Then I may be banned soon ...... 

Oh dear.

Quite some bodges there. Fair do's with the builder. Good luck. Window repair looks most decent. Are you going to plaster it yourself or get the builder to do it?

Yes .. if the post is by one of NOTTs likeables, it stays. If not then it's a tossup what happens 

GT6 version . 

Hello            Your Bosch valve must be different to the one I have as the curved shutter would go past the close position and let air in? That was not a problem as I just told the system to hold it in the closed position but then I found it is not a good fit and air went around the side of it? I thought perhaps it was a worn valve so I found another one cheap but that was exactly the same so that's why I went to the Ford one as it shuts off against a seating if you want or normally it is just hovering off the seat just enough to keep the tick over about right(it does tend to hunt a bit and I have spent hours messing with fuel tables?) I think I aim to lean on tick over? Roger

That’s had plenty of care lavished on it. Don’t love every detail. Not sure about the chrome headlight surrounds and the Corvette style bonnet “vents” is a firm no. Would be interesting to know if it’s special mechanically. This is the one I was thinking of I think, though not the pic of it that usually comes up

Hi Rick, if you press the report button and explain what is going on does anything good happen.   Roger

Hi David just to cheer you up. My good friend Hugh bought a hoiuse in Perivale W. London in the mid 70's When he and his wife to be viewed0 the house all appeared very nice. When they moved in the first thing they found was that the scum that moved out took every single light bulb with him. Then when he went into the bath room it still looked very very nice, with its avacado suite When he went into the adjoining bedroom he found out how/why the bath room cabinet was so deep - huge hole in the bedroom wall - not even covered with a tissue of wallpaper Some folk need shooting - with a blunt spoon   Roger   

I had a play with the Bosch/volvo valve Indeed, it didn't shut completely, and there is a small brass adjusting screw with a head that defied my eyesite. I spent afew minites grinding the body around the screw so I could get pliers on it (no allen key or star/torx fitted). It was not moving, so a litle heat from my propane torch was applied, and it move. Repeated 4 times (I didn't want to heat the whole thing) and got the adjster right out. Green threadlock was removed with a wire brush. And it screwed in/out easily. Found a position where it totally shuts. Welded a 1" bit of 20mm water pipe to teh prenum, then drilled and tapped the plenum M6. Fitted a mig tip (which I drilled out to 3mm) for the MAP sensor pipe. More of a faff was the throttle linkage. I acquired a KA throttle body purely for the "snail" linkage. The required the ST throtle shaft to be machined town to 6mm, then flats each side. Still some movement, so a rollpin, and a bit of epoxy got that sorted. Then a simple matter of attaching a bracket for the cable, not as tidy as I would have liked but function trumps form here. Pics to follow.