Some nice motors on here!! Ive had to scale my motors down to allow me to fund buying watches - catch 22 - I’m just about to take delivery of a Skoda (much to one of my fellow TZ users amusement!)
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^ it is things like that I always wonder how do you learn you can / cannot do that. I get the whole building up from slow / small things, but this has a bucket load of hurt when practicing written all over it.
Astounding to watch, also some of the downhill mountain bike riding from red bull channel is equally as mental.
Back on topic, the Smart station car is now fixed & EML light sorted. Cayman now back to weekend fun, sadly!
I nearly drove a new Golf R estate as of last night, after a test drive and deposit popped down... but SWMBO later made me promise not to buy it until after Christmas :(
So still in the widowmaker...
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Lovely, TBH something like that was what I really wanted when I bought the Spec B but there was no way I'd get it past her indoors, I have owned a couple of Imprezas in my time and really wanted another, back in 2005 or so we took one a bit like yours for a test drive and her opinion was an unequivocal no!
I'm slightly surprised I managed to get the Spec B approved, but glad I did.
What should be 10 minutes trips to the shop are taking about an hour at the moment, can't resist finding something nice and twisty and having a play, been a while since that's happened! It's not the fastest thing I've ever driven but the handling is lovely for a car like this
Not a ferrari- but bought this last week Vauxhall insignia sports tourer vx-line Sri, petrol, manual & put the No plate on this week, needed somtething with a large flat boot, to make it easier to load the bikes , and carry out my duties of odd job man since retiring in march!
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My inlaws had one of these for a while, and I'd borrow it some summers when I was back in the UK, and I ended up having a grudging respect for it. The manual gearbox was fast and loose, although with a ling throw, and it was tiny on the outside, but big on the inside. Funny little thing. I still notice them, out and about.
Exige
I thought I recognized the car and registration from somewhere.
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Paging inspector Raffe !
Your reflection on the Mercedes star almost makes it look like you're wearing a Klan mask .
Big coincidence, same car with same licence plate
You claimed to be considerably richer than anyone else here but you were not stupid until you drank too much
I'll add that considering what were to be your parting words regarding Eddie, I hope you disappear quickly into your hole.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
hi, yes for my sins i was many years repairing accident damage / body repairs, so i can paint, weld etc with set up in my garage and do my own mechanicals/ engine rebuilds ,that was before i became a desk jockey/ insurance assessor using computers !old age is taking its toll now doing the work, and i dont really touch new stuff other than brake pads & occasional code reading.
TomGW
the top dials were on the series 1 cars 67-68, GT and 1600E were same set up as lotus just minus the engine .
Know the feeling, in my youth I worked in the paint rectification dept at a car plant for a while. Came in handy a few times over the years with cars and bikes.
Like you I don’t do much anymore. The car’s too new to play with although I do tinker with the bike. A far cry from rebuilding a Pontiac when my Trans Am decided to become a real Firebird thanks to a leaking fuel bowl pipe on a Holley carb!
Thanks for showing your cars, nice to see.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Don’t think I’ve added to this since the RS Clio, which has now gone, along with the Altea, which died a complicated and expensive mechanical death that I never got to the bottom of.
In their place:
This old knocker of a mk2 Golf. Straight and solid and rocking a 1.8 carb mated to a 3 speed auto. Oh dear.
It’s on the worst coilovers known to man and had a badgeless Jetta front end on it when I picked it up. It’s heading for an 1.8 20VT engine conversion and about 260bhp come February.
For the general running around in.
I needed something reliable and still had the ‘while it lasts’ benefit of cheap VED. It’s not mint but it’s not far off and had a full history. The S-Lines have a few extra styling niceties but this one had the tech and a proper FASH and it was £4K cheaper than an equivalent S-Line.
Because I can’t leave them alone, it’s had some Still Static modified H&R ‘Deep’ coilovers which drop it a minimum of 70mm and go down to 140, some Rotor alloys which I had repainted silver and a set of S5 brakes (not pictured). The Audi tyre spec is 255/35/19 but I am looking at going down to a 235 as the current width is what’s stopping me bringing it closer to the floor.
Nice - always liked Audi Avants (especially fast ones).
WRT the ride height mods - I'm assuming you don't have speed bumps in your area? ;-)
So is skyman back or not?
Asides from my daily car (Mercedes C220) I've owned this for 7 years now (you know... it's law... I own an MX5!)
Just 41k on the clocks and I've probably spent the same as the car cost, modifying it into a fast B road toy. Main mods are:
- MeisterR CRD Coil Overs
- Jass Performance Chassis Rails
- GCFabrications Roll Bar
- Complete teardown of the car from the gearbox back, bare metal strip and repaint
- IL Motorsport Uprated Bushes
- IL Motorsport adjustable droplinks
- Racing Beat rear exhaust section
- IL Motorsport mid section
- K&N Typhoon Induction
Power is the standard 150bhp VVT 1.8 which I do find is enough to exploit. The car is really nice and stiff with the chassis upgrades, so it's just fun on the small B roads here in NI.
Despite only 41k on the clocks and a "garage queen" life, the underneath needed time out and some TLC:
Now, the underneath is back to new - everything built up with new bushes and OE bolts:
Interior, well.. it's custom trimmed. The original seats suffered from a mouldy smell from I bought the car. It must've got wet at some stage with the roof down.
I've thought of changing it many times, but its just a toy for warm/dry days. I take it out for a blast just to clear my head mostly and it's definitely up to the job! Parts cost next to nothing. Reliability is flawless. Definitely deserves the reputation that it has.
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Looking good...
Just read your build thread on nutz, top work!! Im currently working my way through my mk1,doesn't look quite as good as yours though
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