The 2010 Superleague season is now officially underway as the Leeds Rhinos ran out 34-6 winners against the Crusaders in a snowy Wrexham. Snowy rugby league in January – so tell me again about this summer rugby! Ah well, hopefully the grounds will harden up in a few months and we can start to see [...]
Top 10 Rugby League Bit Hits
Posted By Dave on January 30th, 2010
The 2010 Superleague season is now officially underway as the Leeds Rhinos ran out 34-6 winners against the Crusaders in a snowy Wrexham. Snowy rugby league in January – so tell me again about this summer rugby! Ah well, hopefully the grounds will harden up in a few months and we can start to see [...]
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Polls working again!
Posted By Dave on January 30th, 2010
Just a quick post to let you know that the polls that you see on the right hand side of this webpage are working again. Looks like a little gremlin got into the system and meant you couldn’t register your votes, but all is fixed now and hopefully you can tell me what you want [...]
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“Peters wide to Farrell, Farrell wide to Renouf…”
Posted By Dave on January 23rd, 2010
Anyone who’s a Wigan Warriors RLFC fan will probably know those words, and know exactly what followed it on a summer’s night in 2000. As the 2010 Engage Superleague season is swiftly approaching, I thought I would take the time to look at a few of the more memorable moments of my 16 years of [...]
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Okinawan Police Learn Drifting from Tsuchiya
Posted By Dave on January 16th, 2010
One of the biggest motorsports to come out of Japan in recent years is drifting. Everyone is getting in on the action, even the police it seems! These cops in Okinawa had the chance to go up to Nago Circuit in the north of the island and get drifting tips from the Drift King himself, [...]
Headgasket Change on the Alto Works… What a Pain
Posted By Dave on January 2nd, 2010
What an absolute mission that headgasket replacement was! Started it at about 9:45 on Wednesday morning and finished up at about 4:15am on Thursday morning, and that’s with no real stops for food or drinks. Although to be honest, from 11am to about 5:30pm we were stuck in a certain spot and trying different was [...]
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Back to Basics with the Alto
Posted By Dave on December 26th, 2009
Make no mistake: my first foray into upgrades for my 1993 Alto Works RS/X was an unmitigated disaster. The combination of parts didn’t work, the turbo was duff and my car ended up off the road as an indirect consequence. But that”s because I was upgrading far too much far too soon. The car had [...]
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Slow Spooling Issues
Posted By Dave on December 24th, 2009
So the car was up and running again, but I still wasn’t really feeling the big increase in power I had expected from a turbo/ECU/injector swap. If anything, it was feeling even slower than before! I knew the best way to check what bost the turbo was putting out was to fit a boost gauge, [...]
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My Alto Works Problems Solved (for now!)
Posted By Dave on December 14th, 2009
When I last left you I had arrived at my tuning shop with my car engine being held together by some red RTV, and me a nervous wreck after making the longest 20-minute drive ever from my house to the garage. The guy stopped working on a car that was infinitely more powerful than mine [...]
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Alto Works Trials & Tribulations
Posted By Dave on December 12th, 2009
I frequently say on this blog that I learn from my mistakes, and I certainly do make a few with my car. The last time I posted about my own ride was back in October, when I was eagerly waiting to install a new turbo, injectors and ECU. Well that set of upgrades didn’t really [...]
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S-Tec Motorsports Manifold Review
Posted By Dave on November 26th, 2009
Always on the lookout for good bits of writing that I can put up on my own site if I think they might be helpful or interesting to someone, and have found one right here. The writer is a guy called Chris who’s a good friend and knowledgeable car guy who used to be here [...]
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