Coremouse

Yeah that's what I thought, the components would be already balanced of course, but an expert 3sgte builder stressed to me balancing would be neccessary, also I'm using new turbine shaft+old compressor wheel, not sure if I could keep stack imbalance minimal...

Thanks to toyota reliashility, I'm now rebuilding the old CT20B turbo. I asked UK/US pros turbo CHRA balancing alone cost $60-100 there generally for a solid rebuilt turbo, or 2000-3300 baht equivalently speaking.

I contacted a Bangkok turbo distributor( Worldtech to be exact, bought parts from them before had great experience with them ), they say they can do CHRA balancing but could only give exact price once recieved turbo, and atmost would not exceed 12000baht. Well this obviously only a upper limit, and is too ambigous as 12000 baht I could buy 2 fresh CHRA... So wonder if anyone did this before could share their experience? Million thanks

And some rants... Dunno why toyota put freaking ceramic turbine in their turbo. After 26 yrs of service they do broke and when ceramics broke they sucked back in combustion chamber and destroys the engine, I got lucky there stopped driving immediately and the lump still runs smooth after in NA testing and holds compression. New wheel would be inconel, but if I couldn't get it to balancing properly I may just modify the header and throws in a cheap Holset or Hitachi, much reliable than the toyota s***

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

have you had indoor only cats before? 

females that are in heat or males looking to go boom boom? they can go crazy all night.

spraying to mark their territory.  

i have a lot of cats at my house and yes they sleep a lot but they can meow all day for food and attention. 

and they wait outside at the front door and it is really hard to keep them out. same the other way. 

and sorry to say they do have a slight dander smell and you know cat urine is impossible to get out of mattresses and just about anything. and cats will deliberately urinate to show their dissatisfaction with whatever. 

good luck.   

 

   

Perhaps because lot of cats? Since they are solitary, territorial animal in genes sure they could befriend each other but still may adds up anxiety. And since you let them "wait outside at the front door" how do them applicable for "indoor cats"?

I have a female indoor cat, not even spayed, never had problem. Almost doesn't need any attention when I still have the cheap automatic litter box I forgot to bring. Also a normal indoor cat would NEVER urinate outside designated area when not in heat. Heat only occurs once per 3-6 months just give extra attention and service for several days easy enough, or just spay the cat Thailand have many good pet hospitals and are very cheap compares to western, I remember sometimes they even give free spaying for community cats.

As a hobby machinist cat hairs and heat urine caused me some problem before, now dedicated 2 room cat-forbidden for delicate parts and machinery so far so good. Otherwise she does zero damage even learned not to scratch paper roll easy enough.

All said above, I still think OP should respect condo rule, or risk if any managements are not friendly may ruin the day... Had Thai friends sneaked cat in their condo, no problem but that's rely on luck. Rent a cheap townhouse or bangdiao everything solved.

1 hour ago, Sujo said:

If the landlord needs feels like evicting you at anytime you have just given him an easy reason by having a cat.

 

Btw, cats smell, you may not realise it as you will be around it all day and not notice, but anyone visiting will notice the smell and it will go through the condo.

 

Also cats live for many years, are you that certain you will be allowed to stay in thailand, that can change, then what of the cat.

I brought my cat along when moved to Thailand 6 yrs ago, she's still with me and very healthy here. Same story bring her out just prepare vaccine records etc. 180 days before taking airplane per Thailand policy.

Cat doesn't smell, especially Thai cats are mostly extremely short hair. Indoor cats are very different from dogs, or stray cats for that matter. Some cats may even naturally perfumed like ladies, my cat surely does, there's once I didn't wash her for a month and she smells same as just bathed. 

OBD2 Bluetooth dongle has been around for years. Many sell for less than $10 and can get app without subscription. Does the author of that article lived in caves only recently emerged?

Just another kickstarter reinvent readily available wheels and sell for more. Smart thing It'll be guarantee to deliever just orgnize the wording makes it looks revolutionary, next level thinking - compare to some boast truly pseudoscience goals never deliever just scam all money

4 hours ago, Susco said:

You should read the link I posted before commenting.

 

The BMW is hydrogen fuel cell electric car. The Hydrogen fuel cell charges the battery while driving.

 

It has a maximum power of 374 hp, double the range of a Tesla and charges in 5 minutes

You should read my post before reply. 

It is exactly as I described, 10150psi=70Mpa, 6kg hydrogen, presumbly >170kg for container alone, meager 170hp max fuel cell output for an extreme heavy car. 

Only difference is it carries more dead weight: extra battery and extra elec motor running on battery alone, to make it not as sluggish as container truck. Of course if small backup battery run out you're left with only 170hp minus charging. Bonus question: how fast would 147KW( [374-170]*0.735 ) motor depletes and damage a small battery?

No matter how much miles it has, for current hydrogen price - more expensive than avgas or race gas - hardly matters. Remember just compress 1kg of hydrogen to 70Mpa cost 5KWh in reality. Bar storage and transport( Even liquid hydrogen have very poor energy volumn density ). Bar safety expense( Hydrogen - what else needs to be said? ). 

Hyundai and Toyota been marketing their fuel cell cars for some while. Their cars are smaller but still more than 1800kg heavy. And cost a TON( retail at $50k-70k )

On 4/23/2020 at 9:56 PM, Susco said:

Exists already.

 

BMW has a hydrogen - electric car developed together with Toyota

 

https://www.designnews.com/batteryenergy-storage/first-details-on-bmw-i-hydrogen-next-fuel-cell-vehicle/20529667362735

Current state of art for hydrogen is 70-80MPa( high pressure for barely practical size but less weight efficiency ), 150kg cylinder, 5kg hydrogen. And most hydrogen cars are weak and heavy and super expensive. 

There's a reason firms like Ballard jumped ship states hydro-car have no future. And man do all fuel cell companies die fast except those like Ballard stayed away from small passenger cars. 

On 4/23/2020 at 2:13 PM, AndyAndyAndy said:

If you check the stats, government & global companies are responsible for 95% of world pollution.

 

Even if all the people on the world would drive electric cars, were sorting out trash, responsibly recycled batteries and didn't pour old motor oil down the drain the difference would be exactly zero. Basically what you do doesn't matter and you have no impact on anything.

Exactly I came from China, Thailand have 10 times more outdated cars with silly exhaust than China( I drove dual wg open top here, 26yr old car, passed Mochit inspection without problem. In China even change a mushroom filter would make a car illegal ), but China with very strict car regulation have 10 times more smog than Thailand. The smogs in China is so severe it caused winter chilling, I've been using my flir check weather during winter 2015, almost 90% of all time are grayish cloudy - but only very few days are truely cloudy othertimes are just sunny day blocked by smog, could see very clear in flir. 

Cars are more of a energy problem rather only a small part of pollution problem. If look at statistics even sea freight ships generates much more pollution than all cars combined, and many industries are more pollute & toxic than car industry. Also massive population( like China or India ) itself generates much pollution and waste

If everyone switch to elec cars the total elec production capacity needs increase more than 35%(calc'ed from CA data), and especially city infrastructure & household capacity needs to double at least. Imagine the pollution and material wastes involved & pretty much mission impossible for any clean energy solution. 

Suggests try flu vaccine on covid to "much of an impact"

Confusing virus with bacteria and antibiotic

Now drink or ingest dettol???!!

The prez' kindergarten medical career just keep getting more impressive

6 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Driving in Bangkok is a nightmare................Nana Plaza? Spend all my money there 555

If driving is nightmare, then Public transport & taxis must be Hellish. Unless you only go to popular attraction, in some part of Bangkok regardless how much you could spend on taxi you can't find any in rush hour.

Rely on public transport in Thailand = Often left stranded, maybe stranded in rain, left sober, then take a sardine can bus without aircon, then get insulted by some rude old women who fights you for seats, get dropped midway because various reason, finally arrived home by two-row minivan or mototaxi 3 hours later. And of course if you bought some heavy stuff you have to carry all the way by hand and pay 3 baht extra to two-row minivan. 

Toyota's Yaris GR4 would be manual only( like last gen Toyota GT-4s also manual only no auto thingymajigs ) and 30k GBP, only ~1.2m THB. Of course if it would bloat several times if ever introduce to Thai market.

275hp 1280kg designed as true R5 homologation from ground up. 

Can't gave suggestion to OP as I only have experience in cheaper car - never seen 900k in my life, but for 900k I would get a RX7 - yes could spend more in repair bills later, but style and handling points are off the chart. 

Or I'll buy a cheap oldie used car then use rest of the budget to perform restoration and rebuild. Only thing stay away from Toyota 3S engine cars(MR2 turbo, GT-Four) - or any car with tiny messy engine bay - totally PITA to work on

Why all those sage posts about auto over manual. OP simply asked suggestion for a manual car, not asking whether autos are superior.

Me daily commute in Bangkok in a manual - my car got feather flywheel, uprated clutch, draggy awd drivetrain and track only dampers, not particular suited for street - and I would still pick manual over autos for Bangkok commute all day. Manuals offer much more direct, precise control which is safety bonus on my book.

Point 1. Manuals aren't any difficult to drive than auto. If you think clutch heavy just change twinplate or practice. Imo manual could easier control low speed with both legs is better than strain right leg alone. Many mid-low end autos got substantial unpleasant brake pedal effort as it operates both brake and tranny actuator. 

2. AT boxes will jerk foward when off pedal, this is usually very unpleasant / and a safety concern in Bangkok bumper-to-bumper traffic. 

3. Many states that modern auto could act like manual - not true. Tiptronic alike still governed by ECU in manual mode, and are sluggiish also could jump out gear when speed up/down. L gears usually have only 2-3 selections so very limited and awkward compare to proper manual. 

4. DCTs are not as reliable and a pita to fix if anything wrong.

5. CVTs couldn't handle proper sport car torque.

6. Bottomline not all autos are created equal, if you looking for budget under 900k - the AT boxes are still almost samey back 90s, 00s. And any manual would blast those auto tranny away with same engine power. Also much easier/cheaper to maintain and repair. 

7. Only thing I hate manual is potential money shift. Seen even expert made mistake in high-g. Keep all clutch things in good shape and stay vigilant. 

13 minutes ago, placnx said:

The main "success" was the Yuan Dynasty, i.e. non-Chinese Mongols, unless we want to consider takeover of Xinjiang by Manchus and Tibet by Mao as success.... As for Korea, the "success" was by default. Had the US not a a hat salesman as president, we could have told them to back off when they bailed out Kim Il Sung. Think how things in Korea could be different today!

Regard historical lessons or not, to date Taiwanese officially call themselves "Republic of China", bears flag from before-1949 Chinese government, and in theory claims whole Mainland as rightful territory. Taiwan also had island disputes with countries other than China, likely Japan, SEA countries etc. 

Sometimes Taiwanese people sick of their Rep.Office attitudes( heard many blames on Bangkok one ) and nepotic shenanigans they also go Chinese Embassy for paperworks ???? Imo. to establish own identity really should stop taking advantage of Mainland Chinese policies

Daily beater is a Celica AWD, bought for 400k very much regret. It's still fun especially took Thailand advantage of simplifying lotta things( sidexit etc. ) and still pass Mochit TorRorOr in one go. 

6 months of drive then 6 months on jack - one of the faffest car Toyota produced

13 hours ago, transam said:

For that sort of money I suppose means an oldish ride. The most reliable ride mechanically, I reckon, is a Toyota.

Really depends on particular car and expectation. Imo brands means very little... Always get amused when everyone say yota parts are plenty, yota parts are cheap... Got a yota with 4A 20v and another yota with 3SGT, could hunt parts in Siang Gong for days without success( used enignes are plenty but no point getting another set of worn looms, stripped threads and leaking gaskets ), also order gaskets from Toyota( through either official or experts ) usually takes >6 months wait queue and still won't get a reproduction.

Some Toyotas could be garage queen or jackstand king( my cars... ), our Celicas were nicknamed 'faff' in urbandictionary.com... Also expectation may vary, I know many drove loud knocking cars still think their car very reliable because flawless grocery getter and cold air, while me drive window rolled down would put car on jackstand in a split sec if heard anything slightly unusual. And without proper rebuild, yota powertrains could be most unreliable compared to others when pushed to limit - they are so tuned for mid-low cruising and never for leadfoot even 'performance' yota

I think Toyota was one of the earlier to put hot dipped panels earned some good reputation, but when talking 90s or later really very little difference between popular brands. Really buying used Toyota was some decision I often regret, very deeply. Bonus is they made me very good fabricator & avid machinist could do twisty turbo manifolds with ease ????

1 minute ago, Laughing Gravy said:

351 cases reported in China today (from yesterday) and a whopping 1290 deaths in a day.

 

What happened to having it under control.

 

I think we all know that answer.

Whopping 6185 deaths in US in april 14, alone. Samething they're doing is systematically retrotesting or reclassify. And since China systematically retrotesting very old cases of months span( partially trying locate true patient0 maybe hoping for an US guy, also find any antibodies useful to research ), it's like accurate picture that's it. Of course some would never believe. 

56 minutes ago, rabas said:

If I report only a fraction of my cases, the shape of the curve is unchanged. There are enough documented problems with Chinese reporting without needing conspiracy theories.

Every exam seems so easy when your know answers in hindsight. Isn't that genius! So even they started higher, they don't need worry about hiding exponentially increasing patients? Don't need hide forklifting corpses / digging Hart island hole / Insufficient handling capacity etc, and like miracle not anyone in Wuhan saw them 17 Millions bodies lying at street(the returning medical assitance volunteers told me situation almost normal by their departure), except some ambigous april fool vids and some trumpuse bois: "I believe" "they must" "they probably" "surely they did"

Do you complaint US, France retrotesting adding thousands death toll among earlier death figure? They must intentionally faked it and millions already dead aren't they. (Worldometer: 6158 deaths US april 14 alone)

Facts: there're multiple vaccines entered initial clinical trial stage in the world, include 1 from US( conspiracists are ridiculous ). It's not like because they entered clinical trial would auto guarantee success in research nor mass production - more like opposite, as successful vaccine production may take years or decade in many cases. 

One vaccine China researching is the fastest in the world entering phase II clinical trial, but mostly because that one taken easy route( adenovirus carrier ) - eg. easier to develop but also supposedly LESS effective. The project leader volunteered to take vaccine herself in February. 

55 minutes ago, Whip said:

Chinese consider blacks way below __ on the evolutionary ladder

Sadly for many, especially under-educated Chinese this is true. 

China compares to other is not a very open country. Pick one Chinese big population town it may sees less foreigner than a remote Thai village, many Chinese never saw foreigner in their life. And because historically China was local pivot in east asia(like USA today) somehow left many Chinese a very big ego even we're way low income than many countries we look down. And many stereotypes even among ourselves... The big ego contrasting reality also led to some people bend to polar opposite, as blindly following and admire western while dissing fellow Chinese. 

The CCP government genuinely been correcting(rather than promoting as many may thought, remember they have their communist-equality ideology) this mentality all 70 years except the short, mad cultural revolution period, but closed society is the key - Now China's progressively more open to the world slowly the mentality would be gone, though it'll took very longtime for the society to truely adapt and accept.

Also I suspect now mass media is a toxic bred ground - if relatively close society have very little true interaction with foreigner - but allows eye-catchy foreigner-degrading message running much more rampant than without cellphone mass media. 

15 hours ago, nauseus said:

Any evidence is still emerging and certainly incomplete. That's part of the reason many governments erred at the start of this. The South Koreans and Taiwanese tackled it best and fastest - probably because they had better intelligence and assumed that the Chinese had a much earlier and bigger problem than was declared. As the global guiders, WHO dithered about and refused to use the pandemic classification for far too long. Now look at it - useless! 

Chinese locked down entire city and half country in Jan 23. More than 100 Chinese died per day in early Feb( of course, with cheap hindsight, that may feels miniscule compares to western now ). What else intelligence do one needs to start act? Unless being some lazy government.

Also China had massive inflow of South Koreans and Returnees, when the blink moment SK seems as bad as Hubei yet most Chinese provinces outside Hubei not hit. Superior intelligence? 

ps. Taiwan so far STILL prohibit its citizens to COVID test unless severe symptons or returning foreigner, polar opposite of SK. Jut before Thai emergency, my Taiwanese friend were having trouble return to Thailand because Doctors won't issue medical cert regarding covid. I won't believe any numbers from country prohibiting massive test( like early Japan, US. Both skyrocketing now )

Also UK "herd immunity" did mess up public perception of danger, if the concept so miraculous - back then why did we need vaccine for smallpox to build up real herd immunity?