What did you do in the garage yesterday?
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N7GTX said:
He'll be having a crisis if you keep this up 
I have many, this is but just but one 
Flam tap,, that's another
No that ones easy it's the 17 stroke roll I'm struggling with.
actually that's easy too 
When you combine a triple parraddiddle with an inverted flam tap onto a 15 stroke roll finishing with a buzz role,,
In a 6/8 time frame,,,,,, your rocking man
Any guesses what I've been indulging myself with this evening
carsy said:
You not going for a cheeky little turbo this year Peter.
Nope, car is fast enough for the road and mostly for the track although if you will bhp wouldn't go amiss!!Even now it can spin the rear wheels up in the wet at 85 in fourth so can't imagine what it would do with another 150 or so bhp!
Also don't need the downside of the possibility of further aggro, (crankcase breathing etc, etc).
So, reasonably happy to stay with 380ish or so bhp and 460 torque.
Hoofa said:
Ah the expansion tank mounting , what does the bracket mount too ??
I just made up a bit and simple bracketry made up from what I had kicking around and bolted to the top of the rad cowl bolt fixings.
One day I will make up a purpose made bracket and powder coat it to match.
J400GED said:
new heater hose and new heater matrix pipes that sit under the heater box in the passenger footwell.
Both the pipe sets are in stainless steel and were purchased from ACT.
Here they are installed:
I had no idea ACT did the ones for the footwell. I will get myself a set of those, mine are very corroded.Both the pipe sets are in stainless steel and were purchased from ACT.
Here they are installed:
Fitted the bonnet. Lined it up all nice, gaps even and straight at the front but the latch wouldn't engage. Tried adjusting it but it still wasn't playing ball so I decided that maybe the mechanism was the problem.
Had the extension bar to hand for the socket set I was using and it fitted nicely into the latch, pushed down on it and the latch locked and held it into place. Cool so the latch works and it just needs adjusting a little higher.
That's where it all went wrong. The extension bar was locked into the bonnet latch and wouldn't slide out so I just lent over the door and pulled the release cable under the dashboard. I knew that it was a bad move as soon as I did it. There was a second of silence after the initial bang of the mechanism releasing and then another bang as the extension bar bounced off of the wing leaving a lovely big chip in the paint.
That was 2 hours and 3 beers ago and I've still got the hump about it
Had the extension bar to hand for the socket set I was using and it fitted nicely into the latch, pushed down on it and the latch locked and held it into place. Cool so the latch works and it just needs adjusting a little higher.
That's where it all went wrong. The extension bar was locked into the bonnet latch and wouldn't slide out so I just lent over the door and pulled the release cable under the dashboard. I knew that it was a bad move as soon as I did it. There was a second of silence after the initial bang of the mechanism releasing and then another bang as the extension bar bounced off of the wing leaving a lovely big chip in the paint.
That was 2 hours and 3 beers ago and I've still got the hump about it
think I'd be more than taking the hump 
I'm still kicking myself about it. Trying to decide if I would have prefered it to hit the windscreen, but then it may have bounced off of that onto the wing and I would have damaged two things with my idiocy. Wonder how high it flew, there's a strip light unprotected right above the car
s p a c e m a n said:
Fitted the bonnet. Lined it up all nice, gaps even and straight at the front but the latch wouldn't engage. Tried adjusting it but it still wasn't playing ball so I decided that maybe the mechanism was the problem.
Had the extension bar to hand for the socket set I was using and it fitted nicely into the latch, pushed down on it and the latch locked and held it into place. Cool so the latch works and it just needs adjusting a little higher.
That's where it all went wrong. The extension bar was locked into the bonnet latch and wouldn't slide out so I just lent over the door and pulled the release cable under the dashboard. I knew that it was a bad move as soon as I did it. There was a second of silence after the initial bang of the mechanism releasing and then another bang as the extension bar bounced off of the wing leaving a lovely big chip in the paint.
That was 2 hours and 3 beers ago and I've still got the hump about it
We have all been there and done something stupid like that.....Had the extension bar to hand for the socket set I was using and it fitted nicely into the latch, pushed down on it and the latch locked and held it into place. Cool so the latch works and it just needs adjusting a little higher.
That's where it all went wrong. The extension bar was locked into the bonnet latch and wouldn't slide out so I just lent over the door and pulled the release cable under the dashboard. I knew that it was a bad move as soon as I did it. There was a second of silence after the initial bang of the mechanism releasing and then another bang as the extension bar bounced off of the wing leaving a lovely big chip in the paint.
That was 2 hours and 3 beers ago and I've still got the hump about it
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