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Welcome aboard! Looks like a nice example

At least you can rely on Ferrari to be Ferrari and somehow one up themselves in absolute sh1thousery once again. LeClerc down an entire power unit already.

Stitched George up real good here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLFVD8xaD3U&ab_channel=FORMULA1

What he said ^^ Doesn't look right at all but I may be wrong, is it definitely a genuine unit?

Bosch 1000's here which I think is what the FIC's are based on. All good here too. You used to be able to get away with a certain type of RX-7 or MK3 Supra injectors for a bit of extra poke but they're very old now and you'd be best to just spend the money on a decent set.

Something I've seen people do when repairing laptop and phone boards, when they can't see anything wrong, is spray the board with electrical freeze spray which sort of frosts it up. They then send power to the unit and any shorts will be the first to melt the frost and point straight to any culprits. Seems to be quite good at exposing cracked solder etc. https://www.amazon.co.uk/MOTIP-Freezer-Electronic-Spray-500/dp/B015XMW8A4

Checked the timing? Might have jumped a tooth or the belt has stretched causing it to run out of whack maybe. I'm not an expert on the whole O2 sensor thing but surely something must have been done to get around the ECU not picking up an O2 sensor in the first place. Has there been a resistor spliced in near the plug or something that needs replacing?

I'd heard it was more the capacitors leaking out onto the board and causing surrounding damage, but I may be wrong. If you succeed in your repair and feel comfortable doing it, you may become a lot of peoples best friend on here It's becoming a pretty common occurence these days so it would be good to have a member who can repair and return

An account where it'll earn interest. You'd be trying to catch a falling knife right now investing in stocks or crypto

Yeah I'd have guessed the paint was used as a reference when balancing it or something too. Could it have been a refurbished unit rather than new?

Can see so many unsold diesel cars just being scrapped at the rate these fuel prices are going. It's just not financially viable for anyone over a petrol or EV.

I'm just back from Australia, visiting the in-laws. Things are pretty bleak there too but at least the weather is better! We've started a rainy day fund with the aim to move over there at some point, at least once the dogs have crossed the bridge

IMG_2365.MOV Whifbitz log manifold. It was very wet so just easing into it Also, AFR gauge wasn’t hooked up before anyone asks

And it’s suspicious to say the least… Inflation is still coming in too hot, especially core inflation in the US which drives the world markets. The DXY (dollar index) is still in its crazy uptrend, traditional markets haven’t really followed suit with crypto and the American FED has warned that there is a lot of pain yet to come. To me, something stinks and I can’t see this lasting too long. The only positive news I’ve seen that could be causing this rally is rumours of China opening its borders again around Jan-March time and a lot of crypto is held there (plus the Shanghai markets have been green to a similar tune as BTC). The idea of a mid-term election rally in the US is also there I guess. But overall, I still see things trending down and possibly swooping to new lows. With that being said, ETH is looking quite good and if it can close Sunday above $1613 at the 21wk EMA, it’s in good shape. I’m just very apprehensive about this being short lived, the global economy is still in absolute tatters and risk on assets have no business rallying just now imo.

Well if anything at least that haunted pencil, Jacob Rees Mogg has been shown the door. Hopefully Rishi can outlast a lettuce this time around, what a shambles.

So Red Bull and Aston Martin were found to have exceeded the budget cap last season by any amount between $0.01 and $7.5m (less than 5% of the total) It's going to be nothing more than a slap on the wrist and I fine I bet, but Merc will be absolutely fuming. If RB were found to have overspent on developement of the car etc. then it's ground for points deduction imo. I'd hold the same stance if the shoe was on the other foot before anyone thinks I'm just a die hard Hamilton fan who's still sour by the way To overthrow the Championship now would cause all sorts of drama which i doubt even Hamilton wants anymore Hopefully they interview Guenther Steiner about the whole thing. "I don’t care what stewards decide, as long as they’re consistent. If overspending results in a fine, then it only costs money to get away with it. And with everyone else limited to a smaller cap, who fokking cares?" - Probably

This. If the option of a friendly MOT tester is gone then you'll need at least 1 cat present on the car iirc. Even if the car passes on emissions, it'll fail without the physical presence of a cat.

At this point I doubt we'll ever hear about what happened publicly

And it's only a quid

If it's built to suit and keeps making power then why not? Some of the big boi drag racers with billet blocks have them up to 3.2 and revving to what sounds like near 10k

Depends on the rod and rod bolt choice I believe. You can go for a higher tensile strength on the bolt and a lighter rod to lower the roatating mass. For a basic build on the relatively heavy Eagle rod with ARP 2000's you'd be wise to stick to around stock rpm imo (which is what I've gone with). Maybe push it to 7k if you're feeling brave. The 625+ ARP bolts allow for a higher ceiling and then a lighter rod allows you to go further again. Then you have the added dilemma of extended throw if you go for a stroker kit. You need to spend rockstar money if you want to rev a 3.4.

So the ETH merge successfully completed yesterday with what seems like zero issues as it moves from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake. Probably one of, if not, the biggest milestone in the entire asset class since the inception of BTC and what happens? ETH down 11% I wasn't betting on anything happening as everything tends to be "buy the rumour, sell the news" but it goes a little way towards showing the absolute state of the economic climate right now. The US CPI report came in worse than expected and interest rates are going to get another hike very shortly. You can see investors are trying to time the bottom and then being scared off again when these figures are released. It's certainly looking like we're aiming for at least the end of year (Nov/Dec) for some sort of bottom to hopefully be carved out, just in line with previous cycles. But this could easily drag into 2023

Even bigger asterix over Max's title from last year after that ending. They should probably just red flag these scenarios when there's less than 5 laps to go. Restart from the grid, fresh tyres and just let them have at it.

They already are from what I've seen. Yanks be crazy

Here's me niavely thinking the change to the floor pan regulations would tighten the pack up a little Max will have this wrapped up with about 3 races to spare, insane pace this weekend Ferrari at it again too