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Some good photos taken by Andy from Dorset Jap Car Club:

You'll deffo find it if you search. I forget the exact amount but its about 3/4 of a bottle I think. Warm your engine for a bit. Turn off and empty the oil into a washing up tub or something. Worth filling up to the minimum level to flush it through and empty that out again. Then throw the new stuff in a bit at a time until it reaches the top level. Remember it takes time for it to settle and you don't want to overfill it as it will pressure your seals.

Yeah, know what you mean :) I don't bother skateboarding on the streets much anymore other than to get to the ramps. Its kind of nice in some ways though as I've seen surfing ruined by being over commercialised and the 'cool thing to do'. Its nice knowing that skating is still a little underground and frowned on by people who don't understand. That way it will stay enjoyable and not zooed out like the waves are these days.

I'm a spritely 31 next month :)

Been doing lots of skating over the last month and learning a few things lately. One of the guys took this video last week of us skating the vert ramp early on in the session :) Its me at 20 sec and 1min 32secs. The guy doing the big airs is a ripper. He was doing some crazy things later in the evening. :hyper: My body has stopped hurting quite as much lately, must be either not falling so much or I've just destroyed all my pain receptors :nelson: :D

Good on you guys :) congratulations.

Here's one: :) Nice camera the guys got eh. Just noticed my farside front wheel looks at a weird angle.

Its about bl**dy time. Good work matey! go make them kick some arse!

I'll get some phots up when I get them. I think a few were taking videos with their cameras but I'm probably spinning backwards in most of them as they were taken early on in the day (honest :) )

What an awesome day. Noise wasn't a problem. Technically its 100db but there's no testing and its basically if a neighbour complains you are asked to keep your revs down. Nobody complained today. Apparently there have only been problems once before which was last month when 12 scoobies were there and a local moaned, so they just went a little easy. The day was ten times better than the last airfield day I went on. Two groups of (five?) each had an instructor and you had one-to-one tuition on each of the events. The tuition was excellent all round and the activities were very well executed. Learning all about weight distribution, over/under steer, how to create it, how to deal with it, how to take corners: braking, coming into, coming out of,etc,etc all very good stuff. One of my favourite parts was the fact that there was an area set up to 'play' in when you were waiting for your turn. I managed to get figure eight drifting half reasonably by the end of it :D My semi slicks were on the way out to begin with but by the end they were pretty shot! If there are enough people up for it we can arrange a day of our own. They have this airfield at Ford on the South Coast and they also have a couple of others including an official no noise one which is near Cambridge. I'm hoping the rotary mob will be up for this. Anyone here up for it? It would be £120 per person. I'll get some photos up here when I get some. I know its not Zeds but maybe some people would be interested? At the moment I guess the drift days that fairladyZ was looking at are the closest thing, and well worth doing. Just thought I'd put it here in case it happens on the rotary forum and some people here wanted to join.

Graphite looks great!

Looks like someone may have got abit of a bargain if its what it used to be.

They don't want a black one mate, they are too slow....... I'd like C.Ds though.

If there's any car on here that deserves to be in a mag it's Si's. They've got to think about how it will fit into the mag I guess though, so maybe they won't go for the colour.

Awesome I'd like to give one of those a go. There's a rather posh coachwork company around the corner from where I've been working in Hastings lately. Everyday they have different E-types in there for restoration. You can watch online as they restore your car. Very impressive, and very expensive.

I make no bones with the fact that I like to drive fast. I also like to think that I can do a decent job of driving fast safely. If the Ferrari driver has caused the others cars to brake then he has definately made the error. But, those other people were making just as bad a misjudgment in my view and it has proven to be just as dangerous, in some ways more dangerous because if they had kept there distance then there wouldn't have been a crash at all! The Ferrari driver would have overtook at an unsafe time, the other cars would have realised and thrown the anchors on, nobody would crash, Mr Ferrari drives off looking like an idiot and hopefully learn't his lesson without crashing.

The missus came home the other day and started telling me a story of her drive home: She was driving in traffic and a Ferrari came flying past overtaking into incoming traffic and generally freaking people out. Now I couldn't say much here as owning a rather nippy car I often overtake into incoming traffic knowing the capabilities of the car that I'm safe. On occasions I'd imagine it freaks people who don't expect the car to be so fast. The Ferrari dissapeared around the next corner. When the missus got around the corner there was a pile up :slap: The Ferrari was on the grass verge seemingly undamaged. Two or three cars were on the same side where the front one had obviously braked hard to let the overtaking Ferrari back in before a headon. The cars behind had been tailgating so went into the back of the front car. The same thing had happened on the other side of the road; two or three cars piled up. Thankfully no one seemed to be hurt. Now here's my thoughts :nana2: The Ferrari driver is obviously either 'a pr*ck who can't drive' or possibly 'a new owner getting too ambitious and learning his lesson the hard way', still a pr*ck obviously for not thinking of others. I expect most people agree with me so far. I also think that those people in the pile ups either side are as much to blame (and I'm sure there insurance companies will say the same thing). 80% of people on the roads, especially in South East traffic jams, tailgate the car in front for no reason other than stopping the car behind from jumping into the gap. What do you think? :D I had to go on a speed awareness course due to one of the times I got caught by a speed camera. At one point we got asked who tailgates. I put my hand up and said I sometimes tailgate people who hog the overtaking lane on dual carriageways (one of my pet hates). He went on to (in a nice way) show me how dangerous it is. I had some performance driving lessons over the next year and tailgating was the no1 no-no. I still hate lane hogs but try to get them to go back where they belong in other more friendly ways first :smash: Just thought I'd share the story. The missus thinks its unreasonable for me to think the people in the pileups are at fault as it wouldn't have happened if the Ferrari drivers wasn't being an idiot?

Thats a bloody good idea. The Rotary club subsidises any club trackdays, usually around the cost of membership. There are rarely a huge amount of people who do them so it doesn't hit the clubs coffers very hard and it encourages people to get involved who might not otherwise. I've posted in the other thread. I'm up for a day in their cars.

Awesome! Great to hear stories like this. Its one of the reasons why I got another Zed.

The thing about sharing your connection is pretty mis-understood. Its only cable (virgin/ntl,etc)that is shared with other users at the downstream side (the users end) at up to 50-1 or whatever. Its basically like an ethernet LAN in your neighbourhood. If you are using ADSL it is a direct connection through your phone line to the ISP so you arn't sharing it with anyone. With ADSL its at the ISPs connection to the internet (the head-end I think its called, as mentioned above) which is massively oversubscribed. Your poor connection to the ISP is probably more down to the quality of the phone line.

Not sure mate, my brain has rejected anything windows for a while now! Does sound odd, are you sure there's nothing else on there? Need one of the windows guys to give some suggestions! Also if you look in the exceptions tab of the firewall (control panel) windows printer and file sharing should be listed and ticked.

Honda Integra DC5 (FWD) - Fastest track car out of the box I think due to handling and brakes,etc. Extremely good brakes. I just don't want a FWD though. Nissan Silvia s15 (RWD turbo) - I like these although they don't really excite me Honda S2000 (RWD cabrio) - Great engine, great handling. I'd choose this one. Awesome high reving engine (let it sing..), loads of people prefer big heavy cars because they are more imposing and 'look mean', but a light car with high power beats anything for driving pleasure and performance. Subaru Impreza (2 door 4WD turbo) - Scoobies don't do it for me. Too much of a bone head choice. My mate let me drive his and I was pleasantly surprised by the performance but they just don't capture my imagination like the competition.

Hmm, as you can see the PCs shared files from the laptop you must have IP connection and be in the same workgroup. Firewall seems the most likely culprit.