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Surely "the right one" Or are you looking for custom ones with more flex/stretch? Range Rover / coiler ones have wider angle UJ's and more sliding joint IIRC, and I heard somewhere the later TD5 ones have more again. If you can't find one that fits I'm sure someone (coughTONKcough) will explain how easy it is to shorten a prop. After that you're into proper custom territory, my vote www.gon2far.co.uk but I'm slightly biased

I second the "unfashionable but reliable" school of 2nd vehicles (although obviously the Primera is just so far ahead in the fashion stakes no-one's caught up yet ), you don't *have* to buy small to be a cheap runabout, often larger cars are cheaper to buy because everyone wants the smallest engined ruabout they can find. What about a pug diesel? There's a reason the taxi drivers love them... Or a Series 2.25 diesel - you'll never lose your driving licence

Blotted out the memory of the 2005 one then Will?

http://tinyurl.com/7rkf4 Now to fit one to my bonnet - the next chav who comes along in a Saxo with his foglights on is gong to get his retinas melted! Muhahahahahaahahahahah!

This is not so far fetched: - Diesels give off a lot more particulates than petrols, and big old diesels running badly can give off a hell of a lot more. - Cleaning the air is also not that daft, IIRC there was a Ford or Saab that had a catalyst coating on the radiator that did exactly that as air passed through it. Might seem pointless, but I'll bet it helped their environmental friendliness brownie points. If a modern clean running car breathes in nasty polluted air from the knackered old bus in front it's perfectly possible that what comes out of the exhaust is friendlier, with less particulates etc. having passed through it's air filter, been burnt up in the cylinders and passed through a nice new catalytic converter and particulate filter as modern cars have.

In case people can't be bothered to look for the photo walbum: http://photobucket.com/albums/v177/diesel_...C%2090/?start=0

For Andy that would just be a continuous "beeeeeeeeeep"

Collectively, US airlines are expected to burn 19 billion gallons of jet fuel this year. :o http://www.boston.com/business/articles/20...ord_fuel_costs/ I guess it's just too difficult for Greenpeace to get near a 747 to stick the sticker on it without being shot as a terrorist

Andy, The audio output power will be whatever it puts out through the internal speaker - the transmit power is the RF bit not audio. You shouldn't need an amplifier. Let me put that another way: You shouldn't need an amplifier.

There's a Series-something in Existenz used for a particularly unrealistic bluescreen journey Series 3's in one of the Ace Ventura movies Series 1's in Gorgo (A true classic, but for the wrong reasons) And a Series 3 in Dog Soldiers that gets sabotaged by, err, throwing a load of wires under the bonnet or so it would seem

Last night I caught "The Ninth Gate" In it one of the main characters (driving a P38) evades Johnny Depp (driving a Rolls) by driving through a stream on a french lane. Made a change to see a 4x4 in a chase scene actually get driven off-road, and for the bad guy to actually use their brain... Just noticed according to IMDB the tagline for the film is "Leave the unknown alone" - which should probably be printed on the front cover of all Haynes Manuals

Correct, indeed you can.

A not-so-viable but much more fun alternative: Build a new chassis!

POR15 http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.asp?productID=8217

Mark - you'll find it's pretty difficult to install any EFi system without injectors That said you could quite happily run an MS ECU for ignition only (no fuel), in fact the MegaJolt is a cut-down MegaSquirt specifically for ignition only.

Correct, and the MS ECU tells the EDIS what advance to set. You've pretty much got it, it's not difficult. All you need to remember is the Ford (EDIS) coil pack firing order is not the same as the Rover V8, so don't put HT leads onto the coil packs in the marked order. The MS uses most of the sensors that are already fitted on the V8 EFi setup, all you need to add is an air temperature sensor (universal thermistor costing about £1.50) and a Lambda sensor (about £15 including boss). The EDIS will give a stronger spark than the stock points or ignition amp anyway, and some units support multi-spark too (check the MS-Extra website). I think you're missing the point a bit - in order to fit fuel injection, the injectors need a high-pressure fuel supply - however, a high-pressure fuel pump is fitted to every vehicle that runs EFi (quite obvious really), I'm not sure about LPG injectors - perhaps they run on normal LPG pressure.

Yogi? Isn't he a bear? Let me put it this way - There has never been a sequentially injected Rover V8! You shouldn't need to do any fuel mapping as I (and V8Bertha, and many other people) can e-mail you a working fuel map for a Rover V8 that will get you running straight away. They will say "You don't want that, buy one of our amplifiers" Nope, you can leave the old distributor where it is (it's still driving the oil pump anyway!) and it's fun to watch people see your engine running with no leads on the dizzy cap Again, not necessarily, Bill Shurvinton has a stack of EDIS-8's ready to go. The toothed wheel only needs to go on the front pulley somewhere and the sensor pointing at it, here's a rather too shiny installation on a Rover V8: Should be, I don't know the ins-and-outs of the single coil driver (you may need a small change to the MS board to work it) - again Bill can supply the ECU ready built and modified to suit.

Geoff - I can confirm the burble from the top of the snorkel is a Good Thing , you'll find driing with your window open a lot more enjoyable My machine is gradually becoming less individual bits, currently everything's being moved to a new workshop so that's delayed stuff a bit but should be a much nicer place to work.

IMHO it's about time SUV's fell out of favour, maybe if the shiny briagde / chelsea tractors / chrome spinners on Humvees disappear Greenpeace will have to go and pick on someone else (wishful thinking?)

MegaSquirt can't (currently) do sequential injection, but you really don't need it - even cars with sequential injection use batch injection across most of the fuel map! Why you don't need sequential injection Although there is enough spare capacity in the new ECU's to do sequential if you REALLY REALLY must have it. LPG and MegaSquirt is perfectly doable, since the MS-extra code has switchable dual spark/fuel tables you can have the right ignition map for both fuels. EDIS-8 is an easy and reliable ignition solution, and I'm sure Bill Shurvinton will happily post everything you need (including ready-built ECU's) to France. The tricky thing is setting up the MS to run the fuelling for both fuels as well, which is not something I'm aware any other system can do anyway, most of them disconnect or "blind" the factory ECU on LPG and use a separate unit to control the LPG injectors. With the new V3 MegaSquirt you gain a communications bus (CAN Bus for those who're interested) so you could use two networked ECU's, one for each fuel, but with only one set of sensors. But that'd just be showing off. BTW before you rush out and buy K&N's, have a read of this: http://home.usadatanet.net/~jbplock/ISO5011/SPICER.htm Paddocks will sell you genuine parts, you've just got to make sure you ask for genuine NOT pattern. Same with most suppliers.

If I remember correctly, even gas shocks contain oil hence benefit from being mounted the right way up. Will have to dig up the PPC article...

Try Sovereign Rotating Machines, they used to be Lucas and should be able to tell you if they're the same unit. By the sounds of it it's the solenoid not the actual motor that's the problem, I had it too - the copper wears off the main contact (spark erosion in action ) and nothing gets through to the motor. I suspect a solution would be to replace the contact with a decent bit of copper rather than some flimsy plated bit of steel, just as long as it's not a magnetically actuated part! (I think the plunger is the magnetic bit and it pushes the contact)

Hell they built jet-engines on scrapheap challenge that worked although I'm not sure the neighbours would thank you for fitting the ramjet to your truck Years ago GM built a load of jet engined family cars that were pretty good, but due to the cost of production and lack of reliability they were scrapped - that was probably about the same time Buick came up with this new fangled all-aluminium V8... Makes you wonder why they don't have another go though, surely these days they could make a small turbine for not much money - just look how far turbos have come.

Reading MTT's site it seems that turbines are about 10x more powerful than a piston engine of similar weight/size - so, forget portals, who's gonna be the first to run a gas-turbine in their truck?

Dodge Viper V10 engine in a bike, Sir? http://www.allpar.com/cars/concepts/tomahawk.html Now to find someone whose underpants are rated to 400mph