richard

On ‎10‎/‎23‎/‎2019 at 2:45 PM, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

 Wonder what happens when you hit 88mph in it...?

now your being optimistic

4 minutes ago, Young Thrash Driver said:

Excepting the meetings when they want to push through something controversial in a hurry... Those ones are closed.

exactly, I don't know about other council's but Auckland has a lot of "closed door meetings" .

local body elections need to be reformed.

Even if a mayoral candidate was voted in by 100% voter take up , they are just a figure head with 1 vote on the board. and no power

what's needed in my opinion is a party/group/Team, kinda like the general elections without the MMP factor with the power to sack/fire those that are making poor decisions .

The bureaucrats that sit in the background for years glad-handing their way up the corporation ladder should have to under go KPI's ( the bigger the paycheque the tougher the kpi's )  every 2years or get sacked.

And because its basically a publicly owned company/corporation, how and where the money was spent should be freely available on their website in a easy to understand format. every cent.

At the moment they set a budget and go about spending our money.

eg. parks get a big slice of the pie, millions. but is doesn't breakdown how that money was spent. its just in the budget.

manfeild next weekend 19-20/10/19

3 hours ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

Good results Rich, that’s a seriously good laptime!

What was the cause of the splitter / front bumper damage? If you don’t mind sharing.

theres room for improvement, john.

same trick as the last time I ripped off the splitter. to fast into turn 1 coming up behind a slower car went to go around the outside he moved over a touch and I dropped a wheel off the ripple strip closing the gap between the road and the splitter from 50mm to -60 something like that.

10 hours ago, Young Thrash Driver said:

Rich will go on a diet.

that's 20kgs right there. may have to give up the beers.    NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

10 hours ago, zero said:

What, in your opinion, is the next part to upgrade/improve the car?

carbon fibre roof, cut out the parcel self in the back, clean off all the underseal under the car.

I only got 1.3 seconds up my sleeve before I have to move into group A and  that's a whole different ball game.

new season has arrived 2019-2020.

Hampton downs best lap 1.14.3 race 1

wrecked my front splitter in Qualifying.

spent the last week, 10 days fixing the car.

problems.....

spraying oil from the dipstick (I think), silicon to see if that works .

cut an extra 20mm out of the rear guards to see if that stops the rubbing. ( softened up the rear shocks so there's more roll in the body) .

fiberglassing up the front.

I finished all 3 races, car was outstanding. driver has room to improve.

ill add the car with me and a full tank of gas weighs 1266kgs

On ‎10‎/‎5‎/‎2019 at 9:58 PM, andrewm said:

507 roadster i think...

it'd be my favourite  bmw , one I'd mortgage the house for, favourite.

even better I'm 13.48 kgs  per door lighter.

still a good deal. Mark.

ah, normal steel doors empty are about 10kgs.

my fibre glass ones are 3.5kgs.

your right Dave, their a steal. well done.

how much do they weigh

$150 bucks for driving in a buslane with 10 mins remaining . Does Waze have bus lanes in it.

my brother in Austria send the odd box of lego for my son. at the moment it just turns up on the door step. 

left field question,

if a mate/family member sends over a part/present that not documented is that subjected to tax.

they have footage from 2 angles countdown and mac d's. but I have to get police involved. I'll ask the better half tonight. 

people that key the side of your ( the misses ) car in the shopping centre

2 hours ago, coop said:

$300k per year and that wouldn't include corrupt back handers from private businesses and organisations. 

Take Wellingtons mayor and how the recent sale of Shelly Bay to prominent rogue property developer came about, Wellingtons un used and un wanted cycleways popping up grossly opposed by local residents, associate minister of transport letter to Lester regarding 'get Wellington moving' and her refusal to make details public while her husbands company of urban transport planning picks up untendered Govt contracts regarding transport 'solutions' that fit in with their unrealistic but idealistic anti motorist agenda. 

Yeah the pope would have more chance of being a Muslim than the possibility of no dodgy back room deals and corruption by those who are suppose to represent/are being paid by the rate payer and tax payer. 

 

There needs to be a time limit that these trough feeders can bludge off the rate & tax payers. Goff has been sucking off the tax payers tit for nearly all of his working life starting back in the 1960s. Time to kick these self serving bludgers out the door and make them get a job in the real world!

nicely put

8 hours ago, Gaz said:

People on Facebook who are selling something with the 'pm me for deetz' so you PM them as they requested but they don't reply. Why even bother putting an ad if you you're not gunna reply

they just waiting to steal it from someone then sell it to you, just wait they'll come back.....

just another reason for self drive cars.

1.17 that's not to shabby. pretty good actually.

got no answer for the wear on your tire. But 35 cold is quite high.

But tire pressure is voodoo science at the best of times.

Ill be heading down to Hamptons next Saturday for a "test" day with my new set up..

short and to the point

Off season update....

so today I spent the day in the workshop/garage finishing off the new front splitter. 50mm smaller than the first one.

Ordered a new set of brake pads with a compound BP30 from wildwood . got know idea how this will pan out , but what I got now is hard work.

clutch stop ...

the big one thou is the ass end has dropped 25mm . I've taken off/out the 2 adjustable rings that sit on top of the spring. Rack is now ?% If I measure distance from the jack points to the ground , fronts is 140mm rear is 150mm.

I've manipulated the inner guards again , this time with adjustable pliers and a hammer no grinder.

the picture with my hand flat, before the guard was near the top of my fingers,  now I can get 4 fingers in it.  3.5 maybe

Glad I have removable fiberglass guards.

don't forget that Rugby world cup 2019 is on at that time.