Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Nice work Dammit, enjoyed reading these updates

#boastpost
i have no money.

anyone got any vehicle tracking protipz?

Uses GPS and a SIM card, phone your car and it will text back with a Google map link where it is, also if you wire in the immobiliser you can text a message to cut it out, either instant or safe once below 10mph :)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tracker-Vehicle-Theft-Protection-System/dp/B003XDN58K/ref=sr_1_5?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1476566764&sr=1-5&keywords=gps+tracker

Did you buy Clive's?

nope. does he need the cash?

that looks the bsns. are they a ballache to install? that looks like a lot of scary looking wiring.

I spent four hours doing mine but that is because I buried it where it cannot be easily found and the same with the Immobiliser circuit :)
It has alarm features as well so some of the wiring is not required depending on what you want.

GPS aerial, GSM Aerial, Microphone, then Battery live, Ignition live, earth, four wire immobiliser with the relay, the rest is optional.

I have a 500m perimeter set on it around my home as soon as I drive out I get a text, so if it gets stolen you get a notification too :)

Pay as you go Giff Gaff sim purchased separately set up to auto top up :)

four hours? aint nobody got time for that!

are there people that install this manner of thing professionally?

Yeah me :)

inbox me, hun

Boat:missed

^ i see your point.

Are they insurance approved?

Don't think so but, Tracker or Trackstar are apporoved ones, I have two Cat2 immobilisers as well that are.
For the price I thought what the heck.

Yes! 300 TDI?

Thing does fucking mean backfires, need to sort out the carb jets.

A policeman also gave me a thumbs up... I don't get it but I love it. This thing would have been pulled over so quick at home.

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My comment was more about dropping insurance premiums

Check for air leaks and then valve clearances. Are the heat exchangers still there?

It is easier to do with the engine out.

So fucking hot... Need to start driving lessons, I'm so slack...

I'm gonna buy a cheap estate as my first car, just bought a full Marshall stack so I'm gonna need the room...

Danstuff, I believe you have some experience of this - cutting the rotor section from rear (avec handbrake) disc rotor to retain drum-brake for the handbrake, then chucking another disc over the top. This appears fairly straight forward - cut the disc section off on the lathe, mount, mount second rotor, boom. What am I missing?

As so:

Yeah man I kept them, I drove 50 miles yesterday and today and weirdly it feels like all my running issues have been fixed so I'm gonna guess it was just a fuel problem.

I looked around online and it seems like backfires are pretty normal with my exhaust and as I only really get the on deceleration and occasionally first blip of the throttle after a gear change I'm gonna assume I'm fine.

So fun just letting off the throttle going under bridges and hearing it pop, can't wait to go through a tunnel.

cheers dude.

Please buy an old vovlo!

Lovely shots, yours?

That row of bimmers has me drooling.

Even though their engines are in the wrong place.