The late libbypapa thread

[Mark(The Miser)UK]

I did see one of my saved PM's that he had sent me had Guest under it. I figured he deleted his stuff after the UK know it all guy pissed him off, but I didn't think he would take it all. That sucks.

Owch I didn't see this one...
I have to admit I know nothing about VNT's other than they adjust.
But you can test me on IDI nozzzles and break pressures and fuel economy if you wish, or my specialist topic of heat shield reuse. So many condemned me;  yet they probably don't have to pay $6 each for them like I have to here in Blighty and no-one had the balls to take up my  pictorial 8 times reuse vs single reuse  challenge.

I actually saved $6 x 4 x 12 reuses or $288 + time and fuel.
On Monday my old Quantum TD did 57.6mpg imp on injectors set to 135bar @ 60-70 mph

I'm sure Sharkey would be proud of me.

[92EcoDiesel Jetta]

[...But you can test me on IDI nozzzles and break pressures and fuel economy if you wish, or my specialist topic of heat shield reuse. So many condemned me;  yet they probably don't have to pay $6 each for them like I have to here in Blighty and no-one had the balls to take up my  pictorial 8 times reuse vs single reuse  challenge.

I actually saved $6 x 4 x 12 reuses or $288 + time and fuel.
On Monday my old Quantum TD did 57.6mpg imp on injectors set to 135bar @ 60-70 mph

I'm sure Sharkey would be proud of me. [/color][/color]

Hey Mark, Is that English gallon? How many Merican gallons is that? Send me a link to re-using heat shields.


It's juvenile what libbybapa did. He had no right. Once it's posted on the internet, it is public property.

[DieselBalz]

Its nothing new as far as internet forums go. I agree, he isnt the only person that I have learned great stuff from on this forum. Vincent, 8v, ROR2.0, theman, burnyourmoney, Smokey Eddy, and countless others that I cant rattle off the top of my head. This to, like all things, shall pass.

Now whats this talk of reusing heatshields?

[ORCoaster]

Mark says:

On Monday my old Quantum TD did 57.6mpg imp on injectors set to 135bar @ 60-70 mph. 

New target now baby!  I monkeyed with the anti rattle clips this weekend and I think I may have brake drag but if not I am going to fill up soon so I don't put any city miles on this past tank.  Hoping to get close to that number above but without a turbo may not make it. 

Sorry to hear the passing of Hagar.  The saga is ended then?  I wonder if his bunnies are available? 

[RabbitJockey]

how many miles was on that tank you got 57.6 mpg on?

[Mark(The Miser)UK]

[...But you can test me on IDI nozzzles and break pressures and fuel economy if you wish, or my specialist topic of heat shield reuse. So many condemned me;  yet they probably don't have to pay $6 each for them like I have to here in Blighty and no-one had the balls to take up my  pictorial 8 times reuse vs single reuse  challenge.

I actually saved $6 x 4 x 12 reuses or $288 + time and fuel.
On Monday my old Quantum TD did 57.6mpg imp on injectors set to 135bar @ 60-70 mph

I'm sure Sharkey would be proud of me. [/color][/color]

Hey Mark, Is that English gallon? How many Merican gallons is that? Send me a link to re-using heat shields.


It's juvenile what libbybapa did. He had no right. Once it's posted on the internet, it is public property.

That's about 48mpg American [IMP to AM multiply by 5/6. AM to IMP  multiply by 1.2 which is 6/5 ] It was mostly motorway driving, but the result may have been nearer 60mpg had I not spent 20% of the journey lost in the British countryside, having been lied to by the Sat Nav. Back to paper maps for me...

I hope that the forum owners make it so that posts become their property and make it impossible to remove postings in bulk. Are there not cached versions of the forum saved by Google etc?

[Mark(The Miser)UK]

how many miles was on that tank you got 57.6 mpg on?

Good question. It was only 132miles, but I topped up at the same pump at the start and finish. I think I can get to within perhaps half to quarter pint.

The last time I did this same trip last year I got over 60mpg. Achievement slightly marred by my forgetting my fillup technique and forcing more fuel in. so possibly up to 65mpg. That was a month after my 'rering on a budget'.

Round town I achieve no worse than 45mpg. I was working on getting it back up to 50mpg which is achievable by lowering idling and switching off at known slow traffic lights . But I got distracted by trying to eliminate piston to valve knock! Official Book town driving is 41mpg, so I've always beaten that.

[RabbitJockey]

i did get a hold of him on tdi club, he said it is ok to take his old posts, and rewrite them in our own words with our own pictures.  most everything is cached on google,  when u do the initial search u will find only the print page versions of his posts, but if u change the url to the normal thread format, and then search the url in google, that is usually cached as well

[RabbitJockey]

he did not really explain why he left but basically he feels participating in the forum was more negative than postive for him.  So i guess he is lost, this is what he told me regarding recovering his posts:

"WRT reposting any of my older posts I would also ask that if you do repost anything please remove my name/username from it and don't direct anyone to me by means of any credit for the info. Thanks."

[Mark(The Miser)UK]

he did not really explain why he left but basically he feels participating in the forum was more negative than postive for him.  So i guess he is lost, this is what he told me regarding recovering his posts:

"WRT reposting any of my older posts I would also ask that if you do repost anything please remove my name/username from it and don't direct anyone to me by means of any credit for the info. Thanks."

Amazing...
 So my conversation, or rather one paragraph nearly two weeks ago, outweighed all his positive relationships with tens of others? 

Or is it that he has asked all the questions that he needs to conduct his agenda, and to hell with everyone else because you're holding him back?
None of you can match his genius, and are just in the way, is how I read it.

If I had a TDI, I'd be tempted to join other forums to be sure. But I don't and my camper is a Bedford CF, not a Vanagon.

[theman53]

Heck it may not have been you. It could have been me asking about VNT stuff over the last year. I was just guessing at what it could have been.

Sometimes you get to a point that you outgrow things. Maybe he is there and the only new interaction he got was negative.

[RabbitJockey]

Heck it may not have been you. It could have been me asking about VNT stuff over the last year. I was just guessing at what it could have been.

Sometimes you get to a point that you outgrow things. Maybe he is there and the only new interaction he got was negative.

this would be my guess, on the internet if someone annoys u it is quite easy to dismiss them.

[Mark(The Miser)UK]

Heck it may not have been you. It could have been me asking about VNT stuff over the last year. I was just guessing at what it could have been.

Sometimes you get to a point that you outgrow things. Maybe he is there and the only new interaction he got was negative.

this would be my guess, on the internet if someone annoys u it is quite easy to dismiss them.

You mean like "I declare this conversation at an end" 
I suppose we will all outgrow the forum eventually, but I won't as long as I drive my Quantum, then there's the 2 Quantums in storage and I still have questions, and even when I do know everything, I will still offer advice.[I think!]

[RabbitJockey]

Heck it may not have been you. It could have been me asking about VNT stuff over the last year. I was just guessing at what it could have been.

Sometimes you get to a point that you outgrow things. Maybe he is there and the only new interaction he got was negative.

this would be my guess, on the internet if someone annoys u it is quite easy to dismiss them.

You mean like "I declare this conversation at an end" 
I suppose we will all outgrow the forum eventually, but I won't as long as I drive my Quantum, then there's the 2 Quantums in storage and I still have questions, and even when I do know everything, I will still offer advice.[I think!]

yeah i don't fore see me leaving here unless i no longer drive an idi, and honestly i think when i tire of driving old mk1s and mk2s i'd like to build an idi mk3 with working ac for a daily.  i don't really ever plan on getting rid of my mk1 coupe, who knows what engines i could end up putting in it tho... He deleted his account from tdi club now as well, honestly thats the first one i would delete, i don't really like that site, seems like every ones kind of closed minded there, that and they are all "engineers."  for example i found a thread where dave from passenger performance was discussing the porting of tdi heads and how removing some but not all of the swirl portion of the intake port was beneficial, but that if u removed most of it then they would run funky in lower rpms.  All the forum vendors and sponsors were flaming the *** out of him on something he has personally experimented with and could back up.  dave even cited how the cummins guys do the same thing, but they were too caught up with the normal tdi club beliefs that u just can't touch them.  Pure ignorance.  Thats why it took so long to break 200whp with a tdi over there, where as dave almost did it with an idi before any of them.  quite funny.

[Mark(The Miser)UK]

I've been thinking about Andrew's withdrawal from the forums. I hope he's alright and not a cowering wreck somewhere...

I mean he could bark at some folks he disagreed with with both fists flying; but that could have been some form of defensive mechanism. 
I assume he has diesel friends locally to check on him

I did 'dis' his CAD package, and that could have been his only ladder out of the hole