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Stan got a pigeon with his drivers side foglight Alec

Jay being banned from the other forum is badge of honour mate The active members of the GT86 community know you weren't out to shaft anybody, all that's happened is you allowed yourself to over commit trying to keep everyone happy. There's no reason for you to worry about attending meets and it seems a bit OTT to start thinking about getting rid of your car now you've just got the HKS fitted. I think a suggestion for anyone else who finds themselves in a similar situation, don't overcommit, agree a small batch at a time and don't take any more orders until you are happy you want to do some more. You just ended up putting yourself under intense pressure when all you were trying to do was help Alec

Scoobie snacks! £38

I would have done the same, as long as its got the same engine, drivetrain and suspension I really would have preferred to save the money. In nearly 3 years of owning mine I have spent money on winter tyres/wheels, whiteline gearbox mount brace approx £35, bonnet struts £60 and my big performance mod a Grimmspeed 86 Oil filler cap Other than that a whole bunch of disks and pads and 3 set of tyres, 2 of Primacys and 75% and 25% of a couple of sets of winters

I have 2 boys, 14 and 15 and there's no problem fitting them both in, it's one of the reasons it was the perfect car for me to replace my Celica T-sport. Those tyres you have are exactly the same size as the ones I run on my Scoobie winters, £38 for the set off a Scouser

OK thinking of getting a PS4 for Project Cars because of the tracks it covers, their website says the following wheels are supported http://www.projectcarsgame.com/beyond-reality.html Anyone got any experience of Project Cars on PS4 using any of these wheels or of the quality of these wheels themselves? The Thrustmaster T80 is a rubber band toy with no Force Feedback so that's out The T100 is supposedly FF but less than £100, sounds to good to be true The Fanatec ones are nice and look like they might also work on XBox 360 for Forza 4 or PS3 for GT6 (my current gaming setups) Any comments from other gamers? And no I am not going near the moneypit of buying a gaming PC it has to be a console Thrustmaster T300RS Thrustmaster T300 Ferrari GTE Thrustmaster T100 Force Feedback Thrustmaster T80 Thrustmaster TH8RS Thrustmaster TH8A Thrustmaster T3PA Pedals Thrustmaster T500RS Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S Fanatec Porsche 911 GT2 Fanatec Porsche 911 GT3 v2 Fanatec CSR (+ Pedals) Fanatec CSR Elite (+ Pedals) Fanatec ClubSport Wheel Base Fanatec ClubSport Wheel Base v2

How many you done in the last month? I've done 3 I do drive em in real life as well

OK I have had a few people ask about how to add data to in car videos, the way I do it is to use the data logged in the torque app and an app called Race Render 3. To give people some hints on how to do it I've produced a few videos, a couple to show how to select what to log in Torque and how to send the log files to your computer. Then one to show how to download a video from youtube to a standard 720p mp4 format, by standardising your video input that you are going to use in race render it means that any customisation you do based on a screen size will be valid every time. Then a video showing the basics of how to combine the two in Race Render and export the finished video back to youtube So first video how to get Torque map trip logs off your phone to your computer This will send an e-mail with an attached zip file that contains a tracklog.csv data file, you can open this in excel or open office to see all the data points you have to play with, but you don't need to This video is just to show where you can see what PIDs you have configured to be logged in Torque, if it's not in the list it won't be in the log file so you won't be able to add it to your video. The screen I demonstrate in the video is showing the data points I have set up to log, to add more use the 3 dots menu top right.

As you will have seen from my videos I normally also display air, oil and coolant temp and the fuel level for a laugh. You can get it to display what gear you are in by opening the csv file in Excel and with some fairly simple macros based on speed vs revs generate what gear you are in and add that as a column to the csv file before using it in Race Render. To add a picture in picture drivers or rear view video as well is also pretty simple, but you then have one more synch to do to get that (i used the traffic light at Blyton that lets you onto the track to synch the 2 vids together, then synched the data against the combined videos). If you do a picture in picture and the little one doesn't show up, move up in the stack of overlaid items bottom right, as those at the top of the list appear on top of those lower down, so if its under the main vid in the list you won't see it.

Next video is the way I normalize any video from any device to end up as a 720p mp4 file, this means that all my input videos I use in Race Render are always the same format, so any custom setup I do in Race Render to match the screen size will still be OK every time. You don't have to do this step, but it's also a good way of archiving your videos so if you ever want to go back and redo it you know you will still have access to the original source. I'm not going to explain how you upload videos from your device to youtube, if you don't already know how to do that then google an answer, go away upload a few and come back here once you've worked that out. Basically I use youtube and a Firefox youtube downloader to do this pre-processing, this can be added to Firefox from here https://github.com/gantt/downloadyoutube There is another downloader that can possibly do higher quality vids here but I haven't tried it yet https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-video-and-audio-dow/ By letting youtube do the conversion for you, you won't risk any of the nasties associated with a lot of free video editing software you might consider downloading, doing this way lets youtube do all the donkey work and you don't end up with adware or viruses on your computer. Once you have the add on installed (it's easy follow the instructions on the link above) you can download a 720p version of anything from youtube to your computer as a 720p mp4 file (Initial-D, Wheeler Dealers, whatever you can find as well as in car vids) Ok so now we have covered how to get a video in a standard format and a torque trip log file onto your computer, the next step is to combine them. The Race Render software I use for this was recommended to me by Rob after seeing my complicated attempts to produce closed caption subtitle files to overlay videos. I can guarantee you Race Render is much simpler and produces a lot better results. So the video starts assuming you have : 1. Installed the software from http://racerender.com/RR3/Features.html (there is a free trial version that lets you try it out but has some features disabled) Note there are both Windows and OSX versions of this software, the example video below is done using the Mac version but the Windows version is very similar (if you pay for a licence you can actually install and run both versions off the same licence code if you have both systems) 2. Got your tracklog.csv file onto your computer (see vid 1 above for a suggested method) 3. Got a valid video file onto your computer (if you can upload it to you tube you can use the method in vid 3 above to download a 720p mp4 version) I don't use anything above the standard options in the example, in real life I have saved my own prefererred screen layouts and data config maps that I use, but the example vid shows what you can do very simply with just the std options Any comments/questions/suggestions add them below

added Ian's vids to a playlist on club youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgrLzjG54SK9h79YYHq0e2xQMSDmZr8z5

That was those 2 guys who do the youtube videos, DedicationBlog, think he put his one into a ditch just after getting it ?

I loved the engine in my T-Sport Celica, I kept running the 86 into the rev limiter at first (after running in) as I was so used after 8 years to the step up in delivery you got at 6200 rpm and had got used to timing my gear shifts off that Without the step in the 86 as an indicator I used to keep bouncing off the rev limiter, got a bit more used to it now, but still miss the VVLTI second cam (that engine was designed in conjunction with Yamaha, if you want high revving NA engines I think designing bike engines as well helps) Alec

I did that when my wife bought her automatic Galaxy, rather than the manual Avensis Verso we used to have. Got to the end of the road and went to push the clutch in and nearly went through the windscreen ! After that I just plant my left foot firmly on the footrest whenever I get in the thing and leave it there

They mention I think who they got to make them in the Toyota article, I'm sure they'd be happy to sell you a set

It's just one of the many reasons Lauren is a better driver than me But seriously though it was what I was taught to do on the CarLimits day I did, bang em on hard then gradually release them, but maybe I just didn't get what he meant

Painting the rears will probably be fine Keith, its only the fronts that are scorched, the rears are still red as a baboon's rear

They are sending me a free ticket for this years for letting them use my vid of that crash in their promotional video

I'm still rocking the EBC yellowstuffs, suit me fine for both street and track. I have exactly the same issue with my calipers, painted them with 300C engine lacquer and it burnt off, doubt 80C caliper paint would last 5 minutes

Yep coming up again soon Chomendley, the Cheshire version of Goodwood, highly recommended, this what I saw last year, fast forward to 1m20s if in a hurry

Having just been on track with a whole bunch of Loti at the LOT track day I think you'll find its comparable to an Elise on track, it's the Exiges that leave you down the straights. Enjoy Alec

Well you need to get the centre console armrest for a start Alec

Standard Toyota service costs here https://www.toyota.co.uk/caring-for-your-toyota/service-and-maintenance/car-servicing.json GT86 £179 £299 £579 Alec

Congratulations, Enjoy !