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

I do love Saabs - and I'm perverted enough to want to do this to one.

^ Aaahh, another fan of the Toppola.
http://toppola.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=77&lang=en

^^^ I wish.

Not so far from you me thinks.

http://performancetechnic.com/blog/bmw100rolexreunion

This one's for you. ;oP

You don't muck about do you? That's gonna be rad, great work.

In my experience type 1 motors backfire when there is even the smallest hole or leak in the exhaust but not at all when everything is sealed. Take a good look round the system.

So dope, really into monster cars at the moment!

Cheers, There likely is a leak so I'll check it out.

Not me. I have made my own brake bells:

but I've never fitted a new disc over a handbrake part of a disc. The only difficulty, I'd imagine, would be ensuring that the centre spigot on the hub is deep enough to locate both the chopped down original disc and the new disc on top. And obviously the new disc would have to have a centre section big enough to accommodation the chopped down old disc centre. But provided both of those can be resolved, it seems to me it'd basically be the same as running a wheel spacer.

If the centre hub spigot isn't deep enough to locate the old and new discs together you might need some extra machining to have a new deeper spigot fitted somehow, rather like with concentric wheel spacers.

That's what I'd seen at danstuff.info, thanks for the input. The chap who looks after the car doesn't think that the pads would clear the bolts required to attach a bell to the face of the handbrake drum, which rather scuppers that idea.

Would you just use longer wheel bolts or studs to hold it all together though? Clearly on the brake pads on the caliper shouldn't be an issue, as you'd have to respace the caliper with an adaptor, and provided the studs or bolts are the right length it shouldn't interfere with the brake shoes in the handbrake mechanism. Does the Ovlov use wheel nuts or wheel bolts? I'm assuming the latter given its relative youthfulness.

Bolts. I'd like to go the bell/floating rotor route, but Tim wants to use a cut down S60R rotor (trimmed to 320mm from 330).

I presume he has a good reason for saying that the bell-over-drum approach won't work.

Nice shine, not sure about the Yachtmaster!

need this in shot.

Y stop there?

right! anyone comfortable doing a bit of auto-electricianing for me? will pay in booze / help disposing of dead sex workers.

What's needed?

i need a tracker installed. The instructions presume a vague understanding of wires / batteries / bomb disposal. also not helped by the fact that i'm not good with colours. or cars. or people called 'trevor'.

Use these they are the best

Spotted this the other day and also a mk1 Mini Cooper s!

Remindid me of my Old 74 JPS Ford Capri 1.6GT black & gold RS alloys, black & gold recaro seats :)

Ford Capri 1.6GT black & gold RS alloys, black & gold recaro seats :)

sweet. i had a '79 3 litre V6 back in the colonies. insane car.

#poormansmustang

Don't ever rely on them, monumentus cause of sporadic electrical faults :(

Spread the insulation with wire strippers and wrap and solder. [insurance approved method of wiring alarms and immobilisers.

wire strippers

Quick question guys:

Has anyone used Pit Start in Acton? http://www.pitstartgarage.com/

Looking to rent a lift to do an oil change this evening but the man on the phone/online reviews did not fill me with confidence....

They aren't that big compared to cars nowers days.

Really you have to ask?

It was a joke, DO NOT USE THESE! The cut in to the cable and aren't sealed so moisture can get in.

They are shite.