It seems my entry on 4×4 vehicle – a Nissan Terrano II – posted last summer attracted a fair amount of interest.

If you like to know more about it – email my brother at leigh [-at-] sterry.me.uk as he did most of the work! (I had to walk the dog instead).

Anyhow… the following additions have been made…

* Quickshift gear lever
* New black 16″ by 10.5″ wheels
* 33″ MT tyres by Bronco
(I don’t recommend buying from them as they are unreliable with deliveries – promised to deliver 6 tyres within a week, then admitted none in stock but the factory has it and be ready in 3 days, then said it’s ready in a week – it took six full weeks – it would be fine if they’d said this in the first place!)
* Bull bars re-fitted (needed new mounting brackets after body lift)
* Roof racks (seems it stuck up there as it’s too high up to reach and take off!

More (and bigger pictures in the gallery)

I decided to build my first desktop PC this side of the millennium, mostly by buying cheap parts from eBay. With my job type of being on rotation, I can wait patiently for the next item if my bid failed or the item I want isn’t on eBay yet. One or two things are brought first hand as they are newly released.

So far, I’ve put together quite a high-end spec for the price of a normal high end desktop. Not the most simple of things, and certainly not simple even in computing terms. Needless to say, it runs like a bat out of hell, even with a 2560×1920 resolution to drive.

Precision T5400 Tower Chassis for main system
Unbranded 18 5.12″ bays wide Tower Chassis for hard drives
2* Quad Core Xeon 2.5GHz CPU
8* 2GB 667MHz FB-DIMMS, total 16GB RAM
2 * SAS RAID Controllers, 16 and 8 ports each and both with 256MB of cache total
4* 72GB 2.5″ 15,000RPM SAS, RAID-0
4* 72GB 3.5″ 15,000RPM SAS, RAID-0
8* 146GB 3.5″ 15,000RPM SAS, RAID-0
1* 1TB 3.5″ 7,200 RPM SATAII
PCIe 16x GeForce 8800 Ultra, 768MB Superclocked Graphics Card
PCIe 1x Xonar D2X Sound Card
PCIe 1x 54g Wireless Card
USB Mini Flush Bluetooth Adapter
Blu-Ray RW/HD-DVD ROM/DVD RW/CD RW SATAII 5.12″ Drive
DVD-ROM SATAII 5.12″ Drive
30″ Dell 2560×1920 Monitor
Windows XP 64bit Edition
2* Belkin 1200VA UPS units

I just got to figure out how to keep the kit cool…