marzman

Cheers mate. Need some confidence buiilding! I'm going to see it at 12.30pm... fingers crossed!

Yep it was Mike that i spoke to today. Spent about 20mins on the phone with him! Is he an Aussie? He had a bit if a twang...

Yes, captain Phillips is the Tom Hanks true story film. Loved it. Also loved Prisoners, with Hugh Jackman.

Captain Phillips. Best film i've seen in a very long time.

Cheers Leon but my bro is coming with me. This will be the first one i've looked at. I called that specialist in Knutsford today and had a great chat with him, Gave me quite a few things to check. However i asked him what he would do in this situation, and it was quite a depressing answer. He said he'd get the inspection done including bore scope check (which i would be doing anyway) but also that regardless of it's history, he would spend £1100 pretty quickly and get the IMS uprated and a couple of other bits done to make sure it's as right as can be. This is a bit off putting to me (on a 15 year old car that i dont intend to keep for the long term.) Thanks for scaring me to death. Every other thread is IMS or £8k rebuild. Hopefully the place in Knutsford near me which i mentioned - only trouble is they reckon they're fully booked until April! They said to give them a call though after i've seen the car and they'll see if they can fit me in.

last pic shows the front lip done, agree not so sure about the badges Oh yeah, haha. I didnt see that.

Love the LEDs and the roof. Not sure on the B-pillars (cant tell from the pic but looks like different vinyl to the roof?) Not a fan of the badge though. Have you thought about doing the front lip? That would look good.

:lol: Its the interior that made me want it! When i used to be into BMW's there was a very rare oxblood leather interior which looked very similar to this, but i couldnt find it anywhere in the UK at the time and i wanted it so badly.

Drool. http://www2.autotrad...rsche?logcode=p This is near me so gonna give the guy a call and go take a look on Saturday. EDIT. I've txt the guy and will be going up there saturday morning.

Just go to a few garages (quick fit, national tyres etc) and ask if you can have some of their 18" tyres for free. I've done that once before and they were happy to give me a bootful as it's saving them on the disposal cost.

For me, either Tony Soprano, or Nick Stone from the Andy McNab books.

I honestly think it's because she had a camera that she decided to act the way she did - prompting the argument. If she didnt have the camera, i'm almost certain she wouldnt have pulled out to block me. Idiot.

So i dont think this is the right thread... i was looking for the one with the Cyclist Go Pro videos, but i'll post here anyway! I had a run-in with a militant cyclist yesterday. Driving along a wide single carriageway A-road, I encountered a cyclist. It was perfectly safe to overtake so i put my foot down to do so. However in the time it took for the auto gearbox to shift down a gear and just start accelerating, the cyclist pulls right out into the center of the carriageway to block me on purpose! I had to jump on my brakes to avoid knocking them off, and gave them a blast of the horn. So the cyclist then moves towards the right edge of the carriageway (i.e. the middle of the road), purposefully blocking me (because i had the cheek to honk at them clearly). When they eventually pulled in i drove past them, but then we were stopped at traffic lights and they caught up. So at the traffic lights they come along to the passenger side and banged on my window, which i wound down, and it was a woman, maybe in her 40's with a camera on her helmet! She proceeded to shout at me and ask me what the hell i was doing beeping at her, and that it was her right of way to block me from passing if she wanted to! Obviously i gave it back to her and told her what i thought before the lights changed and i had to set off. From my point of view i definitely didnt do anything wrong. I didnt get to the point of passing her but would have left plenty of space as i always do if i had got to that point, but for her to pull out on purpose definitely deserved a beep! So... expect to see me on one of these militant cyclist videos on youtube in the near future im sure.

I've posted this a load of times on here before, but this is me having a whole lot of fun at Oulton.

Dont take the zed to the Oulton drift day... the track is raised slightly from the grass alongside it and within an hour you will have wrecked that Nismo bumper/sideskirts being fiberglass. I've dont the Oulton drift day about 7 or 8 times... the first time i went in my previous zed but then after that i bought an RX7 and then an E36 specifically for it. Amazing fun, just not in the zed. If i were you i'd look at the track taster sessions - most tracks do them including Oulton park, and you're paying £25-30 for a 20 minute session to get a feeling for it. You'd be surprised at how long 20 mins feels like when you're on track too - it would certainly be enough to whet your appetite. Alternatively, http://www.trackdaydrivers.com/ run sprint days at Curborough in Stafford i think. I went there once and it was ok, but it's only £60 for all day. Just you on track for about 90 seconds on a technical circuit, and then you come off and go to the back of the queue whilst other people have their go. I got about 20 runs in the whole day. If you look on the website, there is a picture of my silver zed in their site footer and in the rotating header banner!

My favourite quote is i think from S02E01 with the South African guy, who says 'No Alan, you can't!' and Partridge replies '...well there's no need for that!'

Happy birthday bud.

I've dreamed about my zed 3 times since i sold it. One of the dreams i actually bought it back.

Been very slow for me a couple of times this week, late at night.

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This. I think you can heat them and then bank them out with a hammer, and then just replace with a standard bolt.

GAMERTAGS Ekona = Ekona (Dan) Warpedstorm = Will370z (Will) draggster454 = StevoD kingmarz = Marzman CURRENT CHALLENGE: C500 max, any car SPA: Will370z 2.47.898 LAGUNA SECA: Will370z 1.42.454 LM BUGATTI: Will370z 1.58.053

Cheers Dan, i appreciate it.

Wow, you people are freaks I've always been big, and i cant avoid it. If i eat 2500 calories a day, i'll still put weight on. Im 6'2 and I used to operate around the 95kg point in my early 20's and was mildly overweight, but had to do sport 4 times a week to even maintain that. Then i got injured and had spinal surgery, and in the 5 years since then i've ballooned to 123kg! Dieting for me only maintains this weight, and i've not been able to do exercise in a loooong time. However - this is now all changing! I had some spinal injections in December that i discussed on here, and since then i've been able to do some basic exercise. Im now swimming and doing core work 7 days a week, and living on a keto diet - and im now down to 114kg. This is just the start... to be active again feels amazing so this year im really on a drive to fix my back and get back to team sports.

I on the other hand really like it. I say go for it. For the few quid it will cost, if you dont like it you can remove it, Also it will keep you entertained for an afternoon whilst you're doing it which is always good!