rtbiscuit

could self fund the driving courses, and do them externally, my mates dad did many moons ago when he left the paras.

if your in the forces and about to leave, do they still invest in leaving, and pay for training etc, if so get something like your HGV licence. means you can go out and earn cash straight off, and if you are independent you have the freedom to pick up work when you need it. especially if you don;t mind doing the long hauls abroad. and if you pick up more HGV licences the money goes up. things like crane, haz chem, liquids etc. should give you a starting point where you can then go out and take time off from driving to do training in other areas that interest you like mechanics etc.

it was the guys at driftworks on here selling them, think josh speed bought from them same with pipe diameter etc, makes me laugh when guys with little 1.1 engines stick big bore exhausts on with giant cans, its like farting in a cave engine must drop about 15% in performance, but feel quicker as it makes so much noise

the vinyl route shows potential as the training is quick, so you can get yourself working and earning quickly. hexis do a range of courses from start up to goinging pro. all worth a doing, and once you have them all it makes you hexis certified. think you can do the same with 3M as well. get both under your belt. then do some discount work for forum members. get some good photos of work done, and start building a promo portfolio. i can help you with vinyl supply. and happy to do it at cost price i.e. 0 profit on my behalf. once your hexis qulaified you can do your own ordering sarah at hexis does all my stuff and she's great. even happy to take photos for you with my DSLR can even help you photoshop and put logos and watermarks on etc.

still researching all the necessary stuff. last thing i'd want is a horrible rasp out of the exhaust, and i don;t want it to be just noise, but a quality note. exhausts are like instruments, make someting to short or put it in the wrong place and you get a duff note. or a rasp, or drone etc etc etc. all those kind of sounds are due to poor research and bad exhaust building.

thats the plan, they won't be visible, but exit just behind the front wheels. its on the list, but other things need to come first.

some choices available. option 1 go do some qualifications in it. possibly train the next few years, join or start a company go from there. option 2 try to find a garage that will employ you as a basic. and then train you up. rare as rocking horse poop these kind of situations, but not impossible. down side is you start at the botom and work your way up. option 3 go into a career that you are qualified for, pick up some tools and spray kit, book on to some courses and train yourself. do it as a hobby to start with, maybe offer services to others on here. and progress form there. ..... there are wrapping courses that you can go on, to train up as a wrapper could be done over a 6 week period, but there are a lot of people doing it out there. so alot of competition, maybe start there and add to the skills basis over time. things like mechanics and painting take time to build up the skills required, same as flying and learning to drive. the more practice and time spent behind the wheel the better you get. what about looking at joining the AA or similiar, don't they train their own mechs up?

it will sound like this Thats my car running straight from the cats. which is about where the cut outs will go anyway, so the sound will/should be identical to this.

yes but his exhaust is a singular pipe after the cats. mine is dual system setup front to back. so no single pipe to cut into, if i only did one side, the exhaust system would be unbalanced and thats not a good thing.

i like the popple and bangs on the over run. at some point this is going on to my V8, but i haven't got round to it as i need 2. also going to build side exit exhausts for them to move the sound out from under the car to the sides. i remember husky doing this to his zed. don;t know if it was location or what, but it was an uncomfortable loud, not a good loud. had to drive with the windows down as the revurb in the cabin was ear bleeding. then there were issues with the valve sticking. i would guess it would sound best on a 50/50 setting.

need to see some better pics, in those the detail of the wheel looks lost. i'm sure they look alot better in the flesh

my garage charge £30 an hour don't know what the over heads are but i'd say £20 an hour seems about right. but he's motorsports qualified. some garages charge more in other areas or makes. jag dealerships in my area charge £110 an hour, but i'm confident the mechs dont see that.

good find, just lost 2 hours to lander

These guys do car trailers for a days hire in bedford. http://www.cmkingandsons.co.uk/ all you need now is someone with a car fitted with a towbar, which should be an easier find than someone with a car trailer

http://www.rumskinz.co.uk/ http://www.coastlinegraphics.co.uk/sign-making/ I used racoon in suffolk they have a branch here, but wasn't that impressed. i'd be tempted to give the 2 above ago. http://www.raccoon.co.uk/

if you have a mate with a tow hook, you can rent car trailers by the day for very little, or google car transport and you can get someone to transport it on a single loader for not a lot either. only has to be one way as well, as you should be able to drive it back when its fixed. we did this with husky's gt4 when it had brake issues, got it trailered to AME and they did it all and he then picked up and drove it home.

oh how true

i use androind torque app and i can pull lots of sensor data, plus read and clear CEL codes,

this is why i wouldn't bother with De cats, just put HFC's in. the difference one makes over the other is about the same as having a poo before you drive, or not having that extra burger at the BBQ. might as well go HFC and be road legal, especially with the VOSA clamp down and the change in MOT rules.

will look good with a new bumper

as far as i'm aware all the ebay stuff is generic, so will only read engine and transmission codes. something like a laptop and digimoto might do it.

yes the bleed pattern has a big impact on the zed. people had issues a while back where garages had bleed it to the right pattern and had spoungy brakes, and that was on systems that hadn't been emptied.