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Somehow, turbos on American V8s always seem wrong to me. I guess I associate turbos with attempts to get lots of power out of "little" revvy European and Japanese fours and sixes. Yank V8s should be about brute force, superchargers, and torque.

If you do File > Database > Properties when you are in your mail database, is it looking at the server copy or the local copy? If it's the local copy you won't see new mails until you replicate. If you are on the network, you can access the server copy of your mail db directly.

350,000 yen FOB in Japan would be about £3,300 by the time you got it off the boat in the UK

Wrap the wheels in wheelie bin bags. Keeps the muck off the trim.

This is the Castle Combe web page http://www.combe-events.co.uk/skidpan.htm TIF threads 2005 http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?threadid=5907 2004 http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?threadid=3268

Castle Combe. TIF organized one last year and they have another in September. 80 quid each and you need twelve people to book the course for your exclusive use (plus they tailor the course to the appropriate type of car, i.e. RWD).

The centre cap doesn't help....

The "evidence" in favour of cameras has always been dubious. They lump virtually everything under "speed related". This is the text of an article in Motor Cycle News July 3 2002 "Take a look at the Transport Research Laboratory report TRL323, which lists accident causes according to police officers at the scene. It's this document which is behind the DLTR's claims that one third of all accidents are speed related, the prime justification for the plague of speed cameras. The single biggest proportion of that "one third" comes from 'failure to judge another person's path or speed' at 10.7 per cent of ALL accidents. This is astonishing -- it means that when someone pulls out of a junction in front of you and has you off your bike, you have just statistically become a speed related accident used to justify more speed cameras, regardless of what speed either of you were doing! There are lots more examples: "following too close" is, according to the Government, speed related too (even if the driver is following too close at 50mph on a a motorway with a 70mph limit, because the driver in front doesn't understand the 'keep left unless overtaking' rule). Slippery roads are also counted as speed related by the DLTR, something to mull over as you slide off on a roundabout doused in bus diesel at 10 mph. So is bad weather, even though going too fast in bad weather is listed separately under excessive speed. Riding slowly in the winter but coming a cropper on unsuspected black ice is, for the DLTR's purposes, still a speed related accident fuelling the need for more speed cameras. As for "excessive speed" itself -- TRL323 blames this for just 7.3 per cent of accidents. And that includes excessive speeds which might be below the posted speed limits, which speed cameras do nothing to address." Eventually the government and camera partnerships (mostly) stopped using the one-third figure, but they still seem to be stuck on the idea that most accidents are caused by speeding.

Any pigeon fanciers on this board? Anybody keep chickens? Go out netting rabbits? If it comes to that..... anyone eat meat?

Do you want to be torquing something vital with a wrench that's had its calibration stuffed up?

Noooo!! Don't use a torque wrench to undo bolts!! I assume you mean a breaker bar

Gamer is your man. Apparently there were there were a couple of Supras at the last one http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6513&perpage=15&pagenumber=2

You could try BIMTA

The Soarer control arms are more expensive than the Supra arms (the LCAs are £340.00 each from the LSOC shop) which makes the bushes a better deal. As you said, there's still the issue of the ball joints. Although the control arms appear to be interchangeable, the Soarer bushes seem to be more biased towards confort than those fitted to the Supra.

I know it's a Soarer, but.... this colour?

From what I know of SC300/400s in the US they are not always very particular about the offsets as long as the wheels look good, and ET20 is a long way from ET50.....

Nah, she had it easy.... it was the big-block!! (2.4)

definitely .... and if we're talking more than 5 minutes ago ...... Kathleen Turner in Body Heat but over all the above, Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not

You may find some of this interesting http://planetsoarer.com/#Intakes:

The British Empire was the largest in modern times, and English is the world language. Therefore, if you are a refugee there's a good chance that you come from a country that was once part of the British Empire, and if you speak a second language it's probably English. Where would you aim for?

I've seen nothing about the steel pulleys in relation to the Soarer. Looks as if Manny gave up on the HKS altogether. His car's spec sheet now says JUN pulleys http://www.alsc.aus.as/scripts/discus/board-profile.pl?action=view_profile&profile=manny-MODERATOR According to a post on that ALSC thread the Aussie HKS agent confirmed "that there are 100s in the same boat with the Nissan boys having the same issues in their engines. He blamed his lack of action on his supplier HKS USA refusing to consider the issue." If it was that much of a problem, you'd think they'd make sure the new version didn't wear.....

What happens if you click on the "Archive through April 03, 2005" link at the top? EDIT: Might show as locked because you aren't registered / logged in? Or do you mean "Closed: New threads not accepted on this page" at the top? That refers only to the first page which is linked to via "Archive through April 03, 2005". I can post to the second page of the thread. Do you want me to ask Manny to get in touch with you? Or you could register and post yourself.

This is the thread on the Australian Lexus Soarer Club forum http://www.alsc.aus.as/discus/messages/3/40445.html Manny posted pictures, but it looks as if they have been lost from the forum.

Same thing happened on a Soarer in Australia. At least he confirmed that the 1JZ is a non-interference design......

What I meant was search for "dialling in" Although I do try to be a cheeky bugger as well