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Ouch. We're still just about below £1 per litre here...for now at least.

A parts washer is always handy.

Firstly, the exact cause of the Hindenburg disaster has never been confirmed. Secondly, like Coxy says...nitrogen, huh?! Pressurised nitrogen in the Hindenburg...cellulose nitrate...neither of these existed. The lift gas was hydrogen and the cellulose layer of the fabric coating was acetate butyrate impregnated with aluminium.

Well if your coolant level hasn't dropped than that's just how it is I'd say, although it does seem like rather a lot of vapour. Get a compression test and you'll know for sure...

Ah, classic 'famous last words'. Good luck with that. I can see the '17k US invested' part of your signature changing very soon.

I'm really going to have to get this done soon. When I fitted my front shocks I just guessed at the camber and was clearly wrong since there's a ton of understeer now. Ho hum.

To be fair, I get a lot of water vapour from the exhaust of my 16v when it's just started; that's just how it is though. Are you positive the two are linked and you're not just noticing things now that you'd never noticed before?

I'm not the man to ask about remapping as I've never had to have it done. Anyone that can remap a G60 should be able to do the same for a Digi II ECU though, right?

Getting older is definitely not all bad :)

A mate of mine had a white set of these in 17'' on a red Mk2 Astra GTE 16v in about 1998/99. They really looked the part.

White smoke is usually a sign of head-gasket failure allowing water into the cylinders. It's not normal for that to cause the engine to die completely though, unless it's a MASSIVE headgasket failure. Is the coolant level low? Start at the beginning with a compression test. If that confirms the engine's in good shape then take a look at the fueling. The K-Jet fuel system is very simple indeed and shouldn't take long to fault-find on, especially if you can find a fuel pressure test kit compatible with CIS cars.

I've recently had to get a KTM250SX motocross bike through an SVA test so my mate can register it for the road. What an absolute nightmare. It seemed like they were making the rules up on the spot to me, but arguing gets you nowhere. I hope you have a better time of it with them!

I'd buy it! Don't listen to the K-Jet nutters, you're wasting your breath arguing too. As for MegaSquirt it's a nice idea but there's alot more work involved, plus a lot more cash. You've got more chance getting it running well on Digi II in my opinion. Plenty of those MegaSquirt cars on Club GTI have been in project-mode for well over a year and still aren't running right. It'll definitely run on Digi II relatively easily and a custom map is going to be better than any K-Jet set-up.

To be quite honest, the first one's not *that* bad. I wouldn't have recognised it as a Corrado but I've seen conversions done a lot worse.

Well, like I said before, the rev counter is just a frequency counter. In the case of the 0 - 8k rpm scale it's a 0 - 267Hz counter. i.e. it displays the frequency of the coil trigger (number of sparks per second) as an engine speed. 8000 / 60 gives you the engine revolutions per second The '* 2' is because the coil will fire twice per complete revolution as it's common to all cylinders and two will reach the top of the compression stroke before one of them has complete a full cycle. Clearer? Probably not. I find it hard to explain stuff like this. I wouldn't be surprised if the rev counter gubbins from a Mk2 16v fit the Corrado clocks in fact (with a different gauge face obviously). I'm positive this job can be done easily one way or another.

LOL. Like you said, seems pretty straight-forward!

(8000 / 60) * 2 = 267Hz...so that makes sense. The question is: does a G60 rev counter (or any 7000rpm rev counter) have 233Hz printed on the sticker? I'm just wondering why the rev counter module has seven pins when it only needs three.

For those interested, the crash clip is up here. It's 22MB. The funny thing is, Plato mis-judged the chicane at Oulton Park in last weekend's touring car racing and wiped the front corner of his Seat out on the tyre barrier. His comment at the end of the race was something like "I guess my inch is bigger than most people's" :) I've got a clip of that too come to think of it.

I should have been clearer - I was talking about the Ferrari crash. The bit with the Porsche was pretty dull I thought, and Girls Aloud aren't the brightest bunch.

Give me a few mins... Do you want the entire feature, which will be pretty big and isn't generally that good, or just the bit with the crash and Plato talking about it afterwards?

The pic with the mountains really makes me miss British Columbia :(

Resistance = 1430045.45 + (30)(-18045.45) = 888.68K Ohms The closest preferred resistor values are: 1% tolerence = 887K Ohm (30.09 MPH) 5% tolerence = 910K Ohm (28.82 MPH) 10% tolerence = 820K Ohm (33.81 MPH) You may get away with a 0.2W resistor but it's generally not a very good idea to under-rate components. Especially in this case as the spoiler will become more active with the new resistor.

....even if your 'phone calls aren't :)

lol The plot thickens... I just noticed, while doing a bit of 2.0 16v research, that the 9A-engine'd Corrados have rev counters driven by the ECU. It's still possible that all the 'early cars', i.e. 1.8 16v and G60, have a coil-driven rev counter though.

More investigation has uncovered this information. It would appear from the diagram that all fueling, including idle speed control and overrun cut-off is controlled by the ECU. Not surprising really. All I can do now is get the dodgy car here and go through all the connections between the ECU and the system components one by one.