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********Motors Chat - Round 8 ********

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  • #7922
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Invisible menthanol fire, scary shít :eek:.

    VHuyXj4.gif


  • #7923
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Griffiths in Claremorris would be my port of call. They have a place in Castlebar too. Caseys used to have a major set up in Castlebar, but they went bust around 2008

    So you were in my neck of the woods today.

    Yea that must be the place in Castlebar I am thinking of that closed down.


  • #7924
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    wotzgoingon wrote:
    Yea that must be the place in Castlebar I am thinking of that closed down.


    Think one of the sofa shops are in it now, big big place sort of across from Monaghans Skoda, on the way in.


  • #7925
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭166man


    156 got treated to two new Goodyear Efficient grip Performance today. €190 for both fitted in 205/55/16 but oh so worth it.

    Nothing like having 4 matching tyres on the car.


  • #7926
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Spotted this beasht today... dat exhaust doe :pac:

    19362955419_437218d23c_c.jpg


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  • #7927
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    GvidoR wrote:
    Spotted this beasht today... dat exhaust doe

    Them exhausts appear to be the latest craze! Even ones more exaggerated/elongated then that one!


  • #7928
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Passed the local maxol today. 127.9 for diesel and 147.9 for petrol. Don't remember seeing a 20c difference before. The Esso up the road had a 17c difference :(:confused:. Seen an lovely red unmolested rx-7 pulling out of the Esso. Also passed a 13 reg black fiesta st down in the town. Looked and sounded pretty sweet.


  • #7929
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Them exhausts appear to be the latest craze! Even ones more exaggerated/elongated then that one!

    It's an old Japanese style, not sure how I feel about the filters using it. :pac:


  • #7930
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    CianRyan wrote: »
    It's an old Japanese style, not sure how I feel about the filters using it. :pac:

    Bōsōzoku?

    Filters :pac:


  • #7931
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Well it failed its test, on wishbone bushes. The very ones I didn't replace. Shame on me :(

    Shot through everything else. Never said a thing about my tuner bolts (that's what they're called, naff name I know :o)

    Gotta love the emissions/power control 10mm spanner :D


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  • #7932
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Spotted this beasht today... dat exhaust doe :pac:

    19362955419_437218d23c_c.jpg

    Unbelievably tacky.

    Picked up a few goodies for the C5. Halford have Mobil 1 5W/30 fully synthetic for 27 euro. Quite good value. Give it a service tomorrow.

    Set of all season tyres will be on the list before the summer is out. Any recommendations?

    What's a turner bolt?


  • #7933
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    dgt wrote: »
    Well it failed its test, on wishbone bushes. The very ones I didn't replace. Shame on me :(

    Shot through everything else. Never said a thing about my tuner bolts (that's what they're called, naff name I know :o)

    Gotta love the emissions/power control 10mm spanner :D

    Wow they were strict for you, Toasted Pickles and also YbFocus recently. My 520i e39 passed with flying colours and one of my shocks the rubber piece is ripped and it still passed.


  • #7934
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,214 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    CianRyan wrote: »
    It's an old Japanese style, not sure how I feel about the filters using it. :pac:

    They put me rather unpleasantly in mind of Laker/dragster pipes, only gone badly wrong. :pac:


  • #7935
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,308 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Mycroft H wrote: »

    What's a turner bolt?

    I'm guessing it is to control the boost, could be well wrong though.


  • #7936
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    What's a turner bolt?

    It's a bolt that moves when you turner :pac:


  • #7937
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    Wow they were strict for you, Toasted Pickles and also YbFocus recently. My 520i e39 passed with flying colours and one of my shocks the rubber piece is ripped and it still passed.

    I only copped last night that there was a bit of play on the hub. Annoying as I have the rears changed!

    Retest booked anyway and I should have it sorted by then.

    As for a tuner bolt, its a bolt that uses a 10 sided spline key to remove. Handy for wheels with small passages a socket won't fit into

    As for boost control, I have an MBC but laziness means I just sealed the wastegate and use fuel to control boost. There is a drill bit in the sampler pipe :D

    A turner bolt... Haven't a baldy, probably its a bolt you hop off someone you don't like :p


  • #7938
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Interslice


    They're the ones in a can. A tin a turner bolts.


  • #7939
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    GvidoR wrote: »
    It doesn't look that great, but someone went through the trouble of custom fitting a MK6 front end on it.

    I think what you meant to say was:

    They went to the trouble of custom fitting a MK6 front end on it, and couldn't be bothered to paint the alloys the same colour on both sides of the car.

    :pac:


  • #7940
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    Wow they were strict for you, Toasted Pickles and also YbFocus recently. My 520i e39 passed with flying colours and one of my shocks the rubber piece is ripped and it still passed.

    They weren't harsh on me in fairness,
    It's 2 things i knew about but having been flat out at it i couldn't get them done.

    And a wheel bearing :)


  • #7941
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    OSI wrote: »
    I'd say American red necks were doing it first.

    I doubt it.
    Smoke stacks on a pick up or semi are an entirely different style.


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  • #7942
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    I fell in love with a potential project car today. It's beyond my abilities and makes absolutely no sense.

    What to do.


  • #7943
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    I fell in love with a potential project car today. It's beyond my abilities and makes absolutely no sense.

    What to do.

    Buy it anyways and learn tfcuk :pac:


  • #7944
    GvidoR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    I fell in love with a potential project car today. It's beyond my abilities and makes absolutely no sense.

    What to do.

    Not everything has to make sense. Buy it. :)


  • #7945
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭166man


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    I fell in love with a potential project car today. It's beyond my abilities and makes absolutely no sense.

    What to do.

    Project cars rarely makes sense.



    Doooooooooooo it.


  • #7946
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    I had a day in the back yard of an old garage. Looked at a PUg 605 2.1TD, Alfa 166 2.5V6, 1993 Ibiza with 62k and an Alfa 146.

    I then spotted an old pickup with rusted out sills, rusted chassis and acres of dirt on it and decided it was great. It was a 1995 Nissan D21. I want it but can't weld :(


  • #7947
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    I had a day in the back yard of an old garage. Looked at a PUg 605 2.1TD, Alfa 166 2.5V6, 1993 Ibiza with 62k and an Alfa 146.

    I then spotted an old pickup with rusted out sills, rusted chassis and acres of dirt on it and decided it was great. It was a 1995 Nissan D21. I want it but can't weld :(

    Neither can most of us here (stand to be corrected) but I'm sure someone will help you out!


  • #7948
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Neither can most of us here (stand to be corrected) but I'm sure someone will help you out!

    It's been off the road at least 5 years. I'll think about it. It'll be a very long term project...........and my OH will have a fit. :eek:


  • #7949
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭166man


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    It's been off the road at least 5 years. I'll think about it. It'll be a very long term project...........and my OH will have a fit. :eek:

    Them 166's tho..........:D


  • #7950
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    It's been off the road at least 5 years. I'll think about it. It'll be a very long term project...........and my OH will have a fit. :eek:

    Times like this i think it would be pretty nifty to have a communal garage, but then again maybe not so much
    166man wrote: »
    Them 166's tho..........:D

    Sure you can take it :P

    Also eh...seen your picture in the picture thread, whats the craic there?


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  • #7951
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    166man wrote: »
    Them 166's tho..........:D

    He used to have an Alfa and Seat dealership back in the 80' and 90's. While he wanted to sell stuff he didn't really want to when it came to the crunch. I really enjoyed poking around however.


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