Gio

J Perf's guide is not bad at all. You're checking this place out - check out other clubs as well just to be safe. 92TT manual for £4,500 could be good or bad - depending on low/high mileage, good/doggy condition, stock/good mods/bad mods (don't ask me). See the bills and ('cos I am no engineer) get at least an AA/RAC inspection - preferably backed by an opinion for someone from here or other reputable place... Good luck (BTW November issue of Evo - the one with the new silver Bentley on the cover - has a much better looking 300ZX in it :) )

NWF, Paul - ;) let's hope martin's legal eagles do the job for him. Cheers - Gio

OK, we still have people judging "The Middle East" (BTW is Turkey or Israel in the Middle East in your definition?) without being able to say why the 300ZX would not have been possible without Arabic science. "their teachings are full of hate and intolerance" and yours are not? I just did a bit of searching to make sure I wasn't just being a white liberal nancy. --------quote from http://www.al-islam.org/about/index.html ------------------ Muslims believe that God is One, indivisible, and they believe in all the prophets of the Christians and Jews including Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Elias, Jonah, John the Baptist, and Jesus (peace be upon them). --------------------------------------- How can you be so ignorant and intolerant of a culture which helped start our own western culture and which gave us such words as: Admiral (Nelson - FFS) Adobe (but probably not pdf) Alchemy Alcohol (hooray) Arsenal (can't have everything) Candy Carafe (yet more red wine) Guitar (gently weeping) Jasime Massage Mocha Orange Racket Ream (so stop using paper) Scarlet (tomorrow is another day) Spinach (sorry - at least it wasn't broccoli) Sugar (pie honeybunch) Tabby (here kitty kitty) and Tripe (for us true Yorkshiremen) Good grief................

Oh come on. Before you start judging anyone on the product of the US film industry, remember that their historical accuracy can be illustrated by U-571. In which a US navy crew recovered Enigma code books and hence helped win the war. Actually, it was a Royal Navy ship whose crew (some of which lost their lives in the attempt) recovered the essential code books from the U-boat. Remember that most western terms beginning with "al-" probably come from the Middle East. Algebra, Algorithm, Alchemy - all branches of knowledge which the Arab world was creating while Europeans and Britons were in the dark ages. The 300ZX would not have been possible without a fundamental invention of an Arabic mathematician. And I do not think it right for you - or anyone - to call anyone else a barbarian. Especially if you don't know why your favourite car would not exist without their knowledge.

Paul C m8y - didn't mean the caps for you. Just that (whatever the reason for the damage) any damage attributable to the accident is the fault of the bloke wot caused it. If I dropped me sandwich because some hillman ran into me, he would have to pay for the sarnie as well as the new bumper :) Therefore, whatever went wrong with Martin's Z at the time of the crash - even if over and above the dented bumper - is "of course" due to the accident. At least if an engineer's report confirms this....

Is Warren the new Nelson? I bet it's really a 200SX or even a 100 NX. ;) Glad you've got her back - any pics yet? FFS keep to the running in schedule or *bang* which would be v boring. Cheers - Gio

Sorry to hear it Martin OF COURSE the prang caused it. If you have legal cover on your insurance - and witnesses (or the dimwit punter has already admitted liability) - than every problem caused by him driving into your car should be repaired at his (or his insurance company's) cost. If the prang dented a pipe which reduced airflow so that the turbos failed, then that's his liability. If you keep on driving it, and add to the damage, then he might get off the hook. I am sure you can find a good experienced engineer here who can write you the necessary report. Good luck, Martin. Cheers - Gio

http://www.kalecoauto.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=244&forum=2&start=0 the main page on http://www.kalecoauto.com has some good performance parts too.

Quite right.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4

It's another bloke with as much imagination as a caravan site! :) (but I still love you...)

Nice one, Eric - have you seen the latvian parts catalogue at http://www.300zx.lv/parts/ ?

http://217.158.136.46/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13953

Peugeot 405 diesel estates They seem to have taken over from those bloody awful Volvos in the "I am wearing a flat cap and braces and therefore have the god-given right to use the rightmost lane at a speed no larger than my IQ - i.e. 55" stakes.

You can't mix and match OSs like that. I am not the right person to get advice from so please get this checked by real guru. Win95 / Win ME use different file systems on the HDD. As does Win NT. Depending on the version of NT, you probably don't have DOS on the PC to exit to - on early Windows, they ran "on top" of DOS. On later Windows, Win NT there is no DOS, just Windows. Its a complete nightmare. If you're lucky, you'll somehow be able to boot DOS (if you have an old DOS floppy) or has your mate kept his emergency floppy set up to date (no)? I hope he's kept his data, cos I can't see anyway of changing the OSs you describe without a serious risk.... Sorry

It's on the "will get round to it soon" list resting gently on craig's desk while he is on his hols. :) I don't think you want to bemailed the entire thing tho - it is 183Mbyte!

amusement: ****ing funny, Andy :)

No not yet, Paul. It was going to cost £500 - had Nissan Motor GB interested in sponsorship but they went cold and I went on holiday! I need to chase again. Perhaps if I drop them a copy of the Evo article.......

Nice one, beermonster - have you got documentary proof the timing belts have been done? Oooer- no if you've got 78k km(genuine) that's 50k miles so timing belts should be due shortly. I'd get it checked over by somone who knows what they're doing before putting too many km on the clock. Welcome to the house of fun that is Zed ownership :)

ROFLM*O

Just making a bid for inclusion in "..idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane..." :D :D Please don't wave that bolt of lightning at me! lol

Now then - singular, chicken, a chicken and plural is chickens. So, surely that should either be "rare as a chicken's teeth" or (more likely) "rare as chickens' teeth" More typically "hens' teeth" http://www.hray.com/idiom/php/idiom.php?idiomid=1123 http://www.dcsb.org/sciday/2002/example.html :p (teehee - Gio)

Two fat blokes in a pub, one says to the other "your round." The other one says "so are you, you fat bastard" Two cannibals eating a clown. One says to the other "Does this taste funny to you?" Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks They charged one and let the other one off. A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.' "Cos it's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in. "He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought "That's a turn-up for the books." "And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.' "So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it." "You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice." "So I went down my local ice-cream shop, and said I want to buy an ice-cream. He said 'Hundreds & thousands?' I said 'We'll start with one.' He said 'Knickerbocker glory?' I said 'I do get a certain amount of freedom in these trousers, yes.' I went to Millets and said 'I want to buy a tent.' He said 'To camp?', I said (butchly) 'Sorry, I want to buy a tent.' I said 'I also want to buy a caravan.' He said 'Camper?' I said (camply) 'Make your mind up.' So I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died." "Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Cooper, get out of the filing cabinet.'" "So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'" "So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'" "So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' "Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu. But I think it's Colin." "So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said 'You've been promoted.' And I swerved. And then he rang up a second time and said "You've been promoted again.' And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said 'You're managing director.' And I went into a tree. And a policeman came up and said 'What happened to you?' And I Said 'I careered off the road.' Stolen from the Montserrat 'Ash House Harriers website - thanks guys, keep running! http://www.mahh.8m.com/default.html

Sounds non-UK to me. Also check this out http://www.300zx.org.uk/mod_comp_1.htm Is the licence plate recess in the rear bumper normal UK long and thin or J-spec rectabgular? If the badge on the bonnet says "Nissan" it's US/UK/Euro. If it says Z its J-spec. HTH - Gio PS check out Luke Borg at ZCentre he's Tech Rep for the 300ZX in the ZClub and his business is in Nottingham. Maybe he can do an inspection for you?

Nothing wrong with imports - condition and service history are more important. You will probably find insurance prices higher for import and usually they are slightly more difficult to sell / get lower prices than good UK cars. But good UK cars are very rare. Some models (eg SWB or NA) were never imported into UK so there is less understanding about servicing and parts. Parts supply is usually not a problem anyway - if dealers don't want to help (some do, some don't) there's always http://www.mjpauto.com, quite a few breakers on this forum in traders section and many guys order from the US (eg from Courtesy Nissan). There's a bunch of buyers' guides here http://www.300zx.org.uk/tech_20.htm Mine's an import and I'm very happy. :)