Where Would the V8s Be Without the Good Oil?
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April 2011 Issue 20 www.tat.net.au Where would the V8s be without the good oil? $115 gives you: • 12 months subscription to TaT • Six magazines mailed to your postal address • Access to illustrated solutions on line • Technical assist service Cover pics APPLY ON PAGE 36 Ross Gibb Photograpy • When capacitors • A throttle position sensor • Nothing like a few ‘s a fact leak, you’ve got had internal injuries on missing teeth on this problem solving trouble on this Mazda this Honda Jazz Merc to spoil your day Petrol/Diesel/Electric Engine Data Advanced functions key programming, Key Coding/PCM/ module programming to 2011 levels Programming Bonus Rellim Code Book (2000 pages) - 20,000 GPS - SAT Nav PDQXIDFWXUHUVSHFL¿F'7&HQWULHVHPEHGGHG Data Ignition/Electrical/ Rugged high quality construction covers OBDII Systems Data 12V & 24V vehicles Easy user interface, advanced graph & record functions ABS/Brake Systems/ OQERDUG&$1SURWRFROVIRUFDUV:'¶V EPS Systems Data & Infotainment $VLDQWUXFNVWRPRGHOV Service/Reset Data HLJKTXDOLW\RXWGRRUUHDGDEOH colour touch screen SRS-Airbag Systems LDUJHVXSHUIDVWXSJUDGDEOH Data & Analysis 6'PHPRU\ Dual CPU super fast Transmission :LQGRZV&(SODWIRUP Data PCLQWHUIDFHYLD:L)L RUGLUHFW6' Best Asian Scan Tool GLOBAL VEHICLE SCAN TOOL TECHNOLOGY G-Scan the number one selling scan tool in Japan & Korea for quality & accuracy - now it’s Australia’s turn! 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Some of with a broken down car in the opened my first private Can you technicians reading these motivational people are driveway. business a long time ago this hear yourself saying very entertaining but all they and, like far too many something like that? really leave you with is a warm Deyan says it’s often just the Iamateur but enthusastic and fuzzy feeling that you can way you ask questions and entrepreneurs, I was satisfied These thoughts crossed my do anything if you try. Not very look at something when it that my talents were saleable, mind as I sat in the wings helpful, when you really want to is described to you that can that the world would beat at the opening night of our know how. determine whether the job will a path to my door and TaT Biz-Capricorn business be a breeze or a nightmare. that, provided I had a good improvement program in It’s the how of business that accountant, I would make suburban Melbourne. 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The Automotive Technician 3 Where would Gypsy Marshall, the V8s be top V8 mechanic without the Cover story by Ken Newton good oil? at Mazda when he volunteered nothing left to tweak? ‘It’s getting not the other way around. to help out the Allan Moffat team. hard to find any more power il, that slippery stuff He travelled around Australia in in an engine that’s already ‘Later model engines have that stops metal bits this role and enjoyed it so much been through every kind of smaller clearances because Ofrom seizing, has that when a job as a truck driver modification,’ says Gypsy. ‘So oil of the improvements in oil not been particularly front came up with Garry Rogers became the last resort.’ technology,’ Gypsy explains. of stage in the evolution of Motorsport, he grabbed it just to the motor vehicle. So much get in the door. If an oil could be developed that media attention is lavished was thin enough to be more on engine technology, but Sure enough, after a year economically pumped through oils rarely rate a mention. of driving trucks, Gypsy was the engine but still reduce the transferred to the engine room friction on moving parts, the V8s and he hasn’t looked back. By might have found a little more The days when one oil did his own admission, he is a power and performance.