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I've no idea where the vision came from, I've never been to the States, but in the dream I was very happy and it felt like a life changing thing going there In reality I'm afraid of the American government and their weird policies and anti-humanities, so I probably wouldn't go there.

That's super. Quite like it. I take it the 3.5L V6 @309bhp is the latest/next incarnation of that used in the 350Z ? Does this mean it'll be a RWD Renault Laguna?

That explains the Audi Quattro one that vents out the back then

I'll show all this to Amanda when she wakes up. I kept saying "stop entertaining the idiots"

Groovy. Nice the car, good luck.

You'd have thought there'd be some kind of indication, yeah. Oh well, good luck. I need to book Amanda's car in with Howard for an overdue MOT anyway so if he answers the phone tomorrow I'll ask the question.

I know a man who knows a lot about Volvos, and is very clued-up in general. He's usually really busy and I think Saturday is the Jewish no-work day, but I could try and ring him tomorrow or give you his garage number. I'd say 9 out of 10 of the cars that come through his garage are Volvos, old and new.

It's cooling the interior apparently. No A/C in a rally car. Now back to the Impreza with its black cab roof scoop Digsy.. IanC.. where are you?

Trust me, that thing isn't directing anything at the rear spoiler. Google says it's there to cool the interior.

I thought that was to cool the engine?

We went to Rusholme for a curry last night. One of the chaps who worked there had a black Impreza WRX. Nice car, better in black than other colours anyway. He'd fitted a roof scoop though, and I told him it looked like a black-cab thing. Just like this: http://www.toucantraveller.com/taxi.jpg He said that this scoop was very beneficial because at speed it caused the rammed air to pressurise, and directed this pressurised air at the rear spoiler, resulting in much improved downforce. I didn't want to appear to facetious, I'm already bad enough after a few drinks, so I just said I thought he should think about testing that theory in a wind tunnel. Anyhoo, was he right after all? I'm not good with physics, but my instinctive thoughts are that it doesn't work like that at all, and simply causes a major drag and slows the car down. I'd have thought angling the entire roof of the car in the reverse angle of his scoop would work better. His scoop might provide some downforce if he was driving in reverse though. Here's an illustration I made http://www2.css-networks.com/downforce.jpg What do you more intelligent folks reckon?

I know, but I like 'em like that. I'm going on the nicotine patches again when I go and buy some, so that should liven them up a bit more

LOL, can't be from England 'cause he's black. Classic! Speaking of yanks, you just reminded me that I had a dream that I drove to Texas last night. Firstly we drove to 'Texas', but it only took us two hours and I was like "hmmm. that didn't seem long enough, you sure we're there already?", sp after asking somebody we realised that we'd actually landed in Texas, West Yorkshire. So then we eventually made it to the real Texas and it was just a mass of land everywhere for everyone. This chap we met was like "yeah this is all my place" (a huge desert basically), and I was really sad and upset that we're all so squashed-in in England. And that was that.

I found it was a piece of cake to get to. In fact I think I replaced it whilst I was still in Halfords car park Have another go. "Must try harder"

Clever

I'm ATI, sorry. I installed the most recent RC on my laptop (ATI FireGL v3200), about a week prior to the final release and it worked reasonably well, except that installing the restricted drivers killed compositing, until I manually changed to Xgl. Actually, Xgl was pretty neat - I had moving videos wobbling around the screen whist the video was playing properly. With fglrx (ATI's proprietry/restriced driver), the video wasn't so neat. I got pissed off and decided to "come back next year" (again!) when PPTP wouldn't stay connected for more than 30 seconds, hibernate/resume didn't work right (no doubt Xgl related..) and Evolution was still rubbish with Exchange To be fair, the way forward is probably to dump Exchange in favour of whatever HP Openmail has most recently been rebranded as, but I like Exchange ActiveSync a lot.

I'm afraid it's pretty simple. One of the ways insurance companies look to develop their business includes "growth from existing customers", which could in some cases mean selling additional products to existing customers, but in the case of car insurance it most likely means increasing premiums... I'm sure if you said you were about to leave, you could get it at the same price as last year. I should imagine they just try it on with everybody.

I counted six too It's probably something to do with there being three words beginning with F, and three words which end in F, rather than anything brain related. I don't think you could mis-count it if you were moving your mouse cursor slowing past each letter..

TT. £4,300 : http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOYOTA-ARISTO-LEXUS-GS300-TWIN-TURBO-300-bhp_W0QQitemZ290155074833QQihZ019QQcategoryZ50175QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

There should be a small-print saying 12v1 + 12v2 max XXwatts, say it's 420watts. Watts / Voltage = amps, so in this example it's 35amps maximum available overall on 12v. This is different to the individual maximum available on the separate 12v rails, which might say 12v1 = 26amps, 12v2 = 22amps, or +12v 26amps, -12v 22amps. You can't draw the maximum amps of each rail together, you're limited by the overall combined supply max. Or something. I don't really play with overclocking stuff, I just buy stuff that does the job and works

Also somewhat related: http://www.xbitlabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13667 It may turn out to be your PSU, perhaps it's vastly overrated/shite (although Enermax is #1 in the Top 5 PSU brands in the above url), but (genuine) 800 or 1,000w is OTT IMO.

I think my PSU is 450w actually, but it replaced a cheaper, older 450w PSU which wasn't up to scratch. It's a bit like the audio-amplifier world I suppose, with regard to watts

cheers. Sent you email via the forum actually, should I still PM or will you get the email?