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General Car Chat / Re: Why tracking is a waste of time on an Omega

« on: 24 April 2017, 17:22:02 »

Front or rear tyre....?

Could be subframe out of alignment with rear....?

Poly bushes or normal rubber...?

Does the vehicle, the tyre came off, regularly get bumped up a curb...?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone speak Northern?

« on: 23 April 2017, 11:00:54 »

A bet very few of thi can understand Wiganese....

I'll give it a go Andy

Proper name is 'Lanky Dialect'

Theres an old recording available that was made by an old friend of my Dads called 'Lanky Spoken Here' by Dave Dutton, its also a book .... Very very funny, and proper speaking folks on it too....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone speak Northern?

« on: 23 April 2017, 10:59:06 »

Im Northern, from the proper northern parts of Lancashire...... not them namby pamby Yorkshire folks.... they only think they're northern....

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Omega General Help / Re: Convert Exhaust

« on: 20 April 2017, 20:59:12 »

I still have a catback full stainless exhaust system, that was fitted with the Irmscher style split pipe that ran to the other side.... funnily enough fitted by a 'Pikey' exhaust system fitter/builder.... sounds very nice when running, also has released a few extra ponies with the system design....

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Parcel Shelf Blind Fitting 2

« on: 11 April 2017, 18:50:51 »

You will need brute force and a screwdriver to remove them....

If you drop the seat backs down and look up at them, you will see them protruding into the rear parcelshelf, you need a longish flat blade screwdriver to push in the pastic clips that hold them in place, them brute forve to push them through the hole they are sat in... If they break, theres plenty more in scrappies...

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General Car Chat / Re: Worst day in the garage for a while

« on: 29 March 2017, 22:16:50 »

Not me but a lad round the corner from me, took in a part exchange of a Vectra B (X20XEV) with a blown head gasket.... changed head gasket, replaced cambelt etc.... cranked over the engine on starter.... daft bastard had left the cams locked off with the locking tools, stripped the starter motor and a couple of teeth off the starter ring, along with ruining the new cambelt... he scrapped the car...

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General Discussion Area / Re: machinemart

« on: 20 March 2017, 08:19:19 »

Also here in Wigan we have the same as you STEMO but now with electricity and running water

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Omega General Help / Re: 3.2 v6

« on: 15 March 2017, 16:51:44 »

100% fit the A cams along with the G cams, will feel a lot better midrange and top end....

Gasflowing the heads and mapping to suit, will get good gains... 12-13BHP doesn't sound a lot, but it can change the way the car feels under acceleration and will be smoother. Duno about the gearbox remap...

Tubular manifolds will help with gasflow, but better to fit an X pipe or 2 into 1 pipe and single exit pipe instead of the two pipes that will be unbalanced, the X pipe balances the exiting gasses and will make a big difference... It did my 2.5 make sure the pipe work is minimum 3" pipes from Y piece, otherwise it will strangle the exiting gasses and create unwanted backpressure....

Cant hurt fitting the 4 bar FPR but the ECU will restrict the fuelling, unless the remap can be programmed to suit the FPR.....

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Aspergers brain

« on: 14 March 2017, 22:13:53 »

I dont watch the show, never have but the answer I got was AAA, coz I thought that was next in the pattern...?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Ferrero rocher

« on: 13 March 2017, 20:42:35 »

My missus friggin' loves them chocolates, its either them or Black Magic....

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General Car Chat / Re: Bore damage. Game over for BMW?

« on: 12 March 2017, 13:33:22 »

I haven't read the full thread but I'm with Opti, Id just put it back together and see what happens....

Iv had worse than that on a Montego (yeah I know chalk and cheese but engines are engines) and it ran perfectly fine afterwards...

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General Car Chat / Re: Big insurance hikes all round ?

« on: 12 March 2017, 13:27:32 »

Im paying over £1500 for both my cars for insurance.... it never goes down...

I tried to transfer the insurance from the Omega to the Volvo and the insurance company just refused point blank to insure the Volvo as it was too big a risk....!!! They told me they wouldn't insure that type of car... I argued that it was 'just a Volvo estate' and nothing special, but they still refused to insure it....

Its insured fully comp with full NCB and no claims in the past 18 years, I ask why is it so expensive for me when others get it cheaper than me, they never answer me.... All I can say is its the area I live in and that Im a fulltime carer for my wife....

The Mini also has expensive insurance too, but that is a higher value car and more at risk to go missing....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Caught myself a scumbag......

« on: 10 March 2017, 22:31:22 »

You'd be surprised at some of the houses in Wigan STEMO... theres a place called Parbold where there are 10 multimillionaires all in the 1 estate... Its where Dave Whelan of Wigan RLFC lives and he has his helipad situated....

Do you live in that area?

Oh fook no..... couldnt afford a front gate in that area LOL

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General Discussion Area / Re: Caught myself a scumbag......

« on: 10 March 2017, 16:14:01 »

You'd be surprised at some of the houses in Wigan STEMO... theres a place called Parbold where there are 10 multimillionaires all in the 1 estate... Its where Dave Whelan of Wigan RLFC lives and he has his helipad situated....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Caught myself a scumbag......

« on: 09 March 2017, 20:23:49 »

Hopefully there wont be a next time LOL

Wish I could upload the video of me taking down to the ground, but cant convert it to a more conventional format...