Texas Pete ('99 GTi)
- Thread starter tommo
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after yesterdays day of love, i fucking knew i would have my arse bitten.
as posted 10,000 times yesterday i went out to fix the leaky power steering pipe. the one on the 1.4 litterally dropped off. as is always the case on that fucking ace little car. unfortunatly the clips and hoses were a bit old looking so decided to see what the gti ones were like. went to the gti and the bolts broke off the back of the headlight despite a shower in plus gas. not only did it break the bolt off the back on the bottom one, it also smashed the black plastic on the underside of the headlight to pieces. came to the powersteering cooler bar and the clips and hoses were worse. at this point i was suicidal so used a piece of blue samco type 103 stuff, and the 2 best clips. to fix the headlight, out comes tommo's favourite tooling, BONDO. stuck it all over the fucking place, handfull of cable ties later and it looks like an almera again. how long either of todays fixes last, is anybodys guess. personally i couldnt give a flying fuck.
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as posted 10,000 times yesterday i went out to fix the leaky power steering pipe. the one on the 1.4 litterally dropped off. as is always the case on that fucking ace little car. unfortunatly the clips and hoses were a bit old looking so decided to see what the gti ones were like. went to the gti and the bolts broke off the back of the headlight despite a shower in plus gas. not only did it break the bolt off the back on the bottom one, it also smashed the black plastic on the underside of the headlight to pieces. came to the powersteering cooler bar and the clips and hoses were worse. at this point i was suicidal so used a piece of blue samco type 103 stuff, and the 2 best clips. to fix the headlight, out comes tommo's favourite tooling, BONDO. stuck it all over the fucking place, handfull of cable ties later and it looks like an almera again. how long either of todays fixes last, is anybodys guess. personally i couldnt give a flying fuck.
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sorry i shouldn't laugh - that sucks dude, but that last bit got me! lol. Probably cos it reminds me so much of me when tryin to do things on mine.
Oh well mate, i'm sure it'll last fine. Do you mean the actual back casing of the headlight? as in you could do with a new one? Cos i have a spare set and i'll only be using the passenger side one to replace my cracked one.
god damn it noooooooo, i want you to be happy like me
^ rofl - has to be said in a slow american cop voice haha
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
after mucho being pissed off, fixing something every other weekend, trying to look after it, improving stuff, it seems to be paying off. love/hate relationship seems to be love after today. went on a dyno day with www.octaneboost.co.uk today at StreetRacers in leicester, absolutely over the moon with the result. considering there is no unichip, no mapping, no fueling correction, just the cams, filter, manifold, sports cat and a backbox, light fly and an exedy clutch, we have.....
171bhp@6800rpm & 134lb/ft@5315 @fly, 130.5@wheels, which rings true as wezz made 210ish fly & 170ish wheel. just as an indication to accuracy, last week my mate mart ran his H22 prelude at a RR in tewksbury and made 201.3, today made 200.7..... so the dyno must be fairly universal....
few pics
the new lucky charm mascot that brought me good luck, the gti horse :lol:
getting ready to go...
few cars that went
.....and weighing down the supra as it wanted to slip out of the rollers...
comments welcome....
after mucho being pissed off, fixing something every other weekend, trying to look after it, improving stuff, it seems to be paying off. love/hate relationship seems to be love after today. went on a dyno day with www.octaneboost.co.uk today at StreetRacers in leicester, absolutely over the moon with the result. considering there is no unichip, no mapping, no fueling correction, just the cams, filter, manifold, sports cat and a backbox, light fly and an exedy clutch, we have.....
171bhp@6800rpm & 134lb/ft@5315 @fly, 130.5@wheels, which rings true as wezz made 210ish fly & 170ish wheel. just as an indication to accuracy, last week my mate mart ran his H22 prelude at a RR in tewksbury and made 201.3, today made 200.7..... so the dyno must be fairly universal....
few pics
the new lucky charm mascot that brought me good luck, the gti horse :lol:
getting ready to go...
few cars that went
.....and weighing down the supra as it wanted to slip out of the rollers...
comments welcome....
shaggy_master
brapp brapp!
Mint! Great results Tom x
RESULT!
Yeah woop woop – say street racers got a new set now. They didn’t have a stand alone rolling road when I went there last. It was in the main workshop.
What did the fella say about how it performed? Running spot on or could do with………………….
david
What did the fella say about how it performed? Running spot on or could do with………………….
david