wana shoot the **** off thread .. here's a place to do it folks..

++dez;

FROM TAKA:
Dez was soooo right. This Lounge is for any **** that is not quite RX-8 related. That was the initial intention of this thread. I will move some of the **** posts to this Lounge without notice. This is the thread that they belong.

 

Sounds good, as long as someone doesn't try and hijack this thread by bringing up a technical question about the RX-8. OMG, this might be the first thread ever that stays on topic by completely going off topic! LOL.

 

Hey, that big old three seater over there is mine .

 

alfa, bentley, citroen, daewoo, ferrari, gogomobile, holden, jaguar, kia, lambo, mercedes, nissan, oldsmobile, pontiac, rover, suzuki, toyota, bloody volvo, .... see not a singel mention of a mazda ... d'oh !!!!! I just blew it!!

 

<-- pulls up his big fat old chair!!

 

You'd think L&L could put his thongs and coffee mug away ... and is that messy pile comics timbo's?


Drove the little bloke home from school today ... 100m from the school gates on a left turn he calls out to some "older boys". The boys started hooting and yelping, my son sat back around with a huge smile and said "YESSSS!".

I think his street cred went up ~200%

 

Wouldn't be a lounge if there weren't a few books about...

Just read the new Matthew Reilly - Scarecrow. It's more of the same. I think I liked Contest the most, his writing style was fresh then.

 

It's been a couple of weeks since I read the RX-8 book... must be time to read it again :D

 

Hi sco, get comfy...

 

I don't think I want to read pulp thrillers like Matthew Reilly. Maybe I'll bring along a copy of the absolutely brilliant new book by Neil Stephenson "Quicksilver".

And , damn it, we need some wine. I want the finest wines available to humanity, I want them here, and I want them now.

 

Hey……! where have all my comics gone? I bet L&L has borrowed them :D

 

Guys,

Welcome to Hymee Bar and Grill - bought to you by Dez

Cheers,
Hymee.

 

Awe - who farted?

Smelly bastards.

 

Sorry

I may just have to start "The Bathroom" thread!

 

I thought it might have been you, but I didn't recognise your voice

 

I have $10 on Hoof Hearted in his next race.

 

OK, here's a bit of interesting reading ( well ... it is to me )

I'll just throw it on the coffee table...

http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebing...welcome_e.html

and if you found that interesting - maybe to read in the loo...

http://www.bridgeport.edu/sed/projec...ngh/Neuron.doc

 

Hymee, can you make the lounge sticky?

( I don't believe I just typed that :p )

 

Ah - now we're talking - ye ha! good stuff guys!

As for books - God I wish that f8cking Schofield would get killed!

I concur with you're comment about Mathew Reily's "Contest" - that was just pure brilliance on the first count of his authorship.

I was pretty impressed with Ice Station - as a one off it would have been a quick evening read and a laugh, but the trip to Area 4 was just abuse of a good relationship - the latest - well I'm reading it - but **** - there's supporting young Aussie authors and then there's just wasting $35 bucks!

I have to say you guys have started to leave this place in quite a state - move that frigging furnature back to where it should be, pick those magazines up, throw out the old newspapers, and oh man..

Who left these sticky glossy mags under the cushions! please, leave them in your bedrooms ok!

As for farting - that's just filthy..

Bloody great to see you're all into the Lounge idea, cheers Hymee, viva la technico threads!

I'm tempted to start a Drive Story thread - would anyone else get into short story type sharing of memorable drives etc?

Much thanks goes to Hymee for a fix to my Night Drive thread title - you're affirming your selection as Moderator man, way to go.

Say, I understand that there's no real technical reason for putting a grill on the left hand small vent, but doesn't it look odd being blank? I'm wondering if it's possible to put a grill on the left port just to keep the front end look balanced?

I did also talk to the manager at Euro Mazda's service center when I dropped by there yesterday to get them to drop 2 litres of "the good oil" into the '8 and I asked in as round about fashion as I could if putting some form of grill on the front end might void any warranty etc, and with a broad brush stroke picture of the Hymee Bar and Grill kit, he firstly said 1) **** that sounds like a great idea, 2) Make sure Mazda doesn't steel the idea and rip off the money you can make from it, 3) no, it won't void anything on the car's maintenance etc. unless it makes a major change to the air flow, which it sounds like it won'd * grin *

No night drive tonight sorry - I really wanted to but hey, I guess every night might illustrate my issues a little too well.

I had the pleasure of meeting Kev today, a really nice guy - hey Kev! Thanks a zillion for the hot chocholate - my shout next time - and wow, I had no idea that they red paint was so neat in the sun light!

Really great to start to get f2f with some of you, Tanaka, Kev, and I'm hoping more soon clan - don't be strangers!

I've started to get a pretty good idea of how many of us are in Sydney now, even if certain folk don't update their profiles * tsk tsk *. There's more of us in Sydney than I thought ( in the forum that is ).

Hey, I'm thinking of making up some forum URL and info business cards, for $83 I can get around 250 of them printed at Kinko over night, will get y'all to preview and comment on the design before I get it printed pls - will give bundles of them out at each of the Dez's Night Drive gatherings so you'all can hand them out to folk you know, even if they don't have either an RX8 or even a Mazda.

Oh man - that Sony "Cyber Shot" TVC just played on free to air on #10 - I love that girl in her jim jams sleep waling near naked - hmmm...

Hey, has anyone got a really good hi res rotary logo I can use as the starting point for a T-Shirt design by the way?

I'm planning to knock up a one time run of limited numbers of RX8 / Rotary Logo T's for fun, leme know if you have a good hires image of the logo I can start with - leme know if you're interested in a T, I'll get costs and such locked down tomorrow, but it should be around the $20 each - going to get color - ideas welcome.

As for posting URL's for MOTOP papers, jesus, this ain't the study or sun room guys, light reading please * grin *

++dez;

ps: anyone here own a SMART car yet? I'm thinking of getting one and having it painted up with the http://WebSearch.COM.AU color and URL for fun!

 

Consider it stuck

 

Stuck?

che cosa č esattamente quello una volta di pių?

++dez;

 

Dez,

It could be possible to fit a grille to the LH side where the oil cooler should be but I think it will be much harder than the other grilles because of the shape of the black plastic insert. The stainless steel mesh doesn't respond well to bending and IIRC it will need to be bent a bit to fit properly.

I'm not too worried because I'm thinking of fitting fog lights to my cloth pack if I can find them at the right price. My grille is matt black so it's quite hard to spot anyway, so the car doesn't look unbalanced. I'm not sure how noticeable Hymee's is as I haven't seen the powdercoated version, only his prototype which was spray painted gloss.

Cheers

sco

 

high res pics were here once...

http://media.mazda.ch/main/indexF.htm

 

Ok - now we are having a technical discussion in the Lounge. D'oh.

The current Hymee oil cooler grille design mounts to the oil cooler. No chance of having a 2nd one the same design if there is only one cooler to mount on. You cant notice it anyway, as it blends with the cooler.

Cheers,
Hymee.

 

Wouldn't get too worried about the oil cooler grill looking unbalanced Dez, you can't even notice it. IMO they just look like a couple of black holes next to the fog lights unless you are deliberately analysing them up close.

I've had a few drinks tonight. Anyone mind if I sleep on the couch?

edit: Don't you hate simultaneous posts....