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Great pics Gambit

That will be to change from low to high ratio in the gearbox I expect. No question is a silly one if you don't know the answer

Great to meet a few of you today and put faces to names. Great event and some really nice looking cars.

or a KAgacy! :)

Over on UK Legacy, the guy who organised the stand passes has had to drop out. In looking for someone responsible to take on the role, he, very oddly, asked me. That means I now have the stand passes. I know that at the moment we don't have enough cars to fill the stand and therefore will have a few spare passes. Technically, if you had one of these passes you should be parking with the Legacies. However, I think the SOC stand may be full anyway. If that's the case, I have no issue with anyone parking on our stand which actually is not far from the SOC stand. If anyone needs a pass, PM me and we can sort it out. Other than that, see you Sunday, unless we bump into other tomorrow. :)

As above really. It's only a small job I need doing but would rather put business someone's way on here than an unknown from the inter Web?

If you hadn't had a sniff test done already, I would have said the head gaskets. As you have had that done and it was negative, it's odd. The only way you get coolant out of the overflow on the expansion tank is with pressurised air entering the system. A split rad for example would just leak. It wouldn't let air back in under pressure. As you got the sniff test done for free, maybe it's worth going somewhere else and paying to have it done again.

Mine are plumbed up similar to above but they vent to atmosphere with a small filter on the end. They are Greddy ones and I think they were about £30 each. As you can see in the diagram above, I could have got away with one and just 'T' them together.

I have a catch can, well two actually (long story and you don't actually need two but now it's in, it's staying). The way I looked at it was: the breather system on the Subaru is designed to put the oil laden back into the intake system. To my way of thinking, that cannot be right. Therefore, blanking the standard system off at the PCV and diverting the dirty air out has to be a good thing. I've only done 600-700 miles since the build and I had a look inside the catch can. Already, their is a slimy mess inside. Not enough to register on the sight bar on the side but still a mess. I'd rather it was caught in the can than allowed back in the engine.

I guarantee you will mess with it for the first 10 minutes anyway :) Have fun.

You can download a phone app to control the gopro that allows you to change settings and see what you are filming. I would start at medium field of view and 50fps. You can then adjust either way and see the difference.

to allow these cars to read in mph instead of kph, a converter chip is fitted (usually behind the instrument cluster). It's not unheard of for them to fail which would cause the speedo to stop working. However, that would be a bit of a coincidence, for it fail at the same time as the revs stopping at 4500rpm. As I said above, read the codes stored on the ecu first. If the car is totally new to you and it's always done this since you owned it, read the codes, make a note of them, clear the codes and go for a drive. Then read the codes again. The reason for this is that you may have stored codes from a long time ago that are no longer applicable.

The engine running out of steam at 4500rpm does sound like boost or fuel cut but why it should make the whole car shake is beyond me. Read the ecu codes first. That's always the first step with any running problems. It should at least point you in the right direction. Which generation GTB is it?

I need the type that have the round holes in the middle for air intakes.

I'm just using the keyboard. I do need to shut a load of stuff down. Just haven't had time yet. Gaming is kind of the last thing I do when nothing else can be done, usually at silly o'clock :)