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Police State said:
Never liked Brewer before and just think he is a two faced C#### now.Watched every episode since day one but seriously struggling now. Ive tried and tried to get used to Ant but its not happening . As soon as he appears on camera all i can see is gurning and grimacing. Seems a lot more fake now but guess that goes in hand with the move to the States. Cant blame Mike for following the money but unfortunately its lost a bit of balance for me.
I'll still watch it because of the subject matter but try to mentally switch off when the " real " mechanic appears
I'll still watch it because of the subject matter but try to mentally switch off when the " real " mechanic appears
The episode with the V8 Ford Popular was on yesterday, I hadn't seen it before. Edd made a backlit rear number plate from an LED edge lit piece of polycarbonate with a silver metal backing and black metal plate on the front with the letters cut out. I know newer yellow rear plates have to be reflective, but would this backlit black/silver plate be road legal?
ajprice said:
The episode with the V8 Ford Popular was on yesterday, I hadn't seen it before. Edd made a backlit rear number plate from an LED edge lit piece of polycarbonate with a silver metal backing and black metal plate on the front with the letters cut out. I know newer yellow rear plates have to be reflective, but would this backlit black/silver plate be road legal?
Back lit yellow plates are legal on earlier TVR Griffith and Chimaera's, so the principle of back-lighting to provide the illumination is fine. If the car is old enough to allow silver and black plates then it would also be fine for them not to be reflective. Those plates should be perfectly legal.
Just watching the c5 z06 tonight , mike buys the car with a slipping clutch , ant breaks it open to replace it and finds a lightweight flywheel in there but replaces it with a standard factory item as " it's the right thing to do and it will appeal more to the market "
Then he replaces the front pulley with a smaller underdriven aftermarket item as it wil " release more power due to parasitic losses of the original item "
Ones contradicting the other , make your bloody mind up ant !
Obviously mike just bought the cheapest clutch and flywheel off the tinterweb without knowing about the flywheel, I'd have put the lightweight one back in .
Then he replaces the front pulley with a smaller underdriven aftermarket item as it wil " release more power due to parasitic losses of the original item "
Ones contradicting the other , make your bloody mind up ant !
Obviously mike just bought the cheapest clutch and flywheel off the tinterweb without knowing about the flywheel, I'd have put the lightweight one back in .
Jazzy Jag said:
Transverse rear leaf spring?
They were crap on a Triumph Herald in the 1960s!
I have had both. Completely different suspensions. The Herald was a pigs ear.They were crap on a Triumph Herald in the 1960s!
I dont specifically have an axe to grind on this subject but they actually work pretty well on the Vette since it is actually a double wishbone suspension setup with different springing.
The single leaf spring is one piece composite, very robust and much lighter than the usual pair of coils. Being mounted beneath the lower wishbones, the spring pulls the lower wishbone whereas it is normally pushed by a coil from above. It also lowers the CoG compared to heavy coils on top of the lower wishbone, and means you can use a lighter anti roll bar as essentially it supplements that.
Now whether it is actually better than double wishbone with coilovers on a Vette, well that is a very different question and some do the coil over change on Performance Vettes, so there is a clue...
But it is a lot better than the Herald effort, and frankly no comparison despite Clarkson
sbk1972 said:
Regardless if you like Mike or not, compared to Edd's current position, he's done well.
Mike definitely has the better career advisor / agent.
I think Mike's his own operator, and while he's still on TV he's clearly stuck in a rut as the latest series of WD is mostly a US remake of earlier episodes. It'll be interesting to see how long that carries on.Mike definitely has the better career advisor / agent.
As for Edd, he had his own business interests out of the limelight before WD and no-doubt will continue to do so. The way Mike talks about him in the video linked above he's better shot of the two-faced porky-pig lookalike IMO.
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