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Welcome Dan. That's a sweet looking ride you have there.

Now I may get flamed to hell for this I've got a BA Mk II with 6sp manual In the last few weeks for some reason I've found that I keep slotting it back into 1st from 2nd while aiming for 3rd. In all the time that I've owned it, I've never done it before, yet for some reason it suddenly wants to slot into 1st on the upshift. Luckily I've not yet done it while giving it anything serious, but I'm concerned that I suddenly wants to slot back into 1st for some reason. Is there any mechanical reason that people know of that would cause this? or do I need to lay off the beer

Thanks for the replies. I guess what I wasn't sure on was whether the "callibration code" was the same as a normal code update, or was something that any shop with the right equipment could change, and therefore may not be as permanent.

So I took the XR to Ford for it's 30k service (took it to Ford to get the brake recall done etc). I'd flashed it abck to stock several weeks earlier as I'm pretty sure that the valve springs were giving up on the 8lb tune, and I decided to play it safe till I got the $$ to replace them. Anway, I mentioned it had been running rough, and on the invoice it mentiones that "checked for codes, none stored, carry out calibration update". Now I'm wondering, will these codes be lost when I next flash the beast, and if so will Ford have recorded this information, I.e will they now be able to tell that it's been flashed ??

And today it kept breaking down around 3500rpm when under full stick. Is this because I haven't gapped my plugs?

Well I guess mod#2 is coming sooner than expected. I gave it a quick boot today, and with the cold weather, it just went nuts. I ws imrpessed, it certainly seemed to go a lot harder than ever before. Alas, when I came to a stop shortly after, it felt like it was running on 5 cylinders. Guess I need some valve springs

I wonder if this is why people are clearing their stocks of CAPA tuners at $600ea

Thanks guys. I'm sure this is probably old-hat to most of you, but I'm still realyl happy. I've already got the 'phoon 2nd CAI installed, but from my previous tuning experiences, I look at the whole air inlet system, and think it's a bit of a joke to be honest. How many times do they want to cross the motor? I'm sure a lot of the lag is due to the massive amount of inlet tract that needs to be pressurised. So I may buck the trend, and choose to move the battery and redo the entire intlet as mod #2.

Well after lurking on this forum for a year, and waiting to run the car in, today I did my first mod. I bought a CAPA tuner off Heinrich performance on ebay, and recieved it last week. Unfortunately there was a slight mix up, and I got a box with Auto tunes rather than manual. The true colours of a shop come out when you have a problem, and Bruce immediately and with no questions what so ever took the box back, changed the tunes to manual, and sent it back the same day. So I recieved it an hour ago, and loaded up the 8PSI tune to see what the fuss was about. All I can say is, the car now goes like it should have out of the factory.I sold a very highly modified RX7 to buy the XR6, and have always been very dissapointed in it to be honest. WHile it's still no where near as quick, the changes over stock are amazing. I'll give the 10PSI tune a run on the weekend when I can play with it somwhere safe away from people, but I'm very happy so far. I'm planning on getting a custom tune shortly, now to decide what hardware mods I should do to go with it!

I;ve got the same problem as the original poster. I get 18L/100k around town, a fantastic 15L/100k highway driving on cruise. This is backed by both the the fuel usage guage, and by the tank vs km calculations. 250k out of a tank is sh*t, and Ford refuse to accept anything is wrong. The published figures for driving are well below this - a 50% difference is not acceptable, and I'm starting to consider asking them to take the car back.

Who cares if we have enough oil in 2030? If we keep burning fossil fuels for another 25 years, we are going to be f*cked anyway from global warming.

14. Yes, I drove here. All the way. My car is totally submersible. 15. If you think I am being rude, arrogant, or a *beep*, it's called sarcasm. Go look it up.

R.I.P brocky. We have lost a true champion and a gentleman to boot. Rumour has it that he was decapitated, hope that's not true as I can imagine it would have been twice as shocking to his family and co-driver and rescue crew.

Are they real people ?

Actually, thinking about it, if the computer thought I had 19" wheels, my fuel consumption is even worse... or is my maths backwards??