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My drivers side headlight (the outer, round one) stopped working. Just taken the bulb out and it's fine. No voltage on the 2-pin chunky Nissan connector (damn!). The other side works fine. Saying that, all 3 bulbs are on, and I'm sure only the 2 outers would be normally(?!). Dunno, can't really remember. Anyway, when I stick full-beam on, I get the passenger side large one (oblong) on, and nothing else. WTF?! Just to confuse things a little more... when I'm supposed to be on dipped beam, I get a half-bright full beam light on the dash. On full beam (one bulb!) the full beam dash light goes out altogether. Anyone have any idea WTF is going on?! Is there a fuse somewhere I need to be checking? Or is a relay f*cked? Tell me it's not the relays in the front passenger side of the engine bay!.. can't easily look at those cos they're stuck under a dump-valve :(

Ta Jezz ;) Z32 fuel rail pressure, anyone?

Well... this Orange thing just had to be tried out, didn't it. Forgot to actually check there was anything worth watching tho so saw Starsky and Crutch. It was OK. Best bit was the stunt driver completely f*cking up a reverse 180, in the titles at the end. Kill Bill 1&2 had to be seen whether they're any good or not. If Tarantino made a panty-pad advert, I'd go watch it.

There I was at work, staring out of the window (as you do), when I started thinking about injectors. I've got 550cc's because I was told by Pete@SE that's what I'd need for my engine spec, which ultimately is supposed to make 550-somink bhp and run a couple of bar of boost. So blindly I handed over the cash - duuuh, OK - without thinking about it any further. That's until Macca mentioned fitting 870cc's to his. 870cc's!?! :eek: I thought: can't be /that/ hard to work out what size injectors anyone would need based on how much boost they intend to run. *This* much air needs *this* much fuel at *these* engine revs, no? Well, I dunno WTF I then went on to work out, but it's so _totally_ wrong it's laughable! Take your standard 3.0 litre TT Z32 running 1 bar of boost... I say 1 bar because obviously atmospheric pressure is 1 bar, so jamming compressed air in at 1 bar will mean the air is twice as dense. Or have I made some horribly wrong assumption about that for starters?! Then I said: the engine's 3 litres (exactly, in my example) so each cylinder is half a litre. BUT, because the cylinder only sucks once every two revolutions, it's sucking half that amount of air. But that's cancelled out by the fact that the air is double-density... so lets just say it's half a litre per revolution. Bit of maffs later... at 7500 rpm, one cylinder's sucking 3750 litres of air per minute, or 62.5 litres per second. Hmm. Sounds like rather a lot. Trying to work out how much fuel's needed for that much air... I said, lamda=1 is 14.7:1 air:fuel ratio. Bad assumption? To get how much fuel, I do (1 / 15.7) * 62.5, which comes to (wait for it...) 3.98 litres of fuel per second!?! Eh?! And that's only on one fickin cylinder! Fire all of those b*stards and the car would run out a full tank in around 2 seconds! :eek: :confused: LOL! Anyone here got a kid doing GCSE physics that can help sort this mess out?

It was in stealth mode... that probably why ;) I have enough trouble getting my dad in my car and he's /not/ disabled. Did you see a film or what? Bad news about the dent. Did you catch the scumbag?

Wot, and caused you a permanent disability?! Daaaamn, that's gotta hurt! I was parked 1 lane away from you, you unsociable b*stard!

:eek: Posh birds are dirty ;)

I've still got the pair of pipes with the cats in, sat in my garage for some reason. Didn't seem right to be chucking away 2 perfectly good cats :eek: I'm never gonna use them tho. Just thought they might come in handy for someone that needed to replace theirs one day. You know you wanna get rid of them cats altogether tho, right? :)

:confused: !?! Out of interest, have they said who the insurers would be?.. Houghtons being a broker, I take it? I guess that's also quoted with no no-claims either, because it's used on the 1st policy (with Tesco, right?). 1+1 = 0.2?! I don't get it.

I used to nob a posh bird. Does that count?

Obviously, they need the right bit of kit... which isn't cheap. But I got mine done at the tyre place round the corner - Supatyres (spelt?), couple of mins away from SE in Maldon, Essex. It's worth getting it checked at least /once/ I reckon. But it's not like you'll need it done with every tyre change.

Was that your white Zed in the UCI car park tonight? Dent in the passenger side rear quarter - must have been! ;) Someone from Southend tho, for sure.

D'oh, and there was me about to ask you for that same .dat file Stu! I could have a word with SE Pete to see what he's got - I need to drop in there soon to hand him the "jobs not properly finished yet" list.

Yeah, why not? I only really suggested Essex blokes because I kinda felt like a quick local get-together (and a beer, of course). At this rate we're gonna need to book a whole club tho! Or work it in shifts or somink. No idea about a best date. Just whenever. When's anyone interested / free / not already going out on the p*ss? I'll happily lose to anyone :)

Granted, just like everyone else here, I love getting the car sideways... but if you're thinking maybe it's not quite right, i.e. it's unpredictable or goes out more one way than another, there's the obvious things to check... uneven tyre pressures, bad tread, knackered shocks, or maybe the rear tracking. When I first got my 300 it felt kinda "funny" - drove straight but handled, um, wrong. After a bit of 4-wheel alignment, it was much better. Nowadays it just arses about everywhere (straight lines, bends, stationary, whatever) but that's a different story.

Looks good! :) Just one small worry - bead-blasting the inside? Wot if there's some bits of bead left...? :eek:

I asked a place about doing this... they said there'd be big problems fitting all the required bits under the bonnet. I think it was the condensor(?) they were saying is quite a big bit of kit. The cheap systems basically cut off the fuel injectors and shove LPG in at the throttle bodies... which isn't exactly ideal. The expense, the hassle, and the extra weight (big tank in the boot?!) probably add up to it being unrealistic. Do a search around the forum tho. This has been discussed before.

If anyone's genuinely interested in buying your car, then they'll find you! If this middle-man (woman) found you that easily, then so can a real purchaser. I have a feeling you may have trouble getting rid of these people now. Good luck tho. Steer well clear, I reckon. Take out a "advertise til sold" ad (I know X&M used to do these quite cheap) if it's taking time to sell. Or don't sell it ;)

:bow: Nuff said.

Yeah, that sounds more like it (like mine, Macca's /had/ to be removed anyway). Mike - you saw the 1st one, and OK, it looked like cr*p. But the second one is much better. It's still not flattened down the sides, just like Marshalls pic. Oh, and SE don't chrome them either, just flatten and polish.

Don't be daft! Not that I can remember what they actually charged me (if it was anything at all). But it weren't 500 fickin quid!

Blingin'eck Vinz! :eek: Looks outstanding! :D

No way! I didn't see a table! That sounds almost like a plan... what with the plentiful beer supply just opposite too :) You sure you want your table wrecked by a bunch of hooligans tho Andy? :eek: See, on a public table, I'd be knocking the competition unconscious with the cue ball off the break. Pool /is/ a contact sport, isn't it!? There's a couple of clubs around here if anyone does wanna make it a bit more public (here being Southend-ish). Dunno what club you're thinking of Ron, but you're around Southend way, aren't you?

Not inviting anyone to come pinch my car, but I regularly forget to put the roof back in overnight. A couple of times the neighbours have come round and knocked on my (already open) front door to let me know. But noone worries any more. Noone would wanna nick the Millennium Falcon anyway! ;) I will shop round next year, regardless of how painful it is. I don't expect it'll ever be much better tho. I don't /feel/ shafted. Just like everything else with this car, it's just more money. One day I might grow up and get a sensible car. Pfft.

Keep ya syrup on, mate! ;) I'm only fackin about. London, OK nasty. But I live in an area (daan saaf) where people leave their front doors open when they go to work. Crime? Wassat then?! Even Jocks quote I'm surprised about, cos it's with Flux. I've never been banned. I don't have any points - not for a long-long time. What's going on then? I just expect to pay 4 figures. It was more expensive last year! Next year I'll give some of these other guys a go. I'd kinda hoped the "club" would've been able to sort some cheaper insurance out by now. Just out of interest, how do you go about finding out how good/bad your postcode area is?