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General Discussion Area / Re: I Just splashed out - Jaime will be pleased :)

« on: 11 June 2007, 18:04:51 »

That looks like the one I have. Is it laser? or sealey? Can't remember which of those mine is.

Anyway, it did the job on ClarCE's cam belt or so it seems.

Only thing I felt about it was that the crank locking tool wasn't 100% positive as it was placed on the front of the crank and, with the top clamped round the water pump, the timing mark on the crank looked to have passed TDC by a degree or so.

It would be interesting to check an engine timed with some of these cheaper tools against the genuine article at a cam belt party sometime.

Kevin

34832

General Discussion Area / Re: Combined Mileage

« on: 11 June 2007, 10:10:19 »

Now for the really depressing bit. How much money has Gordon Brown made out of us this weekend in fuel tax?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Combined Mileage

« on: 10 June 2007, 20:18:21 »

837.4 miles
27.7 gallons of fuel

Thanks to a little jaunt around the land of the wooly maggots.

Kevin

34834

General Discussion Area / Re: Omegas

« on: 26 May 2007, 18:27:20 »

I got my Omega from him. Asking prices are high, as usual for a dealer, but haggling will bring them down and he always has a very good selection of Omegas available. He used to specialise only in the Omega but has recently had to start taking on other cars too.

He let me test drive my way through half his forecourt one afternoon with no hassle. Just gave me a bunch of keys and let me get on with it. No high pressure sales pitch or anything.

Depends what you want, really. If you're happy biding your time until the right car comes up at the right price you will certainly find a better deal. If you've not got a lot of time you can go there and chances are something on his forecourt will be right for you, but you pay a premium for that choice.

Kevin

34835

General Discussion Area / Re: V6 intake mod??

« on: 11 June 2007, 09:54:34 »

Does this mod actually help in any way?

I would hazard a guess that if it made any improvement it would only be at the top end of the rev range. Removing the multi-ram will kill torque in the low to mid range though. It might give you a few more BHP on paper but in reality probably won't make the car faster.

Also, that setup looks prone to sucking hot air from the engine bay which won't help, although you say this particular one uses the standard airbox.

Not a reason not to buy a car if everything else checks out OK but if someone's been modding look for bodges elsewhere! You could always put the bagpipes back on.

Kevin

34836

General Discussion Area / Re: Lakes Pics 4 - The Passes

« on: 10 June 2007, 22:03:07 »

They are awesome bits of road. If you catch them without some muppet trying to get a caravan up them, which you clearly did, looking at those pictures.

More of a challenge in a manual car, I found, as you really need to keep it on the boil. Done it in Emma's MX-5 and the Omega. Next time I WILL take the Westfield up there  

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Official Im Back Thread

« on: 10 June 2007, 19:40:13 »

I saw a couple of wot looked liked sleeping bags rolled up in nylon bags in the central reservation going thro that bit...

Yeah. I noticed a bird trying to wedge what looked like a sleeping bag into the windows of a Rover 25 on the hard shoulder. Don't know what was going on there?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Official Im Back Thread

« on: 10 June 2007, 19:37:51 »

Well, just got back home safely. Thanks to Chopsdad and all others involved in the organisation for a great weekend.

Clocked up 837.4 miles   thanks to our venture into deepest, darkest Wales on Thursday / Friday.

Overall fuel consumption from MID 30.2 MPG (27.7 gallons burnt) 59 MPH average speed. Not bad considering there were some blats up and down mountain passes in that lot.

I did not use the M6 toll either so that made it slower. I was in no hurry.....

Neither did we and I'm not convinced it would have made it any faster. The "M6 Toll information" matrix displayed "M6 Congestion M6 toll clear" as usual. Didn't have any change handy so just took the M6 and it was totally clear apart from one little slow (40mph) patch around the M5 junction. Would really have had to cane it round the toll to have covered that ground quicker IMO.

Had an excellent run back, meet Kevin Wood on the way back.... (btw sorry i did not wave as you went past kev, Last time i looked you were there, then you shot past!)

He He. You were oblivious when we went past first time too! I think you were in lorry following mode and appeared to be distracted trying to wedge matchsticks under your eyelids, presumably in an attempt not to nod off!

I noticed a green Omega saloon on the hard shoulder of the M6 just north of Brum with the fuel filler cap open. Not one of us I hope?

Cheers,

Kevin

34839

General Discussion Area / Re: Scorchio - Weather For Keswick - Update

« on: 06 June 2007, 20:24:11 »

I'm hopeless at footy. I'll stand by and watch over the beer

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Scorchio - Weather For Keswick - Update

« on: 06 June 2007, 13:55:50 »

I think some of the Super Lager Broocie is bringing is 12%

Is that super or soup-er?

I'll bring a spoon...  8-)

Kevin

34841

General Discussion Area / Re: Vauxhall parts mail order companies -Who do u

« on: 06 June 2007, 16:09:25 »

I know there have been problems with Autovaux(?) belts recently. They supplied belts that are too short and which destroy the tensioner pulley bearing. It may be worth getting the generic part number of the belt and trying to source it from a motor factors locally as the belts are of a common design.

I've seen part numbers of the form 060925, for example, which means the belt has 6 ridges and is 925mm long.


Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tech2 for sale?

« on: 07 June 2007, 16:14:22 »

Anyway, Tech 2 aside, I went to South Africa last year.

It's a bl00dy long way away!  

I reckon if Jaime were to pack up the server, take it to S.A. and then commission it there'd be over 24 hours down time!  

I only hope he gives us enough warning to get some Valium prescribed. Or do they do patches for Forum dependency these days?

   

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tech2 for sale?

« on: 07 June 2007, 15:46:00 »

Jaime - you're a very bad man  

So it's a wind up? Or, worse, maybe it's not.

Jaime is conspicuous by his failure to confirm or deny anything other than Tech2 for sale...  :-/

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tech2 for sale?

« on: 07 June 2007, 14:08:02 »

Tech2 - I am thinking maybe we need a whip round on the forum.

We need to think about how it might work first. As TheBoy and others have said, and as I appreciated when I first suggested the idea, "tool pool" schemes have been discussed and rejected in the past. However, this is a special case, I feel, because it's not something many members would ever shell out for themselves, so this is our only option if we want a real Tech2 available to us at sensible prices.

The first issue is that some members will be happy to contribute, some won't, and suddenly we have 2 tiers of members, paid, and unpaid, which is something we have strived to avoid.

I guess we could have 2 scales of charging for Tech2 work to reflect this, and consider the Tech 2 separate to the forum. Or we could consider the contributions a donation to the Forum funds and treat all members equally regardless of whether they contributed.

The second issue is where it is located. It's the type of thing you need as a diagnostic aid when you get a problem so it's not going to be much use if it's at the other end of the country. It could be present at all the meets, of course, but that's not normally when you get a problem, although routine work could be done then.

It's too valuable to be sent around the country at random, IMHO. I guess we could nominate custodians in various areas and rotate the location among the custodians so everyone gets a Tech 2 close to them for a proportion of the time, hand carrying the unit whenever it moves.

I guess an idea of the numbers involved would help, too. How many members would contribute and how much?

Maybe this weekend will provide a good opportunity to discuss the possibilities?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tech2 for sale?

« on: 06 June 2007, 16:44:42 »

Congratulations indeed.  

And what about the OOF server?

..... and who's going to volunteer to fix the Tractor?

I think I'd opt for the server given the choice!

Kevin