Roger Parker did another earlier book: The MGF and TF Restoration Manual ISBN 978-1-84797-400-6
BTW Everyday Modifications for Your MGF and TF has the ISBN 978-1-7850-429-2
The ISBNs might help your search
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I dunno what they were smoking when the wrote the scripts for The Mighty Boosh, but it must've been really gooooood shit!A cool Mighty Boosh meme there Cobber
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Here Is Roverlike's reply to my message:
"When I press report button, I compose the message and when I pres Send/Submit I receive message that message was not sent. That is all."
I thanked him for his trouble
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Ah yes the bloody awful plastic throttle body, My car still had one when I bought it, and true to from the damned thing was distorted as they all end up being, and the butter fly doesn't close properly giving an annoyingly high idle.
The cure is fit a alloy one, better still fit the larger sized 52mm unit, it won't really give you anymore power than the 48mm unit but it shows in better drivability, the car seems punchier.
Having said that I'd be surprised if there are any cars left still running, around sporting the plastic 48mm throttle body. Damned things should all have been replaced with alloy ones by now.
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Mate I've had a panel shop, I've never seen an insurance assessor spend more than a few minutes looking at the car, and when it comes to it they sometimes don't bother coming in they just get you to take some happy snaps to send in with the quote. They have better more cost effective tried and tested ways of not paying you!
Smart arse lawyers, fine print of full of mumbojumbo legalise and bully boy legal threat tactics are their go to.
In the case of fatality it's the accident investigation cops that get involved they will look for the obvious, failing that they might take a closer look if there is no other explanation.
They look for drunk or drugged drivers first, then things like speed, were the road rules obeyed etc. and other factors like road and weather conditions. They will drag the car back to their lair and check safety items like brakes, steering etc. Whist their at it they will keep an eye out for obvious modifications. and investigate further if they find them.
They will have a fairly well equipped workshop and be reasonably skilled, but when it comes to oddball cars like ours they probably wouldn't know all that much about what is standard fitment, (at least here in Oz the authorities wouldn't have a clue, maybe some of the older blokes in the UK that might've been about when the cars were new, might know something about our cars but most the younger ones wouldn't) but not even the coppers are going to have a Pscan, let alone know what a standard map compared to a remap looks like for our cars.
And the coppers are only interested in the law, so unless they can attribute to modifications a contributing factor in the crash then they aren't going to waste their time and budget doing the dirty on the insurance companies behalf. After all insurance is a civil matter.
In the case mentioned above, the bloke was pissed, that's all the insurance company needed to wiggle their way out of coughing up....and that's all insurance companies want is an easy way out to avoid paying a claim.
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You're attributing them with knowledge and mystical powers they don't have!
They certainly won't be carrying a Pscan with them!
They wouldn't even know that a Pscan exists, let along buy one to drag about on the off chance they might be able to catch a MGF/TF owner out on a remapped ECU.
How many claims would they get on our cars, I wager not that many and then of that small number how many will have had their ECU remapped......the answer is buggerall!
They'll be looking for more obvious modifications like that sneaky turbocharger, the big block Chevy V8 conversion or the 20" wheels and the pair of Jato rocket boosters bolted to the bootlid!
They wouldn't get enough claims to justify the cost not only of the Pscan but the time buggerising about with it.
Insurance is a numbers game, time is money and the less time spent is less money spent, the assessor would probably spend less than 5 min actually looking at the car, he would spend more time going over the quote!
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I just deleted a spam thread and banned the user, but not before Roverlike spotted the post and apparently tried to report it, Roverlike said in a reply to the spam thread that he’d tried to report it but it didn’t work, I have reached out to Roverlike to ask why he’d had difficulties in reporting the post. But I’ve not heard back yet
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