Had a quick look, it's a nice clean modern responsive Web UI rather like the one that FlaskBB comes with I guess. Shame they weren't able to keep the rest of the stuff going.

In an unguarded moment you might catch me wondering aloud about how to scale FlaskBB out.

Obviously the material on rr.net is subject to copyright even if they have removed it, and simply copying it off archive.org and onto another site would Not Be Cricket.

There's a wealth of information if someone wanted to do a proper writeup though.

Can you get to the old information via archive.org?

I wouldn't have expected it to eat the engine in that short space of time. Change it, inspect what you drain for glitter (maybe even cut the filter open?) and stick in 20W50 and see what sort of noises it makes.

Well I've got an MOT tomorrow, my power steering box is pishing fluid, I think I've got a leaking heater O-ring again (they were cheapies and they lasted five years), and worst of all there's an ominous tapping coming from the driver's side rocker box and a fairly lumpy miss... :-/

BPR6ES plugs after 17k on gas will be well knackered

What actually happens to them? I had mine out for a look at the weekend and they looked okay, electrodes not worn, gaps okay. I think they've been in for about 20k so I guess they're well knackered!

Thanks! Panic over though, I've managed to sort something out that doesn't involve inflicting a 45kg piano on unsuspecting forum users :-D

I need a wee favour ;-) I have a synthesizer I need to get picked up. It's pretty big and heavy, and you'd definitely need a car - and what better to ask than a forum for folk with big and heavy cars?

My plan is that if someone can get it from the guy before the end of the month and stuff it in a corner until August, I can pick it up when I'm down in Bradford.

Is it blowing back from the water pump maybe?

There aren't any faults stored, but the driver's side lambda seems to have less "range" than the passenger side - it doesn't appear to go all the way down to 0 or all the way up to 5, but it does switch more or less in time with the passenger side one when it's on gas.

I wouldn't have thought the lambdas would make a huge difference at startup since they're stone cold! One thing I have noticed is that on petrol the fuel trims whang up to +25% at anything above the slightest touch of throttle, so I wonder what's upsetting the whole thing?

Ah, that would work, yes. In fact I think I've got one of the slidey metal tube tyre pressure gauges...

I wondered about that. There seems to be plenty pressure on the fuel rail but I don't have a way to measure it.

Over the past wee while my V8 has developed an odd problem where if it's been switched off for a while it is very hard to start and will eventually splutter into life missing like hell with a big puff of oily petrolly-smelling exhaust fumes. It's like it's severely flooded. Starting on petrol only makes no odds.

If I pull the fuel pump relay I get the usual takes-ages-but-starts-on-gas thing. I ran around with no fuel pump for a bit and while needing it to crank for ten seconds was a bit of a pain in the arse it worked okay. After I replaced the fuel pump it started okay on petrol but started this flooding crap.

Any thoughts?

I'd be terribly surprised if you couldn't find a suitable thermistor and make up a connector for it.

Or just roll it to the far end of the guy's yard, throw a head gasket on, and drive home...

It's pretty non-deterministic. Something somewhere gets lost between working out what you've seen and what you've not seen. I can occasionally get it to do it but I can't replicated it on a test server...

I bought a cheapy Bluetooth receiver board from eBay, and grafted it in to the stereo replacing the audio in from the cassette deck. With an external microphone it even works as a hands-free kit, with reasonably acceptable audio quality.

My old set of cats had the guts removed and the side welded up. They had a weird "zingy" resonance to them that I didn't like and the welds were pretty shitty, so I cut them open again, welded a baffle in so that the empty box was blocked off, stuffed the bit behind it with rockwool, and welded a cover over them.

Instantly the car felt a hell of a lot quicker, it was a lot quieter and I started getting 240 miles to a tank of gas instead of 200. I can only conclude that having them there as a kind of "resonance box" really, really screwed up the gas flow down the exhaust.

Yup, that's the one. Seems pretty well-made too.

What a straight-through mid pipe sounds like

This was just a cheapy off eBay, 30 quid. It weighs about the same as the Br*tp*rt middle silencer I took out :-D