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Lucky man. Although, they probably wouldn't have been able to find you guilty: As long as the insurer can confirm that cover was in place for that vehicle (and it's the vehicle you insure remember, not the plate) and for that person at that point in time, then they would've been unable to prosecute successfully for no insurance. No difference than if they've written down the wrong VRM by accident, and instead of AB08 CDE it says AB08 CDF instead, you'd still be insured. 6pts and the fine isn't such a big worry, it's the IN10 on your licence that's going to cripple you for getting insurance in the future!

Probably a good idea to say that I do mean lag, and not threshold. They don't always go hand in hand! My own turbo on the MR2 has a relatively low threshold, and is mapped so that the boost increases the further up the rev range you go. Starts at wastegate, then up to 8psi, then 10psi at the top end. Gives a real rush of power throughout, and also it means that it's not having to wait until 10psi is made all the way down when the compressor is barely spinning.

Oh god I remember that, awful thing! On a related note, I saw my first curved TVs up and running yesterday. In a completely black room I'm sure they're great, but if you have any light reflection at all then it creates the most distracting images on the screen. Honest, it was giving me a headache just viewing them for a few minutes. Seems like more of a gimmick just for the sake of it than a useful bit of kit I'd like to upgrade to.

If only nine people have actually complained to Apple, then that's all they can report. No doubting there's more, but if people will complaint to the internet first...!

No, it's in addition to. Couple that with the front under brace and the two rear ones (not shown, I assume they're still available) and you willbe astounded at the transformation to the car.

Hideous.

You could always just buy a normal pan and add the baffles yourself, easy enough job to do. Do you get the extremes in G force in drifting that you do on track? I appreciate you're sliding a lot, but once the car has settled force will be minimum. Transitions are supposed to be smooth (I think, please correct me here!), so G force changes again shouldn't be massive. Usually people get pickup problems when they buy a regular car, then chuck stiff suspension and super sticky tyres on, then go tracking. With slippy tyres in drifting, I would imagine you'd be miles from trouble.

Reviews out today, 8s and 9s so far, very promising Just need to finish AC4 before next week now!

As your first time tracking the Zed, I wouldnt. You'll learn more about the car on tyres that allow the car to move around more. Plus, stickier tyres mean more speed, which means you put more heat into the brakes, which are the weakest point of a standard Zed

DO NOT CHANGE THE COOLANT!!! Seriously, it'll be absolutely fine. Who on earth gave you that nugget of advice? If it's a cool day, you can probably safely run 20mins at a time, but if you were super hard on your brakes then you might not even manage 5 mins. It's all about being sensible, and listening to what the car is telling you.

What speeds?

Pulling away in 3rd is not the way to test a clutch: No wonder it stunk afterwards! Put it in 4th at 30mph and floor it, that's the way to test for slippage. Standard car will be absolutely fine, just check its mechanically sound. With just a fortnight to go, now isn't the time to be making any changes really.

Beautiful Very jealous fella, please keep us updated with how you get on with it.

My 6+ case came today, so I now know how utterly moronic I'll look using it as a phone.

Until you can plug your charger lead in either way up, I'm saying they are :p

I can only go off my own experience, which was changing an air to air intercooled system to a water to air one, which involved removed about a metre of pipework. Throttle response was massively increased, even on a small system like that. You're not just pushing along what's in the pipe, you're compressing it. To compress it means that you have to add more into the same size space, which if the pump (turbo) size doesn't change then it must take longer. Whilst a rear mounted turbo may well be acceptable for people coming from big turbos who are used to having large boost thresholds, they're just not for me. Each to their own though, as always What's that middle car? That looks amazing!

S Line AND 19" wheels? I hope you have a good chiropractor Congrats matey, I love the look of the A5 so will be very interested to see how you get on with it

97 is absolutely fine, so you can take it to the red line as often as you want. Any damage will have been done by the previous owner.

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

No argument there! Regarding Apple making a non-standard lead, you do realise that it's actually superior to mUSB? Try putting an mUSB cable in your phone in the dark: It's 50/50 as to which way round it goes, so invariably there's some fumbling. With the Lightning connector, it makes no difference which makes life a lot easier. Lightning also supports a higher power capacity than mUSB (12w to 9w). USB Type C isn't ready yet, and will require that everyone buys new adaptors and accessories et al, so the exact same criticisms can be labelled at that then.

I wouldn't say sitting down is heavy handed though.... Depends on how they're sitting. We have no idea what trade they work in, what trousers, was anything else in the pocket, did the damage actually occur during use etc. I agree, it's not great, but context is everything.

Shock news, thin aluminium device is able to be bent by someone being heavy handed with it.

The only place on the entire interweb that 'fact' appears? Right here on this forum! Yeah, I'm sad enough to have checked. Sounds like something The Onion would put up.

That's why I mentioned OO. Rule out any issues with the files themselves.

Can you open the files in Open Office?