Shyam

17 hours ago, maddox710 said:

Stock tmic isn't really good enough for the stock ct9 mate I'd get a rx7 tmic they'e loads bbetter 

Ah right, it's not even stock no more mate...CT9 hybrid built by Liam at Midland Turbos. I suppose I'm definitely going to need better cooling then...

16 hours ago, Walker96 said:

Have my rx7 tmic still if you still want it.....

Really want it pal but I've had an offer accepted on a house since we spoke about it and my missis aint letting me spend any money on car parts! Another reason I'm using hose pipe! if you can do anything with the price on a one time offer then hit me up with a PM buddy, I'll see what I can do. Like I said, I can collect with cash on collection.

3 hours ago, 5T4R7ET N/A said:

Ideally a front mount is what you want. The top mounts a prone to heat soak because of the location of them.

Yeah I get that heat rises and it soaks into the intercooler. My concern is that my hotpipe goes directly up and over my ramhorn manifold. As a result, the air being accelerated from the turbo into the intercooler is going to be warmer than with the stock arrangement. Would that be an issue? Or will the intercooler cooling will be sufficient enough to cool it down enough before the air enters the engine?

2 hours ago, gorganl2000 said:

can you may be wrap the inter-cooler pipe with heat reflective material?

Yeah I'm going to do that. I also won't be using a hose pipe, that was just short term to draft up one length I need and so I can move it around lol.

Good evening people,

So i spend this weekend fitting my hybrid turbo, manifold and downpipe. I'm having to run my intercooler hotpipe like 1.5 inch away from manifold with it having ramhorn geometry. Is this bad for the engine? I'm assuming it will effect performance??

Thanks

2 month ban and a couple hundred quid fine!? fakin hell, your laughing. They'd have definitely thrown the book at me and locked me up behind bars, 100%.

Its cus you got blonde hair n blue eyes n the establishment are fukin nazis. haha ;) 

Thanks Callum! Been offered some without rails.. Was wondering if I could adapt my Glanza rails to the GT seats...

Aup dudes,

Hope all is well. Can anyone tell me if Glanza EP91 rails can bolt up to GT EP82 seats?

Thanks

Aup mate, do these recline back and forth for rear seat entry?

@Calum122 It is a lot more complicated like you say but that is the broken down version of what I understand of it. It becomes harder to mine when more people jump on the bandwagon and squash the verification.

Haha I like your imagination.. Have you seen the movie 'Pi' (1998) ?

40 minutes ago, Ollieh17 said:

I did put 'was'. Still against the point, sterling was developed against something of value. It's built up that strength and now has no real risk of every dropping off face of the earth (within a reasonable time). It's not like you can go into a shop and they refuse to take sterling...most places even take sterling abroad!!

You'd be surprised mate. You can't cause inflation with decentralized currencies. You can't create debt out of thin air (interest) with decentralized money. You can't print more of the stuff when it runs out. In-fact, I reckon centralized currency will fall much sooner than decentralized currency. Look at how much the bitcoin has accelerated in value compared to pound sterling? is it because the value of bitcoin has gone up or because the value of centralized currencies have gone down? The more money your country prints, the less valuable and stable your money becomes. With cryptocurrencies (well Bitcoin atleast) the amount released into the public domain is a fixed number. (just like theres a fixed amount of Gold in the world). I think there's a total of around 20 million Bitcoins out there. The key is that it can be divided indefinitely so that it remains stable and grows.

32 minutes ago, Calum122 said:

Right, again to make my point WHAT are you allowing your computer to calculate. WHAT is the maths your computer is performing. Forget about transactions, block chains, public records and coins for the moment.

 

Someone is using your computer to calculate some mathematical equation, which is never really explained. Effectively the bit coin mining community is just one massively distributed bot net, of which people gladly accept. Who actually understands what calculations your computer is performing. That is the point I am trying to raise, and the point I find incredibly shady.

I don't know what mystery mathematical formula your speaking about. It can't be a random formula which supposedly makes you money out of thin air. It has to be related to the model for it to work. It basically follows where the money went through the internet (lots of different scripts/codes that the GPU processes etc) and verifying the transactions.The maths is in how your GPU processes that information and verifies transactions. Every crypto transaction requires a fee to be paid. The higher the fee, the quicker the money moves. Your GPU the verify this transaction and make a small percentage of the fee.

Just now, Calum122 said:

@Shyam Yes I understand all the Jargon words. But the bit no one seems to be able to explain, is what is the Block chain calculating. That's the bit shrouded in mystery. It has to be calculating something worth while, otherwise what would be the point.

The Blockchain itself doesn't calculate anything. The Blockchain is the data of all previous transactions. i.e for Ethereum, all the blockchain data you will download will be for smart contracts.

It's your GPU that does the calculating. The GPU accounts for and verifies all the previous transactions/data in the 'blockchain'.

On 12/13/2017, 9:36:56, Ollieh17 said:

Sterling value was backed by gold reserves nothing like bitcoin.

Unfortunately it's no longer backed by Gold. We are now living in a time where our money is backed by petroleum.

In 1933, President Richard Nixon announces that US will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value. Therefore abandoning the gold standard.

During The Great Depression (1929-1939), most countries were forced to remove the gold standard from their currencies; including UK, in 1931.

You'd think this would be common knowledge but it's one of those things they want to erase from history...

27 minutes ago, Ollieh17 said:

It doesnt really have any value. The value has come about by demand. Think of it like a shitty pointless jdm optional extra,deep down its worth bugger all but the demand is there to put the value up.Far more likely to come crashing down than the pound etc

lool funny comparison still.

9 minutes ago, Calum122 said:

@Shyam Cool. I appreciate you writing that, but that doesn't tell me what it is you are actually calculating. That's the thing that has value to someone. 

1 hour ago, Shyam said:

Basically, your using GPU power for 24/7 accounting of the blockchain and getting paid a little tiny bit each time for your services.

I'm sorry dude, I don't know how else to explain it. Hope it makes slightly more sense then before anyway.

1 hour ago, maddox710 said:

Basically to make it worth your time need a computer with a graphics card equivalent to a nvidia gtx 1070ti(£360+) or above with a efficient power supply. Obviously a big powerful gpu consumes alot of power so you need to Make sure your not paying out more in your electricity bill than your actually making in crypto currency 

 

I'm only using a GTX1060 6GB card and that gives me a hash rate of 20. Doing a little guinea pig experiment before invest in bigger build. The readon graphics cards are better value for hash rate and you can install multiple cards onto many motherboards to increase that. Yes exactly William mate, you need to calculate the power consumption as it's consumes a lot of electricity and basically subtract this from your mining profits. 

36 minutes ago, Calum122 said:

The days of farming on a measly 1070 are well gone now.

 

They sell dedicated cards for crypto mining, but the real way to do it nowadays is to invest in a server farm.

 

@Shyam Block Chain? What does that even mean. Is my point. They are telling you yes. you earn money from solving a block chain. Blah Blah Blah.

 

But what value is solving a block chain, someone somewhere sees value in a block chain. What are they trying to solve that makes solving part of a block chain have any monetary value. Is my point. You can talk jargon all you like and people will accept that. I'm just confused as to what maths stuff they are trying to solve that would give it a monetary value.

 

Okay well to answer your question; A Blockchain is a FULL PUBLIC RECORD of ALL TRANSACTIONS for that particular cryptocurrency. The Blockchain can be viewed by anybody and can be used to determine how many 'X' cryptcurrency amount were attached to any one address at a given time. So yeah, you can literally see every transaction in public doman; go to https://blockchain.info/

Your right in questioning 'how does it have any value. The fact is, it does NOT have any 'intrinsic value'. However, you can see for yourself that it has significant 'monetary value'.

A block is a measure of code that's composes the blockchain. It's basically the record of transactions that have occurred since the last block was created and confirmed to its previous transactions. Each block links to the block before it, therefore creating a full chain back to the original genesis block. The reason why it's now worth so much money and why it works legitimately is because the whole system agrees and works with itself. Therefore when you create a new block, your dividing the total amount in the public domain of transactions and then adding that back what you've mined in a agreed system. Basically, your using GPU power for 24/7 accounting of the blockchain and getting paid a little tiny bit each time for your services.

I'm still a beginner and learning about it myself, but  this is what I understand of it. If anyone thinks I'm wrong, please correct me. Thanks

18 minutes ago, Calum122 said:

But how do you earn said Money.

 

Oh by performing crytographic calculations, which all seems shady to me.

 

How does this cryptographic calculation have any sense on monetary.

 

Money is used for the exchange of goods and services, you earn said money by performing the sale of such good or service.

 

I'm not disputing cryptocurrencies' exist, I'm disputing the legitimacy of how it's all worked out.

 

You set your computer to mine some coin, and come back later to be X amount of pounds richer. Do you even know what it is you're mining. For all you know it could be for some completely illegal nature, for use against some completely illegal nature. There must be some value in what you're doing, otherwise why would it have any value.

 

Is it mining crypto to cure world hunger, probably not, it's probably doing so it can break encryption algorithms. Why would anyone want to a quick way to work that out I wonder....(that's sarcasm)

 

I hope (suspect) I'm wrong. It's either too complicated or I am simply not interested. But the whole deal seems incredibly shady to me.

I get your point but the actual calculations are not shady or fake. They're legitimate calculations that continue the blockchain and when your graphics card solves the problem, the next block is created and you earn a little bit more cryptocurrency. This is called hash rate. All graphics cards have a certain benchmark hash rate and this determines how well your PC will be able to mine.

So generally speaking, I understand why you'd think ''well how is it legitimate when it's just solving a problem to a formula ect''... In actual fact, when a problem is solved, not only is a new block created but all previous transactions are also verified within its chain.

23 hours ago, TrisK said:

Ethereum and Ripple are the places to be right now

yup and Monero. I'm going to be mining Ethereum shortly (maybe today). It's a ball ache downloading all block chains and setting up unless you have a good SSD drive. For those who don't know, Monero will be a fully encrypted currency and Ethereum will be for smart contracts. It's not worth mining unless you have a pretty good GPU and SSD drive.

22 hours ago, Calum122 said:

This, okay it's not now, but it's back by a full government/country and the like.

Bit coin could be considered a rogue currency, who is directly held responsible for its collapse. The Stamp on the Sterlin notes say "I Promise To Pay The Bearer...." 

 

Therefore, someone is held directly responsible for that.

 

It's a decentralized currency. The transactions are verified by network nodes and recorded by an immutable public distributed ledger. This is called a Blockchain. There is a set fixed amount released into the public domain which can be divided pretty much indefinitely. The federal governments can't fuck it up because they aren't able to switch on printers and print out more fake plastic money. Hence the prices going up on these is somewhat a reflection of how fake the actual monetary system is becoming. New World Order anyone?

19 hours ago, scarletstarlet said:

Nice one, good that nothing's too bad, thanks for checking it out. I'll start giving it all a clean then. By grind, I meant I was going to do what this guy does:

I live on an island where the market is small,  there's not much choice, and the experiences I have had with garages here has not filled me with much confidence, hence going down the DIY route for a lot of this. Tell me this is a stupid idea?

Hey dude, DIY is not stupid at all, its clever and  your saving money. Just keep practicing and remain persistent.

From pictures, it looks like one of the cylinders has been steam cleaned like LukEP says... is there any fracturing or any tell signs of hydrolock?

From the original story, I would try to recover some costs from your 'friend' who borrowed the car, especially if you made it clear to him that the head gaskets on its way out and to keep eye on temperature. I would have probably gone with a new engine to begin with but everything you've done so far is good practice so keep your head up. 

If engines are cheap and readily available, just put another in. It's relatively easy. Take off drifve shafts, disconnect all connectors and unbolt engine from mount. You have a easy car to work on so it's a good place to start. Just make sure you can trust the seller on condition of engine if you go down this route.

18 hours ago, Chops said:

bang a 4efte in it lol, none of that honda shit :L. seriously tho, motul livery or straight up kanjo racer wonder civic style lol, its gotta be done.

haha got a 4efte in one car, do I really need another one Chops lad!? If you want to draft up the mounts, and put the engine in, I'll consider it ;) haha

I'm thinking supercharged ZC.....

Definitely going to be doing a Motul race car rep when it's set up! 

15 hours ago, Bluebear said:

I dearly want one of these with a ZC lump, just from this video alone. I love the design of that rear hatch as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJiY8adHCFQ

Thanks for the kind words Bluebear, it's not really one for looks at the minute, Got a set off Aleycats collecting dust in the shed that need to go on and will probably drop it like 30-50mm, then it will start to look more presentable. Yes buddy, I'm favoring tthe ZC conversion atm and maybe supercharge?? Have thought about B series but engine but the extra 50kg may be too heavy and hinder handling dynamics. The actual design and ergonomics of the car are brilliant. Rear seats recline like a Maybach and it also has pop out windows. Parcel shelf has a locking in mechanism with two flaps on either side to make entry from trunk and inside of car really easy. Lots of leg space (one of the most comfortable 2 door hatchbacks, old and new, to drive being 6'1) and so much more, Honda really gave it some thought.

So replaced the water pump, timing belt and all the other shit in literally about an hour and half, really easy to work on! From Friday last week, my Glanza officially went off road and I've switched over to the Civic. From 2 days of driving (and being able to push it more), I got to say, it's an awesome little car! It fires right up first time every time with the choke. Handles great and some how manages to drift very well! You guys will think I'm bullshitting but I'm truthfully not, this thing actually drifts lol. So the 1.3 engine is quiet under powered but it goes pretty well when you give it some and gives exceptional gas mileage. Damn water temp isn't getting up to good temperature so Thermostat will be replaced when it arrives this week. Overall, I'm very pleased! To compare handling to my starlet would be a bit unfair as I've thrown shit load of handling mods at it, but I do remember when it was 100% stock and I gotta say that the Civic handles much much better than a stock starlet. I'm sorry guys, I went there. lol

Micky Boy has one for sale, message him

17 minutes ago, Ollieh17 said:

I would think a b18 swap would be alot easier than a k20. From looking before the main issue with the k20 is the height of the engine, and getting  enough sump distance without poking out the bonnet

Didn't think of that mate, I think your right. Wouldn't want it's arse poking out the bottom clipping every f**'in speed bump! 

10 hours ago, Idrees said:

Just pulling your leg mate, I actually really like it!

haha I know bud, thanks for the thumbs up still

9 hours ago, ChristopherEP70 said:

*cough* b18 *cough*

Seriously cool little. Can't remember the last time I seen one 

Thanks pal..Funnily enough, the b18 is about 5-10kg heavier than the b16 and the b20 and then you got the k20 which weighs about the same as a B engine, so if you were going b series, you may aswel just go k20 (it fits too). And then you have the ZC engine which is about 45-50 kg less than all of them! Whichever route I go down, I think I'm going to be supercharging...

3 minutes ago, maddox710 said:

Yeah buddy I'm down for that now I've fixed my impact gun and converted it to lithium I'm raring to work in cars haha

awesomee haha lets get your starlet sorted then, you found any coileys for it yet?

Honda only used a 1600cc ZC1 in that Civic Motul race car and they somehow squeezed 215bhp out of it. In 1987 Japan Touring Car Championship, not only did it win all 6 races in its own division 1, but it overtook all the cars in division 2 and occasionally some cars in division 3 which cars that had much bigger engines! In-fact, in 2 of the races, it overtook BMW 635csi twice to come 2nd overall in all 3 divisions! Probably the reason why BMW had to build M635csi to redeem themselves a little haha. I think I'll be heading in a similar direction to build something as close as possible to the Motul Civic race car.

5 minutes ago, funny onion said:

Awesomeee I've always wanted an EF!

EF's are cool. About 3-400kg heavier but massively more aerodynamic!