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Just out of curiosity, would these work with a roadster? Or would the seal not function properly?

If you are selling it, I'd simply go and buy a replacement cheapy drive and chuck that in with it, and keep/smash your old drive. Is it worth the risk of the next owner finding... C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\My Documents\pr0n\favs\furry\hot_goat_sex.mpg?

+1 for hammer. You could use MoD-style 7-pass over writing programs, or stupidly powerful electromagnets, or a small thermonuclear device, but realistically if you physically smash the platters then it's going to cost someone a hell of a lot of money to be able to get anything back.

How long were you with them? I had a decent return on my insurance when I cancelled with 4 months remaining after being with them for three years.

Come on, that's far too much like common sense...

Can you confirm that they are a set of 2 front and 2 rear? Only asking as the tyre sizes are for the fronts only.

Got them from hyper-rev-motors. Item is based in New York and they only offer US-based company shipping, so I'm guessing they'll come from there. The eBay ID of the fellow does suggest he's in Taiwan, but regardless of where he is I know I'm looking at import tax + VAT + handling fee anyway. Like I said, I really didn't mean to buy them!

Google for RON and MON petrol octane ratings, 93 in US works out to 98 over here. Differing measures is all, works out to be the same in principle.

Remember also that cars are half the cost in the US than they are over here, so a $30K car would cost £30K over here more or less. Going on that, $414 every six months would be actually be £414, or £828 annually. It's still cheaper yes, but not by as much as you think when you compare the relative values of the cars in the domestic currency.

I paid £134 for them all in, so that sounds about right. If I don't like 'em, you're first in the queue matey

PF pads are utterly brilliant. I've had mine for about 7 months now and they've happily taken fast road + extended track use in their stride. Not cheap, but very good. The only downside is that they take a few applications to warm up, especially in this weather, but aside from that I can't fault them.

Just accidentally bought myself a set of these via eBay... Note to self, don't use the Buy It Now option to quickly log yourself in to check the total price and then click the Commit To Buy without thinking! Ah well, guess we'll see what they're like when they turn up!

Also, no GT means no Synchro-Matching-Doobrie. Surely that's the main benefit from a driving perspective over the current Zed? As much as the car has grown on me, it doesn't do enough more or better to justify spending any money on a new one now, especially when they'll probably plummet in value by the end of the year. In a year's time maybe, but not now.

Actually, I'd say he's not far wrong

I disagree. The pressure will be exactly the same regardless of length, as 8psi is 8psi. The difference comes from the fact that the turbo has much more space to fill, hence it'll need more time to fill the pipework so you will have more lag than on a conventional setup. If you're getting a pressure drop of that magnitude, then the turbo is incorrectly sized and can't keep up with the flow of air that is being asked of it, or the wastegate/boost controller is poorly set up. In my experience of turboing cars using aftermarket kits on an MR application, even reducing the intake length from maybe 2m to 1m (going from an IC setup to a CC one) on a GT28R on a 1.8L, the lag time was significantly reduced. Like I said, with a large capacity engine you have far more torque available from lower down so you reduce the feel of the lag, but as the engine size decreases this gap will be far more noticeable. Assuming the turbos are of equal-ish size (which they are given the estimated power outputs), then if one has 3-4 times the length of intake pipe than the other then it also has to have 3-4 times the lag.

Quite possibly. I only tried them on the off chance that they'd even touch a 350Z for track cover since I only knew them through the Lotus guys, but given that even the TD cover alone is worth somewhere near £400-600 I thought that it was a bargain.

The plastic spatula that comes with a George Foreman Grill is your friend here. Number plate adhesive is infinitely more sticky than badge adhesive, and I've always found said spatula, some hot water with car shampoo in and a detailing clay to be the best combination.

How do u discern lag from a dyno???? +millionty It's like when people say that a correctly-sized twin-turbo setup doesn't have any lag, when due to the very nature of the kit it has to. Any rear-turbo kit will have between 3-4 times the lag of a similar front-mount setup due to the increase in pipe lengths.

Big thumbs up from me for these guys and gals Insurance is due on Sunday, had a renewal from Elephant for £950. I'm 29, 10yrs NCB, car garaged, £600 excess, intake + exhaust mods declared but not covered for value, 10K social miles per annum. Spoke to Steve at Richard Eggar after hearing good things about them via SELOC (Lotus club where I'm still a member), and got all mods covered for full value with NO increase in the premium as long as there's no power increase (not hard on the Zed!), 4 track days a year included (either 4 UK or 3 UK + 1 Euro), discount for being an owner's club member AND for doing a Car Limits day with Walshy back in 2004, £400 excess and all for just £770! I vary rarely make posts like this as most people are capable doing the insurance legwork themselves each year, but since RE are a smaller company I'm not sure many people will have heard of them. Not sure how competitive they'd be if you're young and/or have very little/no NCB, but for me they were awesome.

\So? As Rob said, you've got so much more pipework there that no matter what you do with the turbo you will have more lag simply due to the laws of physics. It's a solution that will only ever start to work with very large capacity engines, something which US muscle/sports cars have in abundance. If you fancy waiting about half an hour for the turbo to finally spool then they work well, but if you want something that remains vaguely drivable then there are a million better options out there. IMHO, obviously.

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... *breathes* ...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG! Seriously, that'll lag like an utter bitch due to the length of pipework involved and be horribly undriveable. There's an E60 M5 running around with a twin setup like that which at least has 5L of V10 to try and get it going, and yet I still can't believe it's anything other than utter gash and a way of engineering a problem when we already have an under-bonnet solution.

I thought it was just me going mad!

Exactly, so very illegal on a car made at least 30 years later Sorry matey, didn't read your post properly so that's why I thought you didn't get fined.

Nope, if your black and silver one is the pre-1973 style then that's still illegal and you were lucky not to get the fine.

In all honesty and without trying to sound like a complete sanctimonious tit, a number plate is one of those things that we've all got to have and it's all got to be legit, much like an MOT or insurance. Given that I can't think of one car that looks better with a numberplate, surely it would be better to simply just to suck it up, put a legal one on and stop trying to find a way round the law? If you've already been done by your local police then they know who they're looking for, and I really wouldn't attempt to antagonise them over something as trivial as a plate.