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« Reply #15 on: 29 May 2008, 18:26:20 »

I remembered that... I just wondered if there was something more pressing :y
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« Reply #16 on: 29 May 2008, 18:27:46 »

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What about the HBV? if thats leaking then surley that would cause some form of steam when hitting the right hand front exhaust pipe?

Paul  :y

No coolant loss...


Sorry James..... I did read it but just abit tired not long been back from my hols..
No loss of coolant so yes not HBV. DOH!!!

Paul  :-[ :-[
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« Reply #17 on: 29 May 2008, 18:31:15 »

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I remembered that... I just wondered if there was something more pressing :y


Not yet ---- but you know the old beast .... something will surface !!!!!!

Sorry to hijack your thread Dan  :-/
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« Reply #18 on: 29 May 2008, 19:27:30 »

Yeah, I must say James has been a god! think Im probably done with garages now!! so happy i found thi forum eh!!

Thanks all of you guys
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« Reply #19 on: 31 May 2008, 19:45:23 »

all sorted now!!! James and his mate came to the rescue! WELL WELL CHUFFED those guys are mean mechanics
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« Reply #20 on: 31 May 2008, 21:16:28 »

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all sorted now!!! James and his mate came to the rescue! WELL WELL CHUFFED those guys are mean mechanics

Glad you're pleased - are you still noticing the increase in power?

I've never seen such a cabbaged mess of an engine bay before we started -

The vacc pipe for the rear multiram was on the inlet manifold, and the breather from the ICV was on the multiram  :-/

Both holes in the inlet for the plenum bolts on the passenger side were stripped and there were NUTS on the underside  ;D

Cam timing was 2mm out on banks 3 and 4 and the tension was waaaay to slack - so we've had a good reported increase of power now that's fixed :)

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« Reply #21 on: 31 May 2008, 21:17:50 »

oh yes, and whoever worked on it last time couldn't figure out where some vacc pipes went, so they were all plugged with screws  >:( >:(


It's no wonder it flies now with the valve timing right and working multirams ;D
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« Reply #22 on: 31 May 2008, 21:32:29 »

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Remind me.. what were you after again?  :-[  ::)


Oh, how soon they forget  :'(   In a couple of months or so ...... front end upgrade from mixer to sequential  :)

Don't worry ---- I will keep harping on about it  ::)

What does that mean?
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« Reply #23 on: 31 May 2008, 21:37:16 »

Yeah!! One kick AS@ impovement! Thought it was ok before! The James treatment seems to have done some tricks!!
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« Reply #24 on: 31 May 2008, 21:40:56 »

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Remind me.. what were you after again?  :-[  ::)


Oh, how soon they forget  :'(   In a couple of months or so ...... front end upgrade from mixer to sequential  :)

Don't worry ---- I will keep harping on about it  ::)

What does that mean?

The system on GNU is an old mixer system -- far from ideal for the V6's ----- front end upgrade is to change all the gubbins in the engine bay to a new sequential system ( far superior, updated technology). Everything at the back end stays ( tank and pipework etc)
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« Reply #25 on: 31 May 2008, 21:58:07 »

Nope, sorry I'm still none the wiser. I think it is the 'GNU' that has made matters worse.

I understand 'gubbbins' though ;D

Can someone explain this upgrade in really 'thicko' simple terms and what it does to performance?

Why would someone want this to be done?
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« Reply #26 on: 31 May 2008, 22:28:03 »

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Nope, sorry I'm still none the wiser. I think it is the 'GNU' that has made matters worse.

I understand 'gubbbins' though ;D

Can someone explain this upgrade in really 'thicko' simple terms and what it does to performance?

Why would someone want this to be done?

Sorry ... GNU -- is what I call my miggy (reg letters). She has an old, outdated and badly performing LPG mixer system with one injector. On V6's ( which my car is) this system is prone to bad running and backfiring on LPG. A backfire can split the intake pipes ( which happened  to me a couple of weeks ago )-- or blow the air box or Mass Airflow Meter ( methinks).

The sequential system doesn't backfire, runs smoothly with no noticable drop in power or MPG, having an injector for each cylinder, and is generally more reliable and far easier to set up and keep in tune.

This is how I see it -- could be right up the wrong tree as all I know about LPG systems is written in this post !!!!
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« Reply #27 on: 31 May 2008, 22:57:24 »

Aaah, I see now. So this is an LPG specific upgrade.

Thanks :y
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« Reply #28 on: 01 June 2008, 10:22:05 »

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Aaah, I see now. So this is an LPG specific upgrade.

Thanks :y

Yerp -- sorry I didn't make myself clear
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