beach
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i didnt buy the gti because it was fast i bought it becasue it didnt have air con! and because i liked the quality/ride/character/looks/relative performance.
i dont want to spend my money on crap i dont want.
really liked the mitsubushi CVT quicker and more powerful than the lupo and had the other appeals, but it has aircon as standard. tough but i had to stick to what i believe in. they lost my custom because they dont have the sence to give customers an option for what they want in a car. car industry is going downhill if you ask me if you cant say what you want in a car. i told the dealer this he said just take it out, which i would have done if he had bought the parts back off me once i had stripped it off and returned them to his showroom.
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yes, forget korea and nukes. its google and microsoft we have to keep an eye on. when our brains are all run by computers in the future, whose going to have the most control over us?
superpowers wont be rich countries with powerful military anymore (sorry america).
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the main reason i bought my lupo gti is because it didnt have air con. it took me a long time of looking up car specs etc to find a list of suitable cars. it even involved peronal emails to honda to find out if they made any s2000 without aircon lol.
it matters to some, maybe mostly to those who are a bit mental like me. but i registered on a lot of car forums to check things out. there are people who like lightweight. the intergra type R clubs are an example. and its not just individuals or clubs that like the quest of lightweight, it is found in manufacturers also. some car makers are very aware on the benefits of keeping the kerb weight down for their customers instead of piling junk onto them.
diamondblack i will do my best to "process" in the future.
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Then get a standard GTi without A/C and prove me wrong. I can't wait to see your results, i know for a fact there are a lot of people on here who know how to drive a car to it's full potential yet there still has been no evidence, and, how is that when i drove a GTi without A/C on the same day in the same conditions it wasn't any quicker, when it's been RR'd (also on the same day in the same conditions) with more power than mine? Reinforcing my point that it doesn't make a huge difference.
i not sure what you mean are you asking me to prove the laws of physics to you? if you removed 1 kilogram yet alone all of the air con system the car would accelerate faster lol. unless you want to run a 1/4 mile free fall over a cliff.
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maybe youtube is overselling itself..
"There's an interesting story over at a web 2.0-type blog called Mashable, about artificially inflating the popularity of your YouTube videos .
The author claims to have uploaded a short, very weird video clip called Sheep and then simply set his browser to repeatedly reload the page overnight. By the morning, he found it had accumulated more than 10,000 "views", ranking it among the most popular comedy videos on the whole of YouTube.
He also notes that several users whose own videos are suspiciously popular also appear to watch an impossible number of videos every day. One user, for example, racked up 1,052,747 video views during the last six months – that's 243 an hour if you're online for 24 hours a day. I'm sure that checking IP addresses would quickly put a stop to the practise, but it does put a rather perspective interesting on YouTube's claims that 100 millions videos are viewed every day, doesn't it?"
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but what your saying is actually and totaly wrong.
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oh dear did you buy it before a test drive?
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i have been told by some tuning guy that some modern ecu,perhaps all gti have silicone in them to protect it. but its not a normal problem to them to get out the chip and replace it with remap unit.
btw only expect about 6bhp extra or so. would see you over 110bhp at the wheels though which is nice. say if you had cams or something good, the custom remap can make better use of the mods to make it a more worthwhile investment.
whats wrong with your brand new civic?
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for ease of use its the best place, for tuning then grill or bumper grill can be better. there is no way at all i'm giving bad advice though.
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good news though is that GT HD is planned to only cost about £2 when it comes out, cost only price of the disc and manual. the catch is you need to purchase the downloads for the tracks and cars online.
i dont think it will be too long before it comes out, maybe will be released with the uk ps3 in march 2007.
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Stop giving bad advice!
i'm not, its one of the best places for it to go. thats why it go's there. does that make sence to you?
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i am delighted to say i fixed it.
i thought i would remove the head unit considering it wasnt working and was just weight i didnt need in the car (slowing me down!). as i took it out i hear a tinkle of something loose moving inside the unit, i shook it and can hear something metal sliding around. hmmmm maybe this is why its faulty i'm thinking.
there are lots of screws and it doesnt look a quick job to undo the unit so i held the cassete flap open and shook away, it didnt come out but was moving around a lot. seeing as i wasnt rushed for time i just carried on shaking it for about 5 minutes at many angles, and eventually it shot out.
after another few minutes of trying to find it under the front seats i discover its a very long section of radio removal key that has snapped off at the handle! it must have been resting on the electrical contacts inside the unit causing it to short out and fade the sound down and casuing all my speakers to pop and crack. i put my head unit back in, turn it on and its perfect. excellent!
how lucky a fix is that.
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front suspension arms, i'm guessing thats the front wishbones with bushes?
can get them cheap from independent auto parts suppliers.
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its not going to be much good there. it needs to attach to the stock induction pipe section that the gti has fitted. how come yours is missing?
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i have to diassagree air con makes a noticable difference. if you get a flat 16 on the 1/4 mile with aircon then you will be in the 15's without it, its as simple as that.
it depends on how sensitive as a driver you are to a car and its performance, every little helps. and in this case its a lot. a little is when you do things like i did to my car, like only having one window winder so had to take it of one door and put in on the other when i wanted both windows down. and taking out indivdual fuses for items i no longer had in the car. it gets laughed at by people who dont understand. but appreciated by those with performance background. only by doing lots of little things do you achieve the best or a target kerb weight.
to lose a few grammes in motorsport can cost thousands of pounds. so to remove a big weight like air con, for free, is not something to be sniffed at.
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maybe its not the non proliferation treaty then?, they have signed something which means they must actively be decomissioning there weapons, which russia and usa have been doing in past decades. but now they stopped. and uk is about to upgrade its trident package, and usa is about to have better nuke missiles and warheads. they are not allowed to do this under international agreements.
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165/50/15 are not designed to fit a 6.5" rim. i had them once and was a bit of a mistake. had rim sticking out from tyre. get anywhere close to kerbs and the wheel will scrape all its rim off even if they tyre has rubbing strips.
they imo are a bit too small for good traction also, would be ok on a 1.0.
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no one had this problem before?
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lol. in this case i am tempted to believe them.
but your right to be cautious.
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the uk is breaking its own law by having nuclear weapons as far as i know. but i dont think the matter is allowed to go to court. the usa and uk are member of the non prolifiration treaty, where they are obliged to decomission there weapons, once again both countries are ignoring the treaty by upgrading their nuclear weapons technology and stockpiles. i dont see the point in these laws and treaties really.
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from a comparison i did on another car the biggest difference in weight was from the cast iron brackets that hold on the extra kit to the engine. these can weigh more than the air conditioning system itself.
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i see the threat (which the other countries are now trying to deter) by which the koreans but a device on a ship and just dock it at an enemies port and explode it. would be nasty. all korean ships are to be blockaded if japan and usa get the support of others (or maybe even if they dont).
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got the result now..
so the koreans can not yet make a proper nuclear bomb.
"The United States confirmed for the first time today that North Korea did indeed carry out a nuclear test last week.
A statement from the office of John Negroponte, the US National Intelligence Director, said that samples taken from above the test site in North Korea had picked up radioactivity linked to a nuclear detonation.
But it said the blast had produced an explosive yield of under one kiloton - which, according to independent experts, means that it was probably a technical failure."
Weight of Air Conditioning
in Volkswagen Lupo
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most cars in uk do have air con as standard, i was wondering if i do really live on a small island in the far northern hemisphere or i had somehow gone down into the tropics, its crazy. i can accpet it as a "city" option aswell. but i live far away from any city. i dont need aircon.
offical 0-60 of cvt is 7.2 seconds lupo gti is 8.2 isnt it? a second is a big difference. the torque of the gti is 152nm the czt is over 200nm. its a lot stronger engine performance.
the significance of everything is down to personal preference.