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He put a cam in, but by the looks of it kept the torque curve where it is, but gave it more lift. IMO a smart choice for a daily driver.

PowerBI you say... I hate that Microsoft shit... Ha ha ha Have you ever done much coding to build a connector plugin for PowerBI? Most of the stuff I do at work through our API is all custom scripts, so easy peasy, but PowerBI prefers a custom connector, otherwise it's a pain the ass making a HTTPS endpoint due to all the variations we can have in our system. We have both API you can call, and web hook alerting. You can receive a post request from on specific events.

They're reliable. Like a patrol is. Each have their issues. The cruisers issue though wasn't it's fault for this failure. It was mine. I neglected maintenance and drove it for 2 years knowing the harmonic needed replacing. It's in the high 400k mark, on the factory harmonic. It did well. However, I have destroyed 2 gearboxes in it, and not through abuse (Hilux gearbox was used in the 105 cruiser, and then mine has an aftermarket turbo on the 4.2 1HZ diesel). That gearbox fails in factory spec, but add the extra torque from the turbo and it just strips the half spline on the 3/4 selector hub bit. It now has a "heavy duty" version in there, but even that has limited life. The front diff is a known weak spot if you load it hard in reverse. I have been stupid before, and didn't want to let a mate get me back for needing to pull the cruiser out (he has a Patrol... Yes... That feud... It's real) and for that, I won a stupid prize of a crown wheel looking like it's been using meth... That said, it sounds like a lot, but when we took it off road, we didn't play on the little iddy bitty tracks, we played on tracks that are cars. And I watched so many others when we said "Don't, your dual cab won't take that line..." Smash diffs, gearboxes, axles, and then the impact damage like cracked sumps, suspension arms, etc. I'd honestly like to replace the 105 with something more tailored to just towing, and maybe some dirt trails (thinking of getting a caravan in a few years). But there's nothing I can justify cost wise, or that I'd be happy towing with. There's just something to be said sitting in a vehicle as heavy, if not heavier than the trailer you want to tow. (Car trailer, and caravan). Also, we do want to move to more acreage, so some ground clearance and 4WD will be helpful for traversing through the property at times. I was browsing car sales last night for 200 series, but they're still just too expensive!

Will do.

This one starts, runs drives, fully registered and functional. It's actually a mate of mines GU, but it lives here, and I use it whenever I want. It's here to be my tow bitch, and he has another GU TD42 Wagon he drives instead. Unfortunately I neglected the 105 series and it spat the harmonic balancer backwards into the lower timing cover (it's all gears behind it) and now if you start it it pumps oil everywhere. It's part of the reason I'm doing huge cleanups down the back, to get the 105 down there, and pull the front of the motor apart.

What's your best deal to refinance my mortgage? 😛 I just want to be paying the banks the least in interest, so no fees, low interest, and either redraw available or 100% offset accounts...

I have one sitting in my front yard right now... GU, TD42. It's beside the 105Cruiser. I nearly said backyard, but then I looked up from the back deck and remembered I moved it back out the front last Thursday.

Microsoft is bringing one of the 3 Mile Island Nuclear Reactors online, PURELY to power their AI data centres... Imagine you need so much power you need a Nuclear Reactor to yourself!

What Toyo V12s from New Zealand specifically?

Oh do NOT get me started on god damn lazy programmers. Because resources are cheap, they spend their time aimed at building a product of wants, and not bothering with CPU in efficiencies, or memory leakage. Hence why my PC at work is constantly seeing Chrome using 4GB of RAM! And thats just for plain web browsers open. All the bullshit running in the back end of a browser for a single website is ludicrous. The amount of sites just sitting and watching if you're moving your mouse, and it's just a basic text website! Everyone with their Google analytics plugins. I bet most people have never even seen what most websites are doing these days in terms of computer resources, and network traffic when the website is just sitting dead idle! Internet got quicker? Just load more shit into the webpage. Makes me so damn angry! We've got a project I am getting started, to clean up our companies web program we make, as it retrieves a heap of data for display, and on most pages, is only using 50% of that data. So part of this is for speed (on a relatively quick site already) the other portion is to save us in how much we spend per month for bandwidth with cloud providers! All because no one thought, let's trim some data in our data requests through our API...

It's still a common term, in specific areas. Things like go kart engines, builders will talk about blueprinting, which is pretty much as above, where it's just built to the absolute best tolerance to extract that last poofteenth of a horsepower, in a heavily restricted engine build series. I've heard the term from motorbike racers too, especially 2 stroke, that seems to be the main group still using it really is 2 stroke engine guys

You know what's even funnier, is watching some Bogan bitch and moan about how the Chinese are ruining everything, and stealing jobs etc by stuff being made overseas, and then watch them flip out when you ask if they'll pay anymore for the same product, or even a better product made here. Then point out the above Idiocracy, and their brains nearly explode as they attempt to justify their own actions...

I was hoping Australians utter hatred for cheap Chinese shit would do it. But our love for outright cheap shit keeps winning. But yes, them, MGs etc, they're so woefully built, with such low quality stuff on them. Even things like how the crash bars are welded in isn't right. Like Blind Freddy would lay a better, more accurate weld! But people are lapping that shit up. It really shows, you truly can produce utter shit, and as long as it kind of performs the functions, people will buy it!

Wanna know one of the huge dollar stolen parts rings running around at the moment? LDV vehicles! So hard to get parts for an LDV the crooks have figured it out, steal them, strip them, and are making bank, as lots of places now have LDVs and they want them fixed!

You forgot that one guy who buys a car, swears he'll leave it stock, modifies it, and sells it 6 months later for a new stock daily...

What're you studying to backflip yourself towards?

And a JDM VIN on an ADM shell will trigger raised eyebrows even quicker too!

Those controllers don't do anything, except change how the signal appears to the controller. So for example, to make it more sporty, where you first put a little bit of throttle in, it instead will send a higher impulse, and then taper it down towards the target. In theory, you can learn to do what the throttle controller does, but it feels unnatural, for example a normal take off at 15% throttle input in sport mode on Duncans setup, might actually tell the ECU, give it 75% throttle for 0.5 seconds, and then drop to 25% for a second then tailor it back to 20% throttle and maintain that. Compared with the normal throttle might have gone "I'll give you 50% of what you asked for, then half a second later I'll give you 50% more of what you're asking compared to what you have, and then in the end I might let you have 13% in total. At the same time, engine setups like when cruising on the highway, while on light throttle may have the actual throttle 70% open, and playing massively with variable valve timing. A small change in your throttle request will see the motor just mildly tweaking torque request by adjust cams every so slightly, but give it a sudden gut full quickly, it'll bring the cams back into a performance mode ready to go, and then the throttle to follow the position of the pedal, which gives a lot more response. Hence the controller giving a much bigger input to the ECU then back it off, makes the throttle overall feel more responsive. Peak power etc overall though is unchanged. And as Duncan has said, this is why they have to make a different controller mapping typically per make/model as they are all doing different things etc.

I need to clarify something. The weird actual idle of the engine, AND the RPM gauge being really weird and wonky both started happening at exactly the same time? If so, I'm going against both of you above, and saying they're likely related somehow. Unfortunately, the video was filmed in psychopath mode (portrait), which makes it next to impossible to get much detail from it even at full screen size. My bet is that if the gauge has started going weird, AND the engine went rough, both at the same time, they're related, and it'll be a weird electrical issues. Most likely something back feeding / putting noise in a circuit that shouldn't be there. Quite possibly, a connection going wrong, or a power feed being really wack/out of sorts.

Without better pictures, it won't be possible for anyone to work it out further than we have. Start measuring, EVERYTHING. Thickness of flywheel, and all around it. You want to know is if everything parallel. If from the face of the pressure plate (that bolts to the flywheel) if it is parallel to the pressure plate face, then something is NOT parallel or equal elsewhere. Or you've bent the shit out of the fingers in the pressure plate.

0.5L sounds like nothing. But when it's a 25% increase in displacement, to a newer engine platform, and getting some speedy bits, it should be good! Compared to stock cams for the 2.5L, are these new cams mainly more lift, or more duration too (shifting the torque curve into higher RPM)?

I guess that could be debated too... Per se against an F1 car? But then, are we just wanting the best all rounder, hence then we need something that could do rally, in dirt and snow, so the F1 car is gone again... So many variables before you can find "the best". That said, I'd love me a Porsche GT3...

Normally fingers bent or broken will cause the above. Has this pressure plate been used before? Was the gearbox left hanging from the clutch while removing the gearbox?

My guess is, cheap rods, came from a site selling lots of cheap things, and likely a lot of knock off stuff. I get doing a cheap build, but I don't get doing a huge dollar build, and then skimping on something even like the rods, and likely the bolts to go with it, especially if heaps of stuff had to be fabricated!

Recirc valve goes from plumbed in just before the throttle body, and returns to between the AFM and turbo. You'll want a vacuum source too for it from the inlet manifold.