Bucky
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Still messing about with bike vans. Check out my instagram @ slammedvans
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Had this 3 years now. Finally racing it tomorrow in a small Army competition on Salisbury Plain. Thinking of getting something newer if it ends up being fun and im any good.
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On 10/03/2017 at 7:21 PM, Danrobs86 said:
I'm joining RAF regiment , and would like to know if anyone joined as a gunner and if they got a drivers license ?
Thanks
If you don't get it through training you'll most likely get it when you get to your Unit so you can be able to drive various vehicles for duties etc
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Well my 2013 Trek Fuel ex got stolen from my military accommodation last year. I've finally got round to replacing it using the insurance money and got a great deal from All Terrain Cycles on this 2017 Trek Remedy 8(also got the Mrs the 2016 one at the same time)
I'm well happy with it. 1x11 is perfect and the dropper post is so useful.
The bars could do with being a touch wider and I'm not a fan of the lock-on grips not being grippy on the very ends as it didn't give a positive grip feel on the outer part of my hand.
Also the shifter only being thumb operated may take some getting used to, on the Fuel I could up-shift with my index finger and found that useful.
All that said, I think its a great bike and hope I'll get my moneys worth out of this one now.
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On 29/02/2016 at 9:44 PM, SamKidney said:
That's a really anal reason to fail a car. For starters the exhaust hangars are generally designed to adequately support the exhaust if one or more hangars fail. If one was insecure id have argued against that.
Failing it on wiring secured by a cable tie is also pretty rediculous.
Very common for testers to do this. It looks suspicious if a 10yr old car has no fails or advisories for 3 or 4 years in a row.
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well ive had the van 6 months, i want something bigger now
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ok so done a couple of things. New facelift bumper, sri grills, hids, facelift projector lights, drivers wing and Sri wheels.
next months list - overhaul rear brakes (snapped handbrake adjuster), bleed full brake system (looks like marmite), new engine mount, dash bulb, seal master cylinder/bulkhead water leak, paint wheels silver(dont liek the blue and 100% hate black), find and fix source of knocking/pulling from front suspensiondefiantly done all the looks things first and then fixing all the fubar'd mechanical stuff second ha
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yeah most likely a softball rather than a baseball though
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guessing not many were sold in the first place?
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so the civic type R is gone. and so has my £4k of debt from the nissan.
this is my current motor.
As you can see very faded and poorly looked after. the interior is minging and hasnt been cleaned in a long time. The brakes hardly work, clutch on its way out, no radio, broken wing mirror.
So i decided to tackle the obvious things first:
parts fitted so far: HIDs, Coilovers, Sxi alloys, Pioneer headunit, Fli speakers in rear panels, 25cm sunstrip, wind deflectors, LED sidelights, Vectra C sideskirts
Stuff still to do- fix rear brake adjuster, bleed brakes, fix leaky master cylinder, replace carpets and seats, some sort of silly straight through exhaust, maybe better wheels if i decide i can waste money on it.
So far it owes me less than £1k.
Oh and does 500miles to a £65 tank of diesel.
(the nissan did 250 to £70 and civic 230 to £65)
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got rid of the rusty rotten misfiring out of MOT nissan and got this:
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that meet was an organised charity meet in aid some lil kid whos got some dead shitty disease or something i dunno
there were about two hundered 'modified' cars and probably another 100 halfords spectacular motors.
Picadilly Boy Racers turned up with their lambos and porsches.
the second part of the night was another retail park announced on the night by word of mouth rather than social media to try give us time to play before police turned up.
I had about 20 mins of donuting around 'photographers' and lamposts and doing burnouts etc before the police shut us down.
first cruise ive been to in a rwd drive car and had the balls to get out there and attempt to throw it about poperly in front 500 people, i did really enjoy it.
yeah that slag and the lil dude shooting the pics of her her were on every single motor that night. his camera didnt look anything special but he had what appeared to be some sort of light stolen from a middle aged persons garage door mounted on top of it.
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So i ended up at a cruise somewhere near laaaaandon. f**king southern fairies.
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For sale £4000 ono
feel free to share on fb/forums/friends etc
cant afford to run it from kent to yorkshire and keep modifying it too
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Just wondered how you were getting on with it, I have been looking about at cars and an S14 falls in my budget.
I have always liked the look of them, and I have seen some great track builds and time attack builds. So I just wanted to know a bit more about them, from somebody who has had one but won't be overly biased about them.
Basically what I want is a 3/4000 car, that will go well, handle well, easy to get bits for and work on and will be reasonable to drive daily.
It has to be reliable, which I know is very car specific. But generally I believe the SR to be a good engine, but things like turbos are the weak link? How true is that?
I know it is a bit of a pointless exercise because I probably won't buy one, but I would still like to know if you have the time
Mine was a totally standard automatic with 100k miles on the clock with an extensive dealer service history.
For the money i paid and the money I've spent I'm more than happy with it.
Mines been completely reliable, not missed a beat in the 10k I've driven it.
Feels to be a strong engine. I've helped with putting an SR into a e36 over last summer with a load of aftermarket bits and custom bits.
Both engines have been good, I've been running mine at 13psi(standard is 9psi) for months and it seems to love it. I wouldn't say the t28 turbo is weak, but i have heard of a few t25 not lasting so long.
the e36 now has a gt2871r, apexi ecu, apexi AVCr. FMIC, flywheel, tubular manifold 3" elbows down pipe and system.
Coming from the Vauxhall and BMW worlds i was well happy with the amount of 2nd hand and off the shelf upgrades available.
They are a great feeling car to drive. The seating position feels very sport and jap coupe. Obviously the room for rear seat passengers is minimal.
Handling even with 15+yr old suspension was better than the E36. Brakes wouldn't tend to get hot when it was an auto and i was having winding back road fun, but seem to be better now its manual.
For £3-4000 you should be able to get yourself a well looked after and clean standardish one, or a modified but slightly tatty one.
They do suffer from rust unfortunately. I've had to replace both my rear inner arches and the sills will need doing after the next MOT.
Going sideways in it feels so good in it. I prefer the 14a over the 14 but i am biased, just prefer the headlights, everything else is the same though.
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Who is it on here who bought an S14 recently?
Was it Bucky?
you are correct
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On a scale of 1 to dreadful..How 'bad' are the ebay special replica steering wheels? Ok for daily duties or steer
well clear all together?says it all.
I bent my 'OMP' wheel when i was drifting last year. not in a crash, just by hanging off it a little too hard. think about what your instinct is to do in the event of a collision, its to brace your arms against the steering wheel, guessing your car has an airbag at the moment so you're really gona f**k yourself up with a cheap wheel. dont be tight, go spend the extra on a decent wheel and hub. I've got a sparco faster now and it does feel much more stable
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just spent the last week in Tignes with an army mate skiing and partying every night. what an amazing week. never going on a summer holiday again, winter sports holiday is where its at!
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love drifting, been doing drift practice days for nearly 3 years now. anybody who has a rwd and can drift will admit to lighting the back wheels up on public roads at some point.
this video isnt even that bad, no ridiculous high speed drifts or big spin outs. just nice controlled 2nd gear wet tarmac mostly open corners on same side of the road.
but FFS tell him to use two hands on the steering wheel, forget about the handbrake so much and they wont need to rely on it. theres no need to ever palm the steering wheel when going lock to lock, a quick flick and youll just grab it when its gone far enough. thats it the car is set up to drift, if not then why not! it'll drift better.
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this weekend has mostly consisted of rose joints, left hand threads and energy drinks:
bit gutted i've had to raise the front until i can borrow my mates arch roller.
Ordered but not delivered - Turbo elbow 3", down pipe 3", matching rear bumper, Apexi AVC-r.
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yeah that happened.
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a nicely put together video from the inter services downhill championship race held at Revolution Bike Park.
not sure how to embed link or whatever it is.
I make an appearance from 30-38seconds finshing over the final table with a very trials style whip
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when IRC EL Gato's, baggy jeans and shit helmets was normal.
I feel old as hell now watching them. Awesome to see how much its changed in 10 years
Post a pic of your non trials bike
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Now racing enduro as amember of the Army Team.
If anyone sees us at events give us a shout