Daves_Zed

Give it a go ;) We've all done it :D HERE :tongue:

It's not worth it, for you or others............... A verse someone just posted, thought I'd share it with you all............. WENT TO A PARTY, MUM I went to a party, And remembered what you said. You told me not to drink, Mom So I had a sprite instead. I felt proud of myself, The way you said I would, That I didn't drink and drive, Though some friends said I should. I made a healthy choice, And your advice to me was right, The party finally ended, And the kids drove out of sight. I got into my car, Sure to get home in one piece, I never knew what was coming, Mom Something I expected least. Now I'm lying on the pavement, And I hear the policeman say, The kid that caused this wreck was drunk, Mom, his voice seems far away. My own blood's all around me, As I try hard not to cry. I can hear the paramedic say, This girl is going to die. I'm sure the guy had no idea, While he was flying high, Because he chose to drink and drive, Now I would have to die. So why do people do it, Mom Knowing that it ruins lives? And now the pain is cutting me, Like a hundred stabbing knives. Tell sister not to be afraid, Mom Tell daddy to be brave, And when I go to heaven, Put "Daddy's Girl" on my grave. Someone should have taught him, That it's wrong to drink and drive. Maybe if his parents had, I'd still be alive. My breath is getting shorter, Mom I'm getting really scared. These are my final moments, And I'm so unprepared. I wish that you could hold me Mom, As I lie here and die. I wish that I could say, "I love you, Mom!" So I love you and good-bye.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Yesssssssssssss :D It's started ;) :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

For all three pieces, £35. The '99 front, centre panel and rear bumper go in after xmas aswell :nana2: :nana2: :nana2: :nana2: :nana2: :nana2: :nana2: :nana2: :nana2: :nana2:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Nothing special, it's only my daily driver, it's a 1.6 Mexico ;) But I'm currentley having brake problems :headvswal with it, so I've gota bring the ZX out to go to work for the rest of the week :nono: Anyway, use my link above for the pics as :ttiwwop:

How reliable is my Escort? Or nextdoors Scooby? It depends on how well it's been looked after by previous owners. The usual service items are required, as with any other car. The engine bay electrics are prone to heat damage over time, but on the whole nothing more major than anything else. Have a look at the Buying Guide that'll give you some pointers on some things that can be a problem. HTH

Before you say it, yes I know that the NISSAN wants painting, and it is missing the Twin Turbo badge, but thats to be sorted in the new year ;) (mmmmmmmmmm nice shiney chrome one from Smithy) Oh, and also I know that they are not suposed to sit ontop of the rad ;)

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Stolen from SkyLineOwners.com ;) Engineering Proof of the non-existence of Santa There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems illogical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them--Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth II (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance--this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 trillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa ever did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christmas.

Just found this on SkylineOwners.com. along with this..... and.... This is very concerning.

I'm not personally too sure about these, but like a lot of things, 1) It's down to personal preference. And 2) I'd love to see these on to make a better informed opinion, if you see what I mean ;) On the yellow one with the GTR 32 lights, I like these, but agree about the GTR badge, pointless!

Full info on it HERE HTH

Bloody hell!!!! :D Just come on this morning after asking the guy at work, and got the details to find I've been beat to it :cry: But full details are....... Belmont Metal Finishings Unit 4b, Woodhill Industries, Nottingham Lane, Old Dalby, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE14 3LX Tel: 01664 822482 Classification: Blast Cleaning Guy at work said he's used them quite a few times and they are top notch.

Rich there is a place at Hill Top Farm, in Old Dalby, just East of Melton, they do powdercoating. But I cant find anything in yell.com for it, I'll have a word at work and see if any of the local guys know the company name. Sorry I cant be any more help.

Yeah, that could explain why it wasn't you then ;) :rofl: :rofl:

Could be Mark!? ;)

^^^ Long title I know :D As title, when you fitted it, how much did you have to modify the intercooler ducts? (As per my previous post regarding the info I found in the US.) Or did you ??? ;) Any other tips I need to know, or is it a case of nothing more than fitting a standard one? All probably silly questions, but I like to be fore-armed, if you know what I mean? ;) TIA

And this one aswell, not sure about copyright.

And this one................ Might even be able to find some more :D Incidentley, if the quality isnt any good, I've got the original size versions aswell.

How about these Mike?

Sorry Steve, but I don't see what your post has to do with my post, as I stated the MX5 had nothing to do with the Ford Probe. The Ford Probe was built on the same floor pan as the MX6, absolutley NOTHING to do with the MX5. The only corrosponding factor was the Ford owned a 52% share of Mazda, hence the design use of the same floor pan, also the Escort had been used earlier on the Mazda 323(or one of it's numbers ;) ) and the Fiesta being used as another Mazda model more recentley. I don't doubt that their are similarites at all with the early pre-design stage of our beloved Zed, but nothing to do with what I have just said. I hope that clears up my post :D

PMSFL :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Added a daylight pic to top post :D

Nice switch, same one I've got :D POWER/HOLD switch; POWER - This will hold it into the gear for longer when accelerating hard, so that you can make good use of that gear before it'll change up. HOLD - This will allow you to start off in 1st, then upto 2nd, etc, but for the likes of snow, it doesn't let it go back into 1st, thus you get a better power delivery and traction. This is how it was described to me anyway. BUT it's NOT advisable to run around with it in either of these modes for long, as it wont do the box any good for excessive use. HTH

And the MX5 had nothing to do with the Probe, but the MX6 did ;)

I hate to point out the obvious, but that's been PhotoShopped!!!!!!! ;) and :hurl: