marzman

We've bought our first house this year and i'm hosting Christmas for the first time ever, so i wanted to go all out Clark W Griswold to impress me Mum. Tree was a 10.5 footer (£85!!) but i chopped 1.5' off the bottom and 1' off the top as my lounge ceiling is only 8'.

Dan, i think you should edit your post mate to include the spoiler tags...

Well? Who's seen it? I had tickets for the midnight showing last night, and as a HUGE fan of the originals what was my verdict? I was blown away. Honestly i thought it was absolutely fantastic. Brilliant story, maybe slightly too much comedy but it was genuinely funny, it was near perfect... ***WARNING - DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, UNLESS YOU WANT TO RUIN IT FOR YOURSELF***

Lovely Zed that was, back in the day.

So I had a presentation to do on Friday and i ended taking one of our work projectors home with me. Nothing special, not even 1080p, but i thought i'd have a play with it. RRP on this model is about £300. First there was Fifa on my lounge wall, followed by a bit of Battlefront (no pic, sorry) Then tonight i thought i'd take everything upstairs and try a bit of driving in my man cave. Unfortunately due to the length of HDMI lead and the cable between my wheel and xbox i couldnt have the projector as far back as i wanted it (to make a bigger screen), but it was still fun.

Yeah, cracks me up. He's got a few more here: https://www.instagram.com/iamqueenzflip/

Absolutely gut wrenching. Martin was a top bloke and was one of the first people I met on the forum nearly a decade ago. Always very friendly and went the extra mile. A massive loss to the car community. Liz, my thoughts are with you and family. x I remember on my first Wales meet in October 2008, at the carvery in Bala he stood up and said a few words, including wishing me a happy birthday, and he'd had a card made for me, and i'd only met him once before at that point. What a gent. A couple of pics i've got of him... Obviously not of Mart, but of the card he got me.

Yep, count me in. I've barely played this so need something like this to 'kick me in to gear'. KingMarz. Will be available most nights after 10pm.

Are you certain your JDM is non-xenon? It was common for importers to keep the HID Ballasts in place and just bypass them with a couple of wires to use a regular bulb (to get around the lack of headlight washers which is a UK rule for xenon-equipped car). Remove one of the headlights and see if the ballast is still in place. Failing that - there's no reason that any generic retrofit kit from ebay cant be used.

Too many unknowns with a risk of getting badly burned. I'd walk away, personally.

...and one with the stock roof colour.

Here you go Syy, as requested. I'd go with the gunmetal, myself.

Here you go...

I think people either have an addictive personality or they dont. I can take it or leave it with alcohol. If from tomorrow i never had another drop until the day i died, it wouldn't bother me. I never drink on a school night as i can't be bothered with hangovers, but when i do have a drink, i hit it pretty hard. I'll go through phases... maybe 6 months barely having a drop but then usually (around this time of year) it seems like i'm on it every weekend. Smoking too... i enjoy a cigar on occasion and i've got a well-stocked humidor, but but i never feel compelled to have one. I have maybe 1 every 4-6 weeks with a few glasses of red perhaps. The only thing i've ever struggled with is caffeine. I became dependant on coffee to the point i'd have a migraine if i didnt get my daily fix. I've also suffered with red bull, needing to have 1-2 cans of that every morning on my drive to work. But 3 years ago i went cold turkey and quit, only drinking decaff now. It's now gone the other way, and even if i have just 1 instant coffee i get a migraine!

Living the dream

Have a good one, Liam.

Gutted.

I haven't luckily; I'm using the gearbox from the camaro as I didn't want automatic any more. The camaro already has an aftermarket gearbox which is used for everything from mental LS engine swaps to the Aston Martin DB7 and V12 Vanquish as standard. The truck is rear wheel drive so it's not as complicated as the G-Wagen set-up would be. The only complications from using this gearbox is that I need to change the gearstick position to clear the bench seat and I'll need a custom driveshaft to match the box to the Jag diff Sorry i didnt make my point properly regarding ratios. The issue with a saloon car gearbox was due to the wheel+tyre diameter. Obviously the G-Wagen had much larger wheels+tyres than a saloon car, so the gearbox ratio's are all wrong to get the car moving and driving normally with a saloon car 'box. I can't remember the maths but it's the equivalent effect of revving your tits off to not move very far or revving just a little but move too much... if that makes sense? Ah ok, get you. I haven't got an issue because I'll be running the wheels from the camaro on the truck the diff is from an XJS and is a ratio of 3.54:1 with the standard camaro ratio being 3.42:1, obviously there's a difference, but it's negligible :thumbs:

I haven't luckily; I'm using the gearbox from the camaro as I didn't want automatic any more. The camaro already has an aftermarket gearbox which is used for everything from mental LS engine swaps to the Aston Martin DB7 and V12 Vanquish as standard. The truck is rear wheel drive so it's not as complicated as the G-Wagen set-up would be. The only complications from using this gearbox is that I need to change the gearstick position to clear the bench seat and I'll need a custom driveshaft to match the box to the Jag diff Sorry i didnt make my point properly regarding ratios. The issue with a saloon car gearbox was due to the wheel+tyre diameter. Obviously the G-Wagen had much larger wheels+tyres than a saloon car, so the gearbox ratio's are all wrong to get the car moving and driving normally with a saloon car 'box. I can't remember the maths but it's the equivalent effect of revving your tits off to not move very far or revving just a little but move too much... if that makes sense?

This is mint. Brings back memories of my failed G-Wagen restoration, which i thankfully sold before getting too far into it. Quick one... on my G-Wagen i hoped to swap out the engine and box with something out of a regular Merc saloon, but everywhere i read said it was really difficult, if not impossible to do due to the donor gearbox having all the wrong ratio's for a 4x4 car, and that to be a success you'd need to mate a G-Wagen 'box to the donor engine somehow. Have you come across this issue at all when choosing the donor car?

That's a thing of beauty. Added it to my list of wants. I'll get to it eventually. I bought a Li-ion cordless drill today and that's been on my list for nearly 2 years.

Signed up to the Priority 2, and used Quidco too so get £3.50 cashback on that. Bit of a bummer i've got to wait 3 weeks for the free trial to finish before they'll let me have any new releases. Still... get that out of the way now and then hopefully get 2 of Battlefront, Rainbow 6, Need for Speed whilst i'm off over Christmas.

http://www.boomerangrentals.co.uk Mint, thanks. Looks like good value. Gonna sign up to this.

Where can you rent games from these days?

A starter car cleaning kit. Pride in keeping it keen is the first step to achieving zeditus.