DRTDVL

Got told off for having a 4 page long welcome thread so i figured i'd start anouther thread to make massively long and full of pug stuff as i know you all want one... =;-P Some new pics from the weekend, should have some action shots coming along from the same day. So expect a few photos over the next few days...

Spend the dosh and get a quaife... =;-)

2p long? 4p long on the iPhone... If you want to move it your more than welcome or do you want me to start a new thread? Bravo: I can make those movies net friendly for you if you want.

Doing photo shoot with anouther club tomorrow... So should have some soon

Doing photo shoot with anouther club tomorrow... So should have some soon

Right update time... Thursday night: - replaced master cylinder - bleed brakes unsucessfully - no pedal on drive home - replaced gearbox selector arm bush - massive differance - fitted new licence plate lights Friday night: - rebleed brakes - figured out how to bleed hydrolic hanbrake - swore at hydrolock handbrake - drank beer Saturday: - fitted wet weather race tyres for wof - GOT WOF!!! Ya bitches! - registered car - Swapped DRTDVL onto 205 - drove a bit Still not happy with the brakes, I think a overhaul or new calipers is in order... Over the moon about rego and wof...

the treadmachine will also allow you to cover greater distances should you want to say run to work but 17km is too far

I know in pug land, we can upgrade to the VW golf mrk 3 vr6 MAF as an "upgrade" as it's larger and flows better... usually giving only throttle responce

Depending on who you talk to a 1:1 ratio is perfect so the exact amount of air entering the system will leave the system. Generally if your 85%+ of the intake size your doing very well... If you google you see all sorts of ratios floating around... I remember vaguely reading about a drag team in the states that found a exhaust port 48% smaller than the intake port worked for them... They where an all motor class team...Â

If your dead set on going down the forced induction route, then when your getting the head work done see if they can increase the EXHAUST port size... As the engine was designed with N/A application in mind manufactures create a smaller exhaust port comparied with the intake port. As the engine sucks the air in there can only be a theoritical max of 1 athmosphere of pressure (typically much less then this) when the engine draws in the air, but it's being forced out the engine at a pressurized rate. Depending on the manufacture you can see a exhaust port runner volume 70 - 80% (don't qoute me on those it's been years since i learnt this stuff might be closer to 80 - 85%) typically of the intake port runner volume. As your now by providing forced induction changing the purpose of the head and you could possiblely develop a bottleneck of the exhaust runner size being too small relative to the amount of air now entering the chamber via the intake. Not that it really matters as it's not a super high level race car - but i'm bored and in an informative mood...

GO THE FRENCHIE!

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talk to Palmside about some Quaife yummieness

Personally i think it's rather stupid to retrospectively say - YOUR A RETARD YOU BOUGHT THE WRONG CAR!... Given that he's specifically asked about mod's to this particular car not some car that someone else things he should have bought, i think it should stay relavent to the topic at hand which supprisingly is modifications to improve the performance to a E46 318ti... The class he wants to compete in might also come into play... Given that with the 1.7x and 1.4x rules for forced induction 1.6, 1.8, and 2.0 turbo's all fall into the same group 2500+ or more typically 2000+cc whooo nothing like competing with 300+hp cars in the 325... Nothing like getting your ass spanked every time you turn upto an event... Given that he's also said he wants to swap the engine/trans out later the above is kinda pointless but i really wanted to say that as it makes me feel that much better when the 1.9ltr pug is faster on twisty roads... If you can buy the second engine soon then you can strip it down and take your time doing the rebuild and fit/buy parts as you can afford them... Beers and Pizza = great inticement to get people to come over and help with required work... I'd personally look at makin the car go around corners better and stopping better before looking at the power of the car. Then look at a manual conversion (all the better if the gearbox mates up the engine you want to swap in), i know with some other brands going from auto to manual completely transforms the car, the car is markably faster although there is no change in engine power just better utilization of that power. For hillclimbs the above would be of more benifit than any power increase you make...Â

Either talk to Kieth at H&R about a Touring Cup Kit or call Chris at Suspension Tech about a suspension setup for the car. factor in $1500 - $2000 for a very good setup. Have a look at Glen's conversion if you want engine swap... I'd say (probably wrong) the biggest improvement in performance would be a manual conversion...Â

not only do you hoard wheels you hord broken Ipods?

how much you looking at spending?

future solo mom's?

Really depends as to what you want to/will be getting into as you progress... and how long you want the laptop for... I would also HIGHLY recommend waiting a few months for windows 7 to be released, we have been trialing it at work and it's much much better than vista. (we have windows 7 running functionally on an old compaq evo p4 with 512mb ram for a joke... it's not that much worse than the dc7800 with 2 gb of ram and vista...) Screen res is REALLY important when you use autocad (stupid menus). We have AutoCAD, Revit, and lots of other cad packages running on laptops and running Vista with NO problems. The whole shakey drivers for 64bit isn't something we have run into at all. Depending on what products your using it should be ok. When your only doing 30 part assemblies i can;t see the need for you to be running 64bit. Run 32bit with the /3gb switch (google if you don't know - can't be bothered typing) and that will help. Set your max and min page file to be the same and a min of 4095mb, commonly recommended to be 2x the physical amount of ram... i.e. 2gb installed = 4gb min, 4gb installed = 8gb min. Also things like matched pairs of ram will increase performance of the machine i.e. using 2 or 4 slots for ram... Although in saying that the new i7 chips like it in groups of 3... I went through both the xps13 and the studio dell laptops for you and i personally would go with the studio... The graphics card is much better, the upgrade to the full hd 1900x1080 screen, alone would do it for me... plus there is a .3 of a kg differance between the two... came in at 2500 with office 2007 T&S ed. and being conservative with options... If you have the 13inch screen you WILL need an external screen for extended periods of use. I'd recommend a min of a 17, and with 19's almost the same price i'd say get one of those. The new gaming card are execptionally good, espically at the level he's looking at working at. People get very hung up on CAD/Workstation spec cards, unless your at the bleeding edge you will not notice the differance. We use them at work in our lower/mid-spec cad stations and they are fine! We've slashed a crap load from our expendacture just from that... We use the Ati 4670 (i think) and in every test bar the physics tests it was marginally slower than the fx3700... With the $1200+ differance in price it's not worth the money for the average user. If you actually read the specs/expect recommendations there is a lot of overkill in the cad world. Revit (BIM Software) recommends a 128mb graphics card! I've run pro/e on a geforce 4, fx1500, fx3400, ati 9500, ati 9700, fire 370 (i think), and a few others... the geforce and the 9500/9700 where not bad at all, very usable. No noticable differance in the fx1500/fx3400... (we have over 900 cadies at my work)

Running xp os via virtual machine is ok on a mac running pro/e in vitural pc is crap. Would not recommend doing so. You don't "need" a quadro card to rub pro/e and after compaitively testing the quadro fx3700 and a ati 4670 gaming card it wasn't that much slower except in the physics computations. Which unless your using the finate analsys tools all the time wouldn't make much of a differance. Depending how much cash you want to blow the ultimate laptop for cad is the 19inch alienware one with solid state drives and sli graphics. But in saying all that, most laptops with a non-onboard graphics (I.e intel chipset) will run it ok. I've run it on my dual core 1.6 2gb ram intel intergraded graphics laptop and part design and small assemblies where ok... On dad's dual core 2 4gb ram nvidia graphics it ran a fair bit better. Also don't get too hung up on 64bit also the only real benfit for Cadies is the access to more ram. The software is not designed to utlize it and can and does make it run sometimes slower (ptc reported upto 10%) when not working with large (think 1000+ parts) assemblies. Also dual and quad core is the same the only time he system will really utlize these is when it's doing a render. Go for a faster CPU speed over # of CPUs. We had tested a dual 2.8 quadcore with 8 gb of ram and a fx3700 graphics card (hp xw6600) and for the guys using Revit /Autocad / Mx / and a few others it was no noticable faster than thier old xw4600 (dual 2.63 4gb ram fx1700). The inventor and 3d studio max/max design guys found the benifit in the 64bit os for the ram. The other thing for the max design guys was the fAct max design will use upto 16cores to do it's renders on a single machine. Now we run a renderfarm (2 blade servers + other pcs (took a single pc 5 days to render the same project that the farm took 4 hours)) so it's bit pointless. The benfit of more cores comes into play when the are lots of backgroun tasks runnning. The os can split the off to other CPUs. In windows (xp onwards) you can manually choose what can run on what CPU or stop things from running on difersnt CPUs ie Pro/e on CPU a and eveything is blocked from that CPU. If you have 20 windows open I would question as to why you need them all open. 3 hourswith Bluetooth, wireless, and a CPU intensive app is going to be pushing it, might aNt to look at upgrading the battery or getting the seconadary clipon battery. Job = CAD Admin

There is a thing in the FAQ area... When you look at the address bar it will have part that says threaded, change that to list and it will fix it.

You don't own a BMW - you have a 3 4 page long thread about your PEUGEOT

posting on here is not getting you to the bar quicker! Be gone!