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Just got to move the Xbone into the man cave And update the code thing for live. :)

Well I'll sort out gold in a mo. Was talking with Nevell on facebook about Bugeyes :D Then I'll be onski

Updated Darboots is that our Boots as the same person ? But lists updated come on chaps need more members :D

It's the car from Corrie ? ;)

Nice job look forward to seeing the end result [emoji106]

No worries mate will email shortly about it :D

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This is my dream home.. Alan Wilzig is just like you and me. He has a family, he loves cars and motorcycles and he's got a mile-long, 40-foot-wide full racetrack in his front yard. Did I say just like you and me? Ok, maybe not. And yet, who among us wouldn't at least consider building our own, full-scale racetrack if we were standing in his size-tens. Indeed, Wilzig, the son of a Holocaust survivor who turned $28 into an oil fortune during the 1960s and then bought a bank for good measure, built it because he could. To get an idea who we're talking about, after Wilzig built a wildly opulent house (a castle, really) in the Hamptons in 1997, a New York Times reporter asked him to name something that he'd left out – a toy, a feature, anything. "Nothing," he said. "If we would have thought of it, we would have built it." Arrogant? Perhaps to some; but the truth stands. Wilzig has ample latitude to think of and build stuff pretty much at whim. A graduate of the Wharton school, Wilzig doubled the value of his late father's bank, The Trust Company of New Jersey, during the 2000s to amass a high-nine-figure family fortune when North Fork Bankcorp bought it in 2004. And so, when he set out, that same year, to build a private racetrack on a 275-acre plot of land he'd bought in Taghkanic, New York, all Wilzig needed was a cocktail napkin, a pen and a few good ideas. As a serious motorcycle enthusiast and IMSA Lights racer, he wanted a place where he could both stretch the legs on his collection of cars, racing karts and race bikes, and also train for IMSA competition. Seeking inspiration for his $7.5 million project, Wilzig looked to Dutch billionaire Klaas Zwart, whose Ascari Race Resort in Marbella, Spain services hardcore and gentlemen racers as well as Zwart's own track-day cravings. Wilzig also called in motorcycle race instructor and former racer Keith Code, who convinced him what he really needed was to put in a banked turn. "NASCAR is pretty much the only form of racing I don't watch, Wilzig said, "but the banking has turned out to be everyone's favorite turn. My four-year-old daughter calls it the "crazy turn.'" I asked him if he's cribbed other turns from famous racetracks, a common practice among track builders. "I didn't go out and try to recreate any specific turns. But was I maybe thinking of the esses at VIR [Virginia International Raceway] when we did these?" he says, pointing to a set of corners on the back side of the track during a recent ride-along, "maybe, a little." So, with a plan in place, Wilzig started building his dream racetrack, in compliance, he says, with the town's "accessory use" zoning laws. And then, a dropped decimal place jammed a wrench into the works. Some of his neighbors got wind of a "$75 million" race complex being built, and gathered in opposition. The overblown number came from a typo in a New York Postarticle, but even a correction didn't quell the uproar. And so, Wilzig would spend the second half of the decade fighting an angry group of local residents, who'd assembled themselves as The Granger Group. There were peaks and valleys. In 2006, the local zoning board decided Wilzig's proposed track was not covered under "standard accessory use," based on Taghkanic's zoning ordinance. Wilzig then submitted a separate proposal specifying the track's use as "recreational," a subtle technical difference. The board approved it, but in 2010 a zoning board of appeals judge overturned that decision. By then, Wilzig was sitting on a professionally graded but unpaved lobster-claw-shaped track, with an injunction against its completion. A loss to the Grangers in New York State Supreme Court set the project back further. View gallery » And then, in early 2011, the New York State Court of Appeals found in favor of Wilzig's rights to complete the project. "My ‘revenge' is to be so quiet that they'll look like absolute imbeciles for making such a fuss," he told a local news reporter. While it doesn't have a long, high-speed straight, Wilzig's impeccably-finished track — with orange-white-curbing to match his racing-team color — does have nine turns threading through more than 70 feet of elevation changes. The effect is a very skills-oriented technical course that can be run in several configurations, both clockwise and counterclockwise. The most memorable corner is indeed the banking, which ascends a natural hillside. It's a true bowl, in which a driver must start three-quarters of the way up and dive back down, curling inward to reach the exit point at full throttle. Another tricky but well laid-out corner is an uphill ess that crests early, demanding a leap-of-faith turn. Like the corkscrew at Laguna Seca, Wilzig explains, if you see where you're headed, it's already too late. A long 180-degree turn forces an early throwaway, but cutting in and getting on the gas early allows a near straight line through the next two ess turns. That part was was originally set to be completely straight, but Keith Code persuaded Wilzig to kink it to add more interest. The last turn before the front straight is a downhill, decreasing-radius corner that takes patience, but the reward is a 125-mph run. Indeed, Wilzig Racing Manor, as it's called, is the largest racetrack zoned for private recreational use in the U.S. Also on site is a combination clubhouse, museum for Wilzig's car and bike collection and race shop for his IMSA car and racing karts (including a 50-hp, 125 mph rotary-powered kart). His collection is a story for another day.

Savage is by far the best man to speak with :) Sorry Savage nominated you :D Side Skirts I could live with but I guess up close and in the flesh might not look good. But I agree with keeping a splitter P1 style splitters look the nuts in my opinion on classics. I've had wing mirrors like them too very hard to see out of :(

I'm tempted to try it. I've just been speaking to one chap he said hes been using this for 3 weeks now and not had a problem with it. So I'm tempted.

I've only found by choosing the cars individually the searching for tunes and gamertag name the only way :(

Just for you MrB because I love you so much http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/preview-iso

Yeah I know when I was putting in the car pc my sensor or what I believed was it. Was full of fluff and dust.

Yeah I agree with Dino. I've never Done one always just paid for it because I know there a pig to do and with no set of ramps to work under i just don't fancy it. But between. 350 to 400 for a cluth supplied and fitted ftom most place's.

Hello mate welcome to s.o.c Looks like a good project. Doesn't look to bad from the front but not a big fan of the rear bumper.

I've learnt something today. I never knew they didn't come on below a certain temp. [emoji4] and at least ypu know now I guess. [emoji106]

Feel free to post some pictures. [emoji6]

I'm sure I could stick better tyres on they'd all be about the same still but will go over the class. I know technically it doesn't matter. But we'll see. Definitely have an hours test this weekend and start it next weekend.

As said above mate thats what it means. 650 sounds like a bargain. And if you have some snow plenty of fun to be had [emoji6] its like sledging for grown ups.

Exactly I know my tunes lively but was done a little on purpose that for some intense moments lol.

Oh nice well we all like our project thread's on here. We have a section just for the builds and re builds so feel free to start one mate. And I'll pin it so it doesn't get lost in random post's.

Well it will need sorting out to which tunes being used. I don't mind just as long as there all competitive with each other. Hence why ive been trying to get sone testers lol.

Its on a Friday mate we've been offered a club stand but same weekend as japfest don't think enough is going to make the minimum up. I can't remember the date lol 15th of some month [emoji1] I'm on the phone at the minute but its in the events thread.

I'll make a dedicated post about the one off practise tomorrow anyway so people can see it so doesn't get lost in posts. For anyone who doesn't keep checking all the posts :) I've been playing Forza but not even practised with the cars just been messing about in other cars like the KTM Xbow

I'd have thought so certainly need to be able to program the ECU. And if you're like me and don't have a clue about mapping I'd leave it for the professionals. But if you have a laptop and relevant software with a USB cable that connects up you can do it from home. I know a Lawyer in his retirement does it from home for people for £150 a remap. I wouldn't use him though not with my car I'd rather have someone that does it for a living.