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

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Tyres and brakes are only a month old.
Cable speedo I believe. The seats have van covers and are comfy enough. The front back adjuster on passenger seat has broken but I’m sure I can fix it. As just a spring pinged off I think.

I don’t need to pay for mechanical work or panelling to get done as company motor and I’m not splashing out on alloys!
More just need to check all the obvious for it really.
Will spray the load bed. Trying to decide how I want the panelling done before I drop it off with the chippy. Don’t think I want any cubbys or shelves, maybe just a couple of tie down points and a handwash unit.
No headliner in the back either, dunno if worth replacing. It’s not too noisy without

LEZ is being upgraded to euro6 from next year, this is entirely separate to the ULEZ requirements which are also being implemented at the same time.

Daily charge for any commercial vehicle will start at £100 per day and is in operation 24hrs a day.
Edit. This suggests that this is not going to be implemented until October 2020. I am fairly sure that yesterday I read implantation has been brought forward to coincide with the ULEZ, I will check Monday.
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/low-emission-zone/about-the-lez

Porsche is subject to this (3.4l), Mercedes is not (5.4l).

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The tyre thing is that painting steel wheels can be a pain, as it is all in the prep to get a good finish. If the tyres were worn, can be cheaper to replace the wheels with cheap alloys.

So cleaning the interior, look on youtube for the guides. If you want, can lend you a george to wash the seats and carpets.

Been down the rabbit hole following that link and still can't find anything along the lines of Euro 6 in the LEZ. There is planned extension of the ULEZ and changes to LEZ in 2020 for heavy vehicles (3.5 tonnes) but nothing about vans in the LEZ.

Not sure I understand you? The Puma came first, but assume thats what you mean? Floor plan is similar, but not the same. The engine in the sport ka is totally different, lower on power than the 1.7 puma, not to mention the puma having the most sort after gear box of any small ford of its generation. Have you driven both of them back to back? There is nothing wrong with a sport ka, but there is a reason so many more pumas are used as track cars (other than there being so many of them dirt cheap) than sport ka.

Was a quick answer.

The floor pans are the same for the fiesta, ka and puma, ford platform b from memory. Puma 1.7 normal wasn't great, nikasil bore issues and destroying big ends too. Comparing the kurb weights of the ka and the puma, the ka is over 100kg lighter. The 1.6 ka engine has more torque than the 1.6 puma and likes to rev... suppose down to the 8v and 16v difference.

Gearbox wise I think you are talking about the ford racing puma, quite a different beast compared to the usual puma and so the gearbox and drive shafts are stronger than road cars. If not the puma has the same box as the fiesta, ka, escort? focus too.

I have no idea why the puma is a track day car, can understand the ford racing puma but not the normal ones. The street/sport ka have a wider track, wonder if they are the same as the puma or the racing puma...

The KA had a ford build rally car for a race series that proved quite popular.

Have driven all three puma models and lots of the Ford racing Puma ;) KA seems more fun and when they initially came out the sport ka disguised as a normal KA was so much fun as no other car users expected the car to be so quick and handle so well.

Is there a single car in the world that Lynx hasn’t driven, and a single sports/super car that he hasn’t owned? Amazing what he has achieved in this arena.

What nikasil bore issues? Other than not being able to increase, they've stood up incredibly well over time, or at least that seems to be the consensus of project puma, puma people etc... When we bought our track puma we found it had never had oil, filter or plugs changed, and was 20 years old and 164k on the clock. With the fomoco stuff off and out, it turned out it was in amazing nick, and that's not uncommon. As far as the gear box, not they are different, and one of the first scavengers to a puma being broken are fiesta owners wanting to either drop it on to the 1.6 or they'll take the block as well, it's that well regarded, despite there being limited available parts compared. Almost all nikasil issues that have shown up have been found to be lpg related (for this specific engine). The frp has this engine, with different cams, 421 exhaust and fancy manifold (plus map to accommodate cams and exhaust).

Re:track, no it's not. The frp is totally different track wise, although the spacing at the rear is easily replicated using the frp behind hub spacers, and at front you may be able to swap frp wishbones onto the sport ka? Google says no, but who knows what you could jam in, although I doubt there is space in the arches. We just got hubcentric spacers for now to throw it out, far from the best solution from a suspension design point of view, but it cost 200 quid, so what you going to do?

The puma has an even more illustrious racing pedigree, having had numerous manufacturer supported series in its heyday, and even now the puma Cup is one of the most popular accessible series in the UK.

Out of interest which number frp's have you driven? We may know the same people although, I'm jealous you've been able to have a go, the owners tend to be very precious with them!

Have driven ... lots of the Ford racing Puma

Is there a single car in the world that Lynx hasn’t driven, and a single sports/super car that he hasn’t owned? Amazing what he has achieved in this arena.

Out of interest which number frp's have you driven? We may know the same people although, I'm jealous you've been able to have a go, the owners tend to be very precious with them!

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164000 miles without an oil change? Or did that comma sneak in there by mistake?

Let me google and link it for you

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Thanks. I couldn't be bothered.

Am now getting angry that i can't link a picture.

Damnation to you technology.

Edit - so it let me google that for you and fail to make it a viewable gif.

Am now getting angry that i can't link a picture.

Like you can't just claim you driven a FRP?

You are just jealous that you haven't owned a talbot solara in hearing aid biege

I know, it's a gif not a picture.

Well, tbf I imagine the oil may have been topped up, but the filter was original fomoco, the class Ford stupid size sump plug had no signs of being undone, which they nearly always do, and who changes the oil without the filter? Plus the state of the oil was utter filth, but we did put through a sieve, and despite some lumps there was no metal.

Tldr: got no evidence oil had never been changed, but pretty sure it had never been drained and filter still original.

Impressive. And I thought my brothers Astra was bad after 40000 km...

Lumps...wonder what of.

Wonder if the oil filter was so blocked that it no longer filtered.

Apologies if re... EX bomb squad fast response Omega with an LS

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If I spend my house deposit on this, it's worth it right?

http://www.105e.co.uk/

Yes. Next question?

There was an Anglia in scenic Woolwich in my youth, two-tone rust and filler, with a sunvisor reading 'wrectanglia'. It had nitrous and was insane....

Moot point: Will it be able to keep it's registration or go on to a q plate and then associated issues going on the road with the new dvla issues or will it be race car only.