SimonB

A guy at work was talking about a place round by Hurn somewhere that does powdercoating and stuff, I'm sure he said he'd had some wheels refurbed there. I'll ask him on Monday where it was.

You want wireless LAN on there, then you can get in your car in the morning and download the mp3s you fancy for the day off your main PC. Or upload logs so you can have a look on you PC when you get in etc. And you could park up in a WiFi hotspot and get internet access. Oh, and make the thing voice activated. I've been working on speech recognition stuff for a while now, it would be quite easy to use one of the desktop dictation packages to make all your "carputer" functions voice activated...

If that price included the correct V160 gearbox oil it would be very cheap, so I would make sure they know that they MUST use the correct Toyota stuff only. Nothing wrong with NGKs, it just means you have to replace them more often.

EGT is very hard to install as you really want the sensor before the turbos, so that means drilling and tapping the exhaust manifold without getting and swarf in it. AFR is useless unless you get a wideband sensor and gauge, something like the AEM one. That's easy to install if you have decatted and have a pipe with a bung like the Chris Wilson one.

Just buy a convertor from Pete Betts (aka Thor), wire it in and stick a MPH sticker over where it says kph. You can convert your odo to count up in miles or leave it, and you will also delimit the car. Do a search, there's loads of info on here.

That will be the ABS ECU (the metal box) and the electric arial amplifier thingy.

Can you imagine that! "Anyone know who this belongs to, oh, Geoffrey there you are, I think that's yours!". "Oh cheers, wondered what I'd done with that, anyone got a needle and some thread!".

Dunno yet, but I probably can't make this one - I may well have a much better offer (of the female variety... ).

Nope, that will be the stock amp for the stereo. The ECU is under a black pastic cover under the carpet in the passenger footwell.

Spotted you going the other way down the Christchurch bypass (away from Christchurch) about 13:15 today Tim. You didn't appear to see me though !

I think it would only be people that went to court rather than just paid that could have their cases re-opened, everyone else has already admitted guilt by sending the form back.

Well said that man!

Whoa! A 1.8l fireblade, that would be fun...

AFAIK they are legal as long as you can't see the light source directly. I.e. if you mount them behind the skirts/bumpers so you can only see the light reflected off the ground and not direct.

Spotted a yellow Supra yesterday (Sunday) just off the M3 which I was heading towards round by Fleet way. Can't tell you which road exactly because I didn't really know where I was going, which is why I didn't notice you until you were going past and didn't wave! You flashed at me though!

I don't think that would work. It's not like a no plate reader where it only identifies you as you go past a fixed point, it would pick up cars when they were in range, and the range would vary. So you wouldn't be able to say when exactly the car was at a fixed point. I suppose it would work if they were miles apart to get your average speed maybe.

I don't think so, it would identify all the cars passing by, but not which one was which. So you couldn't tell which car was speeding if there were several in range. I think it's more for toll roads.

Blitz DTT for me. The difference between the DTT and the FATT is the FATT works on rpm whereas the DTT has a boost guage and uses boost to decide the cool down time. Which is handy if you don't already have a boost guage as it has peek hold etc. The car specific wiring harnesses make life a lot easier as you just unplug the connector that goes to the ignition key and plug the harness inbetween. If you don't get the harness you will have to splice into a few wires instead (that's what I had to do as they didn't have facelift harnesses at the time). It's still not too hard, but the wires are pretty thick and it involves soldering of course so you're better off with the harness. They pretty much all have the handbrake thing I think.

I've just got my copy of "In car 956", a DVD from Duke that's basically loads of in-car footage from various tracks with Derek Bell driving a Porsche 956 in 1983. What an amazing DVD! There's a 6:41 lap of the 'ring on there, which is the 5th fastest time ever! It's mad, he's doing 195mph on the downhill section half way round. There's a couple of laps round Le Mans as well, before they put the chicanes in the Mulsanne straight. The Porsches were hitting 246mph down there apparently, certainly looks fast! If you have any interest in motorsport at all you have to see it. I've got another DVD with a few laps on, the Skyline one, also from Duke. It's one of the original development drivers who's done 10000 laps round there going round in a seriously modded Skyline on a public day.

Sounds like they may have converted a 30fps original video to 25fps for PAL - that will produce a juddery video. Probably better off with the NTSC one, most DVD players will play these as a PAL picture at 60Hz rather than 50Hz, which nearly all TVs can cope with.

I've had mine 3 years 2 months now.

If you're going to drive down there I wouldn't go for trackday spec tyres - they'd be the last thing you'd want in the wet on the autobahn! I would just go for an oil cooler and take a break every now and then to cool things down. You'll probably be doing that anyway, and you certainly won't be pushing that hard for quite a while.

Facelift RZ had big brakes as standard, the RZ-S it was optional.

Oh, I dunno, depends how many times you have to stop to remap your engine! Ok, that was a bit below the belt.....

Don't think you'd call it bone stock somehow though would you?