ChrisC

Keep it standard and don't do what I did - modifying is great fun until the repair bills start rolling in :rofl:

That'll be because the Scarab is Z Centre's copy of the Gracer then ;) :rofl:

Wings West i think :) Very similar to the the Greddy Gracer on mine.

You can get an owners manual from http://www.zcentre.co.uk We have an online service manual in this site for technical stuff. The button sounds like an aftermarket item but if it's an import it could be for the non-standard rear fog?

Will be leaking fuel pipes under the bonnet - quite common in winter. Just needs the clips tightening up usually. Do a search on fuel leaks and it will bring up all the usual stuff.

Did she say the wheel has changed to a square shape too by any chance? ;) LOL

Lots, but you can still get done for failing to display :xxx: Just wait until you try it when you've changed car or insurer or your policy expires within a week of your tax date and see how long it takes online!

I can hear it start up on the key but not when it's running. Sounds like it's worn out or something.

Some of those car pumps can't flow enough air to get the pressure up. Have you tried it on the road since you found the first leak?

I've only driven an MX5 once but I was amazed how well they handle. Very nice car. Been in a mates MGF and wasn't impressed. but... If the lady want's an MGF that's the one I'd get or you'll never hear the last of it :rofl:

Cool, just never seen a late one :)

You did say it's tough if a few genuine people get their car crushed though! LOL Yeah you can do it online but if like me you buy a new car and get insurance a week before going away then it can be hell to sort out. Login to DVLA to get taxed and you may be told you are uninsured and are comitting an offence! Call DVLA and find it can take UP TO 3 WEEKS for the computers to update your details depending on how often they get data from the particular insurer. Now that is ridiculous for an online system! Waited for my cover note to arrive "within 2 days" and after a week it hadn't so I couldn't go to the post office to do it either. Had to go away without tax for 2 weeks when I had spent a week trying to tax the bloody thing! Even though it's all on computer you can still get fined for "Failing to display a tax disk" What a joke, when all police traffic cars can now pull up this information on computer. It's about time they did away with the tax disk and just put the price on the MOT or fuel. I can understand that before, having to go to the Post Office to get a tax disk was a way of checking your car is insured and MOT'd once a year but now MOT and insurance is computerised they know if the car is road legal anyway. This could still be chased up in the same way if you didn't MOT/insure/SORN it. One reason they probably won't change it? When you tax it it starts from the first day of the month so you are forced to lose up to 30 days tax, then when you have to get a refund you can lose another 30 days that they pocket! This must put so many people off taxing their vehicle for up to a month so they don't lose out, putting them at risk of a minimum £200 fine that they don't deserve. That really is a con when they know to the day when you taxed and MOT'd it. Who would put up with being ripped off for nearly 2 months money dealing with any other company??!! Drives me mad when I have 2 cars and one is regularly off the road. I think I lost 3 months tax last year, it's a massive money making scam. How behind the times is this country?! Nobody else messes their drivers about so much as in the UK! Sticking a paper disk in the window goes back to 1921 and is based on licensing for steam vehicles etc in the 1800's :rofl:

Am I right in thinking that the last 99 spec cars were only 2+2? When was the last SWB done?

I think I learn't it all wrong at school. I thought PMS lasted about 29 days or is that just my ex? :rofl:

Here he is: :rofl:

You're the only one who's been inside a mans body :tongue: :rofl:

She shouldn't have been speeding.

Would be funny as f**k if your Z got crushed! :rofl:

I think... You spelt christmas wrong 3 times :rofl:

Truly awful! It's a nice car that gets respect so why try to make out it's a Ferrari and have anyone who's into cars think you're a :xxx: ? I particularly like the way the Ferrari badge has been put a foot into the middle of the bonnet and the side badges are above the indicators so everyone can see them hahahaha! Someone send him a link to this thread, he needs to know what people living on planet earth think :rofl:

You're not going to be running those turbos at 18psi with stock injectors are you? :o

I had this problem with mine. One end is wider than the other but it still wouldn't go. I just gave it a couple of whacks with a hammer to open them up a fraction. Didn't need much on mine, probably only 1 or 2mm.

Signed :)

I've got out of it twice as I'm self employed and have service contracts with nobody else to do the work if I'm away. They wanted me to go to York from Harrogate which is an hour drive plus silly parking charges or accept their payment for public transport which meant getting a bus and a train plus a fair old walk across town. Everyone I know who has done it has really enjoyed it though.

What are they? T28's? I think you'll need new 5 bolt downpipes and the intake pipes machining or replacing for a start.