Steven – This is what I’m looking for. I expect blemishes as there is wear on the frame from cable rubs etc. I’ll see if I can find somewhere to do this in Glasgow.

Many thanks

Perfect – That is the answer I craved.

Many thanks Ferrit.

My twins, love em.

I am in Glasgow and partake in the odd game of Badders.

Did a couple of bonaza events years ago. Don’t know if they still do them.

Cossies for me everytime. Shame the class system messed up the racing.

My father supplies metal to the construction industry and has asked a lot about CE marking as there is a drive for designers to check all materials that go to site are CE marked. I started reading up on it here.

http://www.steelconstruction.info/CE_marking

And you can be sure the story at the other end is ” he had a device that showed there was no problems”
“oh, he must have erased the problems” etc etc.

Buying and selling cars can be an awful experience. Good luck that it comes to nothing.

Excellent, please keep us updated by this thread.

Your attitude looks to be spot on, your family must be proud. 🙂

Ferrari sounds like it might have some good compressor surge low down but an F1 car doesnt spend much time low down the rev range.

The reply will be interesting.

The powertrain cooling requirements should have a large effect on side intake area which then has a large effect on aero. Must have caused some sleepless nights deciding on intercooling power gain versus aero loss (if they are indead using intercoolers although I don’t think they run such spicy fuel that they would not).

Then you have bigger turbine – more heat efficiency but less driveable etc.

So so many compromises to consider this year. Great for the geek but maybe not the racing as it could put one design so far ahead.

Hora – MPG usually sits around 33. Tested the computer between fill ups and it was pretty good although the speedo over reads a little so maybe the trip meter is optomistic… Can get high 30s on a long run but you are really trying and can slump to 29/30 if only doing short town work and not trying.

It is a very under stressed lazy american V6 unit and needs very little maintenance. I never serviced mine for 40k apart from having one very cheap oil change and nothing else (also doubt it was serviced at least for 10k before I got it as it was a close friends). My friend made me feel guilty so it got a full service late last year. Still on original clutch etc.

A 4 wheel bearings lifecycled around 110k miles and springs are also weak although pretty cheap. Last weak link for me was rear beam bushes which have been done. Maybe ont that reliable but it cost me just over a grand 6.5 years ago so not complaining.

Mk3 mondeos are surprisingly good to drive for fwd and v reliable IME. 150k on my V6 and still gets rev limiter now and then.

My Friend’s mother is at the same sort of stage as you. She was given a negative prognosis, was dis-heartened and lost a lot of fight. This has heavily impacted her as she has just completed chemo but has had massive muscle atrophy(sp) due to not pushing herself to eat and having large problems with her nerve control so not able to exercise.

She has now had good results from her latest scan and is now going for radiotherapy. The problem is that she has lost so much control and mobility that everything is very hard and she needs constant care, wheelchair etc. She is now getting the fight back.

Please please do not lose the fighting spirit; not for the reasons of putting a brave face on and performing for others but to give yourself the greatest chance of successfully fighting cancer and being in the best position possible at all times. You will benefit from all the fight you can throw at it, of this I promise to a stranger.

Another story for you, I am sure you have heard millions. My aunt was on holiday and collapsed with a brain tumour. She was stabilised and sent home for urgent surgery. Over the time of a year her hair covered most of the massive operation scars and she got back into life. Then one year later she is at the dentist and they ask that she urgently goes her GP. Turned out she had very serious throat cancer. My aunt simply dealt with this as we all fell apart. She got herself to all appointments and kept herself eating as best she could.

She has now had a number of very large surgeries and radiotherapy (can’t remember if she had Chemo). She has trained herself to speak with what is left of her voice box and speaks well. She has no teeth and serious issues with her jaw as so much bone etc had to be removed. She can only take food blended and relies a lot on protein and energy shakes.

Yet still, there she was at the xmas meal smiling and enjoying the day, same as when we meet up. She has the all clear for cancer but many lingering issues. Somehow she doesnt complain to us, she is probably the only one that has a great understanding of life and she is my hero. I believe to this day that her pro-active attitude and inner fight was a major part of her recovery.

Fight it. Try to express your love to people and don’t beat yourself up should you lash out as you are no doubt on a rollercoaster. They will understand so don’t wallow in the dips. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start throwing more punches everytime.

Hip flexer(sp) stretches made a big difference to me. As did moving my saddle forward a bit from my norm.

Lately working my posture everywhere has been very good in general. e.g. trying to keep that good core posture which is like sucking in a little to zip up your trousers. I still fall into poor posture but I keep trying to work it and “zip up” when I remember. Sitting, standing, walking etc.

It is down to the invention of Sat Nav – a woman would never have dared to enter a motorway alone before it as they would be lost forever in time True story 😉

Well done Cotic.

Maxtorque – that is a hell of a project.

After fettling cars I now feel that once a project goes past being easily replaceable the fun is lost. If you are going to exploit the potential of any car you are going to bend a few along the way. Disposable income would help with my issue!

Did you do laps in the RS2000 after biking? – some good hairpins heading up to St Foy station etc 🙂

Mildred – love the comments regarding the Pushed Van R. I have a Pushed Van R on an old Enduro and it always blows me away how well controlled it is.

Did the volume reduction to an RP23 – helped a bit, then pushed it and now run it pushed with a volume reducer for a good tune for me.

Can’t think of anything that will have the same cheap quick gains compared to forced induction remapping where the boost is increased safely.

On some V tecs you can lower the V tec crossover to make more mid range power but then you lose more of the “Vtec Yo” kick feeling so strangely you would feel you had lost something even though you had gained power but smoothed the curve.

No Alps for us this year – all funds are being sucked up by legal costs in a house dispute 👿

Regarding worrying about the structure of Whiteroom: You can do as much or as little as you like – perfect hosts that ask what you want to do. Sorting us out with Pila last year was the icing on the cake. Ace holidays.

26 inch wheels.

So professional negligence is OK if your rates are cheap?

I think it goes back to what someone said above about verifying her genuine loss. Probably nothing as she would have bought the house anyway and the asset has not lost any value due to the negligence.

My opinions

Good: decending – Opposite to Luke I find mine great at all decending apart from very fast light rough stuff where I think the short stays make it slightly less stable but not that I would rate it as “bad”. Everything else DH very good and espcially tight steep stuff and playing in the Alps.

Bad: It is a lot of bike for normal UK trail work and does sap leg work compared to other bikes but is manageable. I use mine for everything and ride with people on the same types of bike so not an issue.

Mine does have a Pushed rear shock and although i did like the original 2012 shock it did have a trapdoor tune at a decent sag setting which you might want rid of.

Not sure how people get on with bushes as I can feel play after a year? – still to investigate and could just be a DU bush but annoying all the same.

I don’t follow the logic of the above statement but also don’t doubt your experience. Maybe it was to do with the rate of power gain/shape of the curve and not just big hp compared to big torque between your engines. Think this comes back to the amount of tractive effort at the wheels after the gearbox multiplier and shape of the power/torque curves as well as magnitude.

Going to be some mega computations going on for next years cars with all the different power options available.

Why would an LSD struggle with revs? It operates at circa road speed after the gearbox?

Good articles and good find on the la ferrari mule. Does sound like a new power train as it is doing a lot of venting while braking and surging when coming out the corner so might be on the money of an assisted turbo. Sounds like they are still working on getting it on boost.

There will be some funny noises in 2014 to replace the current exhaust blowing crackles in the bends. Dyson might clean up…

Horrible story – glad you are ok and great post for people’s awareness and thoughts. Hope they got a scare.

True, bad vibration as a result of stalling is not good for anything apart from a “cool” 😆 noise. I have no personal experience of a failed compressor unit due to off throttle stalling on car sized turbo chargers. On throttle compressor stall due to poor turbo/engine specification is much more likely to kill a unit imo.

I believe compressor surge has little to no bearing on turbo lag and is an effect of the turbine side. The turbo as a system is stalled by the lack of exhaust energy at the turbine side. The heavily upset inlet flow at the compressor side creates stall due to the closed throttle. You could have an anti lag system running full bore energising the turbine and the compressor may still be stalling wildly as is often the case until the throttle is opened and the system flowing correctly with the compressor operating in the right area of the compressor map.

Retro83s link shows it is a possible strategy under the rules – this does not mean it will be an effective strategy. I would love to see the data and how they use it if they do and its real effectiveness as a system.

It is a shame that race cars are carrying battery weight etc around but then some very clever people will have a greater foresight than me so fingers crossed for something good. 🙂

Maxtorque – please tell us more about the system. Firstly – What was the main aim of the system you developed and what problem were you solving?

Retro83 – good link. It is a shame once F1 systems are devloped next year we will not get good stats of what they actually acheive. e.g. If they are going to drive the turbo shaft – what boost pressure can they acheive with the system on versus off etc. Real world data which we just don’t get to see. 🙁

I worry that next year will only create a larger divide to the teams with more money. I am guessing the engine will have charge cooling like an air to air intercooler. The packaging and effectiveness will come back down to aero and the mega buck teams will leap forward.

I am having a slow day at work so…

What does compressor surge/”stalling” due to a closed throttle have to do with “turbo lag”?

It has been my understading that there will not be any actual electrical assistance of the turbo to physically spin up the turbo. I believe heat energy will be harvested from the turbo unit but did not know that this system would be used to physically assist the turbine?

I think the electrical drive part of the system will be used to fill the hole in the powerband below the turbo’s boost threshold and between lag periods as well as being used on top of the engine power much like the new crop of hypercars.

The new fuel regs are a shame as it would have been cool to see a combusing throttle bypass system basically working like a jet turbine off the line and during closed throttle periods.

Richmtb –

“The other issue with conventional turbos is when you come off the accelerator excess boost pressure needs to be dumped – this is where a wastegate comes in, it diverts some of the flow of the exhaust gasses around the turbo so it doesn’t overspeed and destroy itself.”

Where is the exhaust gas coming from if you have closed the throttle?

Did 5 years on the rigs in my 20s. I enjoyed the first 4 and then wanted to settle more after meeting a good woman and having a few family health scares that made it obvious that we don’t get this time back. I was spending weeks/months away from home, wasting days in airports, planes and helicopters watching time leak away while missing important life events as I worked on a call out basis.

I am now a desk jockey surveyor in Glasgow that gets out now and again with work. I love being able to call anyone at any time during the day, work flexible hours and know I am sleeping in my own bed at night. Everyone is different. The first 4 years were a mega adventure when I was up for it. Only you know what you want to do. I experienced the same as others regarding safety. It is an absolute joke and a very dangerous environment.

I shared a flat in Aberdeen with Msc PE students. Some of them went on to great jobs with operators. The key was to be at the top of the class and pushing themselves to companies at every opportunity throughout the year they studied. The entered all company competitions for grants etc, attended all company events they could and got to know the people that counted. The operators were very responsive to this and my 2 friends had a number of job offers. If you think a qualification is all you need for success then you will struggle.

We have specialist insurance for the house in its current state. Thankfully it does not state a temperature level; 21 is very high! The place would be a big mouldy cooker at that temp! 😮

My timer unit and the boiler frost protection don’t appear to work in conjunction but might email the manufacturer to check as it seems a little silly.

I have been thinking over those choices.

Found a good description of the frost protection on my boiler. When the boiler sees below 8 degrees it cycles the system water with the pump and monitor temp. This would draw any colder water from remote parts in the house as the thermostats are open. If the boiler sees below 5 degrees then it fires until 30 degrees system water temp. The radiator thermostats close at 8 degrees so should not take too long to heat system pipe work. Seems pretty good logic to me.

I will probably chicken out and leave it on if I know we are having serious prolonged cold spells.

Might still drain the other water outlets for peace of mind.

I visit the house at least once a week, just getting a feel for it as it goes into winter.

I am not proposing to drain the heating system as it can cause other problems, only the open outlet side of stuff which is not heated as it is either cold water outlets or hot water with no demand.

If it is only running on a set timed logic then it could cool right off on a prolonged cold spell when I might not be able to get near the house.

The house is already burst with damp, hence unoccupied. Everything that can be open is open.

The boiler does not have an external thermometer, I think it is only water temp it is measuring. If it drops below 5 degrees then it will fire the pump, the second it does this it gets further cold water from the rest of the system. As the radiators are open until 8 degrees then the system should try to stay above 5. Just not sure if this will have a real heating effect on the room volumes as a whole and helt to protect the other water pipes which serve outlets

Further thoughts, maybe only the heating water temp will not go much below 5 degrees but that does not mean it is enough to heat the room air temp so probably still worth draining the open system?