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I thought you could. Is this a recent change to the law?

Well, I'm confident that if I'd actually installed it through Wine I'd never have had a problem, but instead I was trying to run it from my mounted NTFS volume at /mnt/windows. Obviously the EPC is meant to be able to find it's other two directories in C:\ (TMCxxxx), but with wine using ~\.wine\dosdevices\c: as a virtual C: drive, this wasn't happening. So I copied the TMCxxxx directories to my 'virtual' C: drive, chmod u+w them, because since they were copied from an NTFS r/o volume they were flagged read-only. This returned the missing text in the boxes. I just copied over missing .OCX files from windows\system32 to the virtual c: drive's windows\system32, and regsvr32'd them. As I say, I'm confident that an actual install carried out through Wine would work perfectly. It's just that I don't know where my install images are, and with NetSupport having most of the controls missing from it's Configuration page, I presumed there was a more general problem with missing text/bits, but I guess not. NetSupport is still the same.

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OH YEAH! http://www.uk2sucks.net/yeah.png

There's no harm in having additional detail added to the thread. I think some people have grown used to looking negatively at John's posts just because of the occasional controversial view.

yep, figured that out some time ago, but as above the ball and spring type are shite.

'cause the Jap-spec's are ten a penny and cheap. I was thinking of buying one as well as my UK car.. three grand or so on a non-turbo..

I really really like it Chris. I think the end of the tailpipe could be smaller.. but a lot of people do like them to be hideously large. I'm extremely pleased with the sound. Installation was a bit of a head-scratcher at first but the bracketry they use gives a very solid fit. it's the sound that I'm most pleased with though. It's perfect. Refined yet sporty I can drive the car faster at low speed now because it's not such a drama and an 'all eyes on me' event when I touch the throttle. 100% pleased - thanks very much

Quick update: Bought and fitted a simple brass bleed valve. From Halfords of all places! They had to go searching upstairs after I tried to explain what it would look like £16.99 but I hate waiting for things I'm now hitting 16.7psi easily with a peak so far of 18.1 a few days ago. Very happy again now. I love how my car feels and drives, and sounds Ball-and-spring MBC's sucks donkey kong. I even doubled-up the spring inside that POS and still didn't get over ~14.3 psi.

I was thinking how i'd like a white car just last night..

Are they *that* much better? I've heard this level of enthusiasm from Jake too. Is there any way I can retrofit some jap ceramics to my UK car? Replace the manifold or something..?

As I understood it from when I looked into it a while ago, it can be troublesome on a forced-induction motor. It can be done but requires some real expertise to do properly and safely. It's difficult to maintain the correct air/fuel ratio with LRP and a turbo/super charger. I was considering buying a cheap N/A and having it LRP'd as a run about. I'm thinking of buying a used white Astravan now instead

crikey

Yay. Haven't read every word yet, got the gf bitching at me to come back to bed, but i think i got it

I think I might have sussed it - working on the assumption that pressure is measured at the manifold... When the big turbo is creating 20psi of air, the engine can eat up this air very quickly. The big turbo can give more and more and more air (loads of volume), while the engine eats up more and more, based on volume, and still maintain 20psi of air pressure waiting to get into the cylinders. The small turbos can maintain that same 20psi of air, but only because the engine isn't eating much of their air because it knows they aren't able to provide it (volume). So the mac donalds straw and drainpipe analogy does make sense based on the fact that the engine can vary the amount of air it uses up.. it's orifice size if you like. Does this make any sense Migster? .. 'til tomorrow, I'm off to bed.

Any good books to recommend?

So I suppose the point to consider is that 20psi from small turbos is not the same as 20psi from large turbos. The thing to consider regarding cooling capacity would be CFM or air volume or something. Actually.. I am now re-confused. The big turbos are blowing their air into the same engine as the large turbos, so the mac donalds straw and drainpipe analogy doesn't suit does it? Where does the pressure get measured? I know we can say that pressure can vary regardless of actual volume of air, but once that volume of air tries to get pushed through (into) the same orifice, surely then the pressure can then be taken as a comparative measurement of actual amount? ok. I'm definately re-confused

Well, yeah. I don't think it's a case of "you can pump more in", more a matter of fact that more air (molecules) do get in there, because as you say the air is denser.

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I'm sure we had this one a good few months ago.. you, me, and migster explaining it all. Volume is different to pressure, or something It's like how it's easy to create 20psi of pressure when you're trying to force it through a mac donalds straw, but blowing that same air into a drainpipe you have no pressure at all. Or something

Well I paid £50 for a new drivers door window the other day - and that was cheap.. so this is extra cheap

Blimey. I was umm'ing and ahh'ing i thought if someone outbids me no great loss plus I'm skint anyway.. But I won the auction. That'll do me should I have a bump or scrape or another break-in!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260000285409&sspagename=ADME:L:AAQ:UK:1

Perl? Something to consider though, is 'chat' which used to be used for establishing connections to remote systems. Try man chat or read here.

Aw come on.. is it me?