Kinks

lucky someone saved a copy

you need to go in spring, when all the animals are rooting. it'll give her ideas

camber kit will reduce negative camber - usually used after the car has been lowered. my stock height car still wears the inside, but I just take that to mean I'm not cornering hard enough

just stick your fingers down the intake and grab the compressor wheel while you start the engine.. if it's not spinning for the first few seconds until you get oil pressure the bearing can't be damaged (no responsibility taken for damage to fingers caused by spinning comp wheel )

which 300V and what else changed in that period of 5 years?

I can't think of any reason why ANY P-plater needs a turbo car. I learned to drive in a Charade, so should the rest of you

rubbish. this thread is perfect evidence that he's a raging homosexual already. whatever it is, I don't care.

1st step - check to make sure nothing is staying on and draining the battery (you mentioned a stereo, have you got an amp? does it have a proper remote switch so it runs in standby mode with the car off). 2nd step - buy a new battery!! your one might not be cactus but the capacity will be a lot less. get the biggest battery you can fit if you leave your car off for long periods 3rd step - if you're not going to drive the car in more than a week or two, take the -ve terminal off the battery. then it will be at 100% charge when you go to use the car again.

hahaha mad stuff. go the 31s

yep - your mates are morons. don't let them near your wiring again. they shorted the +ve feed from the ECU to ground. At worst, they've blown up your ECU. At best, it's just popped a fuse and if you replace it you'll be fine.

you must have something draining power continuously if the battery goes flat in a day or two. The other thing to remember is that once a battery has been flat for a combined period of a couple of days, it is pretty much stuffed. lead acid batteries sulfate, which ruins their capacity.

I can't recommend him enough either. He's a perfectionist in what he does, spent 10-15 mins stuffing around with the antenna to try and get the range just right (it was fine). When he was demoing it and it didn't do quite what he expected with the boot release he went "ah that'll give you the shits, but I know how to fix it" and wired an extra relay in, sorted. Like the others say - very professional, and lots of attention to detail.

there's no mechanical link but slight friction in the bearings and viscosity of the oil means there is some energy transferred. like matty says with the clutch out the input shaft to the gearbox is always spinning at engine speed, a slight amount of energy can still make it across the gearbox and turn the wheels if they are also free to spin.

not sure if this has been posted yet, but... The other night I was invited out for a night with the lads. I told my wife that I would be home by midnight... "Promise!" Well, the hours passed quickly and the beer was going down way too easy. At 3am, drunk as a skunk, I headed for home. Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and cuckooed three times. Quickly,I realised she'd probably wake up, so I cuckooed another 9 times. I was really proud of myself for having such a rapid, witty solution, even when smashed, to escape a possible conflict. The next morning my wife asked me what time I got in, and I told her 12 o'clock. She didn't seem disturbed at all. Got away with that one, I thought! Then she told me we needed a new cuckoo clock. When I asked her why, she said, "Well, last night it cuckooed 3 times, then said, 'oh ****,' Cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another 3 times, giggled, cuckooed twice more.... then farted."

tried that, made the scratches worse

it probably leaks because you're boiling the fluid. I know my R31 certainly leaked during a drift day, power steer would have been working pretty hard I'm sure

There are no budget ECUs that do knock retard. PFC's knock warning (check engine light) is a useful feature, so are your ears. Ultimately an ECU will be quicker to react than your foot, but if the stock ECU ignores pinging at the top end you're largely back to square one anyway.

I've heard exactly the same thing about Slick 50, and we all know that stuff is horse shit. That said, Nulon seem pretty respectable and I'd buy their stuff over several other brands. Used their oil flush on the Pulsar with no ill-effects. Used their lifter-free on the R31 and it changed the engine note for a while, but maybe that was because it had cleaned a bunch of varnish and crap out of it. AFAIK that engine's still running strong and it's now on its 3rd lead-foot owner

yes, because hot oil smells nicer.

kero, diesel, turps, metho... home brew remedies people take your pick! I've also heard you can use diesel oil because it has a higher detergent content. Personally, I wouldn't want to chance damaging my motor for the sake of $11. I burn more fuel than that on a good night out. On the plus side of commercial products, they are likely to be less aggressive (read: effective) and therefore the potential for causing damage is also lower. Maybe the placebo effect is all that really matters? That said, at least diesel and kero come from the same place as motor oil. turps and metho are completely different chemicals and I feel sorry for anyone following flippant advice given on this forum.

^^ PFC gives you a knock reading by flashing a dash light. it does not react to knock by retarding ignition. Personally, I believe an ECU with ignition retard on knock can react a hell of a lot quicker than your right foot. great! let's compare apples and oranges. you argue like a woman and my old man. you transcend the bounds of logic and bring up utterly irrelevant points. is there any point in comparing a well maintained, modified motor and a neglected and abused stocker? of course not. there are way too many different factors to provide a meaningful comparison. take two theoretically identical motors. lean on one twice as hard as the other. which is more likely to break first? is a wooden beam more likely to break if a 100kg person stands on it or a 200kg person stands on it? and no, the 100kg person is not allowed to jump up and down just because they feel like it. apologies for the rant.. my mangina is experiencing its time of the month.

take some english lessons

you should continue to keep the oil filled up to the H mark on the dipstick, oil cooler or not.

the candle that burns twice as bright lasts half as long. nuff said.

just slap a bit of everything in there and she'll be right?