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Whenever men and women drive together, a breakdown is inevitable, says John Naish FROM THE moment they finish potty-training, boys and girls begin growing into completely different species of driver. Women cannot easily reverse into parking spaces because, as toddlers, they never learnt to develop spatial-awareness skills.Boys, however, are great parkers because they had plenty of spatial-awareness practice learning to pee accurately into a receptacle while standing up.So goes the...
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DEAR Paul, My current car is a Proton Wira 1.5GLi, with modifications done on the extractor, spitfire plug cable, Bosch super 4 plugs and a HKS racing medallion exhaust pipe at the back. My questions are: 1) My car sounds like a rotary engine when I warm it up either in the morning or at night. My mechanic says it's a faulty fuel sensor. After a recent routine car service, the rotary sound disappeared but came on again a few days later. It, however, was gone after I drove a few...
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HEAVIER ENGINE WOULD ALTER MIATA'S WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION AND DIMINISH ITS HANDLING ON CORNERS
Q: I have a '93 Mazda Miata that I like very much. I like the way it looks, and I like the way it handles. But I would like it a lot more if it had more power.It occurred to me that the 2.5-liter V-6 that Mazda uses in the 626 and MX-6 would be the ideal engine for this car. What do you think of the idea of picking up a low-mileage V-6 in a junkyard and adapting it to the Miata? A: Not a lot. It's hard for me to rain on your parade without feeling mildly...
Hot Cams Too few Chiefs and never enough Indians
BEFORE World War II, when the US boasted half a dozen motorcycle companies, Indian was at the top of the heap. In performance, luxury and reliability the redskin was way ahead of its nearest rival, Harley Davidson.Most people would be happy with just one of this legendary marque in their shed, but not Ross Holmyard.Asked how many Indians he owned, the 45-year-old mechanic said: ``Oh, a fair few.'' ``There are two chiefs, a couple of scouts, a couple of...
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They call them Milwaukee Iron, but they're more than mere scraps of metal -- or even finely tooled machines. They embody a set of values and attitudes dear to the American psyche: freedom, independence, a restless hunger for new vistas, a sense of rough camaraderie and the exhilaration and danger of the open road. They are, of course, Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The biker is the modern equivalent of the American cowboy. Never is that more evident than when Harley...