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Guy in Celica circles is selling his ST205 - needs some work done (you like getting your hands dirty?!) but its pretty stunning running at 450bhp

You could get a VX220 for £10k - same chassis as the Elise (same production line!) and will give you that pure drivers fix for a year and then make money on it selling it next year?

Saw a few of these over the weekend on the drive down and back from Brighton. Its like they made a bit of a mess first time around, then tried to fix it by adding more mess. Horrific looking car.

...Boris has finally arrived: "Benign Islingtonian Herbivore" "mutton-headed old mugwump"

+1 Steve did my roof as well and did a cracking job. No natural end line on my roof either so he had to tape it off and find the edge that way and the line is perfect. Most people think its been painted.

Ha no I wish! I have a separate sheet with the torque measurement on I just didn't link it - it was more to show how much smoother the car drove and how the power was better delivered.

I can see your point, but the numbers are not correct and there are countless knock on effects its not a net financial cost. Anyway, for example a heavy smoker gets rushed to hospital in A&E due to a smoking related issue, they get seen by the doctor and a minute later a healthy living person arrives after being hit by a car and due to delays doesn't make it. Unfortunately any net gain financially does not put the NHS 'one up' the solution is not to increase patient counts and increase funding, its to go the other way and reduce unnecessary patients and reduce costs. I admit I do not know the finances of in from smoker tax and out cost of treating smokers, I would be surprised if it was substantial to make a dent in the countries budgets.

Yes and we all agree that they cause death and strain on the NHS, why would adding something to that list in the name of a few quid make things better? As I mentioned above, starting over, you would ban the lot as it makes no sense to have them - but with a real world hat on you ban them and you commit political suicide, you legalise drugs you commit political suicide.

How have they not heard of the Zed Shed? Surprised Keyser hasn't been head hunted yet!

I was going to say if you have had morphine or codeine or the like all contain Heroin Yes I think making something that addictive legal and accessible would just be disastrous. As for smack heads, see them all the time out of their nut on my walk from the office to Waterloo station each evening

I would re-iterate that the overall drive is better and power delivery smoother. Just dug out my dyno read pre and post uprev and you can see on the curve on the right the much more linear power delivery and the removal of the power blip around 5500 revs I would debate the 90% figure against the throttle controller, more like 10% All it does is make the incremental push on the throttle move the signal along quicker, so no different really to having a very heavy foot. With mine fitted rarely put it high up the scale as it made the car difficult to drive around town as when I slightly touched the throttle its putting 4000+ revs through the clutch as I tried to pull away gently in traffic which made you look a bit of a plonker There are a fair few threads on CAI, most people seem to come to the conclusion that the standard box with aftermarket panel filter is very effective. If you are going to throw said £50 notes I would not bother putting £200 at a CAI and focus on a nice flowing exhaust instead.

I put a Flyeye kit on mine so gave a smoked effect, really easy to fit took about 5 mins per side to cut to shape, stick on and tuck in.

Thats the Halfords one I believe?

Without wanting to derail the thread, but clearly there is multi-trillion dollar global supply of drugs, and that will all be cut out by the UK setting up nice country farms with attractive looking girls holding woven baskets picking bits and bobs in the sunshine? Or growing enough for a handful of people in the loft? I don't mean to sound flippant but it 'aint going to happen. Making it legal won't mean everyone involved in that money chain suddenly decides all bets are off and that's it time to get a job stacking shelves in the supermarket. The complexities of it would boggle the brain and probably cost more to implement controls globally than would bring in via tax revenues. Would you ban alcohol, of course not as its not historically been classified as a class A drug (although appreciate its highly addictive). In hindsight you could say if we were to start over you should ban alcohol, cigarettes, cars, plastic, batteries and a multitude of other things that are damaging to us and the environment but thats not realistic, we are were we are now. All that aside, as above, political suicide to legalise drugs!

I think we are coming at this from different angles, its not the effects that are the issue for me, its the supply chain. People are murdered/enslaved/trapped/threatened etc outside this country getting you your marijuana to safely smoke here - politically its suicide to legalise something that encourages this sort of thing in the supply chain, you are effectively saying you make it easier for widespread use and subsequently more money and demand for something that encourages slavery/murder in another country.

I was used to travelling once a week on planes, just got into the habit of rocking up at airports 50 mins before my flight and going for it! Stopping to take photos?!

Well its a no brainer it would bring in money, you have an incremental tax stream. Although would that then encourage less cigarette smoking and more marijuana smoking? So drop in one tax and increase in the other, does one outweigh the other, who knows until someone does some research. My point was really that I am not sure or convinced it would be that easy to pass in the UK though, remember the US still allows all sorts of mental laws that make no sense with no consideration for the rest of the world. I would not expect the UK to make legal say Heroin when the supply of it involves murder, corruption, smuggling, extortion, slave trade and all sorts of other processes. Simply making the end product ok, and the distribution in this country ok is not the solution. Hell it only took a report about underpaid workers in China for Apple to pretty much make Apple reconsider how to ensure their products remain on sale in various countries. Imagine it, they legalise Heroin here, but the Daily Mail turns up a report on the supply chain showing children working in fields and families threatened with death etc to get you your exotic product? How would that sit with our countries political heads from a global standpoint?

Drugs is an interesting one, thinking the process through to legitimise it would mean legitimising the whole process end to end - so somehow putting controls in globally around how its produced, stored, transported, distributed, sold, used etc. I cannot even imagine thats possible with so many in the chain being likely murders/extortionists etc

I get all the above, but I would also like to see a leader under pressure and how they respond. I don't know if any of you have sat in board level meetings of large corporations but its easy to spot the 'script reader' get torn apart by opposition leaders who are capable of thinking on their feet, responding to the unknown, driving their own agenda better than the opposition. As much as this lot can have a plan of what they want i.e. a manifesto, how strong and capable are they when sat across the table when debating with Putin or Trump? Personally, I don't see strength in leadership in any of the current candidates, I rate the televised debates as it does give an insight into strength of character, calmness under pressure and many other attributes I believe a figurehead/leader should have - along with good advisors, manifesto, economic beliefs etc.

Yeah it says write it on...but usually I have no pen, plus always late and running so preoccupied to take note! Mind you the pod parking at Heathrow was great for running late. 4 mins to the terminal!

Thinking more about airport carparks - I always forget to note row, number etc

Yeah I think the cheap ebay jobs wont track your car 'always on' but more just ping a location when asked? But for 10 quid plus the PAYG sim its a bit of a no brainer to put one in? Especially if like me sometimes you lose it in big car parks

I was going to say, at least you got a chance of placing the villains, do nothing and they just go nick someones elses vehicle and so on. I am sitting here liking this idea, might invest today!

...two years down the line the whole car is wrapped pink - its a slippery slope!

Exactly this. Its easy to focus on that peak bhp gain but it doesnt represent the value of an uprev (or any remap actually) - what counts is the increased area under the graph ie overall gains rather than peak gain, removing flat spots etc. across the whole rev range.