Mike_Mac

Well they do say the burnt hand teaches best... Oh wait!

Sort of like Big Brother with all the squabbling, but most of the ducks are way smarter than Jade Goody, even when she was alive.

Not surprised at all to read that - Male ducks are proper little sods when it comes to mating and will regularly 'gang-rape' some poor female, usually while her chosen mate looks on helplessly. There was one male in the group that lived on the leat at the bottom of my garden with a gimp leg who was always unsuccessfully trying to see off 2 big males who were after his female. I must admit I started chasing them off myself, as he looked so forlorn all the time. I had to resist the temptation to drop-kick one once, as he just wouldn't get off. I've also seen a female duck drowned after several males fought to stay on top of her while in the water and forgot to let her up to breathe. They left her floating upside down with her feet sticking up out of the water, which isn't the most dignified way to go! Homosexual Necrophilia? Obviously it's all in a normal day for some Ducks!

I'll take the rad cap if no-one's grabbed it yet. PM on the way.

'Pictures of Alfie, holding the baby he believed to be his newborn daughter, caused a furore when they were published in the Sun in February and renewed calls for better sex education in Britain.' They don't need more sex education - they're quite good enough at it already! What they need is more appreciation of the consequences of having a baby so young: - Free Council house (go to the top of the list). - Benefits without having had to work first. - Knowledge that the CSA probably won't chase the father; because they don't know who he is, or he's on benefits too and therefore can't be tapped. Consequences? Certainly! For the people who get a job first and ensure they can provide for a child before having one, but end up paying for everyone else's.

Cheers Kev - didn't even consider trying to explain what I was after to my local Mr T, but Steve's probably a much better bet!

I've just installed cruise control on my Supra. It had it before, but (I think) when it was imported the crap speedo converter the company installed screwed its operation up, so they cut the stalk connections at the white connector block behind the steering wheel and left the rest of the cruise system in place. All I had to do (once i'd sorted the converter out) was to wire in a stalk and presto! Because the wires had been cut so close to the white connector block I had to remove the pins in the block and put the new wires into the block direct, but obviously this can't be left as is. Does anyone know where I can get new connector pins to re-make the connector block? I can add pictures of the old connectors if necessary.

You should find lots of info here: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=179877&highlight=1Jz+Engine AFAIK there shouldn't be any difference in the engine mounts themselves as the two engiens are from the same family.

Replied and paid.

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I had a bloke in a Merc pull up next to me one time with kids and wife in tow. When they were coming back the kids wen to open their doors and he said 'be careful opening the doors' to the kids getting in on my side. Just as I was thinking how rare that sort of consideration was he added 'I don't care about his car, I just don't want you damaging mine', which instantly made me boil. He then noticed my wife and I were sitting watching (staring daggers at) him and promptly got in his car looking a bit embarrassed. Cock!

Boring Troll, or crap wind-up? Either way you fail.

I'm looking for a standard cruise control stalk - don't need the wheel, just the complete stalk. Anyone got one lying around?

Only caught a quick glimpse and I was in my banger, not the Supe, but it was a stock-looking Silver Supe, with a UK bonnet vent. first one i've seen on the A38 in a long while.

Wouldn't have thought so, because the facelift clock has the odo in it, whereas pre-facelift doesn't. That will lead the a totally different setup of pins in the connector blocks.

If anyone calls him remember to ask if the V6 engine's as smooth as you've heard!

Look at the size of that spoiler!!

At least you got to see all the options before you chose the final colour! Seriously - it looks much better now - you must be very happy.

I think you have gut instincts for a reason, and they're usually 100% spot-on! I know what's happened every time I didn't listen to mine. There's enough Supras around just now at decent prices that you can wait for that right one to turn up and then have loads more fun.

Surprisingly small inside and not that good for chucking around. Nice enough for a regular driving car though.

If you're not deeling a definite 'shove' at 4-5000 revs then you're second turbo is definitely not coming online. There's tests you can perform on your VSVs etc to check they're working correctly - might be worth a try before going to a garage. The other possibility is that a hose has perished or slipped off.

Always nice to find it was a simple problem, but not after you've tried everything else!

I'll be surprised if they don't do this TBH. Think about it- -By changing the old NSL signs to mean 50mph there's no replacement costs for new signs = no cost. -Many drivers who don't hear about it, or forget, will get done for £60, x lots of drivers = extremely cost positive for government coffers. -Government can trumpet 'increased road safety' due to all the motorists getting caught doing 60mph on a long straight with good visibility. -Meanwhile the mongs who make driving on country lanes so dangerous will continue driving to the limit, not the conditions, and hence continue taking blind corners at ~40-50mph, because it's 'under the limit', which still means you're stuffed if you meet one coming 'round a corner. Likewise if someone pulls out of a badly designed junction and gets broadsided at 50mph, as opposed to 60mph, the outcome is still pretty similar. -In other words rather than spending money on better junction layouts where possible, reducing only dangerous areas to 50mph and educating idiots that driving to the conditions and the road you can see is far more important than the limit the government instead has gone for the option that puts money in their pockets.

Penis envy?

Ironically the small print about it being a bare engine exists because I threatened to take him to court when I was sent a bare engine, which was not as shown on the photo, or mentioned in his advert. Added to the unverifyable mileage claims and the obvious lack of stripping leads me to think I had a lucky escape.