Stephen

I've seen quite a few California's, seen two today actually and its raining! Much prefer the Italia, a customer has a bright orange Aventador, I drooled over it for a while in his garage, the rears are massive, 310 wide iirc. I see a lot of luxury and supercar stuff, some of them are beautiful, most though are pretty boring. I'm so bored by the Bently continental's, Astons Db7/9 rapides etc , the R8 was fascinating when I first saw one, but they just haven't aged well they looked sleek and stylish then but now they just look bland. Id rather see an r34 than an r35, I like them but they are common as muck now, same as the Maserati granturismo theres just to many of them about. The Panemara is ugly. If I had the cash, honestly...id be going for a mid to late 90's 911 of some sort, yes they are common, but theyre reliable responsive, relatively cheap for the that class of car, and you know you can DRIVE it not just pose in the thing. Almost every supercar I ever see is either parked up on double yellows on the hight street or cruising in the inside lane at 50, I don't think people buy them to drive them, just to show off, that's no fun, and that's what a sports/supercar should be FUN.

Fortunately there are plenty of us in that area, Handfull in Bournemouth and another few more scattered here there and everywhere dorset and hants. If you want to pop along to Simply Japanese on the 4th of august there are a fair few members going along, this will allow you to see some examples and meet some members, plus its very local to you. Tips for buying are buy the best one you can afford you will save money very quickly cheap examples are cheap for a reason, trust me. Budget around 3.5k to buy a good example, and if you can find another thousand to sit in the bank for the first 12 months this should cover the bulk of maintaince that may crop up. Club cars are the best bet as they have generally been well looked after and had money spent on maintenance. Good luck.

that's the one :)

there should be a how to by groover.

yeah you just run an extra cable from the bulb connection to earth :D

The stock setup has a relay that turns off the main beam when you flick on the full beam, that's fine on the stock setup because the mainbeams engage instantly. However whe you fit HID's the effect is lost if you've been driving along with the full beams on then flick them off again for a split second you will have no lights....not cool. So what many do is short out the light, this stops the relay deactivating the mainbeam when full beam is activated. The result is you get both on at the same time, super bright and no dark flash period, it also prolongs your HID life by not having them flick on off when you flash. The downside is when you flash without your main beams on the whole lot comes on, there is a way round this, cant remember what it is though...

Couldn't agree more jeff, especially with these cars everything is so hidden, its not until you physically pull the block that you can even see many things, let alone access them. If bungle has had his hands on your car aswel at some point god knows whats hiding in the bowels of the engine. I found at least three loose bolts floating around under my plenum when that was removed :s and a socket.

What would be the result of not running the restrictor.

Havent got stalkbook :(

I see, im all ears for learning :D still intrigued as to the number though.

Oh right not heard anything about those, the sport 500's or 525's look pretty god for the bucks.

That was a K including rebuilding the turbos bud, but to get someone else to pull your block is labour intensive ie expensive.

Why not send Jimmer a friendly email, explain your situation, thoughts and plans for the car. He would then be able to advise you which way to go and roughly what sort of cost would be entailed. A grand already to get to that point is yes pretty expensive, you certainly wouldn't get your engine pulled rebuilt and refitted for less than 2k. It cost me nearly a grand to pull my block and refresh all the little niggly service items and rebuild the turbos, that's with no labour, and not even opening the engine. Personally I would leave the damn thing alone and service it, it sounds like an ok block, but that's me im happy to fiddle with it and work on it. If you don't like or feel comfortable putting the spanners on it then a rebuild would probably be long term cost effective.

Possibly, however nick made just shy of 600 on smaller tubs last week didn't he so...Although didn't you say you already know?

Interested in this, what tubs you got? I think im going to go for 525's

584 I recon :)

yeah I meant shock tops lol whoops.

where did you get those little covers that go over the stock tops? don't paint the cambelt cover blue it will be ott.

Japspeeds or Godspeeds? A margarine tub is probably better than stock lol

think il be using godspeeds, longer reputation for them and cheaper.

As far as I'm aware the na drive shafts are 5 bolt the tt ones are 6 bolt. Or do you mean will the hub assembly fit? pretty sure they are different aswel as they use different bearings.

getting carried away? painting it all funky colours?

Ha I feel sorry for you both in that case.

Lack of anything to compare against? Not mechanically minded? You would be surprised how many people cant tell the difference between a nut and a bolt.

The whole point of a torque wrench is to get the right setting which should stop you snapping bolts, stripping treads. I know your about 8ft tall bri but I think maybe you need to be a little more gentle.