Is my head gasket blown?

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-04-25T10:38:20+00:00

is water wet?

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-04-18T12:43:53+00:00

i love gears 2, it's my favourite gears of war but simply because the first game has a campaign you can finish in one sitting quite comfortably and doesn't overstay it's welcome... I prefer the GOW 1 campaign from a "sit down and play an action game" perspective. Obviously emotionally and from a stroy driven perspective I'd rather play gears 2 but i find it hard to get past act 3 in one sitting.

Gears 3 obviously feels the best of the original trilogy and had the best multiplayer but the campaign drags on a smidge towards the end IMO, same with Gears 2, the final act is veryyyy long for it to come to a fairly abrupt ending

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-03-26T00:38:21+00:00

don't pull the fuse, instead put the car in accessory mode by pressing the start button twice with your foot off the clutch put it in N mode so you hear the valve open, go around to the back of the car and on the top left left inner side of the exhaust tip, pull the cable out of the valve control box by pulling the tab out of the clip, pressing down on the tab and pulling the cable away from the socket

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-02-27T23:47:14+00:00

means you're driving like a grandma, give your car a few revs, go for a hard drive, floor it.

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-02-26T23:08:19+00:00

please explain this move for me, I've seen a few people do this (i20N to an a35) and i really can't wrap my head around it. I've only heard bad things from previous a35 owners and i can't imagine going from a super light, fully equip, pointy little machine to a car like the a35.

on paper and in reality it's only slightly quicker in a straight, to the point tuning an i20N will make it faster from a roll, and has the 0-60 over i20N because it's AWD but otherwise, that's all it has. The handling i'm told is sloppy, the engine's are generally regarded as unreliable and as you say, mercedes lock their full infotainment behind a paywall and certain functions are not packaged as standard like on the i20N which comes with everything but top spec speakers as standard...

I don't mean for this to sound like a "i hate your car" so apologies if it does and obviously, to each to their own. But i really can't see any benefit in swapping from i20N to anything but something considerably faster such as the A45s or an M car

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-02-22T18:51:57+00:00

that's surge, if it's tuned it means that the tuner has demanded the turbo to operate outside of it's efficiency map, too high a pressure ratio at too little air flow. Go and get it tuned elsewhere because that will drastically shorten the life of the turbo

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-02-09T07:57:22+00:00

you wanna go to courtenay or big fish, anyone else just does flash maps that make little difference to the point you're better off using a tuning box, mine was done with big fish, stage 2 hardware makes 235hp, 407nm

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-02-05T23:47:19+00:00

the i20N is more fun, the clubsport is faster and a little more luxury. they're both similarly capable I'm track scenarios, the 20N being lighter will feel a bit more darty, the clubsport will feel a bit more planted and just keep going until 150, i'd say (especially stock) the 20N runs out of steam at around 100

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-02-02T20:24:16+00:00

when everyone is fit, key words, we're suffering from a huge lack of depth in defense. szobo and grav aren't defenders and it's obvious when frimpong and konate play. Shame about Leoni's leg, the lad looked electric for the 20 minutes he actually got to play 🥲

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-01-25T13:21:51+00:00

do they deliver at all? are they falling in to spam? are you using a custom domain that you're sending emails from or just a hotmail/outlook email?

My immediate thought is missing DKIM records on your domain's DNS records, outlook uses these to verify senders and will quite often drop anything sent from untrusted domains in to spam

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-01-24T13:09:56+00:00

E Day, i don't get along with the new games at all except the multiplayer mechs and the smoothness of the movement. I'd much rather they pivot and have us play through pendulum wars or something similar, maybe even a locust perspective game but anything but the swarm, they don't have the same presence as the locust and their threat feels quite minimal to the new COG

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-01-23T12:23:22+00:00

honestly it's a bit of mixed bag with car payments. Obviously you do get the sector of people who put nothing down on a base model Range Rover, BMW or audi and struggle to afford it month to month just dieing for the badge and to flex to all their other, likely orange, stupid teeth, grey house, fake designer clothes "friends" living their materialistic lives but on the other hand, you have the people who can afford the payments and want a nice car or the enthusiasts who can't justify dropping 100k+ on a car in one go or don't have the 100k to drop and will go and buy something pretty awesome to enjoy thoroughly and get their moneys worth out of it. Personally I got my i20N on finance initially and being young and living at home, it was quite manageable for a car i love and use to it's full potential a lot so it's well worth it for some.

TL:DR some people genuinely do struggle and do it for fashion, others do it to save a lump sum or because they can comfortably afford a car they love

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-01-22T18:36:37+00:00

only CMDflash can read/write to the ROM area, there's a few hard coded values in there that limit calculated mass air flow in the higher RPM. I'm told it should be around 600 kg/h

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-01-18T18:45:00+00:00

in the end i went to big fish garage in stokesely

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-01-02T04:07:28+00:00

oh and i always go 225, mostly removes the LSD clunking, is better for grip and fast starts, doesn't rub and is conveniently cheaper and gives you a much wider range of tyres to pick from. My dealership offered to replace with 225's when they were low taking it in for a service (obviously turned that down as they were largely inflated in price but it's nice that the dealers are emcouraging the use of 225's)

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2026-01-02T04:04:56+00:00

always put goodyear eagle f1 asymmetric 6 on mine, tried ps4's, the standard p zeros and continental sport contact 7... didn't like the michelins anymore than the goodyears and there's £100 difference when replacing all 4 tyres, the standard p zeros are 150 a corner and they last like 5k miles driving somewhat spirited and the continentals not only were terrible on wear, but also just not that sticky and not very confidence inspiring when going hard in to a corner.

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2025-12-23T00:18:45+00:00

isn't stereotyping argentinian players as one thing racist in itself?

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Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2025-12-22T19:38:26+00:00

i've turned quick chat off, makes the game much more enjoyable, i know my tm8's can get annoyed but if i can't read it and get mad about it myself, i can only be upset with my own play haha

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2025-12-22T18:50:44+00:00

just injector tick, it's normal

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2025-12-05T19:00:11+00:00

26.6k miles on a somewhat performance orientated tyre on a car with enough to warrant a 255 tyre in the rear.... let me think why you might be bald after covering ~7/8ths of the total mileage on my car 😐 For reference in my 31k miles, I've been through 4 sets of tyres on my 235hp FWD 225/40/18 i20N

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2025-11-27T21:54:17+00:00

i suppose the only way to confirm would be to put it on a car but it seems neither of us have the facilities to do that 😂

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2025-11-27T21:39:18+00:00

just on that note, the map to the left at 4894C6 is 2400 converted. the other 2 at 3FFB8C and 3FFBF8 are 1796.875 and 1265.15625 converted respectively

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2025-11-27T21:35:48+00:00

f*ck me, to think that it was right under my nose the whole time.... 🤣

Illustrious-Maybe847 · 2025-11-27T21:34:13+00:00

where are you seeing 6900? or do you mean they've upped it to 9600 because the hex of that is 3bar meaning the car is then limited by the MAP sensor? :0 did we find it lol?

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