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General Car Chat / Re: A Bit Weird
« on: 30 March 2024, 14:06:37 »
Or shaking hands when you get out ;D ;D

Now now, we don't want poor old Rog to have heart attack or anything! ;D

 Absolutely not. A nice sedate Morris Minor Woody should fit the bill. Picnic rug and a thermos flask and some bread to feed the ducks. :)


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General Car Chat / Re: A Bit Weird
« on: 30 March 2024, 11:51:49 »
Ha ha🤣 I rolled an Anglia 1200 delux when I was 17 ;D

I rolled a 600cc Regal saloon.....and a 700cc Regal Supervan. :)

Fools and Horses van was a Regal although for some reason people think it's a Robin. ???


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General Car Chat / Re: A Bit Weird
« on: 30 March 2024, 11:37:02 »
Or shaking hands when you get out ;D ;D

I rolled two plastic pigs in my youth......and yes my hands were shaking as we tried to get it back on it's wheels (3) ;D

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Mk2 is better looking than the MK1 in my opinion. :y

Sounds like a good buy. :y

Is it the 2.8V6.....or the 3 litre 'Essex V6'

X reg is 1980/81 I think.

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.
« on: 29 March 2024, 12:17:39 »
You never get stuck behind me
No, because you only have 150 horses ;D
150 horses is enough to lose your license fairly quickly if you try hard enough.

Family cars of the sixties made do with 40-50 BHP from their wheezy pushrod OHV lumps.

I'm thinking Ford Anglia, Austin 1100, Mk1 Cortina 1200.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Starlink.
« on: 28 March 2024, 18:43:02 »
That's a similar price to high speed fibre I think?  If you have fibre that is...  ::)
My 500Mb synchronous has just gone up...   ...to £22 ;D

Admittedly that is a special deal, but my previous 900Mb synchronous was only £50 on a rolling month basis
.

Decent fibre from altnets is significantly cheaper than services like ADSL when that first came out.  But not many have access to altnets, although more small villages have a better chance :y

No need to rub it in, you bastard. :D ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Starlink.
« on: 28 March 2024, 18:41:12 »
That's a similar price to high speed fibre I think?  If you have fibre that is...  ::)
My 500Mb synchronous has just gone up...   ...to £22 ;D

Admittedly that is a special deal, but my previous 900Mb synchronous was only £50 on a rolling month basis.

Decent fibre from altnets is significantly cheaper than services like ADSL when that first came out.  But not many have access to altnets, although more small villages have a better chance :y

I hear that Starlink is around 200 down and 13 up. No idea if that is good, bad, or somewhere in between. All I know is that our current speed is shit slow. :-\

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General Discussion Area / Re: Starlink.
« on: 28 March 2024, 18:37:55 »
I've seen them advertise deals with refurbished kit, so keep your eye out.  :y


It looks like the cost is currently £225 ( £450 before) for the dish, and then £85 a month. Not cheap.

Elon is worth £280 billion so he could afford to make it less expensive.

What sort of speeds do you get for that?  ???

That's a similar price to high speed fibre I think?  If you have fibre that is...  ::)
High speed fibre is well cheaper than £85. But, if you live on a rambling country estate, Openreach aren't about to use a whole drum of cable to get to you.


Yep....they always pick on the most innocent. :-X ::)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Starlink.
« on: 28 March 2024, 16:18:04 »
I've seen them advertise deals with refurbished kit, so keep your eye out.  :y


It looks like the cost is currently £225 ( £450 before) for the dish, and then £85 a month. Not cheap.

Elon is worth £280 billion so he could afford to make it less expensive.

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General Discussion Area / Starlink.
« on: 28 March 2024, 14:57:15 »
Our internet connection has always been poor.

It is presently run through a Huawei router.

Anyway, the name Starlink has come up as an alternative.

Anyone with experience of Starlink?....I know it's not cheap but if it works I don't mind.

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 27 March 2024, 18:48:36 »
Bike engines were producing 100 BHP a litre NA back in the time of Moses.

Quite simple really.....lots of revs and a carb for each cylinder. :y
Yeah, but no torque, sadly.  As nothing is better than 15,000+ rpm rattling your gonads :y

In 2024 superbikes can manage more than 200 BHP per litre without forced induction. No grunty low down torque but low weight and gearing tends to cover this up.

My Yamaha FJ1200 only made 125 BHP but was also a proper 'stump puller' when it came to torque.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Adedi...
« on: 27 March 2024, 17:36:49 »
You won't find many virgins over the age of 18 in the UK.  :)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Adedi...
« on: 27 March 2024, 17:10:25 »
maybe they had 72 virgins close to their 'use by date'   :-\
 I'm not sure how it works , I haven't read the Quran

72 virgins at the same time is enough to kill any man. ::) ::) >:D

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 27 March 2024, 17:05:07 »
The RS2000 had 150bhp (retuned from the 8v lump in the MK3 Granada/Sierra), but the 2.0 Zetec lump was 135/140 iirc.

The Zetec S 170 in the Focus didn't appear until the MY2000 facelift.

The V6 Mundeo was 170bhp all day long.

Mercedes had 185bhp fuel injected twin cam straight six from the early 70's but mainstream stuff took a while to catch up.

The Honda 1.8 revved to about 8k so not sure if that counts  >:D


Long time ago now, but, my 1991 Sierra 2.OGLX came with a DOHC lump that made it pretty quick.

Can't remember how much power it made now, but I think around 125BHP.

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 27 March 2024, 17:00:08 »
Bike engines were producing 100 BHP a litre NA back in the time of Moses.

Quite simple really.....lots of revs and a carb for each cylinder. :y

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