Dash Rendar

I'd love to know too!

A fair point. P.S. your signature reminds me of another quote I once heard... "Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt." Oh dear, I am very random today. Make sure you add "People who are a bit random" to the list of people to be flayed. Ta.

Maybe this forum needs some official Repost Police. And they should have real power. Power to track down reposters and have them flayed in public.

That is a great looking car. Looks very clean. Maybe some engine or interior shots would help. The fuel prices these days are really killing the market too.

Dave, it was 315RWHP, which is a little shy of 400FWHP. (That's before your engine troubles started, that is).

P.S. a bit of hijack, but in case anyone wants to follow up on Nic's comments about boost versus air flow, I once posted in Technical and it ended up being a very lengthy but interesting thread... http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=127950. (Because at first I really didn't get it!!)

As I understand it, the internals of these hybrids are stock (J-spec) dimensions (though built with steel rather than ceramic internals), and consequently flow and boost should mean the same on this setup. This is why I'm happy that 1.2 bar should be fine on stock injectors.

When I queried the whole injector thing when this car went BPU (in case anyone didn't know, it used to be mine), most replies I got seemed to be of the opinion that the stock injectors were capable enough of sustaining 1.1 to 1.2 bar, which is what the car used to boost to on WOT. I don't know why it's boosting higher now. (It used to hit 1.1 bar with the Nur Spec R baffle in place, and 1.2 bar without.) I agree you'd need bigger injectors if you plan to continue to boost to 1.4 bar, but they are only stage 1 hybrids and I was advised not to go higher than 1.2 (aside from all the other mods that would have been required to support it). If you plan to rebuild the engine and leave everything else alone, I'm not totally convinced bigger injectors are required. Perhaps a smaller restrictor ring and an electronic boost controller would be more suitable? (The Nur Spec is a good free flowing exhaust, so I don't imagine EGTs would be too high if you keep the boost to 1.2 or below.) (In addition to the bigger injectors, as already stated, you'd need fuel management and a map if you continue to run the car at 1.4 bar, otherwise you'll be back to square one in no time.) P.S. In response to the air con issue... It certainly used to work, and you may remember I demonstated it to you during the test drive!!

I was a member on there myself, so I do understand the motivation of the site. And I'll happily join in with any p1ss-taking of a molested car. But my general experience of that site was that many of them are just folk who wanted to have a go at just about anything they didn't have... regardless of how modified (or not) the car might be. Just my opinion of course.

More and more I'm thinking some of the guys here need to take a deep breath before jumping into antagonism mode. Nuff said on that matter. (Sorry...) Back to the original post... I had to chuckle at how the original owner called the kit a "Failside", and how it was later described as a Vileslag kit. Is it me, or does the VS look much worse on a white Supra than other colours? But I have to concur with Gruggs regarding the mentalities of most of the regular posters on BB. They do seem to be a small minded, bitter and jealous bunch.

Maybe the guy with the knife sneezed, and the other fella didn't say "bless you"? Let that be a lesson to you all!

This club rules.

Was there any oil down the pipes, or was it just in the filter? As you may recall, the car used to leak a lot of oil when I first owned it, and that was resolved when I had the turbos replaced with hybrids. However, the Apexi filter had been on the car for about a year by the time the turbos were replaced, and I imagine quite a bit of oil would have built up in the filter by then. I regularly checked the induction pipes after going to hybrids, and never found a drop of oil in there. (There used to be loads of oil before the turbos were replaced.) So I suspect what you've blown out is the earlier build up. That's why I recommend checking the pipes to see if there's any fresh oil in there.

I nearly fell for it this time! Good one.

... at about 1900. Don't see many red ones around here.

At around 4pm today, in a queue of traffic in the left hand lane, while I was passing on the right. Looked nice.

It's like the investigator says at the beginning of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, upon finding the severed man's head rotating on a record turn table, "Damn smart alec suicides really piss me off."

Fingers crossed that this gets resolved quickly for you.

But it's unlikely you'll have noticed me as I was in the Scoobie at the time.

Nobody interested in CD changers these days? Too expensive?

Interesting reading. What I've learned today... * AD is banned * A lot of people want Nizam to be banned * adnanshah247 always sticks up for Nizam * Matt H is gay, apparently. I'm thinking about applying for the post of whiney attention whore, but I honestly dont think I can contribute enough to be effective. I think I've got the skills... they just need some polishing.

I have a Pioneer CD changer for sale. It includes the mounting brackets and cables (and - obviously - the CD magazine), but no manual. It's in good condition. I'm looking for £20 plus postage.

"Stick around." (having just pinned a guy to a wall with a large knife in Predator) http://www.just2good.co.uk/arny.php (Not often I get to plug my ageing website that hasn't been updated in about 6 years...)

So, strictly, you weren't even at BPU when you beat him. Nice work.

Hmm, very shiney! And it looks like it fits nice and snug too.