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

Have Vulva ever made a V8?

Got the VR6 back - £480 by a local guy - better than £1100 that garage wanted. Happy days

This is good news.

Took him 3 weeks and I had to do a bit of running around, but I can live with that!

Small price to pay.

Congrats, 8 Ball. Enjoy it now!!

My friend who races in Time Attack's ECU guy has convinced me Megasquirt is a bad idea. He's currently really working on selling me a LINK ECU (people who make ViPEC) with a sweet 30% discount and big discount on RR tuning time. Looking at about 600 big boys all in. I know I want it, it's justifying that expenditure. Part of me is thinking it's too good a deal to miss out on as it would usually cost over a grand.

Took the MX5 out on track for a short session while up at Anglesey Circuit, it was international format. Ahem, DECIMATED everybody else apart from a 500 bhp EVO. Managed to only get about 1 corner ahead of me though. I think I would have been closer to him had I remembered to adjust my suspension from road setup, and I was having too much fun hanging the back out on every corner.

Have Vulva ever made a V8?

Yep, in the latest XC90 and S80 I think, maybe the S60.

It's a development of the whiteblock modular alloy engines- 4/5/6/8 cylinder configurations.

Not the S60 afaik.
4.4 n/a built by Yamaha to the ovlov design. 315hp which is a bit puny when it only puts out 324lb/ft

Apparently also used in a Noble with a couple of turbos to push it to 650hp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_M600

Small for a V8 though in terms of displacement, hence the torque for the NA.

Interesting engine, and now cheap enough to start using by the modifying crowd

Nice reducer pipe

i nipped up all of the bolts on the rear suspension and cured what thought was a poly bush problem. awsey.

Thought I saw your high performance vehicle parked out the back.

How's the back?

all good, thanks.

ratcheting ring spanners - fucking amazing inventions.

Bonza.

My rear suspension is still full of canaries, I'm tempted to ignore it until the noise gets louder.

I love these, Amazon wagons:

B&D after the restowork I look in to some proper storage, with air flow and controlled moisture.

I will.

all good, thanks.

ratcheting ring spanners - fucking amazing inventions.

Fuck yeah they are. I love them.

Bonza.

My rear suspension is still full of canaries, I'm tempted to ignore it until the noise gets louder.

Polybush the fuck out of that wagon!

If I did that then I should strip out the Nivo's and go to coilovers.

This might slightly compromise the load lugging ability- unless I drove to Wickes, took the wheels off, moved the ride heigh right up, wheels back, on, then filled the boot with bags of cement.

B&D after the restowork I look in to some proper storage, with air flow and controlled moisture.

Any suggestions?

Read the listing- really interesting bit of history: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1965-Ford-Mustang-289-FERGUSON-4WD-Notchback-ABS-/271036274464?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3f1b055720#ht_598wt_1398

I now really want a Boss 429

Any suggestions?

Sorry, none.