Gio

Some of them are down the bottom of this page http://www.funonwheels.net/humour.htm ROFL still :) :)

It's now a set size. DVLA say: Lettering and spacing must be of a set size. They must conform to one of the groups shown at:- Number plates fitted after 1 September 2001 or Number plates fitted before 1 September 2001. http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regmarks/reg_marks_current_requirements.htm Strangely, it is impossible for a rear rectangular Japanese plate to be a legal UK plate. The dimensions of the required lettering just don't fit the DVLA spec. Some people use the old m/c size letters and some squeeze the car size letters close together to fit on the plate. Non-DVLA plates are, of course, perfectly legal for, e.g. show or display use. It's only if you use them on the road instead of DVLA spec plates that they become illegal. And, of course, no-one here does that sort of thing. :)

Japanese import: 225s all round UK spec: 225 front , 245 rear

Something like this, perhaps? http://www.quad-tech.co.uk/qttyres4.htm

Ah well, I guess that's probably the Skyline effect. That and wearing the baseball cap back-to-front is bound to up the testosterone level and reduce IQ by at least 10 points. See - he can't even spell Schopenhauer, Schlegel and Descartes anymore ;) BTW, real hippies weren't necessarily wimps - every heard of Ken Kesey or Timothy Leary? I guess a significant proportion of you young people wouldn't be having half as much fun without the *ahem* products discovered by these guys.....

lymon's got it temporarily link in here somewhere http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13953

Actually, mine is :)

Sorry, 51x, think you're on a hiding to nothing. Starting simply (cos it's all I can remember), for a speaker to work properly, you need to have a baffle to stop the pressure waves from the front being interfered with by the (exactly inverse if you think about it) waves from the back of the cone. Simplest version of this is the "infinite" baffle. Imagine an infinite plane of material with a speaker sized hole cut in it. So when the speaker goes forward, all the energy goes forward. Without this baffle, some of the energy would nip round the back and get cancelled out. A close approximation is when you take the infinite baffle and (strain, nngh, aargh) bend it round so it looks like a box. Oh look, it's a speaker cabinet without having to buy an infinite piece of MDF. This is less than ideal compared to a true infinite baffle because the air inside the box now acts like a spring and causes all sorts of resonances which degrades freq response and such like. Also less than ideal because the MDF isn't infinitely stiff so wobbles - hence it does not completely isolate the front of the speaker from the back. Inflatable speakers have the same problem only much worse - their material really isn't stiff at all so just can't make a good cabinet. Phew. Inside every ex-physicist is a pedant (if that's OK with you, Mike / Ajay). HTH - Gio

Can I just mention I think it would probably help if you put the car up on some form of ramp? This will probably allow you to get underneath more easily. ( ;) ) HTH

Alex, don't take any notice of Cuckooz / porker - not a real person at all! Just a well known PITA (Hairsy OTOH is quite real and giving the PITA no more than deserved :) )

John, if you're in a cable area, odds are your best deal will be a broadband / telephony bundle. That's usually way cheaper than the next bet. Which is ADSL - BT's is most expensive but there are loads of others as mentioned above. As for narrowband (i.e. dial-up) apart from one or two (some of which have been mentioned above), you will find that the flat rate "all you can eat" services will get progressively more restricted. eg BT Anytime should now be renamed BT Sometime as you can only use it for 150 hours per month. AOL is doing the same. This is because the business model for 24hr flat rate access simply doesn't work - it assumes that people only use the service for an hour or so a day. Then high users (Clarkey, me etc) get the service and sit there all day. (BTW, the business model for ADSL doesn't work either but that's another story - fill yer boots while you can!)

Well not only did ATS ring back with the right one but also just now turned up to deliver it - and fitted it and took the old duff one (the battery not andy) away. Top banana & Thanks

Quick vote for the IoM Mountain circuit - also no speed limit but FFS slow down for the villages or Mr Plod will have words.

Just a watchout warning, the listing for the 300ZX in the FIAMM book used by ATS is wrong. The terminals are the wrong way round (i.e. +ve to the right and -ve to the left). I find this out after a taxi ride to the wrong side of Slough (is there a right side?). I get home in the fading light and plip the remote. Which now only sets off the siren because there isn't enough power left in the main battery to unlock the doors. tsk Manually unlock the door and thank buddha that bit works. Pop the bonnet and compare old and new batteries. Curses - the terminals are the wrong way round. Futilely fiddle with wires just to see if they could stretch to the wrong battery terminals. Nope. Phone ATS. Hmm - they say - let me furkle around in the batttery store, I'll call you back. Aha! Why not get the old battery out just to check for size and then all I have to do is pop the new one in tomorrow? Good idea. Attack the nuts on the terminals just as the sun sets. The discovery that the alarm battery siren activates after you disconnect the battery is startling since I have my head under the bonnet - I recoil backwards and nearly tread on my glasses. The remote is back in the kitchen so run in and plip it. Nothing. So I jam the lead back on to the terminal and read the instruction manual for the alarm. Written in perfect Italglish (oe Engian) I think it is saying that this feature can only be disarmed with the engine running - and I can't start the fecking thing because the flipping battery's flat. At least I can get the metal strap off to be ready for a rapid changeover in between blasts on the siren. Oh grief it's one of these fiddly ones. Lean over to attack this bit and their is a "beep" from somewhere. Sh*t - what have I done now? "biddly beep" - nope, terminals are on so alarm shouldn't have gone off. "biddley biddley beep" - ramming my thumb on the remote has no effect. "biddley, biddley...." ooops, that'll be my mobile then..... It's ATS riging back cos they've found the right one. Can get the front vertical hold-down out but not the back one. It is now dark and I think I have given my neighbours quite enough amusement for one night. So I give up and feed the cats. Can't change a battery but at least I can please the moggies!

Leving religion aside, wouldn't it be fun/dangerous to walk into a bar being propped up by Messrs O'Toole. Reed, Harris, Burton and even Milligna. Don't think I'd ever leave. Hic. Unless to drop a sadly too-small coin in the collecting box for those less fortunate than ourselves. Whether they don't have a Zed, don't have any food or don't have the right to free-speech.

Thank you kind sir, let's see what ATS come up with tomorrow (they're round the corner). Typically, I was faced with the idea of cancelling the trip to the pub and persuading the Mrs to take us to Harry's or saying sodit, it's too effing windy, I'll deal with it tomorrow. Which do you think happened?

Quite right m8ey. It was a disgrace :D Since then, the rear spoiler has been replaced by a Luke special and front/rear resprayed. Sadly, the spoiler looks less-than-perfect and I have some pics which I am awaiting professional advice for. I even checked to make sure that the bodyshop was recommended by forum. Hmm. Wish I'd gone to Zcentre or Leonardo now...... Anyway - can't understand why they put that German barge on the front when they had pics of a particularly beautiful silver Zed inside. :)

Don't forget that the OEM alloys are aerodynamic and handed in order to get the right airflow over the discs / calipers to cool them so they work properly. Check your aftermarket alloys are at least as efficient or your brakes might get worse.

Haven't had anything fracture since I bought it (Aug 99). Either I'm a wuss and don't slam the tailgate hard enough or one of your Zed's got a problem? Do all your rear lenses on all your zeds fracture?

Searched here and found Chris0r / Clarkey http://217.158.136.46/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13664&highlight=battery which ended up at saying any 12v battery with 500 ah will be fine. And another thread which said J-spec terminals are different size to UK. My battery just died - any other advice? Cheers - Gio

(pauses only to wipe tears from eyes) You're not related to Gerard Hoffnung by any chance?

get an inspection. Pref by someone here - or at the very least AA/RAC. Good luck!

OK - unfortunately I don't have a scanner so I can't show you the pages from the Owner's Manual. But you can still get them from Nissan (at least, 3 years ago!). The publication bits on the back of mine say Z32-A Printing: October 1998 (17) Publication No. OM4E-0Z32G1 This was for the Europe / Australian models so missed out some stuff. But it was good fun to sit in the car going through the manual with a pen crossing off the bits I did have and adding the bits I didn't. From memory, the only warning light I didn't get was the catalyst overheat which looks like a big tube with three vertical wavy lines above it. The rest of the lights are pretty much standard. I think. Ish.

What are you trying to identify, Graham? I can't speak Japanese but I have got a J-Spec car.

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