Ghosty Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 26 minutes ago, sutty2006 said: I had a G reg civic hatch about 18 years ago. That was a brilliant car! 1.4 twin Weber with electric everything! It was ace! Weber, must have been a conversion? I think I've seen that done once before, the guy spoke well of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 38 minutes ago, Ghosty said: Weber, must have been a conversion? I think I've seen that done once before, the guy spoke well of it. Unless it was a dealer option, I’ve no idea. Whole car seamed completely original. ‘‘Twas a twin choke Weber. Went like stink for a 1.4 manual. Don’t think I ever took a photo of it, but I t-boned a fairly new mk4 Astra with it. It got wrote off but was still drivable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 25 minutes ago, sutty2006 said: Unless it was a dealer option, I’ve no idea. Whole car seamed completely original. ‘‘Twas a twin choke Weber. Went like stink for a 1.4 manual. Don’t think I ever took a photo of it, but I t-boned a fairly new mk4 Astra with it. It got wrote off but was still drivable. They're Keihin as standard, carbs weren't an option you could change. They really fly for 90hp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Well maybe someone changed it early on then. Shame it got writer off, it was waaaaaaay ahead of anything Ford or Vauxhall could Chuck out at that age! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 3 minutes ago, sutty2006 said: Well maybe someone changed it early on then. Shame it got writer off, it was waaaaaaay ahead of anything Ford or Vauxhall could Chuck out at that age! Really agree, it baffles me that in 2004 a 1.4 twincam multipoint injected Polo had as much as a single cam, single carb 1.3 Civic made 15 years earlier. 75hp. RoverFolkUs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 15 hours ago, Ghosty said: Really agree, it baffles me that in 2004 a 1.4 twincam multipoint injected Polo had as much as a single cam, single carb 1.3 Civic made 15 years earlier. 75hp. My 1969 Triumph 1300 TC has 75hp. 1300cc all iron ohv pushrod lump with twin SU carbs. That's progress. chadders, Tickman and Ghosty 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 55 minutes ago, Ghosty said: Really agree, it baffles me that in 2004 a 1.4 twincam multipoint injected Polo had as much as a single cam, single carb 1.3 Civic made 15 years earlier. 75hp. That VW engine is a good example and one I frequently reference to. Even the K-Series 1.4 was 103bhp which is quite a more by then in comparison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 1 minute ago, RoverFolkUs said: That VW engine is a good example and one I frequently reference to. Even the K-Series 1.4 was 103bhp which is quite a more by then in comparison It's a weird one, as there was a 100(ish) horsepower version as well, but surprisingly the Polo (despite it being the 'upmarket' car compared to the other VAG A04 cars) didn't get that as standard, only the 75hp version. The Fabia got it instead with the 75 being reserved to the "Sport", "Bohemia", or automatic models. RoverFolkUs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Just now, AnnoyingPentium said: It's a weird one, as there was a 100(ish) horsepower version as well, but surprisingly the Polo (despite it being the 'upmarket' car compared to the other VAG A04 cars) didn't get that as standard, only the 75hp version. The Fabia got it instead with the 75 being reserved to the "Sport", "Bohemia", or automatic models. My mum used to have a Polo Twist with the 1.4 and an auto, it struggled on hills. And the engine goes back to the 6N, they've no excuse not for improving it. AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 21 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said: It's a weird one, as there was a 100(ish) horsepower version as well, but surprisingly the Polo (despite it being the 'upmarket' car compared to the other VAG A04 cars) didn't get that as standard, only the 75hp version. The Fabia got it instead with the 75 being reserved to the "Sport", "Bohemia", or automatic models. It suits the Fox ok, because it's a shit car! But they really ought to have made an effort to improve it for the 9n polo. Especially when they already put the 1.2 in them with not a lot of difference in power, but better economy AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 5 hours ago, Soundwave said: Since this went down pretty well, another bit of high-street past revealed by the Nuneaton redevelopment project... wonder how old this optician signage is? *zoom in* those are Thorn GCBS integral ballast units like so by 1984 they had been redesigned to a squarer profile with the starter socket on the end like so and the latest reference I can find to the older middle mounted starter socket design is 1980 so that sign body at least dates sometime before 1980 I would say (certainly no later then 1984) cort1977, Soundwave, adw1977 and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwave Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 CSI: Lightbulb adw1977, Yoss, cort1977 and 5 others 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 2 hours ago, LightBulbFun said: *zoom in* those are Thorn GCBS integral ballast units like so by 1984 they had been redesigned to a squarer profile with the starter socket on the end like so and the latest reference I can find to the older middle mounted starter socket design is 1980 so that sign body at least dates sometime before 1980 I would say (certainly no later then 1984) Busy day? 😉 barefoot, brownnova and chadders 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 10 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said: Busy day? 😉 quite actually! had a vintage 1Kw HP-T from 1969 that arrived late last night, so the order of the day was setup the gear and get it tested really pleased to have nabbed this, these large vintage clear mercury lamps dont show up often! and is currently my highest wattage clear mercury lamp in the collection (if anyone has an iwasaki H2000B let me know please!) Maximum Power! red hot Quartz cool down then this big old box arrived, containing, you guessed it! more lightbulbs, a pair of also 1000W lamps, metal halide ones this time these 2 infact, one 1980's East German lamp a Narva Nachroma and the other a 1990's~ US General Electric Multi-Vapour lamp which to me provides a very interesting contranst as both are 1Kw Metal halide lamps! but in terms of technical details worlds apart of completely different halide chemistries, but both used for sports stadium lighting it also tickles me that the slim tubular lamp of pretty intriguing technological feat is the European East German lamp, and the large fat bulbous lamp of 1960's middle of the road technology, that was just universally used everywhere, is the American one, Autoshite in lightbulbs eh and then to cap it all off I had a frustating battle with a windows 10 Virtual machine some fucking idiot registered QEMU's UUID with Azure Autopilot, so if you spin up a QEMU VM with a recent windows 10 ISO you get stuck here because Microsoft thinks that this "computer" belongs to the organisation in the screenshot and sets it up accordingly... that was a right fucking nightmare to sort, not helped by windows being windows, like dying at the keyboard layout setup, because fuck you thats why... got through in the end but ran out of time to actually do what I wanted to do and all I wanted to do was setup this VM so I could then try and boot it on the Shitty Samsung Q1U Tablet PC I picked up to fuck with for shits and giggles! (its a VM installing to a physical disk) On 04/02/2023 at 14:13, LightBulbFun said: behold my amazing* drawing skills and im going to tag @GrumpiusMaximus because A: so I dont have to suffer this alone, and B: because his user name accurately describes me during all of this LOL it will be interesting to see what they do about it, as it does look like its been reported, but its still such a fucking stupid issue, the fact that someone was dumb enough to enrol a universal QEMU UUID into their Autopilot program.... https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1428 https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10LTSC/comments/1075anp/welcome_to_intellek/ so yeah it has been a busy day for me today actually LOL Yoss, Twiggy and Tickman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 I can’t wait to visit your lightbulb museum one day Mr @LightBulbFun . the experience will be enlightening. it may give me some bright ideas for future projects. sorry. AnnoyingPentium, Six-cylinder, PicantoJon and 4 others 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 What an absolute nightmare. Autopilot working as intended there, just not with the right HWID. What a pain in the arse. You can pull the necessary information off the computer for InTune onto a USB as a .csv and sign up for the 30-day InTune trial. Potentially enrol the device in your own trial, set it up and then remove it from the AAD. That could have worked too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokinWaffle Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 1 hour ago, GrumpiusMaximus said: What an absolute nightmare. Autopilot working as intended there, just not with the right HWID. What a pain in the arse. You can pull the necessary information off the computer for InTune onto a USB as a .csv and sign up for the 30-day InTune trial. Potentially enrol the device in your own trial, set it up and then remove it from the AAD. That could have worked too... Can enrol it from OOBE via powershell too with an internet connection - no CSV import needed. Super handy. GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 8 hours ago, LightBulbFun said: *zoom in* those are Thorn GCBS integral ballast units like so by 1984 they had been redesigned to a squarer profile with the starter socket on the end like so and the latest reference I can find to the older middle mounted starter socket design is 1980 so that sign body at least dates sometime before 1980 I would say (certainly no later then 1984) My 79 and 3/4 years old Father is a retired electrician. He used to replace loads of this type of equipment, along with servicing street lighting fitted with sodium lamps etc. He’s still got a really old light bulb tucked away that he found on a job decades ago. I’ll try and find it and post some pics. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rust Collector Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 What’s that I hear you say? Buy more cars?! Ok then. First mode of transport, if you discount walking from my front door: Supernaut, Split_Pin, Six-cylinder and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Mid engined, rear bicycled Split_Pin, Six-cylinder, BorniteIdentity and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rust Collector Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Breakfast*: Off to get the other part of the transport next. Split_Pin, Six-cylinder, Tickman and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 36 minutes ago, HMC said: Mid engined, rear bicycled Always good to have a back-up plan! Yoss, HMC, Six-cylinder and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rust Collector Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Full collection mode engaged: Yoss, Cookiesouwest, dome and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 My son moved his motorcycle out of the garage today. Whilst access to the Reliant (1961 Regal MK6) was clear I connected the battery which was still showing 12.58V and it started on the second attempt, sounding perfectly healthy on choke and then idling fine off choke. There was a noticeable flat spot when trying to rev the engine. It eased considerably as the engine further warmed up but it would need a precautionary carb jet clean before driving the car. I last started it and drove a few miles last August. I still intend to sell it before this summer. Dyslexic Viking, Yoss, BorniteIdentity and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rust Collector Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Beautiful* Fumbler, Dyslexic Viking, Split_Pin and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 4 hours ago, Lankytim said: My 79 and 3/4 years old Father is a retired electrician. He used to replace loads of this type of equipment, along with servicing street lighting fitted with sodium lamps etc. He’s still got a really old light bulb tucked away that he found on a job decades ago. I’ll try and find it and post some pics. Oh thats really cool! I look forward to seeing the old bulb that he saved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 1 minute ago, LightBulbFun said: Oh thats really cool! I look forward to seeing and identifying, with a full history, the old bulb that he saved FTFY. Don't let us down. Tenmil Socket and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rust Collector Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Home safe, or at least to my shite dumping ground. I’ve had a quick poke around and at a casual glance it’s better than I expected. I will try and do a write up in my thread of both recent arrivals as they are now the priorities to get sorted and into use. After an uneventful drive back, I got this light as I pulled into my hometown: I think a separate cooler for the ATF is in order, it currently shares the main radiator and the V6 motor puts out a hell of a lot of heat. In the time it took me to poke around the merc it had cooled enough to put the light out. Lacquer Peel, Split_Pin, SiC and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Took missus and mini stuboy to a local car meet of all marques... apparantly he's definetly my boy... can't see it... ha ha ha BeEP, Rust Collector and Split_Pin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 a day out was had Rust Collector, HMC, Speedy and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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