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Lol - that would be epic. Blatting around Donington in a wafty 2.5 V6 Mondeo, while Calibra Turbo man comes up the inside and attempting to catch the Celica GT up ahead. :up:

I bet you're right, there. The whole area (both the body and the inside of the strip) looks remarkably clean for a car of Y-reg vintage.

I'd still be a little wary of VR at this current time. Taking PC1 into account, the inside of the car looks epic - anything outside the windscreen, less so. They've probably come on leaps and bounds with PC2 - however I would still recommend demoing it before buying any VR kit.

Nice to see someone getting a 182 who is both A) - keen to fix the immediate dangers and B) will do it some justice. Interesting comparisons to the R53 - especially in terms of directional change. The one over-riding memory I have of the MCS was that it felt heavy to drive - almost in a Clio...

Just check (my bad - I should have done that for you) - as to whether or not it needs any additional power connections going into it. Some cards are a little weird with their consumption demands - we've had standard 1050's here that required a single 6-pin cable for juice - then had 1050Ti's...

I'm 42 myself now and can't ever see me wanting to be shut of the 182! Lovely Lotus btw - tad jealous! :cool:

So true. Exiting from the Mafia or dis-joining the Yakuza is an easier step to take. Welcome back btw - do you think you might miss the 'rawness' of the 172/182 if you're purely looking for track work?

Graphics card memory is king these days - for the trifling amount of a further £25 - I would certainly be doubling the amount onboard to 4GB... https://www.scan.co.uk/products/palit-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-stormx-4gb-gddr5-graphics-card-768-core-1290mhz-gpu-1392mhz-boost

I remember Bruce Carver's classic Beach Head on the C64. My first game that I ever played on it and I've lost track of how many times I completed it. There was a section where you fired at the other ships with your own battleship. You guessed the range to the target and then a number appeared...

That was the first Ghostbusters game. Virtually impossible to complete, iirc? I never got anywhere near finishing it - I certainly didn't get to buy ECTO-1 anyway! One of the most soul-destroying games in terms of load times vs. actually working, was Racing Destruction Set. Took an absolute...

Get them to watch this...... 8 MINUTES 3 SECONDS before anything happens! Those were the days! :tongueout:

No, definitely not. Everything is so accessible now and instant. Even the media with consoles is a dying trend - "you mean I actually have to plug a cartridge/DVD/Blu-Ray in? Eeewwww." More so with the likes of faster and faster broadband - at the apartment block we're in, you can pre-order 1GB...

Must be just me - but I don't think that's too bad for an OEM piece of kit? I'd pay it. When you look at the front splitter from Renault however, at £238+VAT for a strip of plastic - that's an entirely different story!

Same here. I downloaded my entire PB album a while - never gone back to it. A shame really as aside from the ad-heavy usage, it wasn't too bad a service. For some reason, I just can't get on with the way Flickr works.

I never, ever, ever understand this?! Granted, not everyone wants to make the car they are selling looks concours. But even a mildly warm bucket of Fairy liquid infused water, used with a 99p sponge would make this appear MUCH better. If they can't be arsed to give it a simple once-over, what...

£54 for the 512k daughter board for my A500. Bought it from Stewart Electronics on Penny Meadow in Ashton-under-Lyne - I think they are still trading to this day? I only got it to play FTL's Dungeon Master as that needed a full 1MB to run. Struggle to remember the crap I did at work yesterday -...

I had both of those joysticks above. The top one was superb for quick left/right action - like when you had to waggle the stick for games like Daley Thompson's Decathlon, on the C64. I remember the sore arms from the b*****d 1,500m in that game!

The all important question.......... would you do it all again? :cool:

Is that monitor G-Sync as well, Andy?

Looking forward to trying a curved monitor with games. That one looks massive - lol. :)

How much did that set you back, Chris?

Given it's age, it might be worth giving it a clean and some under-seal, beneath.

Ah - learn something new! :)

Totally agree. Why do people play blind ignorance to maintaining their car - then whinge like a b**ch when the thing failed and made them late for work/not able to pick the kids up, etc. Especially on higher performance cars such as these. Don't sit there and expect "your mate" up the road to...

What are they like for rust, generally? As woefully reliable as other Jap metal?

53 plate? Must have been a very early one? I thought all 182's were registered '04 onwards?

How is @mace¬ going to cope now?? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40705466

Gaming simplicity matched with genius. Loved it!

Both cockpit areas look to have held up well. Kudos to the engineering geniuses that make these areas as resilient as they do.

My first PC hard drive - a Quantum IDE unit from November 1992. A grand total of 52MB. About two years later, I got another hard drive at 340MB capacity, though I can't recall who made it - possibly Maxtor. That was about £220 at the time - lol. Yeah - the arcade machines were on a level that...