Sempiternal

Get the Supra

haha, actually i had thought if i sold the Zed then id probably be able to purchase one of those cars under 10k.. on ebay but id have to sell the Zed,, and i still think im not in that frame of mind yet! still getting the enjoyment

That post by hollow point sure put things into perspective.. im about to strip my Kawasaki Ninja and thats going to take up the garage/space... so i wouldnt need two projects on the go!

maybe i was getting carried away.. but i still cant get my head around the price,, when alt's like Supra's are double n more!

But if anyone has ever felt that bug to buy, its going to keep sending me back to ebay.. even though i know i need to watch how much i spend as im having to buy a new engine for the bike!

damn ebay.. maybe i should of titled the thread Ebay temptations! which is what they are!

Rob

Yes its a lot of car for your money, speak to lexx I think he just bought one. Also hollow point knows them well. As do a few others, I think you just have to be aware that with old cars can come big problems that need a lot of cash spent on them. I can vouch for that.

i totally agree, i just cant get my head around that for £4K you can buy a looked after a v6 turbo!

Also my eye has just spotted this Supra for 9k http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3f29f4d7b0

but like i say you can buy two 300zx's for that,,

I think we all wonder over to Ebay from time to time i like to keep an eye on prices on s15's skylines etc

and i come across this! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-NISSAN-300-ZX-TWIN-TURBO-/231060188314?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item35cc42ac9a

thats alot of car for what i think isnt a large amount of money! s15's are double that!!

how do people feel about the 300zx is it a capable car, or would a Supra be a better purchase as i would consider that to be its alternative ??

i do like classics specially JDM etc!

above example is 6k

this example is just under 4k!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NISSAN-300ZX-Z32-TWIN-TURBO-MANUAL-LOW-MILES-63k-MOT-TAX-LATE-1994-MODEL-200sx-/190919845498?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2c73b5a67a

are these potential bargains, or are they a maintenance headache etc

Rob

"Marriage: For when you've realised you probably won't find someone better, and you've had enough of sex"

 

 

Congrats to you both!

Too much win! Married people will interpret the above in their own lil way lolz

Congratz though

Being regulars at Alton Towers, Thorpe Park was an almighty letdown. The thing is now that we have done Six Flags and most of the other parks on both coasts of America, I reckon Alton Towers is just gonna be a monster let down too!

With Thorpe Park i have done Stealth and that was pretty awesome, but in America they got one that looks twice as high.. also at Thorpe there's the new ride i want to go on Swarm uk's first winged rollercoaster!

Chernobyl is awesome. I want to visit there properly one day, for photographs and stuff.

 

I really want to get into Urbexing - Chernobyl must be pretty amazing

 

I think this one is in Russia somewhere - disused themepark

 

 

Isn't that Chernobyl?

 

Well I thought it was but I didn't want to give it the big I am and then someone say 'errrrm Ricey thats a picture of Skegness with a black and white filter on it'

TBF it looks like Colossus from Thorpe Park ?... its been a few years and i remember it has a section where your spiral about 3 times!.. slightly off topic lol but Thorpe Park is pretty ace tbf lolz

I just want to chime in and say Sky halved the quote i was given by A flux.. give Sky a ring.. couldnt hurt!

To be honest tho, if the OP is that concerned about this planet, then he should stop driving his car right now and cycle to work or if possible try to work from home. Even better if all modern technology was removed from his household thus saving the need for electricity, gas etc, as harvesting those natural resources will inevitably cause more harm to a naturally balanced ecosystem. The interference of mankind is the most detrimental factor to this planet.

It is what it is, global conglomerates control what happens in this world, which is a shame, because like the old Indian saying goes "You can't eat money"

Hey come on its not that bad i was only throwing up a discussion. Just wanted to see peoples thoughts and opinions. Which tbf its a landslide to "nothing to worry about". There's a saying along the lines of "Mankind will ultimately destroy itself one day". Well thanks to nuclear technology, its not really a joke is it!.

Back to the discussion, Its great seeing peoples thoughts and opinions, you get the gist of how people think etc. I mean why do people joke about Chernobyl so easily (i too enjoy Transformers heck i grew up in the 80's it was one of my cartoon staples alongside Thundercats lol Live n kicking anyone? ). Some of the fallout landed in farmland in Wales, If people didnt know of this little fact google it http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-farmers-still-living-fallout-1841912

Again the culprit there is Cesium 137 - nasty stuff!.

So just going back to the discussion about toxic material finding its way into the Pacific. It was nice to see qualified forum members chime in!

peace

Rob

Their what is making Godzilla?

 

:lol:

Even i had to laugh out loud! i got a good sense of humour. I walked right into that one!

Their what is making Godzilla?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/

Or Godzilla.

They're remaking Godzilla.. I now see where they got the new plot line from :-/

Dropping the control rods into the core will stop the reaction as then the reaction is flooded in essence. Most modern reactor designs incorporate a fail safe where by, if the reactor overheats the rods are dropped automatically by mechanical means. The rods are composed of graphite.

 

Apologies for the reply not being very detailed but I have to be a little careful about what info I'm allowed to give out

Hey, Of course thats understandable. Its been a long time since i read what happened at Chernobyl. Again my memory recalls an experiment being done.. Somewhere along the lines of what would happen if they had a power cut? if they were being bombed attacked etc.

Again i recall they switched the turbine off (the electric generator) i could be wrong. But im sure they lowered the output?. and to keep it short, they had the control rods too high. So i believe the fuel rods were already getting too hot. Again i believe it was when one of the control operators hit the button to lower the control rods. Something in the design when the graphite tipped rods entered the mix it caused a spike. and moments/seconds later the lid blew off?

I could be wrong but i guess just a terrible chain of events and poor thinking in the control room i guess

I know you said you cant speak about it, so il leave it there then

Rob

You're literally talking about nuclear physics and you cant tell the difference between design floor and design flaw?

I told you been awake since yesterday (night shift) its now been a fairly large glass of wine.. I think i should go to bed now... floor / flaw .. damnit

Chenobyl did the exact opposite and wrong thing and removed the control rods which allowed the reactor to reach critical mass.

 

The reason I feel I can comment is because I used to design a nuclear reactor for a famous British company (oddly people in this thread seem to be justifying their knowledge)

I could be wrong but i thought it was dropping the control rods that caused a power surge.. I thought cause they were graphite, that when they lowered it caused a spike in the chain reaction!.. which then turned out to be a design flaw? under certain operating conditions?

I did physics at school too! I got a B in my GCSEs, I have absolutely no clue what I am doing posting here......

 

But seriously, you do realise that the sea itself and the products beneath it's bed contain radioactivity, don't you? Such things as NORM (naturally occuring radioactive material) and LSA (low scale activity)

 

Excuse the kind of roundabout way that I have done this.....I'm cack at explaining what is in my melon!

Yup agree, there is background radiation but thats different to i suppose if you want to call it man made. i guess like me you didnt take it further like uni etc (physics that is)

If the Daily Mail is a single one of your sources I will just hold my hands up in defeat.....

 

 

Hold on.....YouTube and news clips are your source of all this factual information? I take it all back, everything you have said is 100% truth and I worry about the influx of Japanese immigrant heading to our shores.

everything i said is 100% truth whats that meant to mean, im trying to gauge what people think,

for instance the water storage tanks are real, and the production for more and more tanks are real

ok so that part is true

and the rest is a discussion, the plant is built on top of a river and it does flow out to sea <-- so now you could see why this is potentially bad

and yes i look all over the net / news channels, and they report that Tepco cant officially say where the corium is! so again if that got out the containment building how would this not be bad

i just want people to discuss

yes im tired glass of wine,, by the look of it i need to rewrite the topic, but hey its got people discussing and people should be aware

we only got one earth

Rob

Its nowhere near as bad as Chernobyl and I dont recall that affecting anyone outside of Ukraine really ........... as far as Ive read theres no real current concern about the cores "melting into the earth" like there was immediately after the disaster, getting rid of the irradiated water is an issue but its not like they are just pumping it into the sea is it?

 

My hope and belief would that if it was shown that dangerous levels of radiation are leaking into the Pacific then the whole world would get involved to fix it, and like I say, Chernobyl was much worse but was eventually controlled.

With chernobyl it had the benefit of being built inland and not connected to any of the worlds vast oceans! this to me is my concern,

how much radioactive material made it into the pacific and of course, how much more is getting into the sea!

ok guys discuss or bury your head in the sand all is good

 

 

I read through your rant, and managed to mostly ignore your lack of punctuation or use of capital without getting too worked up as you make some good points.

But this last statement pi**ed me off.

 

Just because someone does not wish to discuss something with you doesn't mean they are putting their head in the sand. Some people don't have the knowledge base or the training to be able to sufficiently take all the information in and come to a reasonable conclusion.

 

Also.....this is a genuine question not a rant.....but what is your background and how to does that show that you know anymore of the truth of nuclear vessels or operations than the next person? You may be a nuclear physicist for all I know, you didn't make that clear in your initial post.

I'd be interested to know all the sources of your information

yes ive started to add them to the original post, i will admit past couple nights ive watched everything i could find on RT news podcasts and youtube again alot of news snippets gets put on youtube, ive been watching hours of the stuff

il back track through my history and keep adding the relevant ones

ok guys discuss or bury your head in the sand all is good

 

 

I read through your rant, and managed to mostly ignore your lack of punctuation or use of capital without getting too worked up as you make some good points.

But this last statement pi**ed me off.

 

Just because someone does not wish to discuss something with you doesn't mean they are putting their head in the sand. Some people don't have the knowledge base or the training to be able to sufficiently take all the information in and come to a reasonable conclusion.

 

Also.....this is a genuine question not a rant.....but what is your background and how to does that show that you know anymore of the truth of nuclear vessels or operations than the next person? You may be a nuclear physicist for all I know, you didn't make that clear in your initial post.

hey lexx im going to delete that sentence i work nights , so glass of wine or 2 its my bed time lol sigh, ill get rid of it, it was meant to be thought provoking but hey ho

oh yea you asked, i did physics in school, and now i regret not taking it in uni, its more of a hobby now and im taking up open uni courses to see how far i could of gone ten years ago

so i suppose with the understanding i have, if i watch a news bulletin or podcast etc. And i see a report of say cesium 137 found in fish off hawaii my initial thoughts is, cesium 137 gives off gamma rays cant be good.

Im going to open a dialogue and gauge forum members thoughts on the subject

Fukushima is potentially going to be Ultra bad! if they don't fix this. i'l discuss some of my thoughts and what i believe i know.

Storage tanks these things http://eandt.theiet....shima-water.cfm

There is hundreds if not thousands of tons of radiated water being pumped into 1000 ton storage tanks dotted around the site!!... And it has no where to go!! lets hope there isnt a earthquake and they start to split!! (which has sort of already happened sigh)- yes tanks have started to spring leaks..

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Ocean contamination,, reports that in 6 years the entire pacific ocean will be contaminated!! (Possibly if you happen to watch youtube news vids)-- and all the while Japan puts 1 and half billion towards the Olympic games their hosting and only half a bill to Tepco's clean up operation **** the olympics i think japan aint taken this serious yet!

Ok if the pacific is radiated, hope people dont like eating Tuna,, even now Blue fin tuna have a migratory route from the east coast of Japan to the west coast of America, And these tuna's will be eating smaller fishies which in turn will be eating plankton which plankton will be absorbing nuclear deposits. So reverse that process and you see how tuna could potentially carry cesium etc etc.

Ok back to the plant

3 cores went into meltdown, heres a diagram of one of the reactors http://mrzine.monthl.../ucs130311.html

for those who dont know much about this or what their looking at

The brief is a Tsunami hit the plant - the plant then lowered its control rods inside the reactor which in turn stops criticality or critical mass from happening, and then at the same time the back up generators switched on and happily pumped coolant through the core. This was fine and would still be fine today, except the backup generators got flooded, stopped and then 3 cores stopped being cooled. And then went into meltdown...

Ok back to the plant

an overwhelming amount of radiated water storage is happening and their still pumping water.from what i know i haven't seen any evidence to suggest anyone knows where the melted cores have gone.Put it this way if they burnt through the reactor vessel, then in turn they could burn through the concrete basin.

Well if this is the case, think about this. They built the bloody power plant on top of a fricken river, a natural underground stream to the sea... Well add that to a molten core making its way (potentially) to mother earth, that ain't going to be a happy mix no it aint!.

If anyone is asking well why don't they clean this mess up,Put it this way if u could make it into the melted cores to attempt to dig it up to get rid of it... Well if you did attempt that you wont be living very long.Infact to do this i would imagine that. You would need an army as big as china's a line of men to die for their country. I just don't see that happening ?

Although they did in Chernobyl and they were called the liquidators a lot of them are no longer alive, and many met a fair grisly end

back to Fukushima! seriously people this aint over its (possibly) radiating the pacific ocean they have already detected it off Hawaii. Food for thought you know where rain comes from!

Theres possible cover ups going on between tepco and the Japanese government which btw owns Tepco now, I believe their covering up how much if any cesium found its way(maybe?) to Tokyo. For those that don't know much about cesium i wont type an essay but cesium 137 comes from the nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors. Just 2 grams of this stuff would be enough to make New York uninhabitable

Not saying any of this made its way to tokyo but if it did! - your probably see a cancer increase infact this is probably going to be all of japan is going to see an increase!

i could totally see a mass evacution of Japan in my life time - its possible, Fukushima is a mess and i don't think we have seen the full magnitude of the problem (or maybe we have)

Ok guys discuss its totally topical, im tired my grammar is non existent and the whole post is just meant to make you think what if,,

opinions feelings thoughts anyone

Rob

thanks to whackywill thats sort of the icing on the cake (plus your mate must of had better tolerance than me that would of killed me)

so new question lol -- serious

best place in the midlands to rock up at a booked time and get a mot there n then lol, paranoia is killing me now!

reset the trip computer and one of the odometers, then when you get it back you'll know how far it was driven and how it was driven going by the mpg read out?

its an idea i like that, i shouldnt be so paranoid but its hard not to!. The car came fitted with michelins pilots - and apparently them aint cheapi got my mot papers in hand looks like i got to the 7th Nov to get it booked in! what to do what to do, 1st option i been for years keeps costs down again and mot station aint going to fool a mechanic.. i guess i got a week or two to think this one through, yup its convenient .. so wheres this paranoia from...

oh yes when time to time certain garages get exposed for ragging customers cars around garage around town!!... i believe the F1 service garage got exposed awhile back!!

or am i giving too much cred that the 350z is asking to be cheekily took for a drive .. ]

over thinking this i am

Rob

Hey guys, simple question really.

1st option i use the motorsport garage that me my wife parents etc always used (family friend )

but he doesnt do MOT's he takes your car to get mot'd its a fantastic service as the wool wont be put over his eyes

obviously with the above no doubt he drops off then picks up at a later time when done

my problem with that is i maybe over thinking what if some mechanic etc thinks i know i havent driven a 350z il go rag this guys car

am i over thinking as my second option would be to find an mot station i book a time and wait while its done!

go on people tell me im paranoid.. ive never felt this protective over a 10 year old car, quite possibly due its a keeper and im about to give it a TLC service

so go on tell me option 1 is ok, my mechanic swaps keys with mot station and back again through the day, and i get the bill and a fresh mot at the days end!

Rob

ps on a side note anyone wanting this type of service the garage is in Redditch

If it was 50 bikers I saw in my mirror, I'd probably pull over into the nearest side road until they had all gone.

 

Very commendable. Now watch the videos on this page: http://www.liveleak....=3cd_1380579664 and this one: http://www.liveleak....=81e_1380656714

 

Why should you pull over just because there more than 12 bikers? Being in a big gang doesnt give them the right to do what they want, I think the RR driver should be given some kind of award

He did a punch in the face or two!