Dash Rendar

Okay, thanks James. Taking the exhaust off is not something I'm happy undertaking myself, so I'll be taking it to a professional. If it's not one thing, it's another. Can anything else possibly go wrong for me? Gonna take some pills now... Stinking migraine.

Undo the cat... But there is no cat?? Why would someone take it out???

Is it possible for the restrictor ring to fall out? I was previously only boosting to 1.2 bar, so I can only assume that it was fitted as requested. Is it obvious to tell if it's there or not? I've had a look under the car and all I can see is the joins between exhaust components. No boost controller.

Could it be caused by badly connected boost pipe?

My run of bad luck doesn't seem to have ended yet. I put my foot down today, and the first turbo didn't seem to want to reach full boost. It reached about 0.5, and then started dropping. Then, #2 comes on and boosts all the way up to 1.4 bar!! How can it boost to 1.4 bar when it's got a 1.2 bar restrictor ring? This behaviour seems to be slightly intermittent, but it's worrying me. The car definitely seems more laggy. Help!!

Oh I see. In which case, the one I linked to is completely useless. Looks like I'm gonna have to spend a bit more and get the tres-bling one from Paul!

So, if the hose from the rad only lets water through under high pressure, how does the water get back in? Or is it some sort of one-way valve?

I've just been considering buying one of these. This unit has four nozzles. I've just been speaking to the guy that sells them and he says that on a typical vehicle, you'd simply hose two of the nozzles together. The leaves two... One inlet and one outlet. He explained to me that the inlet is for the pressurized water coming through the rad cap, while the outlet feeds back to the bottom of the rad. But I'm only aware of the one hose at the top of the rad??? So, if he's right, then the home-made water bottle doesn't work because there is no feed back into the rad.

Ditto.

Ask your mate for the specs he's offering for £550. Then have a look at somewhere like dabs.co.uk, scan.co.uk or pcspecialist.co.uk and see if he's doing you a reasonable deal. The latter are very good for building bespoke machines to your specification. These days, I can't be arsed to build them myself because you don't really save any money... Not like in the old days!

Sorry to hear about this. When I got rear ended (two days after buying the Supra), my insurance company were happy for me to locate a couple of body shops and get quotes before proceeding.

Press F12 while in game. This will save the pictures to your 'My Pictures' folder, in .tga format. I then run them through Paint Shop Pro / Photoshop to resize and convert to jpg for posting on here.

I'm so glad this thread has been resurrected. Now I've got an excuse to post more car pictures!! I'm only at #4 in the list... Got a long way to go.

Oh right. True enough, but he's already set up NetBIOS (a few posts back). And DNS resolution will also work across the LAN without the hosts file, but the broadcast happens later on in the sequence. (Not that it makes any difference to the user!) I was just putting that up for info. Either way is cool. (Don't want to tread on anyone's toes!!)

Well, no you don't. Using NetBIOS names, it will attempt a broadcast on the LAN before it resorts to the hosts file. Check out http://www.just2good.co.uk/dns.htm and look at the sections on resolving DNS names and NetBIOS names. So, it should work anyway. I suspect the reason you can't see the machine into you've already connected by IP is because the Computer Browser service polls the network very infrequently. I believe it's in the order of several minutes. If you wait long enough, it will appear.

Sorry... Having a stupid moment. Ignore this post!

What are you typing exactly? What's the name of the folder you've shared on the PC? Let's say you've shared it as 'myshare'... From the command line on the laptop, type dir \\192.168.0.2\myshare See what you get.

Looks like the ping is okay. So probably an authentication problem.

If you can ping one way but not the other, then this suggests a firewall issue. But check your IP addresses first!

Are you sure you're pinging the correct IP address. You've mentioned both 192.168.0.5 and 192.16.0.5. The first one is more 'standard'. Also, if you're trying to browse one machine from the other using 'My Network Places', the chances are it's not working because you may have to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP first. (It works differently if you simply try to map a network drive or access it from the command line, as described already.) When you go to "Browse the Network" / "My Network Places", you are using the browser service. Unfortunately, the browser service uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP. So, you need to check NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled. Bring up your Network Connections. Open the "Local Area Connection" that you are having trouble with... (not the one connected to the Internet). Open Properties. Double click on "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" in the list. Under the General tab, click Advanced. Click on the WINS tab and then check the box "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP". That's it. While you're at it, check the Computer Browser service is running. Go Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services. Make sure the "Computer Browser" service is started and set to Automatic. With any luck, this will allow you to browse machines in the Workgroup and should also resolve your file sharing problems. Also, what firewalls are you running? It might be a good idea to disable them just while you're trying to diagnose the problem. Note: I'm not advocating turning firewalls off for more than a few minutes!!

Hmmmm... doughnuts.

Looks like your luck has turned for the better then, James. Thanks Nic. Here's a picture of the EGT gauge. It measures 65mm for the outer diameter. Is that enough to go on? Hopefully, the sensor and fittings will come to significantly less than a whole new gauge!!

Howdy all I've just bought a fuel pressure gauge, the type that fits directly onto the FSE or Aeromotive. Is checking the static fuel pressure good enough, or is it also important to see the fuel pressure under boost / when driving? Also, I've got a GReddy EGT gauge (that came with the car), but never had the probe for it, so it's completely useless. Anyone know where I can get a probe from, or am I going to have to buy a whole new gauge. Lastly, I want to buy an AFR gauge, although I'm not sure where to put it! (I've got the EGT and boost pressure gauges mounted in a pillar pod.) Are these gauges tricky to fit? I suspect they're a bit too much for me to undertake, so I'm looking for someone with the skills to fit. I hear Phoenix are good, although they are a little way from in Berkshire.

Thanks. BTW, I've ordered one of your FP gauges Paul.

It's a good point. But we still have a few unresolved issues before I get to that. Out of interest, how much would my old front cat and fuel regulator be worth, as I am going to try and get them back?