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Bar weep grana weep ninibon?

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BAR WEEP GRANA WEEP NINIBON!

Megatron was the best fighter in the end, it turned out. He sustained serious damage, but he "still functionnnnnn"ed after Mortally wounded Optimus Prime. Optimus went grey and died.
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Are you an insaniac? LOL!

The I4 is what you find in a 2.0 DOHC Granada.
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Well you say that Tom...

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Ultra Magnus was blown to bits, and the junk bots put him back together, and after a few tins of turtle wax and he was fine.

I wanna see Ultra Magnus v Megatron!

Did you ever see the youtube link i posted? Do a youtube search for "the rude awakening of optimus prime", you will wet yourself.

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oh aye, two cams...

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...but only eight valves...

...not a great deal of extra grunt and little opportunity to tune it.

What about the 16v mk 5ish/ 6ish rs2000 16v engine?

That's just about as pap...


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No I watched that...

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..it was hilarious, yeah :)
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That 205 engine went for

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£970.78
after going up from about 550 in the last five minutes. Reserve was much lower than I thought, at about 500. I was tempted at 550 cheap as chips but after taking the dog outside for a piddle the bids shot up.

Was it you Tom???
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