Steve-o

Never had any issues with r33 gtr brembos with decent fluid and pads when I had mine, and that was back in the day when I uses to do some silly high speed runs in the Z.

Lol beegee vinz, duffman, makes me feel old.

You guys still buying and driving around these things?? :D

If my name was Stelvio maybe lol.

LOL I would hope not xD

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2002-ROVER-25-IMPRESSION-2-SILVER-34k-RARE-BODY-KIT-/140649204789?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item20bf588c35 :helpsmilie:

Samsung plasma FTW lol :)

Someone raised a good point I forgot to mention about that blacks are hard to beat on a plasma, they tend to have a much higher contrast ratio and less light seepage. Lots of LCD's struggle in the dark and the blacks are more grey, can't comment on LED though haven't owned one.

I was thinking 270 rwhp is pretty damn good they are only 280ish at the fly and especially if the motor is anywhere near 15 years old. Sounds like you have a healthy Z?

Here's a pic of when I changed my pump and belt, just to give you an idea of what it looks like :)

Nice job, IMHO that looks smoother and nicer than my tailgate skin. When I had my Z I had to get the skin done twice, the first time the filler rose from the wholes created when someone used studs to hold it down when bonding, also the blending was cracking over a long period. I had it redone at a recomended place and still had cracking a year later. I think the insert and smooth tailgate looks really smart :)

As per the title really, anyone fancy photoshopping some rims for me? I'm trying to wonder what finish to get but I can't make up my mind and don't want to get it wrong and the motor to look crap as a result. So far on PCGB we've had one go at making them anthracite-ish with a pokished rim, and it just came out looking like a dirty wheel lol. Would appreciate it if anyone has a few mins and fancies helping :) Cheers,

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Z's are great cars to drive, but it's been such a long time since I took one for a spin, so if anyone cares to offer lol ;)

:) Again I'm just going by what I have seen. I've got a 1080 LG prjector in the games room, and although you'll never get the contrast ratio or brightness of a TV pannel, in 720p I can't notice and grainyness or difference in quality or detail in either mode unless I go over 60" as I've had a play. That said projectors are a whole different kettle of fish I've got a lot of blu rays though, and most say 720p, so imho 1080 on these is just trying to fill in the blanks, I don't think it can add detail that isn't their. Anyways I will shut up now :)

No probs mate, you can also try a night light, this might sound stupid, but pitch black sends your mind into overdrive and wandering with thoughts and images. The eyelids being slightly lit can help stop that and if you open your eyes you see something in the room that stops your mind from whiring round while pitch black. It can help to decrease anxiety when your brains in overdrive in the pitch black.

Aye, I meant the plasma screens, in the back of the manual it says the LG part no :) LED's and LCD's I have no idea on the part used. Sorry I can't edit, so always have to post lots lol.

Yup each to their own mate :) It's what you like that counts TBH. I just don't want Stella thinking because the pannel is priced at 500 it's no good, as it couldn't be further from the truth IMO, I love them :)

You're welcome mate. But ultimately it would be a boring world if we all thought and liked the same, I just hated the LCD experience by comparison and found it to be a 'faker' looking picture if that makes sense even after tweaking. I've looked at the newer LED's in shops, without doing a side by side comparison I coudln't say, but for me I love the clarity, colours and overall picture on our plasma compared to other stuff I have seen, and they are also amazingly priced, lucky for me :)

Oh and also as stated plasma screens are much heavier, this can be a consideration if you have one of these new type houses and are into mounting them on walls.

IMHO really have to disagree ref the picture quality ;). The samsung uses LG pannels, as do most mainstream electronic companies and they are great, they've been building screens since the start and know what they are doing. I can only speak for our model and my previous panasonic but we can see our plasma clear and the same from all angles. The very position of our TV would mean it would be useless to both sofas if there was a viewing angle issue. I've found it's normally cheap LCD's that get viewing angle problems. The response times and HZ is normally much higer on plasmas to comparible priced LCD's. HD is also a massive difference on our Samsung compared to normal, although it does smooth off lower res imags well, so the comment about making no difference in our case is not true. The problem I have seen with non plasmas is the colours are more fake tbh, there have been so many topics on audio / video forums about it. The level of colours and contrast are so ramped up they 'seem' bright and clearer. If you look at your fire place and living room in real life then look at the default settings for an LCD or LED the screen will be massively brighter, more colourful and thus less natural. People not used to plasmas always mistake them for being more dull when in effect they are much more natural. If I went outside now and looked at my driveway and car it wouldn't be smacking me in the face like a picture on a non-plasma screen. Most threads I have seen discuss the 'perfect' setting for factory bright screens which seems to affect non plasma screens much more. Also Stella just food for though, don't get caught up on the 1080 vs 720 thing. There really is no need for 1080 on anything under a 60", with a 50" screen being about 42" wide, you've still got the best part of two pixels per mm on the screen, the naked eye will strugle to see any difference at even a couple of feet away. The benefit with LCD and now LED is as Hollow stated, the power consumption, the very nature of plasma having to charge the screen to make the picture means it pumps out heat and eats power by comparison. LED is the most economical of the three, is not subjective to burn in like plasmas. I'd seriously recomend going into a shop Stella and demoing a 50" 720 plasma vs LCD or LED. I thnk you will be very surprised with the quality for such a modest price. Ref the burn in if you have a static image on the screen weith higher contrast you will find you get a 'ghost' of the image on the screen. Unless left for 48 hours or something it won't be permenant, you just watch another channel or put some static on and it will reset the screen. This could be considered a down side but as long as you are aware of it you should be fine. They come with a screen saver anyway or 'pixel shift' function to try and minimise this. This is also why some people percieve plasmas to be dull, other than the more natural picture they come from factory with much lower contrast to prevent burn in easily while the screen is new, you will read about this all in the manual. After X amount of hours you can bump the contrast etc up if you want a more non plasma looking picture with less risk. Cheers, Cheers,

I meant 100's of hours lol but seem to have lost the right to edit.

Plasmas are brill mate. I changed my much loved panasonic plasma to a much more expensive HD LCD downstairs last year. Big mistake, after less than 6 months I relegated it to the bedroom and went back to plasma, the picture is so much more natural and smooth, HD channels look less grainy and non HD channels look much better (no edgy lines and fake looking colours) They are normally quite a bit cheaper as well. 50" samsungs can be had for a snip at the mo. We even got a 50" 720p samsung for 500 last xmas. They have the 'media play' on them too which is cool, just whack movies on a usb stick and plug it in, they support blue ray rips / mkv's etc too. 720p is also plenty for a 50" screen, the LCD was 1080p and had a much worse picture. They look pretty classy in piano black too imho (although collect dust like it's going out of fashion!). Most blu ray's are 720p upscaled anyway. I think 1080 comes into it's own with projectors and much larger screens (have a projector upstairs and you have to go over 60" to even see any loss in detail with 720). Just be careful with burn in, high contrast and even 15 mins of a static image can make it stick until you've put something else over it to reset the screen. I say go for it, unless you are interested in 3d which tbh is a bit of a flop anyway atm this would be a nice TV that will give you 10's of hours and several years or more of quality viewing for the price mate ;)

One word - Nasty

+1 Pretty much exactly what I was going to say, but I will say what was on my mind anyway so I can get it out lol. Having suffered from sleep problems, anxiety and stress in the past I know that not sleeping can just compound the issues. In my experience cutting out tea and coffee, coke and access sugar or at least cutting down will ease anxiety that happens when you can't sleep and things are going round and round in your head. Also try getting exercise every day if you don't, even if it's a brisk walk for 45 mins or something, you may need to convert mental energy into physical. A warm malt drink can sometimes help before bed, also very quiet relaxing music can help, has to be barely noticeable though, just enough to stop your mind from wandering and not too much to keep you awake. If you are going round in circles and getting worse don't lie their stewing, get up, read a book for a bit then go back to bed - you need to break the cycle instead of lying there going round in circles. It will get better. Hope you get sorted soon. Cheers,