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Idiot + Gun You're lucky he didn't just shoot at movement through a fog cause he "Knew" there were deer out there, and hit a early morning hiker. That's happened in a national park here.

Ok, it's not a Z, but I think if I ever sell my '85 Hilux, I'll become one of these evil PO's that get vilified on internet forums The starter motor relay wiring broke and stuck the starter solenoid into "on" while driving, leading to a galled shaft and stuffed starter motor, I ended up re-wiring a complete standalone relay using known-good parts to run the replacement starter, involving running wires right from the ignition to the starter motor. This involved cutting up a PO's rats nest under the relay/fuse block, somehow in all this I lost the headlights, so dug a fuse and a relay out of a corrola wagon and wired them in with a new rats nest of my own design. Thats in addition to some surgery on the starter motor itself, the cheap used starter had a working morot but worn solenoid, so the solenoid from the old fried motor starter got swapped over. Really quite a frusttrating time playing with a continuity meter working out which wire does what, nothing really fitting the wiring diagrams. I pity the next owner if I ever sell this rust trap and the wiring starts failing... It would be easier and cheaper just to buy a new relay/fuse block and install that

Hmm... internet rumour says spraying hydrocarbon propellant aerosol (deoderant, flyspray, any good potato gun stuff) into the drum body via the hole to adjust the star wheel, then stuffing a match in there, will remove the drums at greater or lesser velocity dependant on volume of vapourous hydrocarbon. Never done it myself, but if you do it, have someone film it

Just go to your bank and get an unsecured personal loan, or secure it against a modern late 90's or better DD if you have one fully paid off. Ifyou have a good banking history and the loan manager can see you have paid off all your other personal loans in the past, the bank is likely to be kinder than a classics loan company would be to a total stranger off the street.

A recent "My GF is tracking me" thread on the use of phone tracking stuff got me thinking about a cheap ass trick to follow your Z if it disappears one night. If you rig a car charger into the wiring and bury a prepay cheap ♥♥♥♥ phone deep under the dashboard, whats to stop you flipping the bird at expensive subscription car-tracking anti-theft systems and dialing up your stolen Z's location on your laptop and making a trip there with some buddies with basball bats. Sort of like the "Don't mess with Canadian TEG owners" thread with a vengeange.

I liked that movie, I wonder how a Britten 1000 would do on the salt. They were made for twisty corners and acel/decel on a track rather than plain straight line top end speed, but they were the bike to beat for a while, and built in a kiwi shed just like that old indian was

30 miles? thats about 50 Km? I go that far to get a block of cheese from the corner store... you definitely aren't rural if you have to post here about a 30 mile trip! Sure man, Go.

going by the nose and louver details on the car, did you superimpose your spoiler sketches on a Development sketch of the GRID 3D-CAD car?

Gilbert? Dilbert maybe?

There was a 4ws option for a Dana 60 axle on some 4x4's as well I understand, through in 4x4 use they got so much battering and they soon blew up and hence not many were sold. I can't remember if it was GMC or Chev that fitted them?

My '88 Honda Prelude had it too. How the Honda system worked was: When at cruising speed, early on in a gentle turn both front and rear wheels point the same direction so you can just gently drift into the next lane on the highway while the car points straight ahead.If you keep turning the wheel then the rears straighten again, and then point out the other way to tighten the turn. Or if you turn the wheel sharply the rear wheels turn out immediately. It was hydraulicly computer controlled off speed and steering sensors on the Hondas, I've never looked deep into the Nissan HICAS beyond sort of knowing that some skylines had them. But I don't expect it to be that much different from the Honda system.

Time Lapse of a spooky strafing some black PJ wearing commies. If you look, there's a blurry circle at the top, that's the running lights of the plane, there are a lot of flames and explosions on the ground, and coming down from the plant to the ground are fans of light, wide where they meet the circling track and narrow where they meet the Viet cong, thats the tracer. It's like those time lapse exposures artsy photographers love of streaks of tailights across bridges or through a spaghetti junction flyover. That help?

I can't wait to see Tony D's take on this, he's had stories about jobs and assholes

And I liked being a cranky fellow

I had a JDM used import Lancer Galant, but it was a diesel 1800cc, They're common cars hereabouts. Check for rust in the front wheel well and firewall is what I would advise, and skip the autos, Mitsi autos of that period were ♥♥♥♥.

sounds like you blew your spider cogs to me, held in place by the thrust when in forward, but in reverse they get displaced out the broken sockets/bushes and jam.

Old thread or not, I doubt it's ever going to die... you know what "special needs" folks are like, they'll play with the same old schtick forever and a day

The A1 skyraider was used a fair bit, turboprop close air support, they'd hang clusters of 2.5"(? might be 2.75") kinetic kill missiles and gun pods under the wings and strafe the vietcong when engaged with troops on the ground. The F-4 and napalm could be a bit indiscriminate with where it splashed it's flames if something hung up on the racks. As far as I can tell from the history books, the A1 was tasked for CAS support in planned engagements, while the F-4 was search and destroy and enemy rear area destruction and on call as a fast mover when air support calls came in since they could get there faster under jets than the prop planes could. then you had the A-4s and A-6's and the other strike planes who did pretty much the same as the F-4's The A1's basicly replicated what Thunderbolts and Typhoon/Tempests were doing in WW2 during the advance on germany. The Spitfire itself is pretty much a hybridised race plane, the Supermarine S.6B Shneider trophy plane with the floats deleted, retracting undercarrage and guns in the wings.

You could try stuffing one of those inlet air turbulence generators down your collector, but I think the muffler would screw things up.

.303 ballistite grenade launcher rounds? In issue tin? might even be able to find a DIZ 42 or 43 tracer ammo round in .303 but I think I shot them all off.

Maybe he wants FWD performance from a RWD car to keep up(down) with his mates in blinged up honduhs?

Gibbon: Ex-Hamiltonian, was in Hamilton from birth till nov '07 and still support the mooloos Now living in the northern end of the Southern Alps. Bang where SH6 and SH63 meet. You on Zclub.org.nz? I'm same username there.

Probably easier to cut the front sump off and plate the hole, then cut the pan base off the rear and weld the front sump onto the new hole you made there. That's been written up on here somewhere.

Honda Prelude seems a regular dirt drack basher car here. I had an '88 twin carb prelude that blew a head gasket. it sat for a while in the grass beside the yard until a passing driver stopped by and made an offer to get some replacement panels for his drit track racer.

I'm siding with RP here, Grim was asking about Aerodynamics, and the "Semantics" you are quibbling about is facts about aerodynamics. Big fast plane or small fat car, it's all aerodynamics, and subsonic, all has equal relevance in that it's air, and it's something moving through air. Quit grousing Leon...