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Feb 11, 2013 18:23:13 GMT
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After the weekend of the parents moving stuff around on the drive and washing the dirt from it, the dirt grease and grime ended up on Christine! This ment she had to be washed down before the car freezes over an it ends up being like wet and dry sandpaper on the old girl. The wind was a direct wind from the north straight off the North sea, and you could see the sleet or snow blow past missing my Village, and hitting Hartlepool the town just down the coast. The front bumper has been popped back on so it doesn'r get blown down the garden again. As of 6pm Monday 11th of February, I have not yet received the front end lpg kit which I bought off ebay. I have sent an email to the seller again requesting information on the parcel(tracking detail etc)
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Feb 10, 2013 22:42:26 GMT
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I have just been informed on the neons.org forum that the neon went into production in late 1993 and there were over 4,000 made by the end of that year.:
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Feb 10, 2013 17:10:42 GMT
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As it went into production in January 1994, and car insurance companies class any vehicle 20+ years, as a classic and thus get cheaper insurance. People might start to think on when there car was actually produced and registered, as it would save them a bit of money!
So that might mean the first MK 1 Neon becomes a classic in the eye of the insurance #companies in less than 11 months.
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Feb 10, 2013 16:02:44 GMT
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Here is a question which I think will intrege you. The MK 1 Neon was produced in January 1994 for the 1995 market as the Americans put it, and yet went on sale in 1994. Now if you ask anyone who has one of these particular cars they will tell you it was a 1995 and not a 1994. Yet if the car was manufactured in 1994 and sold in 1994, so surely it would be a 1994 car, and be classified as such? The question of when it first went into production has often crossed my mind. Especially when you think of when that model car might be classed as a classic in the eyes of the insurance companies and such!
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Last Edit: Dec 3, 2013 15:08:48 GMT by mitsuru: amend title for the marks birthday
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Feb 10, 2013 14:33:22 GMT
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Chrysler Neon MK1 Before her heart attack and the need of a new engine and box. (1997cc SOHC 3 speed auto) And the old girl part way through hertransplant! Yes a work in progress! (3301cc V6 pushrod engine and 4 speed elctronic controlled auto)
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Feb 10, 2013 13:34:45 GMT
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My work in progress (when I can get to work on her as she is exposed to the elements and the north sea ) 3.3L v6 replacing 2.0L inline 4, front wheel drive.
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The £15 neon ecu arrived yesterday. Dad has been moving stuff around on the drive again. So when he took a break I got the grinder out and made a couple of cuts to chop the ecu in two. I only need the socket end, the rest went in the trailer with the other rubbish to be taken to the skips next week. Doing it this way saves me a lot of time and hassle by not having to hack the protective rubber out just to get the circuit board and socket out. I'll remove the socket and clean that but up tonight, and start to de-solder and remove what is left of the circuit board. I have hopefully learned my lessons from the mistakes made on the previous socket.
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jrevillug if you had bothered to explain yourself in your previous post rather than just what appears to be an of the cuff remark poo pooing the idea I would not have made a comment would I?
And as NOBODY was will to explain themselves or even look into the details I thought it best to at least try to give a balanced answer which had NOT been provided. My Information might have been slightly off but at least I was willing to explain myself, and willing to put my foot in my mouth, were you?
I agree that there is serious drain on the electrical system for such kits and that to have one would be a waste space. But at no point did I say that the engine could be totally powered by such a kit as that would be perpetual motion.
As my login details for my old University nolonger work and I have been effectively house bound due to health issues for the past couple of years. I have not been able to pop around to engineering & development dept of my old university and see who is there. So they could ask and to go into this with such scientific scrutiny as would be preferable especially as scientific knowledge is constantly improving and changing things .
As for "Until then, please leave this corner of the internet free of your deluded ramblings" As a response, miss informed maybe, deluded is name calling, but it did get you to respond in such a way to providing a REASONED response which is backing up your argument wouldn't you agree!
As for rambling, don't we all!
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Well the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) the British version of the USA's DMV sent me a nice little reminder that my SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification) Certificate runs out at the end of this month.
So a couple of minutes online and that has been renewed for another year just incase I don't get the old girl back on the road by the end of the month(which is very likely due to the weather).
I messed up one side of the adapter plug so I will need to start again with another old ecu to remove the plug. As luck would have it I managed to find a guy on ebay who had a few. So I have one coming for a grand total of £15.00.
The LPG kit still hasn't arrived I have sent an email to the seller asking for tracking or delivery details.
Someone has had a go at mothers car, before I went down to Hull for the car club meet, they had tried to remover the front indicator and may have had a go at the headlight too. All replacement parts ordered but not delivered yet.
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Did you lot do physics when you were at school? It is not as jrevillug says "violation of the laws of physics" A dc electric current was passed passed between two electrodes in water. The current does split the water into it's components of Oxygen and Hydrogen. The experiment in the classroom/school lab did admittedly use distilled water to make the separation of the elements more rapidly visible for the students to see more easily.
Now considering that the alternator is always spinning and wouldn't drain the power of the engine like a air conditioning compressor. The down sides are that you might need a bigger battery for the additional drain from start and a larger capacity alternator to run the system constantly and charge the battery.
ChasR your snake oil comment is not what you mean, as it has been proven that oil made from snakes is actually a good source of omega 3 oils, and is being used in the battle against cancer so that old saying went out the window years ago!
However the readily availability of LPG means it would be better for the gentleman as thats all taxis in Japan run on, in India I think the taxis run on CNG. So the parts are standardised and have rigourous test standards which HHO systems currently do not.
It all depends on who installed it, how it was setup and how it was maintained. There has been GOOD breakdown of the pros and cons and myths of it a few years back in Practical Mechanics magazine. And I will dig it out for the mods to see but it can't be posted directly as it would breach copy right laws!
Until it has been accepted like other alternative fuels it will be bad mouthed like lpg and bio-diesel was till it was proven otherwise.
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I think thats based on a 1953 Buick
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Just been told the front end lpg kit has been collected from the seller. So that means delivery sometime in the next few days.
Mother pulled a blinder today, she came across what was left of a stainless steel pedal bin, it looks unused but a bit battered. The main tube/body is mostly undented. Although it is a bit thin bit of stainless metal sheet, but I might be able to use it to make a bit of an underskirt to stop stuff going up the front of the engine and to give a bit of protection for the serpentine belt run.
Shame it wasn't a drum off a washing machine, as that would have been better as it is thicker. But never look a gift horse in the mouth!
The temperature has dropped and it's started snowing here again, YUCK!
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Looks like they switched out the temp gauge for the LPG gauge. I hate the tiny little led fuel level on the switches as you can't really get a good idea of how muh is actually in the tank. I used a smiths gauge on mine. I'm going to be changing the switch once I get a replacement front end kit as I used to have my old 4 pot on lpg but there isn't one on the v6 yet!
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Last Edit: Feb 5, 2013 3:39:45 GMT by mitsuru
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There is a slight delay on the lpg kit getting to me that I bought off ebay as the courier didn't pick it up last week, however the flash lub kit I ordered separately (brand new) arrived Saturday. I did find this bit off retro rides rather interesting. retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=144769Yes thats what I do for a living. Is it the same ? Well now technically, its quite a big question. Normal petrol is 95 ron, the expensive stuff 98. Lpg 115-120 ron but it has a lower calorific value. And it depends how you introduce the LPG into the engine. If you have a carb, you introduce it with a mixer just over the top of the carb. It has a venturi and as vac increases the gas flow does as well. Put quite simply. However you are restricting the the air flow a bit. So slightly down on power. Modern injection systems however are a completely different matter. They intercept the petrol injector pulse and inject the gas in the same way as petrol. No restriction to the air flow. So they pull like a petrol car exactly to the letter. Turbo cars the waste gate is dictated by the knock sensor, LPG doesn't knock. Guess what I run ? I will definitely need the lpg fitted on the neon after Sundays trip to and from the Yorks Yanks Club meet just outside Hull. The fuel light was on when I put fifty quids worth of regular at £1.31 per litre in Hartlepool. The fuel light was on when I pulled off the A19 coming home! If thats what it was like in mothers 2.4 Volvo V70 T5 estate I wonder what it will be like in a 3.3 Neon? And I screwed myself up doing the trip, I spent Monday in bed on painkillers suffering from the side effects of the painkillers made matters worse. Probably made worse by the fact I haven't driven as far in a long time. I need another day or two to be back up to even think about doing anything.
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Last Edit: Feb 5, 2013 4:06:43 GMT by mitsuru
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As January draws to a close, usually there is a list of shows planned ready for the rest of the year by now! But considering the atrocious weather conditions last year, it looks like the planners of events are either not bothering or are holding off announcing them! Well here is one I definitely have been wanting to go for a while, this year by hook or by crook I'm going!! www.whitbykustom.com/
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Jan 28, 2013 17:52:40 GMT
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Right I have almost complete one socket, it was easier once I switched to an ever so slightly thinner wire being used to solder onto the pins. I have to clear up the mess of solder on a couple of pins.before covering the connections with heat shrink insulation. I have purchased off ebay a second hand front end lpg kit off a BMW 528 so the kit is suitable for around 200bhp engines. Yes it is a sequential and not a single point injection system. As the adapter is still in the process of being made it would not take much to connect the LPG wiring loom into the adapter, rather than try and cut into the loom already on the car. Of course that is after the car is running with no problem on good old petrol.
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A bit of info for the North East of England. South Shields will be redeveloping it's town centre and the Port of Tyne will be expanding. Nissan will be taking on for production of that top of the range model which would normally be produced in Japan, so there will no doubt be expansion in the supply companies across the north. Then there is the steel industry SSI are up and running at Redcar so they might periodically take people on and there is the support companies there too. Hartlepool are supposedly giving the go ahead for the building of housing estates so there are more jobs and along the same line there\are housing estates being built a t Ryhope near Sunderland next to the old steam pump. It all depends on how far you are willing to travel and what your back ground of employment is like! I definitely like the wheels on the mustang in this photograph!
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Jan 25, 2013 19:48:44 GMT
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Here is how fiddly it is trying to solder the wires onto thiose pins.
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