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

Tbh I wouldn't want to do more than a ton on the A40, like farmer says the dynamics of the road change significantly above that speed, and the risk of other drivers pulling on to the road is too much of a risk IMO.
No room or time for any sort of error.

This. Driving fast is fun and all but any "civilian" who thinks they're a good enough driver to do big speed on public roads is a fucking moron. The biggest problem is not your own ability, it's other drivers and the council dickheads who surface the roads. The roads aren't designed for those speeds and there will always be arseholes who do stupid things in cars around you.

I'm not saying you should drive at exactly 1 mile below the speed limit because I certainly don't but this macho bravado bullshit of doing anything over 120 on a public road is just stupid. Fine if you want to kill yourself but pretty fucking reckless to endanger the lives of other people.

^Alex Roy may disagree with you there! ;)

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Lolz. Although the potential recompense for being caught with jammers in the UK is 7 years in jail is it not? (Perverting the course of justice), although I know there was a Porsche driver done a few years ago, although I'm not entirely sue what he got.

There is a world of difference between fast road driving and driving fast on a track - I know a few guys who can kill it on the track, but who I wouldn't want to be a passenger with on the road.

A good friend of mine is a fast response driver for the police, and I did a banger rally with him across Europe - spending a week with him was eye opening, his ability to drive safely at fast, and sometimes crazy speeds on public roads without ever making me feel unsafe was something else. It was all about his ability to read the road and traffic, and knowing when and where to back off or floor it.

He also had an incredible knowledge of how changes in road surface, camber, weather conditions etc etc affected your and the cars ability to get out of a tricky situation.

The fastest I have gone on a public road was about 180 on the A2 motorway in Holland on the section that heads into Maastricht - I was in a Continental GT, and we had spotters ahead so we knew we had a clear road. It's a dead straight autoroute for about 10 miles with no exits so once you get on you have a clear run with excellent visibility. Getting to 160 was a piece of cake, and in the Conti it felt like doing legal speeds, above that things started moving so quickly that I have no shame in admitting I didn't like it one bit on a public road. Still when you have 500+ BHP and an empty Dutch motorway, seemed rude not to, but never again.

Lolz. Although the potential recompense for being caught with jammers in the UK is 7 years in jail is it not? (Perverting the course of justice), although I know there was a Porsche driver done a few years ago, although I'm not entirely sue what he got.

When I was in France last weekend the sat nave refused tomworkmonce we got off the tunnel, despite having a signal, just said plug in to update.

I have a Tom Tom with the traffice cams and live service for mobile radar traps.

Basically because the French have made it illegal to have a sat nav with camera/trap detectors the Tom Tom wouldn't work until it was updated to remove the camera function on French roads - the irony was that all that happens is they replace the camera warning with an unknown incident symbol where a camera/ trap is when you are in France, with it going back to the Camera symbol when you leave French roads.

^^ Ha, that's a way around it!

I've heard stories of the police taking such exception to jammers/detectors that they have forced foreigners to drive over their own equipment (In France)! Bloody cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Why were you being spotted in Europe, were you on a rally?

No at a wedding! We were staying in a hotel about 15 miles from Maastricht, and on the first day we got there we drove into town, and it became pretty apparent that the road was perfect for a speed run - the slip road on from the village we were staying in was a perfect curve for winding on the power, so you hit 100 just ay you came onto the straight, then you had about 10 miles to the next junction.

There were a load of us there, so we would go out at night, one of us would pull in where the slip road joined the motorway, another at the junction before which was about 2 miles back, and another at the next exit.

Sooo, I took an engine out earlier and found this...

Any ideas?

Looks like an earthing problem to me... ;)

Negative shim on the manifold joint should sort that out for you mate.

Egr?

Ya. Hate the system. Scraped out 2/3mm of oily crap from the inlet manifold.

Can you put blanking plates over the holes in the manifold, or will the ECU have a fit of the screaming ab-dabs if you do that?

I can make one blanking plate easy enough, the other I could weld a plate over. Luckily it has no ECU, nice old mechanical diesel.
Tempted to put it in my car but I think I have a buyer.

1965 Ferrari 500 Superfast.

Ohhh. That's a nice colour.

Tiffany blue 430 Scuderia.

Apparently the buyer sent a Tiffany's box with the lace wrapping and asked Fezza to match it. This is a one off I believe.

I don't think the white wheels work. Gunmetal/graphite might be a bit better

It looks like they wanted the Gulf colours, but bottled it before they put the orange on.

Some Volvo Porn from Bilsport Show, stolen off another site.

Showy Coupe

Go-ey Track Spec S40 with M5 Lump


Amazon with a poor wheel choice

^Reported for grooming Dammit

Some Volvo Porn from Bilsport Show, stolen off another site.

Showy Coupe

Go-ey Track Spec S40 with M5 Lump

Hubba Hubba!