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Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:02 am

murran wrote:
gcs325i wrote:When you up at crail murran?
saturday the 8th of aug and maybe sunday if we have any tyres left. (im taking 10 wheels!)
going to skid around with fellow uninsurable and irresponcible dangers to every man woman and child ever to grace the queens highway.

CAUTION DRIFTING CONTENT WITH WELDED DIFFS!!! THOSE OF WEAK DISPOSION AND/OR CHARACTER NEED NOT CLICK ON THIS!!!

Looks good mate, sounds like a good group too :thumb:
Is it a private event or can i pop along for a watch and a look over the cars?
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:16 am

Driftings a bit punk rock innit :cool:
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:02 am

My car is fully insured complete with cage, harnesses, FIA bucket seats, totally modified engine running 500bhp, different gearbox geared for 200mph and is classed as a road legal racing car on my insurance documents !!!

Oh and it even has one of those killer plated diffs that rapes your nan and bites the heads off puppies !!

If I had a welded diff then that would be the least of my insurance companies worries - the bag tank, glassfibre bodywork, 300bhp increase over standard (which will be up to 450bhp over standard once the Nitrous and new turbo go on !!) and the fact about the only standard bit on my car is the bulkhead, the windscreen and the roof panel !! In fact the bulkhead might be modded as well !!! lol :mad: :mad:

As for going slowly round corners you might be a bit shocked, Im more than happy to go to your local track with you in your BM and me in my driftcar and we'll see what the comparable speed differences are, you'll be able to tell I'm drifting because I'll be a foot off your rear bumper with the back half of my car in your wing mirror !! :D :D Oh and the smoke !! lol

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Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:41 am

spook wrote:Driftings a bit punk rock innit :cool:
...... and my rear arch is Johnny Rotten.
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:55 am

Bladerider wrote:My car is fully insured complete with cage, harnesses, FIA bucket seats, totally modified engine running 500bhp, different gearbox geared for 200mph and is classed as a road legal racing car on my insurance documents !!!

Oh and it even has one of those killer plated diffs that rapes your nan and bites the heads off puppies !!

If I had a welded diff then that would be the least of my insurance companies worries - the bag tank, glassfibre bodywork, 300bhp increase over standard (which will be up to 450bhp over standard once the Nitrous and new turbo go on !!) and the fact about the only standard bit on my car is the bulkhead, the windscreen and the roof panel !! In fact the bulkhead might be modded as well !!! lol :mad: :mad:

Sounds like a really nice bit of kit mate for drifting. Not the issue that it will drift better than a road car that goes without say. I still don't think that people with home made open/ then welded diffs first have told there insurance what it is and that insurance companys would happily insure them. Any pics of your car?

As for going slowly round corners you might be a bit shocked, Im more than happy to go to your local track with you in your BM and me in my driftcar and we'll see what the comparable speed differences are, you'll be able to tell I'm drifting because I'll be a foot off your rear bumper with the back half of my car in your wing mirror !! :D :D Oh and the smoke !! lol

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Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:28 am

As for going slowly round corners you might be a bit shocked, Im more than happy to go to your local track with you in your BM and me in my driftcar and we'll see what the comparable speed differences are, you'll be able to tell I'm drifting because I'll be a foot off your rear bumper with the back half of my car in your wing mirror !! Oh and the smoke !! lol
And I'll be in my uncle's Ultima GTR again. 720 bhp. You wouldn't be able to beat that. Not with me in it :D
ive passed my I.A.M test so therefor i am now a better driver than you people without.
Shame, I passed that a while back. Strange how easy it was?

Now your amatuer rally license? Thats more of a challenge. 8)

Have you driven many cars in your life? Rally cars? Supercars? Vintage cars?
I'm 21, own a 320i, a 325i project car, a 535i. Drive my parents old Alfa on occasions, have drove stupid amounts of cars and generally know about cars. I have the IAM license and an amatuer rally license (you get after a 3 day course :) though being a member of a light motorcycle and car club). Participated in Hill climbs and contemplated joining the rally next year. Also, I have a bit of track experience involving 2 supercar trackdays (Murcielargo, Gillardo, 360 spider, DB9, Porshe 911 Turbo, Lotus Elise), vintage trackdays (DB4, E-Type, and Cobra) along with recieving an invitation to join the warrington go-kart team on 250cc (much more powerful than punter-mobiles you get at any track in europe because of legality) which I would have taken up if I didn't live in the channel islands. Finally, drove a mates scooby and his mates evo and my uncles Ultima GTR round donington park.

Are you really that big headed that you think your an amazing and experienced driver in your 316i or whatever with a welded diff?

Come back and agrue when you can get insured in something better. :teehee:
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:23 pm

Wow, a challenge in your Uncles car !!

Awesome !!

Shame me some more with the "My dads bigger" technique, go on dooo eeeeeeet !!

In 10 years time you will not believe you said things like this !! lolol

Come back to me when you've driven the thick end of a million miles and ridden bikes for 10 years, and perhaps owned your own fast car and I suspect we'll be talking the same language by then, rather than that of a spoilt kid using his familys money to fight his battles and attempt (and failing) to show off !!

To say you look like a cock with the above post is an understatement rivalled only by Noahs "Looks like a bit of rain" forecast !!!

:D :D
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:49 pm

Bladerider wrote:Wow, a challenge in your Uncles car !!

Awesome !!

Shame me some more with the "My dads bigger" technique, go on dooo eeeeeeet !!

In 10 years time you will not believe you said things like this !! lolol

Come back to me when you've driven the thick end of a million miles and ridden bikes for 10 years, and perhaps owned your own fast car and I suspect we'll be talking the same language by then, rather than that of a spoilt kid using his familys money to fight his battles and attempt (and failing) to show off !!

To say you look like a c**k with the above post is an understatement rivalled only by Noahs "Looks like a bit of rain" forecast !!!

:D :D
Firstly, I was talking about experience to the kid waving on about his welded diff saying he thinks he's high and mighty.

Second of all my family's not rich. I broke the mold by getting a good job at 20 and within a year am on the same salary as my parents. And I'm at the bottom of the job ladder.

My uncles GTR is a £32k car, which he saved for donkey's years to get.

I've rode bikes on the road for 5 1/2 years now, but am a cautious rider after nearly being killed by a twat in a bmw trying to drift his car on public roads. Hence my side of the argument to people trying to make road cars drift better using quite stupid methods.


Rally license. My money. Track days, my money. Cars, my money.

And finally, I've been driving vehicles in fields and private roads etc since I was roughly 8. I was a delivery boy for 3 years which paid for my college fee's, social life and my first BMW. I'm also in the process now of saving to help my parents pay off a £10k debt in one year so they dont loose their house and retirement fund.

Dont call someone a spoil brat when you dont even know them. I know plenty of spoilt shites and I'm far from one.
You go to school, do as hard as you can since GCSE's and land a great job early all coming from the mentality that you want to help your parents get out of money problems becuase they tried to do everything for you as a kid. I'm quite offended you called me one tbh.

I love vehicles and have drove everything I can at every point I get a chance. I'd rather buy a runaround and spend the money I've saved doing track days in supercars or vintage cars or a rally license and so on.

Being a delievery driver 6 days a week for 4 hours a night kind of makes you a very good driver. Driving the vast amount of cars I have also gives you lots of experience in what to look out for in a car.

I never once said I'm the dog's bollocks at driving. I'm very, very experienced for my age and not half bad at it either. I'm not a proffesional race driver, but better than a lot of people you see at a general track day.

Granted though, I must of sounded like a cock in the above post. :o:

EDIT: I'm also quite proud of what I've accomplished in the last 4/5 years of my life. And proud that I've earned enough money to be able to do all this, and have a social life, and help save for my parents and myself. Not many 21y'o can do that.
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:56 pm

Bladerider wrote: To say you look like a c**k with the above post is an understatement rivalled only by Noahs "Looks like a bit of rain" forecast !!!
:D :D
HAHAHAHAHA ROFL!!! What a quote!
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:46 pm

NayC wrote:Granted though, I must of sounded like a c**k in the above post. :o:
EEEeeeexactly !!!

The rest is stuff no-one would ever know, but most would assume like me given your previous statement that what I said was about the right mark !!

Im extremely pleased that you have realised this in a few minutes rather than the 10years I predicted !! Fair play to you, I would add that not many young guys would realise this and admit it as quickly as you have, which in my book is worth far more than any of the rest of your post and shows your maturity level most of all.

Welders still arent dangerous though :mad:

J. :D :D
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Well, I'll find that out properly for myself when I bung in a welded diff into my project car (for a test, not perminantly) to take it to the fields and see what they are like. Theres also a big open tarmac section, so good test there too!

My 325i will have a fair bit of meat to its engine (hopefully....) so we'll see how it goes... more than likely end of the year or next year.


Finally, to clarify, I never said a welded diff is dangerous. I said the principle of having a welded diff for a road car is stupid.
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:10 pm

They're not that bad, I promise !!

Last one I drove had 350bhp of skyline GTS-t attached to it, I'd never driven the car, it was raining and I was in an absolute mad hurry to get home (100miles away) and back in order to catch a ferry !! It was an interesting first couple of minutes while I adjsuted to the car and after that was just gravy !!

:D :D
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:37 pm

fuck me, im suprised your head can fit in any of them cars to drive them.

ok so then you are by far superior to me and i ency your greatness oh wise one.

I only bought up the iam because you lot were saying that a welded diff takes away my ability to drive, see whats going on around me. so i thougth i would bring my ability back up a bit with my extra super dooper powers that i have learn.

so go drive with a welded diff and see how dangerous it is, i can guarantee you wouldnt even notice it until your going less than 10mph.
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:02 pm

its all about the rain and traffic cops at your door
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