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Ah yeah I guess he was using a simple modified mechanical wastegate which wouldn't be much cop against the boost surge at mid rpm.
Still though, it's amazing what you can throw together if you know what you're doing. A friend of mine has turbocharged his MX5. it's a 1600cc one with about 115bhp from standard. He used a patern manifold from ebay, the turbo and intercooler off an old saab, retarded the igition by rotating the cam angle sensor and then just boshed the rest together with some old silicon and aluminium hose sections. It's not pretty, and the fuelling is controlled by a variable resistor spliced into the wiring for the AFM so it's pretty inneficient. But it cost him less than £500 to put together and it's now happily hitting around 150bhp at the wheels. It's a bit of a dog off boost but if you keep it in the sweet spot it really flies.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I might even be online tonight.
I missed you by about 20 minutes the other night. But I see we are now "friends" according to Steam. I should be about over the weekend a bit, possibly.
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I just ordered a so-called 'style' bar for my MX5. The perils of internet access of work, boredom, and an itchy credit card finger...
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I never liked those style bars personally. Always seemed to me that if you were in an accident and the car rolled, they're in the perfect place to fold down over your skull. That's why I got a proper rollcage for mine.
You might be interested to know that www.mx5parts.co.uk are doing a special offer on all their stainless steel exhausts, which I can heartily recommend as they look and sound great.
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that's where I ordered my style bar from! Exhausts sound too much like hard work to me.
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my style bar was delivered to work today. you can all let your breath out again now.
so, what shall I do this evening, huh? continue the epic garden weeding session which I started last night, or have a go at fixing my style bar?
in other news, I blacked out on the way to the loo to throw up on Sunday morning, having managed to generate a truly heinous hangover from 3 glasses of wine taken with food. that's the second time I've done this - something to do with the vagus nerve, apparently - at least this time I only ended up in a heap on my bedroom floor rather than at the foot of the stairs, which was my first experience of this rather amusing litte physiological quirk. The bruises on my right arm and knee are not so much UDIs as IHIs.
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Do we all need to club together and get you some home help? I'd advise you to move into a home and sell your house, but I've got my eye on that for the kid's univesity fund.
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You know on modern roadsters, like the Audi TT, and that Ford Ka thing, they have those metal hoops behind the seats which are there for rollover protection? Old roadsters never had to have those so if the car rolled over you got well and truly destroyed. A style bar is a thing which bolts behind the seats to look like you've got rollover protection, when in fact they're mounted really flimsily and are made from a very thin grade of steel so offer no actual protection. Hence 'style' bar rather than 'roll' bar.
A proper rollbar has to be much more substatial and requires a bit of cutting to attach at the hard chassis points. A rollbar is a fair bit more expensive too.
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It felt appropriate, didn't it? I like to think of us as like those two dudes from the Seven Samurai. The hyperactive childish one, and the quiter farmer dude that he's always yelling at. And then when the farmer dude gets killed the hyperactive one totally goes apeshit. By the way, that's a Seven Samurai spoiler, but if you haven't seen it yet, what the fuck are you thinking? It's been out for, like, 60 years now.
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Well, you know. You still should. It's not like I revealed any of the really good stuff, like the revelation that the twatty one was abandoned as a child, or the bitter irony of the super-skilled one getting killed by a gunshot or anything like that.
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Cherry in Hove, do you have Soul Calibur IV? I should have it by the weekend if you're interested in a couple of matches?
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I'm not sure. I did buy it, but I've got a feeling I traded it in.
I'm not going to be around though as I'm off to Dorset tomorrow morning then going to a wedding in Somerset on Saturday then back to Dorset on Sunday then won't be back in front of my xbox until Monday.
Of course, this is subject to change as Kate has just been signed off work for 2 weeks so if she can't travel then I'm not sure what will happen.
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Geordi, I'm detecting a high concentration of tachion particles
Thanks Data... well, that explains why we can't reach the Enterprise. The particles must be forming some kind of barrier or forcefield.
So how do we get off this rock?
Well, it's a long shot, but I could try reversing the flow of chronotrons being given off by Data's homing device. That might just give us enough time to contact to Enterprise and receive a transporter lock on our location.
But wouldn't that mean that we'd be almost invisible to any away teams? There's got to be another way!
Commander, I believe that Geordie is correct. If we can reconfigure the homing device located wthinin my cranial sensor array, we can momentarily disrupt the tachion field.
And how long would that give us?
By my calculations, using my remaining power, we could disrupt the field for approximately ten point three-four-eight seconds.Posts: 3821
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Well, after that Commander, Data here is going to be taking a loooong nap.
We can't do it, it's too risky.
Commander, I'm afraid it may be our only chance. Unless we can contact the Enterprise, my sensors are reporting that we only have enough oxygen to survive on the surface for another two hours.
Octavia
I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Got the new DLC for DA:O last night then didn't bother to do any of it.
How did you achieve this? It's not showing up on our XBox live games marketplace. Is it really shit? I know you get to pick up Cailin's armour - are there another two achievements like there are on the golem quests?
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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Not that I'm achievement-obsessed on this game or nuffink.
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Just one achievement for 25 points. It isn't showing up as they realised there was a game breaking glitch in it that corrupts games and means you can't learn specialisations any more so they pulled it from marketplace.