El Andrew

Saw ad on gumtree for a cricket box. I dunno, there's some things I think you should just buy new.

Do you mean you just glued up your cracked one? I replaced mine with a chrome one (switched my interior door handles to Fairmont ones) so you can have my old one if it is useful.

Not sure what your background is, but as a non-mechanic myself I've found that it is virtually impossible to diagnose suspension stuff yourself (unless a shock is stuffed or a bush is so bad it is visibly deteriorated). The loads on suspension are very difficult to replicate when lying under the car in the driveway. A suspension place will look over it for free usually, especially if you pay for an alignment or balance. Just go somewhere where you won't get any, errrm, bull. A check over yourself will eliminate anything obvious. I had noise the other day and the exhaust place hadn't re-tightened my sway bar mounts after refitting the dump. Fixed in two minutes. A have a couple of creaks and knocks in my BA and have been told everything is fine but it is a Falcon. So prepare to get a louder exhaust or stereo if everything else is checked and ok!

Yeah I ummed and ahhed about location a bit. Wanted it to be look neat and also have the plugs for programming and logging easily accessible. Plus I've got boost and oil pressure gauges above the ICC. It has some pretty chunky cabling on the back so would have been a pain to mount up there. I figure the digits are big enough to glance at, plus you can program the colour change points on the dial and of course you can log. If it turns out to be no good there I will move it.

Wideband installed. Nice when things fire up first go! The wiring mess is just the aux Bluetooth thing.

Definitely - cause I will have "borrowed" one! Sold her earlier this year. Now you are just making me sad.

Haha yeah I was just being stupid. But seriously though, don't trust me...

I'm coming from the ACT...

Read this thread cos I thought it said BBQ plate.

That sucks. We had that the other week - 4 year old starts blowing chunks at 1am. Wife asked if I added disinfectant to the water when I mopoed his floor. Sort of - I just mopped the floor with neat Domestos.

Haha I love those moments. "Now I HAVE to upgrade!"

Sounds good! At school, my brother always used to write 'eat lots' on forms that asked for dietary requirements for camps etc.

Haha the reason there is no Vic chat is because they are all busy going on a cruise! Making it count where it matters. [emoji3]

I've just been looking at grey water stuff because about to start a bathroom reno that will include moving waste pipes under the house. Timber floor and a subfloor space, so simple stuff. Thinking of all of the relatively clean water going down the drain, I'm thinking maybe a diverter valve that sends the water to a small box with a pump and float switch. When the box fills up, the pump switches on and puts the water into the back lawn. Unfortunately we slope down from the back, otherwise I wouldn't even need a pump.

There are a lot of strong opinions on this one all over the internet. From my experience with my car (BA with100 cell cat and factory tune) the factory wastegate setup seems to be fine at controlling the boost. It comes on a bit quicker but catches the rising boost ok. Since the new cat back system went in in comes on boost a lot quicker (I was quite surprised at the difference it made - I wasn't expecting any) and peak boost is slightly higher before the wastegate catches up and pulls it back a notch. But can still get right up it and doesn't go over the factory boost limit enough to trigger a fault. The only down side is that it feels like it just starts to rocket and then the wastegate trims the boost back to what the factory tune is commanding. You just get a half a second taste of what the car could be with a tune. I bought the car at 130k, so of course it is possible someone has made a modification in the past that I'm not aware of. So your experience could vary.

What he said. If the gauge is showing big negative at idle, some negative at light to medium throttle and positive when you boot it, everything is working properly. Will show about zero when you switch off. BOV vac line is where I installed mine on my BA. What gauge did you get?

Winter project finally complete! Cubby house for the kids. What they don't know is I sneakily made it re-purposable as a garden shed when they grow out of it.

Yeah the Bunnings guy was saying they get pretty heavily abused when they ask people to move. The guy in front ended up stopping at the boom gate and then going inside to pay!

People in the no parking sections inside at Bunnings. Three people parked in front of me in the exit lane. I might be here all day.

Happy Saturday! Got up, meticulously made myself an Aeropress coffee, found a nice spot on the couch in the sun. Cat jumped on my lap out of nowhere and knocked the entire coffee all over me.

I was suggesting I didn't bother installing a trailer electrical plug. I actually put mine inside the boot and hang it out when I need it. Saw it on a rental something or other once and liked it.

Pfft...brake lights meh. I did mine like this:

BAs have one, BF and FG have two. It is the one before the cat you are interested in. The one after is just checking that the cat is working properly, and doesn't actually adjust anything to impact how the car runs.

And you will probably take more care! I keep records but don't fill in the book. Partly because at 160k I'm way off schedule anyway. For example I changed a radiator hose, so flushed the coolant off-schedule.

Haha I've had diff oil sitting here for about six months and haven't put it in. Kids wanted a cubby house, wife wanted a bathroom and Canberra wanted a winter. Other fluids are good. Tried a new mechanic last week who tried to tell me car needed all fluids done as I'd been negligent and not had the car serviced for 40k. He was going by the book in the glove box, not knowing I drop the oil every 5k and keep everything else up to scratch. Lying a-hole said the oil was "rancid". I'd checked it the night before and it was so clean you could hardly work out where it was on the dipstick.