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Omega General Help / Re: Brake master cylinder

« on: 19 July 2015, 17:25:56 »

Normally pretty bulletproof... Has yours gone?

Not gone Paul, but the Elite pedal has always been a bit soft compared to the TD, despite fluid change, brake bleeding etc. So i thought I would replace all the seals in the system, hoping for an improvement.

Could that be servo/vacuum related?

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Omega General Help / Re: Brake master cylinder

« on: 19 July 2015, 17:25:13 »

Yep fairly easy to remove, but if needing to remove the brake pedal, and I think you do(?) then acquire a good replacement brake light switch first, as the tangs almost always break off on removal. Very very Brital

Thanks Chris, are the seals readily avlbl. do you know?

Sorry should of said, I have removed one. I have not opened one up in any way.

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General Car Chat / Re: The Economics of a new car

« on: 19 July 2015, 16:51:32 »

D. Are you suffering from depression?

Do you really think that is funny? Sometimes I do not understand you. Why do you need to ridicule everything including a mental health condition?

It's a genuine question out of concern.

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General Car Chat / Re: The Economics of a new car

« on: 19 July 2015, 16:35:53 »

D. Are you suffering from depression?

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Omega General Help / Re: Brake master cylinder

« on: 19 July 2015, 13:58:39 »

Yep fairly easy to remove, but if needing to remove the brake pedal, and I think you do(?) then acquire a good replacement brake light switch first, as the tangs almost always break off on removal. Very very Brital

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega replacements

« on: 19 July 2015, 13:45:26 »

No love for the vxr8 of Phaeton? (Neither available in Estate in the UK)

Monaro and VXR8 are overpriced.

They seem to have gone up in value over the last year or more? I was looking at a high miler of 100k for £11,000 at one point. They seem to be 12-13k at an advertised price. More sensible mileage examples seem to start at 14-15k these days in r8 form.

Madness.

People will pay. Hence the prices.

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General Car Chat / Re: The 'rude boy' thread innit (coilovers and wheel spacers)

« on: 19 July 2015, 12:10:54 »

understood chris thanks

so the lowered omegas ive seen have simply been shorter length, unadjustable springs?

. Correct. Assuming the post that no coil overs are available for the omega is correct. Then yes most likely.

There are some adjusters avsilable for the rears but they involve a shorter spring to make room for them. Iirc anywa.

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega replacements

« on: 19 July 2015, 12:08:21 »

No love for the vxr8 of Phaeton? (Neither available in Estate in the UK)

Monaro and VXR8 are overpriced.

They seem to have gone up in value over the last year or more? I was looking at a high miler of 100k for £11,000 at one point. They seem to be 12-13k at an advertised price. More sensible mileage examples seem to start at 14-15k these days in r8 form.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 19 July 2015, 10:46:47 »

Once replaced, Match thread wear on the rear or it may pull under power and off throttle.

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega replacements

« on: 19 July 2015, 10:16:01 »

No love for the vxr8 of Phaeton? (Neither available in Estate in the UK)

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Omega General Help / Re: Are all V6 cam belt kits interchangeable?

« on: 19 July 2015, 10:14:15 »

Nope. Makes it very very easy. As it can't be wrong.


Although if it is wrong, you can't adjust it other than by a full tooth .


In other words it can only be a tooth out.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Satellite internet

« on: 19 July 2015, 10:10:23 »

Good info V thank you.


Given her Work pay for Internet, or some of it possibly in this case, it's an option for us if needed. Data cap is disappointing given fibre is charged by speed. But if only 1 or 2 Mbps is available from a land line ....

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Omega General Help / Re: Are all V6 cam belt kits interchangeable?

« on: 19 July 2015, 09:42:47 »

Differences are the backing plate, and non adjustable bottom roller on the later 3.2's.

As master says. Swapping the new rollers and tensioner onto the old backing plate works fine, as does and adjustable bottom roller in place of a non adjustable one. I wonder if a non adjustable bottom roller works on all models though? If I had to guess I'd say, Probably.

So yes, those two things aside, they are the same.

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General Car Chat / Re: The 'rude boy' thread innit (coilovers and wheel spacers)

« on: 19 July 2015, 09:34:34 »

Although I would add, just fitting spacers for appearance is again, bit retarded if not understanding the implications on the rest of the components. Moving the wheel out board means it will sit nearer the wheel arch under bump compression so risking damage or wear to the tyre and arch, as well as alter the load centre on the wheel bearing as mentioned. Plus the obvious need to fit longer wheel bolts to account for the now limited thread in the hub. Hopefully enough to keep the wheel attached to the car, unlike some dick head round the corner who's wheel came sailing past my neighbours car on braking for a round about. Ffs!

But, sometimes, needs must.

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General Car Chat / Re: The 'rude boy' thread innit (coilovers and wheel spacers)

« on: 19 July 2015, 09:27:47 »

No experience with coil overs either Weby.

But Generally speaking from experience with bike suspension;

Green. locking ring ride height. Top part of the shock is fixed to the turret so rotating the base lengthens or shortens the shock length and hence alters the ride height.

Red. Lock ring for blue.

Blue. Pre loads the spring to a given amount, usually to the all up weight of the car, which is known ordinarily, unless there's been a major change like interior removal for racing etc. also in some cases it can allows unloading the spring for removal. If a firmer spring is required, say.

Usually if fitting something of that nature I'd expect to see some sort of damping adjustment. Compression and rebound damping at least, possibly with extra adjustment for high and low speed damping on each.

The expense of these simply to lower the car for appearance purposes is daft though IMO. Lowering has its uses for lower c of g and allowing firmer/less wallowy suspension set ups to achieve flatter and more precise cornering. But to simply lower a car for appearance without understanding the implications on the geometry and contact patch is a bit retarded tbh. Sorry. Just is.

I've seen cars so rock hard and with such poor geo they become death traps. Seriously hindering performance at best.

Spacers. Again have their uses to alter the wheel position. In instance of this for omegas is Irmscher sport stars for the vectra and their et of 38. It's too close to the chock body with some tyre sizes so a wheel spacer can be fitted to give more room and stop the inner tyre side wall rubbing on the shock body under cornering loads and tyre deflection.