Jump to content

Ekona

Members
  • Posts

    30,925
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Ekona

  1. The roadster is: Heavier Uglier More expensive Has less storage space ...and yet it's all forgiven when you drop the roof on a cold winter night or a hot summer day, or anywhere inbetween. Coupe for looks everytime, roadster for the experience. YMMV etc
  2. I assume this is for pre-facelift cars only?
  3. My point was more that you'd get a brick through your window if you did that with a stock car, regardless of exhaust.
  4. They're also selling well because they're dirt cheap atm, if the prices go back up then no-one will want them again. The price of the 350Z isn't ever going to rise back up, simply because it's a mass production car only just out of production. You could minimise loss by never driving it (I mean ever, on a brand-new one) and storing it in a barn for the next 40 years, then it may be worth about the same when it comes out if the Zed is even considered a classic by then. Failing that, drive it, enjoy it, and who the hell cares how much it's worth
  5. Sit there and rev your engine for no reason and yes, you'll have some very angry neighbours. That said, do it with any car and I would imagine they won't be too happy, so there you go.
  6. Careful, if you put people into your Foes box you won't be able to see their posts. While this may be a good thing, it does mean you'll get some disjointed threads...!
  7. They'd be better off just tossing a coin to decide the results, or drawing names out of a hat. At least there's some logic behind that. Just when we all thought that the madness of last year had finished and we were going to have some honest, decent racing this year.
  8. You can get it freely from the US, although it's sold under a different name. I bought some refills last year when I was out there for the reason I couldn't get any at all in the UK anymore.
  9. I don't really care that Hamilton was docked his points, more that they had all this info available to them a mere hour after the race had ended so why has it taken them 4 days to get it sorted? That's the real farce, not whether McLaren tried to pull a fast one or not. F1 has to be one of, if not the richest sport in the world today. With all that money, you'd have thought that they could afford to employ some stewards with some simple common sense. Even half a brain would do at this point.
  10. PMSL @ the Knightrider Zed See, I don't mind that at all as it's blatantly done as a huge ****-take and just for a laugh. At least, I really hope it is...
  11. Get yourself a stick of chalk and draw a line from the middle of the tyre sidewall straight out to the edge of the tyre: It'll tell you just how much the tyre is rolling over during cornering, and you can then adjust tyre pressures as necessary. Tbh if you're terrified of tyre wear then just pump all four to the maximum allowed, that'll keep wear to the absolute minimum although you'll obviously have to drive the car more carefully. Personally if you're that bothered about tyre wear then track days probably aren't a good idea full stop, but on a smooth track like Combe you'll do well to notice any wear at all, whereas an airfield with abrasive concrete can easily kill a set of tyres in a day (done that twice, both times at Elvington ).
  12. More camp than a row of pink tents I reckon
  13. Ekona

    Skittish Rear End

    If it is the shocks, then I'd expect them to be changed under warranty at that mileage.
  14. Gotta be said, if the Cayman S had dropped to the prices it has now when I bought my Zed just over a year ago, it would've been very hard to choose the Nissan over the Porker. Better looking, better to drive, and even servicing is nowhere near what you'd expect either if you stick with specialists rather than OPC. The only downside is that you can't really mod a Cayman as it's either very expensive parts-wise or you'll simply destroy the value of the car.
  15. Ekona

    Skittish Rear End

    Didn't '07s come with RE050s on? How many miles has the car done in total? Worth checking your tyre pressures and alignment as well, either of those could cause the back end to feel extra lively.
  16. S'okay, it's not - Always check Snopes first!
  17. You might not want to spend £44K on a brand-new Cayman S, but you might well be considering spending £30K on a second-hand one and that's where the comparison really is.
  18. I can't see the point in having lights on the car when you'll only need them (and can legally use them) one or two days a year... If they were standard fog lights fitted flush into the bumper then they'd probably look okay at least, but I really don't like them at all. Sorry!
  19. Ekona

    I surrender

    355 was the last decent looking and sounding Ferrari. I'd take a decent 355 GTB over a 360 or 430 (including CS/Scuderia) anyday. Hell, I'd probably take a 348 over the latter two as well, dodgy handling or not.
  20. They'll do it. Part of what they do is alter any exhaust to anything you want, so I can't see them passing up something so simple for a bit of easy cash.
  21. Maybe they're ignoring them? I think it'll just take time for people to get used to checking the top right of the screen every time they log on to check for messages if they haven't got the pop-up enabled.
  22. Very. Basically, if you want a custom exhaust made to the highest standard and to your specs and you live down this way, then you go to H&S. I would imagine that £650+VAT fitted is the discount price for being the first one, as that's silly cheap for a true dual exhaust to Rich's spec. True dual will give a slightly different tone to a standard system Rich, but noise depends on what size silencers they use. If they propose on doing it the way that Jag has been done, then you can expect it to be roughly as loud as my K1 I would imagine. Best thing to do is to ask them and get a rough dB guide from them. After all, this can't be the first time they've ever built a true dual exhaust for a V6.
  23. I paid the fee myself, least I could do with you organising the whole thing. I did the whole Personal option as well, but it always seemed to tag me with the fee no matter what option I chose. I'm not bothered about it though, it's only a couple of quid and that's peanuts compared to what we're potentially saving.
  24. In all honesty, I think it always has been. I have a nagging feeling that the GTR has been built right on the very edge of what Nissan can achieve in terms of durability and for that price point, and they're now trying to push away from the extreme sports market and target those that won't be taking the car on track at all.
  25. Which is why it's a bus & taxi lane only anyway, which is why you shouldn't have been down there and which is why you got the points. I've never accidentally driven down a piece of road where cars aren't allowed, and I'm guessing that 99% of people on here haven't either, so it's not like it's an easy mistake to make... I don't mean to get at you matey; I don't think anyone here is really having a go, and I do agree that a warning should have been enough, but you can't really really be too mad when you were 100% in the wrong.
×
×
  • Create New...