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I did order an Adaptor from Auto Barn,and was there when he rang Speco. And yes I was told it's got a Thermostat build in. See picture http://www.speco.com.au/acccoolers.html#sandwich

What happens if it runs too cold does it mess with anything or it just runs the car cooler? Your Fuel injection system will run rich. The Oxy Sensor in your exhaust and engine temp work together.

Chinese growth astonishing Thursday, 19 October 2006 IN THE first instalment of his new Chinese Whispers column, Beijing-based correspondent Clifford Coonan takes us face-to-face with the rampant growth underway in China. To witness the demand underpinning the global commodities boom, and see where more than 50% of the world's concrete goes, you need only open your eyes in Shanghai, Beijing or any of the other boomtowns on the eastern seaboard. It's an astonishing picture – you will see thousands of cement mixers rattling through the streets and cranes dotting the skyline, while finished goods pour out the factory gates. There are more construction projects in the communist nation than anywhere else on the planet. China accounts for up to 30% of global metal consumption and this appetite for minerals, coupled with India and Latin America's demand, overshadows fears of a slowdown in the United States. Is China's economic growth unstoppable? Certainly for the foreseeable future, no one is calling a slowdown and the demand for Australia's minerals and resources in the world's fastest-growing major economy is unlikely to cool any time soon. The statistics bear out a bullish view. Data shows China's business confidence index rose to 132.6 points in the third quarter (up 5.0 points on-year) from 132.5 points in the previous three months, the National Bureau of Statistics said. This is a survey of 19,500 companies and is a helpful indicator of the wider economic environment and macroeconomic policy. In the mining sector, the index stood at 160.5 points, which marks a rise of 3.0 points on the previous quarter and 2.0 on a year earlier. All of which makes for an infectious kind of bullishness in China. BHP Billiton China president Clinton Dines sees no end in sight for Chinese growth and is confident that steel consumption will continue to grow. BHPB expects 10% GDP growth this year in 2006, easing back only slightly next year and the following year and sees the growth rates for steel consumption staying well above GDP growth rates. Dines sees strong Chinese demand for copper, coking coal and alumina, and also thinks China will become a net importer of thermal coal for power generation. Domestic iron ore production is increasing, but much of this is driven by high spot prices and analysts say most of this is low-grade and will probably fall off once prices ease. The confidence of Chinese miners has never been higher. Late in September, Zijin Mining Group bought a 10% stake in Papua New Guinea-focused explorer Allied Gold for $A18.13 million. Analysts at Deutsche Bank see the purchase as a good fit and it's unlikely to be Zijin Mining's last acquisition as it builds up its gold and copper reserves. The only cloud on the horizon is the prospect that the Chinese Government will be forced to intervene in a more radical way to cool an overheating economy. China's economy grew 11.3% in the second quarter of this year, and the Government has introduced a raft of measures to stave off the prospect of overheating. The measures are aimed at curbing the expansion of investment, tightening credit and cutting the amount of land for building and are being driven by political concerns. "We are concerned about the pace of development and the quality and the effect of our growth," President Hu Jintao said earlier this year, fearful of the politically destabilising effect of a widening gap between rich and poor in China as well as the broader impact on the country's resources and the environment. Even this scenario is unlikely to have a major impact on the resources sector. Crucially, most of those materials are going into China's rapid urbanisation programs and infrastructure development projects. These are central to China's development and even if the economy slows, they are unlikely to be unduly affected. So don't expect those concrete mixers, cranes and simmering production lines to disappear anytime soon. Wrong Board! Sorry

Undercover probe reveals the 'buckets of money' made from speed cameras By DENNIS RICE and WAYNE FRANCIS Last updated at 10:56am on 15th October 2006 Britain's booming speed camera network is at the centre of a giant 'scam' aimed at making 'buckets of money' for the Government, the boss of a leading supplier of the devices has admitted. http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/a...e&icc=NEWS&ct=5

Britain tells the truth about speed Speed-trap cameras have been operating in the UK – and making a fat profit for their civilian operators – for some years but the government there has now admitted what this website and other sources have been saying for some time… Speed, and speed alone, does not cause crashes – bad driving causes crashes and figures released in the UK last week showed that only one in 20 accidents was caused by excessive speed. Yes, ONE IN TWENTY! Yet speed cameras persist to persecute people travelling at a reasonable speed given reasonable circumstances while the number of traffic cops on the streets continues to dwindle – and people continue to die. A speed-trap camera can't record whether the "speeding" driver was licensed, drunk or drugged or whether his or her car was licensed and roadworthy, whether its tyres were bald or its brakes, lights and steering were working properly. All of the above cause crashes but only human beings can identify them. When will South Africa wake up to the reality, put cops out in cars and on motorcycles and persecute the real perpetrators or the carnage on our roads – bad drivers in unroadworthy cars and minibus taxis?

June 22, 2005 It's big, fast, comfortable and can seat seven, has no direct competitors and comes with fitted energy drink containers in the front doors and even a packet of Kleenex in a special slot in the fascia – Ford's Australian built Territory SUV is here to gain ground in Southern Africa. Ford South Africa is the first national distributor outside Australia to get this remarkably different, fully imported family car – only three models but each with a four-litre, straight six engine from the Ford Falcon and capable of 182kW at 5000 rpm and 380Nm at 3250rpm. Impeccable stuff for towing! The cars are basically the same as the Aussie models, except for a bigger radiator to handle South Africa's higher temperatures http://www.motoring.co.za/index.php?fArtic...=751&fSetId=381

Re water restrictions. What gets me is, you can't use water but you still get a bill every 3 months.

Try some Sugar Soap, 1/3 mixed with water. Use a spray bottle.

So 937 means you were born September 1937? ← Bet you had your sock's off for that one... ← 1937 .....Holy 1950 , was 20 when we got married in 1970. 20 plus 36 = 56

This is where all the bad luck started. http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/index.ph...=32&t=27470&st=

I just tried my Car. It will not start. !!!!!!

Ford chiefs talk up Oz talent and exports as IosisX reveals more 2008 Falcon cues http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.js...A2571FD0007FB44

Ford workers prepare for job talks Robert Wilson 18oct06 FORD'S production scaleback at its Melbourne factory should not involve job cuts, the federal secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union vehicle division, Ian Jones, said last night. Monday's announcement that Ford would reduce output from its Broadmeadows plant was not an excuse for the company to cull its workforce, he said. "It hasn't been determined that there need be any jobs cut," Mr Jones said. "Some voluntary redundancies are likely but we'll be working to see that anyone who needs a job can keep a job." Ford workers would meet next week to approve the company's enterprise bargaining agreement and discuss the threat to jobs, Mr Jones said. Co-ordinating rostered days off so that the plant could be shut down, taking accumulated leave and adopting a nine-day fortnight were all measures the union would be proposing to minimise actual job losses. "We haven't even started talking with Ford about those yet," he said. On Monday, Ford announced a slowdown of its assembly line to reduce output to 360 vehicles a day from 450. It is the second time this year Ford has responded to falling demand for its Falcon large sedan and Territory SUV, after slowing output from 520 vehicles a day in February. Ford Australia president Tom Gorman said the company was looking at other cost-saving measures, but some jobs would have to go. "We haven't announced numbers but I want to stress it is not a linear thing," Mr Gorman said. "If our production capacity is coming down 20 per cent the workforce reduction would not be similar. We're working through all our alternatives and not taking a slash and burn mentality. "We are still evaluating all other cost reduction initiatives. It will take two or three weeks before we can finalise those and we aren't in a position to discuss them at the moment." Ford's plan to develop and export the next model Falcon, due in 2008, would not be affected, Mr Gorman said. The business case for the car, codenamed Orion, had already been based on a smaller market share for locally made large cars, he said. "When we look at our next round of models we've already adjusted. We had a certain set of assumptions for volume and we have adjusted those already. "I don't think large cars will ever again be a 20 per cent plus segment. If it's in the neighbourhood of 15 per cent you have a marketplace where you can make something of it. Add exports and you have a viable business," he said. The catalyst for the cuts came when large car sales did not recover as much as anticipated in August and September despite the arrival of the new VE Late model camira and Toyota Camry. Mr Gorman said Ford had been looking forward to the VE regenerating interest in the large car segment. "When people get interested in a segment they go out and do comparative shopping - and that suits us because we've got a very competitive product," he said. Large cars sales could still recover if petrol prices stabilised. "I still think it's too early to say it's not going to bounce back. I don't know whether it's a residual effect of petrol prices. Clearly petrol prices have backed up quite a bit - which is good."

Also make sure that the Adaptor got a Thermostat build in. Speco makes one.

Re, Is there a senior's section on this site? Just kidding. 1970 is not all that long ago, or is it. When I drive My BA Mk2 Turbo I don't feel old.

The Mrs did all the asking including my old man. Back then you needed to be 21. Now 36 years later still very happy !!

Dave, thank you very much for all that information. It's something I will have to look in to / explore. AAA+

I forgot to say it was an Engine Oil Cooler setup !! for brains today!

Has anyone fitted one of these. I,m about to get one and fit a complete system to my BA Mk2 Turbo. The big question is, where is the best place to mount the cooler ? Not much room left with all the in front of the radiator. If anyone done one, I would like to see some pictures so I can get a bit of an idea. Thank you. Measures 29cm x 14cm, 5cm thick (total length including brackets 33cm)

My BA MK2 Turbo, Original was 92C = 198F Replaced with 82C = 180F I used a TRIDON TT1 - 180 Got it from Super Auto Cheap for $ 12.99 Do not go below a 180F / 82C, or your Engine will run too cold. TRIDON Thermostat List for Ford's

Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants POSTED: 5:12 p.m. EDT, October 12, 2006 OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall. General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana. "The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices. ... And as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in Ottawa, Canada. "We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he said. Even successful incineration had its drawbacks. "A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those [forests] did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," Hiller said dryly. One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'."

Hi Fatbat, Seen this some time ago ! China's factories hit an unlikely shortage: labor http://search.netscape.com/ns/search?query...mPage=NSCPIndex

China's Foreign Currency Reserves Almost $1 Trillion By Nerys Avery and Nipa Piboontanasawat Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- China's foreign-currency reserves surged to almost $1 trillion, the most ever held by a single country, driven by a record trade surplus that U.S. critics blame on an artificially undervalued yuan. China had reserves of $988 billion at the end of September, the Beijing-based People's Bank of China said on its Web site today. That's 28.5 percent higher than a year earlier. The reserves are growing at a rate of almost $30 million an hour, mostly fueled by a gap between exports and imports that tripled to $102 billion last year. The government's policy of not allowing the yuan to strengthen to reflect demand for the currency keeps the nation's export prices low, further fuelling the trade surplus and flooding the economy with cash. Surging holdings are ``increasing the monetary base and boosting domestic liquidity, which could be inflationary,'' said Glenn Maguire, chief Asia economist at Societe Generale in Hong Kong. ``They need to let the yuan appreciate at a faster pace to stem the trade surplus.'' China's record holdings exceed the gross domestic output of every economy in the world bar the eight largest. They reflect a global imbalance that's mirrored in the $805 billion U.S. current- account deficit, itself fueled by demand from the nation's consumers for cheap Chinese imports. ``The U.S. continues to live beyond its means and China's reserve accumulation is partly a result of that,'' said Barry Eichengreen, an economic historian at the University of California, Berkeley. ``Another year where no one does anything and somehow hopes the problem will solve itself will only set us up for a bigger fall.'' Currency Changes China has recently shown signs it is responding to repeated calls by the finance ministers and central bankers of the U.S. and the other Group of Seven industrial nations to make its currency more flexible. With a more flexible yuan, ``the currency would have appreciated and we wouldn't have seen this reserve accumulation,'' said Qing Wang, head of greater China research at Bank of America in Hong Kong and a former IMF official. Premier Wen Jiabao has also acknowledged that reserves have caused a surge in the money supply that triggered a credit-fuelled investment boom the government is now trying to cool. Central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan on Sept. 16 called on China's lenders to prepare for changes to the currency so they can better manage risk. The government in April moved to loosen strict capital controls by letting companies and individuals invest outside China and allowing some outflow of funds. ``Too much money supply leads to excess capacity and this is what's happening in China,'' said Richard Duncan, head of investment strategy at ABN Amro Asset Management Ltd. in London and author of The Dollar Crisis. ``They've avoided a crisis thus far because they've been able to grow exports so rapidly, but this can't go on forever.''

It's OBD 2 We don't have a street directory under our dash.. lol. And yes, all cars by 2008 will be OBD 2. ← Re : All cars by 2008 will be OBD 2. OBD2-CAN CAN, or CAN Bus, is the abbreviated term for Controller Area Network. It is a serial communications bus for real-time control applications with communication speed of up to 1 Megabits per second and has excellent error detection and confinement capabilities. In other words, this is the latest and greatest technology in vehicles today. In fact, several 2003 and 2004 vehicle manufacturers including Toyota, Ford, Mazda, and others already have this system in place. Just like OBD 2 was mandated to be on all vehicles since 1996, CAN Bus will be required to be on all vehicles from 2008 forward. Why is CAN important? Today's vehicles have become so "computerized" that in order to communicate effectively and efficiently between the vehicle's numerous systems, sensors and controllers, manufacturers needed a new system to reduce the increasing cost and physical size of the wiring harnesses required to interconnect these systems. In addition to the cost, the increased number of connections presented serious reliability, fault diagnosis, and repair problems during manufacturing and vehicle servicing. The solution was presented and adopted from the Robert Bosch Company back in the mid 1980's. During that time, CAN bus was mainly used for highly sophisticated industrial machines, but by the early 1990's, car manufacturers saw it as a way to help with their communication challenges. For several years, car manufacturers have only had the option from selecting from four communication protocols: ISO 9141, J1850PWM, J1850VPW, KWP 2000 / ISO 14230-4. The CAN system provided car manufacturers a new high-speed connection, usually 50 to 100 times faster than the typical communication protocols, and reduced the number of connections required to communicate between their systems. At the same time, CAN provided diagnostic tool manufacturers a way to speed up communication between the vehicle and their tool. Technicians will love this technology because the increased communication speed will in the future allow technicians through their scan tool to view data close to real-time, just as they view sensor data today with their lab scopes. The CAN standard has been incorporated into the OBD 2 specifications by the International Standards Organization (ISO) committee and is specified under the ISO 11898 (Road Vehicles - Controller Area Network) and defined under ISO 15765 (vehicle diagnostic systems) documents. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) accepts these ISO standards because it helps meet its mission to regulate and reduce vehicle emissions. Since 2003 several car manufacturers have already implemented it into their vehicles, but CARB has mandated that by 2008 all model vehicles sold in the United States will be required to have it. Vehicles With CAN 2003 Models * Ford F-250 * Ford F-350 * Ford Focus * Ford Thunderbird * Lincoln LS * Mazda 6 * Porsche Cayenne * SAAB 9-3 * Saturn ION 2004 Models * Buick Rendezvous * Cadillac CTS * Cadillac SRX * Cadillac XLR * Dodge Durango * Ford E-250 * Ford E-350 * Ford Excursion * Ford Explorer * Ford F150 * Ford F-250 * Ford F-350 * Ford Focus * Ford Taurus * Ford Thunderbird * Lexus LS430 * Lincoln LS * Mazda 3 * Mazda 6 * Mazda RX-8 * Mercury Sable * Porsche Cayenne * SAAB 9-3 * Saturn ION * Toyota Prius And our Ford Falcon from BA on

I don't think it's ADI itself, but you see what has been done over the past 40 years by Australian's with the F-111 and it's nothing short of amazing. A real credit to the Aussie's who have persisted and developed what is known as one of, if not the best aircraft of it's class in the world, even amongst contempory competition!Lots of ingenuity and excellent engineering are poured into all this stuff and if we can make a quid exporting decent quality stuff back overseas, it's worth it! The results are more than just monetary Lumpy ← The F111 is and was an Aircraft made in the US of A. !!! General Dynamics F-111 F-111 Type Fighter-bomber Manufacturer General Dynamics Maiden flight 1964-12-21 Introduced 1967-07-18 Retired 1998 USAF Status. http://www.answers.com/topic/general-dynamics-f-111 But lets not forget the " Nomad " made by the GAF in Melbourne. 7.30 Report - 27/07/2004: The history of the widow maker revealed The Australian designed Nomad aircraft gained notoriety in the 1970s because of its poor safety record. But despite warnings about possible design faults, ... http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1163290.htm