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 so what we all doing today then - again?
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Chris H
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:26 am

up until ten to eleven! Which is pretty late!

Since thern i have gone, rebooked that small business gateway course thing, got an H1 bulb for the black exec, got a coupel of mags and my lunch.

After lunch, fit the bulb do the handbrake cables and lube up the brakes on the black exec.
Dan
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:30 am

wel im just dossing about, cant be arsed to go out and seal the exhaust on the 172, its leaking at the cat back joint and makes a nasty high pitched whistle from about 5krpm on. but from the outside kinds sounds turbo charged lol.
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:45 am

lazy!

i just fitted the bulb, exciting stuff, cleased up the connectors etc though, i alsready removed the holders and wire brushed them the other week.

Anyway headlights now all work. Still nowhere near as good as a ph1's though!
Dan
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:50 am

I never got to drive my 19 in the dark Sad but i will soon Smile just ordering a meggy h/g afterour convo last night!
Dan
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:11 am

how long should i do the hard run in for chris? i.e how many miles of hard accel but not high revs?
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:41 am

long the better tbh, keep it below 3500 - 4krpm and it will be fine as kong as its warm. Try and avoid liong motorway journeys unless its loaded to get heat and pressure into the engines.

thats the handbrake cable fitted. I also cleaned up the pads and make sude the caliper was free on its sliders. Thing is the handbrake lever comes up a long way still, looks like I will have to do the othwer cable as well. The cable is frayed at the caliper end so I really should.

I wish I had a lift!
JB
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:48 am

on the pcs in uni again....i seem to spend all my time in here...apart from the annoying interuption of the occasional lecture...how inconvenient lol.
matbrown
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Joined: 13 Mar 2006
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:10 am

I'm trying to sort out this wide-track conversion but this time i will use the right parts.



Mat.
Roger Red Hat
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:15 am

sitting about with the cat..feeling better but not good enough to do anything.

this week has been..in a word...shit.
FincH
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:23 am

Went to college this morning and made a pro looking user guide for a program I've made.

Came home and am waiitng to get my fucking car back Sad
FincH
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:46 am

Oh well, it seems I may aswel wait around for fucking Christmas.

PAS pump STILL hadn't arrived at the garage, so chase up the people sending it out and they say, yeah it's ready but they forgot to send it on last nights van.

So did they put it on todays van?

NO? What a bunch of un-capable reatrds.

So now it won't be monday till I get my car back.

What a complete load of fucking shit.

I'm so pissed of right now Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad
Mad Pierre
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Joined: 18 Jun 2004
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:40 pm

Been to work, makeing drill bit's as per norm. Sat about doing nowt after that. then tho' i knock up a cheap ass'd camera mount.
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:44 pm

saw the mount on rsc! lol

does the job though eh!
Mad Pierre
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:35 pm

Yep, Basic, and rough as owt. But does the job. Just need a Ph1. to bolt it to.
Gentle Ben
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:07 pm

Today, I've thrown out about £10K worth of building/electrical/data/plumbing/refrigerant/air conditioning/ventilation supplies from our Melton workshop.

Got myself a spare PC, monitor out of the clear out for my mum, two bottles of wine for me' Dad and for myself a dirty calendar which was hanging up in the bogs! (There's a fit bird in it, I couldn't just throw it away!)

Earlier I raced my best mate in the Clio (he has a Mk4 Golf V5) to be fair there weren't much in it, we were neck and neck up to about 125/130mph but we didn't get the chance to take it further cos I had to come off the road to go home like!


Right now, I'm drunk as owt having polished off a 4-pack of Carlsberg Export and a pint in the local. Pissed as owt now! Tomorrow I pick up the V6 engine, gearbox, ECU and loom from the salvage yard, and on Sunday I'm accompanying a mate down to Somerset (he's won a fish tank on eBay and wants me to go to give him some advice on it)

Going down in his Vectra 2.2 DT which he reckons goes like stink and will hammer my Clio! I'm getting insured on it for the day so we can share the driving so it'll be quite interesting getting behind the wheel and seeing how it feels in comparison.

To be fair the only motors than give my Clio any sort of challenge are TD's! Petrol motors really don't give me any sort of contest, although I was easily outpaced by an early 90's Nissan 200SX 1.8 Turbo 16v the other day, man that thing shifted!
Chris H
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:03 am

so far today I have got the final tyre off my ph1 alloys, now all 12 are now tyreless.

I also got the new toyos fitted to the wheels on the front of my sisters laguna, passenger side was near bald, drivers side not very worn, thats what happens when she throws it round roundabouts.

i bought another wheel for it at the scrappy, so the good drivers side one is now in the boot as a spare (cars never had a spare) and the 2 new tyres are on it.

gonna collect the exec leather tonight.

between now and then I have to wrap up stuff for shipping out tomorrow and finish some work on a few bits and bobs.
Wicked Neo
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:08 am

tidying up my flat today after a weekend of home brew and home grown Wink

then its off to my mothers to dig out 4 x ph2 caps for some scottish guy . . 2 door mirrors for andy, injector rail for doc and collect my birthday cards which always get sent to my mums for some unknown reason lol
Chris H
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:13 am

my heatshield to mofo!

happy birthday! lol
Wicked Neo
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:29 am

Chris H";p="87440 wrote:
my heatshield to mofo!

happy birthday! lol


thats here, found that already lol

and thanks Very Happy
Doc
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:31 am

yea happy b-day mofo!
JB
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:10 am

happy birthday!

how did you know its his birthday?
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