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My 2p... I don't think you need to mention vehicle C, just that the road was clear behind vehicle B. It makes it sound as if you were clogging your "high-powered sports car" to cross the junction in front of C. You don't need to mention your theories about why the indicator was on, just that it WAS on. Maybe say at the beginning that Manchester Road is a dual carriageway with a separate filter lane for approaching traffic to turn right, and lose the stuff about since being made aware of the filter lane.

An unobtrusive one. A few years ago a motorcyclist finished up with a 12-month jail sentence after a "spirited drive" because a police person spotted his video camera and took the tape.

Laser make 4(?) different sizes of those reverse thread thingies, I think. You could maybe ask these guys if they've sold to anyone near you:- http://www.lockingwheelnutremover.com What are the locking nuts like? My friendly local mechanic persuaded them off the GS by carefully chiselling off the loose sleeve and hammering on an impact socket which was slightly smaller than the diameter of the nut, so that it made its own flats. They were the round ones with three holes in the top.

Ckeck the Aussie forum (Soarer Central). There is more experience of this down under. I think some of the 2JZ conversions have the Soarer loom plugged on to the 2JZ sensors. The R154 'box will have no problem even with a modified 2JZ.

but the scoop would be higher than the roof!

So what would you do? Leave it as it is... a little bit of hotrod history, or update it ... maybe lose the arches, slam it, change the wheels?

Nice job Nik You may have found these already, but here are some Soarer sites for you http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk http://www.lexusclub.co.uk/home.htm http://www.lexusaustralia.org/ http://planetsoarer.com/ http://soarer.ace.net.au/

The throttle body is the thing which is connected by cable to the accelerator pedal. Individual throttle bodies (ITBs) -- one throttle body per cylinder, rather than one throttle body for all 6. The cheap(er) way to ITBs is 1.5 wrecked superbikes (or 2 if they are Triumphs). Then you need manifolds and an ECU. Edit: I answer the phone and 95 people post

I think that the confusion about "overdrive" comes from old gits like me, who remember the o/d units on MGBs and the like. The overdrive unit was an extra little electrically-operated 2-speed gearbox on the back of the 4-speed box to give a higher ratio in 3rd and 4th for cruising (1st and 2nd were locked out because they produced too much torque for the little o/d unit). Because 4th gear was 1:1 ratio, 4th + o/d resulted in an overdrive ratio. If you look at the ratios in manual gearboxes, the one before top (4th or 5th) is invariably 1:1, and top gear (5th or 6th) is..... an overdrive gear! However, we never call it "overdrive". If Toyota had just called it "4th" it would be a lot simpler to understand

The ockers on the Aussie Soarer forum -- possibly a surprising bastion of good manners and the Queen's English -- have a policy of banning texters after fair warning. Harsh but fair, in my opinion.

Phone around. My experience has been that the prices at my local tyre shop are so close to the internet suppliers' prices (sometimes cheaper) that it's not worth the hassle of buying online then finding someone to fit them. For example, I just bought a tyre for the GS: Michelin Primacy HP 225/55-16 95W Local tyre fitter 120.00 incl fitting, valve, balancing, disposal MyTyres 118.30 delivered Internet shopping insn't always cheaper.

Since it's a new caliper, and the right wheel is harder to turn and hotter than the left..... Caliper sliders sticking? Flexible brake hose collapsed internally?

Part numbers or casting numbers? In the interest of economies of scale. I'd have thought it was quite possible that the N/A and TT pistons start as the same rough casting but are machined differently.

I'll take them. PM sent.

Does anybody know why there is a limit? I can understand why there would be a limit for dipped headlights, but why is there a limit for main beam?

Any possibility that more watts = more heat = melted plastic?

I thought it was more impressive that a motocrosser could push an ex-WRC world champion that hard

You can definitely buy blower kits for the Lexus GS300/IS300. For example: http://www.prolexperformance.com/prolexperformance/asp/product.asp?id=2 That's the VVTi, though

Many years ago (must be at least 20) I was in a train passing Filton airfield when a Lightning took off and went what seemed like virtually straight up..... very impressive!

Brave man! Keep the Toyota connection, put a Lexus V8 in it

Maybe, but it seems utterly pointless to me. They flew it 7,000 miles round trip, using 10 Victor tankers and over 135,000 gallons of fuel, to drop 21 thousand-pound bombs, which could have been carried by four Harriers. The fuel used for each Vulcan flight was enough for 260 Harrier bombing missions -- 1300 bombs. The Vulcan dropped the bombs at night from, I don't know... 20,000 feet?, so nobody on the ground saw them. In total there were four Vulcan bombing missions, one was aborted because someone left a window open, the other three dropped a total of 63 bombs, 21 hit the ground unarmed, and of the other 42, 41 missed, and one hit the edge of the runway.

I read it a while ago. Ward was in command of the Harriers on the Invincible. He may be biased, but it's fascinating to read about the rivalry, not only between the Fleet Air Arm and the RAF, but also between the Harrier squadrons on the two carriers. To the extent that the Hermes squadron wouldn't take advice from the Invincible about calibrating the Harriers' radar. The overall impression from the book is that they were lucky to get away with it (and he points out that they won't the next time, because we've built a nice new runway which will take any aircraft the Argentinian air force care to land on it, so they won't have to fly from the mainland ).

See if you can find a book called "Sea Harrier over the Falklands" by Commander "Sharkey" Ward. It gives a different view of the effectiveness of the Vulcan raid on Port Stanley airfield. P.S, Here's an excerpt http://www.combatsim.com/archive/htm/htm_arc2/f15_shar.htm Nohing to do with the Falklands, but interesting.

That's why they introduced photo licences, and why they have been working on image recognition cameras..... although it will all be unnecessary when all vehicles are fitted with "Intelligent Speed Adaptation" (and we are fitted with transponders).

All Lexuses (?) are RWD (or 4x4) except the ES300 they sold in the US.