tipsy Jock

Phew I thought the date had changed back again. The Rallye will probably be unchanged in November, i'll bring pictures of my engine build though

All being well I'll be there. Looking forward to seeing some of these cars!

Whoa! UK to southern coast of Spain and then on to Monaco and the Alps, you're mad! On my trip back in April we wanted to do Northern Italy and Monaco but we thought it was too much as we were already doing France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Oh and the 2nd October is good for me Steve, by the way that date is also a RWYB day at Pod (I think), so for anyone interested there's that to do afterwards.

Terrible news, as much as i'd like to hear Morspeed's side of it I can't see how they can possibly justify the mistakes and delay. Drag their name through the mud! They may not care what people think of them but they will care when they run out of customers.

haha, thanks! I think i'm going to be at Santa Pod with the Rallye Register that weekend, but there's nothing stopping me nipping out to meet you guys for lunch on the sunday.

I can't do that date, all booked up in October! November would be best for me

The post office will tend to get you on the exchange rate to change it back. That's what i've found in the past. E.g. £220 worth of Euros, post office would only give £190 for them.

I think it is, this GT-R has been designed from the outset to be hard to modify. The ECU apparently will pick up anything that's altered. Clearly Nissan have forgotton that on a heavily modified car, the standard ECU is one of the first things to be junked lol. I like this weeks episode, they're still struggling for ideas, but less so than last weeks proved lol.

Really? There were 3 or 4 of them at the ring when I was there being run by a driving school / ring rental company. All track prepped with cages etc.

The tennis was brilliant. I was quite literally on the edge of my seat. Top gear was pretty poor I thought. The whole Alfa feature was so scripted it's untrue. Next they will be using canned laughter.

Right, I've just used Hijack this, Is there anyway I can upload the notepad file for one of you whizzes to look at? The uploader wont let me

How about instead of telling the mere mortals, making me a senior so I can be in on the joke? Your secret would be safe with me! Worth a shot

Awwww No-one ever lets me in on the joke. Year 7 all over again!

I can't believe this. I was stunned when Oli died, in disbelief when I heard the news about Beau, I can't even think of any words now. Another T-F great gone. R.I.P buddy.

This looks like the virus I got earlier this week. Norton didn't even notice it and still hasn't. I've just d/l'd the latest spybot to try later, looks like it's not going to work though.

I love how you call the VTR/VTS common and then suggest buying perhaps the most common soft top on the roads lol. There's a reason both are so popular you know.

My 106 was pretty good for not rattling. Although now with stiffer engine mounts and no interior everything rattles! The whole french cars being rubbish is a bit tiresome, the comments seem to always come from people that have never owned one. I've owned the Rallye for just over a year now and it's been great. Admittedly the head gasket did go recently but it had just done 2500 miles across Europe the week before lol.

Happy birthday buddy.

That's because 106's are better

It's pretty much a Citroen version of the 106 Quiksilver. I'd imagine it also lacks the bigger brakes and stiffer suspension of the VTR/VTS. If you ever plan to modify it don't bother. Apparently though some people can resist the modifying bug, if that's the case go for it. It should be pokey enough to be fun and a complete dawdle to fix should anything go wrong.

Wow! Such a shame, I met him once or twice at Brum rides, no ride was complete without Beau. Such a tragedy especially considering the shitty time he was having of late. Rest in peace buddy. Pete

My local dealer wanted to charge my mum nearly £500 to make the car beep again when the lights were on and the door open. In order to do that they were going to fit an entire new dash. I think that was the point at which we started using a family friends garage.... I'm getting increasingly fed up of garages. Why do they all want to screw you over? On the flip side i've learnt a whole lot about fixing my car!

Don't ever use HSBC. I had an HSBC student account when I was at uni, appaling service. Although on the plus side 2 years on after graduating they still haven't redueced my interest free overdraft.... RBS have by far the best graudate account, i'd imagine their student accounts are pretty good too. A point to bear in mind is that the bigger the overdraft you get the more you're going to have to payback once you graduate!

yeah, that's what we're going to try. Would be easier if some German engineer hadn't routed a steel pipe right past one of the thermostat bolts making it near impossible to get at. Seriously! I'm leaning towards the stat as when blipping the throttle you can see the water level dropping, suggesting that the pump works. If it ends up being the dreaded HG then it may be 1.8t time

Any clues as to why a mk2 gti (1.8 8v) would boil all of it's coolant? The car runs fine but as soon as it reachs about 1/4-1/2 up the temp gauge it literally spews all of it's coolant out the header tank. We're thinking either thermostat or water pump but haven't had a chance to whip them out yet.