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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car

« on: 27 March 2024, 18:14:46 »

The RS2000 had 150bhp (retuned from the 8v lump in the MK3 Granada/Sierra), but the 2.0 Zetec lump was 135/140 iirc.

The Zetec S 170 in the Focus didn't appear until the MY2000 facelift.

The V6 Mundeo was 170bhp all day long.

Mercedes had 185bhp fuel injected twin cam straight six from the early 70's but mainstream stuff took a while to catch up.

The Honda 1.8 revved to about 8k so not sure if that counts 

Long time ago now, but, my 1991 Sierra 2.OGLX came with a DOHC lump that made it pretty quick.

Can't remember how much power it made now, but I think around 125BHP.

That rings a bell, same as the Granada. Mechanically the RS2000 lump was the same... When the head went on my L reg Scorpio I did consider the RS2000 head thinking it would be different... 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Adedi...

« on: 27 March 2024, 16:49:13 »

maybe they had 72 virgins close to their 'use by date'   
 I'm not sure how it works , I haven't read the Quran

I think you'll find that it reads much like the Old Testament the Torah... Boy meets girl, the realise they're naked and chaos ensues... Fast forward a few generations and some chap with a beard had to sacrifice his son to appease some angry bloke with a beard and an anger management problem... (Sidenote... Is he short and ginger ) Son of sacrificed son (don't ask, it made no sense to me either) invades Egypt. They get upset and got chased across the Red Sea and Israel was created.

The rest, as they say, is history.

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car

« on: 27 March 2024, 16:40:36 »

The RS2000 had 150bhp (retuned from the 8v lump in the MK3 Granada/Sierra), but the 2.0 Zetec lump was 135/140 iirc.

The Zetec S 170 in the Focus didn't appear until the MY2000 facelift.

The V6 Mundeo was 170bhp all day long.

Mercedes had 185bhp fuel injected twin cam straight six from the early 70's but mainstream stuff took a while to catch up.

The Honda 1.8 revved to about 8k so not sure if that counts 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Adedi...

« on: 27 March 2024, 16:31:49 »

Perhaps they could fit him in sooner 

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Omega General Help / Re: central locking

« on: 27 March 2024, 16:02:41 »

A central locking motor delete and retro fit a mechanical passenger door lock could future proof it...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Adedi...

« on: 27 March 2024, 16:01:34 »

There's a kebab joke in there somewhere.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.

« on: 27 March 2024, 13:46:08 »

"The Federal Government will cover the cost of rebuilding the bridge... as long as Congress approves it"

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car

« on: 27 March 2024, 13:44:30 »

Why does C-L-I-O become clit?

Remember Nicole? Well, she had both

Quite a lickable clit if I remember the adverts correctly.

Indeed 

Likeable too

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Omega General Help / Re: Omega B Estate 2003 Power Steering Pump

« on: 27 March 2024, 11:14:37 »

The pumps are engine specific... V6/4pot petrol/4pot diesel/6pot diesel.

Without knowing what engine your car has it would be a guess as to the correct pump.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.

« on: 26 March 2024, 23:12:37 »

You can just imagine the sense of panic on the bridge of the ship 

Even worse on the actual bridge.

From the video the traffic over the bridge was fortunately exceptionally light, another 4/5 hours later it could have been a veritable disaster 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.

« on: 26 March 2024, 19:12:52 »

I see that the port is expected to close indefinitely, causing huge supply chain issues. Last year more than 847,000 cars and light trucks passed through the port, the 13th consecutive year it has led all other ports for these. Nissan, Toyota, GM, Volvo , JLR and VW use Baltimore for imports and exports (Source: National Times).

Given just how far inland it is, it's surprising just how busy it is.

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Omega General Help / Re: central locking

« on: 26 March 2024, 17:24:55 »

Temperature/humidity related perhaps, but to answer your question, no.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.

« on: 26 March 2024, 16:03:27 »

I read earlier that there were two pilots on board. Seems to have been some kind of equipment failure, it will all come out in the wash.

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Night out on the piss before sail away.

Apparently not from the second video.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.

« on: 26 March 2024, 15:52:31 »

This is a much more informative video. You can see that the ship's lights go out, then come back on again and large plumes of exhaust (suggesting full emergency reverse?) all prior to the impact. To me, that suggests mechanical failure of some sort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDceU9x58vc&t=26s

That certainly throws a different light on it looks like they'd almost bought the bow back around.

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General Discussion Area / Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse.

« on: 26 March 2024, 13:42:55 »

https://youtu.be/wav1HjTCfvM?si=-p7EWBNW-nYCoiA0

The container ship wasn't even pretending to be in the marked channel under the bridge

It may have been trying to cut the corner to the west of Fort Carroll  but would have had plenty of room to clear the bridge first.