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Moneys dried up, fuel is killing people, and honestly these machines despite their power are getting on a bit. There'll be "burn him with fire" comments but volvo's had the same tuneability for value years before supra's did (ask CW), the cosworths saw off that trend, then came jap power and supra's dominated. Now the average family hatch can get very close to an incredible drive while returning 70% more fuel efficiency than a supra, What you guys have to understand is you are now firmly in a geek chic fraternity of people that won't move with the times. Not so long back it was the MK3 supra guys that were in that family lol

It might well save your life. Like airbags after 10 years if its being temporamental change it. Last time you want to find out your safety equipment isn't working is the mili-second before your head hits and spreads itself all over your dashboard!!!!

I'm not surprised at all these days. The cost of insurance and how much you will get fleeced if you do fess up puts most people (and yes I mean most people as in the majority) in an uncomfortable position. When faced with the option of ownership of responsibility in the face of plausible deniability how many in reality will stand up and be counted? We'll all champ our gums about it but who will stand up and fess up??? Bearing in mind that it's well known that "chumps" that do fess up get keel hauled, given a raw deal, and treated like an example etc etc Everyone we know will know someone that's had an insurance scam pulled on them because of honesty!! The only day you will know how honest you are is the day you hit something in a car park and no-one is there to see you. Put this in perspective I have had major damage done to my vehicles 4 times and one of those was my supra with a 3 foot gouge and a hole in the door and all of those I found upon return to my parked vehicle. I did get the f*cker that did my supe but the other 3 I am owed (see where I am coming from here?)

Mini's are notorious for getting water in the dizzy so might be worth taking it off and giving it a damn good drying out and cleaning up the contacts inside it.

Old school mini's are amazing. My first 4 cars were mini's. Admittedly I did blow them all up and my ownership of mini's lasted less than a year between them all lol.

I started driving with no prior experience on a Monday evening in November in the p*ssing rain for 2 lessons a day for that week and had 2 lessons on the Friday booked one of which was the test. I passed and that afternoon was on a motorway in my first car

This thread is proper LOL. I've been poo-pooed for years for suggesting my J-spec had 474bhp calculated from a hub dyno reading of 395 and wheel dyno at 375. Irrespective after that I had a T67 aristo pushing 460 ish on a wheel dyno and in all honesty the supra felt faster until you got into terrific speed territory. I could get the supra shifting from a standstill better, it would accelerate from cruising significantly better, and IMO delivered the power in a more useable fashion than the T67 aristo did. The top figure of any power graph is only part of the equation. The amount of space underneath the line is also a significant factor which is after all the main point of twin charging. Correct me if I'm wrong but the photo of the car in question with its ass hunkered down like that and the nose lifted is very characteristic of cars that have suspension set up specifically for drag racing? Dude you refused in the early years to be dragged into the power claims when you were running arguably the fastest UK run car but it was suspected that you were achieving those times with significantly less power than your competitors but a more wiley vehicle setup. It is a fact that specifically drag setup vehicles with a determined driver can achieve great times and terminals with less power than other vehicles that are less specifically prepared and less focussed on drag racing. Wasn't monkey mark also trying to get awe inspiring 1/4's in as close to stock spec back in those same days with quite a bit of success (TDi wasn't the only or even the first to be on this quest). From his sig 11.962 @ 114.17 mph 60 Ft 1.730 330 ft 4.964 1/8 et 7.660 1/8 mph 91.11 1000 et 9.924 I'm also dubious that the car in questions RWHP is 486bhp and in fact the owner hasn't come forwards and said the power is at the wheels just that it has 486bhp. With a standalone management system, decent cams, and camgears properly adjusted (although in the UK I am led to believe there is little faith in adjustable camgears effectivity) a nicely bedded in engine in cracking condition and all of the other paraphanalia including water meths a 2JZ-GTE will make very good power from very low revs and hold that power strong for thousands of revs. Some decent setup motors dyno graphs look alot like a charged V8 graph with a kink in it at the tubby 1-2 changeover point. I'd agree that the number crunching lends itself to supporting a high power figure in this car but my mind refuses to budge on a stock turbo TT 2JZ-GTE shoving 486bhp out the wheels therefore 578bhp with 19% losses at the fly..

I do over 50k miles a year across my fleet of vehicles. Its not the miles that kill a car its the servicing intervals and how you look after it that dictates a machines life. Buses for instance routinely do a million miles. Yes time based items will require replacing but there is no reason why a properly and thoroughly maintained vehicle won't go on for donkeys years. FWIW I drove a rover 200 turbo deisel that already had 125k miles on it for 45k miles without so much as an oil change and it is actually some 30k miles later still going strong on its original engine and turbo!!!

I had mine for sale for 14 months before I got someone to buy it and I dropped it in price by £3k. Aerotops are indeed desirable motors to have but making a realisation of the price is hard work. People will champ their gums but money in the hand is what talks, and if the right buyer isn't buying today you will be waiting for the day that this right buyer does want to buy. If you can't or won't wait for this right buyer then you have some very tidy examples of non-aerotop TT's to compete with for a sale. Where abouts in Dorset are you? I'm just north of bournemouth and don't mind a short trip to have a gander at it if there are any travelling members show any early interest(mine sold to a chap from Edinburgh in the end) . I would snap your hand off for it myself if I didn't live where I do. Try piston heads its free and there are alot of enthusiasts of various marques frequent the ads there.

I think the question is, is this the jza80 specific aem unit or the generic one? If its the generic one you'll at least need the plug that goes into it.

I did consider the desire z but the additional firepower of the dragon processor and the better cameras and the shinier look of the Sony pulled me in. So far I'm more than impressed. Its a slick phone that is very easy to use for posting on the net. The email system is just like using outlook which will be quite useful when I get the settings for my work exchange account. So who wants to buy my desire

Decided on the Sony Ericsson Experia pro in the end. I'll get it at the end of the week

OK so I have decided I am bored AS with my HTC desire mobile. It doesn't have some of the functionality of my previous phone the HTC touch pro 2 ie a dedicated keyboard, a fwd and rear facing camera, and a stylus (my pigs tits for fingers cannot cope with the touch screen keyboard). I've tried putting froyo on my old phone but the processor just cannot cope with the OS and it runs un-acceptably slow. So its replacement time. I want a phone that has a decent slide out keyboard, I want to be able to see a full 3" screen when I type. I think I want android as Win Mo just is not up there with it, and symbian seems to have died a death. If the dream of the i-phone5 was a reality with a virtual keyboard etc I wouldn't be asking this question.. So what phone do I get now?

They are indeed a bit like a plastic coated rubber band ball. My girl I had my first crush on as a child had a cocker spaniel that used to smash its own brains in when it chewed up golf balls and then did that dog head shake thing, it would grab the elastic bandy bits and start shaking its head and despite the fact that the ball would zing off outwards and then come back and smack it all around its ears, eyes and nose it would keep going until it ate most of the ball or knocked itself senseless.

£9k for an N/A??? Sorry buddy but you are utterly disillusioned!!!! There are some heavily modified single turbo cars with significant styling mods that are not commanding that sort of money. Knock about £5k off your price and you may be in the top end of the right ball park chap!

Personally I think the rolling drag video's on the highway show which car is consistently the more powerful car

Small point, when you replace the PAS pump always remember to flush the reservoir out as its a fairly hot bet that the reason it failed in the first place is that the res gets a tonne of sludge on the screen filter in the bottom of it and on full lock will starve the pump of oil.

Took delivery of a perez cruz red at the end of last week that is awesome from virgin. Also picked up a selection of reds in the carrefour in Paris at the weekend which are impressing me with the quality versus price. Got a couple of bottles of bubbly that the uncle in law reccomended (he's french and a connesoir so they should be awesome) I'll look at the wines reccomended above as they seem to be in the same ilk as I like.

Afraid I gave up on modded cars a long time ago and now only have disposable cars

The long lunch http://www.virginwines.co.uk/AST/wines/PRD~C06292/The-Long-Lunch-2010.jsp is a very good all rounder this one is also a rather nice red http://www.virginwines.co.uk/AST/wines/PRD~C05835/The-Black-Pig-Single-Vineyard-Clare-Valley-Shiraz-2009.jsp I've learnt that I like shiraz and merlot

What you have to remember is that the game they play is hugely dangerous (I'd say its more dangerous than combat flight) They know it and despite best efforts (the technicians that work on those aircraft all have to operate a rank below their trade qualifications for instance) things can still go wrong. It's a testament to the man and the rest of his type that he lost his life because he held the aircraft from smashing into castle point if local reports are to be believed.

I absolutely do not understand why supra guys are just not interested in aristo's??? You get the same performance in both handling and power, you get the same parts fit both cars so your stash of performance stuff goes straight on. It outperforms all the competition in its class ie M5's etc. They generally have lower miles than any of the competition, higher spec and aren't as volatile as the likes of evo's etc. A 600 bhp aristo could well be had for £4k Michels fully rebuilt single MK2 when for less than the engine was worth to a guy in Germany that had me slack jawed in amazement. I would understand it if the car was a minger but there are some class bodykits etc for the motor. In the states they'd kill for an aristo but make do with the N/A GS and pimp those right out.

I'm in the virgin wine club as well. I pop £30 a month in and wait til chrimbo and buy all my holiday wines with the extra £120 they give you on top of what is already a decent price for wine that is nice. I find the difference between the supermarket wines and the club wine is its much less generic and more discernible from grape to grape. I've also found that its handy in helping me decide what wines I do and don't like and enjoy which now stops me scratching my head at the wine counter wondering what I'm gonna buy.

Local news is saying he didn't make it. Found dead in his seat still!

Have you slept on a bed made of lattenbodems? In Holland and I believe alot of mainland europe they make beds not with sprung divans but stressed lats of various timbers. In holland its called lattenbodems. These beds have several advantages over our divans. First up you can design the comfort of the bed completely around the base and not the mattress. The different amount of stress you place the lats under when combined with different timber resilience provides inch by inch different spring rates. In Holland you can bespoke design a lattenbodem to suit your exact requirements. Picture it a bit like clarks shoes and their electronic measuring equipment and they have that sort of stuff for bed measuring to gauge your body posture and tailor a bed for you. To go on top you pick your choice of memory or feather filled thin mattress. Now onto the best part. Because the lattenbodem is a frame made of narrow lats of seperate section timbers you can effectively attach the rails of these frames to electric motors and form yourself amazing reclined and feet up positions. My bed at the moment has only 2 motors that gives me a full back upright position in bed and a pivotted at the knee leg support position for some perfect assed winter TV in bed comfort. If anyone wants to see my bed and how amazing it is I could do a youtube vid on it that is how impressed I am with it. To nail it into perspective the parts I bought to make it fully electric and with matresses cost me about 160 euro all in and the bed frame was an ikea 150 euro affair. The same bed in this country costs £2000 or more and is essentially the same thing dressed up as a divan but smaller. I need to make a trip out to Holland again soonish as apparently my house roof is leaking and I want to get my sauna cabin back here to the UK so if anyone wants an all singing all dancing bed let me know and I shall see what I can pick up over there for you. http://www.slaapkamerconcurrent.nl/Diverse-soorten-lattenbodems.html http://www.kelkoo.nl/ssc-137001-elektrische-lattenbodem.html http://www.healthfoam.com/rhf_ergonomic_lattenbodem.php