SimonB

It certainly seems to be doing OK for the beeb, the amount of people I've heard talking about it in the pub. If I had a quid for every time I've heard someone say "fire up the quatro" I'd be a rich man...

When you're talking racing cars, the main reason for choosing the brakes they do is what the regulations allow. They would all go for the largest they could if allowed to! Obviously if you were preparing a Supra for racing or track use only you would strip as much weight as possible and end up with a bare shell. Most people use their cars on the road mainly, and still want to do track days etc, so that's not practical.

More likely they just noted the reg down wrong than somebody went to the trouble of cloning your plate - it wouldn't be any good on a different model or colour car anyway.

There should be a port on the regulator that will have a blanking plug in that you can screw a little manual gauge into. The one at the front on this pic of an Aeromotive FPR:- http://www.mvpmotorsports.com/Merchant/aero_afpr1.jpg

I think Homer was after one of these for his rebuild, might be worth giving him a PM.

Could be any size then I guess. Only other ones I know of that fit the standard rail are blitz 850cc ones, they are red I think. Like this: http://www.blitz-uk.co.uk/ProductItem-464.aspx

Have you got some sort of fuel controller? When I put my 650cc ones in the car wouldn't even start or run until I trimmed them back with the Emanage it was that rich, so unless you've got something controlling them I doubt they are 650s. They're not power enterprise, those are white for 550s, yellow for 650s and brown for 800s.

The complete electrical manual is on mkiv.com, that has wiring diagrams of everything (albeit for UK/USA spec). Dunno if that's the same one you're talking about, but if so it's here:- http://www.mkiv.com/manual/1995_electrical_manual/index.html

As far as I know the ABS is exactly the same on UK and J specs. The Uk traction control also uses the brakes whereas the Jspec one doesn't, but I think the ABS is the same. The wheel speed sensors are the same, because when you set up RLTC you put the same values in for them AFAIK.

Supposedly they uprated it somehow for the RZ. It says something about it in the 1999 product catalogue that's on mkiv.com, but it's all in Japanese so I've got no idea what's different about it.

Very nice VVTi RZ with REAS has got to be the rarest model by far.

Are you sure it's an RZ? Should be ALFQZ on the model code on the chassis plate.

Bilstein shocks were yellow, I believe the normal ones were black. The REAS system has a hose connected to the shock. It's very rare though, don't think I've ever seen a car with it.

The RZ was the racey version, it was only 6speed, and all came with Recaros, LSD, the bigger brakes, uprated ABS, REAS on later ones, Bilstein suspension on the others. The RZ-S was the base model that you could get in Auto. The confusion comes from the fact that before the facelift the RZ-S was the model with the extras - for some reason Toyota swapped the model letters around.

Might be a UK/USA vs Jspec thing then, can't remember. In fact that's probably right as the Jspec system doesn't use the brakes.

They all say GT, nothing unusual there. And the slip cont thing is just because you have a facelift I believe, and that's what the later TC was labelled. It's supposedly improved over the earlier system, but pretty much the same.

It's only a "fake" proposal consultation paper designed to get people's backs up so they can introduce a watered down version. None of it is actually planned, or even likely to happen.

Christchurch tyres are good guys, I always get my tyres there. Never knew they had a webcam mind!

Machinemart do a very nice aluminium trolley jack that's very low. Not cheap but it's really nice... http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/ctj1250a-11-4-tonne-aluminium-trolley-jack

Tony, can I ask where you are getting your machine work done?

I've got a feeling the dyno graph for the GT35R may have been done in 4th rather than 5th, because I had some surge problems in 5th with that turbo. So I think they may have used 4th to get a graph, which might explain it.

I'm sure I posted one up somewhere. Ah, here we are:- Dyno graph

I agree they're probably worth fitting, they're not that expensive. But I suspect most if not all of the improvement people say they have it because they have changed the brake fluid at the same time. I very much doubt you would feel any difference if you compared them back to back with new fluid, pads etc on both.

Did somebody call? I have indeed got a T67DBB on Arnout's manifold. It made 625bhp on Owen development's dyno while being mapped last summer. That was on a built engine, but it had no head-work as such. I got the feeling that was about the limit, both of a standard head and also probably the manifold/pipework. I'm currently rebuilding by old engine to swap in and that's going to get a ported head. I'll may well switch to a slightly bigger A/R exhaust housing too, so I'm trying to decide at the moment whether to stick with the cast manifold or go for a tubular one (probably a HKS). Haven't quite decided yet.

Get a price from A plan and then phone Sky and tell them how much if it's any cheaper. You'll probably find they will match it. In my experience insurance companies always try and stiff you on renewal - they figure you just won't be arsed to phone around.