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"Cough" :wink: http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/426679.htm isnt that another one blessed with a ford lump? Its even got mondeo rear lights, looks cheap and nasty because it is! Do you have something wrong with you? The Noble M12 is a fantastic car. TVRs over the years have used bits from mainstream...

I'd look towards a roll cage with your setup. Regular seats and seatbelts are designed to move and allow movement in an accident. If the car rolls there is a safety factor that allows you to bend forward or to one side. With bucket seats and harnesses you are held upright. If the car rolls and the t...

aha, access hole under rear bench you say - excellent news, will have a look and get it sorted. Hopefully this could shed light on where the issue actually is.

Thanks muchly.

So can be done with no removal of fuel tank (which I imagine requires prop/rear subframe/axle removal? Someone said to me the other day it was an 8 hour job and not knowing how to access the top of the tank to get at the pipes started to worry a touch. Sorry if sounds like I'm going on, I know where...

Lines on my car definately gone. At first thought it was the metal pipe corroded as it looked wet but now you can actually see the fuel coming down from higher up which missed before with all the insulation! Looking at below pic reckon it's 9 or 11 that have gone, or the joins on them. Put the car u...

Adrian Flux and HIC are sister companies (teaching Granny to suck eggs here?) and hence offer similar policies. One thing to think about it the excess. I managed to have the track excess knocked down on an HIC policy by proving trackday experience. At first IIRC it was Ã‚£1k or Ã‚£2k - pretty much n...

Have done a search but can't find anything, although previously sure I've read about it! Been offered another 318is for Ã‚£500 with rust on front wing, needs a new drivers sill, and fuel pipes corroded and leaking front to rear. On my current 318is I have signs of corrosion on the solid fuel lines t...

Really you want a very long sweeping wave from approx 40Hz to 40kHz. Ideally the volume at any given part of the range at the drivers position will be equal to any other. A lot of people want pounding bass though, so really down to personal preferance. In an old "street bass" system I built, I use 2...

74k FBMWSH and under the prices quoted above here....

Mitsubishi Starion? Pretty much bombproof, just rot badly.

A Pug 205/309 Mi16 could be picked up for that, mine did 14.5 second SQM and built for under Ã‚£2k as a basic car.

That sounds very expensive, does it use standard fixings and size?

http://www.thinkauto.com/

Might be good place to start

Mate of mine has one and loves it to bits. He has been lucky as absolutely nothing has gone wrong with it. With any of this sort of car the parts are massively expensive (generally speaking) and when things go wrong it costs a small fortune to put right. If you are saying this would be your main car...

Forget it, I'll just ask somewhere else.

Thanks though to those who replied with something worthwhile.

Bob_S wrote:i'd like to know how your comparing a shoppping car to an exec saloon

That's a hell of a lot more than I thought they'd be for a standard mild steel system. I know with Peugeot 205 Gtis, Arvin make excellent pattern exhausts and the whole lot comes in at about Ã‚£100 including downpipe. Might have a word with Neal and see if he can price up a full stainless system for...

The exhaust on my IS isn't the best and wondered if it is IS specific. Manifold looks fine, 2 into 1 section isn't as good, and the rest of it to the back probably has a year or two of life left. Who supplies these systems and how much are they? On another note, a place I used to work would be able ...

I think I'm only on my 4th fillup since getting the IS but here's what I found: Bought car with 3/4 tank of fuel so no idea then Second tank I did was 38MPG average, that was using it to get to work and back for a couple of days, then a long trip up to see friends in Walsall and back. Most of that w...

At idle your engine isn't efficient, you're won't necessarily getting a clean burn and possible causing/increasing carbon build up and valve seat burn. If starting up from cold and leaving idleling, the engine will warm up slowly. Extra fuel on cold start maps can cause bore wash, and of course oil ...

From numerous experiences, the cheapest isn't always the best. The only insurers I have ever been happy with are Firebond, who have been bought out and shut down by Footman James. After numerous arguements previously with HIC over an LSD being listed with them as "unclassified gearbox modification",...

If you have hotter, more compressed exhaust gasses, they will move quicker and there will be more of it - the standard exhaust might be good but at the extremes this engine would need to be built to I'd say a bespoke system (especially manifold) would be required to get the very best out of it. That...

At a very rough guess and assuming the right parts were available 230-250bhp. If certain parts were not available you'd spent a lot of the cash on the tooling and manufacture costs. To get power you need RPM, and to get RPM you need the right components. The bottom end would need to be forged steel ...

I know these are good engines, but to be anywhere near 300bhp you'd be looking at full race spec, frequent rebuilds and a build in the region of Ã‚£10k + your engine management. Even then I'd say 300bhp would be an unrealistic target - consider they are pushing roughly 285bhp through Duratecs at the...

I would very much agree on having an instructor - well worth every penny! Used to live up in North Wales, and nip over to Anglesey Circuit (as it was) once a month at least. Found I was doing consistent lap times just over one minute - went out with an instructor and dropped my laps down by another ...

I'm confused a little from the lack of much real info on that site - I was assuming that you'd be stuck with an original AFM, but with my lack of BM specific knowledge not sure what Motronic and sensors they actually run on M20 and M40. If this system allows you to remap accurately via TPS and MAF r...

I've been thinking about this a lot since reading yesterday and like some of the points about I can't get my head around it. The expensive and important part of "tuning" the car, as they call it, is the mapping. Even if you can map yourself you really need a rolling road. Really looms are easy, and ...

I rate Mintex 1155s for the money on cars over a ton, very consistent at pretty much any temp and good bite from cold. Worth changing fluid at the same time IMHO as old fluid will boil up easier. I'd go with the smaller wheel on a set of worn road tyres for a first track day. Something like a moulde...

Thanks, at least it's a start!

The do look good on black/silver...

Been swapping an engine for a mate today and he reckons a light anthracite would be best, but I'm really curious to see what other colours would look like

Anyone got any pics of them with various colour BBS wheels on? I'm trying to work out what colour to paint the wheels I've got. I've always been a fan of white wheels on cars, but nobody seems to think they'd look right on the car. Black with silver rim is always an option but I'd rather do one colo...

I'm building a 205 Gti rallycar at the moment and that has been done as a full rebuild from bare shell (including back to galvanised coating on most of car, and welding in any new metal where required). So far a year of my life and Ã‚£5k of parts (including all the bits bits) plus another grand wort...

ignore me, did it very easily...

Just wondering how best to take them apart so can spray them up in seperate pieces.

Pushed the badge out, but worried about snapping the plastic forcing them apart.

Depends if it has a one way valve in already or not - if you do then yes. Alternative is to either switch to pedal box with master cylinder appropriate for non-servo assisted braking or as you said running another vaccuum source (which I can't say I've seen unless you were to adapt a diesel type, so...

they use a one way or "check" valve on the vaccuum hose

Just bought some wheel caps off him for my alloys.

Deal went fine, only issues were with money getting from my account to his but that was down to slow banks.

Arrived promptly once money went in.

Pretty much as above, the whole rewarding thing gets me. A mate summed it up well with the phrase "smiles per gallon". I've clouted about a fair bit in a Vauxhall Monaro (old man has one), Jag XKR, Lexus GS-430, driven the entire VXR range in anger, and yet I'd still rather be in a 140bhp E30. I've ...

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