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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.
« on: 23 December 2016, 17:37:38 »
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trump Titter Nuclear ramp up
« on: 23 December 2016, 14:54:05 »
You don't think that Putin takes a longer view than Donald Oh look, a squirrel Trump then?
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 21 December 2016, 14:21:53 »When you finally throw it all awayWhich will happen 2 weeks before you need that expensive, rare bit that you once had
That has never happened to me.
I still occasionally find "useful" stuff for my first car, that I bought 28 years ago, and sold the remains of 6 years later. Losing the lockups was an excellent reason to dispose of all sorts of crap that should never have been kept in the first place.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 21 December 2016, 13:41:00 »Good idea
Prob worth nicking bits they dont need that could be useful, and get you or other members out of a sticky situation? Rear light clusters, glovebox handle, climate hedgehog, cruise stick etc etc...
If you do that, ensure that you label the box you put it in. Something like Omega Junk is sensible.
When you finally throw it all away in several years time you won't need to sort through it.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Sad Christmas
« on: 20 December 2016, 22:03:56 »Struggle gets nearer!
Yesterday evening a 40 ton truck trailer runs into a Christmas market in center of Berlin. 12 people died. I knew the place very well, I lived there for many years.
Crying out loud:
Why?
Because people are oppsing scumbags.
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Omega General Help / Re: Auxillary belt
« on: 20 December 2016, 22:02:49 »Yes...I was watching, mate, but there was an expanse of physique partially blocking my view...and it was raining, so I had raindrops in my eyes too
It wasn't raining when you watched me fit the other two
Good to hear that you got it done
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Omega General Help / Re: Auxillary belt
« on: 20 December 2016, 13:36:15 »
You don't.
Thread it round all of the ribbed pulleys, and slip it over the smooth water pump pulley. There's plenty of give in the tensioner to do that
Thread it round all of the ribbed pulleys, and slip it over the smooth water pump pulley. There's plenty of give in the tensioner to do that
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Omega General Help / Re: time for upgrades
« on: 19 December 2016, 22:20:09 »How much
That's reason never seen that setup on an Omega, might as well buy a V8 5 Series for that.
That's my opinion too, or a V8 Lexus, which is tunable to a lot more power for similar money to a 300hp X30(I reckon you'd need at least £5000 to do it successfully)
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Omega General Help / Re: time for upgrades
« on: 19 December 2016, 21:49:29 »Almost sod all improvments can be done to 3.2, it can't handle much more power than it has due to cooling limits.
I don't know of anyone running modified throttle bodies and DIS pack with leads on 3.2.
Any gains would be marginal.
He's talking about ditching the entire induction system, and replacing it with 6 individual throttle bodies like THIS run by an aftermarket ECU. That will allow for more radical cams, and all together make considerably more power than stock. 300hp doesn't seem unreasonable, but is going to be very costly.
3into1 manifolds are a build-them-yourself item, and the Omega engine compartment is going to make that a very difficult job.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What the Fifa !!
« on: 19 December 2016, 20:30:40 »Was in the news on the build up to it, told they would be fined if they did it.
Hopefully the appeal is successful, should set new rules for this kind of thing.
Yes, they were told. And going ahead was the right thing to do.
The FA should have attended the meeting with a chequebook, paid the fine on the spot, then never mentioned the matter again.
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General Car Chat / Re: Eternal- car
« on: 19 December 2016, 19:25:45 »I have used both without issue, though admittedly not in their xmas busy period when no courier wants anything awkward.
Going by the boxes we've had in the last few days, they're not interested in small light boxes either. Today's looked like it had been driven over by a truck. Fortunately, rocker gaskets are hard to damage that way.
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Omega General Help / Re: Heater Matrix
« on: 18 December 2016, 21:08:14 »..... but is there some chemical that will 'dilute' any sludge in it, that could be poured down a pipe via a funnel, left to soak, then hosed out.
TIA
Tony
My Dad used a dissolved dish washer tablet with limited success on his Granada ..... but in the end replaced the matrix -an easier task on a MKII Granny as it seems Ford didn't build the car around the matrix like GM did with the Omega heater matrix
If I remember correctly, it's in a box on the passenger inner wing - you undo a few self tapping screws and two hose-clamps then the matrix falls out. Takes longer to drink your coffee than to do the job.
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Omega General Help / Re: fuel tank size 60l
« on: 18 December 2016, 20:49:48 »Blimey, down to 4mls, that pushing it a tad.
Don't leave an estate that's showing 0 mile range standing overnight - it won't start in the morning even though there's probably another 20 miles worth of fuel in it. Not that I'd ever do something like that more than a few times
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General Car Chat / Re: Merry Christmas.
« on: 18 December 2016, 20:46:21 »
It can't be Christmas already? Wouldn't various retail companies and other organisations have made a fuss about it?