Save it for the black stuff... OcUK Manchester Meet 3

agw_01 · 20 Mar 2006 at 16:18

hahahha, some superb pics there Mike! Nice close up of my car, lol!

And nice one taking a picture of the rovertech sticker on the 214. You forgot to hide the reg

Some rather worrying pictures of me too...

edited... picture shown above

God knows what I was doing.

agw_01 · 20 Mar 2006 at 16:22

Si, go outside and look at the car again... the lower half of the rear bumper

agw_01 · 20 Mar 2006 at 16:25

cymatty said:
I know i cant bring myself to post a picture of it.

Must be because you know it's true. Nevermind, I'll post it when I get home!

agw_01 · 20 Mar 2006 at 16:34

I got a few of the 300's. The purple one with the big kit and the bright orange one were awesome!

agw_01 · 20 Mar 2006 at 16:43

Yeah Mike, that is one ******* horrible piece of ****.

The orange Colt next to it isn't bad though.

El, by awesome I meant it as though it's probably pushing out mega power.

agw_01 · 20 Mar 2006 at 21:36

Coco said:
Ello, ello, ello.

Huge thanks once again to Andy & Simon for arranging another Manchester Meet.

Big thumbs up go to Paulspiteri's TypeR which sounded the daddy with the IK, Goliath's very well kept RS, LordMike's MR2 beast, Paradigm's rapppid VTR (au-revoir!) & AGW's 220, sort the brakes!!!

Many thanks for the comments towards my driving, there were a couple of hairy moments!

Jesus Coco, you must be the last member to post back after every meet! Hope you made it home without having any near misses involving buckets

Was great to see you again though, but I think you'll have to have major words with Si. He's going on about not attending future meets.

God knows what was going on with my brakes. I hardly touched them. The 214 brakes were adequate for the first two meets, but I did make them smoke on the pre-meet. I suppose because I know the roads better I go faster... hence the more braking needed at bends.

El said that it sounded like the callipers were sticking though, so I'll have to check that out. I'll hopefully get chance to fit my suspension/strut braces and 282mm brake conversion by the next meet though.

Oh, also got a full scorpion exhaust lined up... de-cat and all :cool:

agw_01 · 20 Mar 2006 at 22:01

L0rdMike said:
Wont you end up having to put the cat back on every year for mot time though?

If I do, the bolts will be fairly easy to get off anyway, so it's no problems.

A post regarding the rust before El gets in

....

Yep, I'm going to take the car to a bodyshop in the summer and get the rear sill and drivers arch sorted out. They're the two major parts that need some work.

There's slight bubbling around some of the arches, but that shouldn't be too much work.

Going to spend quite a bit on this car to get it looked as mint as the 214

Give it another wash followed by a wax and a polish next weekend... see how well it comes up.

agw_01 · 20 Mar 2006 at 22:47

paradigm said:
Or were you reffering to the "you filled your car, now its worth twice as much Andy" comment

Mark, not booked it yet. Just waiting for some money off westy to enter my bank account

I filled up to the brim on Saturday night. Did about 20 miles of steady speed. By the time I got to the services after picking Marv up it was just under the top white line.

When I set off from the pub to go home, it was on 3/4 of a tank. By the time I got home it was on 1/2 tank.

I cained it most of the way home... especially after I had to turn around at Huddersfield

Had to make up for lost time.

agw_01 · 21 Mar 2006 at 17:39

thebrasso said:
Don't worry about it dude...I've always been one of the quiet ones in life and find it hard talking to new people.

Sorry Andy, I don't believe that for a second

"Hi, I'm thebrasso" I think it was

Si, you can't put that in your sig and not turn up :mad:

You better be there!

agw_01 · 21 Mar 2006 at 17:49

lukechad said:
Heh, I got exactly the same, I fely a bit awkward when i first arrived so it was good that someone started to talk to me first

We've all been there Luke, so don't worry about it

What suprised me was that apart from paradigm's (or was it westy's) comments about my stutter (joking anyway) no one burst out into a fit of laughter like I was used to at school/college.

Just shows what a great bunch of guys there are on here.

agw_01 · 21 Mar 2006 at 17:56

Hmmm, not sure about that tbh

benno_bro gave me permision to put these pics up... so here we go...

Seeing the crowd gather when Clive lifted the bonnet brought a smile to my face. Nice to see that people are actually interested in the Tubby engine. As soon as I heard the DV go off I looked up and toddled over to see what all the fuss was about.

agw_01 · 21 Mar 2006 at 23:53

L0rdMike said:
benno_bros pics look a bit biased to me.

They're the ones I took

agw_01 · 23 Mar 2006 at 08:59

-westy- said:
Just a quick note to say thankyou to agw_01 and cymatty for putting up with me over the weekend, and showing me the glory that is Manchester pubs.

cheers guys, you're both more than welcome around my way for the SW Meet

Yeah, nice try

I'm very impressed at your pulling techniques, but then what did I expect from Jeremy Clarkson himself

For everyone else, we were playing pool and these two 'birds' come over.. if you can call them that. One of them was quite scary.

Anyway, westy starts with his magic and before I know it, they're all laughing and joking together :eek:

Legend!

agw_01 · 24 Mar 2006 at 10:26

lol Clive, have you posted any of yours that you sent me?

Right, I heard last night that Si has a video if him overtaking me on the bridge when I was doing 40 (due to very cooked brakes).

I of all people want to see it... just for the comedy factor of a Saxo overtaking a Rover

So come on Si, post post post!!!

agw_01 · 24 Mar 2006 at 10:43

Firestar_3x said:
How come you cooked your brakes andy, twin vented on the front?

Trust your going to uprate them?

God knows mate! I had the 214 brakes smoking at the pre-meet, but at previous MM's they didn't even fade.

I'm guessing because I'm getting to know the roads, I'm going faster and braking later and harder for the corners. Weird though as I hardly touched the brakes until I got to dead mans junction and even then I wasn't hammering them.

I'm hoping to get most of the car sorted by MM4. Strut braces, suspension (going on just under 2 weeks, wooooo), exhaust and the front braking setup from the MG ZS 180 (282mm discs).

El did say that it sounded like the calliper was sticking, which would explain why the brakes got so hot. When the weather gets better I'm going to whip the wheels off and reset the pistons in the callipers. See if that helps.

El, yeah I think you went past me before Si. I know I was grinning like a school girl as you did.

agw_01 · 24 Mar 2006 at 10:53

Nice one. Will be good for you to be able to utilise the 5's handling and ability fully

With any luck, my P6000's will have worn down to slicks by the next meet, so I should be sorted in that department

I'll probably replace them with low profile Eagle's... something like these.

Should look better than the tractor 185/55's that are on at the moment.

agw_01 · 24 Mar 2006 at 11:08

I won't be able to update my status until payday on the 10th.

Then I've got to work out how much I'll have left at the end of the month.

If I do come, I'll basically be spending all of my money and end up with naff all by the end of the month... something that I need to stop doing!

I might still come though. Only live once and all that

agw_01 · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:41

Is this ready for the archives now guys?

agw_01 · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:49

Firestar_3x said:
Deffo

Someone needs to post the pics in the Motors site, want me to sort that out?

Mark

That would be good Mark

Are you going to use all of our photos? Want me to zip mine up and send them to you?

agw_01 · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:51