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Gen1 and gen2 Cayman fronts aren't compatible. You'll need the lights and looms from a gen2.

Why are you going there then? Surely picking up a phone is quicker? Anyways, decent geo is about £100, then a couple of hours labour for the arms so I reckon that £200 wouldn't be miles off.

You did, yes. Apologies, I just expected you to rush blindly into something again

GET A QUOTE FIRST Why would someone not do that? FFS you're just asking for trouble!

Then (and god forgive me for suggesting a FWD car) you might want to think about a Focus ST, or a Seat Leon, or a Golf GTi. Anything with a slightly tuned turbo engine is going to give you that punch you're after, nothing NA will: Comparing my trackpig turbo MR2 to a 458, the punch is greater in the Toyota. Obviously it's not as quick as the 458, but the sensation is greater due to the turbo. Have you tried insurance on an Impreza? Shouldn't be much more than a Zed, really. Or even a VXT would be a good shout, if you can live with driving around in something not finished.

You really should, it was part of the attraction of the car just to say I'd owned one

Buy the one you can afford. You sound like you already know the differences, so work out what's more important to you. Ignore the smaller torque figure on the revup though, you simply cannot feel it. You can feel the extra 500rpm though...

If you're after a genuine, real-world 0-60 of sub 5.5s then no chance. The only way to get close to that is to destroy the drivetrain on a launch. I've only ever tried 0-60 on one car, my old VXR220, which was tuned to 260bhp and 280ft/lbs and weighed 850kg. Not slow by any figure of the imagination, and the book time was just 4.2s. Even being as brutal as I dared with minimum wheel slip, I never saw below 5s. Unless you're in a car with launch control, it's just a bad idea to assume that 0-60 is a good way of measuring performance. That said, and this comes from someone who once had a 350Z and now owns a 645Ci, I'm telling you that a 350 is already quicker to 60mph than the BMW. Get past 80mph and the 645 is quicker, but for launches the Nissan is definitely faster. In-gear acceleration is better with the V8 than the V6, but the 350 can actually take corners so swings and roundabouts. What I think you actually want is just to improve launches and in-gear acceleration. For that, the biggest difference is going to be a set of decent tyres (like 888s) and a lightweight flywheel. After that, you want to reduce unsprung mass too so lightweight wheels and brakes (as in two-piece discs) will help improve forward momentum. Then, as has been said above, just reducing the weight in general will help. Once you've done all that, you should then start thinking about power increases. All IMHO, YMMV etc.

They did, yes.

*tyres Don't get either. You really want the Michelin Pilot Super Sports, or you want something like the Falken FK453 if you really must save the money (although the MPSS will last 2x as long as the Falkens). Seriously, just go for one of those two.

Temporary CCTV aimed at the entry points could work then, at least it would let you know how they're getting in and where to concentrate spending the money. Ultimately though if people do just drive off without checking to see if the gate is shut, then there's nothing you can do about that. Just a shame you have to suffer as the result of someone else's stupidity.

They're right, though. Tbh even if you had CCTV, unless it's 1080p and gives perfectly clear close ups of the their uncovered faces, you're never going to get any prosecution from that. All they need to do is wear a hoody and the CCTV becomes useless. With all respect to Will's company, of course! Ultimately the best thing to do is to stop them getting in there in the first place. How is the main entry way accessed? Are there any other doors? Can you secure your garages (or whatever you keep your bits in) better?

Hell yeah, why would you not?

I'd take anything, I really would. I wouldn't care how simple, or how complex, or how plain, or how evil: I'd be happy just to be involved.

+1 I'd love to do it, I really would.

Bloody hell, that's an incredibly misleading article.

Do it. Last of the great engines.

Have you read it?

Heh, even Jo commented the other day that it's a good picture and she agrees that it was the right size to go for. I felt very smug after she said that. It's not often I'm right. Well, not in her world anyway.

Can I be a bridesmaid?

Yeah, and you know how big the Kinect sensor actually is! Makes the Xbone look well-proportioned...

Done it . Dude, congrats!

The bit I think blew me away the most was when we were walking in the forum, and overheard a guide telling their group that this was the road that Caesar walked down when he returned to Rome, and that the stones we were walking on were the original ones. That absolutely blew me away. Astonishing the history there, it really is.

Just been discussing that with a mate on FB, good timing Bothers me not a jot, I'm on the internet so everything I do is recorded anyway. Unless I want to unplug fully then I assume that everything I say or do is out there anyway, makes life much easier and I can stop my subscription for tinfoil hats

I think Abbey were aiming for 1K out of their drag monster thing. You can go as fast as you want, providing you've got the money. I find big power to be a bit dull, unless there's some interesting engineering involved too.