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Post by Subafury » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:27 pm

whats a microswitch and would it be trickier to install?
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Post by BaronVonChickenPants » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:34 pm

Exactly what it sounds, a small switch, available from jaycar and friends for about $1.50.

Other methods also use a pressure switch placed inline with a "vacuum" line so that basically once the turbo boosts to a particular level the water pump starts on the sprayer.

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Post by waggaclint » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:40 pm

my opinion is go with what eva ya like its your car and if ya like it get it....you could even class putn a wrx in ya car ricer or a bov or chrome exhaust extention were does it end everybody has there own opinion and like i said its your car not anybody elses....half the cars you see these days have bonnets scoops that do nothing even wrx"s....look at a new xr6 or sv6 commodore they basically a base model with wheels and body kit....
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Post by D3V1L » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:48 pm

ill build the water spray kit for ya dude..im making me one as well so may as well make 2
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Post by Subafury » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:53 pm

oh yeh thatd be awes dave. done. easy for me lol.
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Post by Chris_Rogers » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:33 pm

subi wrote:anyone put some on? worth the effort to let some heat escape?
i was thinkin these off a wrx (ebay) theyre cheap! lolImage

im not concerned about colour or hacking up my bonnet as it has to get re painted soon anyways.
any ideas/suggestions

I did this with my sedan when I had it. you could almost cook an egg on it before the vortex vent went in. if you are handy with steel grab an early 80's pulsar bonnet and graft the vents out of it into your bonnet.

current wagon has the vortex scoop on it as well.

if you are going to vent it I would use something the is durable and not a bit of F/G. see also nissan patrol and the new hilux. both of those are aroundthe $100-150 mark and they have the bolts in them already.
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Post by KERAZY » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:37 am

its a bit late in the conversation but....

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i thought i heard somewhere that it could be done without.. but oh well.

moving right along...

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Post by Subafury » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:24 pm

yes moving right along. i think this thread is ended.
btw i like ur windows 98 style hahahah
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Post by Suba » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:37 pm

Bbwwhahahahahahahahaha.

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Post by tim_81coupe » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:48 pm

Looks more like W2K to me.

Only 7 years out of date, not 9.

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Post by D3V1L » Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:51 pm

looks like windows 95 to me :)
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Post by Subafury » Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:57 pm

na 95 has way bigger icons and is looks cooler.

just to change the topic completely- anyone heard any good reviews about Windows Vista? whats new in it?- apart from media center which can control all your media files and players if hooked up.
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Post by Gannon » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:45 pm

A guy from TAFE told me the other day that it is really good, but due to al its animated menus/popups ect. It is really hardware intensive. He said you basically need a $2500+ machine to run it properly, and it wont run without a good graphics card.
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Post by BaronVonChickenPants » Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:13 pm

Essentially it's just WinXP but prettier, you can turn all the animated crap off.

Bare minimum I would recommend is 1.5GHz CPU, 1Gb RAM, 64Mb Graphics card. Home Premium (the general purpose version) also takes a minimum FIFTEEN GB to install.

Now days you can get an Acer or Compaq tower with all these specs for about $700 and packages or laptops for about $1000.

In theory it does have better support for 64bit and multicore processors, yet to see it in practice though.

After playing with it more and more it's growing on me but I'm not going to rush out and grab it.

BEWARE: the EULA of all Vista upgrades states that once you perform the upgrade you are no longer legally allowed to use your previous version of windows.

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