Shaun@TDi

Tucked away in the modified car section....

I'd much rather have one of these....

this is one with the R34 front end transplated on. The ultimate estate car!!

..... that in series 4 and 5, nearly every single terrorist, regardless of rank or importance to the plot drives a Lexus?

at first i thought it was just an odity but the missus noticed it too...

I believe i'll be escorting some loverly ladies again (if he upon high gives it the thumbs up).

(there's no pimp smilie yet)

I'm planning on going. Not been to finale before...

Easy with the lewd comments regading the lady boobs.

Remember - one of them is Sam's sister.... haha

I'm looking forward to Rambo 4.

I may even break out the box set before i go to see it. :D This new ones lookes extremely violent though - something i think the previous three were a little dry on...

Whats the joke?

that he loves cake and saw the ad on telly and thought yummy? or that it took 2 days of chewing a real car before realising it wasn't cake and sending it back ? :shutit:

theres always one isn't there.... lol

John Prescott took delivery of his new Skoda two days ago, but it was sent back to the dealership this morning.....

.....after he discovered it wasn't made of cake.

it wont be a fight :D it will be a massicar :D

from who's point of view though? hehe

i might have to dig out the drifting NSX - especially now i've got it to handle.

or even the porsche 914, kitted out with the 959 engine a running gear....

too many choices. Nodoubt though - will be interesting.

corner eh?

I challenge you to a duel! *slaps Continuity across the face with a glove*

i put together this maniac.

you cant beat detroit muscle.

thats a good idea - as long as all the cars are reasonabley similar.

i'd be up for that.

sorry i didnt reply yesterday shaun.. I was on my lunchbreak and just doing a couple of bits - no time for a race!

no probs. I had yesterday off work and the weather was terrible.

thats not a bad idea.

I prefer to turn off al the driver aids too.

i dont use traction control, stability control, ABS or brake assist. I think this way, it teachesyou to be a better driver

Any fool can throw a car around with all the aids on but you actually have to concentrate to get the things to do what you want with everything turned off.

The NSX me and Sam put together is a N/A screamer with about 500hp and is a bitch to get round the circuits. Even with Sam's chassis dynamics and geometry knowledge (which in the game is almost perfectly realistic) its still alot of hard work.

Not like the old days of Gran Tourismo when you'd simply put slicks on, deck the hell out of it try to initiate oversteer through power. If you did that with Forza 2, you wind up with a gravel trap picnic!

Dont let the graphics thing fool you Lee, it took me an absolute age to put the TDI logo together - only to realise that i'd done it wrong!

I was LED to believe (wrongly i might add) by a friend that you could overlay any pic you wanted. Seems you cant.

Although, i was racing a guy last night who has Halo2 graphics all over his car. Theres no way he could have done it with the tools you're given.

Unless i'm missing something.....

P.S. Lee - did you get your package today?

I'll be up for some Forza action tonight. The missusis on the night shift so i wont get moaned at!

Continuity - add me to your list. I'll do my best to remember but once i get racing.....

:D

Got around to takin some pics last night.

The Golf

and the NSX

The geometry still needs doing on the NSX but she's getting there...

My golf drives like a dream. Sam and myself spent quite some time setting up the geometry to suit my 'tell the car - not ask the car' style of driving.

i like it! - cant help but notice that no-one else is going sideways?!?

i assume its abit lively is it? :D

I've now finished my MK2 Golf 16V.

transplanted the VR6 into it and turbo'd it too - also grafted in the AWD set-up.

638bhp!

also altered the gear ratios to a top speed of 182mph..... money cant buy the brakes that i need!

isnt there a way of saving your cars image online so others can view it? i've sorted some wiched graphics for it.

PS Mat - I've built a Monster replica with the new proposed vinyl graphics!!!!

XBOX 360: ShaunElyJenkins

always up for some Forza 2 action.....

My gamer tag is 'ShaunElyJenkins' if anyone wants to add me.

Both me and Sam@tdi have played this but have only scratched the surface.

I have spent most of my time driving cars i've driven in real life - i can honestly say that the VW Golf 16V Mk2 is perfect in representation. Handling, looks, sound, reaction characteristics - they're all spot on.

Sam says exactly the same thing about the Honda Civic Type-R. Even down to the Vtec details...

The added bonus we had, was we were playing it on a projection unit so the screen was about 8 feet by 6 feet! Crystal clear too!

Here are two short video files taken of Ellz's car whilst it was on the dyno earlier in the week.

They're not of any power runs but just some steady state tuning that Sam was doing.

I'll be forwarding the pictures of the bumper mods to Ellz to post up.