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You're all missing the point! LOL

Mean? Not really. You'll find a lot of clubs will only allow subscribed members to advertise. It's not being mean and it's nothing personal, but it's a way of offering some kind of protection for the prospective buyer or seller.

You what? :confused:

Everything you want to know....(the forum above) http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=41

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Legally or illegally?

DTA - http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=119257

Hahahahahahaah! PMSL! That's hilarious! :rofl:

That's Tee's car. He's had it for a whopping 1 month and now wants nearl £1k more than he paid for it! I think he paid something like £1500 from user AutoExpress. If Z32s are increasing in value by £1k per month, I really won't be getting rid of mine! LOL

Dry joint in the speaker cone? Have you checked the connectors? One might be loose.

Feel free to urinate on his threshold.

No. Middle if yours is a series 1 and 2. But I'd have NGKs over those.

Yeah, you'll have oil in the inlet and sometimes as far down as the ICs. Can take longer to clear depending on how you drive it. If you're replacing the knock sensor, then get the knock sensor loom too. It's not that expensive and it's that which tends to fail over the sensor itself.

EBC = Electronic Boost Controller. I'd get your car sorted before going for a boost controller IMHO.

.....I haven't heard a single Christmas tune yet! It's bliss! Hear it all going on in the shops but nice not hearing anything by Wham, Roy Wood, Gary the Paedophile, Slade, Bling Crosby or Cliff Dicks! Granted I've been listening to R2 and R4 most of the day, which are seemingly the only worthwhile radio stations in the UK at the moment. Saying that, Radio 2 seems to be dying a death. Anyway, nice not hearing it all yet! I was in France for the weekend. None of the tackyness we have over here. No one rushing aroung like crazy idiots trying to do all of their Christmas shopping. It seems that there is a LOT less Christmas commercialism in France and it's really nice. Bit like Easter is over here. Not an over-hyped marketing program with poor taste.

Never had one melt on me before, but one stopped working. I removed the side lights totally and fitted brand new US foglights with no sidelights. Not strictly legal, but I never use my side lights. It's either dipped beam or nothing. I'll get round to converting them though.

Munny, I met up with a chap who did the Scumball rally. Was that the same event? One of my customers has White MK2 Golf GTi track car. Guy called Martin Robinson.

That's pretty much me in a nutshell. I did have to idle a little to get out of the garage, but thats about 20 - 30 seconds, by which time I am driving the car.

Pressure does not effect flow rate when the engine is col. The reason the pressure is higher is because the oil cold and therefore thicker and has a harder resistance to pour...resulting in top end starvation.

Modern cars don't need a warm-up proceedure. It's documented many times. Best thing is to drive it gently until the oil has reached its peak pressure.

Hi mate. I have a few points to question your responses. 1) Agreed, not all oil does, but most of it does. Which is why taking dip-stick measurements is ideal on an engine that’s stood. You’ve got to wait for oil to flow back down to the bottom. 2) OPR does take care of flow, but only to bring pressure down on cold-start. It again does not have any capabilities in getting oil ‘flowing’ round the heads. The pressure maybe controlled, but the oil’s viscosity is still not at the best rate for flow. 3) All oils work best at operating temperatures regardless of weight and / or synthetic content. Synthetics are thinner at lower temperatures and don’t get much thinner at higher temperatures. In that respect, it’s just as well you get in the car and drive it as you’re almost contradicting the fact of putting that grade of oil in in the first place. :)

Yes, the oil pressure is taken from the block. Oil only has its true properties once its up to temperature. The amount of work the engine has to do at idle (and therefore heat generated) is absolutely minimal so the engine will take forever and a day to get to operating temperature. While this is happening metal-metal contact is wearing all the bearing surfaces out. Although pressure is low in a general sense around the engine. The oil pressure is actually higher when the oil is cold due to it not passing through the passages as easily but it is correct that the top end does get starved, due to poor flow from the oil being thicker. It really is pointless and detrimental to the engine to sit there leaving it on idle to come up to temp. It's logic.

Oh right, cool, so we're all clear on the "leave-to-idle-from-cold" activity is a bad thing to do. I don't want to see any 'my top end is rattley' threads pop up at the end of the winter now! :)

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