted 0 increase iirc.

Just ask Mark @ Tdi or someone similar

also the Z club puts quite a group together for this.

TheMinel

sl114

this is a good show... saturday is a good day to run down the strip though, not sunday

JapShow - Sunday 24th June 2007

Japan has produced some of the finest driver and tuner cars of the last 10 years, and Britain is being taken by storm by these awesome “beasts from the eastâ€

now updated with 2007 dates...

Hi guys,

please register your interest here for this show.

Pics from last year's show here:

http://www.350z-uk.com/forum/viewtopic ... ight=donny

Donny Show website:

http://www.donnyshow.co.uk/

Directions:

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi? ... 000&icon=x

Event will feature:

Autoglym Best in Britain Competition

Round 1 of the European Drift Championship

Gumball 3000

Public Track time (also open to day visitors)

ICE village

Trading areas

£30 for drivers and £30 for passengers, for the weekend, including camping and entry to evening entertainment

Guys, please post your interest here for this show.

Link to last year's with pics

http://www.350z-uk.com/forum/viewtopic ... +nationals

Modified Nationals website

http://www.modifiednationals.co.uk/

Minimum 5 cars for a stand

Tickets are £25 for drivers or £30 for passengers (if you book passengers before the 20 Jan 07 you receive £5 discount)

£2 per person camping surcharge (if you stay overnight that is, but cars can leave in the evening to go to hotels)

Events will include:

IASCA supported sound off and DB drag

Car displays

Huge trade area

Live stage

Live action arena

Inter-club competition

Bikini babe competition (Sarnie will just win this hands down)

Funfair with dodgems

Evening entertainment features God's Kitchen on Sat Night and Liquid Nightclubs on Fri night, hosting the dance tnets, with podium dancers, body grinders (?) top name DJ's and the welcome return of the Adult "Forbidden Club"

change insurance company. I have declared all my mods and pay £900pa with Adrian Flux, replacement like for like as well. This is with 3yr ncb and living in an M postcode which is the worst but 1 for car insurance.

BTW I expect my insurance to go down ~£200 come May, otherwise I'll just switch to someone else

With regards to lomoto's advice, really it's about what mods we are talking about here... are you going to declare a stubby aerial??? Let's be realistic. Just tell em the K&N won't increase bhp, which is the truth. Nismo kit? it came with it when I bought it.... end of.

moved to Modifications: performance.

Please post your tyre reviews here

the american number plate in the first minute of the video gives that away

some good pics there like the post nuke explosion mushroom

who?

this will most likely apply to highly modified Zs with many more ponies than stock, and that are actually used a lot on the track, 1/4 mile and generally abused. So in the Uk only the Sumo Z probably.

adding this as found on already a couple of cars that have been tracked regularly: from MRC Motorsports over the pond

" Recently while removing the gas tank from our shop car, we discovered that the aluminium subframe had a MAJOR crack in it. This may not be an issue for most owners, but the particular car were talking about was an early model 2003 with approximately 90,000 miles on it and was daily driven and drag raced and auto crossed religiously. The car was driven very hard its entire life, and launched many times on slicks. At this point we do not know what may have caused it, if it was the hard driving or simply structural fatigue or an issue with the integrity of the metal.

I do not want to even imagine the outcome had this broken completely in half at 130mph..

I strongly recommend all owners, especially those who drag race or autocross or road race, put their cars up on jack stands or a lift and inspect their rear aluminium subframe periodically. At this time we are in the process of finding a fix for the issue, as we feel this is a serious safety concern. We have seen slight cracking on 2 other cars in the past.."

PS - Sarnie is a Finnochio!

lmao

it's finocchio though (literally translated means fennel, which scarily resembles Sarnie anyway )

UTEC

not bad Stew

btw sarnie dug up one of Chriss threads, not mine

PC's are not built for gaming, to do so requires an immense investment compared to that of a console. By the time a developer has finished building a game for a PC, its already behind the hardware. Thats why continual hardware improvements are a drawback for PC games development, they have to scale back their work in order to make it compatible with a massive number of different hardware set ups.

sure, of course the fact that computer gaming was actually born on PCs is completely irrelevant

All these incompatibility issues you keep referring to, are bollox as well. I can't remember last time I had a game not working on my PC.

How exactly will PC gamers be able to "ass whoop" console gamers?

 

If a keyboard wa the best tool for playing games with, why did console developers go to the expense of creating joypads? Why do they sell joypads for PC's?

from that statement I can telll you have no idea on how to play any fps properly. BTW GOW is not a fps as it's mostly in 3rd person, due to this new uber cool, cover system, that imo is not even all that. It's the combination of mouse AND keyboard that allows the best in precision of aim and movement. You keep using your joypad

I wouldnt even like to think of how immensely complex a control setup for games such as Ghost Recon or GOW would be on a PC, where as on a console it is very simple and one hell of a lot more ergonomic.

again, if you find games like ghost recon (which, by the way comes from the PC... again ) complicated, I suggest you stick to console games

Its also easier to get into the games in the first place, I havent got to make sure that my xbox has the latest drivers installed for the graphics card, DirectX 2.9876549 because 2.965207 wont work with my Nvidia 6547b when I have pixel shading turned on. Then just when I think its all set up right a patch comes out because the game wouldnt work some yugoslavian hardware manufacturers gfx cards. Install the update and then find that it now enables pixel shading plus in the game so I now need to change my driver to 2.564bx and mak sure that I turn on anti alias etc.

Then I fire up the game and find that my mouse speed is all to **** because it doesnt like my microsoft intellipoint driver.

 

I simply take the game out of the case, open the drive, put it in, and play.

 

I gave up on PC games because they are just far too much hastle, I couldn't be bothered to keep upgrading my PC, and I am inherrently a lazy ar$e. So a console is just fine by me.

again, this is just your experience. I simply can't remember the last time I had any compatibility issues whatsoever on any PC game. But of course, if one has no idea of what they are doing or as you put it, they are lazy and are happy with dumbed down games, consoles are perfect.

Gears of War is not the only example of what a console can do when apps are coded specifically for it, but its the first one that came to mind when you stated FPS games on a console are crap. What you actually meant was that you arent very good at them unless you can use a mouse pointer to aim - how much skill does that take? People click on icons all day long, no wonder its easier with a mouse.

what a bad excuse of not being able to play a fps (GOW is not an FPS by my books btw, it's mostly in 3rd person) with the best controls combination (ie mouse + keyboard). Oh and btw shall I reiterate who Epic are? Where the Unreal engines stem from?

As you say some games do not play as well on a console as they do on a PC, strategy games like Command and Conquer for example, games that inherently use a mouse.

 

FPS games on a console can be every bit as good as a PC, and in many cases, better. Plus I havent got to sit in my study glued to a monitor mouse and keyboard to play them.

strategy games can't be played on a console simply as they are too complicated for them, It'd be fun to see any of the "total war" series on a console

I'd love to have a name of a FPS which is better on a console than on a PC

Then of course there's the fact that on the xbox, unlike the PC I havent got to put up with some nerd who has hacked his game so he can see/shoot through walls.

 

Sorry Val, but PCs should stick to excel and limit themselves to minesweeper for games. I know its hard, and probably somewhat of a strange concept, but you can be wrong you know, and on this occasion, you are.

it's not a matter of being right or wrong, it's a matter of what you like. You like your dumbed down versions of console games as you are lazy (as you said) I like being challenged by games that push boundaries, innovate and are not created to be accessible by 7yo kids

Stew, I'm playing Oblivion right now, and will do a bit of research on which parts have been dumbed down for the 360 version. (which there'll surely be plenty, firstly possibly less content in the first place)

IR_fuel, by ease of portability I meant that surely port a game/engine from a PC to a 360 is much easier than to port it to any other existing console? if it isn't then surely that was supposed to be one of the main aims of microsoft, so they must have failed in that.

Anyway, as I said before, we'll just have to agree to disagree. PC games > console games, end of story (imo of course)

yeah apparently our hosts decide to have hardware faults ONLY during weekends, and holiday seasons!

Last time iirc was during easter, was it not?

Buon Natale!

He dug up one from Val - he must have been missing him!

what? did they leave my only post over there? I thought they'd got rid of it! Mind you i can't post anyway, over there, they kindly took off my posting rights (mind you if I wanted I could just re-register with another nickname and post as much as I wanted to ) Anyway it's Christmas, glad the site is back up, it's been a long couple of days

card those Zeds!

it's a PC that only plays games. And that's a fact.

it's got a removable hard drive, ffs! it's made by Microsoft!

That's what they wanted to achieve, a console with the power of a high end PC that only played games, and was accessible even to 7yo kids.

They have succeeded, I've never said any different.

Epic always created PC games (and still does) and engines such as the Unreal one on a PC. the fact that it can run on a 360 is only due to the ease of "portability" due to the similarities of the hardware to that of a PC.

Chris the fact that you used to play on LAN games doesn't mask the fact that you are wrong on the 360 being the be all and end all of gaming anyway. i guess we'll agree to disagree. I used to play PC games and consoles since Manic Miner on the Spectrum, and I was about 7 then. So what? I still look forward to the day when console gamers wil be able to play vs pc gamers online for some ass whipping lessons

I played the xbox360, acutally bbought early part of this year, brought it back for lack of decent games and lack of appeal to me. It took GOW for it to have a "killer app", from a mainly PC games developer, using a PC games engine