Soop Dogg

That's an interesting question, actually. I know the procedure to do this, but the equipment will be different these days to what I used to use. I used to use a decent timing light to check ignition timing, with an inductive clamp around the HT lead to No1 spark plug. But since the advent of plug-top coils, I haven't had the need to check this. The ECU should keep a good enough check on the ignition timing to negate the need for a timing light, but if I wanted to check the timing just to satisfy my own curiosity, I don't know what the latest type of HT pick-up even looks like these days! (Ashamed to say that as it was always such a basic piece of equipment to have in my toolkit) I think I'd probably be able to hack my old timing light around to make a pick-up to fit the new plug-top coils.

Not flying with alitalia, are you?

Unfortunately, I should have sold it almost 2 years ago when I bought the first Corvette. Hence it sat around for all that time and only I really had time to give it the odd wash and any polishing it got was in a hurry. It needed someone to look after it like you obviously do, 'cos I just didn't get the time with 4 cars in the family! Very nice job. Thanks for the pm linking to this thread. I'm in British Columbia at the moment, so I'll be bringing back some of my preferred polish for the 'vette.

Have you heard about THIS? I might just have to miss Le Mans 2009 and go to see 'Le Tour' in the Alps instead. Le Mans will still be there in 2010. This guy won't, I'm sure.

Erm....not sure what you mean by: as the Start-Finish straight is a fairly long piece of track. He started it ahead of KR, then let him past, then got back in front again by the end of it, so the relative positions of the cars were not in a single state over the length of this piece of track. Your question as written makes no sense, However, if you meant to say "Start-Finish LINE" than you forgot the fact that he wasn't level with Raikonnen at that point anyway. So your 'guilty as charged' comment is fundamentally flawed as your 'charge' is not at all clear.

And tarnish the reputation of the sport. The FIA will sink their own ship if they're not careful.

Plus the fact that after Kimi was passed by Lewis. he did manage to get back in front again, only to lose it when he was well in front of Lewis. (Allowing Lewis to pass him again) When he finally stuffed it into the wall, he was already a couple of seconds behind lewis, wasn't he? I'd say too much happened between the incident for which Lewis was penalised and Kimi finally crashing into the wall for Lewis's excursion across the grass to have had any effect on the result.

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. If only to find out how a young Argentine Doctor with such compassion and vision came to be a revolutionary. (That's 'terrorist' in todays parlance)

Ermm....tried the 'Contact Us' page? HOMEMAKER LTD 9 ROCKINGHAM AVE TANG HALL YORK ENGLAND

You can see the hose going around the outside of the screen where it probably disappears under the bonnet. I've actually done something similar in somone elses car, sat in the passeger seat with a mechanical boost gauge in my hand and the pipework running out the window and under the back of the bonnet. Not like it's permanent.

LOL! Got this image of a 40ft container arriving at Felixstowe docks with a big silk bow tied around it and a 10ft high 'GIFT' tag on the side! That'd do it!

So that'll be 6.30pm BST which is 10.30am PDT, right?

Agree with everything except the last bit. (Sorry, Alex) You might get a C5 Z06 for that money, but to get one that's worth getting (well looked after, history and low-ish miles) I'd expect to spend a maybe couple of grand extra. To get a standard C6 coupe, you'll definitely need to spend more than that. Unless you're very lucky (like I was. ) you'll need to spend about £28k and upwards for a good C6 with reasonable miles. Even cheap ones with high mileage are currently around the £24k mark where I've been looking. I don't mind being corrected though - find me a good one for £20k and I'll go and buy it!

"father" starts with an "f" mate.

Tell him to reply as follows: "Theft is where a person dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of that property. As there was no dishonesty in my appropriation of the property in question (YOU GAVE IT TO ME, remember?), then this doesn't match the definition of theft. Best get your solicitor to get in touch with me if you want it back. Luv & Kisses, Josh xxx" She'd love that, I'm sure!

Don't you mean 208 mins? Wasn't there a first leg?

1-0 That'll do. (Please!)

Whatever you say, Taff.

Why? Nobody's scored yet.....

Seen it before....

Used an S2000 for a fortnight and couldn't live with the noise. (Which was a real shame as I had looked forward so much to driving it and I really did want sooo much to like the car) You have to keep it on the boil to get anything resembling torque out of it and the handling was nothing special. NO room for luggage more than an overnight bag if you want to use it with the roof down, crazy glove box between the seats that has a downward opening lid that means if you stack anything up inside it, it all falls out when you open it. Common, cramped and overrated IMHO. On the other hand, the C5 Corvette has acres of room in the boot - even with the roof down, Loads of torque (350 ft/lbs and 350 bhp stock) and will get you to 60 in well under 5secs whilst still returning over 30mpg on the motorway if you keep it around 80mph. The C6 is more capable on British B-Roads - in fact it shines on B-Roads (which is wierd for a yank car), has 400bhp and 400ft/lbs of torque, mahoosive boot, more modern/European styling and with the right options will get to 60mph in about 4.1 and get 30ish to the gallon on the motorway. (Averages about 24mpg overall) Both sound awesome and you're unlikely to see another one when you're driving yours. Definitely not a hairdresser image either. LHD is dead easy to get your head around. Parts are stupid cheap and reliability is virtually bulletproof as they are so understressed. Lots of scope for tuning too as there are loads of aftermarket goodies available. My old C5 C6

Apart from the third party cover, of course. So those 364 people and the posh g1ts will get paid out.

I wouldn't dream of suggesting anything other than detention. However, I also think that during the time when a person is detained, we need to look at what we do with them in prison/secure units etc. Just detaining them doesn't do anyone any good - there needs to be an effective program of therapy/help to rehabilitate people of this nature before they can be released.

Aah - some bloke on a radio debate said it, so yeah - I guess it must be true. I've highlighted the difference from the type of person who I was referring to and the type you described. I'm talking about someone who has already committed offences but has not yet been caught. So the person on the radio wasn't really "someone in exactly that position" as you deemed them to be. That 'gem of information' came from a police officer who heads a family protection unit. She was referencing material obtained from studies in the legal and medical professions approved by the home office as part of her lecture material. Nice of you to just pick up on perhaps the most minor point that I brought up and ignore everything else I was trying to say. I stand by what I said - the main point being that I think we should detain people who have already proven themselves to be a danger to others - in particular children and vulnerable members of society - until they can demonstrate themselves to be otherwise. If your opinion is that we should let these people out because they have 'repaid their debt' to society, then fair enough - you're entitled to that opinion too. But isn't that what we do now? Don't we have cases of rapists and other sexual offenders re-offending (and in the worst cases killing new victims) every year? That suggests to me that the current system is flawed and until it something happens to improve the situation, we need to put the rights of innocent people before the rights of these sick individuals by detaining them until they are no longer pose such a danger. All IMHO, of course.

You seem to have missed my point TOTALLY. What I said was I didn't mention punishment at all - I mentioned protecting the vulnerable. It has been proven that he's a dangerous paedophile. When you yourself said I could have said 'For doing what, exactly?" But I agreed with your logic that we need to keep him from practising his sordid ways abroad and suggested that we should also protect the vulnerable in our own country. Sod punishment - I don't particularly care whether he lives or dies, but I do care that nobody should have to become his victim ever again. Paedophiles are dangerous, devious and ruthless people who will perform terrible acts without any thought for their victims, caring only about their own self gratification. So many of these people when they end up in court have their barristers proclaim to the judge that they 'recognise their problem' and are 'actively seeking help to defeat it'. BUT, did you know that there has never been a documented instance where a paedophile has sought such help PRIOR to being caught? The only reason they seek help is because they know they're in the sh!t and want the sentence reduced as much as possible by giving a 'full and frank' confession. I'm all for rehabilitation of offenders, but where the offender presents such a grave physical danger to the most vulnerable members of society, I say lock them up to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Punishment doesn't really come into it for me, I'm afraid.