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If I'm right, 1 bar is OK for these engines but should raise to 3 bar as soon as you blip the throttle. Oil pressure is important! Bearings and crank journals that have too little pressurised oil on them could push through the oil film and cause real damage. On a high mileage engine making longer runs at the time (I assume you mainly do longer runs) I wouldn't bother to put in low vi
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It seems there's no woodruff key is needed, therefore, are you sure you're using the correct bolt with the correct torque?
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Technical Forum
Which one is the one in the judged class?
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Well, the good thing about this forum is that it's never been overly populated. It gave us the chance to get one another a bit and even though most of us haven't met in person, we got a chance to start respecting each other. The fact that the forum and a lot of its users re-appeared after shutting down and getting too much spam and shutting down again and... says enough. We don'
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Boys and their toys :-)
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Just an odo of course, the rest of the car is fine!
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We had an E39 525tds at work with 999999 km. Owner complaint: odo stopped at that number, he got a new one for free!
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And tomorrow I'll be driving an i3 for a night.
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I thought the starting price is 138000€, well out of my range as well. Laserlight is a 9000€ option!
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True, thanks for the completion. Bottom line is, any low and stable reading means there's a current running through it.
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In its sport setting, it is quite loud on the outside, thanks to a sound generator. Feels strange, needs some time to get used to but in the end you can appreciate it.
Lots of torque: turbo + electric boost + electric engine.
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Drove an i8 today, nice stuff. Quite powerful and flexible. Eyecatcher. Not practical (as any sports car).
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A fuse is a kind of resistance. Any current running through a resistance will cause a voltage drop. Put your multimeter in its most sensitive DC V setting. With open terminals, you'll see a fluctuating value. Connect both terminals directly, you should get a solid 0.000 V. Now, when searching a current draw, let the vehicle rest (modern cars need a couple of minutes, an E30 just a matte
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Plus when driving in REX mode is quite unefficient, 9 liters of fuel hardly add 100 kms to the driving range. The REX only makes sense when you regularly have to drive trips that near the limits of the BEV version. For much longer trips you'd need a petrol car.
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If I had the money, I'd have the i3 for commuting. It's quiet, fast accelerating, nice bit of technology (had a 7 day training on it, never thought a car could be that different from conventional ones).
We had the chance to drag race it against a MB CLS 63 AMG at a redlight, up to 60 km/h we were ahead of that beast. The driver wasn't really pleased...
Governments will suppor
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Ah those R4's... They had something special to them. Encountered one on the highway lately, Gordini blue with matching stripes. Bit of a contradiction, but still a special vehicle.
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Saw today at work the timing chain no longer is available from BMW for the M42. Time is ticking away...
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My only concern is... time... At the moment, the job, house, garden and kids are quite a handful... Not necessarily in that order!
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Nice Discovery Channel series
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This one for example
Aircrafts with this kind of engine were hard to fly and manoeuvre, because of the gyroscopic effects. They usually turned one way. I believe the sopwith camel had this kind of engine, without a throttle, just an on/off switch. Power was controlled by blipping the switch.
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Some spin the engine with a stationary crank, to improve cylinder cooling.
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Nah, last time I wanted to move it with a running engine it needed a lot of clutch slip just to make it roll.
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Looks like fun! 42 mph is quite quick in the dark, on snow and ice!
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Tried that route, problem is that the brake shoe is kinda welded to the small drum inside the disc (stood for too long and now both are rusted into one piece)
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Now fix my stuck hand brake rotors for free please. Can't get the rear discs off... Tried WD40 on them, hammered them until my muffler fell apart, lowered tyre pressure, added 100 kg to the car and pulled it with a chain block, all no use...
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That was my thought as well, could be he'd need to drive the car, depress the clutch and get some load into the drivetrain (on and offf throttle, sudden braking,...)
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Very nice indeed!
A Very Happy New Year!
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Generally, long stroke engines are low revvers, as the piston speed would go up way too high.
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