new radiator, full ali racespec one


then new bulbs



then some normal pics, cars abit dirty tho

Quote from nikimere :

I think you meant "CAN" lol!!

yea i did. lol

sgt. flippy..

just a quick tip, if you are spraying in a garage the garage is going to be cold, so when you get the spray can (assuming thats what you are going to use) put a lighter below the can for about 30 seconds,

this increses the pressure in the can and gives it a far better spray patturn, you will notice it moe when you are running out of spray, you will get blobs of paint dripping onto your hands.

Last edited by R3DMAN, Mon 14 May 2007, 11:43.

its the n/a version, but you can go to TMS and get a full GEO setup which will remove that understeer, its only apparent in the wet i might add, on a dry day you dont get any understeer unless you really turn hard and are going quite fast.

one thing that is wrong about the car, lotus who designed the chassis of the vx designed the front wheels to be 16's, but vaux in all their wisdom decided it would look better on 17's. and as such you tend to get slight understeer.

Quote from sgt.flippy :

Are you going to respray the wheels too? To get rid of that horrible spot in the last pic.

yea, my plans are..


refurb wheels like a dark anthracite (sp) or black
paint front grill black
paint window surround black
ger turbo rear spoiler
get turbo front splitters

then after a year or two

get a supercharger

Quote from sinbad :

Not a good start to your ownership, rad blowing the first day. I like those things, so I hope you have better days in future

Why'd you paint the calipers though? Never understood that one, your brakes are what they are, painting 'em won't change their brand or performance , although even worse is painted drum brakes behind stupidly oversized wheels on a punto or something

well they are AP Racing discs,

and they are just black horrible bear metal at the moment..

so red goes with the car i guess, i just wanted it to look abit smarter.

here is a pic
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/2592/dscf6162.jpg

well i had it less than 24hours and the radiator blew up, common problem apparently, but ive sourced a replacement and will be fixed very shortley.
so since it has been in the garage,

i have managed to
drill out pre-cat (very restrictive)
cold airfeed to airbox
painted front calipers, need to do the rears yet.
and gave her a good long polish

here are some pics.







and finally, got her ready for bed .. lol aaaaahh

Last edited by R3DMAN, Sat 22 Aug 2009, 11:02.

Quote from z3r0c00l :

Looks absolutely brilliant.

Hairdresser comments are for people who are jeleous of what you own.

Straight lines are boring - 300zx is too heavy to be any real fun, bar the occasional 0-150, before the totalitarian state nab you.

Black is for posers, race drivers choose primary colours - works better with the sponsorship stickers!!

I want to see track video's ASAP.

get on youtube or google, there are some goodones onthere.

what alot of people are fogetting.. i didnt get the vx for straight line speed..

if i did i would of got a 400bhp 300zx or something simiar..

i wanted this for cornering ability

i took one out on a test drive and i fell in love, it stuck like rails in the corners.. very impressed..

what power is your MR2?

i dont know where people get the hairdresser thing from,

ive wanted one for 7 years, so im gunna get one.

as for the elise.. yea they are nice and have aircon etc.. that the vx doesnt. but its practically the same car. but the elise is 10k more :o

Quote from CSU1 :

Crackin car m8, imo black is nicer, so its nearly same as eclipse, nice one

i agree with the black being nicer, but they only made the lightning in the yellow, and trying to find a black one is ni on impossible for a decent price, ppl will pay over the odds just for a black one

Quote from CSU1 :

Congrats, nice colour

well i decided to go for the limited edition yellow lightning as there was only ever 100 made in the world

so it will be quite exclusive soon i think there are only 80 left

but its a 2.2n/a and im lookin to supercharge it in the next year or so.

so that will give me 250bhp

in less than a week i will have this on my drive

im gettin a new car soon......


check back soon

here is mine, took me about 2 hours

Last edited by R3DMAN, Sat 21 Apr 2007, 21:25. Reason : i cant spell...

i meantioed this in the w10 thread but ill remention it here,

how about making the other cars slightly faster than original instead of making the fxo slower.

for instance,

fxo leave alone, xrt add 10hp and the rb4 take some weight off it.

just a suggestion i dont know if it would really work.

have you thought about making the rb4 and xrt slightly faster ??

seems more logical than limiting the fxo

Edit: well it does to me.

One thing i have noticed in the new patch is when you enter Shift+U it runs really slow, 2 - 5 fps, i have 2 copies of lfs on my machines V8 and W9.

V8 - Shift+U works lovley and smooth with 9 players on
W9 - Shift+U was nasty, but it did have a full server, but everything else ran fine, very smooth over 80fps everywere.. it was only in shift+u it ran choppy.

i think the FXO is abit too heavy.. or maybe take the intake restriction off.

if i was to ever go out on the track again in would invest in some road legal slicks. Yoko A048's for example

http://www.sidc.co.uk/images/upload/yokoa048.jpg

Quote from Jertje :

I have a funny version of the story: I have the manual, box, everything intact, but the DVD exploded in my drive and it... sort of doesn't work anymore.

funny you should say that, coz my copy of battlefield 1942 did exactly the same..

welcome

what you think? its not finished yet.

are you sure you have installed the drivers for the wheel properly?

and are you sure that you restarted your computer before going back into LFS?

im not saying you have to do this to get it to work but its just things i would try,

Not often i post in here, if at all really, but some things i noticed that are in my eyes not correct.

on the fuel gauge we have the new little icon, very nice addition but on the left and right of that there is a '0' and a '1' wouldnt it be more correct to have it as 'E' and 'F'.

and how hard would it be to make this icon turn orange lets say when it gets less than 5% fuel left in tank

Last edited by R3DMAN, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 13:27.