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 Ragging Someone Elses Car ;)
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Addie
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Joined: 05 Apr 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:03 am

Picked up Huw's Valver today, shes a go-er!

Tiny little bit of surface rust N/S/R arch and laqure pealing from O/S mirror but thats it, 12 months MOT, 87k, £500.

Me? In someone elses fast car? Using free petrol? Without tax? Down country roads? And film it? I sure did Wink

www.blacklin.fsnet.co.uk/K73OCM/valvervid.wmv

Some pics also here:

www.blacklin.fsnet.co.uk/K73OCM/

Very Happy

Just got to go and rescue my Cordy now for some side-by-side pics...
JB
Mr Quoter-vator

Joined: 16 Feb 2004
Posts: 7405

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:09 am

funny looking coolant bottle cap...

wheres the battery cover?

nice clean heat shield!

shame about the missing strut brace end cap...

tiny bit of rust...nothing is it!

like i said, i bet you dont want to hand it over now Razz

and of course i cannot fault the choice of phase, shape and colour Wink
huwwatkins
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:46 am

I'll swap the cap over, got 3 of em here.
Neal
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Joined: 18 Feb 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:11 am

Huw, you want me to save you the scuttle and strut brace covers off my scrapper?

Anything else it needs?
Roger Red Hat
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:18 am

thats the first time ive seen inside car footage from a valver Smile

sound rather sweet.

im getting more and more additced to them.

also, how come you had his 19 anyway?
Chris H
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Joined: 02 Mar 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:25 am

sound scrap, its really quiet, go listen to my 16V vids that are posted in pics/vids forum. Far louder and its quicker to.
Neal
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:27 am

to be fair, i dont find any car sounds the same on video as it does in real life. Definately not mine. Always sounds muffled and quiet.
huwwatkins
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:28 am

Chris H wrote:
sound scrap, its really quiet, go listen to my 16V vids that are posted in pics/vids forum. Far louder and its quicker to.


How on earth would you know their quiker than a car you've not even driven? Wanker! Wink
Addie
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:29 am

Huw bought my old Valver so I know him quite well, he won the Reddun on eBay but it was up near me and he can't get down for a few weeks so I said I'd pick it up, but didn't want to drive it down the A19 without tax so got the bloke to do it and picked it up today.

Might be having my old one back, maybe Twisted Evil

Thats standard too - unless it has a K&N panel filter. Turned a few heads on the way back!

Not as loud as the blue one but still sounded pretty good for standard I thought.

Chris = Arse Razz
Chris H
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:41 am

the fact at the end of the vid you see the speedo and its not even from a standstill he started
Chris H
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:43 am

http://www.retro-renault.com/viewtopic.php?t=1138&highlight=vids

look at in car vid, just move round the traffic light then gunned it. 80 in about 9 seconds or so.

Quicker than your new one.
Chris H
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:47 am

that hit what 90 at best after 22 seconds! lol

its 80 when he shows us the speedo which is at 80mph.
JB
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Joined: 16 Feb 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:49 am

fuckin hell cant u say anything nice!!
Chris H
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:50 am

no I can't.

I am in a bad mood
Roger Red Hat
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:04 am

ok, fair enough, chris's sounds nicer.

the energy engiens sound rather nice as well actually..
Chris H
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:07 am

why thank you roger.

Shame it needs fixed, but then again a hydraulic component thats used frequently and is 14 years old isn't to bad really for lifespan
Addie
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:19 am

Speedo is bang on 90 in that vid (just checked the uncompressed version) and it wasn't a 0-60 video at all, it was drawn out to hear the engine note from a standard car Wink

Stop spoiling everyone elses fun with your arrogance Chris Razz
Wicked Neo
FCS Event Manager

Joined: 04 Jan 2005
Posts: 3680

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:51 pm

hmmmm, are we all gonna have to do videos now hehe

i dont think i got webspace enough to hold the length of video file required for the time it takes my ph2 to get to 130 lol

it gets to 90 quick enough but then seems to take forever to get up that extra 40mph.

It's just not as quick as my phase 1 (which is currently immobile Sad )
Chet T16
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Joined: 12 Feb 2004
Posts: 5685

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:30 pm

http://www.renault-turbo.com/jonboy/vid(005).3gp

Vid of blue 'un today, see if ye can spot the problem with it Wink
huwwatkins
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:48 pm

Chris H wrote:
no I can't.

I am in a bad mood


Well shut your pie hole then! Laughing
Roger Red Hat
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:42 pm

suonds odd at the end..

either you put it into netural and revevd it,

clutch is going

or you miss changed a gear...

thats my betting...seeing as i can only see the road

unless your putting your foot down all the time..and the only getting the boost..

like a extream case of turbo lag.
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