carl0s

I've been using the Falken 451 & 452's for the past three years or so and find them great. They are possibly a slightly soft compound because they smoke like hell on little burnouts ( ) and also bad geometry shows up quite early on, e.g. my geo was miles out and it took no time at all for the insides to wear right away. I suppose this might be normal for any tyre though. They're not £75/pair for me though - I've been paying £145 each on the front and £155 each on the rear. 285/35/18 rears and I think 265/40/18 on the fronts. Thereabouts anyway. I'm off to check out this ebay seller now.

hmm well, it's a pre-facelift tt auto. The only unusual thing is the mileage and we all know mileage means nothing at this age so.. As others have said I would want facelift for any TT auto anywhere near that price. In fact I'd want a VVTi for that money. and then some.

There's a recent thread on here about it, Pete has a fully functional system on a Core 2 Duo machine. I think it was 10.4.6 that I used many months ago, so I suspect you're a bit behind the times with the version you're trying to install.

Of course you can't search for 'V8' on here. Anyone know a way around that? Here's the thread, with links: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=78285

I posted about the aussie lad's father doing it a while back. Twin turbo V8.

Well, I got my Fuji s6500fd today, and it looks very good. There is one thing that's disappointed me, and I am beginning to understand that this is the same for any "super zoom/bridge/psuedo-SLR" camera, and that's depth of field - there's too much of it. At the widest aperature (f2.8), the background is still clearly visable (but a little out of focus). I want to be able to completely blur the background on closeup shots of certain objects, which it looks like I can't do with this camera due to the smaller sensor size compared to that of an SLR. Apart from this, it looks great. It certainly feels great, and I understand the long-distance telefocus shots are superb with this camera. Indoor photos in 'Auto' mode without flash are useless - the camera decides to make use of its ultra-sensitive ISO-3200 sensitivity/film speed equiv, and this is just far too noisey. I mean *far* too noisey. It should instead use a lower sensitivity and a larger aperature or longer exposure time, but at least once you know this you can instead use one of the other modes, which either have their own ISO limits (ISO 800 in portrait for example), or allow you total control of the sens from ISO 100 to 3200 anyway. This only applies if you disable the flash of course, it's just that I don't like the effect flash has on peoples skin tone. Overall I'm pleased with this camera, and I think it's going to take fabulous outdoor shots, but I really really do like those blurred no-depth-of-field shots of objects like watches, and for this reason I am going to pay close attention to entry-level SLR prices and may at some point sell this camera and buy one.

Sold.

1. jamiep 600bhp 2. Carbonangel 647bhp 3. Bungy 601bhp 4. Carl0s 597bhp 5. 6. 7.

One of the benefits of facelift cars - you don't need to do this as the ODO isn't digital and doesn't get unplugged with the dash panels.

What does that badge on the boot say?

Aw wow. I've got a big grin on my face for you. I know how good it must feel. It felt good when I paid fifty quid to buy my stolen wheel back, so this must feel amazing, even though it's a bad thing overall. Super. Really happy for you

Oooh that's nice. A slightly lower rear wing with shorter overhangs and I think I'd have my dream black Supra

I bought two sets of these nuts for my Volks and was surprised to see that the 'unique' key from one set fits the other set perfectly. So, I say they are garbage trash bullshit rubbish pieces of shit. (Sorry, needed to get that out since I feel ripped off).

Alright for some

Awesome. Then I guess you have a 100% fully functional Mac! I think there were also problems with a lot of the code requiring SSE3 which my older Pentium-4 didn't have.

I just did a quick google and its' Quartz Extreme that didn't work, but it's suggested that it can be made to work with the Intel GMA onboard graphics. I seem to remember 'About this Mac' giving details of whether Quartz Extreme was enabled or not. Perhaps I just didn't spend enough time, although I did try various cards by ATi and nVidia. I think you'd know if it was or wasn't working properly because the errrm widgets (the postit note, weather, time & date etc thingies that take over the screen when you hit a particular button) come into and out of the screen very slowly and jerkily.

I don't think the problem is OpenGL, it's that funny-named stuff which accelerates the GUI so that the widgets are all smooth. Quartz. That's it. Quartz didn't work. I thought it might sound like I meant the underyling *nix had it's problems, that's not what I meant. I meant the OSX GUI as a whole. The mouse feedback seems funny/slow, and things do go wrong, wierd program crashes every now and then. All I'm saying is that it's not perfect, which I don't think any OS is, but a lot of people think you only get problems with Windows and that Macs are perfect.

If it's the crank pulley then I wouldn't drive it until it's been checked.

I did it about 5 months ago, and it did work with the exception of graphics acceleration (they call it... something, I forget), but there didn't seem much point. Running on my 20.1" widescreen Dell thingy, I basically had a big iMac. Whilst I like the ability to drop into a *nix shell, that OS isn't without it's own problems either. On the usability p.o.v I definately feel like there isn't good feedback from the mouse & keyboard. Kind of hard to explain but it's like there's a delay on input, just like with Linux.

Any recommendations for models to look at? I want at the very least an alarm wiht a decent tilt/motion sensor which can text alerts to me. I understand the Clifford's can do this, for extra money (as seems to be the case for everything w/Clifford). I would also like GPS control and location to tie in with the GSM side of things. In the USA Clifford/Directed seem to offer various systems which do this, but over here we only have the Intelliguard and one or two other systems which don't offer GPS. Can anyone help? Cliffords website isn't the greatest.

hmm, OK, so the VNT25 might be a bad example. I thought this was a modern VNT design, but it seems it's the original 1970's "one-off" VNT jobbie. (http://www.thedodgegarage.com/turbo_vnt.html) I wonder if the current type work differently? Anyway, the original post still stands, just disregard those pictures as being indicative of the BMW 335i's turbos.

So, contrary to popular belief, the new BMW 335i twin-turbo, with masses of torque from 1200rpm, isn't sequential turbo at all. It's parallel turbo like the RB26DETT (one turbo per three cylinders). The awesome low-end power & torque is singularly as a result of the variable nozzle turbos. I really do think that we won't have too much trouble bolting two of these babies to a 2JZ at some time in the future. Everyone knows about Porsche and their VNT/VGT Borg Warner turbos on the new 911 turbo, now there's a BMW application too. Here are some pictures of the variable nozzles on a Garett VNT25 turbo. As you can see, there's not too much going on really, they're just altering flow of air into the turbine. They're not actually altering the vanes on the impellers or anything. So, what do you technical guys reckon? I heard the adjustment of the nozzles is by an arm similar to a wastegate. I suppose the obvious thing for now is that these two turbos only produce ~350hp on the 335i, so maybe not much of an upgrade over the existing setup, except that we wouldn't be waiting between 2,800rpm and 3,800rpm for no2 to come online. http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/1.JPG http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/2.JPG http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/3.JPG http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/4.JPG http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/5.JPG http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/6.JPG http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/7.JPG http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/8.JPG http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/9.JPG http://www2.css-networks.com/vnt/10.JPG

Facelift side repeaters are very different to pre-facelift ones. The front indicators have an orange backing which makes them look orange from the front but clear from the side. http://home.css-networks.com/indicators/1.JPG http://home.css-networks.com/indicators/2.JPG

I'm still thinking of how I'd nick a Supra. I was sat on the toilet having a morning shit before (coffee - who needs laxatives!) and thinking about a car that'd been left dumped (no pun intended) outside one of my suppliers a while ago, which the police wouldn't move because it still had valid tax on it. I was thinking, all I'd do is call my mate up who buys/repairs/sells damaged cars and have him bring his ex-Greenflag truck thingy and winch the car onto the flatbed. As long as there's no tilt or shock sensor it would probably work. That's how he got my last Supra out of a ditch anyway.

That reminds me.. I told myself I was going to buy a MacMini once they came out with the Intel chips.. hmmm