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Andy, email me them, or post me a link and I can convert them for you - st3ph3n @ st3ph3n . com

Dougster, I tried mate, but he just wont be persuaded.

I was 104 yesterday down at the station just off J11 of the M74 as I was down at one of our sites.

Luckily it was just a wee top up.

oobster, one more bit of spend for the year is definetly geometery setup properly. My car feels ridiculously better on the motorway. WELL worth it.

I'll be interested to see how much the car settles as I'm still considering the springs as a future mod.

eddie:

I thought this was going to be a thread about womens hygiene products. I'm sorely disappointed.

Stephen. Owned a 1.4 civic as my first car, kept it for 3 years and loved it. Traded "up" to a Vectra I got a MASSIVE discount on. Was miffed with it for 3 years other than it was comfortable to drive and had a nice sound system. Finally got job security last November, autotradered the Vectra, shifted it to a mate in the end and before the ink on the cheque was dry I was at motorpoint in Glasgow licking the black Impreza in the forecourt to mark it as mine. A week later I collected it and I've had a smile on my face ever since. I have loads of favourite things about it. Friends, family, colleagues, passers by love it, but I didn't buy it for attention. I bought it because it's great fun.

1. GUMBALL ..............04 STI WR BLUE

2. WRXMANIA ...........03 WRX SILVER

3. DOUGSTER ...........98 Civic 1.5 v-tec

4 CORSA.................. 04 STI WR BLUE

5 5COOBY................ 03 CORSA 1.2

6 jc scoob ................99 UK GREEN

7 mrs jcscoob...........00UK WAGON

8 Billyboy..................55 sti9 wif PPP

9 Spince...................02 WRX Silver

10 DanTerzo............Wr Blue terzo

11 GordyNo1...........WR1

12 seevers ..............01 Bugeye

13 andywrx ............04 WRX Blue

14 st3ph3n ............. 05 WRX Black

MOTHER F............

Didn't get out till after half 6 because someone needed a report to get info out of our unweildly massive rubbish mission critical database that I can barely use and understand never mind program.

Next time. Hounestly. I will make it.

I'm in here till 6 for my sins tonight, not sure if I'll be able to get home then over to Stepps in time.

Got a boot full of printers and monitors that I'd need to empty before a run too!

In the interests of declaring things to Mr Insurance would things like brake pads, tyres, etc. that weren't manufacturer approved/fitted count as modifications?

I use mine for Sat Nav, albeit with an external bluetooth GPS receiver. To think the first phone I had came with no non-phone features, and the second only had snake.

They're less Bricky and frankly sh*t than they used to be now that real manufacturers are making 3G phones. Still a bit bulkier than normal. Think they've got most of the battery sapping issues ironed out too.

I'm using an Orange SPV C500 at the moment and when I use any of the company Nokias it feels like stepping back into the dark ages. I'll never buy another type of phone again.

They use t-mobile for their 2G backup from what I remember. You'll only get 3g services (if you actualy want them?) around the major towns and cities, but you shouldn't have problem with 2G regular phone services everywhere else.

Quality cal. Showed it to my mate in Canada that's a big Honda fan and he loved it too.

There's no one can quite make a NA engine like Honda.

Not sure about the UK spec ones, but the JAP one simple needs flashed to version 2.0 firmware. It has built in wifi so you can hook it up to your home/office network to download updates, play games or browse the interweb.

Ultima holds the world record for 0-100-0. Less than 10 seconds. It can also hold ridiculous lateral-gs.

Z cars down south bought one and took out the big weighty yank engine and strapped in 2 1300cc Hayabusa Lumps, 1 powering the back wheels and one powering the front. There's no official figures for it, but I imagine it would destroy pretty much anything.

Is said brewers fare likely to have the Scotland game on the telly?

A set of Volk TE37 wheels. AYE RIGHT! Like i've got 1300 notes to spend on wheels. A boy can dream though.

Wheels are on next years list. Liking the work emotion ones. Lightweight and reasonably light on the pocket.

I should probably not buy anything for a while. The car will need a service before the end of the year, road tax, insurance.

But anyone who really knows me will realise that these expenses come out of a different fund in my brain, not the fun fund. So expect a DV and maybe something else before december.

EDIT: I forgot I've got a cusco front strut brace coming from hypertech. Should have got it on Friday but the supplier's one was broken so they're just waiting on a new one.

Are we talking an old mini or a new mini with a type R engine in it?

Either way it must be like the proverbial off a shovel.

Will we be seeing you on track later in the month Cal?

Please ignore that thread a moment ago, I am a blathering foooool.

Anyhoo. Geometery + droplinks = MAGIC.

If anyone knows the tight right hander coming from the Kincardine bridge onto the west bound M9 then I took that 5 miles an hour faster today with much less Drama than I used to get at 5 miles an hour slower. I also got on the power much earlier and the car just stayed planted.

Once I've bedded in these brakes I'll be faster than Jacko in Toys'r'us.

Apparently if you PM Wullie you can get SCottish Scoobies Supporter to show you're a paid up member.

Sheep, 99.9 indeed. I'll be popping back in tomorrow night on the way home I think, get as much as I can whilst the going is bad and not terrible.

I was a big fan of Juiced. Got the first version on the xbox that was never released due to the publisher going down the tubes. Played it until it got dull - when the only way to move up a class was modifying yank tanks that handled like the Titanic in a sea full of glaciers.

Moved onto NFSU2 in recent weeks and just about completed that. Just got an Impreza which is being tweaked to replace my 10 star Evo. Can't be winning races with a tool from the darkside you understand. Any game that has proper drifting down the side of a mountain gets a thumbs up from me.

For my PSP I have Ridge Racers (japanese), Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (US), Hot shots Golf (US, aka Everybody's golf in UK and JAP) and then the recent addition of TOCA 2 on Saturday there. Not a bad game amongst them I must admit. Impressed with TOCA2. Graphics aren't quite PS2 quality, but with a screen as small it doesn't matter. It also lets me race Aussie V8s round Bathurst and that is indeed a grand thing.

Roll on Gran Turismo Portable though.

Well done Cal. That's a marathon more than I could have ran.

That last comment's put me right off my lunch though.