mad082

Looks like a park light bulb to me. From the outside in the order of your lights should be: Parkers are the 2 very outside ones (where indicators would normally be on most cars). Then the low beams, and then high beams closest to the grill.

You won't find a car (with a working fuel gauge) that doesn't have the fuel light come on with about 10l left in the tank. This is so when the light comes on you have enough fuel to get to a servo. No point having the low warning light come on and the having it run out of fuel 5 seconds later.

I think the fact that dan was able to get past and then pull a gap and stay away, and that it was still early in the race showed that the call was made right and vettel should've just let him go a bit more easily, although it ended up being an easy pass since he went too deep into turn 1 and ended up on the dirty outside line. Had Dan been struggling the same as vettel then I'd not be upset if he was told to move over. If it was in the last few laps then it may be a different story and I'd take that on a case by case situation, but with 32 laps to go, get out of the way. The faster car has right of way.

If he's doing a trip of purely highway driving then it's poor economy, but around town they certainly aren't an economical engine compared to something like a 4cyl hatch back. And the fact that both you and adam havn't given exact figures to work out accurate economy, we don't know what your economy is. Then you have to take into account driving style, driving situation (lot of stop start or city traffic that flows). If you're getting 10 to 13l/100kms on city driving then you're doing ok. You'll be doing well to get under 10l/100kms on city driving unless you only drive on the motorways at 80kmh or more, in which case that's classed as highway driving. In which case getting under 9l/100kms is doing well. Your economy of 350kms to 44-55l works out to be a bit over 10l/100kms (roughly estimated as a worse case scenario, so it could be better) which is pretty good for a natro skyline. People often think that a natro skyline should run cheaply, but they don't. They are a somewhat highly strung 2.5l 6cyl in a heavy car (for what they are). They will always get worse economy than something like a lancer or pulsar by a noticeable amount, as those sorts of cars are designed and tuned to be economical. on the highway you'll find that a natro skyline isn't much better (if at all) than a Commodore or falcon, since they are big torquey motors that can just amble along at 1800rpm or so at 100kmh.

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/video/main-gallery/dirty-fernando-alonso/

Start with plugs, then coilpacks, then igniter unit.

This is spot on

Are the crv awd now, or are they still a fwd with awd being activated by a clutch system? And the first gen crv are gutless. My parents had one. The newer versions have more power.

Yeah it's good to see vettel getting schooled by his somewhat rookie team mate. Can only wonder how many luxury yachts vettel's shrink is buying at the moment

Ls6 would make it look more interesting......

Plugs rarely cause detonation unless they are too hot a heat range. His plugs look in reasonable shape. Detonation is usually caused by either running too lean or too much timing. Coils won't have anything to do with causing detonation. A misfire yes, but detonation no. As for gap, the bigger the better. Standard gap is 1.1mm. You only need to reduce the gap when running much higher boost and/or the coils can't cope.

If you don't mind spending about 20k on building an engine and then rebuilding it at every oil change then you might get 300hp. But it will drive like crap, use heaps of fuel and be exceptionally unreliable.

That doesn't sound that bed economy wise. Without knowing exact figures it works out to only be about 11-13l/100kms.

My opinion (and I don't expect everyone to share it, as some here clearly won't, as demonstrated by previous posts) is that rbr lost the appeal more because they didn't follow protocol rather than anything to do with what the actual fuel flow may have been. I feel that regardless of whether rbr could've proved that they didn't exceed the flow limit or not, that was only a secondary part of the argument. The crux of the argument was that rbr ignored instruction about the offsets. We could argue about the sensors all day, but that isn't really the point. While they are what caused the issue to start with, they aren't why rbr lost the appeal. I wouldn't call what rbr did cheating per se, as we don't know whether they actually exceeded the fuel flow or not, but they did ignore instructions from officials and therefore broke the rules. As for the other teams all supporting the fia during the appeal, that hardly means that they are happy with how the sensors are working and the procedures put in place. Of course teams like Mercedes were going to go on the offensive against rbr. Rbr is one of their main rivals, so they'd be happy to stick the boot in and try and keep their lead by as much as possible (as was clear by saying that rbr should be suspended for the rest of the season).

Get yourself a boa strap wrench (about $7 from Bunnings) and give that a go.

Wish that supra had got a clean run. That would've been impressive

Just posting to make the OP think someone has posted OT in his thread

Maybe he took the fact that it was kimi into account when making the move, in the same way that we saw some great moves between alonso and webber at times because they both knew the other one wasn't going to do anything too stupid. But Dan had some pretty good moves, like a few cris-cross moves after the back straight (turn 11 i think) or around the outside up the hill at turn 12 or 13. He showed some good racecraft. As much as I hate to defend the tool, I think the reason why he got out of the way of Dan so quickly was that they were on different strategies. Had they been on the same strategy as Dan I think he would've done his best to fend him off.

So it's safe to say that only a mechanical fault or someone forgetting to use their brakes at turn one (kobyashi, I'm looking at you here) that will stop Mercedes occupying 1st and 2nd. Any predictions for 3rd?

I've got holidays that start on the weekend..... The weekend after this weekend....... Guess I'll be recording it like always

+1 for copper plugs. You won't gain any performance from the better plugs and they certainly won't last 4 or 5 times longer despite costing 4 or 5 times as much.

You can't really compare the price of a built race car to a road car. For starters the build cost of a race car is miles ahead of most road cars, so it's only right they get more money when sold. Plus they are true 1 offs. Sure there might be other cars exactly the same, but the exact car that was the race winner is unique.

Had one of these the other night. After ringing during the day and getting my mother and her saying that the person he would need to speak to would be home after 6:15 he rang back at 5:15 (didn't take into account no daylight savings in qld). The missus answered and told him to get stuffed. He rang back a few more times within a few minutes, each time getting told to get stuffed (she also said that she didn't believe he was from Telstra and she wanted a customer reference number and number to call back on, which he said he wasn't allowed to give out because he was only a technician). Then he rang again at about 7:30. I answered. He did the usual "I'm from Telstra and I'm sorry to inform you that as of today my internet was going to be disconnected". I asked why (knowing exactly where this was going). He said because I had corrupted files on my computer and then asked me to turn my computer on so he could show me. I simply responded with "let me guess, you want me to open the event viewer." He said yes and then hung up on me, lol. Next time I might try stalling them for a bit before saying "since I assume you are calling via voip, if you could just hold the line for just a few seconds longer, I've almost finished tracing the call and am about launch a ddos attack on your system to make it crash"

And you might get small differences from the grid lap and warm up lap.

I wonder if there were any differences in initial fuel load that may have altered the figures