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General Discussion Area / Re: Films...Tron

« on: 08 May 2011, 09:44:41 »

On BluRay last night. Loved it. Loads of basy effects and sound track really gave the speakers a work out. ....  Picture was good too. 

Looking forward to Transformers 3. I love all the sic fi stuff personally, but any big blockbuster will do. Can't be arsed with comedies for some reason.
If it doesn't give the home cinema a work out then....naah. 

Any other recommendations.?

the A-team film will give your speakers and system a work out,  knight and day is a good film iron man 2 as well is pretty good sound wise if you like ac dc

However imho independance day reigns the best for sound effects

we have a sony 60 in lcd tv running through a7.1 sony thearter amp and mission  speakers in a room just for films nowt else in it bar the tv,speakers,etc and 4 recliner chairs..... the complaints from the neighbours lets me know i have a good system oops

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General Discussion Area / Re: Favourite Musicals

« on: 08 May 2011, 09:48:08 »

My favourite musical is Blues Brothers

now that is classic movie with some great artists in it
then they ruined the name by releasing blues brothers 2000

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General Discussion Area / Re: Range Rover LPG

« on: 08 May 2011, 10:23:29 »

if we kept it, 95% motorway runs 

If it not going to off roaded, how about wheel arch tanks, 4 of them  :-/

if you never venture off road torpedo tanks of 50l each side of the vehicle can be done,i personally dont have a lpg rr or land rover but i know plenty of friends that do,the bwm engine is the weakest one to lpg cos of the nickelsi cylinder liners.

the previous gen p38 4.0 l are pretty good for lpg and the jag 4.2 is ok

a friend has a l322 lpg with underslung tanks and gets 12 to the gall on gas and 16 on petrol

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General Discussion Area / Re: Heavy Haulin`.......

« on: 08 May 2011, 10:06:30 »

How many wheels....how much weight?..... 

 576 wheels 4 tracktor units and the weight of the trailer  would put the total weight to around 1100 tonnes 576 wheels on the trailer means either 144 axles or 72 axles depending on the wheel bogie layout

each single wheel would need to be able to carry 2.5 tonnes to allow forsafe working load.

whats more of a mind baker is what power output do the tractor units put out 2500 lbs/foot of torque? each

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General Discussion Area / Re: which is the quickest 2.5?

« on: 12 April 2011, 22:56:40 »

how many different types are there?

cdx
gls
cd
tdcx
td elite

am i missing any? so the gls is the quickest?

gls
cd
cdx
elite
mv6
sport
td gls
td cd
td cdx
td elite

then manuels and autos takes it to 20 and thats without adding the estates up

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General Discussion Area / Re: £1m in fines in just 1 year

« on: 15 April 2011, 15:18:54 »

You just need to plan ahead and not just be in zombie mode and follow everything in front without thinking, the yellow lines of the keep clear box are simple, don't stop inside them. The red Merc in the photo should stop around 2 feet back from where he is, if he clearly could see stationary traffic on his left turn.

9,000 drivers 'caught out' in a year, errr yeah and? How many drivers pass through that every week? 150,000? Who knows!

One thing is for sure, once fined, do you not think they might be a bit more active when it comes to future situations with keep clear box?

Like your rant on the BBC's use of 6 classes on staffs new commute for Manchester, I get the impression you take one small part of a story that you don't like from that utter toilet paper shyte paper Daily Mail then go into rant mode.

150,000 a day more like that is a main through fare to cut across london with out going in to the con zone

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General Discussion Area / track days

« on: 12 April 2011, 23:08:16 »

do any owners go to trackdays with their omegas to race or in deed do any members do track days in other cars? if so which cars

ive raced fords,rovers,vauxhalls,lotus's just wondered if anyone else does

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General Discussion Area / Re: just had a spin in a rangie sport

« on: 12 April 2011, 23:42:46 »

as for saftey

Road accident statistics on a model-by-model basis from the UK Department for Transport show that the Land Rover Defender is one of the safest cars on British roads, measured in terms of chance of death in two car injury accidents.[33] The figures, which were based on data collected by police forces following accidents between 2000 and 2004 in Great Britain, showed that Defender drivers had a 1% chance of being killed or seriously injured and a 33% chance of sustaining any kind of injury. Other four-wheel-drive vehicles scored equally highly, and collectively these vehicles were much safer than those in other classes such as passenger cars and MPVs. The figures acknowledge that drivers of large mass vehicles are likely to be safer, often at the expense of other drivers if they collide with smaller cars.

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General Discussion Area / Re: just had a spin in a rangie sport

« on: 12 April 2011, 23:39:46 »

The Tomb Raider version was a pickup with external roll cage and all the leccy toys you could ask for, as I recall.  Heated seats/front screen etc as well as windows.  The rear bed housed a pull out drawer, or perhaps that was the 60th anniversary model?   :-/

The official one was a 110 pickup with external roll cage, roof rack blah blah

but they did a 90 too. Bit more tame. None of them actually look like the one she drove mind.
Which was this one


the consumer release ones looked like this:


and this


All described here
http://www.adrianstomcat.co.uk/LaraCroft.htm

the official  tomb raider was indeed a 110 with exturnal roll cage, and the one in the film was a full open top 110 with roll cage and flop top doors.

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: just had a spin in a rangie sport

« on: 12 April 2011, 23:20:59 »

...... but then the New defender is the same too, because of the bulkhead the seats dont go back far enough lol

Not wanting to sound a pedant but...

Wheres the 'New' Defender?   

Its got a stay of execution until, I think, 2014.  Still based on the original wartime chassis etc.

If its a 90 pickup then, yes, its got no rearward seat movement to speak of.  If a County or 110 then there is at least some adjustment.  I find it best to actually move the seat forward then tip the back backwards....   

You're quite right, they've not changed.

It was a 90 hard top, but it had a half bulkhead behind the front seats

can you expand on this cos as i recall the land rovers wheelbase has changed 5 times in 50 years
 andif you want the definitive range rover it would have to be a 1988 soft dash range rover classic overfinch 570T

definitive land rover would have to be the s3v8 stage 1

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General Discussion Area / Re: How Top Gear's changed.

« on: 03 February 2011, 08:28:27 »

Iirc the first series of TG was presented by Noel Edmunds and Angela Rippon ? :-/

Angela Rippon yes not sure N E however,topgear used to be a 10 minute slot on nationwide news programme,
it then became a 30 minute show on bbc2 with william woollard,sue baker,chris goffey,tony mason and i think frank page.

true it is a shadow of it former self with J C at the helm

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General Discussion Area / Re: Audis - what do you think?

« on: 15 September 2010, 10:16:05 »

i own among other vehicles a 'proper' quattro 1983 to be presise and that is most definatly not boring,in fact against any omega i would take the q cos it handles and drives better than any omega ive driven

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General Discussion Area / Re: Omega v BMW

« on: 14 August 2010, 21:37:52 »

"x" plate omega price compared to"x" plate 5? series?

Ok lets even tje field.

2.5 TD Elite v 525 TD SE  Both 1999 models

 the 525 TD SE but only because it has a full fat engine not a strangled one

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General Discussion Area / Re: who was/is the greatest F1 driver ever?????????

« on: 06 August 2010, 15:12:12 »

A tricky one, but my own personal favourites have to be Mansell and Senna. They were racing when I first started going the the British GP at Silverstone in 1988 at the time the turbo engined cars were being phased out and reverting back to normally aspirated. That year the Williams team had opted to race with a normally aspirated engine while most of the others were still using turbo's. Mansell still managed to take 3rd place despite having a much less powerful car - quite an astonishing achievement. Then there were moments such as racing wheel to wheel with Senna while flat out (Sliversone I think) only millimetres away from each other at nearly 200mph and then there was the monumental battle with Senna at Monaco after Mansell had to relinquish his lead to Senna with a forced pit stop. The remaining laps were edge of your seat stuff as Mansell done everything in his power to try and get past Senna but was just impossible on that circuit. If I recall, Mansell was so drained he had to be helped out of his car at the end of the race. Truly magnificent racers.

1992 race and senna stopped mansell from winning 6 out of 6 races mansell had to have a tyre replaced after a slow puncture was discovered and being 3 or 4 laps to go had to pit senna having been told mansell was pitting stepped up to the plate and grabbed 1st and held mansell who was in a far better car to second, then again senna was the master of making his car seem bigger the it was

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General Discussion Area / Re: who was/is the greatest F1 driver ever?????????

« on: 02 August 2010, 17:27:31 »

My own personal greatest will always be Gilles Villeneuve, the fastest and most naturally talented driver ever to sit in a car imo, but the greatest F1 driver in terms of the perfect balance of all the attributes required (of which natural talent is only one) it has to be Senna, I dont really see how anyone could think otherwise tbh.
What people often overlook is the fact that in the period that he was winning his championships/poles/races, he was competing against the likes of Prost, Mansell and Piquet.They already had a load of world championships and god knows how many grand prix wins between them when Senna arrived in F1 as a rookie. He didnt have it relatively easy like Scummy did.
When Senna moved to the F1 big time by joining mclaren as Prosts team mate, Prost was already the most succesful driver in the history of the sport - then Senna destroyed him, he was simply on a totally different level to Prost and everyone else really.
The only one who really gave him any serious trouble was Mansell, because he was so brave and gutsy he never backed down from anything or anyone.

I don't think I will ever get the image of Villeneuve's fatal crash out of my mind...

There are many drivers who are great drivers who deserve a mention, some who have never scored 1 point.  When you look at some of the cars they raced such as those with Magnesium chassis which killed the likes of Jo Schlesser...

Gilles Villeneuve was a great driver and had safety standards been as high then as they are now he would never have died he died because he was thrown out of the car as it rolled poor design by ferrari