craig

erm.. me :D

that would be XKR, not XK8, if you couldnt get away. i am running about 12psi, and lost about 2 car lengths up to a ton but the convertible XKR is even match due to the weight. dead even on a scooby type RA recently too

only if you click the box to enable email notification when you post on a thread.. ;)

the ECU should provide more fuel where needed to support the higher boost level you are achieving. however, until you get to +14psi, then an upgraded ECU is not completely necessary, just a safeguard. I have been running up to 1 bar boost for over 2 years now on stock ecu, with no detonation or problems. I just make sure i know what octane i have put in and what the outside air temperature is when i put my foot down in fun as long as you are aware of when you need to be careful

James, some people do a job for the job itself, not for the money, but the money is still important. All of the public services (fire, police, ambulance, nurses) are underpaid. If noone took the jobs because the money was bad, we would have none of these people to save our lives. There is no way you can buy a house or flat, especially in london, on the wages of those jobs. Therefore they have to move out of the area just to live. Then, whats the point of commuting into london for that sort of money, when you can do an identical job in the town you have moved to ? If you are in a well paid industry, then you dont understand what its like at the lower end of the pay scale. Especially in and around London. These are people with familes and dependants, working with great responsibility and purpose, for the sort of salary i was earning when i first started in IT, and when i had no house to pay for, let alone wife and kids to support. Successive governments (they are all to blame) have cut back too much where it matters, rather than addressing where all of the money really goes to. Too many scroungers, freeloaders and fraudsters draining the money that should go to these services. And to many other "focus groups" and "organisations" that get funded in mistaken political correctness and ethnic minorities that should fund themselves like most of the more important charities have to. imho

if on a budget then jets are adequate, but controller is best. jets will give you spiking and an approximate level of boost, but controller will be spot on (-ish) and much safer/reliable

just got today's post, and its not in there. :( that must be 4 or 5 that have gone missing over the last few months.

vijay, many thanks for your help in this... :D i think Dorset use AON for their club policy, from what i remember of the emails i swapped with them.

now that i've been using my road angel for a few months, i really like it :D i have only found 1 camera that wasnt in the database i can silence it temporarily when it starts beeping for a camera it also has known accident blackspots in.. this started to get on my nerves to start with, as you see the warning, see its "just a blackspot" not a camera, and ignore it... but when you look at the road, you see why it has been included, and makes you a lot more aware :D apart from its size, i think it is the dogs danglies, and combined with my jammer.....

heh... jay, got no problem with you, your forum, etc, etc. more resources for the Z can only be good, as people have pointed out. some of your arguments about why dont really stack up, but i'm not going to argue with you over them. the spam mailing forum members was a bit off though, from any point of view, noone likes that sort of thing really. feedback suggests that you dont like the fact that there is a subscription required for the "social" aspect of the forum, and thats why you have done your own thing, fair enough but, i'm sure your own thing costs more than 20 quid.. and if you are hosted on a shared server at an isp, with a finite amount of webspace and transfer allowance, then you will quickly find that a (busy) forum will incur a lot more costs than you have bargained for in the short term the subscriptions for here have paid for a new server dedicated for this forum, and is hosted with very generous bandwidth allowances, to make sure that it does not grind to a halt like the previous hardware/software combo this sort of performance costs money, which is what the subscribers have paid for. the people with businesses that benefit from the members have somewhere which costs them far less than an ongoing magazine advert, and is focused towards a group that know their products and appreciate their knowledge you point out yourself that speed costs money, and you will sort that out when you get more members... as you are selling a product, you will no doubt use that money to help fund your site development. i dont have a commercial enterprise based around the Z to fund the forum, as thats not what i set the site up for. as you said before, its not about being competitors, its about providing a service and resources, but there are better ways of making yourself known.. ;)

i would hazard a guess (already looked :) ) that it came from tt.net

nope :(

mwahahahahahahahaha now dont get me wrong, i'm not against any form of competition, but thats not what this is about payments from members has paid for this server and software to be the best available at the time, and will pay for bandwidth when we exceed our allocated limit. forums just do not run very well on free web space. if you think it is expensive or unreasonable to pay 20 quid towards keeping it here, then the only reasons i can think of for not wanting to pay would be because you are new here and have not fully appreciated the place yet, or because you mistrust me after all, i have only been a zed owner for 3.5 years, and owned the domain and run the forum with nico for 3 of those years... where's my commitment to the community ? how can you trust a fly by night like myself :D oh yeah.. almost forgot... i did not receive the spam mail...

very good comparison here between about 8 or 9 different makes of performance tire in all conditions lower score = better in overall result

very good article here which explains the pros and cons of each, for different types of car, and depending on power output discusses fwd v rwd v awd and breaks the explanation down into power bands. make sure you know which power band you are reading about before you comment on his theories ;) imho, very good though

which/where depends on what you have already... larger brake disks either come 1 piece including hub, or 2 piece with bolt on rotor you need to find the make of the rotors you have, to make sure the new ones fit into the calipers properly (radius and thickness) warren has a source for skyline 1 piece disks, SE do 2 piece upgrades, i'm sure smithy can source disk rotors if you ask him...

Timmy, gutted for you too, after all you've done but, i must say, i think i mine has been ok with me... in 3.5 years, had clutch, brake cylinder, battery and rad, and clutch is more "wear and tear" than the other stuff in a manual... and a few little minor things done 50k miles, and now at 150k, and still original turbos, engine and gearbox although, i do have a lot of little niggly problems, but i can ignore them when nothing major is wrong also, i previously had a sunny zx coupe, which i took to 140k miles, and sold to a friend. this is still going strong 3.5 years later, and was never any trouble, except for one coil pack breaking down. luck of the draw i guess..

you want to be careful what tailpipes you have a nice screw on..

if you reduce your mass enough to outrun a bullet, what would your 0-60 time be ?

shame on you hairsy :D

Stu, when you have the message on screen, run netstat from the command line and look for port 4950-9 netbios-ssn entries from external machines TCP cps-ws:4952 http://www.cps.net:netbios-ssn TIME_WAIT TCP cps-ws:4957 http://www.cps.net:netbios-ssn TIME_WAIT i use a linux machine as my adsl router and firewall, and use zonealarm free version on machines behind

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ok AndyP, kinace, i will get in touch with the guy in the week and see how long he wants.

i would assume the efficiency has increased, as it will flow twice as much water across the core in the same time frame, and i think copper is a better heatsink than aluminium ? however, finding a better and cheaper alternative to the stock Nissan unit was more of a priority for me, and probably most others, so the efficiency figures are of no real consequence, imho the exponential increase in quality has caused a minor increase in mass

the pipework shouldnt be that much longer, as the coolers should be around the same distance forward, you just need to make the pipework go to the middle of the car rather than the sides imho so the lag created by the extra pipework will be minimal, compared to any lag created by larger intercoolers ? although thats quite marginal too... :D imho again ;)