WillieO

How does it work? I know that the quad lnb thing for the sat dish has 4 gizmos so that 2 or 3 can be used for sat tv and 1 for sat broadband but that means the down link is fast but the uplink has to still squeeze down a phone line cos it surely doesnt get beamed back to space.

UK one is has 30% more cooling than the import one so a 2nd hand one of those is a good place to start

Sky plus box with the hard drive. Brill for harvesting all the stuff you would watch if you ever had the time! Bought one on ebay, thought just plug the sod in but no you have to ask nicely for Mr sky to enable it then needed a quad lnb thing on my dish so it could record 2 progs at once then up on the roof and fitted it too. At least that way my youngest gets to watch sponge bob square pants any time she wants! Me cant get near it! Pic quality is superb when compared to cable and its great to scream through ads at 30X normal speed.

How can you check if its OK? My box expired and the oil was smelly. I presumed that clutches had gone but I dont know for sure.

Was gona say its called a right foot:) Alright did then

For more than 3 years I've never been able to get perfect front wheel balance despite 3 sets of 235/40 18" tyres on BBS RSIIs and various attempts to re balance them all unsuccessful. Finally after a couple of months with new tyres balanced when fitted but not right and still unbalanced I began to think I must have a buckled wheel. The fact that the wheel where I sensed most vibration from was covered in a stack of weights kind of worried me. A 600mile round trip to the Emerald isle last week convinced me something had to be done about it. The latest attempt at a new place finally cured it. I asked the young guy (he had an astra with viper stripes and a playstation & TV in it) to check if either front wheel was buckled. Nope both OK. He checked the balance as was and both wheels were out with unbalance 25/35 grams plus. The wheel with all the weights was actually better with them cleaned off. The guy re balanced and got it down to 5 grams and said I wouldnt feel that. Could he reach zero? I asked. Sure he said and went on to do so on both wheels. Car feels totally different - no vibration zone to drive through between 70 and 85 which kind of encouraged you to go faster than you should. So respect to this guy, he knows his stuff and used pucka calibrated equipment. Sod all the other twats who coulnd balance anything bigger than 13". Seems that the bigger the diameter wheel and width the more critical it is to get a zero balancing. Now Ive gone and cracked the weld on one of the zorsts - another job to do

Just looked at my old one that came off - the torque converter has two flats on it. Mines a TT. Is yours TT or NA?

Hope you got them to add in the extra month! They do that if you give em the old MOT within month 12.

Where in the Kingdom are you? Mine is 3.5" cat back to Apexi cans with 5" ends. I wish I could turn the noise down a bit sometimes but other times its pretty OK.

Look at the 3g stock size discs as well - they use Brembo castings. I've had the grooved ones on 3+ years now and they are sound. If you really want to be picky about aesthetics the stock size discs do look a little small under 18" wheels tho.

Check the oil level on a level surface. Mine does similar if the oil level is allowed to get too low. Mind the zed sump only holds about 4 litres anyway and if you been driving hot and hard lately it may be low. To burn half a litre per 1000miles is not unusual. Then you accelerate hard and between the g force and the pump sucking hard the oil pick up pipe ends up sucking air and it cavitates losing pressure. Keep it up and ruined engine could be next.

I get emails every day about a part of my anatomy that also would grow greatly by using certain products. ;) Never thought to hang an underdrive pulley on it tho but that might actually work for it. An underdrive pulley'll never deliver 37bhp extra unless maybe it revs to 9000rpm. Look for the evidence from real users. The best I saw on a dyno chart was 12bhp in various parts of the rev range and two thirds of sod all at the bottom end. Some people waste more than 12bhp with a big Hi Fi. You get more power variation between cool weather and hot weather.

As a Heath Robinson type idea could you not use the oil cooler circuit? Take the out to cooler feed side to a big drum for waste oil then run the engine so that it pumps out the old while you add similar replacement quantity to the filler dipstick tube. Obviously the filter strainer will stay dirty but eventually you would have replaced the original oil. Nah loads of stuff could do wrong doing a transfusion like this - still think syphon from the sump via filler tube or using a drill operated pump and drop the pan when its about dry. At least then you can see what the strainer is like.

Its not a monster job if you have a ramp and all the tools but you also need a impact wrench to apply 150+lbsft to take off the nut holding the split propshaft together. I went the local garage route and 3 hours of their labour. I think part of that was dropping my custom exhausts tho.

If the prop centre bearing rubber is split the prop can waggle with high low speed torque and rpm enough to knock the sides of the prop bearing mount. Reckon thats worth a looksee on a ramp with a torch from the diff end towards the front of the car. If it is you are looking at £140sih parts and 2 to 3 hours labour to fit - unless you can do it yourself.

There's still some debate as to whether the chroming solution is anything more than bling. HIDs work.

You want to beware of a sick auto or blocked cooler. Mine had the pong the weeks before it expired and if you opened the bonnet after you parked hot and see some faint smoke then your tranny oil is too hot. Maybe a combination of hot weather, the import cooler and tough city driving conditions or over/under filling?

Chris Basically the gizmo on the roof- with the two map lights - it has a bit in it with slots for airflow. If you take it down - cant remember if its clips or screws - you can see the little fan. Clean away all the fluff and stuff and a tiny blob of 3 in 1 oil onto the bushes of the fan will normally shut it up. I think if its noisy it stops when you switch the aircon to off - obviously this fan stops too. It is there to waft cabin air across a temp sensor in order to tell the aircon how its doing! Mines made noises years ago but has been fine since I lubed it.

Are you sure it isnt the little fan for the aircon sensor in the section between the t tops. That often dries out and gets noisy.

Well you asked for it - If the timing is too advanced the nomal spark triggered burning will make it pink because the burn pressure wave is against a rising piston ;) gona burn this anorak

UK Europe std cars were supposedly rated for high speed autobahn use with a rear diff cooler and leccy oil pump as well that comes in over 90mph. An import zed driven at continuous very high speed for a long period is likely to overheat its diff. The UK Europe radiator is 30% bigger in cooling surface as well. Also high speed HICAS implies something different about the way it operates on UK Europe - maybe in connection with the active rear shocks - handbrake trick etc etc

A little titchy turbo like the latest generation twin turbo diesels. The new Vectra twin turbo diesel for 2005 is supposed to have 220bhp from 1.9litres and 47 mpg. That equals stock TT auto performance with 47mpg or about 30mpg better than mine does. The icky little turbine does from 700rpm till about 1400rpm when a big one takes over up to 5000rpm. These new small turbos will revolutionise low speed torque possibilities Anyone for a diesel zed?

nah, Jeff's right Mark. The cooler only gets oil if the pressure exceeds a given value after the pump so at low engine speeds nothing goes to the cooler. So whether its restricted, blocked or totally open it does not affect running engine oil pressure at low engine speed. Even at high engine speeds the worst that could happen is the pressure drop via the cooler could in theory drop the engine gallery pressure below the point where the excess oil pressure is diverted to the cooler, somewhere around 50psi. Result no oil to cooler and all available pressure in the galleries. At high engine speeds anyway the relief valve would otherwise be dumping excess pressure oil back to the sump.

Nice one Was Colin Dick there at all? His does 13s also