Jamie

Cheers Sean :thumbleft: After that I swear I'm never doing anything like that ever again... (I'm currently looking at the options for 280 rears :lol:)

I've just realised I never actually updated the thread when I put the Brembos on. Must have been the trauma of it all. It was sold as a bolt on kit but was anything but - the hoses were the wrong length, the wheels didn't go over the calipers so had to shell out for new adapters, the calipers leaked like hell due to all the threads being covered in paint, all the messing about chipped the calipers to bits and to top it all the seller went missing as soon as I told him I was having problems! Wasn't til I lodged a Paypal dispute to get my money back he started co-operating. Then once I finally had it all fitted, I had massive issues with bleeding. Done it with an Eezi-bleed half a dozen times, done it with a one way valve a few times and even done it the old fashioned two man way but just couldn't get a pedal I was happy with. Spoke to John at JMR and he said "Just drive it, it will come good. Trust me it will work" I must admit I was very apprehensive about doing so but I trusted Johns knowledge and gingerly set off for the Retro Rides show. Before I even got to the M4 at Reading, as predicted I had a decent pedal :) So a massive pain in the arse and not a huge improvement on the TT setup but they do look nice :lol:

Those ones do Sean - they're 312s on there.

My brother in law was Lotus mad and finally got himself an Esprit in the early 90s - was a nightmare of a car! Looked as cool as and was very quick but you name it, it went wrong. They are huge money as well now. I had a quick look through the classifieds while I was watching (as you do) and couldn't believe the money they go for

I just use water pump pliers. Never had a problem

Amazon seem to do this all the time Ian - their prices fluctuate all over the place....

Small update - sold my TT setup to Will I Dub so needed some replacement discs. Heard plenty of good things about MTec discs so went for a set of their drilled and grooved. Haven't driven on them yet bet they do seem very good quality. Also fitted the new RH centres my daughters bought me for Christmas.

Don't have a cut off date but I will need to give the guy I'm renting the apartment from a bit of notice. The trouble is my sensible head is saying wait til 2016 when my mates are going back and I'll have the car more sorted and saved a bit of cash, but there's still a massive part of me that's desperate to go and saying "sod it, whack it on the card" :lol: We'll see...

Bit of an update - I done a bit more research online and found the Liftmaster 12v impact wrench to have excellent reviews. Unfortunately they've stopped making them but I saw this AEG http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B004PZG59G/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?qid=1419956752&sr=8-9&pi=AC_SX110_SY165 which looks like exactly the same wrench just rebadged. Just used it for the first time and have to say although it's not a patch on an air one, it does the job just fine. Undone all the wheel nuts no trouble and torqued them up as well. Checked after with my torque wrench and it seems calibrated perfectly. So all in all if you want a cheap and cheerful battery impact wrench I don't think you'll go far wrong with one of these :) *edit* I only paid £30 delivered for mine*

Yeah sorry mate the closer it's getting, the least likely it's looking :( All my mates have dropped out, my cars in bits, I haven't got a penny saved, my house is falling to bits, I only have four more paydays and I'm skint :( The real ****er though is last year I asked everyone for euros for Christmas and my birthday and that paid for my hotel and that. This year my daughter told everyone the same and she was the only one that bothered and I ended up with a pile of novelty ****e...

I've got a real hankering to smash Richard Hammonds face in with a mallet...

Should still be a few places around Portent but if you want somewhere cheaper you may have to stay a bit out the way. Have a look at booking.com for Carthenia. May even have my apartment available :( Would it help make your mind up if I lashed up a load of pics?

You seen some of the women that have signed up to that page? Jesus! I desperately need to try and find some new mates before May or I won't be going :(

Yeah plenty of room. I don't have a diagnostic socket but even if there was, I reckon there'd be space

Hahaha full of Christmas cheer then Mic :lol: Merry Christmas to you all x

Love how everyone's so concerned about the mangey old horses but no one cares less about the oncoming vehicle which may or may not be a bus full of orphans on their way to a Carol concert at the old folks home and which could have swerved onto the wrong side of the road at any minute and been wiped out by the reckless video editing on show here...

When I get around to it I'm going to convert the coin holders in front of the gear lever to USB sockets

Nice one cheers Dox :)

Sean - not 100% sure how I'm going to go about it yet but hopefully the track will stay the same, or in my case I may add 10mm to mine and bin my spacers. That's a great find Emu nice one! Hoping to come in a fair bit cheaper than that though if I can. Dox - that was the way I was heading originally but I've since read that MK4 hubs don't fit the Polo spindles. If Purple Tom has done it and they do, then that would be awesome!

For me - 280mm rear discs but you also get the advantage of more modern cartridge bearings

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No interest in this then? Shame cos I think I'm almost there with what's needed to run MKIV hubs

You're having a laugh aren't ya Sean - when I asked this a few years back I was told you had to drill here, tap there and watch out for the spot weld here, mind that there etc so I gave up. If it turns out to be this easy someone's gonna get a fist shaken at their profile...

Back in the summer I was looking at spacers for the rear of my car and came across a site that made stub axle spacers instead of wheel spacers. I've also been looking for a way of getting a larger rear disc as well and just suddenly thought - instead of just a spacer, would it be possible to have a hub adapter made up so you could fit MKIV stub axles to a Corrado beam? Pretty sure if it was possible you'd have all done it but can't find a definitive "its impossible" answer... Btw I know JMR and Eurospec do a kit but they're both out of my budget at the minute so I'm trying to do it on the cheap

If it was me I'd be selling the rims and replacing them with something standardish and cheap and selling the interior and taking a standard one in part ex. You'd still get at least £2k for the car plus the extra for the rims and interior. Be a bit of a ballache though