Stephen

Maybe he is crazy crazy wealthy, maybe he is just rich but unless £1m is pocket change I’d be pretty sad myself if all I could think to do with £1m was buy an old merc. :lol:

Love stuff like this but wouldn’t want one. Too much responsibility.

That’s not new is it?

Why only temporary?

Just ban him. Force him to buy a Celica.

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Neither does a soldered joint Si... it’s the heatshrink you apply afterwards that does that.

Your testing my memory now. I believe it’s to do with the acid content of the flux but more importantly in applications like automotive and aeronautical it’s preferable because a crimped joint is far less likely to suffer from vibration fatigue. Solder is tidy and convenient but not necessarily best. Tbh as long as the joint is properly insulated, I doubt your going to notice a difference in most automotive applications. And yes, those scotch clip things are pants. They work, ok, but not great. Some old control panels I work on have a similar connection and they are bloody annoying.

A crimped joint is actually superior to a soldered joint btw.

Lack of funding and interest in us from the big smoke I’m afraid. When your main instrustry is tourism it’s a bleak winter. As you know The North get funding but the southwest is assumed wealthy because it’s all about the “north south divide”. There is very little infrastructure or industry down here, lots of poverty. The wealth in patches is mostly held by rich in comers with great inequality. But hey, the suns out today and it looks nice.

It’s about 90% A road from my house. A busy A road that regularly comes to halt.

Ive helped with it with our club a few times, when it was at the old Castle Combe site. Now it’s moved it’s no longer in my justification so to speak, so I keep my nose outta it.

In a straight line you should be able to take a top spec Corsa no problem, but bear in mind a top spec Corsa is lighter has better Brakes and suspension and will tear to 60 in 6.5 seconds. On track, particularly a tight one, the Corsa would eat a stock Z32. Sorry but thats a fact. Stump up 30k for a Leon and you will be seeing 0-60 in less than 5 seconds. If you’ve really got some money to burn there’s more than a few offerings from the Germans that will see you in the 3 second bracket in extreme luxury. There’s plenty out there these days to make 300hp very average.

The point is things have moved on. The special tyres of yesterday aren’t as good as the average tyres of today. Sure you might get that that last door of grip but just like £200 won’t make you Usian bolt £200 a corner tyres won’t make you stop like a new 911.

What I’m saying is that the zed isn’t anything special these days. The average hot hatch would blow a stock zed away. Many companies are fitting very average tyres to thier range, VW seem to like Hankook, the Skoda came with Bridgestones. The middle of the range tyre these days is far superior to that of 20 years ago. A stock zed does not need £250 a corner, as fitted to 700hp Lambos tyre to stop it going up a tree. You can be perfectly safe on very average tyres. That said if it’s an extra tenner a corner for a top brand il plump for it. What I certainly won’t do is make people feel bad for putting middle of the range tyres on a zed. I would criticise someone for paying £500 a month for a top of the range merc and putting the cheapest crap on it because they are too tight to pay up, that’s what people who are all show do. I guess that’s why I don’t own a watch.

The day people start getting snobby and precious about a car that’s worth less than a second hand Corsa is the day I think I need to sell the car. I brought it to enjoy it not to pretend it’s something it’s not.

I’ve actually used them on a stop gap and they were actually ok. I wouldn’t choose them, but they were quite grippy on summer roads. The thing I’d comment on is that they were a bit slippy in the cold. Achilles are actually now a control tyre for a racing series.

I’d your happy and confident why does it matter what some bloke on an Internet forum has to say...

Except that it was always supposed to be a nine part series. The choice to produce 4-6 first was based on Lucas’ ability to produce his vision. The technology simply wasn’t available for him to produce episodes 1-3 with its massive battle scenes first.

Sounds about right. Ling Long or something is quite popular.

Not really Chris we’re the same animal, were not just connected. The issue, sufferage, the right to vote, is also the same. A few of the papers did print articles on the subject. Here’s an extract from the Telegraph if your interested; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11509811/Why-has-everyone-forgotten-about-male-suffrage.html It’s quite safe to say though that most of us on here would not have had a vote before 1918.

I second that Chris. The amount of high end cars I see with tyre brands you can’t pronounce is laughable. Spend 70k on a merc and then £50 a corner?

I’m sure channel 4 could put together an hour long special about why your opinions are “wrong” and why your a bigot. :D I’m really enjoying the coverage of how glouriously women got the vote 100 years ago today due to thier endeavours alone. Ignoring the fact that actually, most didn’t, that actually for the first time the common man got his right to vote and that a major factor in all this was the millions of lives laid down in quite a famous war... :rollseyes:

I know what your saying, grip generally comes at a cost, lifespan. I get through a lot of tyres, 2/3 sets a year. I always go for proper brand, michellen, conti, good year, the cost difference is negligible in the sizes I use. I’ve been through a few sets, Pzeros included, destroyed them way to quick, I’ve had Falkens that everyone raved about and they were crap. I’m on some temporary ones atm, once warm they are ok.

That’s not necessarily true. Proper Drift cars have huge amounts of grip, particularly up front. Grip is control and drifting is all about control on the extreme edge.