Morpheus

Oh yeah! Come and join my party? I'm the life and soul of The Popular Front of Judea. In the words of another popular British comedian, "The fun starts here!" Somewhat prescient though, don't you think, re. men having babies and everyone dying of heart attacks......?

That'll be me! I once started a bare thread called, "Discuss?", the obvious contextual intention, (as far as I was concerned at least), being for free-form organic chat where we couldn't 'leg-ally', (standing on precedent or rules regardless of common law or sense), get harassed for straying off topic and engaging in cross-pollination or referencing, (which, by the way, is how normal humans break free from the yoke of ignorance and broaden their narrow horizons, hence electricity for example, which was once considered the work of The Devil and in remote areas, (like Scotland! ), probably still is, much like channelling spirit is still considered witchcraft or nonsense even now by many in the so-called, "Civilized World", no matter how much sense it actually makes sometimes, often referred to as, "Shooting the messenger"). So simple yet so complicated if you have no grounding in basic principles. Needless to say, it didn't catch on, which is ironic since everyone is on here browsing for a thread that most closely matches their current topic of interest or they have no specific idea of what they're looking for so shouldn't care what it's about. It was based upon the corporate mainstream media's weaponized hypnosis technique of mass mind-control, principally developed by Edward L. Bernays, exploited ruthlessly by Joseph Goebbels and others by implanting the image of a deliberately non-specific saviour figure, (for example, Barack Hussein Obama), into the collective unconscious and encouraging everyone on the left and right, desperate to reverse 8 years of G.W. Bush, 9/11 and the subsequent Afghan/Iraq wars to project their own hopes and dreams, (literally), onto said blank screen or figurehead, with obvious to some but carefully crafted slogans and phrases for the consumption of the uninitiated, such as, "Yes we can!" and "Change you can believe in!", thus being voted in, (if you can believe that!), without saying a single word about what he'll really do when he gets into power. Things have certainly changed but most people remain stubbornly determined to believe what they want if it makes them feel safe and comfortable in the moment. Bless. "Don't bother me with your stupid facts; Life is stressful enough!". I wonder why? This is next-level psychological warfare and our basic subconscious survival instincts are not only being used against our best interests openly but with 'voluntary' experimental gene editing software developed, direct injection global mandates. Thankfully it's a sane world and that would never happen. Phew! A contract is null and void unless both parties are actively made fully aware of the terms, conditions, obligations or ingredients and their effects. I've simply tried to warn people about what was and is coming, having been made aware myself beyond a reasonable doubt. Again, this is how we learn. "Yeah but why on a car forum?" Well, you're not on all the others and neither am I. (BTW, Mod's please change the 'Submit Reply' button below to 'Regret Soon'?).

Nice 1986 XR4X4 Sierra Cosworth. My boss's 'rich' brother bought one new when I was an apprentice cabinet maker. It was the GTR of it's day!

52 today! Trump won the election btw. Deal with it. You can thank him later.

Right, so what you're saying is that I should aim for a more upmarket area like Skegness? Remote is what I want. I'll be making a lot of noise. Will need my own engineering workshop. I have no space here and I'm getting nothing done.

You never know. Nothing will cause more crackling than an incompatible product blend. They even do it on purpose to give a crazy paving look!

If you don't mind, what's it like living in Lincolnshire? I've been researching land and property up there for years on Rightmove and it seems pretty cheap around Boston and Spalding. Is there any particular reason? It's got some great public drag strips, I mean isolated, long, straight roads along the drainage canals. Just saw a little 2 bed detached going for £57k but not much of a garden or parking, yet surrounded by acres of crop fields on all sides. Nice long drag strip outside though...

Mine's still bone stock apart from the mod's. Where are the Mod's anyway? Are we self-regulating and decentralized now like the Chaz/Chop Autonomous Zone in Seattle? Speaking of airboxes, having owned two MkIII's before the IV, I broke an air filter lid hinge off by trying to open it the same way as I was used to. Must have been dark or I'm a dork. One or the other. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it is broke, don't fix it in case you break something else in the same general area. Saves a lot of double handling! That's why I waited for my water pump to wear out so it rattles about 5mm T.I.R. before doing the full timing belt and head gasket/decoke. I cannot stress enough how handy those mechanic's stethoscopes are! Bloody hell are they loud when you bang the probe on something. Definitely worth the £3 investment, I'd say. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ogquaton-Stethoscope-Automotive-Diagnostic-Convenient/dp/B07TBJYZ8X/ref=sr_1_45?crid=3VD0CMCVL7YTW&dchild=1&keywords=mechanics+stethoscope&qid=1595094664&sprefix=Mechanic%27s+stethoscope%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-45 After that will be a full set of Cusco coilovers and motorised adjusters with uprated sway bars and a carbon fibre rear strut brace that probably won't make any noticeable difference but looks cool as hell. Shame it won't be seen or felt. Or even driven.... I have the same front brace as our new members' here but in vanilla polished aluminium. I didn't notice that one either except for maybe some placebo effect. Need to drive it about, take it off and drive it again straight away. The 19" lower profile tyres/wheels with a wider stance definitely made a huge difference though over stock 17's. Night and day. We'll see what the Cusco G Sensor unit says once the whole lot is fitted in 20 years. Will I be devaluing my car to do the suspension work, since it's bone stock except U.K. headlights and front brakes and the aforementioned Cusco front strut brace? Still factory speed limited to 112mph too. I don't think the engine has seen more than 3600 rpm.

She's a beauty! A Black Beauty. Black Liveries Matter! I went to buy a black one and ended up with a silver one as the seller had it resprayed and whoever masked up the lower edge of the tailgate glass trim overlapped onto the existing paint, leaving a horrendous gutter rut when it was peeled off! Other than that it looked nearly new like yours. A word of caution in case you're a natural risk taker like me who sometimes just wants to see what happens and damn the consequences; Due to the oodles of low end torque, please do NOT floor it uphill in the rain on a slick, worn out stretch of tarmac on the way home from Sainsbury's after being hyped up playing Gran Turismo on your racing sim and thinking that your PS3 track skills will translate into actual road skills..... They actually do! I saved it from fishtailing completely out of control by a knat's whisker but not before suddenly aiming straight at the car next to me to the left on a dual carriageway as I attempted to overtake and then 90 degrees in the other direction toward the central reservation! It was at this point of no return (home!) that sheer survival instinct took over. It was skill or be killed. This is why slow drivers are a danger to the travelling public and should be banned. I actually failed my first driving test for going too slow; 30 in a 40. That and hitting the opposite kerb on a particularly difficult mini-roundabout and being told to pull over to inspect the wheel damage! Or was it nearly running someone over as he stepped in front of me waiting at another roundabout and "Not appearing to know what I was doing" lol.

How many horses do they add? ....and why is there another bloody helicopter circling my estate again? I must be one of those targeted individuals I guess. Would the deflectors help with the downdraught from the rotor blades if they chase me up the M1 on the way to my bolt hole once the sh!t really hits the fan, if you'll pardon the pun?

You haven't seen me. From The Fast Show; Dave's diets. "This week, I are been mostly eatin'..... cabbages." I thought it rather apt. 52 in November! Where did the last ten years go?

Thanks for clearing that up, if you'll pardon the pun. Speaking of which, does anyone know of a good product for absorbing Mobil 1 from my concrete garage floor? A bottle got punctured and leaked all over the place. I was going to use copious quantities of washing up liquid, water and a scrubbing brush which will work as a final degrease but there are powders and cloths for it as well. Any suggestions? I'd rather not pour petrol on it and burn it out but it's tempting....

Take two bottles into the garage? I just want to flush and go! Anyway David, I asked my local shop how much ATF I needed and the spec's he pulled up said only 1.5 litres so I bought 5 just to be sure. Now you're saying I need 8 for a TT.

Judging by the complete multi-year absence of feedback of any kind from owners worldwide, the Tiptronics collectively have a perfect operational record and are, (to all practical intents and purposes), incapable of making errors and thusly do not apparently require such modification. One exception is to the stupid double dog-leg gate that I still can't get used to after nearly ten years and the clunky steering wheel shift buttons that somehow manage to defy the laws of Newtonian Mechanics and actually make driving a fully automatic transmission seem like hard work yet are considerably less rewarding. Yeah, apart from that, they work really well as they are!

You said you'd be replacing them but fwiw the seals all look good and the hose connector threads are clean. I plugged them with twisted kitchen towel years ago and removed it with pliers, a wire pipe cleaner and a vacuum so there shouldn't be any rust inside the cylinder bores but it would be a good idea to connect them up and force the pistons out under fluid pressure to clean up the exposed cylinder walls behind the pads where they normally bind. I can reduce them to bare metal with rust remover if you're going to paint them but they'll need to soak for a couple of days. You can't get into the corners with brushes. Maybe sandblasting would do it but there's no need with EvapoRust or Azure liquid. Anyway, message me for my address and you can pick them up whenever you like. I'm not looking for anything for them unless you're feeling generous. I've also got a set of 17" Toyota wheels that I intended to fit with winter tyres but won't get round to it. U.K. 4 pot calipers will fit inside them.

Ok, sorry for the delay, I've just given the calipers a good wire brushing and will upload some photos if I can remember how to do it in the next post. They're complete except one side is missing the steel backing plates, springs and pads that you probably don't want anyway. I'll throw in a new pair of wire pad separator springs from a MkIII.

Hi, I have an old pair from my '97 RZ-S that need a good soak in EvapoRust which I could do first. Not sure about the carriers though, (sliders and bolts or the whole bracket assemblies?), as it was a few years ago that I replaced them with U.K.'s and can't remember what they looked like. They're in the shed. Whereabouts in Hertfordshire are you? I'm in Hemel Hempstead, M1 Junction 8 plus 2 miles.

Definitely digging dat dipped dash display decoration dude. Dashtastic! How come all your body panels are the same colour as each other? Is that normal?

Someone used to drive past my workplace a couple of years ago in a V10 M5 and it was the most incredible engine note I've heard outside of Santa Pod. He liked to give it some beans too. Awesome. This stock one sounds lame in comparison to how it could with an aftermarket exhaust but then you're waking up your neighbours like the oyks we get round here on their quad bikes and mopeds that should seriously not be allowed to breed......

It's funny how we go through phases thinking that certain things look great when we're younger and how full body kits are so much better than stock but as I age, (50 in November and still 14 mentally!), I have come to the conclusion that stock is the way to go except for wheels and only then since they're too narrow an offset and make it handle like a bus. You need really good taste not to ruin it but again, it's your car. I would buy the spoiler if you sold it as I always thought that it was what made these cars look so awesome in the first place, especially from the angle that your car is seen from in your thumbnail. Mine is spoilerless but maybe a little too sleepy and no-one even looks at it. Not that I care what every single person I drive past thinks, of course........... I mean, I'm not that vain.

I agree. I just wrote this post elaborating upon the possible issue and you beat me to it.... Hmmm, this sounds very top endy, aluminium/metallic and head/cam related to me, like Tricky just said, though rather than a missing shim, I would guess at an underperforming spring, (causing bad valve float and hammering), which might also account for the lack of static compression. You might even have an exhaust valve seat disintegrating, some of which went through the old oil pump and......... required a new oil pump? Removal of the cam covers would be a very good idea...... What was wrong with the old pump and was metallic debris found in the sump? The precise location of the presumably metallic collision causing the noise should be identifiable with a mechanic's stethoscope held against the head and block or at least some idea with your hand on the spark plug and timing cover/s. A longer video would also help but I can understand your reluctance to rev' it for too long. It certainly doesn't sound like any short block issue to me unless it's telegraphing up from the pistons or rods into the head and covers but with an iron block it will be less hollow sounding with a lower pitch. Also, I'm sure it would have been as bad before the service if it was a rod cap coming loose, unless the mechanic thrashed the absolute living bejesus out of it in your absence....... Nah, they never do that.... especially not in a Supra! I'm sure you're only dealing with a rubbing bolt head on a timing cover or something mild, (unlikely actually except in the fan shroud example where centrifugal force increases contact with engine rpm) but if you're really unlucky the crank bearings have been destroyed by a valve seat that fell out, due to a lack of valve lash from an out of spec' shim, (too thick or high), causing an even further worn seat which allowed exhaust gasses to increasingly bypass the valve, overheat and crack the head, (thus allowing the seat to fall out or break apart and go through the engine and pump). Basically, if there's not enough valve lash in an overhead cam engine like this due to worn or eroded exhaust seats, (as the inlets don't experience the much higher temperatures flowing through the open valves and wear anything like as much), the seat will begin to overheat and disintegrate due to ignition and possibly knocking level temperatures exiting the not quite closed valve. Now, I'm not suggesting that this noise is detonation or 'knocking' which is more of a 'pinking' at low rev's and only in an overheated engine but as a potential symptom of knocking which will also be encouraged by a super hot and/or worn thin exhaust valve which is no longer making full contact with the seat upon closure and cooling properly between cycles. Valves spend most of their time closed which allows them to cool in contact with their respective seats which is why race engines are fitted with copper beryllium or the healthier to machine copper non-beryllium seats to aid in wicking away heat from the exhaust valves to reduce wear and failure. Again, hopefully it's nothing serious but a new oil pump speaks volumes to me and fully diagnosing the cause of that failure is your first priority or your crank is potentially being scored by embedded foreign objects, e.g. valve seat material and oil pump compression gear teeth. Sent from my AKG K702 headphones, (which are for your sake, hopefully 'king useless for diagnosing engine problems!)

Be careful using Confused.com and potentially others like them as I had at least 9 searches registered on my credit file a day after obtaining a list of quotes at the end of April and subsequently failed a loan application with a perfect credit score of 999 points. Fwiw, my usual broker, Adrian Flux were cheapest at half what the others were apart from one other I can't remember. I could have paid £318 but added optional items including paying by installments up to £390 Fully Comprehensive with 9+ years no claims and I'm 48 with a clean license in Hemel Hempstead, Herts. driving a garaged, unmodified (apart from 19" Jade R wheels and a Cusco front strut brace), factory 114mph speed restricted, imported 1997 TT VVTi Tiptronic. (Obviously I don't drive it in the garage as that would be silly. I mean, I do drive it into the garage, ermm, I mean enough to get it inside the garage and then I stop before I hit the back wall. I did however bump a Ford Granada into my garage once. I swear, it just came out of nowhere! ).

Blame the joyriders in Luton. A work colleague recently showed me a photo on his phone of another car that bounced off a house right in front of him. He says it happens all the time where he lives. Ever since corporal punishment was abolished the country has gone to hell in a hand basket with all these Caesarean Section, never had to fight for their lives during birth so they don't appreciate anything, don't even know they're born because technically they weren't, crisp eating, namby pamby, oyty toyty, don't touch my angry pussy wussy, single parented Millennials terrorizing the police and there's not a damned thing they can do about it. That's why we voted to leave the Liberal Leftist, Marxist Communist E.U. Nanny Superstate.

We're assuming that you've begun with the basics and disconnected then reconnected the battery and not taken for granted that it's got good contacts? Sounds like your ECU could have a bad ground connection. Don't ask me where it is but it could screw everything up randomly depending upon humidity and two weeks ago it rained a lot down here in Hertfordshire so I would bet that you had more than us in Yorkshire. Also the Idle speed control valve, (if we even have them? If not, the 'modern' equivalent) and throttle/cam position sensors etc. could be issues. It would be worth checking the cam belt timing sprockets in case you've jumped a tooth but my money would be on the idle control side of things. A few years ago you'd have been inundated with help. I haven't logged on in ages but it seems very quiet around here.

Good to hear that things are improving and thought that this might be of interest; Dear Daily Health Member, Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed when individuals exhibit characteristic behaviours that include repetitive actions, decreased social interactions, and impaired communication. Curiously, many people who suffer with autism also suffer from gastrointestinal (GI) problems, like abdominal cramps and constipation. The mainstream is still slow to catch onto the fact that overall health and well-being starts with a healthy gut. Instead of promoting a balanced and healthy diet as the foundation for good health and combatting diseases, like diabetes, heart disease and even depression, doctors continue to push drugs as a first-line of defence. Getting the right balance A study, published in the journal Cell, turned heads and dropped jaws all across the autism community, when the researchers from the California Institute of Technology concluded that they have successfully REVERSED the most common symptoms of autism in mice with nothing more than a simple probiotic! The researchers noticed that mice with symptoms of autism all had one thing in common — they were suffering from "leaky guts" — leaky gut syndrome allows waste particles to pass from the intestine into the bloodstream. For the study, the researchers began feeding the mice with autism a steady diet of Bacteroides fragilis, a common probiotic for animals. This probiotic regimen helped to heal their leaky guts in no time. But the real magic began, when the researchers noted that the symptoms of autism seemed to disappear almost overnight! The mice were less anxious, more willing to socialise and less obsessed with repetitive tasks. Commenting on the results of the study, Professor of Biology, Sarkis K. Mazmanian, said: "Traditional research has studied autism as a genetic disorder and a disorder of the brain, but our work shows that gut bacteria may contribute to autism spectrum disorder symptoms in ways that were previously unappreciated. Gut physiology appears to have effects on what are currently presumed to be brain functions." Of course, this was an animal study and it's too early to say if the same results will be replicated in human trials. But the link between autism and the gut makes perfect sense. We've known for ages that people with autism are more likely to suffer from gastrointestinal disorders. However, a more recent human study strengthens the gut brain connection and its effect on behavioural problems. A study, published in the journal Pediatric Research, evaluated 75 infants who were randomized to either receive a specific probiotic, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, or a placebo during the first six months of life. The study then followed these kids for the next 13 years. At age 13 years, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or autistic spectrum, was diagnosed in 17 per cent of the children in the placebo group and none in the group receiving the probiotic. The researchers concluded that "probiotic supplementation early in life may reduce the risk of neuropsychiatric disorder development later in childhood." It seems to me that we are only just beginning to realise the importance of maintaining a healthy balance of good gut bacteria... Until next time, Francois Lubbe Editor