New member from Auckland

[kiwibrick]

Geotechnical eh? Not Tonkin & Taylor or similar?

There's quite a bunch of engineers here now - Myself, V6Pete, Esprit... I think a few others also.

And another, I'm a structural engineer, residential mostly.

[greylux]

Geotechnical eh? Not Tonkin & Taylor or similar?

There's quite a bunch of engineers here now - Myself, V6Pete, Esprit... I think a few others also.

And another, I'm a structural engineer, residential mostly.

Good to hear there are afew engineers out there.

We are a small family type business based in remuera, we also undertake architectural drafting and structural drafting as the other partner in the business is an architectural designer, and there are 4 drafts people.

So we do about 50% Residential and the rest would be commercial, structural deisgn work, geo etc. We also do crane/monorail design and certification, inlcluding lifting beams, c hooks etc.

Everyday is different which is great.

if anyone has any work they would like completed, alterations to their house / building or design check and certification on any buildings, lifting beams, c hooks monorails or gantries hit me up for the contact details.

always good to put yourself out there....

[greylux]

on another note....

my sister is looking at buying a car and we went and test drove this yesterday evening.



206 GTI, has a Superchip installed and a Remus 'Exhaust' (which im sure is just a tip/muffler and didnt make any difference to the noise of the thing, maybe just looks?)

great fun to drive and shes pretty keen on it so i think shes going to get it. (if the salesman agrees on a price)

[Lord Page]

Nice one, that car will be fast.  It has a cool number plate as well, maybe the car should be called Korey Boyd http://www.myspace.com/krazzyk61

[aerorobnz]

on another note....

my sister is looking at buying a car and we went and test drove this yesterday evening.



206 GTI, has a Superchip installed and a Remus 'Exhaust' (which im sure is just a tip/muffler and didnt make any difference to the noise of the thing, maybe just looks?)

great fun to drive and shes pretty keen on it so i think shes going to get it. (if the salesman agrees on a price)

My stainless steel remus makes a way different noise to standard,and at the top of 4th and into 5th gear sounds like it's reaching V2 on takeoff....lol.  Mines on a RS 172, but remus are supposed to be a good exhaust brand for sound, so it surprises me that it it makes no difference on a 206.

[greylux]

to be honest i havn't heard a standard one...haha. it just seemed very quiet when reving and driving it around the lil area where i drove it. i didnt get over 80kph.

im used to my hilux which is a noisy POS.

[BigPete]

if anyone has any work they would like completed, alterations to their house / building or design check and certification on any buildings, lifting beams, c hooks monorails or gantries hit me up for the contact details.

always good to put yourself out there....

Giz contact details plz.

[Zealot]

Ahh. More civil engineers. Pete and I are of the breed of engineer who uses safety factors less than 20
[Nothing like a bit of cross-disciplinary rivalry ]

Mechatronics engineer here, working for a company doing autonomous forklifts.


I like the 206. I've also got a Remus exhaust, but it's 2 1/4" pipe the whole way off the downpipe and is rather loud. Not irritatingly so but I'd happily drop it a notch.

[greylux]

if anyone has any work they would like completed, alterations to their house / building or design check and certification on any buildings, lifting beams, c hooks monorails or gantries hit me up for the contact details.

always good to put yourself out there....

Giz contact details plz.

Hey Pete

Have sent you an email.

Cheers

Guy

[BigPete]

Safety factors, eh...?

[Imran]

Ahh. More civil engineers. Pete and I are of the breed of engineer who uses safety factors less than 20
[Nothing like a bit of cross-disciplinary rivalry ]

Mechatronics engineer here, working for a company doing autonomous forklifts.


I like the 206. I've also got a Remus exhaust, but it's 2 1/4" pipe the whole way off the downpipe and is rather loud. Not irritatingly so but I'd happily drop it a notch.

Electrical and Computer Engineering is where it's at  I have a remus exhaust on the 306 they were an option from factory i think? Autonomous forklifts? Are you working for Inro by any chance. Oh and staying on track welcome greylux!

[greylux]

Ahh. More civil engineers. Pete and I are of the breed of engineer who uses safety factors less than 20
[Nothing like a bit of cross-disciplinary rivalry ]

Mechatronics engineer here, working for a company doing autonomous forklifts.


I like the 206. I've also got a Remus exhaust, but it's 2 1/4" pipe the whole way off the downpipe and is rather loud. Not irritatingly so but I'd happily drop it a notch.

Safety factors less than 20!!! you guys are living on the edge! haha.

Your remus exhaust, how many muffers/resonators does it have and does it have a cat? did it make much of a difference?

On my hilux i have headers, one muffler and 2 1/4 piping. its stupidly loud and it sluts me, but it was a make shift exhaust so i could get a cert and a wof, needs another muffler or reso to quieten it down, but there not a hell of a lot of space when it needs to be tucked up higher than the bottom of the chassis rails and the diff moves up past the chassi rail so it dumps just behind the cab.... ill sort it one day

took that 206 for another drive today, had afew scratches so i took it to my panelbeater.... turns out its been in a side collison, the bottom driver sil is a new piece and has been fixed in a mediocure way, not in a bad way, just in a way that he said dont buy it because it'll need money thrown at it later on.

my sister is all gutted but its for the best, she's still after a 206 gti though so we're sill on the hunt for a 'ressonably priced/good condition' one.

and thanks Imran for the welcome.

[Zealot]

Imran:
Yep, Inro.  EEE or CSE?

greylux:
Bummer re: the 206. It's probably for the best though - better to wait and find a genuinely good one. My exhaust has a rear muffler (with a slightly oversized tip... I didnt have many options though) and a central muffler where the catalytic converter used to be. It made zero difference in power - exhausts don't seem to do anything in that dept for peugeots (probably designed properly to start with), but certainly made a difference in noise. It used to have a fantastic loose baffle rattle at 2200rpm, which disappeared, and was replaced with generally more noise everywhere else

[Imran]

Imran:
Yep, Inro.  EEE or CSE?

Doing CSE eh. Nothing like the loose baffle rattle

[cammmy]

took that 206 for another drive today, had afew scratches so i took it to my panelbeater.... turns out its been in a side collison, the bottom driver sil is a new piece and has been fixed in a mediocure way, not in a bad way, just in a way that he said dont buy it because it'll need money thrown at it later on.

Strewth! Good call on the taking it to the 'beater. If it was just a few scratches (and not really obvious) I mould have just used them in the haggeling process instead of having it checked