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ok this is my opinion, but even if you drive into a line of 12 prams in a row filled with twin babies. not even a team of NASA crash investigators would be able to find that the vw seimens gti ecu has been remapped. jesus. lol.

ah thanks, whereabouts is that in the lupo bay? i will look for a black plate with a rusty bolt on it in mine lol.

very rare then. they cost over £1k new

remap ecu is impossible to see by police.

how rare is the vag 6 speed box? salvage should be around £300 for complete gearbox.

ebay? probably the cheapest way out.

if a replacement costs similar or more than what i'm asking for my ECU you may aswell get a remapped performance one. also fitting of a new ECU costs £60 to configure to your immobiliser. mine comes with the working corresponding chip so just goes on your keyring or as i'm doing at the moment inside my wallet for extra security, aslong as its inside the car it starts.

any more mounting guides for the catch tank?

you dont need a rear wiper for MOT.

i hate ebay. i paid for something recently but the seller gave and instant unpaid item strike after i told him i already paid. i leave negative feedback for him, but just because i called him mentally ill on the feedback it gets removed so he doesnt get punished, but i do as i now have negative from him. lovely person! and i didnt even do anything wrong. i set item not delivered dispute to ebay and closed it to report that i didnt get item but they are ignoring me. luckily i have managed to cancel the cheque before seller deposited it. all this from an over 10,000 power seller company. grrr. dont order any silicone/ducting from autoperformanceonline on ebay or from their website.

that's quite philosophical, but whose to say the post humans themselves are not simulations created by the post post humans. and they are also created etc. to infinity of space-time. in the same way the universe could be a simulation. its mind bending to think that we can never completely know. but we can accept the reality of our lives in our current observable and scientifically testable universe.

in a similar sense i took mine to a small independent garage local to me and they had never seen one before. they did it no problem at all, they in fact told me when i went to collect it "it was straightforward" and they gave me the old parts as requested. engine is sweet. sorry to hear about the bent valve, somebody done something very wrong or made a mistake.

nearly there? from new scientist. Are supercomputers on the verge of creating Matrix-style simulated realities? Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, thinks so. He says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away. In 1950, Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, proposed the ultimate test of artificial intelligence – a human judge engaging in a three-way conversation with a machine and another human should be unable to reliably distinguish man from machine. A variant on this "Turing Test" is the "Graphics Turing Test", the twist being that a human judge viewing and interacting with an artificially generated world should be unable to reliably distinguish it from reality. "By interaction we mean you could control an object – rotate it, for example – and it would render in real-time," McGuigan says. Photoreal animation Although existing computers can produce artificial scenes and textures detailed enough to fool the human eye, such scenes typically take several hours to render. The key to passing the Graphics Turing Test, says McGuigan, is to marry that photorealism with software that can render images in real-time – defined as a refresh rate of 30 frames per second. McGuigan decided to test the ability of one of the world's most powerful supercomputers – Blue Gene/L at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York – to generate such an artificial world. Blue Gene/L possesses 18 racks, each with 2000 standard PC processors that work in parallel to provide a huge amount of processing power – it has a speed of 103 teraflops, or 103 trillion "floating point operations" per second. By way of comparison, a calculator uses about 10 floating operations per second. In particular, McGuigan studied the supercomputer's ability to mimic the interplay of light with objects – an important component of any virtual world with ambitions to mimic reality. He found that conventional ray-tracing software could run 822 times faster on the Blue Gene/L than on a standard computer, even though the software was not optimised for the parallel processors of a supercomputer. This allowed it to convincingly mimic natural lighting in real time. Not there yet "The nice thing about this ray tracing is that the human eye can see it as natural," McGuigan says. "There are actually several types of ray-tracing software out there – I chose one that was relatively easy to port to a large number of processors. But others might be faster and even more realistic if they are used in parallel computing." Although Blue Gene/L can model the path of light in a virtual world both rapidly and realistically, the speed with which it renders high-resolution images still falls short of that required to pass the Graphics Turing Test. But supercomputers capable of passing the test may be just years away, thinks McGuigan. "You never know for sure until you can actually do it," he says. "But a back-of-the-envelope calculation would suggest it should be possible in the next few years, once supercomputers enter the petaflop range – that's 1000 teraflops." But others think that passing the Graphics Turing Test requires more than photorealistic graphics moving in real-time. Reality is not 'skin deep' says Paul Richmond at the University of Sheffield, UK. An artificial object can appear real, but unless it moves in a realistic way the eye won't be fooled. "The real challenge is providing a real-time simulation that includes realistic simulated behaviour," he says. Fluid challenge "I'd like to see a realistic model of the Russian ballet," says Mark Grundland at the University of Cambridge. "That's something a photographer would choose as a subject matter, and that's what we should aim to convey with computers." Grundland also points out that the Graphics Turing Test does not specify what is conveyed in the virtual world scene. "If all that is there is a diffusely-reflecting sphere sitting on a diffusely-reflecting surface, then we've been able to pass the test for many years now," he says. "But Turing didn't mean for his vision to come true so quickly." McGuigan agrees that realistic animation poses its own problems. "Modelling that fluidity is difficult," he says. "You have to make sure that when something jumps in the virtual world it appears heavy." But he remains optimistic that animation software will be up to the task. "Physical reality is about animation and lighting," he says. "We've done the lighting now – the animation will follow."

they will be using a 200bhp version of the 1.4tsi for the top of the range hot model. maybe the new polo gti will get that aswell??

i think what would happen is that owners would fit a set of £250 used alloys on the car that are normal wheels so can take normal tyres.

seen this in auto express. the tyre inflates itself using the rotation of the tyre as its used, a valve stops it over inflating. how cool is that. great idea. if it doesnt effect tyre performance it should be a winner.

i think thats true considering the lupo and arosa concept cars due. this new seat ibiza is also the same platform for the coming new vw polo.

FR and Cupra versions will use more powerful versions of the 1.4 TSI unit. they are also making a tax exempt eco version.

out in july, slightly bigger than last model ( making room for the planned arosa..?) various engines. but the news is that it will be the first model to use the 7 speed DSG as an option.

intercoolers are an obstacle in the air induction system, for a low boost turbo they are not needed and only cause lag. if i wanted a turbo conversion i would want one with NA like progressive power, no sudden surge.

i dont have a problem with low boost budget turbo kit. no intercooler no uprated parts, £500 turbo £500 turbo manifold £400 mapped and rolling road, £600 misc parts like downpipe, oil feeds, air induction etc etc. £2000 spent and a cool 160bhp Gti gained . splendid. and standard compression and small turbo, so no lag, and good response from the high compression still. and not overly stressed. would be down to discipline to keep it at low boost, if the turbo is small enough though it could be maxing out anyway. so cant be dangerously boosted up. just a thought. but i love NA tuning just as much, probably even more so. £2000 worth of kit will also see you to NA 160bhp with aggressive cams and good mapping. difficult to choose certainly!

a little correction a hurricane is different from a typhoon. typhoon: • noun a tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans. — ORIGIN partly from Arabic, partly from a Chinese dialect word meaning ‘big wind’. we can get hurricanes in Europe but not typhoons. unless its an aircraft.

wolf or fox, which is better? theres only one way to find out, fiiiiiiiiggggghhhht!

the father has been arrested for indecent child images on a computer. it all comes around.

i dont think its law for all new cars. cars like the caterham and westifeld dont have ABS fitted. possibly there is an exception for low volume production cars. same for airbags aswell.