GAH manly activities occured.
my friend came over tonight to demonstrate the effects of having just installed megasquirt on his fiesta xr2i. his car has a rollcage and a 2.0 zetec avec megasquirtizzle.
so off we set for a nice blast out in the country side, about 7minutes and 33 seconds in i noticed a white car up ahead, being driven in a reasonably vigorous manner. whats more the white car was quite an interesting shape.. so we tried to move in for a better look, as we got closer me and my friend though singer chamois, fiat 127.. all sorts, then i noticed as we got closer that it had no bumpers and i could make out a floppy haired driver with a huge tachometer on the dash. STONE THE CROWS its racer 86,
so off we set having a fun little blast round the lanes, i tried to phone him to let him know it was me behind and to slow down and stop so we could look under the bonnet and talk about NOS and other fast and the furious style streetracer stuff. but the motherbugger wouldnt answer his phone and kept up the pace.
as we sho tthrough a town we pulled alongside and despite my rabid gesticulating he still didnt get the hint to pull over. then we went up ahead and pulled over hoping he would too. but no. so then we had to set off and take chase again.
we finally got to some sort of town area, where rob pulled some mad curse word covert military style escape manouvres such as veering off a miniroundabout without indicating.
so i texted him to let him know it was me and we were friendly and not trying to "jack his ride"
as we got to a housing area we though it best to leave him be and gave up chase and set off home. not long later i got a phone call from your man explaining he thought we were somesort of fiesta xr2i based mafia so he was trying to get away.
anyway. it was good fun, and that car looks absolutely gorgeous, especially being hammered along some backroads.
my friend came over tonight to demonstrate the effects of having just installed megasquirt on his fiesta xr2i. his car has a rollcage and a 2.0 zetec avec megasquirtizzle.
so off we set for a nice blast out in the country side, about 7minutes and 33 seconds in i noticed a white car up ahead, being driven in a reasonably vigorous manner. whats more the white car was quite an interesting shape.. so we tried to move in for a better look, as we got closer me and my friend though singer chamois, fiat 127.. all sorts, then i noticed as we got closer that it had no bumpers and i could make out a floppy haired driver with a huge tachometer on the dash. STONE THE CROWS its racer 86,
so off we set having a fun little blast round the lanes, i tried to phone him to let him know it was me behind and to slow down and stop so we could look under the bonnet and talk about NOS and other fast and the furious style streetracer stuff. but the motherbugger wouldnt answer his phone and kept up the pace.
as we sho tthrough a town we pulled alongside and despite my rabid gesticulating he still didnt get the hint to pull over. then we went up ahead and pulled over hoping he would too. but no. so then we had to set off and take chase again.
we finally got to some sort of town area, where rob pulled some mad curse word covert military style escape manouvres such as veering off a miniroundabout without indicating.
so i texted him to let him know it was me and we were friendly and not trying to "jack his ride"
as we got to a housing area we though it best to leave him be and gave up chase and set off home. not long later i got a phone call from your man explaining he thought we were somesort of fiesta xr2i based mafia so he was trying to get away.
anyway. it was good fun, and that car looks absolutely gorgeous, especially being hammered along some backroads.