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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca7HFkzIa-w&feature=youtu.be

Is the actual intake vent on the downward sloping surface below the rear window? Just need to be careful you’re not trying to suck air in from a low pressure zone around there.

My car has a moveable spoiler that erects* as speeds rise, the airbox is going to be drawing in air from beneath the spoiler (which has a slatted surface):

*fnar

Might be thinking they can get it assigned to auxilis through their insurers. Wife was with admiral, and someone went into the back of her at a junction (it was low sun, in the rain, and there had been a pile up ahead at this roundabout). She called admiral who said, if you want to keep no claims you need to go with auxilis if you want repair,basically. Even though it was clearly no fault. * Anyway might be this mob are claiming this way as if go through 3rd party allocated by insurer, and argue your fault, they (think they will) get it for free...

*I know these companies are evil but the alternative was either pay fora new bumper etc ourselves or pay the excess and lose no claims.

The engine breaths through the second from left rectangular hole here:

I'd think that removing some metal in this area would be a positive, and fairly straightforward.

As stock, a snorkel mates to the underside of that rectangular hole, ducting air through the airbox, then into the intake manifold.

That's my cla45 run in now. Praise the lord for approx. 700 delivery miles with a car coming to Glasgow from Exeter. That AMG exhaust. So daft yet also very pleasing. The car itself just feels incredibly assured on the road, I doubt much could faze it. The power itself is ridiculous, really astonishing the power they've engineered out of a 2.0.

aye - i did some research and as you say, it can be "ok", it can be "oh f***" or it can be a simple fix but then the noise comes back 20K later - so you pays your money (but i didnt!) :D

Mental. Reminds me of Leh Keen's rain dance madness.

I have a Astra VXR. The rear seats split 60/40. With the smaller part behind the drivers seat. Is it possible to replace with a rear seat that splits 40/60. Or even better 33/33/33. I'm struggling to carry long items along with the child seat.

If said seats were available in any of the other models built on that platform I would imagine so

Here's the dual entry (from the X51 modification package):

The high pressure fuel injectors can be very loud on those, easy way to check if it is them is to blip the throttle to approx 4500 rpm whilst listening under the bonnet, on overrun the injectors should shut off and cut back in around 1800 rpm so you can rule them out against any mechanical problems.

It’s always time for a GT2 wing!

Thanks for that fixed wheelnut. I ruled it out yesterday but now I'm thinking about it again.....lol.

Down my road this morning...

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After a bit of time I ended up with the seat in a comfortable position, but the tops of the dials slightly obscured:

So I fitted the MOMO eccentric spacer, which looks like this:

And puts the wheel here:

Which for me is absolutely perfect - roll on Brands Hatch tomorrow.

Nice one, wish I had the day off and was racing round brands tomorrow. Enjoy

Won't it bug you that your wheel isn't pivoting around it's true centre anymore?

I don't know! Most of the time that you look at the dials the wheel is at the straight-ahead, so in that respect I imagine it'll be fine.

In terms of how it feels? Dunno. Apparently the wheel was offset upwards on the majority of the air-cooled cars.

Remember this?

http://www.speedhunters.com/2018/04/luftgekuhlt-five-breathing-heavily-in-an-air-cooled-world/

It's coming to the UK, Bicester Heritage on 29th July

buy tickets here

I went to Brands today, got as far as the sound check, and got sent home.

It was a 98Db day, and I'm at 102Db at 5,250rpm.

That's shit. Did you know this in advance?

Had no idea how loud my car was, didn't think it was that loud, was wrong.

The three cars before me all failed as well.

Gutting. I know it's for 'reasons' but the firmness that tracks enforce their Db limit still surprises me.

I don't know if getting a removeable baffle for the tip is an option, these were often available at bike track days but pos not the same with cars. Also you may know but many tracks will test your Dbs by appointment if you're worried for the future.