New House = New Garage

It's a Start :)

Moved from Nottingham back to North Lincs and managed to find a nice new place to store my project :) . So here’s a nice little place to share my photos of the transition…

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Mazda 323F BA Coilovers!

BC-Racing Coilovers

My BC-Racing coilovers arrived today! First impressions are excellent. Before I fit them I thought I’d do a little write-up about all the coilovers I’ve used on my V6 Mazda 323F BA and share my knowledge for others. Hopefully this will aid others in their decision of what coilovers to go for…

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Faded Carbon Fibre Bonnet Restoration Fun

Covered :(

When I first bought this bonnet, I was the first in the UK to have one for the 323F and it became a major feature of my car (that and the Mazdaspeed seats!). It looked awesome, and as expected, was very light compared to the standard bonnet. Since I got it a few years ago it has suffered the wrath of the sun and a terrible driver (no, not me :P ). Here’s my attempt at my making it look half-decent again without shelling out hundreds of pounds for a new one…

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[jQuery] – Auto-Highlighting the Current Page in a Selection of Links

jquery-training

A situation came up where I was tasked with highlighting the current page in the side menu of a fairly large site.

Rather than assign a php variable on each page and compare it with every single side menu link to figure out which link to highlight, I came up with some javascript that handles it all automatically…

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[PHP] Previous Designs

39thRonin 3rd Design

So, this is my website’s fourth design (and probably not it’s last). I’m certainly no Web Designer, but I’m posting this here in case I ever need to show how my design skills have matured… and it’s always good to have a laugh at your own early work…

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Humble Beginnings

Freshly Sprayed

Having owned an underpowered 1.5 Mazda 323F in a lovely classic red for my first car, I decided that I wanted another. I loved the car; it’s teardrop shape, the pillarless doors, the reliability, but most of all… it’s handling potential. The problem was that the 1.5 engine was lacking in both power and torque…

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