DaveEllen

will be in attendance..........

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A friend told me it could be the turbo seals on there way out depending on how old the tubbys are. He also told me that is normal for them to blow some oil past the seals on the turbo, but it usually happens when the turbos are getting worn out or almost in need of a rebuild.

Oh well another thing to replace on the mota if they do give up

The SMIC is a bumper job...although it shouldn't take any longer than a couple of hours to remove it. IIRC there's guides floating around - just do a search on google.

Nice job on the Throttle Body...I need to do mine (saw it just two weeks ago and it was worse than yours! :o).

Once you get the SMIC off I'd suggest you get a tub of kerosene or diesel and just dump it in there overnight (don't get high on the fumes :P)...that'll clean up the SMIC pretty nicely. Then if possible, give the whole thing a blast with a pressure washer or something...that'll definitely sort it out and see if you can straighten up any of the fins.

Nice one cheers for the advice, im going to be getting a Greddy FMIC but wasnt sure what the difference between the Type M or V, does anyone know?

type V is thicker

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I think my next little mod would have to be this, http://www.prolex-uk.com/store/product_inf...products_id=455

Looking good :D

First mods are on there way :winky:

As above :)

Cheers for all the comments :)

thats a good one.............licence endangering though

Looking good :D

First mods are on there way :winky:

I really really dont want to do it this way but i have not been left with much choice as you have not replied to my PM's recently even though you have read them and as you are leaving the forums.......

How about now giving me the £100 + postage for the supercharger induction kit i sent to you that you claim you never got........ even though it was signed for by someone at your address on the 4th of January............!

However if there is a genuine reason why you have not replied then I would like to hear it.....

From an unhappy and starting to feel ripped off Rob.

Owen...sounds like you owe Rob an explanation IMHO. I've met you twice and it seems out of character for you. I've also met Rob a few times and am 100% sure he would not be making mischief.

got me 10.5 rears on my Risto ...............

thats bad luck............hope it gets sorted soon

You going to be stripping it all out and putting a cage in?

Nope...its the Club challenge so I dont have to do that. Have to use road tyres as well.

Idea is to drive it there..............come last honourably.........drive home

I'll be there.

If you are short of cars could bring 3 prolex flyers :winky:

Nice to meet everyone.............back safely from Birkenhead............wheels still on car

Left at 1.15 got back 4.50 which was quite good :D

I'll be there from 6.30 (ish)

I have a proper camera mount...so if its allowed will be running :)

My "paying" job is working for LA's dealing with revenues and benefits.

In the mid to late 90's there was a move to contract out benefits to private contractors such as ITnet (now SERCO) Capita,Liberata et al the idea was that these companies would bring commercial working practices into this area of work and reduce costs and increase efficiency.

In a nutshell it didnt work. They tried to cut costs as you'd expect and introduce performance based pay blah de blah.

What they would do is look at the contract and concentrate on the area which brought most profit ignoring those which didnt make money...same with penalties they would weigh the cost of having to pay one penalty against the profit they could make in another area and if the profit outweighed the penalty then hey ho.

Problem is in my line of work you are messing with peoples lives. If the claim for Housing Benefit is not paid then people get evicted - Period.

I've also been involved in bid preperation for one of the above companies. That was an eyeopener. Bid document specifically said no offshore call centres to be used by the contractor......so they were going to create another company which they would "sub contract" to with the offshore call centre....

However my experience of nearly 20 years in local government is that there is enormous wastage of money & resources largely due to middle managers empire building and then protecting said empires and senior managers embarking on personal career building schemes with no regard to the financial cost to the LA.

I'd also say central government is guilty of the same from what you read about the Home Office etc....

my mini rant over

not convinced on CAMCON for any FI car. Non FI then fine.

I used to work for the IT department at Royalmail which was outsourced to CSC, BT & Xansa a few years ago, to be honest it was good at first as it gave us much more scope to do things, although admittedly the management were constantly looking for ways to cut costs everywhere!

Eventually they offered a big redundancy programme which I took up as did many others, and I now work for another outsourcing company (by choice this time!) although we don't focus on the IT, which is actually one of the smaller departments there!

Things were ok, I never signed another contract so kept all the original terms and conditions, although the one thing we did lose was the RMG pension which is one of the best in the business from what I was told!

Hope things go ok - which company is it you'll be going to?

Keir are an OK firm...........

I'm 99% sure they (Keir) have to offer a final salary scheme which is what you must be offered

Yup.....use a bit more fuel but tis worth it

nope.................not JUN flywheel

bit cheaper than that !

mmmmmmmmmmm if i didnt already have one !

Fantastic stuff mate :D

What sort of role did you get?

System Support Manager

Best thing is its so close to home :D

starting Tuesday next week !

Think its a ST205 Celica (for s/c airbox)

Since December the day job had dried up a bit (s/employed) only had one day a week definate and was relying on sales of my database for income. A tad worrying as I was relying on other people to sell it.

Started DIYing as you do round the house.....Nothing had turned up by yesterday morning so I decided I'd update ye olde CV and send it out to some agencies today.

Last night at 5pm I got a message from an agency who had been given my name wanting me for a 6/9 month contract in Lewisham (7 miles away from me) gist of message was job was mine blah blah blah. Cool thought I get that sorted tomorrow...........Then at 5.40 got another call,not message, offering me similair type job for 6 months at Bromley (9 miles away from me) was given job over phone !

So am now sorted and was able to keep my one day a week job in Islington, have 2 days off a month to install databases if they are sold and get even get a parking space in Bromley :winky:

I'll see you all there

Nice one Dave, be good see you.

If you remember on, asking about the pod and boost gauge, if its available I can give you the cash for it.

I have the boost guage will look for the pod (sneaky suspicion its being ised for another guage but will check today)