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Hold on. You're saying drop it all out and then measure it all back in? Like an oil change without the change?

I warm it up by ripping some junction exits... then back in the garage. Why does it always look like this: and then I push the dipstick, wipe, wait 30seconds and top it up with half a litre and it looks ok. am I destroying my poor Mondeo engine?

absolutely

the amount of oil sprayed out wasn't that much, it just coated everything. I'd guess that all the oil that was gonna be blown out now has.... but I've ordered some 1/8" tubing and carbuilder solutions offer a small coke sized catch can with a level gauge which might work but I think I might try an actual red bull can first :D. and I need to re-top up the diff oil.

yeha that was the plan. also replace all the fluid.

some friendly Vauxhall heads at Blyton park pointed out that for some reason my Rear Right wheel was covered in fluid. we had a bit of a look about and people mentioned that it smelt like diff oil. I had a poke around (the car, the disks and the weather was absolutely boiling so I couldn't get in there and it was just on a jack with no stands) and it looked to me that the brake fluid had a leak as the hardline-flex was completely soaked in fluid. so I did the sensible thing and sprayed it with brake cleaner, wiped it with hand towels and just went back out and sent it. on getting home I cleaned it a bit better and then noticed this.... that breather pipe is pointing perfectly to spray hot diff oil all over a wheel, disc, pad, brake lines, etc. and blyton is a mostly left hand corner track. and it was 33 degrees. anyone want to buy some lightly used rear brake pads? what do we think the solution is? just a much longer bit of pipe that goes all the way up and then zip tied to spray downwards rather than disc-brakewards and a diff top up? a bit like this /forum/techtalk/caterham-suprlight-r-diff-breather-components is there anything to be done to my disc pads? I can use brake cleaner on the discs and calipers etc, but I guess my pads are toast. anyone know what type of pipe I need? cheers! PS, Blyton is hella fun. if you've not taken your 7, there's few places to hurt yourself and I was topping out around 100mph (I think)

my doors are held closed by these little straps with plastic threaded studs. they're terrible. they pull out and then land on the floor somewhere. I've just lost one. what do I use instead? do I just spend 16quid on a new one and throw the strap away :( cheers! J

Hey all I got the stock Duratec decat pipe from ebay and it fit absolutely fine with no modification to the diameter. just chopped it down and it fit straight in. I don't know what Mike at Raceco meant but there must have been some crossed wires somewhere. really annoying. typically a full silencer and decat appeared on ebay 2 days after my silencer turned up. anyhow. it's quieter and now spits flames out the side of the car (Sorry Greta) Thanks all!

august :( I've contacted Cheeseman for all the good that'll likely do. it seemed really difficult to get an answer out of anyone that it was the R500 version I needed for the raceco. good to have confirmation.

after measuring my new can, it seems to be the same size as the r500 silencer, 65mm od. this does suggest the 63mm collector is the right one. only problem is they're out of stock til august anyone know of an alternative to the caterham part? J

I'm having trouble finding which collector will fit my '07 Duratec S3 to my brand new Raceco Silencer (which is very shiny and very pretty) anyone know which one? Mike said the 63mm but the only one I can find is either the normal duratec decat which says 60mm or the R500 which has no measurement on there at all. there IS a rover R500 that is 63mm but I'd guess that'd be upside down or the wrong size primaries or something.... anyone fitted one of these and know which will fit? or is there someone else that can supply a similar collector? TIA J

I'll go find a wall some evening. can't back the car up more than a metre without exiting the garage onto a non-flat road

Does this look right? to me it looks like they're upside down. The bottom pic has the full beam below the dipped beam also they're different colours. And the left is blurry whilst the right is defined. maybe I just need to move waaay back. Possibly the beam will swap quality.

great photos thanks!

Gently with a hair dryer worked wonders. thanks all!

I'll give him a call. I suspect it'd be better to buy the long one brand new. I'd need a collector as well which is a pain and I can sell the one I have

So why would this be quieter than what I currently have? Just because I can pack it more?

Oh well spotted! Does that seem like a good price?

ahhhh damn. looks like the guy is selling it to someone else. anyone got one for sale?

yeah it's a S3-S3 match. I'll find myself a collector. thanks!

yeah I do but I'm REALLY worried about damaging my ears any further. tinnitus is no joke.

I've got a R400 which has already damaged my ears once and I'm wanting to fit a rear exit exhaust to both reduce the noise (I was only just under the limit at cadwell, I can't hit the limit at Bedford if it's dry) what would be the difficulties of fitting the 620S style rear-exit to my car. both duratecs, I have a cat and would move that over.

Are there photos from the day anywhere?

some people have sent me pics of their installed plugs :D

yeah that was great fun. thanks for arranging the weather so well.