10th Anniversary Highland Drive 2015 - chat thread
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Luckily for my wallet I got away with seal and piston kits for the rear calipers, and even more lucky that the handbrake cables are fine as they are a pig of a job to replace
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My shake down didn't go too well yesterday my new HKS bov blew off the car so had to limp back with no boost... Lost the rubber but used the one off my old bov (luckily it's the same make) and it's now back on the car and I'll be out testing again this morning
On top of that, Stace aint well but she's off work now so taking it easy
Blue car and new wife are on standby
On top of that, Stace aint well but she's off work now so taking it easy
Blue car and new wife are on standby
Cars suck donkey balls
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Oh dear! Hope both make a speedy recovery!vinp182 wrote:My shake down didn't go too well yesterday my new HKS bov blew off the car so had to limp back with no boost... Lost the rubber but used the one off my old bov (luckily it's the same make) and it's now back on the car and I'll be out testing again this morning
On top of that, Stace aint well but she's off work now so taking it easy
Blue car and new wife are on standby
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Glad I could help yesterday Steve and the weather was decent.Steve-M-UK wrote:What a day, myself and Nic set about sorting my car this morning, new plugs went in, tie rods looked uprated so left alone, then we went to swap the exhaust manifold as it had a crack. Bit of a struggle but we got it off, replaced the gasket and bolted the new one in place. It was very awkward as there is no space and in the struggle we managed to trap a wire under the manifold! We only realised when i pressed the starter button and the loom began smoking. At this point i let go of the starter and we freed the wire, but when we tried to restart there was nothing. I though that was the end of my Highland drive as we tried everything to get it to run. After a couple of hours of phonecalls to other vx'ers and searching the web, Nic found a post where somebody did the same and it turns out there is a hidden 50amp fuse in the front, fingers crossed we found it and it was blown! So we repaired it with fuse wire for now and i'm borrowing one from my mates race car tommorow , phew it runs again, panic over, i need a drink.
I didn't realise how shattered I was until I went to bed and kept waking up due to aches and pains. Then I've slept late like the dead, but have a sense of achievement for yesterday and we both learned more about our cars. My hands are cut and grazed to shreds, never really experienced that on the 2's
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It's going to be another bloody cleaning day tomorrow after wedgey attacked my boot with the polish! Now I have to try and make the rest of the car look red to match!vinp182 wrote:Cleaning day
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Shouldn't have let it go pinkHowlin_Mad wrote:It's going to be another bloody cleaning day tomorrow after wedgey attacked my boot with the polish! Now I have to try and make the rest of the car look red to match!vinp182 wrote:Cleaning day
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Pack your mop. Ian can do the rest of it in Ullapoolvinp182 wrote:Shouldn't have let it go pink
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Just been speaking to the Applecross inn. Lots of snow up top
Pack yer skis
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http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?acti ... 20Ba;sess=Ripley wrote:Just been speaking to the Applecross inn. Lots of snow up top
Pack yer skis
Kent Run shakedown for T2 today. Ça va bien.
Just need to check all fluids and wash off the dead insects.
Then it's the long haul up country on Wednesday.
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Went for a drive in the Lotus last night and didn't break down for once
Of course saying this has probably put the mockers on it
Oddly looks a bit like TLF!
Still all looking good
Of course saying this has probably put the mockers on it
Oddly looks a bit like TLF!
Still all looking good
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Minus the trusty baseball cap
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One more day to work and two sleeps, getting really close now