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General Car Chat / Re: If anyone has a spare BMW straight-6 lying around...

« on: 27 October 2011, 16:51:40 »

Yes E46 M3 engine an S54B32 to be precise Bi Vanos equipped as well so 333bhp


it would be running on standalone management?? which means vanos is disabled! if it is then its considerably down on power! i know mega squirt can run vanos it has to be disabled

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General Car Chat / Re: After some buying advice

« on: 27 October 2011, 16:44:54 »

TB is right on the KA's ball joints rust and sills same for fiesta's

DCi clits are very good £30 road tax and a very reliable common rail engine theyre cheapish now especially high mileage variants

Steer clear of TDCi 1.4-1.8 ford engines friends have had loadsa trouble with them!

Peugeot/Citroen vehicles with a rear torsion beam suspension (106,206,306,Xsara,Saxo) should also be avoided at all costs the back axle can and does fall off!!! the subframe mounts go and thats game over!

Go Japanese micra's are bullet proof!!!! all that goes wrong with them is front cross member rusts away and is simple to replace or usually weldable!

Corsa's aint too bad avoid the 3 cylinder one iirc its troublesome? all corsa's seem to suffer is rust especially around the drivers seat area!!

ive had a 1.4 rover 400 was a very good car!! we kept it 2 years did about 40k miles in it! what killed it was rust the sills were rotten

your best bet is the 6N1 Polo theyre tough! and reliable! 1.4 8V is the best one imho gearboxes are theyre only downfall so make sure your happy with it on the test drive

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General Car Chat / Omega's current market conditions

« on: 27 October 2011, 16:34:13 »

Ive gone and got a Hot Hatch and no  longer require my petrol guzzler are they currently selling? ive got a 2002 3.2 MV6 134k FVSH upto 80k and been serviced by various garages since it had a cambelt 2 years ago and i have replaced the Oil cooler all is well in that department now its a manual ex heddlu car but does have leather & the BOSE stereo i just cant tolerate 20mpg no more when my new toy does 40mpg + short MOT & Tax itll pass though

what i want to know is are they selling? or is it just the 4pots & diesels that are selling?

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General Car Chat / Re: Help with a Polo (No I didn't want the job, but looks like I'm mending her VW!)

« on: 06 October 2011, 00:33:40 »

having done a 6N1 twin cam petrol i can tell you that theres many choices of gearbox!!  thatll fit but remember that polos suffer gearboxes ALOT!! so there probo all as expensive!! its an easy job to do with a ramp tbh

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General Discussion Area / Re: Oh cock......

« on: 04 October 2011, 14:32:43 »

Dell are apalling! the only good Dell is the Alienware n thats vastly vastly over priced!!!

Buy a mac and be done with it windows is dead and if you can't afford one do what i did and build a Hackintosh any intel based i system with the right chipset can run osx and its stable!!

is it GPU failure? my GeForce 9500GT died on saturday bringing a similar condition to yours so i removed it and am now using the useless built in intel HD graphics which can barely run the Snow Leopard visual effects Quartz etc

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General Discussion Area / Re: electronic cigs

« on: 04 October 2011, 14:29:04 »

Zyban makes people jump of bridges & buildings and no the FDA tested 100 different e-cigs and theyre all bad they all have rat Poisson in them as its used to make the vaporiser work part of the chemical reaction!

all the FDA said about the cheaper ones that they're made in dirty environments and use leaking batteries good eh?

and at the end of the day they give you a cold and with me start you off on a coughing  fit which is only a bad thing!  supprisingloy theres research showing cannabis stops the brain craving nicotine mad eh!

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General Car Chat / Re: Looking for a 2 door coupe project

« on: 04 October 2011, 14:20:59 »

meant a W124 or should i say a R124 the original e class coupe!

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General Car Chat / Re: Looking for a 2 door coupe project

« on: 04 October 2011, 14:20:29 »

Mercedes W124 300 are cheapish atm and a timeless classic

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General Car Chat / Re: Looking for a 2 door coupe project

« on: 04 October 2011, 14:19:33 »

Tomcat turbos are deadly and dangerous a very close friend died in one they have no safety systems of any description and if you roll it over your brown bread probo safer in a calibra?

theyre also in no means fast as theyre too dangerous!! and again wont keep up with a 328is coupe! turbo or not!

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General Discussion Area / Re: electronic cigs

« on: 04 October 2011, 00:43:52 »

be careful theyre full of rubbish and a tiny amount of nicotine smoking's bad but them e cigs are highly dangerous you should really look up the FDA research! Zyban & Champonix should be banned by the EU soon enough as the suicide rate with these drugs globally is beggars belief theyre used to treat schizophrenics

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General Car Chat / Re: Looking for a 2 door coupe project

« on: 04 October 2011, 00:38:45 »

why not get a 328is and laugh as the calibra gets destroyed and crashes upside down into a ditch on a twisty country road?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Fitting a Bose sound system in a non Bose Omega

« on: 03 October 2011, 20:46:16 »

oh is this a non GM head unit?

Vectra C uses CAN-BUS for everything as far as radio goes same for Astra H iirc

the BOSE is poor guys honestly compare it to what even halfords sell and it is very poor indeed as i say  a standard BMW stereo will out perform the bose system the same fgor many other manufacturers Mazdas have good speakers in them as-well thatll out do that Bose setup

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General Discussion Area / Re: electronic cigs

« on: 03 October 2011, 19:57:25 »

they're not good the US FDA did a study on them its available online and what they contain inst good! id avoid them myself iirc they found traces of rat poison amongst other things and also noted manufacturing practices were poor

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General Car Chat / Re: Looking for a 2 door coupe project

« on: 03 October 2011, 19:49:47 »

should add that the BMW is very reliable and will run perfectly fine half dead! the cooling system must be in tip top condition on them aswell!!

the 328is with m50 manifold & dave f induction kit can net around 230 odd bhp

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General Car Chat / Re: Looking for a 2 door coupe project

« on: 03 October 2011, 19:47:17 »

E36 328is cheap and very good handling buy a manual the engine is bomb proof if maintained the suspension & rust is what theyre prone for so find one with no rust later 1997+ cars dont seem to rust much atall they're good fun and tunable for the  cheap m50 manifold & decat brings a very descent gain! theyre also a very very good cheap track car that handles well the coupe's all have //Mtechnics suspension as standard allegedly!