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TrickTT

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  1. Pics of Do-lucks on a black supe in my garage. Awesome looking wheel:d. Got to recommend Gaz at Envy as well, got mine in record time.
  2. I'd prefer to sell them as a pair, unless I get good seperate offers for the first and second pipes.
  3. 3" First and second decat pipes for a J-spec TT, with a CW 1.2 bar restrictor ring (not in the pic). These are mild steel, they had some surface rust on them which i've cleaned off, and sprayed them with high temp paint. There is a flange on the first decat for the cat temp sensor, and I have a spare boss for a w/b O2 which is not welded on, but i'll include it in the sale. Not sure who made them as they were on the car when i got it, but they are a nice fit. Looking for £100 + postage, (paypal or bank transfer).
  4. You might have had a guy in an red MG ZR flash you as well. Its a guy from my work and he's seen you a few times, thinking it was me.
  5. You should see full boost by 4000rpm, maybe sooner, depending on your hybrids. Sounds like a setup/install problem with your boost controller. If the boost controller is turned off, or the solenoid is not working you'll only see about 0.7 - 0.8 bar
  6. I doubt your vectra is putting over 400bhp through the gearbox. The more power you make the more stress each component is under. You dont have to change fluids etc, but most folk on here work on the theory that its easier/cheaper to keep on top of simple tasks like fluid changes than replace engine/gearbox/diff.
  7. Looking at that switch, just drill a hole in the washer bottle at the height you want the warning to be, then wire it up +12v -- warning led -- switch -- ground.
  8. I thoughtthey didn't need to do roadside checks any more as the DVLA computer knew where all the untaxed cars are.
  9. Its an inline fuse in a clear plastic holder. It should be within about 12" of the main RLTC unit
  10. I've run a seperate 25 amp supply off the back of the ignition switch for all the aftermarket electrics. I just routed a cable round the dash and ecu area and back to the ignition switch in a ring main configuration, and i can just spur off with an individual fuse for all the bits i have - RLTC / AEM wb02 /avcr / gauges / edfc etc
  11. Dont assume its the alarm, greg, mine did it a couple of times which i put down to a RLTC problem. Reinstalled a .dat file and tinkered a bit and its been fine since.
  12. Just change the contacts from under the car. Its easier to do just by moving the starter motor into a position where you can get at the back of the solenoid, then rest it on the subframe, than to start removing clutch parts to get it out.
  13. Thats bad news Max. Like Jody says, if they write it off, buy it back and fix it up. You'll be back in time for all the summer meets.
  14. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive car parts not far from the object we are trying to hit. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing convertible tops or upholstery. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling roll bar mounting holes in the floor of a sports car just above the brake line that goes to the rear axle. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VICE-GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting those stale garage cigarettes you keep hidden in the back of the Whitworth socket drawer (what wife would think to look in there?) because you can never remember to buy lighter fluid for the Zippo lighter. ZIPPO LIGHTER: See oxyacetylene torch. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for hiding six-month-old B & H from the sort of person who would throw them away for no good reason. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against the Pirelli calender over the bench grinder. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering a sports car to the ground after you have installed a set of Motor sports lowered road springs, trapping the jack handle firmly under the side skirts. EIGHT-FOOT LONG 4 x2: Used for levering a car upward off a hydraulic jack. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters (from the above) PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbour to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-s**t off your boot. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit. TIMING LIGHT: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease build-up on crankshaft pulleys. TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and hydraulic clutch lines you may have forgotten to disconnect. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle. BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulphuric acid from car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought. METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw. TROUBLE LIGHT: The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off Phillips screw heads. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty suspension bolts last tightened 40 years ago by someone in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and rounds them off. F*@K-IT CLIP: "F*@k it" every time you drop one of these.
  15. So do I, and my dogs called Stringfellow. Edited: The first 2 series (the proper ones, with Hawk) are available on DVD from Play. com
  16. The fluid comes out very slowly, Greg. With the position of your cooler, you can just lift the pipes so the open ends are pointing up and almost mone should come out.
  17. They've just put these on the M5 as well, juncs 1 and 2. Not working yet.
  18. Quantity = 4 Part number = h15r
  19. I brought a new front seal (up the a-posts and across the front of the roof) from toyota last year. Cost less than £70.
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