Bloody gits at work sabotaged my kebab with some stupidly hot sauce. No fear i’ll buy the next ones 😉
T-Mobile Wireless
Posting this from laptop using t-mobile wirless usb stick. Thought it would be handy to have while out and about, I’ve got 7 days to test it so see how it goes.
Hoo Rah HD offering by Virgin Media
About time we had more than just BBC HD
Net neutrality to be tested by Virgin Media
Oh dear this is going to upset a lot of people
Car Maintenance
Whizzy
00/00/00 123456 Replace all four tyres
22/12/08 Replace offside main and sidlight bulbs
Main Halfords HBU477 55w H7
Side Halfords HBU501 5w PR
Pixie
Tubzie
00/00/00 Replace starter motor
00/00/00 Replace ISCV
Diesel Corsa Guide
This entry is more for my benefit than anyone elses as it's aimed at the older diesel Vauxhall Corsa's and will be a single place where I can keep all the info without having to keep 100's of bookmarks with snippets of information.
Engines
The Corsa B diesel engines came in the following variants
1.5 D
1.5 TD
1.7 D
The isuzu engine codes are on the front of the engine:
1
5D = 4EC1
15TD= T4EC1
17D = 4EE1
On some engines only the last two digits are cast (C1 or E1), the T is displayed under cylinder 2, the rest of the code under cylinder 3+4.
Corsa B's didn't come with the 1.7TD isuzu lump they were found in astras, cavaliers and vectras.
Now the the 1.5's are thought to be the best engines as they are renound for reliability and giving maximum mileage. All corsa B diesels had Isuzu lumps in.
BioFuel
For the running on SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) again the Isuzu TD blocks are best as they have the all inportant Bosch (Nippon Denso) heated fuel filters. Apparently you can use %100 in the warmer months and just add abit of unleaded in the winter and its quite happy and no heat exchanger is required
Any Corsa fitted with the Lucas or CAV fuel pump shouldn't be run on SVO as they die very quickly as their self lubricating. The heat exchanger (FPHE) to heat the oil is thought to be much more efficient than glow plug method.
Tuning
After much reading for perfomance gains the 1.5 TD engine is the best to go with and can be done at minimal cost. PooTube is littered with videos on Corsa's with this engine giving some impressive ouput.
X15TD
Corsa 1.5 TD Isuzu Engine
Backup
Just did a backup after deleting the old gallery and I’ve managed to get it down form 1.5gb to 45mb largely due to the fact that i’m no longer uploading full size images + gallery makes 3 files out of 1 image.
OMG just read my last entry which said I was off for a cup of tea damn i’m getting old ha.
I Rock!
Well after just finishing my new gallery I had one of those ‘I ROCK’ moments you know those times when you sit back and think damn i’m good (well I hope other people have those ha). After much css and php head banging i’ve managed to embed zenphoto with serendipity and get it how I want + I imported the old entries form Dribble.
Off for a well earned cup of tea now 😛
Progress
Putting the finishing touches on the new gallery and making a backup of the old one just in case so hopefully should be finished by tonight 🙂 oh and I found a backup of my old blog so I might import them into this one.
Gallery
Well after a lot of twoing and frowing i’ve decided to ditch Gallery all together I managed to get it embedded into serendipity but it still didn’t look how I wanted (I know i’m a fussy git) plus it had loads of features which I just don’t need, so I decided to try zenphoto which I used to have on my home server it’s much more suited to my needs and not so many bells and whistles plus my favourite feature is that I can create albums using directories and then just ftp the images to it which I find more reliable than URL uploading.