Recent content by Hertz Donut

Yeah we got ours back in 1999 because it was big and supposedly safe. Looking at the HIC ratings I don't think my wife will be driving it again, she already suffers from a MTBI as it is.

Slightly OT but thanks for these, showing them to my wife shortly. She has an emotional attachment to our old VS but I'm guessing her emotional attachment to our kids may be stronger and she'll feel better about upgrading. Is it just me or is there even deformation above the fuel filler below...

Hey, the VS has headers and 'zorst, so must be somewhere up around the 700whp mark. If it had a cop chip and red coil packs too I'd never get rid of it. As it is I'll miss the soft mooing sounds and "skwee-skwee-skwee-skwee-skwee-skwee.." of every pulley when it's been raining, as well as the "I...

Looking around I'm getting that feeling myself, I suspect they're all gone in NZ. :( Thanks gents.

Fair point, I've never bought new before myself so warranties are a bit of a novelty. I'm more used to fixing things when they break, that's something else I'd have to get over until after the warranty runs out. Generally we buy a near-new car and run it into the ground, hence still rocking...

Probably looking for a unicorn here but I figure you guys will know better than me. With the WN Caprice rapidly running out of time we're considering grabbing a new one. Effectively our ideal car would be a LWB V8 Executive (in the old parlance) as we want the leg room and the lazy grunt...

I just stopped caring, it's quite liberating. I even let the mother-in-law drive it. I did pull a dent out of the left rear quarter panel one day (wife had parked it against a pole so hard it looked like drift damage) and the kids got quite upset, so I said they could have it there for 3 more...

Our son has just turned 10 years old and is already over 5ft tall, so we suspect he's going to end up somewhere around 6ft 5in. Accordingly our old VS Equipe beater is rapidly going to become more and more cramped in the back for him. This seems like as good an excuse as any to invest in...

And that's the crux of it right there. Doing 0-100 in under 3 seconds on a bike is different because you're hunkered forward on the bike, and while you're (hopefully!) wearing a helmet that adds weight to your head, you're also exerting the forces more in line with your neck and spine, thereby...

Before we can provide a suitable answer, please clarify the following: - What changes have the stage 3 racing chip made, and who supplied it? - What are the "other mods"?

I'd say Supercars (the category) will keep the same chassis layout since they're already a silhouette formula, the only major engineering change will be swapping to a V6T from a V8. So same/similar chassis to current, new panels, new engine. It's not like V8SC has consisted of converted road...

Wait a minute. I thought you flatted with Leonard, not Raj?

Took it past the 300,000km mark.

Spondylosis (spinal osteoarthritis) here. Basically my back's knackered, but I've done so much damage to it over the years I can't tell the difference. I've been warned I'm a bee's twanger away from developing sciatica as well but meh, can't slow down just cos something's sore.

Late to the party since I forgot my username (d'oh), but... I wouldn't go back. My childhood was pretty crap, surrounded by a family with varying levels of alcohol and drug addiction, broken marriages, violence and so on. I was first exposed to drugs when I was 4 years old and given my first...