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Apparently Boris has Covid again, so I dont suppose he will be able to answer any more questions for a while.
Has he ever actually answered a question?
Like how many kids he has?
Speaking of Renaults - I fitted the new turbo to mine today and reassembled everything.
Started it up and all good on that side of things. Running quite nicely - apart from oil pissing out high up on the cambelt end of the engine.
I suspect the cam seal has let go. Same thing happened a year ago when the original turbo died, and I replaced it with a second hand one.
If the turbo isnt spinning I assume the oil getting pumped to it doesnt drain very quickly and results in excessive oil pressure which causes the oil to find the weakest link so it can escape.
Its a complete PITFA.:'(
Somebody told me the Marina was essentially 1950's design technology tarted up for the early seventies, and passed off as 'new'.
I don't think it pushed the boundary of what was possible in 1971.
I prefer the All-Aggro.......not that it was much better.
Around this time I did quite a lot of miles in an Alfasud 1.5ti. They may have rusted but they handled brilliantly.
Marina trivia fact.......the 4 door saloon and 2 door coupe used the same front doors, why is why they look too small on the coupe.
BL saving money, no doubt.
Not so many laydees, but I'm sure the addition of a mattress would have facilitated that had the opportunity arisen (which, naturally, it wouldn't).
I bet driving them both there is entertaining.Apparently, I have two astras. Actually just one, but it is non binary and wants to be referred to as 'they/them'. The garage keeps trying to charge me twice when I book them in for a service.Well, the modern way is to ask it if it would like to be assigned a gender or remain non binary, apparently.Just looked at the link and far canal! Castrol Edge! You are treating her. She won't thank you, being french.Pierre is trans?
Well, the modern way is to ask it if it would like to be assigned a gender or remain non binary, apparently.Just looked at the link and far canal! Castrol Edge! You are treating her. She won't thank you, being french.Pierre is trans?
Interestingly, I have discovered that the Audi Totally Frigging Stupid Idea lump has two plugs per cylinder... As does the 2008 ish 5.7 Hemi lumpAnd the Continental IO 520... From the late '60s
So no, apparently not just a Mercedes thing
If you fed two plugs off a single coil only one plug would fire most of the time
That's not strictly true. As long as there is a circuit from one terminal of the coil back to the other terminal, it'll fire. The second terminal doesn't have to be a chassis/ground potential.
I can name at least one case where the circuit goes coil+ve -> spark plug1 tip - >spark plug1 threads -> cylinder head ->spark plug2 threads -> spark plug2 tip -> coil-ve.
Both spark plugs 1&2 fire every time at the same time. One cylinder is at the top of the exhaust stroke, whilst the other is at the top of the compression stroke. Although the exhaust stroke spark is wasted (hence the term wasted spark), it takes very little energy to fire it when it's surrounded by hot combustion gasses, so the energy loss is minimal.
It makes spark timing simpler - you can do the timing off the crank (rather than the cam) since you don't need to know if the piston is in the compression or exhaust phase of the 4 strokes.
No idea if that's how a Smart car works though.
.. but not a 40:1 glide angle @ 50 odd knots.Yeah, but I'm sensible enough to have an engine. Or 4A nice day today, so decided to go out with one of the quadcopter drones this afternoon, having a (correctly distanced) nose around Wappenham and Silverstone, and started getting wind warnings. So swung it round with still 74% battery remaining, to be on the safe side...
...and over a kilometre out, it was down to 5% so started force landing. Opps, completely misjudged the wind today.
First rule of gliding. If you're going to mess around, do it upwind of the airfield.
A nice day today, so decided to go out with one of the quadcopter drones this afternoon, having a (correctly distanced) nose around Wappenham and Silverstone, and started getting wind warnings. So swung it round with still 74% battery remaining, to be on the safe side...
...and over a kilometre out, it was down to 5% so started force landing. Opps, completely misjudged the wind today.
I see a few older Hondas with Satnav are having clock troubles since rolling into 2022, with clocks reseting to 2002. Though that software glitch smacks of the same signed integer overflow that killed many MS Exchange servers on New Years Day.
My Jag clock is safe from such things, seeing as has no option to automatically sync the time with anything
