Paul Booth

Don't you get resistance from the servo after one or two presses? Now if this goes in the direction I think it's going to...............

I still think it's a wind-up. No one would do anything so blatantly dangerous.

Be careful with any pressurised bleeding kits............ if the cap isn't perfectly sealed to the master cylinder you can end up with fluid everywhere. ( I have seen a BMW325 with a ruined roof due to fluid squirting out of an overpressurised system) I usually get wor lass to do the footwork........ I am not familiar with the kit you mentioned, I just use a simple non-return valve kit that fits on the nipples. Not pressurised systems. You've never lived Phil. You get a screw on cap for the master cylinder and you pump it up with the tyre foot pump. Then you just go to the wheels and open them up, whooosh, out comes the fluid. I've used one but I wouldn't be using it on the Supra, just to be safe. I'm worried about it pressurising parts in the master cylinder which are not designed to be pressurised.

That can't be right, seriously. It can't be original equipment, even in Japan. Why don't you get a proper one from a scrapyard (Find-a-part)?

There's a signal coming from the odo which supplies the car's speed to all the control ECUs (PPS, cruise, engine/gearbox, etc.). If this signal is modified at a common point, everthing on the system gets the same modified information. Most ECUs don't want or need a modified signal. If you modify the cruise input, you should do it *after* the splice point in the loom, i.e., at the ECU itself and not, as is most common, at the odo end of the daisy chain. When mine was modified by the importer it was done in that fashion and, depending on the year and model (hence software revision in each ECU) each ECU can give different characteristics. Mine got itself a 120MPH speed limit and one other attribute which Mr Betts and I both agree is *TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE* and, had I not seen it myself, I would have accused anyone on here of winding us all up. Whether I fed the cruise with 1:1 speed data or 5:8, it still worked over the same road speed range. It can't do that so I imagined it, but I didn't, but it's not possible, but it did it. I just decided to stick the dash back on and forget it ever happened (would someone mind undoing this jacket with the lace down cuffs for me please?).

Do a search onthe BBS for "dot 5.1" and you'll find lots of coverage on this subject.

I am reluctant to believe any commercial outfit would do something so dangerous. It almost sounds like a wind-up.

to repeat, "you're joking right?". Springs work both ways, under compression and under tension. Fit clamps and you remove one half of it's action and the next thing is we're commiserating you on the loss of your Supra, if you're lucky.

Er 'scuse me. Your speedo only reads to 100MPH? That's a joke right, or you thought you were in the Supra and actually you were in your wife's Fiat Panda? Please take a digital photograph.

What else has changed electrically in the last few weeks? If the answer to that is nothing, I'd be going to see Mr Betts to get the speed signal into the ECU scoped.

Could be what I had with mine. For reasons only to known to the gods, my cam cover had become loose enough to vent when everything got hot. Not enough to leak profusely but enough to produce oil fumes from under the bonnet after a good run. It's always worth checking the nuts and bolts in times like those, 'just to be sure'.

Did you hear BEEP BEEP "Rotate", BEEP BEEP "Rotate", by any chance?

Forgot to ask Pete, are your shocks the ones TRD (Fensport) are advertising as 'self adjustable'?

£20 at mine but it was both cats and his first time and the manifold nuts were a bitch with cat 1 in place.

Mark knows that now Pete and he has everything he needs. He's got the HKS SLD already and might as well use it. There's nothing *wrong* with the HKS SLD as a speed limit remover technically. It might have one or two wires which don't play a role on the JZA80 but it's build quality is excellent, so there's no reason for Mark *not* to use it. I know you know that, it's for the benefit of anyone who might mistakenly think there's a *problem* with the HKS SLD. I recognise your Speed converter does the job of both the HKS SLD and the additional speedo conversion required, which of course is ideal for those people looking to fix a bad job properly (e.g. Simon). For people like Mark who are happy with their exisiting speedo conversion and simply want to remove the speed limit, the HKS SLD *will* do the job. And as I said, he has everything he needs to do that.

I'm thinking of changing my name to Yuri Geller. WHAT!!!! you mean like an "alias", or "pen name" or "Pseudonym" or "Nom de Plume"......OR are you talking about the full monty "change of name by deed poll!!" (Edited by Supragirl at 12:24 am on Oct. 22, 2001) Metaphorically. For some reason, of late, me and trolley-jacks seem to have fallen out and my cars are always the innocent victim.

I'm thinking of changing my name to Yuri Geller.

I have not, as yet, placed this document in the public domain and if anyone wants to use it for commercial gain, they will have to pay for the consulting time it took to translate it (not for the document which is copyright HKS). Does any part of this post look familiar Mark?

There's a small matter regarding someone making a *big* deal about Pete Betts using material on his web site that was created under one of many aliases by the originator of the material under his *real*(?) name. That same person was provided with a copy of the Japanese-English translation that I spent 8 hours on, working with a Japanese manager from the Honda factory in Swindon, and was told to keep his possession of that document private and confidential. What you've just done is to identify that he cannot be trused to keep a confidence and that by the fact that Justin believes he will help you out, that he is prepared to use that information against my specific request and the basis under which I supplied the document. I think I can speak for the rest of the BBS by thanking you for exposing yet another little hypocrasy.

I'd be *really* interested to hear the response to that one.

I know, I know. Dean told me how to do this one: "Ahem, drive it on to a brick, then put the trolley jack under it." This advice reprinted here courtesy of Dean Barrett. The author can not be held responsible if it turns out someone said it to Dean before he said it to me.

Address coming up.

I'm saying nothing, I bend things when I do it. Wasn't it you who wanted the switch blank plate I just took all the way to MK and back?

So you won't need the suspension, it's mine, all mine, Bwuhahahahahaaaaaa!

I think I have those poly bushes, and I know I have Ohlins suspension (no-one has discussed the option of fitting these?) and the tyre noise is rather loud, and the ride is the hardest I've ever experienced, but the handling is fantastic! Even over scabrous Norfolk roads, there is enough give in the suspension to avoid bump steering and too much tramlining, I think it was set up spot on - any harder would be over the top. Dunno if the roll bars were uprated, I must ask, after the earlier stiffer suspension vs uprated rollbar rant. -Ian I believe your car has the GREX/TRUST uprated antiroll bars, pretty sure that's what Paul said to me when he had it. If I remember correctly the Ohlins were from Sweden rather than Japan and were around the 5K mark probably why people arn't considering them. Rich F-f-f-f-f-f-f-five thousand? F-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-flipping heck. It'd better be good. Oh yeah, that's right you said it was