Gio

Last take off (to Edinburgh) just before 3pm to day. And then around 4pm at Cranford 3.... 2... 1.... Zero. Until today, we (the Brits and oh OK then the French) could do something the Americans, Russians and Chinese couldn't. Lead the world in aeronautical engineering. Bye bye Concorde - possible the most beautiful plane in the world.

About the only thing that made me grin today! lol bidding away.... What colour for the respray?

I live just off 09L/27R (north runway) at Heathrow and so most mornings, when I'm working at home, get a small lump in the throat as 4 Rolls Royce Olympus engines on full afterburner kick out a grand total of 152,000* lbs of thrust tearing the sky apart and launching 203ft 9ins of pure white beauty into flight. And I just heard the last ever passenger flight from LHR take off to Edinburgh. B*stards. If any of you out there have got an outstanding order with Airbus Industrie, please cancel it in protest. No longer can anyone simply buy a ticket to fly supersonic. An experience now lost to us mere civilians. An ending to one of the UK's finest technical accomplishments. And I had just accumulated enough Air Miles to fly her when they jacked the price up by 20% and told me "there aren't any Air Miles seats left on Concorde anyway". Double b*stards. http://www.concordesst.com/home.html http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/news/concorde2003.htm Yours - Gio the Grumpy Old Man with moisty eyes *approx the hp of 40,000 Minis, apparently

And this has to be done before the winter because we can't have archaic and heat it!

WORDS WOMEN USE *************** FINE This is the word women use to end an argument when they feel they are right and you need to shut up. Never use "fine" to describe how a woman looks - this will cause you to have one of those arguments. FIVE MINUTES This is half an hour. It is equivalent to the five minutes that your football match is going to last before you take out the garbage, so it's an even trade. NOTHING This means "something," and you should be on your toes. "Nothing" is usually used to describe the feeling a woman has of wanting to turn you inside out, upside down, and backwards. "Nothing" usually signifies an argument that will last "Five Minutes" and end with "Fine" GO AHEAD (With Raised Eyebrows) This is a dare. One that will result in a woman getting upset over "Nothing" and will end with the word "Fine" GO AHEAD (Normal Eyebrows) This means "I give up" or "do what you want because I don't care" You will get a "Raised Eyebrow Go Ahead" in just a few minutes, followed by "Nothing" and "Fine" and she will talk to you in about "Five Minutes" when she cools off. GO AHEAD! At some point in the near future, you are going to be in some mighty big trouble. LOUD SIGH This is not actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A "Loud Sigh" means she thinks you are an idiot at that moment, and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you over "Nothing" SOFT SIGH Again, not a word, but a non-verbal statement. "Soft Sighs" mean that she is content. Your best bet is to not move or breathe, and she will stay content. THAT'S OKAY This is one of the most dangerous statements that a woman can make to a man. "That's Okay" means that she wants to think long and hard before paying you back for whatever it is that you have done. "That's Okay" is often used with the word "Fine" and in conjunction with a "Raised Eyebrow." PLEASE DO This is not a statement, it is an offer. A woman is giving you the chance to come up with whatever excuse or reason you have for doing whatever it is that you have done. You have a fair chance with the truth, so be careful and you shouldn't get a That's Okay" THANKS A woman is thanking you. Do not faint. Just say you're welcome. THANKS A LOT This is much different from "Thanks." A woman will say, "Thanks A Lot" when she is really ticked off at you. It signifies that you have offended her in some callous way, and will be followed by the "Loud Sigh." Be careful not to ask what is wrong after the "Loud Sigh," as she will only tell you "Nothing" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- :D - Gio

I would. And also consider the rear gearbox oil seal - see if it's leaking, cos if it is, now's not a bad time to do it. Some pics of the gearbox mount and a very out-of-date website might be of interest. http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~webster/gio/gearmount.html http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~webster/gio/propvibes1.html HTH - Gio

*ahem* There is no difference in the unit of horsepower at the rear wheel or horsepower at the flywheel / crank. They are both brake horsepower. Rear wheel is what they actually measure (if they get it right) at the wheels and flywheel (or crank) horsepower is their estimate of the bhp available before the transmission. Your figures will be different, naturally - one is the bhp measured at the wheels and the other is the bhp estimated at the flywheel.

Purely as a public service and without making any comment at all on anything that has been in this thread before by anyone, can I just point out that the AUP http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22127 says (with some bits taken out) So please will any future posts to this thread bear the above in mind. Ta.

All in here, mate - look in the "Heater and Airconditioning" section. Also it has the self-diagnostic if you don't have access to Consult / ConZult. HTH - Gio

4rse - hope you get a good result. Mine lasted 6 hours..... (at least that was just mechanical - I'll let you know how long the respray lasts if I ever get it back). Good luck - Gio

Although not definitive, when I bought mine, I said to the local Mandela "please check the underseal and let me know if I have to have it done as I am told Japan is different to UK". They checked and said "nope, no difference". For sure, they could have been incompetent but it's not like a garage to turn down business offered to them on a plate by a punter who has no idea! Cheers - Gio

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24589 Horsepower is a measure of power. Obviously you can't measure power unless that power is working against something - lifting a weight or working against a friction drag (brake). Why not? Imagine a Z with its wheels jacked up doing 3,000 rpm in any gear. Your foot would be barely touching the throttle - so the engine is clearly not putting out its full power @3,000 rpm. If you want to measure the full power you get at 3,000 rpm, just put yer foot down - but then, with no load, the revs rise. So to keep the revs at 3,000 with your engine at full throttle, you need to brake it. The force you need to do this is a measure of the power of the engine. Hence brake horsepower or bhp. (Rolling roads work slightly differently as what they do is measure how fast your wheels can accelerate a known weight - the rollers - which is why they don't work "steady-state". This gives you a true rear wheel brake horsepower. To work out the transmission losses, and hence estimate power at the flywheel, you then take your foot off the throttle which sets your engine power at 0. The rate at which the rollers slow down is a measure of the drag (or transmission loss) of your transmission. Which they add to the rear wheel bhp to get the estimate of bhp at flywheel. This is why estimating the flywheel hp for Z autos is so contentious - these autoboxes do not work the same way as normal autoboxes so standard estimate procedures built in to most rolling roads can't cope.) Engine manufs in the US worked out that if you took off all the gubbins (alternator, water pump, aircon etc etc) you could measure a much higher figure and thus say your engine was higher hp on the bench than actually in the car. So the SAE set a standard configuration - and STP - so that all the right ancilliaries were on the engine while it was being tested - hence sae bhp. sae bhp and normal bhp are the same hp - just the sae method ensures tests are comparable. HTH - Gio (stay awake at the back there: there'll be a test later :D )

Happy Birthday - it's not everyday you turn 10110 :D - don't drink toooo much. Oh no, too late, you already did ;) Cheers - Gio

Don't know for certain - I am no techie. But seems logical. Check the pages in the online manual. There is a self-diagnostic for the aircon and it can be tested by Consult / Conzult. If you want the subfan to work you will need a working sub fan relay. HTH - Gio

When you say the PCvs were "done" do you mean replaced? The symptoms you describe are those of clogged / failed PCVs This quote taken from http://www.ttzd.com/tech/pcvtech.html HTH - Gio

Boy, that's wierd! Yours is the third TT I have heard of which had a missing sub-fan relay. To quote Ian Fleming "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, third time is enemy action". Wonder why? The subfan is the electrical one in front of the aircon condenser. (NA condenser fans are off/on, TTs are off/medium/high which is why they need a second relay). HTH - Gio

NAs don't have subfan relay, TTs do. HTH- Gio

A US horse has the same power as a UK horse - but not, strangely, a German one. 1 horsepower = 550 foot-pounds per sec. Or for youngsters, 745.699 watts. 1 pferdestärke = 735.49875 watts Which explains why all bike manufacturers used to quote bike hp as ps. The german horse being smaller, the figure was bigger. The difference Mark is talking about with US SAE is in how they measure the hp. bhp - or brake horsepower - is the measure of how much power you have to use to stop an engine turning (i.e. the same as how much it is developing). Unscrupulous motor manufacturers realised that if you took all the accessories of an engine: alternator, a/c, p/s pump etc etc etc off it, you would have to use more power to stop it - hence your hp figure would be bigger. The SAE specified a "real-world" way to measure the hp so it would be common across manufacturers and not be open to abuse. So the yanks calculate hp the same way we do - but slightly different to the Germans / continentals. More details http://www3.sympatico.ca/al.vilcius/bikes/power.htm http://www.corridor-o.com/html/kids/html/horses.html http://www.musclecarclub.com/library/dictionary/engine-terms.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower http://www.web-cars.com/math/horsepower.html Cheers - Gio (ex physicist)

If the wheels are damaged enough to lose air (and you've already tried to re-seal once and you know it's not the valve), it sounds as if they're out of shape quite a lot - which sounds expensive. Try the links I gave above to see what they say - Lepsons and Spit n Polish seem to have good reps but I haven't used either. Your damaged wheels aren't the front 225s by any chance are they? Cheers - Gio

Stuart, apparently the OEM wheels are painted to begin with (source lymon & http://www.hankoe.co.uk). Here's an after / before slightly the wrong shade (not quite enough shine) but they do have one that looks pretty close. My wheels are 13 years old and don't lose air - would suspect mechanical damage putting them out of shape before alloys suddenly "becoming porous". HTH - Cheers - Gio

Dumb question Stuart, are they OEM wheels? http://www.wheelrefurbishing.co.uk/ http://www.lap-tab.co.uk/lapalloys.htm http://www.lepsons.com/index.html http://www.spitandpolish.co.uk/ http://www.wickedwheels.co.uk/ Cheers - Gio

Hi All, just got my wheels (thanks RichardSmith) back from the refurbers and with brand shiny new S-03s. Question is, do you think they're right for these arches? :D - Gio

If we are a forum or club based round the 300ZX, then the logo should represent the Z32 300ZX. Such as the Z logo. The Z in the forum logo is, in fact, the same Z which is the logo for the car. J models have it on the front panel. It's also on (model dependant) steering wheel, wheel centres, carpets - and I am sure a whole load of other places I am too p*ssed to remember. So I vote for keeping the Z. It certainly can. You could actually cut the cr*p by setting a few givens (a sad term used by saddo marketing/advertising/management suits but that's what I do): a) use the Z logo that is the same one as is on the car b) make it look good in its primary usage (on the web). If the colours use the websafe palette, the site will load quicker and the logo will be easily translatable to other media like print. Cheers - Gio

Hi Richard - if no-one else replies, try Mike Feeney / MJPauto - he'll know. Cheers - Gio

Oi! If I thought you were going to waste the dosh I gave you on a subscription, I would have asked for a discount on those wheels! :D No but seriously though, welcome and thanks for the wheels. And also for the fascinating story about your Zed. Which just might be the best value ever....... Cheers - Gio