mad082

don't forget that the amount of polution generated just creating the batteries is more than running a big v8 for a few years.

not quite. technology could be developed to retrofit old cars. a bit like LPG conversions.

before trying anything again, go to your local car parts place. they should sell a product that comes in a can which you spray on the stud to freeze it. this makes the metal shrink and will make it easier to come out. in this case, spray it into the hole you have drilled for the easy out. be generous so it cools down as much as possilble. then stray away try the easy out.

there may be enough there to grab with a pair of pliers, if not, if you have a dremel type tool, do as was said above and cut a groove into it to use a flat screwdriver to undo it.

i've never been a fan of electric cars, at least not in australia. australia is too large a country for electric cars to work well. i live approx 200kms from brissy, and the range of most electric cars is around the 300km mark, which means i can't even go to a trade show in brissy without having to stay overnight where as in a petrol or diesel car i can get there and back on under half a tank

+1. either look in the yellow pages, or go and see a panel beater and ask if they know of one. if you want the crack to stop getting any bigger in the short term, drill a small hole at the very start of the crack.

just out of curiousity, what do you plan to make the gasket out of?

by the revs rising, you mean that it is slow to accelerate? or just if you sit there on the spot and rev it the revs increase slowly as well? if it is the second one, then i'd check the timing to see if it has been played around with. also if you are using the auto ecu then it is probably running on the neutral maps as the gearboxes have a switch in them that tells the ecu whether you are in gear or not which can alter the mapping.

you deserve a kick in the arse, that's what you deserve, LOL

you can just use normal car paint on both plenum and rocker covers. they don't actually get that hot (relatively speaking). you can still touch them without burning yourself even after driving hard. my father in law painted the whole engine of his hotrod with normal car paint and it's fine.

interesting read, but the name of the article is somewhat misleading. It makes it sound like he was racing in the WRC class, but he was actually racing in the lowest class which consisted of only 9 cars, only 5 of which finished, and technically he finished 4th (although if you don't take into account penalties he was 3rd), over an hour down on first in his class, and the car may have cost him $500 to buy but that doesn't then include all the money he spent on it to get it race ready. yes his time would've put him in 23rd out of 25 entrants if he was in the WRC class, but that would've been 1.5 hours off the winning time, an hour off the top 10 and 40 mins off the top 20 (not taking into account his penalties), and even 20 mins off the next best wrc car time. not saying it wasn't a good effort by the guy, but the article seemed to play it up a bit more than what it was.

we should send the pics into today tonight and tell them there has been people going round drawing over peoples cars. see what sort of bullshit story they come up with. looks good now that it's finished. very nice work.

that is all the spelling errors, not including using numbers instead of words or not using the correct punctuation. my head hurts too much now to do the rest, LOL

my mate has had his 33 insured with shannons for the past 4 or 5 years now and he is only 26 now.

the 60gb ones are the worst for YLOD apparently

wow, sounds like someone had a truck full of sand tipped into their vagina.

how the hell do you get to finish school with spelling like that? i think it is time to start killing off the stupid for the sake of humanity. it used to be survival of the fittest, now society comes up with new rules and laws to make the world safe for stupid people so they can prosper and breed and create a whole new race of super idiots. and since they are the ones who are breeding and not the smart people, in 200 years time the human race will be back in the dark ages because no-one will know how to turn on a light switch

the boost issue could mean a dead turbo, or just stuffed wastegate, but if it is a dead turbo then it may be the cause of the coolant loss and the oil mixing with the coolant.

don't run the BKR5 plugs on a turbo car. they are too hot and may cause the car to ping, which leads to other bad things. BCPR6ES or BKR6E are the plugs to run. the BCPR6ES plugs are actually a slightly taller plug so will make contact with the coil a bit better, but either will do. those plugs are gapped at 0.8mm, for the ones with the 1.1mm gap (which is stock but may result in a missfire with weak coils) then add -11 to the part number. as for how often to change them, i pulled my BCPR6ES plugs out after 5000kms and they still looked fine, and were still performing fine even on 14psi, so i could've got another 5000kms out of them easily. the plugs i pulled out before putting the copper plugs in were iridiums that were only 20,000kms and were stuffed, so at 5 or 6 times the price they certainly weren't worth the extra money.

you're just jealous cause you look like shit in lycra, LOL

funky are you saying you like the HSV lights or don't like them? cause i like them, but i don't like skylines with them.

cheers brah, LOL if you look at this pic, and then take into account the damage to the ute i can easily see 15k worth of damage. i have a 4' x 6' window smashed at the shop and the total bill for that was around $600. so $1000 a window wouldn't be far off the money. then you think about cracked/smashed tiles on the floor from rims hitting them, damage to rims, display stands, etc, i'd put the cost at being at least 20k. just the car alone would've been the best part of 10k if it was an E series falcon ute and classed as a write off.

i had a cheap x-force one on my 33. did the job.

you said originally that the car had had a roadworthy done on it, well i would be reporting the place that did it. they obviously did a dodgy job so make sure you get them into trouble.

also you can only reduce the size of your wheel by about 25mm or something like that. so if you had a 400mm wheel you couldn't just put a 330 on it and still be legal.