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General Discussion Area / Re: Congrats Mr Wood

« on: 20 April 2007, 23:41:56 »

Cheers!

Hardly worthy of praise looking at some of the post counts around here but it's nice to pass a milestone every now and then.

Kevin

35057

General Discussion Area / Re: Opps, sorry...

« on: 21 April 2007, 00:37:17 »

but depends on what hes backing up....exchange servers? for example

I finally managed to give the work exchange server the back up it deserved this week. Back up to the skip and chuck the F**king thing over the side!

It finally sailed too close to the wind when it accepted all wednesday's emails to my Boss (logs to prove it) and hid them in a black hole somewhere.


Kevin

35058

General Discussion Area / Re: Every Way I turn I`m stuck

« on: 20 April 2007, 16:19:34 »

 

Also, I read on the vectra forum that you can access some of it from underneath by removing the drivers road wheel..

Looks like you need to cut off the front wing then weld a new one back on when finished ;-) A couple of coats of two-pack and job's a good'un.

I used to hate working on my last (FWD) car. And that was only a four pot.

Kevin

35059

General Discussion Area / Re: Beautiful old beemer

« on: 20 April 2007, 21:48:08 »

It's got a TV and phone in case you get bored waiting for your mate to return with the jerry can!

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Project Elite - HUGE MOT Failure :(

« on: 19 April 2007, 22:02:40 »

Excellent news!

So is the gearbox problem just down to the broken pin on the connector?

If you need to source  a new pin to repair it you might want to have a look at http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.co.uk/. They have an assortment of different pins for various automotive connectors. You could extract the old pin, solder a new one onto the wire and then poke it back into the connector.

Failing that I guess you could get a complete connector from a breaker and splice the wires together in the loom. If you could extract the pin you could do this just for the broken pin, thinking about it.

Kevin

35061

General Discussion Area / Re: 3.0L Cams - Implications

« on: 20 April 2007, 09:45:47 »

3.0 Cams give me 0.08mm more lift I think...

Ahh, OK. Not very significant given that the lift is probably 8 - 10 mm. The main difference is probably the duration, then.

Basically on a 2.5 there's less gas to get through the same size valves. All other things being equal the gas will just move more slowly but manufacturers always have their eye on emissions and a slower moving body of gas loses more fuel out of the vapour onto the sides of the inlet manifold and head, etc. This upsets the emissions and fuel economy so they strangle the engine a little by shortening the valve duration or reducing the lift and we're back to a fast moving body of gas and a little less power.


Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3.0L Cams - Implications

« on: 20 April 2007, 09:29:25 »

I would imagine the 2.5 cams just have a little less lift than the 3.0s in order to keep the gas velocity up. This would give the manufacturer a slightly easier time with emissions and fuel economy.

It'll be interesting to do a visual comparison between them. I might even take my DTI along when we do ClarCEs and have a measure.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3.0L Cams - Implications

« on: 19 April 2007, 19:48:57 »

Just realised my mate's got one of those Vectras. Didn't realise they made so few!

They did make some Super Tourings with a 2ltr engine, after the ST200 run had come to an end.

The ST200s had an individual MSD build plate in the lower dash

They are the X25XE

His is certainly a V6 and IIRC it has the build plate too.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3.0L Cams - Implications

« on: 19 April 2007, 14:18:55 »

Just realised my mate's got one of those Vectras. Didn't realise they made so few!

Didn't Mark say further up the thread that in the early engines it was only the inlet cam that was different but later both were different?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3.0L Cams - Implications

« on: 17 April 2007, 16:52:50 »

When I've thought about changing them in the past on other engines they've been 7 or 8 quid each. Multiply by 24 and it's expensive.

In theory you should change them with the cam. In practice I think if the lifters are in OK condition I'd leave the old ones in. If I were fitting brand new cams I'd treat them to a new set of lifters.

It may be worth giving them a clean because once crud gets into them there is no where for it to go.

How are the lifters at the moment? Do they quieten quickly after an engine start?

I have heard you can planish the top surfaces with some fine wet and dry prior to re-fitting but not sure I could make them any flatter than a set of decent 100k lifters anyway!

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3.0L Cams - Implications

« on: 17 April 2007, 15:44:31 »

... but then isn't only one of the cams (Inlet / Exhaust) different between 2.5 / 3.0 in any case .. or did I imagine that?

So presumably one cam and lifters in each bank could stay.


Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3.0L Cams - Implications

« on: 17 April 2007, 15:42:40 »

Agreed, the lifters would be an easy change with the cams already out but a new set of 24 of them would make this quite an expensive operation.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: LPG Project - Progress Update 1

« on: 20 April 2007, 09:23:01 »

I drill holes in the plate and plug weld it......15 mintue job....if you have a welder!

I thought there'd be a caveat like that appended to the answer  

Of course even if I had a welder I'd be sure to make a complete horlicks of it. Have had the desire to learn to weld in the back of my mind for a few years now, but I'm certain that this is not the ideal starter project.

I'll keep an eye on it and make a mental not to treat it gently for now.

Cheers,

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: LPG Project - Progress Update 1

« on: 19 April 2007, 21:53:20 »

I notice on my door strap on the driver's side the bracket on the pillar is starting to come away from the pillar. Just a few cracks around the edge but it's clearly moved a little. Still secure at the moment but I'd be interested in how a repair can best be effected.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: The lights on Poll - Take 2

« on: 18 April 2007, 09:40:58 »

2002/2003, keys in buzzer (not lights on buzzer) is the bottom left relay in relay box next to fusebox iirc...

... was definitely the lights-on buzzer as the keys for the padlocks on the lock-up are on the same keyring as car key and were being used to open the locks at the time  

Yep. My 2002 model has the sounder in the relay box too and it does both the keys in and lights on sounds.

Kevin