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General Discussion Area / Re: MOT Today!!
« on: 05 March 2007, 10:15:54 »
It'd be worth checking the calipers aren't siezed while you're at it.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Oh happy days...
« on: 07 March 2007, 20:21:01 »Quote
But all this is pointless, you seen the photos of the 2007 Type R? - Looks fantastic:
Not sure I'm 100% converted to the new shape. I liked the old ones a lot. The back end looks a bit naff to me but I'm sure it'll grow on me and, by the time it's as old-fashioned as the Omega, I'll love it
That dashboard is something else though! All sorts of fun and games in store when it starts playing up I bet. :-/
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Oh happy days...
« on: 07 March 2007, 17:36:48 »Quote
Omega wasn't built to beat hot hatches from the lights. Its absolutely brilliant at what it was built for. A smooth, comfortable cruiser
True. You can't really call the Type R a smooth, comfortable cruiser!
Kevin
BTW: For beating hot hatches from the lights I recommend a Westfield
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General Discussion Area / Re: Oh happy days...
« on: 07 March 2007, 17:05:56 »Quote
Civic Type R also has no torque, so if a passenger was in the car..... he was stuffed!
That's a symptom of getting 200 BHP out of a NA 4 pot. You can't have massive torque at low revs and expect it to continue to 8k but you need it to rev to 8K to get the power without bolting on another 2 cylinders! Although the VTEC setup does a good job of widening the power band it can't work miracles and the engine will have to be tuned to rev high at the expense of low-down torque. Even with a passenger or four, he's laughing WRT power to weight ratio compared to an Omega!
However, if the driver was keeping the engine in the power it doesn't matter. Drive to the wheels is irrespective of engine revs and torque and depends on power, assuming the driver is in the right gear. With a nice close-ratio 6 speed manual there's simply no excuse, other than mechanical sympathy ;-) .
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Oh happy days...
« on: 07 March 2007, 15:13:04 »Quote
As the 0-60 for a manual 3.0l elite is 8sec and a type-R should do it in 6.4, the driver must have been a right idiot
Was going to say, I don't think I could beat my brother's Type-R in my 3.2 with any amount of trying. Then again, most of the Type-R's power is in a final lunge for the red line which starts at about 6.5K RPM and ends at the rev limiter (8.5 + IIRC).
If the driver was chickening out at 6.5K like he would in 99% of petrol engined cars
then he's missing a huge chunk of the performance and liable to me embarrassed by all sorts of things. 
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Fantastic modified omega!
« on: 07 March 2007, 09:41:57 »
It's got one of those new 2.2 Litre engines (Engine Size: 1,998 cc). Don't mock them, the whole metric system of weights and measures had to be re-defined to make that possible.
Kevin
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Road tax question on a car I'm buying
« on: 04 March 2007, 17:26:06 »
It did take a couple of weeks for my car to change status when taxed but it also changed owner at the same time. Maybe that slowed it down. It's unlikely that it would ever take 2 months though!
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Road tax question on a car I'm buying
« on: 04 March 2007, 12:35:25 »
The DVLA site does take a little while to update, especially if the car was taxed at a post office because it has to wait until the returns come back from the PO. It should be there by now though.
Just be vigilant and look for any signs oif a forged tax disc. If they can produce a reciept for it so much the better.
Kevin
Just be vigilant and look for any signs oif a forged tax disc. If they can produce a reciept for it so much the better.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: 102 RON BP anyone?
« on: 07 March 2007, 15:19:11 »
I've seen a NATASP C20XE make over 300BHP @ 9K RPM on a well known (accurate) rolling road. I guess that classes as pretty well tuned.
The sound of the thing was enough to raise hackles!
Kevin
The sound of the thing was enough to raise hackles!
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: 102 RON BP anyone?
« on: 07 March 2007, 10:08:55 »
Once you've got a fuel with a sufficient octane rating to allow your engine to run without knock at its' optimum level of ignition advance under all conditions there is no benefit in going any higher. In fact, the additives used to stabilise the fuel might actually reduce its' calorific value giving you less power.
All engines used in Omegas probably achieve this with the best quality 95 RON fuel and certainly with 97/99 (although it would be nice to log what's going with the knock retard, as an indicator of fuel quality if nothing else). If you up the compression the requirement for high octane fuel, and the ability to extract more power from it, increase.
So, this fuel might give the serious tuner the ability to build a more extreme engine (which would then rely on this fuel) but to a standard car it's probably not worth bothering with.
Kevin
All engines used in Omegas probably achieve this with the best quality 95 RON fuel and certainly with 97/99 (although it would be nice to log what's going with the knock retard, as an indicator of fuel quality if nothing else). If you up the compression the requirement for high octane fuel, and the ability to extract more power from it, increase.
So, this fuel might give the serious tuner the ability to build a more extreme engine (which would then rely on this fuel) but to a standard car it's probably not worth bothering with.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Got a fine :(
« on: 06 March 2007, 21:26:48 »Quote
Also worth asking DVLA how much extra it may cost if it carries on, just in case.
I wouldn't. That implies you're thinking about paying. Stick to the line that it's nothing to do with you, that you owe them nothing and that you'll happily take the evidence along to court to prove it if need be.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Got a fine :(
« on: 06 March 2007, 17:24:51 »
You've written to them once and told them the situation. Now ignore them. Organisations these days rely on what is shown on a computer as gospel. IME there's no way you'll be able to talk them round. The computer says you owe money so that's it. You can't speak to anyone who has authority to override the computer so it's a waste of time. As for their intimidating tactics of doubling the fine when you dispute it, it's all designed to make the punter bend over and take it rather than force them to actually do the job they are paid for and investigate it.
I have exactly the same problem with a water company chasing me for a water bill at a house I moved out of 2 1/2 years ago. Every 12 months the "debt" seems to be flagged up and a debt collection company threaten to take me to court for 45 quid (they don't even do their own dirty work). I tried writing nice letters to them, explaining their mistake, asking for a written response and got nothing by way of a reply. So now every time they phone me asking for the money they are told to poke off and refer to my previous correspondence. They threaten me with court, I explain I'd be quite happy to turn up and prove I'm not responsible for the debt and it goes quiet for another 12 months.
Out of interest, did you get a letter from the DVLA after selling the car absolving you of any responsibility for it? I think I did when I sold my last one.
Kevin
I have exactly the same problem with a water company chasing me for a water bill at a house I moved out of 2 1/2 years ago. Every 12 months the "debt" seems to be flagged up and a debt collection company threaten to take me to court for 45 quid (they don't even do their own dirty work). I tried writing nice letters to them, explaining their mistake, asking for a written response and got nothing by way of a reply. So now every time they phone me asking for the money they are told to poke off and refer to my previous correspondence. They threaten me with court, I explain I'd be quite happy to turn up and prove I'm not responsible for the debt and it goes quiet for another 12 months.
Out of interest, did you get a letter from the DVLA after selling the car absolving you of any responsibility for it? I think I did when I sold my last one.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Got a fine :(
« on: 06 March 2007, 16:20:39 »
The post office came in very handy for emptying my wallet and providing said tax disc. As it was raining it also doubled as a shelter for a while.
Fortunately I was spared the expense of supplying my own post office, having found one dumped on Thatcham high street.
Kevin
Fortunately I was spared the expense of supplying my own post office, having found one dumped on Thatcham high street.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Got a fine :(
« on: 06 March 2007, 12:47:36 »
Taxed my Omega about 10 mins after picking it up using the little stub from the V5 and a post office.
Kevin
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Garage Door Control
« on: 06 March 2007, 19:53:59 »
I'd say a bell push across the bottom left terminals would do it in that case. You can then locate the button remotely if you want. Failing that can you have a look at the faulty unit and see what's broken? Looks like there's a proper push button on the PCB for the other two buttons but a crude contact strip for the main button. Might just be a case of cleaning up the contacts.
Kevin
Kevin