Motors Chat - Round 7

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Is there a more powerful Saab engine able to go in or would the 2.3 with upgraded turbo be enough?

there's a v6 non turbo that we could turbo, or even twin turbo, but parts are hard to get, so the 2.3 is more common, stick on a bigger turbo and a few other bits, bigger air intake, bigger manifold/exhaust, better fuel pump/injectors, stand alone ecu and you'd be seeing past 450bhp and 500nm or torque, I've never seen an estate track car, maybe there's a reason for it i dunno

toastedpickles wrote: »

We're discussing turning it into a track car! It'd be a very long run kinda project, as it needs an engine first of all, but like interslice here it'd be done bit by bit, paycheck by paycheck so to speak

Is there a more powerful Saab engine able to go in or would the 2.3 with upgraded turbo be enough?

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Do share!

We're discussing turning it into a track car! It'd be a very long run kinda project, as it needs an engine first of all, but like interslice here it'd be done bit by bit, paycheck by paycheck so to speak

toastedpickles wrote: »

Totally unrelated, I'm picking up a new set of night breakers and a slave cylinder tomorrow! Also just off the phone to a guy about the green 9-5's fate, which is looking to be very interesting

Do share!

davycc

YbFocus wrote: »

Oh god that poor Volvo wasn't fit for the road long before we got it, it was gone too far!
The polo got some reaction, people were loosing the plot over it, sometimes more so than the supercars! It was an unreal day!

What mods did you make to the polo? For the run, sounded well when you were driving it through the towns and revving the a55 off it,trying to get backfires..and keep the crowd entertained.

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Speaking of tyre centres, was watching the fitter yesterday quite closely. If you seen how he removed the tyres, grab a crowbar of some variant, solid thick metal, and levers it off the side of the rim in order for the tyre to pop up. I know that's the way that it's done, but I could see some flaking off the corner of one of the rims as he did so. Now I didn't mind, it's an 11 year old car, few scuffs on the alloys won't peev me off, but if that's the attitude they take to an expensive or well minded car?...... I don't know....

Sure didn't someone here after getting his alloys refurbished get stuffs after getting new tyres put on.

Totally unrelated, I'm picking up a new set of night breakers and a slave cylinder tomorrow! Also just off the phone to a guy about the green 9-5's fate, which is looking to be very interesting

Noccy_Mondy

Speaking of tyre centres, was watching the fitter yesterday quite closely. If you seen how he removed the tyres, grab a crowbar of some variant, solid thick metal, and levers it off the side of the rim in order for the tyre to pop up. I know that's the way that it's done, but I could see some flaking off the corner of one of the rims as he did so. Now I didn't mind, it's an 11 year old car, few scuffs on the alloys won't peev me off, but if that's the attitude they take to an expensive or well minded car?...... I don't know....

Sobanek wrote: »

Big thanks to Eric Cartman who came down to help. Turned out to be the wheel nuts - they weren't secure!!!!

That tyre depo is not gonna like what I'll them about it tomorrow.

I can get home safely - that's the main thing

My tyre place always tell me after they tighten them up to check them myself as well after a while. They must say that to cover themselves in case something like what happened to you happens.

Who is doing the voice over? Good voice for it too.

As dangerous as it was at least it's solved before you left for home and ended up in big trouble.

Fair play to Eric in fairness!

Sobanek

Big thanks to Eric Cartman who came down to help. Turned out to be the wheel nuts - they weren't secure!!!!

That tyre depo is not gonna like what I'll them about it tomorrow.

I can get home safely - that's the main thing

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Love it! Since when was there alloys on the astra?

Since always

Thanks man!

davycc wrote: »

I am off to watch it again to get my head around the new info lol loved the Astra field messing about , shame the Volvo wasn't road legal for the road sections.

Oh god that poor Volvo wasn't fit for the road long before we got it, it was gone too far!
The polo got some reaction, people were loosing the plot over it, sometimes more so than the supercars! It was an unreal day!

Noccy_Mondy

Love it!

Since when was there alloys on the astra?

davycc

I am off to watch it again to get my head around the new info lol loved the Astra field messing about , shame the Volvo wasn't road legal for the road sections.

davycc wrote: »

Holy sheet that was even better than the gymkhana Volvo video ..I'll be posting it on as many sites as possible! This deserves to go double viral :-) even the soundtrack rocked

Stupid question but is there any boardsies in the video I know user names, but not faces so apologies lol

Well I myself am Peter but there is nobody else, Marlow's big VW thing was in it too but that's it

Anyone who wants can be in any of them, its great craic and amazing to see what Cian can do with it.
I agree on the music too Davy he has a real eye for editing and stuff!

Thanks for the sharing man we'll keep the fingers crossed!

davycc

Holy sheet that was even better than the gymkhana Volvo video ..I'll be posting it on as many sites as possible! This deserves to go double viral :-) even the soundtrack rocked

Stupid question but is there any boardsies in the video I know user names, but not faces so apologies lol

Ha ha yeah I can't really say well copped there

Great to see that everyone else thinks it was funny.
We thought we'd just wound it up too much ourselves and it was actually crap

Feel free to share etc, we'd only laugh more if it got going proper!
Our biggest video so far has 13k views or so, we reckon this one will break that!

Cheensbo

Brilliant man, laughed the whole way through

Marlow's cameo is a fairly easy spot not long after 1 minute, hard to miss that enormous orange off road weapon :cool:

Ha ha ha I don't know where he gets it honestly.
He just had a bucket load of footage and made that story from it!

I failed miserably, came back from Berlin and bought the e36

[Deleted User]

That video is absolutely brilliant

How's your vendetta against O2 sensors going? haha

sblythe

I'm in stitches here watching that hahaha

Haha that's brilliant

Right here is the famous "Cannonballs" now

It's just been a mess taking one funny day and turning it into this priceless thing!

Marlow once met Cian and said he wanted to be in a video, he's in this one, see if ye can spot him

We're looking for cameo appearances for next year.

Stheno in with the knife! :pac: :P

Stheno

Deleted User wrote: »

Surely there'd be downsides to other aspects though, no?

No matter how you work it, 13,000 miles over 8 years, for argument sake, is 1,625 miles per year, so regardless of whether it was driven 1600 miles per year, or sat up for years on end and then got a lot of sudden driving in one particular year of ownership, there has to have been times where it was sitting up for long period/s..

I'm not that clued into this kinda thing (but I am genuinely curious), would that not be as risky as a car with very high mileage? Surely if you leave an engine/suspension/etc sitting there for the guts of ten years, with only slight use, it doesn't bode well for when someone buys the car and starts doing 15,000km per year in it?

Or would it just be like a new car in general and risk free? (assuming services were carried out)?

My mechanic has a few customers with aged cars on very low mileage, all of them pensioners who use it to go to the shops, to their clubs etc

Strangely they are all regularly serviced

toastedpickles wrote: »

Ah no i have enough cars at home now :pac:

Lol Mine starts every time:pac: