Stephen

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.

That I can relate to. The guy that does my shot blasting pulled a proper face when I gave him those brackets. When I collected them, he said “they’ve come up ok actually, I was quite shocked” at least he clarified the look on his face originally.

Good to see the rare parts thread derailed by the coming of the cup holder debate.

I guess I got lucky. That monsoon washed it all the way from Bognor to Poole.

I swear I’ve seen that car somewhere before :lol:

Maybe the sports just kinda had its day? I say bring on the pod racing!

What condition are the front arms in?

Without a shadow of doubt.

I respect your opinion where we differ though is that I believe the former is more appropriate. Let’s not forget, quite a few women have just lost pretty lucrative jobs. Out of your proposed responses, I think most would plumb for the “how will this attract women fans” option. The whole thing is about glamour and advertising, expensive suits and watches, posh frocks etc.

Wash your mouth out their cultural icons down here. :lol:

If they didn’t want to do it they wouldn’t do it... it’s a choice to be a promo girl not an exploitative act. No one grabbed them by the hair screaming. I have no reason to doubt that it was voted out but who drove that vote and for what purpose? What’s the difference between a grid girl or any other model, should we ban the catwalk models? I’d have no issue if they employed male as well as female grid people, instead a hammer approach has been taken... it’s just an overreaction in my opinion. Would the driving force be so determined if these girls were average looking and wearing baggy clothes? My reference to leftists was not this particular issue but a plethora of things on going at the moment. As another example the vegan activists who have been asulting farmers. They have an opinion which they are entitled to, however they exclaim themselves as the centre ground. Vegans represent less than 3% of the population and I doubt the majority think this action is valid. There are minorities of people out there with very strong opinions that are pushing the centre ground very hard, presenting opinions as facts. Sadly he or indeed she who shouts loudest, regardless of validity is heard. - - - Updated - - - Which is unacceptable.

Probably pissed off. As you say they aren’t slaves and I bet they got more money and had more fun in the sun doing that, than working in some dreary call centre in Birmingham. For some reason a loud minority of leftist extremists are very well heard these days.