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what year is your GT4? its no different to the normal zed of the same year. the GT4 was just a badge, it got the 2006 298bhp engine earlier than the stock version, a different set of wheels, a playstation and a number plaque. it was a sales tactic to shift leftover stock and they later on sold the special GT4 wheels on normal cars.

key word in that sentence is "their"

Brit power showing the yanks how to build a proper 4x4

nope, they are just going to have to get on with it

I think he's waiting for Rich to turn his back and . . . BAM . . New Cat Bed Testing you were right, they were trying to get in them

having owned both i preferred the S2000 would buy another in a heartbeat. but that's because it suited my driving style better. i found it more rewarding to drive, and more fun. zeds not a bad car, it is a very good car, but for me it wasn't as good as the S2000. I'll now sit and watch a collection of people who either never owned one tell me its a girls car or its rubbish, and all the diehard zed fans tell you the zeds a proper car cos its got a V6 and looks manly. and the zeds faster blah blah blah. etc etc. as neil says they are very different cars. the zed is the better cruiser, has more space and technically easier to use. i'd also say the zed is more beginner friendly for RWD, its more idiot proof than the S2000 which can spit you out if you take the pi$$. best advice. take both out for a decent test drive and decide which you like best. other peoples opinions are a bit like arseholes, everyones got one, and some are full of sh1t. decide for yourself.

I have been busy, which has meant i've been a little slow on the updates, so the first issue i had was to sort out the minor ballsup with the wrong dimensions. so i quickly cut some lenghts and rounded the ends to widen the top of one side. once happy with the place it was just a case of bonding them on with good old PVA once it had driewd enough for me to work the wood again i trimmed in the new widths at the top on the bandsaw which has given me a finished end that looks slightly like a conceptional art bulls head so a complete front and back set for the cot rockers now looks like this so that lost me an afternoon session but did put me back on track. trusting my new dimensions i then set about sorting the sides of the frame out that would hold the structure together. i cut more lapped dovetails into the sides which has turned the edges into some interesting shapes. i then mount up each side as i went along and i finally end up with a finished frame that looks something like this now i say finished but its not really, at the moment the frame is only dry jointed, there is no adhesive, and there is some play in the frame and its not square at the moment, but the reason i haven't bonded it yet is that i want to test fit it with the cot basket before i add any adhesive, just in case there are any minor alterations i might need to make. as its far easier when a frame can be dismantled than when its bonded together. so i very carefully lobbed it in the front of the jag and took it home to test fit. its slightly on the squint at the moment but as i said above theres no adhesive. so following day and back intot he workshop next job is to bond the ends together and also square them off. so in the pictures above what you can see is the small metal clamps pushing the joints together and the long squeeze clamps being used to square the frames. for any one who is interested when i refer to squaring the frames i mean to make sure that the frame isn't on the squint, if you let that happen the whole product can look twisted and out of kilter. the technique i use is that when the frames are drying, take a tape measure and measure diagonally across the frame in an X shape. you'll get 2 readings. if the readings are the same then the frame is square. but if one is longer than the other then the frame is squint. use the longer clamp to squeeze the longer size down. adjust gently till both sides are the same in diagonal length. then leave to dry. and that's how i left things on Friday evening before i went home. when i go back in next week, i still need to bond the sides in place, apply a little filler to tidy up any gaps, then sand both frames down fully and do any minor shaping. and then its down to the finishing. i still have one decision to make and that is if i do some decorative dowel jointing to the lapped dovetails. this basically means drilling a hole through the dovetail joint, and then using a light wood dowel gluing it in the whole and sanding the whole lot down smooth, this gives an extra layer of strength to the frame, but also some small decorative features to the frame. I'll see how i go for time

Good luck

I had to share this as I thought it was such a beautiful car considering its nearly 50 years old, and the sound is something else. Its the only one in the world. I know you can get a kit car version, and I must admit I think its something I'd,love to build instead of the Usual gt40 ac cobra etc

The jaguar xk exhaust on the old x100 chassis has a squashed pipe on each bank of the engine at the rear of the car in order for the exhaust to go over the rear axle. Its was done in the factory as an easy fix to a problem. The exhaust still works but it does reduce performance. Its not about bore size but smoothness of flow. The first thing a lot of owners do is remove the exhaust and put a system in with no squashes, as better flow means better performance. Any system designed with a squash in it will never be as good as one designed without it.

my wifes iphone 4s says its not got enough data allowance for it

you'll like this, I had a question from one of my year 10 students yesterday...."sir can I please go and ring my mum" me; "is everything ok?" him; "yes sir,but I just want to find out if my copy of GTA V has arrived yet?" . not what I was expecting in the middle of a lesson :lol:

Its not a major fix, nothing a bandsaw, some pva and a bit of wood can't fix

git very jealous, please tell us/me about it on here once you have

but yes they aren't pretty

i think you'll find that they are functional, most likely ramming air direct to the brakes making sure on track they stay efficient all the time and reduce fade, and increase brake cooling.

that's OK us owners just refer to them as jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags you'd have to bloke and infinite number of combinations of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

well i had a good run at it this evening managed a couple of hours work. you know that saying measure twice, cut once. my old man taught me that, and i teach it on a regular basis, so why in a million years did i not follow sound advice more on this later, its not as bad as it sounds, but it does mean tomorrow will require some minor adjustment. First job was to sort the rocking edges on the bottoms of the stand, i knocked up a quick template in CAD and then set too with the band-saw. this gave me the access i needed to cut the joints and saved me from having to chisel out the whole section. and i could get on with marking and cutting the dovetails. again i;m using half lap dovetails to keep the strength in the build and it helps keep its shape. as you can see the dovetails stick out over the curve of the rocker not a problem as my industrial sander makes light work of them so this is one frame all test fitted together bit later on this was just before i went home i managed to get all 4 frames together and this is a dismantled view of the parts as they are so far; there is still another 4 joints to go in as i have to cut and mount the horizontals that give the frame its cube shape and keep the 2 ends at a set distance. now you may be wondering what i was talking about earlier when i said about cut once measure twice. or you may not if this isn't your sort of thing. well i took 2 frames home to test fit with the pram cot sections. i put the first one on at the feet end, and it fitted like a glove. perfect. went to test the other one at the head end....and oh fudge it doesn't fit. turns out there is a 4 cm difference in the frame between the head end and the foot end. and i had although measured twice, only measured the foot end and assumed it was the same all the way up. which means some minor alterations and surgery as i have to reclaim 4 Cm's of space out of 5 Cm's of wood. but i have a cunning plan and all will be reveled hopefully tomorrow evening

see you can still swear will thats just in jest

swear filter works unless you substitute letters for symbols or numbers so to test this:sh!t the bed, thats one ugly b@st@rd, i wouldn't f#ck wackywill if my life depended on it. mods can delete and sensor as necessary

people buy them for the height, my wife has a volvo XC60 and loves it, she likes the higher driving position, the fact that getting shopping in and out is easier at the new boot height, and with kids when we look after our neice and nephew getting seats and kids in and out of the back is a lot easier. the 4x4 factor is more a subconscious feel safe factor. all in all its a package that a lot of women find reassuring and so they sell in their masses. the badge on the front just depends where you fall in the badge snobbery scale.