marzman

Man i hate not knowing why people get banned! Really winds me up!! I dont live on here as much as I used to so not up to speed with all the subtelties and cliques anymore, but still have an interest in the community. When someone gets banned i then go off searching old threads for an hour to build a timeline of events to figure out what happened, but i rarely find the answer.

Yes its definitely easier if you remove the wheel first. Just phillips screws as far as i can remember to remove the arch liner.

Ha ha, cheers Andy!

I should also add... my local kebab man came to my wedding (we became friends over the years!). When i was chatting with my mates that i used to go out with they were like 'Is that the guy from cheshire fast food? Why's he at your wedding?' Good guy. He also does a wicked tandoori doner meat... but only for mates.

Also i meant to say... on my first overnight trip away from home with work i had a food budget of £25 - so i literally spent all £25 in a kebab shop in Reading and was in there for over 2 hours eating kebabs/chips/burgers and drinking cans of Fanta and Dr Pepper etc. It was amazing, but the next day onsite with my customer was painful!!

Now we're talking. Literally my favorite food group. First kebab - Donner kebab, aged 14 Toppings - Chilli Sauce and Mayo Fillings - Only onion, nothing else Bread - prefer Naan or a wrap but often i'll just order donner meat in a tray to cut down on carbs Best Kebab - I've spent about a month in Athens on business and the best kebabs i've ever had by a country mile were from Thanasis Kebab in Monastiraki. Recently i've just moved towards stoke on trent and they have quite a few new kebab shops to try! My new favourite is a Chicken Shwarma on a Samoon - a lovely, odd shaped soft bread. Only £2.50 too! They sell mini donner kebab machines for home use, i've been meaning to get one for years!

If you can find one, what about a V8 Toyota Aristo or Lexus GS430?

... but doesnt an Uprev cost about £400, versus about £100 for the HKS SLD?

Or you need to buy an HKS Speed Limit Defencer. Much cheaper than an uprev, but fairly hard to find i think?

Ibherdesign kit. Not to everyone's tastes.

Lovely Supra.

Ah sorry dude, that probably came across as really patronising then Erm, didn't mean that, I genuinely thought that someone who was massively into his retro stuff would know more than I did. So yeah, apologies and things. It's ridiculous, I have a 50" LCD hung up on the wall for the 360/Wii/PS2, then a poxy 32" CRT which is about a billion times the depth for playing sodding Mario Kart on! No worries man. I've literally never purchased a CRT anything (monitor or TV). i always had hand me downs, and then when i became old enough to buy my own TV they were all flat screens, so never had to consider any of the specs.

Dislike! I enjoy your posts Gangzoom. I've never driven an EV but i get the appeal. I appreciate driving all types of cars, it doesnt have to be a V6 or V8 monster for me to enjoy it.

Now i did NOT know that. Cheers Dan. Yeah it's such a drag playing on these small screens. I've no idea how i managed as a teenager with just a 24" telly.

Yep I intend to get a CRT TV at some point. Mainly so i can play light gun games. I fancy a bit of Virtua Cop on the Saturn when i get one! Cheers. I built the cabinet myself from scratch. It's got a PC with mainly console game roms in it, but some really nice front end software that means everything is controlled/selected via the arcade sticks, so you cant really tell its a PC.

Sh!t the bed mate! That's a proper off!! Was it insured??

Okay so another busy weekend in the new pad. After quite a bit of searching i found some shelves that would be perfect for my retro games lounge... put them together and then drilled a few holes with some core bits for the cables and bobs your uncle. Just one minor problem - i picked up a Megadrive 1 since buying the shelves, and it's too wide!!!! Damnit!! I'll have to swap it for a Megadrive 2 which has smaller dimensions.

Zed gearboxes are very quirky to say the least. I always struggled with 2nd to 3rd. As SMD says above, get some Molyslip added and do a gearbox fluid change. May or may not improve things (didnt for me, but when i dropped the gearbox oil it looked like new anyway so the previous owner to me had obviously done it recently). In the end I settled on double de-clutching on every 2nd>3rd gear change. i.e. Clutch in 2nd>neutral Clutch out Clutch in Neutral>3rd Clutch out The eliminates any notchy/clunkyness. Annoying at first, but now, 4 years on, muscle memory causes me to still do this in most other cars i've drive.

There was an optional 350z 'sports horn' from the factory. Not sure if this was a JDM only option but i had it on my old zed, and as you say it was embarrassing. a high pitched toot as opposed to a proper horn. The standard UK horn is much better, and luckily for me Leonk game me a spare one he had so i swapped mine over.

'Derailed' is a good one. Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston. Well worth a watch.

I know... i'm just itching to get myself another car. Gonna have to wait until next year though until my finances recover from the move.

Brilliant. Yes mate when things have settled down a bit i'll give you a shout.

Ha ha, cheers mate. On the garage, above the doors there are just 3 courses of bricks, single width. The roof joists are resting on top of these. The whole garage is just a single width of bricks, and the doors go right to the edge of the garage, so any steel will need to completely span the full width of the garage, which im not sure will be possible. The garage isnt integral though, so i guess i've got that going for me.

Okay couple of minor updates... Firstly in the shooting range... i picked up a couple of 'props' to give it a military/comedy feel (as in, look at this crazy guy with all this stuff in the loft) I got some camo-net and an ammo box. I need to nail the camo net to the roof yet and pickup a couple of sandbags before it's finished. Moving on, last night i was in my garage until 2am giving it a tidy, whilst smoking a big fat cigar, having a few glasses of red, and listening to an audiobook. I had a great time!! The space is amazing... plans are to fit some kitchen units along one of the walls for storage so i can hide all the crap thats out on shelves. One problem ii do have though (not pictured) is that it has 2x single garage doors, with a brick pillar between them. This makes it really difficult to get a car into the garage to work on... so i need to consider having the pillar removed and a single door fitted but i'm sure that'll cost a fair wedge. One for next year i think. So really happy with the feel of the garage... it's just missing one key thing - A CAR!! The plan is to pickup an rwd track car at some point early next year, hopefully.

Sweet - not heard of it but downloading it now.