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Saturday 10th March 2007
I got my Skyline back from Abbey Motorsport today. It had a service and check over, new tyres and Buddy Club Racing Spec Dampers fitted. Also had some dyno time to make sure everything is running correctly, which it is. It made 294.9bhp at the hubs and 290 lb-ft of torque.
An expensive day, but well spent.
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This post is filed under Nissan Skyline by Lonewolf at 5:10pm
Thursday 8th February 2007
Finally I have a car of my own again - almost a full year since my Honda Civic was written off in a serious accident. Here is a sneak peek of my 1995 Nissan Skyline R33 GTR. There will a lot more pictures coming soon!
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This post is filed under Car Crash, Injury and Recovery, Nissan Skyline by Lonewolf at 9:00am
Saturday 20th January 2007
Xtreme Automobiles have been developing a new 2 seat coupe concept car which delivers 350-500bhp from a turbo charged 2 litre engine normally found in the Mitsubishi Evo 9, and the same 4 wheel drive running gear. The car is made from Carbon Fibre with an aluminium sub frame and suspension, which means that the road car only weighs 1180Kg; 1000Kg for the track day car. Today we popped up to Dudley to the Xtreme showroom to have a look… There are more Pictures of the X1 Concept in the Gallery.
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This post is filed under Cars, Photography by Lonewolf at 3:52pm
Wednesday 10th January 2007
After the fog a few weeks ago, we are back to rain. Just a reminder for some drivers - Its not foggy any more, you can turn your fog lights out now, they dazzle oncoming traffic.
Heavy rain last night and as usual people still drive like a dry sunny day, even with large amounts of surface water, flooding and water bubbling out of the drains. Spray from the road reduces visibility yet people still drive without any lights, not even sidelights.
Driving in today, I heard on the radio that two of the roads I use were closed due to flooding and there was an accident on the motorway causing tailbacks, so I went another way. Just the other side of a small village is a river, which had burst its banks and flooded the road for about 20m. There was already a car in the road which had broken down and been abandoned. Since this was my only route left open I proceeded to enter the floodwaters. About half way across, some blithering idiot in a 4×4 (obviously he has seen Jeremy Clarksons Toybota), decided not to slow down or drive carefully and just ploughed through the water, causing a wave that went over the roof of the car in front me and over my car. Which sprung a leak. Thanks. Yet another moron who is incapable of adapting to road conditions.
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This post is filed under Cars by Lonewolf at 8:47pm
Tuesday 19th December 2006
This time its fog, and lots of it. Woke up this morning and looked out the window to see NOTHING it is so foggy out I can just make out the house opposite. I’m on early shift today so its 6.15am and luckily little traffic on the roads, which is just as well as driving conditions are very poor, but as per usual most drivers carry on as normal regardless of driving conditions. Not even three minutes from my house, I saw one car tailgating another - dangerous even under perfect conditions. Later on there are cars speeding through country lanes with only sidelights and the idiots driving with full beams AND fog lights on full.
This fog also highlighted a flaw in the Ford Ka design, which I had first picked up on driving in the dark for the first time, and that is the headlights don’t work. They seem to light up the area either side of the car, and above the car, but not the road, even on full beam I can only see a 2 metres. In my Honda Civic full beams would allow me to see cats eyes in the road far into the distance, and give good visibility of the road surface for about 10 metres in front. In the Ka in the fog, any lights just illuminate the fog, not the road, making driving especially difficult. I don’t think I even exceeded 30mph this morning.
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This post is filed under Cars by Lonewolf at 2:22pm
Thursday 7th December 2006
What is it about abnormal weather that causes everyone to turn into morons, drive like idiots and bring a whole city to a virtual standstill?
We had a heavy rainstorm the other day, with gale force winds, and I wake up to find that the two main motorways are closed, major roads are blocked because of accidents and everybody else drives like a loony. On my way home it was even worse - storms had brought down power lines causing streetlights and traffic lights to go out. So if the traffic lights on a roundabout do not work, what do you do? Push out in front of other cars because my lights should be green now and I’ve got a bigger car? Or do you treat it like a roundabout (which it is) and give way to the right? Most drivers in Bristol favor the first option, which created even more accidents and delays. One radio station reported that it was the worst rush hour he had ever seen in ten years of reporting and proceeded to list the roads that were moving because it was quicker that listing all the incidents. My journey home usually takes 20 minutes; today it took over two hours.
With a little common sense and thought this could have been avoided by adapting driving to suit conditions. Morons.
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This post is filed under Cars by Lonewolf at 7:52pm
