Simon

See that red one in his sig.?

I read it as "sphincter" but I don't think that could be right, why would you want a plate that basically says "bumhole"????

harasn you have instantly become the object of envy and jealousy in these forums I think Good for you! :D

I have personalised plates on my rolla and if I ever end up meeting any of you guys in real life you'll piss yourselves Bring on the first XR6 Turbo Cruise! lol Hope I will be welcome to come and perve on all your falcons

Wow cool, couple of quick questions- Where is the thread??? I'm buggered if I can find it And is this Martin Donnon or another Martin?

Far out, the list keeps banking up, April! The anticipation will be agonising

I think theoretically it wouldn't cause any major problems as the engine is MAP sensor controlled (there was another thread elsewhere where we were discussing this, can't remember where now though ) but in all honesty with the bugger-all boost these engines are running there's no reason for it IMHO

Thanks for the warm welcomes guys Ratt, the V8 looks and sounds incredibly horn doesn't it! :D

Not specifically an IT geek, but a bit of a keyboard warrior in the broadcast industry, electronics and computer technician Age = 23 (so still pay tons for insurance argh )

Hmmm...I think last time I checked it was around the $2300 mark from NRMA for me...I'm 23 from Sydney, and that was quite reasonable compared to what I pay for the Corolla unfortunately, damn yet another reason to look at trading up :(

Hey DZ., have you seen the Hyundai Copen car? There was an article about it in the Cars section of one of the Sydney Sunday papers today (can't remember which paper sorry). Little convertible 660cc turbocharged coupe, looks like a great fun car, maybe worth looking at if it comes out

Wouldn't quite go that far! They're both hot! :D As for the Ka...yes, well...hmmm...

Adding my 2 cents, there was an XR6 Turbo Ute up at Bathurst, out parked in the paddock with all the other cars, maybe a demo? I would have thought it would be in the Ford tent or something if it was though

Well don't any of you bastards go crashing your Falcons, making their premiums go up! :P

Hey great Lionheart, good for you, very pleased for you :D :D :D

Thanks DZ., I might have to have a proper squiz under the hood at the Motor Show if possible I think B) Oh yeah, AFAIK, the reason you have problems when replacing a plumback BOV with an external vent unit, is the ECU assumes there is a lot more air after the AFM which has been recirculated when you open the throttle again for the next gear, so it pumps in more fuel, however because your external vent BOV has just released all this air into the atmosphere, the engine momentarily runs rich until you start pumping a lot more air through again to even up the mixture. That's my knowledge of it anyway

Hey no worries mate I don't think this particular forum has space set aside for uploading images from your hard drive, you will probably have to get some webspace from somewhere like geocities or something similar, or sometimes your ISP provides some server space for you to upload stuff to.

Well, just quickly, there are two main ways (to my knowledge, anyone who finds any errors please correct me ) that the ECU can calculate the volume of air which is being pushed into the cylinders, either via an Air-Flow Meter (AFM) or MAP (Manifold Absolute Pressure) Sensor. The Air-Flow Meter actually sits in the path of the air-flow (usually just after the airbox) and measures the volume of air flowing through the air intake. A MAP Sensor measures the pressure of the air inside the intake manifold and combines that with the intake temperature to work out the volume of air in the manifold. Because the MAP sensor doesn't take it's measurement of the air until it's actually inside the intake manifold, it shouldn't be affected by whether the excess air is vented to atmosphere or back into the inlet. I'm going to have to finish this in the morning, I'm too tired to think straight now, plus I still haven't finished my TAFE assignment, sorry

On this subject, I believe the XR6Ts use a MAP sensor, not an Air-Flow Meter, can anyone confirm this by any chance? If a car already uses a BOV (plumback, eg. 200SXs and WRXs have factory plumback valves, excess air is recirculated into the inlet tract), replacing it with an external vent valve can cause overfuelling problems on gearchanges, however I believe it only affects cars which use an Air-Flow Meter, hence my question above

Pretty convincing poll so far... I think it will definitely have a marked effect, especially regarding drawing younger audiences to a traditionally older market

Hey richdave, you click on that IMG button just up above the text entry window, and then enter the address of the picture you want to link to, hence: It will end up looking like this IMG]http://www.ford.com.au/images/home/home_energy/main_window_09.jpg but with a [ on the start of it...had to leave that out so it didn't link the image again

Bathurst was pretty good, there was an XR6 Turbo ute up there in the carpark, and the safety and course cars were both XR6 Turbos as well...do they count?

Hi all, found this forum and thought I would join as I am extremely interested in what Ford is doing with their cars now :D At the moment I own a 2000 Corolla Sportivo, the turbo one in case anyone didn't know. No mods at this stage, and I have run a best of 15.4 @ 87 mph which isn't bad for a stock Corolla lol I will (hopefully) be looking at a nice Barra Turbo sometime in the future, in the meantime I hope to learn a lot more about these things and find out how you guys like them (I've noticed a few guys already got their names on the waiting list, good for you you lucky buggers ) So yeah, g'day, and please don't make fun of the riceboy in your midst :o