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This one starts, runs drives, fully registered and functional. It's actually a mate of mines GU, but it lives here, and I use it whenever I want. It's here to be my tow bitch, and he has another GU TD42 Wagon he drives instead. Unfortunately I neglected the 105 series and it spat the harmonic balancer backwards into the lower timing cover (it's all gears behind it) and now if you start it it pumps oil everywhere. It's part of the reason I'm doing huge cleanups down the back, to get the 105 down there, and pull the front of the motor apart.

What's your best deal to refinance my mortgage? 😛 I just want to be paying the banks the least in interest, so no fees, low interest, and either redraw available or 100% offset accounts...

I have one sitting in my front yard right now... GU, TD42. It's beside the 105Cruiser. I nearly said backyard, but then I looked up from the back deck and remembered I moved it back out the front last Thursday.

Microsoft is bringing one of the 3 Mile Island Nuclear Reactors online, PURELY to power their AI data centres... Imagine you need so much power you need a Nuclear Reactor to yourself!

What Toyo V12s from New Zealand specifically?

Oh do NOT get me started on god damn lazy programmers. Because resources are cheap, they spend their time aimed at building a product of wants, and not bothering with CPU in efficiencies, or memory leakage. Hence why my PC at work is constantly seeing Chrome using 4GB of RAM! And thats just for plain web browsers open. All the bullshit running in the back end of a browser for a single website is ludicrous. The amount of sites just sitting and watching if you're moving your mouse, and it's just a basic text website! Everyone with their Google analytics plugins. I bet most people have never even seen what most websites are doing these days in terms of computer resources, and network traffic when the website is just sitting dead idle! Internet got quicker? Just load more shit into the webpage. Makes me so damn angry! We've got a project I am getting started, to clean up our companies web program we make, as it retrieves a heap of data for display, and on most pages, is only using 50% of that data. So part of this is for speed (on a relatively quick site already) the other portion is to save us in how much we spend per month for bandwidth with cloud providers! All because no one thought, let's trim some data in our data requests through our API...

It's still a common term, in specific areas. Things like go kart engines, builders will talk about blueprinting, which is pretty much as above, where it's just built to the absolute best tolerance to extract that last poofteenth of a horsepower, in a heavily restricted engine build series. I've heard the term from motorbike racers too, especially 2 stroke, that seems to be the main group still using it really is 2 stroke engine guys

You know what's even funnier, is watching some Bogan bitch and moan about how the Chinese are ruining everything, and stealing jobs etc by stuff being made overseas, and then watch them flip out when you ask if they'll pay anymore for the same product, or even a better product made here. Then point out the above Idiocracy, and their brains nearly explode as they attempt to justify their own actions...

I was hoping Australians utter hatred for cheap Chinese shit would do it. But our love for outright cheap shit keeps winning. But yes, them, MGs etc, they're so woefully built, with such low quality stuff on them. Even things like how the crash bars are welded in isn't right. Like Blind Freddy would lay a better, more accurate weld! But people are lapping that shit up. It really shows, you truly can produce utter shit, and as long as it kind of performs the functions, people will buy it!

Wanna know one of the huge dollar stolen parts rings running around at the moment? LDV vehicles! So hard to get parts for an LDV the crooks have figured it out, steal them, strip them, and are making bank, as lots of places now have LDVs and they want them fixed!

You forgot that one guy who buys a car, swears he'll leave it stock, modifies it, and sells it 6 months later for a new stock daily...

What're you studying to backflip yourself towards?

And a JDM VIN on an ADM shell will trigger raised eyebrows even quicker too!

Those controllers don't do anything, except change how the signal appears to the controller. So for example, to make it more sporty, where you first put a little bit of throttle in, it instead will send a higher impulse, and then taper it down towards the target. In theory, you can learn to do what the throttle controller does, but it feels unnatural, for example a normal take off at 15% throttle input in sport mode on Duncans setup, might actually tell the ECU, give it 75% throttle for 0.5 seconds, and then drop to 25% for a second then tailor it back to 20% throttle and maintain that. Compared with the normal throttle might have gone "I'll give you 50% of what you asked for, then half a second later I'll give you 50% more of what you're asking compared to what you have, and then in the end I might let you have 13% in total. At the same time, engine setups like when cruising on the highway, while on light throttle may have the actual throttle 70% open, and playing massively with variable valve timing. A small change in your throttle request will see the motor just mildly tweaking torque request by adjust cams every so slightly, but give it a sudden gut full quickly, it'll bring the cams back into a performance mode ready to go, and then the throttle to follow the position of the pedal, which gives a lot more response. Hence the controller giving a much bigger input to the ECU then back it off, makes the throttle overall feel more responsive. Peak power etc overall though is unchanged. And as Duncan has said, this is why they have to make a different controller mapping typically per make/model as they are all doing different things etc.

I need to clarify something. The weird actual idle of the engine, AND the RPM gauge being really weird and wonky both started happening at exactly the same time? If so, I'm going against both of you above, and saying they're likely related somehow. Unfortunately, the video was filmed in psychopath mode (portrait), which makes it next to impossible to get much detail from it even at full screen size. My bet is that if the gauge has started going weird, AND the engine went rough, both at the same time, they're related, and it'll be a weird electrical issues. Most likely something back feeding / putting noise in a circuit that shouldn't be there. Quite possibly, a connection going wrong, or a power feed being really wack/out of sorts.

Without better pictures, it won't be possible for anyone to work it out further than we have. Start measuring, EVERYTHING. Thickness of flywheel, and all around it. You want to know is if everything parallel. If from the face of the pressure plate (that bolts to the flywheel) if it is parallel to the pressure plate face, then something is NOT parallel or equal elsewhere. Or you've bent the shit out of the fingers in the pressure plate.

0.5L sounds like nothing. But when it's a 25% increase in displacement, to a newer engine platform, and getting some speedy bits, it should be good! Compared to stock cams for the 2.5L, are these new cams mainly more lift, or more duration too (shifting the torque curve into higher RPM)?

I guess that could be debated too... Per se against an F1 car? But then, are we just wanting the best all rounder, hence then we need something that could do rally, in dirt and snow, so the F1 car is gone again... So many variables before you can find "the best". That said, I'd love me a Porsche GT3...

Normally fingers bent or broken will cause the above. Has this pressure plate been used before? Was the gearbox left hanging from the clutch while removing the gearbox?

My guess is, cheap rods, came from a site selling lots of cheap things, and likely a lot of knock off stuff. I get doing a cheap build, but I don't get doing a huge dollar build, and then skimping on something even like the rods, and likely the bolts to go with it, especially if heaps of stuff had to be fabricated!

Recirc valve goes from plumbed in just before the throttle body, and returns to between the AFM and turbo. You'll want a vacuum source too for it from the inlet manifold.

Interesting that it has 2 to the USB stick. Are the ones to the USB stick different? Or labelled anything at all? Telstra 4G is Band 28 is the long range one you want, it's 700mHz. I'm trying to do some reading on the Cel-Fi stuff, but I can't find any decent info online that makes me feel comfortable being able to work out the sort of antennas we could get away to swapping it over to. The antennas I'm starting to do some stuff with at work, are a transparent antenna. They're designed to stick onto the window. Which means you wouldn't even have the antenna outside the car. Volkswagen have just started using the exact same types of antennas on some of their new cars (And from the same antenna manufacturer). But, RF stuff is a bit of a dark art some days, and getting it wrong in your car could make for a terrible waste of money trying to swap antennas :S

I'm not going to lie Duncan, Saturday and Sunday were pretty rough days. The sort of work I was doing would previously have ended up with me spending about an hour and a half chatting with Neil. Firstly about something I had a question about, and then both of us rambling off on tangents. I think how Neil did things, and his attitude to getting it done is helping me in part to get this stuff done. Then I can actually do the things I enjoy more easily

So what I hear from Rob and Mark is, Matt needs to stay the hell away from your places when you choose to do cleanups, for fear my hoarding will get worse, as Ill likely find things to suit some of the projects I want to build... As for ditching stuff like Mark does, I wish I could do it so easily mate, but lots of my spares are for the R33 and I'm slightly attached to them... However, I was staring at the pile of subs, 2 for the car, 2 for a home audio system and thinking I'll likely just ditch those... That's. A lot of space back... I must hurry up and finish the Subaru, and then the skyline... That's probably get some space back... But my main take away is, other than big plastic tubs, and some sort of categorising what you have in each, no one has found a good solution, that takes up the minimal amount of space possible? And Rob, I've been wanting a mezzanine, and have been tempted to put one in, but I'm borderline not enough height, and secondly, I hate heights! (No good spot for stairs, so it'd either be fold up stairs, or a ladder, of which I hate ladders and can't carry the bigger stuff up).

@Duncan for the antennas for the 4G booster, send me a photo of the connection type it uses, and what sort of bands it picks up on, and a photo of the existing antenna itself. I have some interesting ones coming into work soon that may suit your needs really really well AND stop you drilling holes in the roof.