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Banzai magazine made contact after the Spring Action Day sessions at Castle Combe, requesting an interview and photoshoot. Photo session took place this morning, don't know what issue the feature and pics will be in. Photographer asked if he could also take a few shots of the IS-F, some with the track car, but not sure why. Will be running at Japfest, Silverstone tomorrow.

That's one hell of a termite nest

We've upped the rebound but cannot reduce the coil preload as it's already on the minimum. Softer springs perhaps? Puts the power down OK but could be better. uv5jc.mp4

https://streamable.com/jxfzo Hope this works. Video clip coming out of Quarry Corner at Combe. If you slow if to half speed you'll see the problem a bit clearer.

BC Racing RM Series Everything polybushed and Whiteline adjustable ant-roll bars. The car was originally one of two built by Rogue Motorsport for class 3 of the Britcar 24 Hours race.

We'll give it a go, Already adjusted the damper rebound. Cannot really equate the weight characteristics of a ZZW30 with this car as although the 3.5 is a bit heavier it's a lot further forward and the front under tray/aero and cooling mods also move the weight forward. The rear aero is 2mm aircraft spec aluminium and the wing is carbon fibre so very light. The full roll cage weight also has a front bias. Would really like to corner weight the car to know for certain. It certainly sticks to the ground, not twitchy at all at speed but I guess the torque when booting it out of the slower corners when the front aero has little or no effect will try and lift the front end. Couldn't feel any bounce or loss of traction coming out of corners but the video footage clearly showed it.

It corners really well, bags of torque exiting enabling a lot of speed to be carried through. However, looking at video taken from the side of the track it seemed to bounce a little accelerating out of a few of the tighter corners. The springs are very stiff although there's little or any preload and the shocks on the rear are at there softest setting. Was hoping to load the relevant footage so Tony could give his opinion, preferably before the Rotrex S/C is fitted in a month or two.

Deciding having the Evo as both track and daily driver was a bad idea it was sold and a cheapo standard Celica acquired as a daily before the 'ZZW30' was purchased. A 3.5 litre V6 (ex Lexus IS350) occupies the space where the original 1.8 sat plus a fair bit of space behind the seats in the cockpit. A large radiator, oil coolers and two big electric fans sit where the spare wheel used to be so apart from the hardtop, door skins and a few suspension bits there's not a lot left of the ZZW30. It ran in white and orange livery last year but after the rear offside wheel shed its rim at the end of the season we decided to redesign/rebuild the front and rear aero together with a complete wrap in dark metallic grey. Finished it the Thursday night before Castle Combe Spring Action Day Saturday 30th March. It ran very well and glad to report nothing fell off!

I've always had an interest and karted and hill climbed in my younger days. My son inherited the petrolhead gene and we rebuilt the engine and supercharged his old Celica GT for the track. Sold that to a gentleman that brought a trailer over from Holland to pick it up. Sale helped to purchase an Evo IX which was overbored and fitted with uprated turbocharger which he tracked ...see vid. IMG_0809.mov

Yes, he's got a different body ours a different everything else except for hardtop and maybe a few suspension components.

Why does our MR2 look nothing like yours Tony?

I'm not, the IS-F stays in it's warm garage most of the winter months and the Rav 4 on all weather tyres gets to do it's stuff. Still have a full set of IS250 17'' rims fitted with Pirelli P-Zero winter tyres in storage if anyone is interested (fits IS250, IS200/300).

Yes I agree, stupid question. Basically the oil companies have to pay whatever it costs.

Most subsea and sea level components including pipelines have sacrificial anodes welded to them. The anodes are made from a metal alloy with a more "active" voltage (more negative electrochemical potential) than the metal of the structure it is protecting (the cathode). The difference in potential between the two metals means the anode material corrodes in preference to the structure. The anodes sacrifice their material to the benefit of the steel. It may look rusty but the basic integrity is sound. Anodes are replaced before they lose critical mass. All the equipment being installed now has decommissioning costs built in as when its service life ends it has to be removed to return the the sea bed to its original state.

Yes it has, also vents in the front wings to expel the air from the front ducts.

Same as the Lexus ISF, each wheel has its own corner due to staggered width and blade direction. You often see them incorrectly fitted with the thicker section of the blades trailing when they should be leading (with the wheel rotating clockwise, of course),

Excellent, he stuck to his principles and left Wheeler Dealers after the original production company was taken over by an American company (Velocity) and they decided that the in depth workshop content was too difficult (read that as too expensive) to film so they intended to dilute that content in favour of more of the garbage that Mike Brewer presented. Such a pity after building up the show over the last 13 years, I guess it was victim of its own success and the new production company couldn't resist the temptation of profiteering from what is currently a very large worldwide fan base. Mike Brewer continues Wheeler Dealers with Ant Anstead as his new sidekick, but I doubt if it will be anywhere as good as before.

All OK this end Rich. Shame about the IS200, but my daughter managed to damage the offside front corner and crash bar which made it uneconomical to repair. Sold it to a friend of my son who apparently just wanted the LSD for his IS200 drift car. Just heard he's now debating whether to repair it and put it back on the road so it may live on

Hi Geoffers, trust you are well. I'm now retired but appear to have less time now than when I was working . Also purchased one of those Akron wiper blade refurbishers, just need to get my mate who speaks fluent German and Russian (he used to be an RAF 'eavesdropper' at GCHQ) to translate the instructions for me...

Ah-ah, 11 years and counting but I know I haven't been on for a while. Sold the Lexus IS200 Sportnav a couple of days ago, only had it 16 years . Anyone want a set of 17'' IS250 wheels with Pirelli Sottozero winter tyres?

There's one in Stroud that rises out of the payment between certain times in the evening, when it's serviceable. Haven't heard of anyone attempting to stand on it waiting for it to come out of the pavement but I'm sure someone has. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-38904790

Yes

Yes, always a surprise when it happens as it does pull you back into the seat with quite a force. Goes back to normal after braking. Just thankful that the designers had the sense not to incorporate the air bags in that system as there are 10 or more of them.

The proximity parking sensors go off if I get too near another vehicle, or someone walks in front or behind the car, but the audible beep which warns for impending collision only goes off when the software computes the current speed with braking distance. The beep is the first indication, followed by the seat belt tensioners operating just before auto braking. In a traffic jam this doesn't happen, unless I guess if plant my foot on the accelerator to deliberately try to ram the car in front (no I haven't actually proved this). All this happens in standard drive mode. In radar cruise mode it regulates speed to keep a pre-determined gap to the vehicle in front. This gap has three settings which you could classify as far, mid and close, but even the 'close' gives enough of a gap for other vehicles to move into from another lane (usually a Volvo), which then triggers the belts and auto brake (the reason I rarely use cruise except in average speed camera situations, and of course fog).

The IS-F does that regardless off whether the radar cruise is on or not. Alarm goes off as soon as it detects anything stationary or suddenly traveling slower than I'm going, and it doesn't only react to what's immediately in front.