Cosmetic mod shocker...

Cosmetic mod shocker...

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Mr E

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21,629 posts

260 months

Sunday 28th August 2005
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Well, I was watching the cricket and doing the housework. She got bored.




Slippery slope now. It'll be neons next....

>> Edited by Mr E on Sunday 28th August 17:57

MrFlibbles

7,692 posts

284 months

Sunday 28th August 2005
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I was thinking of painting mine when I eventually get round to fitting my new brakes.

What colour should I go for though? I'm thinking black.

Mr E

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Sunday 28th August 2005
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Black worked for me. Red would have been just too much red.

Besides, I like subtle.

DanBoy

4,899 posts

244 months

Sunday 28th August 2005
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That is a fooking big exhaust!

tuttle

3,427 posts

238 months

Sunday 28th August 2005
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Very nice!
Is that a pint! ??? Drinking & laquering

Mr E

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21,629 posts

260 months

Sunday 28th August 2005
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DanBoy said:
That is a fooking big exhaust!


It is, all things considered, a bloody stupidly loud exhaust. Which combined with a freeflow cat* and the Fours tendancy to overfuel like a bastard means smokescreens on full bore and flames on the overrun....

(*it's in the shed)

Mr E

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Sunday 28th August 2005
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tuttle said:
Very nice!
Is that a pint! ??? Drinking & laquering


Apple juice. Had pints after.

wedgepilot

819 posts

284 months

Sunday 28th August 2005
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I'm more impressed that you've got an other half who will get the trolley jack out and do some work on the car!

I can't even get mine to check the oil and tyre pressures. Where do you find such fine women? Can I get one?

Mr E

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Sunday 28th August 2005
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To be fair, I jacked the thing up and removed the wheels. She did the painting bit while I watched cricket and pulled a nitros install out of her car.....

m12_nathan

5,138 posts

260 months

Monday 29th August 2005
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Have you got the left hand disk on the right hand side of the car? Normally the grooves run the other way (IE on AP Racing installs). Which way do the vents go?

Mr E

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Monday 29th August 2005
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m12_nathan said:
Have you got the left hand disk on the right hand side of the car? Normally the grooves run the other way (IE on AP Racing installs). Which way do the vents go?


Vents on the discs looked ok. But I'll double check in the morning.

los angeles said:
By heck, lad, thee has a gem for a wife there, thee does. Her changing tyres while you at your ease takin' picture, her sitting on cold bare road in t' gutter on gawd knows what, no overalls 'n all, hard stone kerb sticking in her back, not a pillow in sight to ease her discomfort, and a pint to quench her thirst just out o' reach to keep her workin' nicely till job's done. That's a saint if ever I saw one.

Aye, she's a treasure, she is.



Funniest thing I've read all day. She thought it was amusing too.

Well done sir.

m12_nathan

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260 months

Monday 29th August 2005
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The vents internally are used to suck air out from the centre of the disk so do not run with the rotation rather than against which would ram air into the disk.

I may be wrong but on my AP Disks the grooves run the other way to your current setup.

tuttle

3,427 posts

238 months

Monday 29th August 2005
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Interesting, tho I can't see how it'll really make much difference. If you look at the groove angle at the top & bottom of the rotation they are,quite naturally for a circle, equally opposite.Ergo (in tuttle logic anyway) the only possible difference would be whether cooling air is rammed into the disc spaces at the top or bottom/before or after calipers.


Or would it?


Coat? Yes I'm on me way...

>> Edited by tuttle on Monday 29th August 22:27

Mr E

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Monday 29th August 2005
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Cooling air is taken care of by the sodding great vents in the front discs. As long as those point the correct way, I'm happy.

I going to have to check now.

m12_nathan

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260 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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tuttle said:
Interesting, tho I can't see how it'll really make much difference. If you look at the groove angle at the top & bottom of the rotation they are,quite naturally for a circle, equally opposite.Ergo (in tuttle logic anyway) the only possible difference would be whether cooling air is rammed into the disc spaces at the top or bottom/before or after calipers.


Or would it?


Coat? Yes I'm on me way...

>> Edited by tuttle on Monday 29th August 22:27


Mr E is correct in the fact that it is the internal vents that suck air from the centre of the disk, the second pic down looks as if these are facing the wrong way.

Mr E

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Tuesday 30th August 2005
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m12_nathan said:


Mr E is correct in the fact that it is the internal vents that suck air from the centre of the disk, the second pic down looks as if these are facing the wrong way.


I really cannot tell from that pic. They are new discs, and I didn't fit them, so it is possible the muppet got it wrong.

Rode the bike today, so didn't check.

tuttle

3,427 posts

238 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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sorry I don't get it.

jap-car

611 posts

251 months

Thursday 1st September 2005
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tuttle said:
sorry I don't get it.


Me neither

Batty FTO

12,268 posts

251 months

Thursday 1st September 2005
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Gazboy said:
Nat- are you talking about the grooves on the disc face, or the channels between the disc faces?

channels between i thought

Mr E

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Thursday 1st September 2005
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Batty FTO said:


channels between i thought


that's what I'm talking about.