mad_pete

looks like the snorkel the landing craft defenders use to me.

Nige, go to the doctors. Anything that is big enough for you to rummage around in is worth a doctor looking at.

Each snorkel only needs to feed half the engine. Some people run quite happily 2.5" diameter for entire of 4.6. Depends how often you drive at max revs (and therefore max air required). 2.5" inch is probably enough 4" is massive. I suppose ideally they would be the same length to be the same resistance but as long as the engine is getting air should be fine. (exhaust headers need to be the same length so cylinders expel gas into the main pipe sequentially) intakes just need air. I wouldn't make one freakish long compared to the other but shouldn't matter too much. Filters should be the same type though.

I'd pop to A&E, you don't want it festering. Either that or put some cheqeur plate over it.

er yes.

I thought the clutch struggled a little bit on the freelander 2 and thought the auto might make towing easier. I think the SD4 is auto only.

GS auto diesel TD4 or SD4

I think the game was to see if he was strong enough to hold the lathe in a test of strength. Which is stronger ? A muppet or a machine that has the power to rend metal. Hmmmmmm

Kryponite ? don't be silly adamantium is the thing you need.

What's EGT on those ? 400 ? If you can keep your hand on the exhaust 5 foot from the engine as it's running I'd be surprised.

Well the limited mileage would seem a question of how do they know which is which ? In the extreme case. You have 3,000 mile policy but have done 93,000 miles. Yes but 90,000 were off road and and you don't need to worry about. How does the insurance company know it was off road ? Having had all the fun changing from third party to fully comp I expect they have had more than one instance of cars not insured for off road/ play days/ foreign travel and magically becoming involved in accidents / damage the very instant they get back on insured tarmac. In terms of 3rd party -> Comp I understood some people had third party, smashed their car up, changed to fully comp, put it in the garage for 3 months and then claimed to the insures with "OMG you will never guess what just happened...." I suspect something similar may go on in via some dishonest types cases like this too meaning everybody is then viewed with suspicion.

I must remember that trick, wait till it snows and then take a picture of my car covered by a snow drift to sell it.

Anyone know of a land rover ish breakers yard near Portsmouth ? I want to go and plunder some bits for a defender and over the phone I always seem to get sent the wrong bits.

Didn't I see thermal paint somewhere ? Same idea but with paint. Or am I making that up

standard tidy 110. If someone wants to turn it into an overland car they will have the money to do it themselves. Just providing a 'blank' vehicle will have most resale value. Although that in a a tidy rrc I would be tempted. I'm not sure but if that had the auto box with it that might be my dream car.

I thought he fell at first but when I watched it he was standing in front of the strap as he told hamster to floor it and head right. As the strap tightened he got thrown back by it. It was his fault and he was lucky.

I broke mine like that when I put the dished washer on the wrong way round

"The only benefit of abs is that it still allows you to steer out of trouble if you have room too that is. Just what is said above, I think.." Brake disc and pads are better at kinetic to heat than just tyres and road. So if you lock the brakes the disk/pad is no longer creating heat. ABS pulsing should in theory allow you to be closer to the sweet spot of braking which is just before the wheel lock but is still spinning and therefore in normal/good road conditions a brake slam stop with abs should be slightly better than without. As mentioned ABS with slippy stuff sucks.

I've had 2 range rovers. One was an utter bucket. I poured money into it in the hope at some point it would all be fixed. Wrong. Best thing I ever did was get rid. The other was a tidy example that burst an airbag, and had a flat battery, (and if it could stop leaking in water that would be good too) but it mostly works and I do enjoy it. So I'd get an impartial opinion from someone of whether it's a bucket or a tidy motor. If it's tidy think about taking a breath and a spanner to it there is pleasure to be had, if it's a bucket take a hammer and angle cutter to it, still pleasure to be had but in a different way.

I use it for mega squirt fiddling. Got a 2GB solid state harddrive, double din lilliput 7" touchscreen, some old motherboard in a plastic enclosure plus intelligent PSU I have unbuntu on it and installing the OS was a complete nightmare. £130 screen £30 PSU £20 box £15 Mem chip £40 SSD harddrive

"....although technically illegal....". I'm sure many car stealing oiks share the same interpretation, that laws only matter based on the chance of being caught......

At just ten feet, the car managed to increase its fuel efficiency by 40%. - mythbusters result. Air is fairly difficult to push out the way.

and bearing in mind in the US all they do is massive V8 rock crawling and that is the land of the law suit I can see why that would be so. I know it wasn't intended as an ad but knowing the KAM locking diff warranty is up 35" and ARB is doesn't cover anything non-standard I'd be much more likely to by a KAM diff than I was before. ARB have set up shop in the standard market sector so sounds good to me KAM are catering for the slightly modified market. If I was KAM I'd make a selling point out of that. ;-)

Seems fair to me. What is the alternative wording supposed to say ? If I bought a standard diff from land rover and bolted it to massive 37" tyres, a huge V8 and thrashed it off road for a day and then returned to the dealership saying my diff is broken can have a new one please they are going to be inclined to say no. Nail it down tight in the wording and then judge each case to see if you want to "I don't have to but just this once" fix it to prevent too much bad press.

I thought bank fire was pretty rubbish when I looked it up too. The injectors just atomise fuel near the intake valve and it sucks it in. You can get sequential fire but I think the timing is tricky to get exactly right and can do more harm than good. I think the idea is the air near the valve is fuel / air and the valve just sucks it in when it is ready.