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So now I have your attention. James's Dad has almost finished a 15year long project to complete his Gardos F5000. James, Brendon and I were out at Hampton today so decided to stop past and ask RaceFX Andy to roll it out of the garage for us for a cheeky photo sesh. Enjoy

Haha... Love it when that happens. Bring back the brown eye i say.

Oooo look theyre making a movie about it all http://youtu.be/zKgklgTW-7A sweet

Rocking cross street this afternoon. Nice car who ever it is

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Probably hitek's old car and/or wheels.

I have to agree, its pretty much the most fun you will have. People can have their AWD turbo cars, I'll take RWD any day.

I have found over a bit of time playing with my own setups and others as well as being involved with various racing projects that there is defanitely no one size fits all. A lot of people going into creating a great handling car with the mind set that its needs to be race track ready all of the time, when they forget what they use the car for most of the time. The ideal setup for the track is to raise the strut towers, enlarger the guards. raise the subframe and suspension hard mount points including steering into the chassis as much as possible. This is totally inpractical for the road and will actually make the car handle worse on most road surfaces. The sway bar debate is also very subjective. What is true however is your sway bar tension needs to be matched to your spring rate. Putting in bigger bars is useless without a harder spring rate because all that happens is the bars end up doing the work on the loaded wheel which their not really designed for. Having a flat setup can help with putting out of corner power down. But really doesnt help with early/mid corner traction. This is where softening the rear sway bar and or stiffening the front sway bar can help. But it may drop out your out of corner settledness of the rear. I have the luxary of adjustible sway bars, and have been playing around with settings at hampton for a while now. Still have some issue myself with rear traction on slicks, but thats because of A ) lead foot too much B ) road LSD isnt designed for sticky slicks and hamptons grip levels so ends up slipping the LSD because it cant unload the loaded tyre and C ) I dont have traction control (because of problem with A) ). My way isnt the only way of setting up a car, Jamez has pretty much the same car accept he has different spring rates and different sway bar setup and different diff. But his car is 100% track dedicated, mine isnt, its still a road car. I use to want all of the rose jointed fully adjustible fancy group-A/DTM setup .. but then I like driving b-roads in the weekend too.

Adrian Van Hooydonk interview of BMW car design

I actually think it has the best looks of any new BMW at the moment. Adrian van Hooydonk hasn't done the new line up any favours.

If you change the car .. even the wheels sizes the car was certed with (Low Volume) you need to get it re certed. Taking a certed car through Recompliance they pick on everything. Or as Ray once told me, its like a hardcore warrent.

finish that car and do a skid

Give our forum sponsor http://www.ultraracing.co.nz/ a bell. They have a good brace thats welded not bolted. I have on my car ... pretty good and good price too.

http://www.bimmersport.co.nz/forums/index....st&p=403475

Saw that in the weekend too ... looks really nice!

ahhh optioned manual with silly wing ... got it

Looks like a normal facelift Tech2 motorsport to me.

Sad news,

haha thats awesome .. Are you going to attempt coating it ?

Now pics of RX3

Yeah not having a dig at the guy (not into that) I just found the pull up outside and his mates giving him crap about the grand entrance ammusing you had to be there I guess.

Jamez and Aprils -> Jasons old car on Ponsonby road. The guy pulled up right out side too all his mates giving him a hard time for show boating haha. New owner can be seen behind crowd of people walking. The dude in the black skinny jeans and black top. Little did they know that about 10 minutes before it was pulled up on the side of the road with an AA car sorting something out under the hood.

had a sit down with ray today about the m3-8 and what to do about its 'stance'. More coming very soon.

I have an engine from an m3 but stuffed into a car with a M badge on it thats not an m3. Oh noes this thread just got more scadelous.

Nice Elliot, Great to see it still in the family. Its like my sister car sort of. On thing I request if I may. Please keep it in top condition mod wise. EG I understand you might want to change a few things, but it would be awesome if you could keep the intention there as far as qaulity etc. your friend Josh