Carl

Hey woah, I can't comment on whether they'll work or not or if these things will fit as I don't know, all I know is spongy brakes aren't very desireable

IMHO, if your brake pedal is spongy when the brakes and fluid are cool and the pads fresh, then that ain't too good I would imagine...what's going to happen when you race that puppy around a bit and the fluid and brakes get all hot? The travel and feel of the brake pedal is going to be interesting...your travel will only deteriate over time aswell...it'll be like pumping an airbed up with a bellows...

2dr touring, odd... Is that an MTechI or Zender???

Even if that's all CF it's blaphemous - distateful - damned boys degrading a masterpiece

No Way! Why??? The back end is too jappa, it narrows and looks like there's F all boot opening. Every bimmer up until this point has had a nice squarish rear end which is tits, that is fugly. The front end looks too try hard, ricer-ish even...fugly The first pic in the black just looks sooo plain, it's not aggro enough, too smooth! That red M3 concept picture, now that is sex on wheels, aggro and disproportionate yet straight...tits! 0.02

Take pics of your wife in one of the seats Matt, i'd be interested in checking out those seats

Skooled, and here I was thinking you had a soft side there for a moment, funE

Agreed. Forget Uniden (IMHO). Dynatron only. Can you explain your reasoning behind why you'd forget uniden???I should point out that there's no point spending mega bucks on a car worth mini bucks. I should also point out again that alarms are only a deterrent, not a prevention. No alarm will ever stop a determined theif.

I agree, they really look smart, very tidy - you get an A for presentation with those

I've got a uniden alarm, only got it so I didn't have to use my key in the door (so it wouldn't bend) and so i'd get a discount on my insurance (only 5% but it adds up year after year), but it also offers a little bit of protection against would be thieves. Alarms are alarms, if someone really wants to relieve you of your car then no alarm is really going to stop them. Get something with an immobiliser and keyless entry and then you're doing better than most. So longs as it flashes a little red light and you're parked somewhere decent the deterence factor is the only thing protecting you.

Kind of like watching that Jag vs. Monaro on Top Gear...boys.

I should point out that for those that have never driven on the Makara/Ohariu valley road that this stage was the hardest stage of the entire tour. It was numerous one lane bridges and the road is narrow for 5ks of it through a gorge with 90 degree turns and the likes....that pug found out hard what the cliff faces feel like! For those entering in the scavenger hunt in a few weeks time you should travel through this section at some point

Crashed Pug The drive was bashing his helmut on the armco

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sh*t weather alright, took 153 photos yesterday of nearly all the competitors as the went past. I got that ford Ka, the two Jags, the suzuki, Lotus 7's and elise, all the porsches, the puegot that crashed, and all the bimmers!!!! I filmed Ian rather that take a picture, here's the others...

being a victim of any crime sucks, my condolences, at least you know the perpetrators have been apprehended You'd think that with NZ being such a young country we wouldn't be so discriminate but like our neighbours across the ditch some sections of our soceity are no better than scum

Haha, Glenn, if I use 7000 as the max rpm my car theoretically can do 300kph I think it actual rev limits at something more like 6800, just not quite getting there

WOT map, advancing/retarding, I consider that to be doing something fancy.As for the speeds, when I redlined the 4.45 at just over 200kph, I checked the s/s for the theoretical top end and the speeds matched up...so go figure, perhaps your pickups are a little funny, you may want to check that your banana skins haven't messed things up

Haha, you been into my porno selection again haven't you, what happened to your missus...she give you the boot or something???

I can email you the spreadsheet if you like, I don't know who created it but I got it off Glenn so it also has the supra gearbox ratios aswell, pm me your email address and i'll flick it off tonight.As for my speedo being wildly out, can I point out that i'm running 205/55/15's so my actual speed is more than what my speedo says. I have tested this with Ali and Jamahl's cars while down south as we had the radios, my speedo says 97kph when i'm actually doing 100kph which can be dangerous as doing the standard 105-110 on the open road is actually more like 110-115...in the ticket zone I can testify that my M20B20 has done over 200kph, it redlined with the 4.45 in 5th @ over 205kph on the speedo, so taking the speedo *wildly out* into account that would be in excess of 210kph. Note that I have twin coby's (1 for each pipe) instead of a cat so that may make a diff.

Grant, they are theoretical although I can back most of them up with exception to the 280 odd in 5th I've got a spreadsheet which calculates the speeds for a given RPM and wheel size and so far it's been extremely accurate as I tested it using all three diffs I had (4.45, 3.45, 3.25) around the 100kph mark so the s/s has been quite valuable. In regards to my engine when I had the opportunity to get up to speed to test the engines pulling power with the different diffs, with the 4.45 my B20 engine had no probs pulling from 45kph in 5th right up to redline at 205kph. With the 3.45 it would pull from 50kph in 5th but struggle to get past 3500 rpm which was around 150-160kph from memory, after dropping it into 4th and booting it then changing into 5th it would start to pull away but I didn't have enough track to test how much horsies the B20 had. I have yet to test the 3.25 for lack of track or private road. It's really interesting though to note how the motronic engine does fancy stuff to get power/torque from below 4000rpm but once it hits 4k it just dumps fuel and the engine goes like snot - hence why my engine can't pull the 3.25 and 3.45 in 5th gear around the 3500rpm mark but once it hits 4k it has enough horsies to pull away.