Ray!

...or is a generational thing? http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/woman-robbed-after-facebook-posting-of-cash/story-e6frfku0-1226369659825 Is common sense (which hasn't always been that common) been completely flushed down the toilet? Don't kids (or someone who is a year or less from voting age) learn anything from the failures experienced by others with their postings? Cheers Ray

Well, you can certainly recommend the Aldi winch and not to go some places alone. Cheers Ray

Yes, my driver's side one was replaced under warranty. Cheers Ray

Guys, this has nothing to do with surprises or the like, but something I can't talk about until I know what I can safely talk about. Cheers Ray

I'm not selling anything. I'm more than happy with the chip. Cheers Ray

Yes, and something I can't talk about until next week, hopefully. Cheers Ray

No, much more complex than that. Cheers Ray

Admire away. Cheers Ray

http://www.geekologi...iest-most-k.phphttp://www.geekologi...iest-most-k.php If you've never watched Man vs Food, where have you been? Cheers Ray

What sort of info are you after? Cheers Ray

It only partially blocks the vents and in fact the vents will help it to keep cool, being exposed somewhat to the sun. Cheers Ray

http://calorielab.com/news/2012/05/17/tokyo-ham-cybele-human-genital-banquet-not-illegal/ Cheers Ray

Oh dear! Now we have wind and gum tree branches flying asunder! Cheers Ray

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9275545/Invisible-art-exhibition-to-set-imaginations-alight.html Then again, maybe I could create art that is as inspiring as that at said gallery. Now where's my old film camera? Cheers Ray

The same place that filled this in a few hours: Cheers Ray

Taken about 10 min ago: Cheers Ray

If the tree huggers were serious, this is the only car they'd be driving: Cheers Ray

If it's in good condiiton, I think it's an excellent price. The ST does have some connections under the seat that probably link to the electric seats, but you'll also need to find if they have the fuse connections installed. The spot may be there in the fuse box, but it may not have the terminals/wires connected. Cheers Ray

That's excellent! How did you manage to score that? Cheers Ray

The problem is that I haven't seen one Green scheme yet that has delivered on its promise. Lots of hype, but no substance when it comes to producing the goods. Everything just seems to be feel good, rather than actually do good. And to show exactly what has been spent on climate change programs (US only), here's a chart: http://joannenova.co...ate-since-2008/ $70 billion in four years! For what? And this is so typical of celebrities etc that push the green movement: How did he get there: Cheers Ray

Yes, I had to drop the max boost settings down a few weeks ago because of severe over-boost, but the tweaks that I did the other day to the max boost settings has improved things quite a bit. Wih the lowering I did, I was keeping max boost at about 21 PSI, but not getting as good sustained power on hills, so I adjusted the boost so that it became a reducing curve rather than a straight line and then just a severe drop to stop over-boost. I think I have a bit more headroom to increase boost and keep it to around 23 PSI, which I think is quite safe. Cruising to Melbourne, the Scangauge was showing a fuel reading of between 9-11lt/100km consistently on the flats (not that it's overly accurate) and even up hills it was showing between 12-13lt/100km and seeming to not require as much effort. EGTs were also lower than before. So it all looks good. Cheers Ray.

I think Top Gear made a better point about the Prious, without reference to a sunburnt neck and Jim Beam withdrawal. Cheers Ray

Drove to Melbourne to clear a few outstanding issues and used it to test some tuning mods to my diesel chip. Diesel chip outcomes very good. Melbourne is a bigger shit hole than ever. Only one in ten people in Melbourne should be allowed to drive, anywhere. Cheer Ray

That's why anyone who responded with answers such as they drive from Melbourne to Sydney, were immediately refused ownership. I actually wonder whether it's legal to refuse the sale of a good, based on some preconceived ideal established by the seller. Either way, Nissan has got this completely fucked. The Nissan marketing knobs think that by making the Leaf exclusive, they'll have hoards of people banging on their doors to own one (what 200 applicants?). The only thing they'll find is Jim's Mowing with the Leaf blower cleaning up the detritus. You can by a Tiida (who came up with that name?) for around $20,000 and with the $35,000 or so saved, that'll buy you around 23,0000 lt of fuel (at $1.50 current rate). That's going to drive the Tiida into the next century. Cheers Ray

To avoid any potential for inaccuracy contained in my review – real or unintended - I have decided to amend it. Since first writing my review I have considered what I really wanted to achieve from the diesel chip review; ie: focus on what extra, if anything, I could get from the Chip It performance chip. I do not think that the amendments that I have made to the review detract from that intention. One of the benefits of modern diesels is the ability to use performance chips, similar to what has been available for many years now for petrol vehicles. Diesel chip technology is far more complex than that for petrol engines because of the way that diesels produce power; air/fuel ratios for diesels can vary from 15:1 to 150:1, compared to petrol engines where the ideal ratio is 14.7:1, with only a few points either way for acceptable rich/lean configurations. The original diesel chips provided increased fuelling to provide additional performance and one of the first chips that I encountered was the Dtronic for the Di 3.0lt. The Dtronic was, I believe, a South African product, but it was fraught with lots of quality control issues and many units brought to Australia failed to deliver any performance improvements whatsoever. Eventually, the Dtronic faded from the Australian scene and around the same time, new chip technology was emerging from Europe, where diesel technology was many years in advance of what we had available in Australia. Most of the fuel only chips come/came from basically the same basic design and were packaged and marketed under different brand names. Under the skin, they pretty much all looked and performed the same. Variations began to emerge and the systems became more sophisticated, especially with the introduction of common rail diesels, where you could control not only the fuel pressure, but also the electronic injector pulses, as well as boost. These diesel systems seem to be advancing, like anything else, and more options are likely in the future. The one thing that ties all of these current chips together is that they are all piggy-back systems, that is, they work with the diesel ECU to modify what's happening at any point in time, they do not entirely replace the ECU, as is one option that can be done with petrol engines using a Motec, Haltech, Wolf etc ECU. Another option with petrol engines is ECU re-flashing or entire EPROM replacement. The former is not necessarily a bad thing, as it allows somewhat greater options in tune, though in a much coarser fashion, depending on the nature of the chip. Some say that these piggy-back chips are but a hack and advocate that a complete ECU replacement, an ECU re-flash (ie direct reprogram of the ECU), or the EPROM replacement, is the purist way ahead - were such available. In a sense this is true, but the latter option would mean that each and every installation would require extensive dyno tuning etc, to achieve optimum results, and why would you not want anything else, if replacing the ECU entirely or re-flashing your existing ECU? This of course would mean significant additional cost to the owner, as every vehicle would need to be carefully tuned depending on its configuration and idiosyncracies. No two diesels would be tuned alike. At least with the piggy-back systems, you get a near enough, which is more often than not, good enough result. So what diesel chip is best? That's not an easy answer, as it depends on what you're after, what mods you have done or are prepared to do and how much time and effort you are prepared to put into getting optimum results, as well as what you are prepared to pay. What this leads me to now is a review I did a while back on two chips; one a well established and well regarded chip, and another relatively new and considerably different chip in design and implementation. I undertook this review purely because I was cynical about some of the claims of the newcomer chip and was handed a challenge to compare one against the other. I already owned the DP Chip and was more than happy with the way that it performed and accepted the challenge. Chip It sent me a complete unit with no caveats whatsoever so that I could undertake a comparison. I was somewhat hesitant to post this but, as it's already appeared on the other forum, for members that come here directly, it may be informative. So, if you do decide to read the review, do so in its entirety, don't skip anything, as it will inevitably lead you to the wrong conclusions. It's long, but it can't be anything else if it's to be complete. Also understand that the review is completely independent and I gained no favours undertaking the review; I paid for chips (though as a matter of disclosure, I did get the Chip It for effectively trade price, which I appreciate, considering the time and money I'd spent on the review). Finally, both chips provide positive results for your diesel, but they do it in different ways and that's what you have to understand when choosing a diesel chip. Here's the review link: http://www.australia....au/chipit.html Cheers Ray