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General Car Chat / Re: Price of parts
« on: 12 February 2024, 15:30:58 »
On a similar note. About 25 years ago Motorcycle News priced up all the individual parts to build a Kawasaki ZX6r.
Price of a bike was around £6,500 at the time iirc. Price of all the individual parts was around £27,000.
Yeah, but Quaka parts always were outrageously priced.  I remember paying something like £6.99 each for some (probably) M4 countersunk for the brake reservoir, because I was desperate, and I bet that was over 20 years ago ;D

Istr Honda parts were even more expensive. Although theirs tended be of much better quality than the other Jap manufacturers.
Suzuki were particularly bad. Their build quality was always piss poor.
Might be different now, I wouldnt know.
I was thinking over the weekend, its been almost 11yrs since I last had a bike :(

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 12 February 2024, 14:33:29 »
Well, how spooky is that. As soon as I posted above, and had some thick stupid bimbo from DHL call me to say they won't deliver today.  Which I already knew, as the delivery has been marked as On Hold on tracking since yesterday when I checked.

So when I quizzed her why, she said it was because of a new system and an influx of deliveries.  When I quizzed her why she hadn't bothered calling me earlier, she said they had only just decided (at 14:25) that mine wasn't on this morning's delivery route.  The daft bint couldn't grasp what she was telling me ;D

When asked when it was going to be delivered, she couldn't guarantee it would be tomorrow.  So kinda pointless her calling me.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 12 February 2024, 14:23:11 »
Don't Handle Logistics haven't handled the logistics of a part I need for a trip to Londonium tomorrow

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General Car Chat / Re: Price of parts
« on: 12 February 2024, 14:15:01 »
On a similar note. About 25 years ago Motorcycle News priced up all the individual parts to build a Kawasaki ZX6r.
Price of a bike was around £6,500 at the time iirc. Price of all the individual parts was around £27,000.
Yeah, but Quaka parts always were outrageously priced.  I remember paying something like £6.99 each for some (probably) M4 countersunk for the brake reservoir, because I was desperate, and I bet that was over 20 years ago ;D

170
Omega General Help / Re: Oil pressure switch.
« on: 12 February 2024, 14:11:06 »
Excellent.  Its a nice easy job, just with limited access (unless you whip the bagpipes out).

The red liquid will top itself back up, especially if you tell Mrs Mutha Jugs that you need steak and chips every night to produce blood....

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3.0 is a better unit for your conversion and totaly compatible with your 2.5 ancillaries.
As is the 3.2.

Any performance 'shortcomings' of the 3.2 will be largely irrelevant in an Astra van. About the only piece currently fitted to the 2.5 that won't fit either the 3.0 or 3.2 is the inlet divider as the 2.5/2.6 divider is a smidge narrower.

I would add that the chances are that anyone bemoaning the difference between the 3.0 and 3.2 hasn't experienced a 3.2 running with a mechanical throttle as most of the perceived differences between the two boil down to the DBW throttle response.

In short, to the OP, fit whichever you can get your hands on most cost effectively and keep the cabled throttle and engine electricals from the 2.5.
The 3.2 is a penny pinched shadow of the 3.0, and runs at a much lower compression ratio (to save the expensive of having an EGR).  That's irrespective of the throttle or ancillaries attached.  So, as a straight swap in for a new project, the 3.0l is always the best option from the Omega V6 engines, both for performance and for economy.

The 3.2 becomes more worthwhile if you spend a lot of money, including forced induction and potentially re-camming (and the associated remaps needed).  Without forced induction, the 3.2 is a poor substitute compared to the 3.0l, and is a shed load less economical as well...   ...not that forced induction will help with the latter!

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: hello!!
« on: 09 February 2024, 20:48:23 »
Welcome to the forum :)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Carlson Putin interview
« on: 09 February 2024, 20:46:16 »
He said he wasn't going to invade Ukraine, that was a bit of a porky  ;D
Is it?  He hasn't launched an invasion, it's just a Special Military Operation.  I'm sure there is a subtle difference in the eyes of that Tucker Ftucker

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General Discussion Area / Re: American elections
« on: 09 February 2024, 20:43:32 »
The Tories are dead in the water. They deserve to lose badly, although the country doesnt deserve Labour in power.
Its going to happen though, and the Tory party needs to either die out completely, or reinvent itself as a genuine conservative and unionist party.
Plenty of votes for Reform, will concentrate the minds of those responsible for rebuilding the Tory party and ensure it goes in the right direction.
There is no point in holding your nose and voting Tory to try and keep Labour out of power.
It just aint going to happen. Its gone way beyond that now.
Society in the UK, for reasons that sane people can't understand, have all turned leftie.  And half the tories, especially those that artificially won a seat  last time are chasing those leftie-centre votes.  The other (probably smaller) half of the tories remain more to the right.  So, as always when they have been in power for a couple of terms, they have self destructed.

Reform is just a sure way to get Labour in, and that braindead idiot Farage knows it. Moronic self-abuser.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Carlson Putin interview
« on: 09 February 2024, 20:38:02 »
Seriously?  :o   ::)   ;D

Yes. If you state that someone has lied, you should provide an example.

Unless, of course, you rely on the BBC et al for your views...
I think even I'd believe the BBC than Carlson, who can't get enough of sucking Putin's piles....

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General Discussion Area / Re: American elections
« on: 09 February 2024, 17:17:13 »
All a vote for reform will do is ensure Starmer gets in with a working majority.
And that simply cannot happen.
We all know he will be the next PM, unless he oppss up badly between now and then.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 08 February 2024, 14:20:00 »
DRLs cause more issues than they solve because they're generally wired in such a way that the cluster lights come on with them so at night, especially in town where the lack of headlights is less obvious, people think their lights are on.

They're one piece of legislation that needs reminding.
And we need to stop trying to legislate for stupidity, as that's never going to work.

A vote for me as PM is a vote for ridding the country of idiots, and also improves the practice the armed forces get for using live rounds. Win-win.

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General Car Chat / Re: New EU directive – no old car repairs?
« on: 08 February 2024, 14:17:42 »
Geoff Buys Cars reveals more WEF shenanigans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LIe1a6U50&t=360s

Goodbye to the classic car market?

When will people wake up, FFS?  >:( >:(
But Geoff Buys Cars is a well known youtube retard, and has more inaccurate spin than a tory minister....

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General Car Chat / Re: New EU directive – no old car repairs?
« on: 08 February 2024, 14:16:52 »
Agenda 2030.
Isn't it now Agenda 2035 ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 08 February 2024, 12:05:02 »
Picked up Range Rover this morning, all 4 rear flexi pipes replaced (inner & caliper) + link pipes all up to scratch now., cause of problem rear flexi pipes had disconnected itself from rear link line due to corrosion.👍
Whilst the bits are new, might be would applying some anticorrsion treatment to the metal parts of new flexis, given the amount of salt we have thrown on the road.  Save cleaning them up later to do :y

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