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Coming along nicely Dave, will be good to see it all built up. When you hoping to have it all done?

I believe an engineer is someone who uses their initiative to design something, invent something. Everyone has their own take on who or what an engineer does, but I agree with the petition that the title of an engineer should be closed to certain professionals.

I think it is an offence, but as long as it shows up on PNC, I don't see no reason to pull you. I think normally its 5 or 7 days to display the disc from purchase.

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I recieved this email earlier from my university about protecting the title and status of "Engineer" It would be appreciated if you could spare 30 seconds to sign, I'm sure I'm not the only person who gets annoyed being branded someone I'm not. Dear Sir, I am an engineering masters degree student at Swansea University. During my time at Swansea my fellow engineering students and I have decided that something needs to be done about what society thinks an engineer is and does. A careers’ talk was given last week to the secondary school children by a postgraduate student engineer, he asked a room of children what they thought an ‘engineer’ was. Their unanimous response was one of agreement that an engineer is someone who “fixes things”. Another issue that arose was a simple job advertisement in the local paper, it read “Hair Engineer required”. The term ‘engineer’ is being misused and quite frankly abused. The mind boggles when one sees society treat a hair-dresser and the likes of Ismbard Kingdom Brunel with the same amount of respect. We came to realise that something needs to change. This is a point of contention that has regularly appeared in various engineering publications. However, no serious attempt has been made to change the perception that society has, granted, it is not a simple quick-fix situation. It was soon decided that a petition would be made to legally protect the title of ‘Engineer’ in Britain as it is in many other countries worldwide, USA, Canada, Germany and France to name a few. An e-petition has been created at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/. There is a small team currently working on this campaign, the petition was finally accepted today (30 January 2013) and will remain online until 12 months from today. The aim is to gain a sufficient number of signatures to prompt the government and more importantly the cabinet to consider a change in law to legally protect the title. This will prevent the non-professionals from using the term engineer and over time this will change the opinions that society will have for us engineers. The aim of this is to hopefully change the opinions of those young children, to encourage them to pursue a career in engineering. The subject is well known for being a difficult one to study; the students need more of an incentive to study such a subject. Protecting this title will also (eventually) increase the salaries of engineers nationwide and bring them up to a level on par with other countries. In the United States of America an engineer is treated far differently than they are here in Britain. Stateside, when the term engineer is used it is instantly associated with respect and admiration. So what has gone wrong in Britain? Britain used to be the great power in terms of engineering, the likes of Brunel, Sir Frank Whittle, Sir Barnes Wallis and Sir Henry Royce, these no longer exist. We do however have many engineers that can be mentioned in the same sentence as those previously mentioned, such as Sir James Dyson and Adrian Newey, however they rarely are. The likes of Dyson and Newey are great role models for the next generation, let us support this; let us make Britain Great again. After reading this, I’m sure you might be thinking “What does this have to do with me?”, well we need to spread the word for this petition. We need you to email this to every engineering and science student you have studying under your faculty. There are more than 300 universities in Britain; most teach a form of engineering or science. A target of 100,000 signatures is required before it is discussed among our politicians at Westminster. If each university has 1000 students studying these subjects then a sufficient number of signatures will be achieved. The aim is to gain support from the large organisations and companies nationwide, before this can be done, a vast number of signatures are required in order to prove that the cause is worthwhile. The direct link to the e-petition is as follows: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/44889 We would greatly appreciate your support on the matter, please send this out to all students and staff alike. Thank you. Kind Regards Bradley Cox and the team

You'll also get better mpg with a larger gap ;)

You can get as much power as you want. If you want a 1000bhp 4e, no problem. How useable it is, thats another question, and simple answer is it won't be.

Depends on the spec of the engine, wouldn't say a 4E will rev better as its been proven a 5E can rev to 9000rpm. F1 engines are designed to have a greater bore:stroke ratio.

Depends on the method of securing the head. OEM Bolts: Stage 1 - 22 Nm Stage 2 - 44 Nm Stage 3 - 90 degrees

5EFHE- Intake Opening 4 BTDC Intake Closing 56 ABDC Exhaust Opening 46 BBDC Exhaust Closing 2 ATDC Intake Lift 8mm Exhaust Lift 7.3mm Intake Duration 240 Exhaust Duration 228 Hope that helps mate

Spuddy uses a t3/t4 turbo and that makes less power than stock up till around 5000rpm. Turbos way too large, waste of time and money unless your chasing dyno numbers. On the other hand, buy my gt28 kit

Fair enough, didn't think they would do that sorta thing over the phone tbh.

Theres no real advantage tbh, it all depends on the design of the turbocharger turbine housing and wastegate.

Another note to add is that a 0.5 bar spring, won't be sufficient enough to hold say 1.5 bar boost. So if boost pressure is going to increase, change to a stiffer spring as it will maintain a constant pressure.

I was led to believe that Darren wasn't able to get into the site as Dave had all the passwords etc, hence why the site is still up.

Yes mate you'll need to wire them to the ecu, if using sequential ignition which you will be, they will have to be wired into 4 seperate igntition outputs.

Using the cam trigger would be the easiest as it will save hassle having to fabricate something up to fit the stock location and get a signal. Will most likely use the same thing on my setup, and use an external crank trigger.

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As large a gap as possible without blowing out the spark. Trial and error really, try 1mm.

http://www.knfilters.co.uk/search/universal.aspx Select your filter shape then size depending on the space you have. If you are limited by space you may best opt for the Oval Tapered filter.

5w 40 would be ideal. Millers/Fuchs/mobil.

As promised mate: Note I have drawn a red box around where you need to be looking. G1 = Cam Trigger NE = Crank Trigger G- = Ground Personally I would still opt to use external triggers because the stock type are of the reluctence type, these are ok but give a pretty poor signal compared with hall effect sensors. The only advantage to using the reluctence type is that they require no power + feed. Look into Ford or GM/Vauxhall triggers since these can be picked up for pennies and are already pre-programmed into DTA series ecu's a long with other ecu's.

I have a stock wiring diagram that will help you wire up the triggers mate. I'll upload it for you tomorrow when im on my laptop

Have you been on the DTA forum mate? Very helpful on there. http://www.dtaforum.com/ I've looked into the DTA series myself quite a bit so have a good understanding of it if you need any help You'll most likely find Chris over on TGTT mate. Username is Chris@CCM

The piston will be fine. There is nothing wrong with grinding a piston ring to get the correct ring gap! Normally rings are pretty much spot on in terms of ring gap, but it is quite common to have to grind the ring to get the correct clearence. Depending how cheap it is, its worth a punt at tbh. Even if you split it for parts. Or if you have mechanical experience then rebuild it yourself. And using Non turbo bearing shells is fine, the 4EFE and 4EFTE cranks are the same. Although I would be using ACL bearings.