Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Buy a Golf TDI and have it remapped. Then you can beat Fiesta ST's in a car everyone thinks is your Dad's.

But it looks like you're in your dads car, almost as bad as driving around in a Rover 75 and everyone thinking you're in your granddads car.

Most probably the decimal point in the wrong place. Comparison sites are good for a general idea, but a quick phone around never hurts anyone, rather than going to a red top I'd have just phoned a couple of brokers and see what they could do for me. The quote I was given by Go Compare for my van was lowered by £200 by the broker when I got on the phone, just because the computer didn't know if I had a turbo or not.

Traxxas Slash. Fully water proof, available in 1/10, 1/16, 2WD and 4WD, take a shit tonne of abuse and cheap replacement parts. Just YouTube Traxxas Slash to see how much shit these things can take and keep on rocking.

This game is gay, it claims I don't have .net when I clearly do as a couple of my other games require it to work. **** you GeneRally. **** you.

A tow hook on a track slag is different to a tow hook on a street princess.

Quote from Hyperactive :

I think I know the game you mean but I can't remember its name. It was some kind of multiplayer only game. I never really played it myself but it was a team based attack and defend type of game. A bit similar to the world of tanks...?

This was a standard FPS (only with space and shit), world of tanks is a strategy game.

That is true for anything. The weakest link will always break, by beefing up the weakest link, something else will give way. So you can spend your life over engineering your car, unless the weak item is prone to failure, in which case a replacement of a slightly stronger part will limit failures. You can get a stronger LSD which will retail the same slip levels as the OEM part. Which is what I'd do.

If you're happy with the part that is fine, but remember that you killed the original item after one day of over excitable driving. 17k through the second hand one is irrelevant if the old owner pushed it just as hard every day.

Only time will tell of course, the new diff could outlive the car.

I believe it was a full retail game, not a mod, but could be mistaken. I know it was crazy good fun.

No doubt someone can help me out here, I recall playing a game at a lan party some years ago (2005/6 I think), all I can remember about it was a futuristic setting and on MP you had vehicles, land, air and space (you could actually enter space) with the ability to drive land based vehicles into air craft and take them into space (for whatever reason), or just dump them out of the back midflight for the mad lulz.

If anyone has the name of the game, I'd appreciate it.

If the diffs are known to be weak, why throw in a used one? It would make sense to buy a new one so you know that it'll last longer than a week. That also says the OEM LSD is shit. You should go OEM+ next time it blows it's load.

Quote from jibber :

I guess this would change handling characteristics of the car. And that's really the last thing i would want.

It is an OEM replacement, it just stops the snapping you get from a normal LSD. For a fast road car/track slag it is spot on. Not so good for doritos though.

Quote from jibber :

Yeah, but it's a honda!

I've read they used parts from mazda for the diff internals. I don't think a new diff for an mx-5 costs 3'500 Euro. Some people use internals from KIA, since they fit, and are the same material/quality.

I can understand that for example the engine of an S2000, is something you cannot compare to an average civic engine, but something like a diff shouldn't cost this much, especially if there isn't anything special about it.

Ahem!.

Could save yourself some dime by searching around.

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

Having an important job to do isn't a good reason to have reasonable shift times and a sufficient amount of employees?

I'm not saying have one guy running nights is a good idea. But when you're rocking an important job, you make the effort to stay awake. But then there are many cases of 911 staff falling asleep at the post.

Felony 11-79 . Bloody good fun, if you ignore the pointless story.

zZz. I suppose doing an important job isn't a good enough reason to stay awake.

Quote from boothy :

Got a sauce for that? My understanding was they always have an alternative airport worked out in case they cannot use their destination, and thus must have enough fuel to divert.

Somewhere on BBC News, I read it many moons ago, so it could be possible they keep a small reserve to divert. But excess fuel is also burnt off/dumped so if the plane crashes on landing it won't burn for as long.

To prevent hijacking aeroplanes are only fuelled enough to make their target airport. Once inside the grid chances are they will not have enough fuel to make it to another airport.

I'd take a derv VW Golf over a derv Rover 75 any day.

Quote from Bawbag :

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but Bullflame said 13.6 down the 1/4 from a modified golf (150 to 240bhp) is piss poor and claimed a standard PD150 could do it in the same time.

1/4 mile in sub 14 seconds with one of these?


**** me that is impressive.

3D Ultra RC Racers Deluxe. I spent many an hour playing this little beauty.

New toy to try and remove some of the blood and shit from my vehicles. Plus it will get some of the oil off the concreted big after my drain pan sprang a leak.

The biggest damage so far has been a bent wiper blade and the lower mess on the bumper was popped out. The wiper blade was caused by a group of barn owls hanging around on the road. Most managed to fly to safety, one got collected by the leading edge of the bonnet rolled up and hit the wiper, one got sucked under the van and one almost made it to freedom, but at the time I had a roof rack and it got impaled on that.

The mesh was caused by a big ass pheasant slamming into my bumper, it also exploded in a cloud of feathers and coated a couple of walkers. I laughed, they didn't.

Quote from TypeRacing :

Does way to work means driving through some kind of farm ? Info from your signature is appalling...

I have to drive through a forest because of where I live and I refuse to stop (or slow down if someone is behind me) for anything smaller than a dog. So I collect a lot of small animals.

The national speed limit *cough*plus25*cough*.

Was really surprised that all I got was a load of body parts to remove. It sounded like something broke when I hit the bugger but so far I've found nothing that looks even remotely damaged.

I think I hit something on the way to work today.



Pheasants and bodywork make a lot of mess. Still picking out body parts.