What have you done to your car today?
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Doesn't the wiring loom have the potential to be a complete pain? If it's a write off will you go for another Z4, or fancy a change?
All this talk about badgers has just reminded me of when I was driving very slowly down a narrow country lane a few years back.
Badger strolled out in front of me, so I said "oh look, there's a badger" and promptly drove into it. Was going so slow it didn't even knock it over, but gave my passengers plenty of entertainment
Was just about to post that
You had assistance changing your wheel?
I didnt need it - he offered, and as I was in a business suit it kinda made sense!
I think he just wanted someone to talk to. Trucking is a lonely business.
I wish you owned a garage
well for the bodywork and wiring loom pricing, your radiators are crazy costly as for my change of car, an RR sport but with LPG, I know I know, but its all about the MPGZ
When I've looked for radiators in the past (they were for bikes mind) they were 400+ (gbp) so I kind of rounded a bit
We need pics!
I'm like 400 miles away from it, here
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Remind me again the reasons why you'd pick a Disco 3 with a body... sorry an RR Sport over a proper RR?
[TW]Fox;27644957 said:Remind me again the reasons why you'd pick a Disco 3 with a body... sorry an RR Sport over a proper RR?
I like the waftiness of it all, and the RR sport is slightly less enormous, its just a pipe dream really, I'd like an m5 estate too, maybe an xkr (5.0) convertible etc...
What will I end up with? something gay complete with curling tongs and a blue rinse aid
Buy a proper FF RR. The RR Sport offers all the downsides of RR ownership without the upsides of that wonderful interior and not looking like nothing matters but the bling
OK I'm not adverse to that, am I right in thinking you don't mind the LPG aspect, never really thought about it but after sitting in my broken down car for a while I decided to investigate, RR Sport was the first coolish car I found with a conversion.
be very careful on the lpg conversion of the 4.2 sc. has to be done right. something to do with independently lubricating the valves.
http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic119.html
http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic119.html
Went to BLiNK Motorsport in Cheshire again, had the following work done:
New lightened flywheel fitted (TTV item, 4kg, stock one is around 8kg)
New clutch fitted (figured made sense to change this at the same time as the flywheel, went for an Exedy OEM spec item which is still plenty strong enough for the ~200bhp the car made).
Really happy with the improvement here, drivability seems similar to stock, maybe slightly sharper clutch engagement, but none of the issues people normally associate with a lightened flywheel (noise and vibrations, stalling all the time at slow speeds etc). The car feels much more eager to rev, quicker in the lower gears and generally much more like a sports car should!
Rear alignment bolts all removed, replaced with new items treated with anti-seize.
Full 4 wheel alignment on Hunter setup.
Had a free power run on the dyno as well, BLiNK haven't seen a car with cams yet and wanted to see how it compared to the cars they have modified themselves (usually just manifold/exhaust, panel filter and remap, with the stock cams retained).
They use a hub dyno which makes it harder to compare to other places that have rollers. They were pretty impressed, mapping was very safe throughout the rev range, and it showed a peak of 151bhp at the hub, with the correction factor they normally use (x1.35) to estimate flywheel power and power runs on a roller dyno, they reckon this is a safe 200bhp, plenty of fun for an ~1130kg car
New lightened flywheel fitted (TTV item, 4kg, stock one is around 8kg)
New clutch fitted (figured made sense to change this at the same time as the flywheel, went for an Exedy OEM spec item which is still plenty strong enough for the ~200bhp the car made).
Really happy with the improvement here, drivability seems similar to stock, maybe slightly sharper clutch engagement, but none of the issues people normally associate with a lightened flywheel (noise and vibrations, stalling all the time at slow speeds etc). The car feels much more eager to rev, quicker in the lower gears and generally much more like a sports car should!
Rear alignment bolts all removed, replaced with new items treated with anti-seize.
Full 4 wheel alignment on Hunter setup.
Had a free power run on the dyno as well, BLiNK haven't seen a car with cams yet and wanted to see how it compared to the cars they have modified themselves (usually just manifold/exhaust, panel filter and remap, with the stock cams retained).
They use a hub dyno which makes it harder to compare to other places that have rollers. They were pretty impressed, mapping was very safe throughout the rev range, and it showed a peak of 151bhp at the hub, with the correction factor they normally use (x1.35) to estimate flywheel power and power runs on a roller dyno, they reckon this is a safe 200bhp, plenty of fun for an ~1130kg car
It's available through carbonmiata.com, they do a couple of different designs and finishes.
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Will, your MX-5 seems to get better all the time. Would love a passenger ride at some point, sounds like you have massively improved the car
Not bad for a 98 car
Better than what someone said to me the other day about the Essex plate resembling "EASY PIGGY"
