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lol. My little boy (now 1yr 23months) absolutely loves it. When he's standing he makes broom noises "brooooooooooom" but the funniest part is he leans back as if he's being pushed back by the car. lol If I give it a little squirt he laughes and then says "whoooooh" Funny little tacker.

Cradle first, then control arms, caster etc... The usual R32 suspension bushes. I have a set of Noltec cradle bushes. I'll be doing them myself so no doubt the garage wall will have a hammer or two thrown at it. + a few skinned knuckles. I had considered the solid bushes but decided to fix the problem properly, + I wasn't keen on increased NVH. I heard some horror story's, probably a little exaggerated though. You don't appear to be disappointed with the increased NVH so they must not be too bad.

I will look in to that. Thanks.

lol Howie. You got a glimps of the internet toaster in all its Glory?

The ceffy runs bigger cams?? Just different centerlines or increased duration/lift also?

So this means there IS a restriction with a stock box even if u replace the intake pipe ur only masking the issue. How much, dunno. But its obviously a restriction if it doesnt occur with a pod. However with the pod ur missing out on other things like colder air and pressure drop so prob. evens out in general. So you can just knock another hole in the lid of the stock box to try and fix the restriction...But I actually took my lid off on the dyno and saw the pipe still suck in a bit. So for me its: 1. New Intake pipe. 2. New Lid and snorkel to look stock. 3. No defect issues Its quite possible the intake pipe its self is contributing to the restriction, its quite lumpy in there and we all know air likes a smooth flat polished surface. Which is why exhaust ports are polished. Improve flow due to reduced turbulence. Either way I think the best option is to replace the intake pipe. The turbo is doing the work sucking the air so there's no direct pumping losses as an N/A would experience with a slight restriction in the inlet tract. So yes Mask the problem as you call it. Its not necessarily loosing power anyway. Just keeping those defects away. As said above. If the car were N/A its a complete different story. N/A = ditch the afm, remove 'any' possible restriction there is as it all contributes to pumping losses.

Guy, There are quite a few opportunities for those graduating from Uni as I have been receiving for the last year ~35-40 I.T Graduate 'only' positions per month. Slack off and those jobs are out of reach as they require a credit average or better. A lot are within the government but a fair share also from private. Providing one pulls their weight the opportunitys are definitely there. I think it stands for both tafe and uni.. You can't expect to get far without a piece of paper full stop. The same goes for you can't expect to get far without experience full stop. Combine the two with a little luck thrown in, and your bound to go places. As with everything in life you only get out what you put in. + Working within the government (where you need a piece of paper from Uni to get your foot in the door) has very nice perks.

Cheerz Darren. Let the fun begin. :S

Nice, would love to hear it. I've only ever heard one LS1 turbo in a nice tidy black ute driving along side/taking off from a set of lights, very grunty sounding with that mean arsed spool.

The aircon has recently been redone (2 days ago) and does have a dye in it. It was pressure tested, condensor to a/c compressor replaced and refilled with R12A.

Predator, Do you still have that web page of yours?

noone, Try to find some one who can fill her with R12A gas. When I bought the car it had R12 in it from Japan. The a/c was fine, nice and cold. The compressor was quiet and didn't really notice the compressor taxing power. The car was in a small accident and the mob converted it to R134a. I got the car back and a/c wasn't as cold, the compressor was really noisy and I could feel it tax the power, then it blew a hose and leaked out. I also noticed when sitting in peak hour traffic it would cut the a/c. I fixed this by fitting a larger 14" thermofan that pushed a hell of a lot more air. Apparently R134a is not so good from an effiency point. It runs at much higher pressures which is why I could hear my air con compressor and feel it cycle in and out and it also runs hotter, so the condensor works much harder. R134a also has smaller mollecules so it leaks out quicker, R12a has larger molecules so slower leak. I recently took it to a bloke here locally and he said to throw R12A in to these as the compressors don't agree with the R134A's higher pressures. Since its been filled with R12A the air con is silent and I cannot feel the power tax, its also much colder. Definitely happy with the R12A over the crappy R134A. From memory the R12A ignites over 800degree's where as the R134A is around 300degree's.

I use a rubber glove to remove mine. For a little added grip so it can be done with one hand and so I don't get burnys. Only ever do it up 2/3rds of a turn as the instructions state. IF its stuck on simply smack a screw driver through the end and turn. I'd say its broke because it was probably pushed rather than turned. Either that OR it was tightened up instead of loosened.

Now for an even bigger. OH NO!!! I just got under and had a little look and what do I see.... Some slippery green coolant stuff. Heater core leaking oh no. Looks like that dash is coming out. :S

LMAO... Oh no. I've since discovered the Inlet Air Temp sensor is also shagged. :S In the 33's thats sitting in the blower box in front of the filter? :S I think. :S

Yes it was at Flinders. You are right it is the old school tie bit. Networking is what I like so yes Cisco courses is where its at. Most of the decent jobs *not helpdesk/sales* advertised require some form of tertiary qualification. Simple 'experience' just isn't enough UNLESS you are older and have years of experience behind you. Even then the majority of those do have a qualification.

One can never learn everything, what is taught at Uni is most definitely valuable. I left my full time job at the age of 24 and entered Uni thinking exactly the same as you Paul.

I didn't learn any Ada or Sun systems in my B.I.T course. All the hardware side of things (assembly, low level inner workings right down to chip design etc), Linux, Windows, a little dos, a LOT of java, c (I've always liked c), mysql, php, javascript, hex/binary, a LOT of project management a nice slab on networking/internet/protocols, quite a lot of psychology (body language, handling situations/discussions, interpersonal skills, personel selection, and... lol child, abnormal etc psychology) etc... Really too much to list off the top of my head. The psychology was really quite interesting but the research reports. argg. At uni the Sun systems are only used for topics that require the server/linux side of things. (webserver, mysql ..........) Apart from linux, we learnt nothing of the 'sun' system. The course has recently been tweaked a little to drop a lot of the useless psychology (child, abnormal etc) to include statistics/data analysis etc that is far more relevant to I.T.

I've had a few non genuine HSF's that don't have the goop preapplied. Going from review pics i don't think the golden orb does? Unless the reviewer removed it.

Hi ppls, I've always had a small issue with my A/C where entering diagnostic mode then back out again would fix. NOW however its being really stuborn. Doing the temp sensor check all appear to be fine but one (Refrigerant temp) that sits at -30. When at -30 the compressor will not engage. *Sometimes* the sensor plays good, reads in the +'s and the a/c works perfectly fine. In diagnostic mods I can force the a/c to engage via one of the options and it engages, blows cold air etc but its not that cold as its more of a flap test with the a/c on where it mixes 25% a/c and 60% vent or something. Does any one know where this refrigerant temp sensor is?

I haven't brushed my hair for a good..... 8yrs I'd say. Shaved head.

lmao.. I like it.

You are then the minority. Blocking the bov off does indeed improve the turbo's spool. But yes mine did run a little crappy but the turbo's response was up. But then you go on to say nothing beats the good old induction sound? The bov flutter etc sound is not an induction/suck sound? So.. I tend to take what you say with a pinch of salt.

I've only seen one that I liked. It was a tidy calais that had been lowered with really really big wheels that filled every inch of those guards. It really did look quite nice. I remember thinking..... These holden designers obviously sketched up the new commodore with big wheels and dumped. Then as regulation has it they had to raise the car and put skinny's on it. So lowered, big wheels they do look quite nice. Standard they look like complete crap.

lmao.. sorry I had to laugh. I've had coolant in my mouth before and the taste is unbelievably horrible. Nothing I did got rid of the taste that hung around all day. How you ended up drinking coolant.. lol do tell us.