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

Central belt? You must be not very far from me then...?

Your mate with the 940, he wasn't from Skye was he? A friend of mine's young lad started driving about seven or eight years ago (scary, someone who was a couple of years above me at school has a son in his mid-20s and grandchildren in primary school) and couldn't get insured on anything "sensible" for a 19-year-old. They sat there with eBay open in one window and one of the comparison websites open in another, trying insurance for different cars. Turned out a Volvo 960GLE was actually pretty damn cheap to insure...

Hello. Late to the party on this one but as you've probably guessed, this is a rather different community to rr.net - not that I'm slagging them off, or anything, they just do things differently.

If I got jealous and banned everyone that had a tidier P38 than me, then this would be an incredibly quiet site.

Just to clarify the situation, I don't give a shit about collecting your PII, but I take all practicable steps to ensure that all the site data is stored securely. If you want to add links to your blog, social media accounts or your phone number, photo or inside leg measurement to your site bio or signature, that's entirely your decision. Because this is non-profit, GDPR does not apply.

The site is currently hosted in England. If there are significant adverse effects from Brexit I'll most likely move the hosting to Germany, either on a dedicated server or AWS. If Scotland leaves the UK following Brexit, then I will plan to move the site hosting to Scotland once it regains EU membership.

I can't stress this enough, though. What you put on publically-viewable parts of the website is down to you. As long as what you post doesn't breach general standards of decency or actually break the law, I don't mind what you do, but it's entirely up to you to behave yourselves. No-one has offered to buy the site or your data, and even if they did I don't feel any great need to sell out.

If you have any questions about the security and integrity of your data on this site, please feel free to ask.

I know your not supposed to sell stuff on the forums but

You're allowed to sell stuff on this forum as long as you're not taking the piss.

If you ever turned the ignition on with the throttle pot unplugged, there's a good chance it's learned an incorrect voltage for the idle setting.

What happens is, when the throttle is closed and the throttle pot voltage is around a certain threshold the idle stepper controls the idle speed as you'd expect. Off idle the stepper screws all the way out, and when you shut the throttle suddenly it'll wind slowly back in so it doesn't suddenly slam the air supply shut.

The ECU only seems to learn the lowest voltage it ever sees, so with no throttle pot on it'll see idle as being 0V, and when you reconnect the throttle the "real" 0.5-0.7V idle voltage will be seen as the throttle being somewhat open.

Unfortunately you will need some diagnostics (Nanocom does it) to clear the adaptives. You can bugger around with expanding the mounting holes for the throttle pot into slots to rotate it round a bit, that works too.

The cheapy Br*tp*rt gaskets I bought when I did mine earlier this year (in the snow!) looked identical in every respect to the Elring gaskets apart from not having Elring stamped on them.

I've had water half way up the windscreen, from the bow wave going through a hole that turned out to be roughly level with the bonnet. The biggest problem was the water running in through the heater...

All the usual suspects are showing them as "No Longer Available", and there's some comedian on eBay who is auctioning one with weeks to run and a starting bid of eight quid ;-)

The tool ;-) I ground a wee bit off the jaw so the collet could pass through. I tried holding the tool at an angle to let me slip one side of the collet out but only succeeded in launching the valve spring and "hat" into the kitchen ceiling.

I found I needed to "modify" mine a little with the grinder.