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Almost as bad as the radio in modern Vauxhalls. Every time you switch the ignition on it comes on.
Having to take the key out completely once switched off before it will let you restart is also a ballache.
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It looks to me like a GTA car that's been in the garage and modified Time for a tune?
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More Tata love... Looks very much like it started life as a Discovery.
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I couldn't bring myself to buy a Corsa, let alone tramp over to Germany to drag the remains of one back here on a trailer.
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It looks awful, but I can't help thinking that if the bonnet went round the headlights as per the factory fitment, the grille was moved up to meet the leading edge of the bonnet and it was all painted a sensible colour, then it might not be so bad.
It's still be a Corsa though, albeit with more than double the cc's and twice the number of cylinders than the standard Max Power mobile based on the same.
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Sept 30, 2017 6:43:27 GMT
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MIG is best described as a big electric glue gun for metal.
If you can ARC weld then the move to MIG is pretty simple. Just a question of setting the power and wire speed correctly.
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Sept 28, 2017 6:55:40 GMT
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Oh and they are non tamper torx and easy enough to get Rather defeats the purpose of 'Anti Tamper' bolts doesn't it? I think we'd all be better off going back to sensible hex head bolts with Allen head bolts if we need cap heads. The world would be a much happier place for it.
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Sept 27, 2017 6:57:33 GMT
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I've probably posted this before, but worth checking credentials of people working through Shipley.
I'm not suggesting they're all crooks running beavertail transits on red diesel, most are likely set up as legitimate operators, but there are rules surrounding commercial haulage, and there's potential for your car to end up forfeit should they be caught with insufficient insurance, overloaded, running without a tacho etc.
Caveat Empor and all that.
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Sept 26, 2017 6:43:27 GMT
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It's maybe the fact I'm still half asleep, but weirdly even a photo of an LED light bar switched on hurt my eyes.
Must mean it's pretty good?
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Sept 21, 2017 9:30:27 GMT
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Put it this way, if they do push this any further, I know where I'm going. To Sweden!!!
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Sept 20, 2017 7:03:50 GMT
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Having spent half a day fitting a set of pads to the back of a Vauxhall Combo van yesterday due to everything being siezed solid and requiring everything removing from the vehicle, I can quite agree with that sentiment.
I should point out that it was hanging on a lift, and I had a good selection of tools, including a windback tool for the callipers.
Leads me onto another thing, what's wrong with using bolts with a nice normal Hexagonal head? Or if you need a cap head bolt, why not a nice hexagonal hole in the top rather than the ludicrous range of fittings such as Torx, Security Torx, Metric Spline, and whatever that silly bolt head is that looks like a Torx key.
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Sept 17, 2017 7:12:34 GMT
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Blackpopracing suggested the declaration would be on all tax applications not just mot / tax exemption applications for old cars, that's what I was referring to with the Ecu remappers and engine modders getting listed and maybe taxed further. Them mapped diesels don't half kick out some smoke. That's down to poor mapping more than anything else. As for the MOT exemption issue, the more cynical part of me can't help but see it as a bit of a parlour trick to distract you whilst they turn the place over -as alluded to in previous posts- with the other changes which come as a knock on effect. I'd also have to put forward the argument that being as hot rodding and modifying cars is very much part of our 'historic' car culture, and newer -post 1988- builds are as much a part of it. What's to say a 'modern' custom or hot rod build put together using traditional skills, but a newer driveline isn't a VHI, or has no potential to be in the future?
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Sept 12, 2017 9:45:59 GMT
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Have you considered having it media blasted? The best way to get a load of paint and other wibblepoo off of anything, and will generally expose any other weak areas to boot.
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Sept 10, 2017 8:22:46 GMT
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I'm on the case. He's one of these chaps who has garages and cars everywhere, whilst his one at home is also pretty full. May take a little time to find them, but he's not gonna do out stupid like weigh em in.
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Sept 8, 2017 18:58:31 GMT
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I could also do with new wings Group buy!!!!!! A mate of mine has a selection of P4 wings. Apparently worth little or nothing as you can't give them away. If there's interest I'll ask him if he's willing to part with them for some pound notes.
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Not one I regret selling, but one I regret passing up the opportunity to buy. My use had owned it for 25 years, and was going to let me have it for a reasonable deal, but the girlfriend at the time said I didn't need it, so someone else bought it from him. Several girlfriends and one ex wife later, is probably still have the truck if I'd bought it.
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There's a few ways cars can be found entertaining/engaging to drive, but to my mind it boils down to two basics.
A well set up chassis with good handling and balance which gives confidence to throw into corners and doesn't necessarily have a great deal of power upstream of the driving wheels.
The other is a less agile chassis with that bit more power than it can comfortably handle to keep you awake.
I lean toward option 2 in my thinking, but what's the collectives thoughts?
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Is it worth suggesting something like the BMW M60/M62 or Toyota 1uz-fe V8's?
Not quite American iron, but fairly modern quad cam engines which are available fairly cheaply (still in a car) with decent tuning potential.
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With that take on it, this seems appropriate...
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They'll be blasted and painted, but I can't decide over painting them white or go green? The white has that traditional look which I've grown to really like, and I think the green would also look good. Decisions decisions..... I think the only way to go is some sort of ice white, with obligatory red and blue pinstriping, and have them fitted with a set of Insa Turbo Traction Trac, which is about as close to a set of BF Goodrich Trac Edge as you can manage these days. 80's-tastic, and the sort of thing we all dreamed of one day fitting to a Land Rover when you saw the adverts for package deals from Craddocks in LRO during the early 90's.
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