Quote from Boris Lozac :

Wat? You can, but it's not legal and far from safe ffs. Unless rules in Britain are different on that matter which i doubt.

Theres no law on what you can or can't overtake on a "normal" road.

How can you possibly say "it's not safe" to overtake an unlimited number of cars if the conditions permit? Are you saying it's not safe to overtake on a motorway?!

My car is only limited to 10 second 0-60 by the laws of physics.

Quote from BlueFlame :

What do YOU think? Instead of admitting 'ok maybe it wasn't so smart' you're too arrogant to see that being 'smooth' doesn't make you safe.

If I wasn't 100% satisfied (and happy to defend) my driving in this video, do you think I would of uploaded it for the world to see?

Quote from BlueFlame :

Overtaking two cars in one move on a country lane is retarded. You don't know what is going to happen next, control is an illusion.

How is one any more dangerous than two? There is a risk that the second driver could try to overtake without seeing me, but thats something I was on the lookout for....

Quote from BlueFlame :

Lets say the driver infront didn't feel like being passed and stepped on it (a dick thing for him to do, but people do do it) as a car appeared in the oncoming lane. About 150m away, you'd have to scamble to get the car back in lane when you could possibly wreck the guy behind or cause him to wreck due to having to engage and emergency stop.

I would have no problem at all slowing back down and slotting in behind the cars even once I was level with the first driver, without having a head on. I wouldn't overtake if there wasn't enough room for evasive action if required.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Fact is. That was retarded what you did. You have no justification for it. Or rather, there IS no justification for it.

Errr, I don't want to do 35-40 the whole way to work stuck behind yet another Sunday driver is "justfication" enough. In fact I don't actually think I need to justify my overtakes to you at all but hey-ho...

Quote from BlueFlame :

The video itself doesn't show so much, but you definately can't see if there is any traffic coming when you DO pull out anyway.

Yes, you can - perhaps not on the video (mounted just to the left of the rear view mirror), but you certainly can from the drivers seat (on the right of the car).

Quote from BlueFlame :

The correct procedure is to overtake one car at a time (on a country lane or such).

Bullshit. You can overtake blocks of cars no problem at all, as long as you fully asses the potential hazards and road conditions of the road you will be using.

Most of my double or triple overtakes are done as blocks simply because most people follow far too close to the car in front, and you'd never safely slot a car in that gap.

Out of interest BlueFlame... have you ever overtaken anything... ever?

Quote from BlueFlame :

What's wrong with overtaking 2 cars in one manouvre is that it's dangerous.

Whats the difference between overtaking 2 cars as one, and overtaking a lorry? They are the same length...

You can overtake an unlimited number of cars, if the conditions allow.

Quote from BlueFlame :

...what if a child had strayed out just on the very parameters of that property? You would of shitbrix and caused an accident.

WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN

Quote from BlueFlame :

You still overtook 2 cars in one manouvre and there were two side roads on the right hand side.

Whats wrong overtaking 2 cars in one manoeuvre? I've overtaken 8 cars in one before without it being dangerous.

There was only one side road while I was actually overtaking, and that road is a dirt track going to a few houses that runs parallel the road I was on - i.e. you can easily see if any cars are on the road, and see if theres going to be anyone pulling out from the side road well before I commited to the overtake.

I love how you guys are determined to find fault with my driving.

Quote from dadge :

aren't you meant to come to a complete stop at a roundabout?

What? Why would you if the road is completely clear?

Although the video doesn't show it so well, you can see straight across those bends and any cars coming for the next half a mile. There is *no* way you'd not see a car coming. I would only do it if I could see there was nothing coming, and the surface of the road itself (which I can). It's not about driving fast (because I really wasn't), it's just about being smooth

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I presume it's because there has to be something 12v running to stop the OBC error so meh.

It's just a resistor.

Effectively its making it draw ~2w (rather than the fraction of a watt it actually needs) to make the car think theres a real bulb there.

You don't need such a huge heatsink to dissipate the "wasted" 2w (which goes into heat), and i've used loads of "no error" LED's before and none of had such a ridiculous heatsink on there.

I just thought it was funny.

Quote from Osco :

Why do you have a dash cam? Surely those rides to the local asda aren't that exciting

I've long since given up defending my mods on this forum.

Quote from Klutch :

Sense of speed is lost in video's, any retard knows this.

Not necceasily - my new dash cam has a very high FOV and even "normal" speeds look really quick on it (i.e. faster than when i'm actually driving)

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

New number plate lights (thanks VW for making them more fancy then they needed to be)

Holy over-the-top heatsink for a single resistor, batman.

Quote from BlueFlame :

To be honest, anyone who believes they love their partner and doesn't get married are cowards with commitment issues.

You're so full of shit it's unbelievable.

Holy slipangles batman!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ84Fa-AqXY

And an exterior view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... rSPMw&feature=related

It's literally like an LFS hotlap!

The 190E has some fine plus points - but I don't think they really suit you vs the E30.

I'm amazed at the price of second-hand cars over there, though - you'd easily get an E36 here for less than a grand.

<not a mechanic>

On the ZT / 75 diesels, the pipe connecting the intercooler to the engine has some O-Rings which swell really easily. This makes a poor seal, and means under boost, some comes out around this join.

This often leaves oily deposits near the front wheel / undertray, and can cause hesitancy as well.

Possible boost leak, but very small?

Quote from e2mustang :

right u cant complain for 280,but u will later on.. many times

I keep my laptops for ~9 months before I get bored and get something else. The extra speed is nice, but i'm fairly sure i'll end up getting something smaller, lighter and less nasty soon anyway.

EDIT - Luckily my old install of Windows still worked so I didnt have to go through days of reinstalling software... WIN.

Quote from Bose321 :

Nice job an getting another Acer.

Find me better for £280...

Another day, another new laptop.

My old Acer broke twice, and I decided I wanted something a little faster than the SU9400, so I bought an Acer 4820T. Build quality isn't brilliant, but at £280 for a refurb I really can't complain.



It's got an i3 with an 8 hour battery life, should fit the bill nicely...

Also junked the 3GB of RAM for 8GB, the 250GB HDD for a 500GB one and the Broadcom WiFi card for an Intel 5300 I had spare.
Worryingly this is my 4th laptop/netbook in my 2 years at Uni...

EDIT - Weirdly, despite being a refurb & looking brand new, it was built in March last year...

Last edited by Jakg, Tue, 17 May 2011 14:50.

Quote from BlueFlame :

getting LED running lights as aftermarket just shouts out "I have an old car but look, it's all new 'n stuff."

Your an idiot.

I knew this day would come...

Whats "wrong" with LEDs?

Quote from BlueFlame :

There is when it's not standard to the car, if you buy aftermarket LED running lights you are a grade A nob.

Why is OEM fit = good, but aftermarket = bad?

Quote from Klutch :

coming from a guy with LED strips stickytaped onto his front bumper lol

A - Theres nothing wrong with running lights.

B - You can't possibly think that burnt plastic looks good.

Quote from Klutch :

Get a heatsheild or something, that looks terrible.

Quote from Uke :

Yeah I'm working on something big.

Thats not that big...

Couple of mine (all done by pick, no mods/editing etc).

My pit (20*20 square from sea level to bedrock):


My two glass towers - one just an internal staircase, the others 8*8, hollow in the middle. Both go down to Bedrock, and to 127:


Looking down from the top of the 8*8 tower (lava pit at the very bottom):


My stone tower (again, bedrock to 127), my above-ground bases, and the glass corridor that links them all together:


Sorry the rain makes it all really hard to see.

Quote from XCNuse :

BMW's website doesn't even mention if they are diesel or not, I'm assuming their twin turbos are the diesels, which even then.. I don't think I've ever come across a diesel BMW at a gas station before.

xxxi is a petrol, xxxd is a diesel.

i.e. a 320cd is a BMW 3-series, 2.0 Litre (although not always) coupe diesel. a 550i is a BMW 5-series 5.5 Litre (again, not always) petrol saloon.

And a 320i is a 2.3 petrol... and a 316d is a 2.0 diesel. Way to confuse, BMW.

Just had a look on the US site and it's amazing the cars you dont get... all you seem to have is the 335d & x5 35d diesels.

In the UK diesels outsell petrols (for all the wrong reasons mainly), and you can get a diesel engine from 2-3.5 litres in pretty much every car (i.e. everything non-M or Z)