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it was a great drive, as it arrived in Southampton and not being so sure with the status of everything, I avoided all major roads and stuck to as many B roads with nothing but a compass on the dash. It's body isn't mint, just its heart. Thanks for the pointers, the general advice seems to be get it registered. Makes sense. Be a real shame if it took years to sell once registered.:wink:

Hello, firstly, please don't kick me too hard for asking in the forums as I'm genuinely in a bit of a conundrum here. I brought my car across when I moved to the UK some years ago. Shortly after arriving, {ahem} I basically had no points left on my license which meant that insurance for the zed was rather high. Alas, I have never registered the car in the UK. It's only had minimal miles here basically from the shipping port to my home and a few little blats here and there on 'private' roads. You may ask, why did I bother to bring it across - well because the engine and (auto) transmission (1995) are mint and fully serviced (new belts, gearbox oil etc) by a Nissan qualified high end mechanic (brought from the Nissan Dealership) and very low miles and the chassis (1992) is good, no rust and never been driven on salted roads. Before I left, we had 4 zeds in our little group. It's a JDM TT, and it's been kept standard with the plans to give it more oomph. The Mines ECU was for the engine which was imported from Japan, and, well you can lean your elbow against it when its running and feel no vibrations. New brakes, disks and a spare set of wheels. I'll miss the car, but I have to move it along as our garden no longer has the room and family has grown - and father must now drive only sensibly in cars with a dozen airbags. So my real question is, would it be worth selling it as unregistered or do I get it registered and put on the road before selling it? Obviously, there is no tax to pay. Thanks for suggestions.

Living in the land of sugar beets, there is plenty of material around for brewing alcohol and as its not for drinking, the ethanol (and other alcohols which brew) is fairly easy and safe to do - just don't smoke. my question is, running this in a zed. I know about various seals dissolving etc but could a conversion be made to the engine and obviously timings to cater for higher alcohol, either mixed in the fuel or directly injected. I understand that LPG can run, albeit with the issue of the engine leaning out much early but can be overcome with custom ecu's and dynamic mappings. I also am aware, that the fire service does not carry equipment for high temperature fires and why you aren't allowed to run aviation fuel on public roads etc - so maybe why a mixture rather than a tank for direct injection might be the way forward. I'm all for trying to reduce my fuel bills, ok so a dynamic ECU would take years to offset from fuel costs but thats another story and will come out of the 'capital' budget rather than 'operational' budgets :D It needs to be dynamic, as some days it may or may not have alcohol in the fuel. I also note, that polish vodka (you know the stuff, sold in plastic bottles...) sometimes sells very very cheaply at the supermarket. You can brew 2500L of diesel each year before road tax, so I guess the same must be similar for petrol based.

Who would do such a thing?

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also http://www.carfiche.com

You can hack the cruise control ECU from 105km/h to 148km/h http://pexcom.com.au/z32cms/e107_images/ASCD92+.pdf from here: http://www.pexcom.com.au/z32cms/e107_plugins/content/content.php?cat.109 there is also a link to retrofitting cruise control

Nast, nasty things which will end up costing you a whole heap more such as in new plugs when the residue builds up etc. It'll work a bit for a while... Alas, here is something to read up on with some pointers to what octane means. http://volvospeed.com/Reviews/octane_boosters.html

be sure not to use a steam washer (one of the garages round us has a steam/really stupidly hot wash) as steam will get into the electrics much more than water.

maybe, powerstrip will help you. its very good for tuning the cards in the other direction... http://entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm

pretty sure its this tracker am talking about AVL-02 from some chinese maker: http://cgi.ebay.ie/AVL02-GPS-tracker-Automatic-Vehicle-Location-Security-/110468830277 £75

Take the car to a good/trusted/mate/installer with electrical knowledge. Put in several immobilisers which are non standard fitted with a jumble of wires. Thus, remove/bypass the alarm somewhere and you'll still need to find the other kill switches located throughout the car. Hopefully... short of rewiring the car/new loom if its stolen it'll never work for anyone else. The other thing, is for about £90 quid plus a £5/month for a sim with unlimited data (from three for instance) you can get a gps tracker hidden somewhere in the car running independent of any alarms and with battery backup which stores the logs until it can get network coverage again. I haven't got this, but a friend's car has and its pretty sweet setup, well hidden somewhere in one of the body spaces. Even if the battery is disconnected it'll still work (well at least for about two days and chances it'll be chopped in 24 hours anyways). This is a great setup for him, as there are no other ongoing costs, though dunno how the Police would treat the GPS logs - as they aren't from a 'tracking' company. On a side note, he also keeps a log of his journeys.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/5110270.stm

This looks cool. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1557885575 Performance Fuel Injection Systems HP1557: How to Design, Build, Modify, and Tune EFI and ECU Systems. Covers Components, Sensors, Fuel and Ignition Requirements, Tuning the Stock ECU, Piggybac [Paperback] Product Description A guide to modifying and tuning modern electronic fuel injection (EFI) and electronic control unit (ECU) systems. Includes sections on standalones, an overview of EFI systems components and basic operation, and much more. About the Author Matt Cramer is the chief technical engineer and programmer for DIYAutoTune. Jerry Hoffmann is the founder of DIYAutoTune.com. They live in Georgia.