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For £15,000 you should stop looking at elderly projects and buy something like a RS4 or RS6. Seriously, both of them are a whole step up in build quality from either a Corrado or a Skyline. If you want fast, then buy an Evo which will be a lot faster than a Skyline on any roads except motorways. If you just want a fast Corrado then put a tuned R32 in it instead of a turbo. 300bhp+ on a nice young low mileage engine. £3k for the car, £2½k for the conversion, £2k for sort the handling & brakes out = £7½k all in. Mind you for that you can buy an actual R32 these days...

September's good & bad news musically Good : Underworld have a new album out Bad : So do the Kings of Leon...

I want proper automation! I want automation to force middle lane morons to pull into the inside lane on motorways. But most of all I want a chip in everyone's car which makes them pull over out of the way whenever I want to overtake them! It's not much to ask is it :nuts:

VW's autonomous engineering department hope to remove the need to drive your own car within 20 years. Article :http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/27/autonomous_cars/ Interesting, if sad stuff for those of you who like to drive...

The driver concerned (and his name has been plastered across the press since Wednesday) has shown some pretty poor judgement on a number of levels I think. - He should have known that the BBC would try and stop it legally. - One hopes that his book makes enough money to cover the income he was making playing Stig, and it wasn't bad money except if you compare it to the 'talent'. Especially now since I think we can assume he's sacked. - By unveiling himself (and allowing the fight to go to court, and whinging in the press about the money) he's made himself look a complete prat, and also managed to ruin one aspect of the show that people just used to enjoy. Well done, I hope your happy with yourself pal - I'm also willing to bet that his book is nowhere near as entertaining, funny and revealing as Flat Out, Flat Broke which for anyone who hasn't read it yet is probably one of the best books on the business of Motorsport and Racing Drivers ever written.

Yeah I think I agree. That really wasn't necessary!

It's a photoshop (the photo on the TV).

That thread has been running for ten months. The trader involved seems to have been closed down a long long time ago, but it's only recently that he's had his collar taken. All this is a lesson to the rest of us. Try and use trusted, recommended suppliers where possible. Try and use someone within travelling distance if possible, and certainly never be stupid enough to send a trader anything like a set of calipers as a deposit in the circumstances outlined by one of those posters. I have to say the terms on which Mr Jones was prepared to do business to new customers should have set warning signals off somewhere. Also the guy who had to recover the stripped out S2... absolutely no way I would have left a car with someone for as long as that without paying it a visit. I'm sorry, but that's just common sense. If the guy had been stalling me for as long as that I'd have been visiting with the heavy mob or a court injunction (or Trading Standards, or a solicitor) before a year had even passed. Reading between the lines of the more recent updates, I would hazard a guess that Jones is facing a good stretch. All we've read is about the customers he ripped off, but there's references to vehicle Id fraud, and you can be sure that if he's been ripping his customers and doing fraud then he's probably being investigated by HMRC too. The Police don't like vehicle fraudsters very much, and HMRC will screw him financially. I'd guess the RS6 has already been taken as part payment on a proceeds of crime order.

Always terrific to see a well done mad car, but I'm bound to say the V10 E30 M3 that was on VW Vortex a couple of years ago was waaay cooler. You have to go old school to get the top marks IMHO.

I almost can't believe that there are people who even consider putting budget tyres on something like a VR6. Ok it's an old car but still quick even modern standards. Putting zupercheap rubber on a 150mph car isn't just stupid, it's dangerous. If you can't afford to put at least a Toyo on the car you should be reconsidering whether you should be running it at all in my opinion. Reading some of the forum threads referred to about the Fullruns is a real eye opener. A Googlesearch throws up so many owners' forum containing threads complaining about them it's almost funny.

Inception 9/10 Not quite Chris Nolan's best movie but a lot better than most of the rubbish that's been released into the cinemas this year. I used to detest DeCaprio years ago but he's matured into a versatile and quality lead. The whole cast puts in great performances, and (once again) Nolan makes a movie that required thinking and attention. Recommended.

I'm pretty sure I'm correct in saying that for most comprehensive insurance policies, you are covered all the time the policy is in force. Where a car is in the possession of a trader, you would also be covered by thier insurance first but in cases where that does not apply you can still proceed through your own company. Of course the downside to this is it may affect your no-claims position. Companies have legal teams for the purposes of recovering third party claims. If your insurer pays you then they may well then go after the trader for the money they've paid you. I'm bound to say the precise circumstances of this theft aren't clear to me, but in circumstances where a unique set of wheels has been 'stolen' from a workshop, which were then sold on a forum, and where the workshop subsequently had a fire or was closed - the Police should definately be notified and investigating your case. (You will need a police report to claim on your insurance anyway). For example whoever sold the wheels on is knowlingly selling stolen goods. The workshop owner may be investigated for a number of offences, including assisting the theft, fraud, and/or criminal damage. All serious stuff. Don't forget if the company was a sole trader (as opposed to a Ltd company) you still have the ability to take the the owner to Small Claims Court. Still worth considering since the amount is under £5,000. You should be able to obtain the workshop owner's details from Companies House (online). HTH, John

What's a Volkswagon? :)

I thought the idea of the thread was supposed to be about Corrado/car type motivators. Posting birds with big tits is all very nice but it's not in the spirit of the thread is it? I had actually created another car one to post up but I just refuse to post it next to that entry. Someone else can do it. Thread ruined.

It makes no difference at all if they have insurance or not. Take them to the small claims court for the full amount plus expenses. Forget the wheels, I doubt if you'll see those again. But ask yourself who might have had access to the workshop to the extent that they would have spotted the wheels and then had the opportunity to steal them. The workshop has a duty of care to protect your property in thier custody. That will be an easy win in court. p.s. If the wheels were sold on the E38 forum have you contacted the admins there to recover the archived post concerned? I'm sure they would help if you really want to pursue the matter.

Nice of you to bump, but would have been better if you'd added a demotivator. And since I've added well over 25 to this thread myself, I'm allowed to abstain for the moment :)

Y'know pub talk is often great fun, but if some know-it-all started condescending me in the way he did I'd just tell him to stop. And if he carries on, say something "you know you really irritate me" and just walk off. He might be a dickhead but you don't have to go along with it. And many mechanics talk a much better game than they actually play you know.

Hi Paul, I have a set of 284 Cat cams if you're interested. Only have about 1400 miles on them - they're in the box now. Whereas with normal VR6 tuning the performance dies off at around 5500, these babies come up on the cam at around 4k and then push hard all the way to the redline. In my case I had the ECU cutoff set to 7400 and they were strong then. If you're interested or want photos then drop me a line. I'll do you a nice deal. The only downside to them is that you will have to use solid lifters as they are just too big to run with tappets at the revs in question. Cheers John

Frankly there's nearly always one team which has a piece of tech which gives them an advantage which the other teams then get all hissy about. This is not even the first time we've seen a performance advantage of the size which the Red Bull cars seem to have currently. We can all think of examples of these innovations. Some ideas are copied relatively easily (eg ground effect was rapidly copied and the Lotus design was soon excelled by Williams), but what's troubling the teams is that it's clear that first Adrian Newey's design is not something that can be bolted on - the whole car needs to be designed around it - but also that it contains a number of technical challenges with the materials that will may take a long time to solve (and which Red Bull have already solved). The other teams are right to be worried of where Red Bull are with thier car right now. Adrian Newey is arguably the most innovative designer of his generation, and everyone is now having to play catch up with Newey, which really is a formidable prospect. A few years ago the other teams mocked Red Bull for signing a contract with Newey for $10m a year, which is more than most of the drivers get. I suspect Red Bull are regarding that as a good decision right now.

The man needs to leave F1 before he kills someone. Look at where the shadow of Barrichello's wheel is against the pitwall (pic 3) for a measure of how close that came to being a massive accident.

I saw Nelson Piquet qualify the Brabham running that qualifying engine at Silverstone. We watched it through Copse, and then wheelspin up the hill in 3rd, 4th and 5th. Apparently the Brabham engineers had to clean the car out afterwards as Piquet had pissed his pants driving it. About 3 months later Autosport revealed the engine had been dyno'd at 1480bhp before they fitted it the car. It was truly an impressive sight on the track Interestingly though, it wasn't the fastest qualifier. Keke Rosberg beat him, setting the first 160mph lap at Silverstone in the process. His Honda engined Williams only had a piffling 1350bhp in qualifying spec. What a load of rubbish eh :?

Proof if it were needed that the internet is still awash with individuals who don't let a total lack of subject knowledge stop them posting. What a pair of mongs.

I'm going to throw votes in for the cars that OSV, BiggerBigBen and 24vRenshaw had featured in PVW. All three were tremendous in different ways. On the debit side there was the pink one but I can also recall a two-tone brown/white car from Spain about 5-6 years ago with a Seat front end grated on and antique wing mirrors. Ruined a perfectly nice car, ugh.. I have to say I stopped reading PVW a few years ago now. I only saw the pink one a few months ago because they had a copy of it at the tyrefitters.

Been around for a few years, but rediscovered. Strange, hypnotic, tremendous : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOYmV3Y-DvI

Back in the old days, if one team mate was faster then the other but behind the slower car, they would... you know... race each other and the faster car would sometimes prevail, and sometimes it wouldn't. But at least it was racing. The drivers had a great time fighting it out, nobody whinged about it, and the fans got a tremendous spectacle. A lot has already been written in the press about Ferrari's previous form when it comes to this kind of thing. Personally I'm just astonished that they decided to be so completely blatant about it given the obvious consequences, but it's hard to interpret the action as an attempt to challenge the rule book and to challenge the FIA in order to enforce a rule change. It will be interesting to see if the FIA Council decides to impose further sanctions against Ferrari to add to the fine already imposed by the race officials. As things stand the current $100k fine is small change. Only a loss of team points will hurt them. Ferrari have been caught (yet again) manipulating the results of a race and ruining the spectacle which the punters, TV companies and sponsors have paid a lot of money to see. When one considers how easily Ferrari throw thier lawyers on almost every instance where another team even sails close to a rule infraction, it will be interesting to see what stance the FIA council - now led by Jean Todt - will take on this issue.