dub envy

I'll be going to the Volksworld show at Sandown.

Dropped the car off at the bodyshop today.. Well sort of.. cheers darren for keeping at g-werks til monday!! Having a little rust on the drivers door sill sorting, and a few mods. all the arches are getting rolled and slightly flared, having some delocked handles colour coded, and the wings and bonnet are being resprayed! If all goes well I'll be picking it up next Saturday. Have been pretty busy collecting bits and bobs over the last couple of months. Need to make a list and take some pics of my goodies!! Cant wait to drive it without the tyres scrubbing everywhere I go!

All the best cars do.

hehehe, yeah my mate had the A and C pillar seams smoothed out of his mini as it gives you something silly like an extra 10mph top speed!!!! As for the chassis twisting.. oh yeah.. the floor pan started to crack heavily behind the front seats!!! So he cut the floor out and space framed it! Twin 45's give those vaxhall lumps 180bhp!!

Dont know if you're talking about the same one, but a mate of mine has a yellow mini with a black roof that won Ultimate Mini at York a few years back. He ran something like a 12.3sec 1/4 @ 116mph. His mini had a 2.0 16v Vauxhall lump with a SBDevelopments 250bhp kit and 100bhp of progressive nitrous! Although he's now gone down the "no replacement for displacement" route and the last time I saw the mini he was in the process of fitting a V8 in it. His aim was 10second quater miles. Street legal.

End of the day though, "it's only a car"....

Turbo's look wrong on most cars. Just too plain and boring. Plus they have to be spaced out like mofos to look any good. That rado above with them on just looks like its wearing shiney space savers.

You only won because the judges couldnt see mine infront of the black curtain!! Hehehe congrats dude! Nice Win! Tough competition, but you deserved it! I'll get my finger out soon and sort your pics furk... oh and yours dal.

the door is over there mate ;)[/quote:66c4a] Dont diss the Metro!! hehehe!It did eventually turn into a 1293cc turbo powered monster!! Then I saw sense, rolled it onto its side down a country road, and bought a Golf GTI!!

Depends on the car and the exhaust. My Golf never popped and crackled but spat huge flames on gearchange!! My old 1.0L Metro with a cherry bomb on the back used to pop a treat!! The G40 doesnt pop when the revs are dropping, but like the Golf, on gearchange will spit!

Damn, that's bigger than my council garage I rent!! I used to leave my scrap copper from work in my garage until the pikeys done the locks and robbed me of it all!! had about a grands worth too!! I wouldnt want to leave my car in it! Would also mean a 10 min walk back to my house.

Did mine on my road. Not the toughest of jobs, but you get arm ache from doing up the 3,000,000 sump bolts.

Mine lives on my drive. :( Infact I only took a pic of it out the window today for someone as I've only just pushed the polo onto the drive after 4 months of the road!! GTI G40 VR6.

It's not just you, I've been thinking this for ages now!

I bough a budget Venom Kit for my G40. Lasted about 10 month sbefore the shocks went all bouncy. Don't do it.

I've been led to believe that all corrados (or at least all VR's) had heated mirrors. Or.... maybe this is why they're not working......

I have a ist as long as my arm of bits that have decided to break lately. My C too misfires at low revs, but I have a feeling that my coilpack is buggered.. I need all new bushes up front. Coilovers are knackered. Front top mounts are on their way out. Interior light is very random, need to fit new door switch. Dashboard creaks lots. I have a rattle in my boot that is driving me insane. My sunroof has started to rattle lately. All my arches rub on my 17's and I now need 2 maybe 3 new tyres. I need a new front bumper (thank you for running under me mr fox) 2 dents have appeared on my bonnet and wing that need sorting. Drivers seat bolster need seeing to. Bulbs in the dash have gone. Heated mirrors dont's work. I have both a water and oil leak from somewhere. Rusty drivers side sill. I've just come to the conclusion that the rado likes to slowly break itself. I treat it good, buy it new presents and it treats me bad. But the BWAAAAAAAAAAP makes it all worth it!!

hmmm... I get the same whine at start up when cold.. also my pas whines while I'm driving now, and the car pulls side to side under braking.

I got quoted £1500 for a full respray. This included sorting the rust on the drivers side sill, 5 or 6 littles dents, colour coding the grill/rear numberplate surround/handles, and rolling the arches. I did say that I'd remove the windows and trim though. Oh, and here's a pic of my rado 'racked up! :D :D :D :D :D

imoressive yeah, but I really dont like the led's driled into the spoiler like that. I actually really like the US 3rd light. The size and ugliness of it actually makes me want one. But on the other hand a homemade high level light like Kevs would do the trick nicely!

hehehe, thats a dude off a polo forum I use.. Pretty amusing sticker!

I dont like them when they're up. I really hate it when people leave them up at shows. If I've slowed to under the magi8c 45/55 (I cant remember how fast it is when mine does it's thing) and am travelling in slow moving traffic I'll put mine down. They make the rear of the car look too high. Lets be honest, the rear end isnt the nicest view of the car anyway, and a big silly spoiler poking up doesnt help things!

dvla

I done my second sump within 2 weeks of putting it on. Had scrapes on it after only a couple of days.

the majority of the vr owners are wimps? that must be it! My sump scares the shit out of me. Mine is probably about 40-50mm lowered and smashed a sump on normal roads, and the shocks are wound up to hard. Maybe it's bad luck, maybe all the low vr's just aint driven as hard mine...