Woohoo, car fixed... for now.

**Pete M[_4_]** · July 23rd 08, 12:46 AM posted to uk.rec.cars.modifications

DanB wrote:
"Elder" wrote in message
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I think it'll be easy cos Carl appears to not be hugely fond of it anyway,
and the shabby bodywork will keep it that way, he won't want to spend cash
on something that can't be polished up nice on the weekend.

Did you ever see my beige rusty estelle, bought for £80, ended up
spending £1k including GAZ shocks, new springs, improved braking, nice
seats, weber, tuned exhaust, etc, etc.
************************************************** ****

That doesn't count, it was your first car. Who here can honestly say they
didn't waste any money on their first, or one of their early, cars?

All though I get the impression few people here have actually modded a
car...

I spent most of today bringing the Jensen back to glorious life. Going
to record when I finish the job on Thursday.

Aren't buffers fabulous things? Managed to get most of the water marks
out of the paint where my mate put an indoor cover on it and left it out
in a rainstorm, then left the cover on it for weeks. The bootlid turned
white, as did the bonnet and front wings.

--
Pete M - OMF#9

BMW 325i SE Touring
Range Rover V8 Turbo

"Wait! We can't stop here, this is Bat Country"

**Douglas Payne** · July 23rd 08, 12:50 AM posted to uk.rec.cars.modifications

DanB wrote:
"Elder" wrote in message
t...
In article ,
says...
I think it'll be easy cos Carl appears to not be hugely fond of it anyway,
and the shabby bodywork will keep it that way, he won't want to spend cash
on something that can't be polished up nice on the weekend.

Did you ever see my beige rusty estelle, bought for £80, ended up
spending £1k including GAZ shocks, new springs, improved braking, nice
seats, weber, tuned exhaust, etc, etc.
************************************************** ****

That doesn't count, it was your first car. Who here can honestly say they
didn't waste any money on their first, or one of their early, cars?

Me? Don't think I really modded anything of my own till I got the
Mazda. More through lack of money than anything else. My money all
went on fuel and mid to high teens MPG. (c:

All though I get the impression few people here have actually modded a
car...

Tough words, hard man.

What counts as modification?

(c:

--
Douglas

**Pete M[_4_]** · July 23rd 08, 12:52 AM posted to uk.rec.cars.modifications

Elder wrote:
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says...
see also the way you're not having to shift servers for
your company in your car. And regardless of certain people's desire to see
you become a corporate drone in a suit, if you're enjoying work as it is and
can cope with the less-than-stellar cash, sod 'em.

Problem is, if I try to plan things in major fine detail, even with the
most conservative planning, it always goes tits up. If I don't plan any
major changes, just react to what is needed, things not only work out in
the end, but generally actually improve quite significantly.

I've found my life is so much easier if I just plan very basic things
and give myself a "To do" list in the phone. Everything gets done, but
it gets done when the right time pops up to do it. If something is in
the way I do something else off the list until the right time comes
along. I also make sure I have at least one day a week when there's
nothing on the list. Then I do whatever I feel like, or nothing if that
seems like a better way of enjoying the day.

Worrying about **** doesn't get you anywhere, if something happens then
deal with it, don't worry about it. Never regret anything you do, regret
the stuff you didn't do when you had the chance - then find a way of
doing it now!

--
Pete M - OMF#9

BMW 325i SE Touring
Range Rover V8 Turbo

"Wait! We can't stop here, this is Bat Country"

**DanB** · July 23rd 08, 01:38 AM posted to uk.rec.cars.modifications

"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
...
DanB wrote:
"Elder" wrote in message
t...
In article ,
says...
I think it'll be easy cos Carl appears to not be hugely fond of it
anyway,
and the shabby bodywork will keep it that way, he won't want to spend
cash
on something that can't be polished up nice on the weekend.

Did you ever see my beige rusty estelle, bought for £80, ended up
spending £1k including GAZ shocks, new springs, improved braking, nice
seats, weber, tuned exhaust, etc, etc.
************************************************** ****

That doesn't count, it was your first car. Who here can honestly say
they didn't waste any money on their first, or one of their early, cars?

Me? Don't think I really modded anything of my own till I got the Mazda.
More through lack of money than anything else. My money all went on fuel
and mid to high teens MPG. (c:

Yes so when is the 'charger for the Mazda arriving ;-)? The clear repeaters
and stuff you did though made a good aesthetic improvement - is there a way
of getting rid of those dang orange reflectors...?

All though I get the impression few people here have actually modded a
car...

Tough words, hard man.

What counts as modification?

Heh, ISTR this came up a while ago... I'm not going down the road you're
hoping for though, but nicely implied good sir ;-)

--
Dan
Clio R27 F1 #65

**Pete M[_4_]** · July 23rd 08, 01:55 AM posted to uk.rec.cars.modifications

DanB wrote:
"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
...
DanB wrote:
"Elder" wrote in message
t...
In article ,
says...
I think it'll be easy cos Carl appears to not be hugely fond of it
anyway,
and the shabby bodywork will keep it that way, he won't want to spend
cash
on something that can't be polished up nice on the weekend.

Did you ever see my beige rusty estelle, bought for £80, ended up
spending £1k including GAZ shocks, new springs, improved braking, nice
seats, weber, tuned exhaust, etc, etc.
************************************************** ****

That doesn't count, it was your first car. Who here can honestly say
they didn't waste any money on their first, or one of their early, cars?
Me? Don't think I really modded anything of my own till I got the Mazda.
More through lack of money than anything else. My money all went on fuel
and mid to high teens MPG. (c:

Yes so when is the 'charger for the Mazda arriving ;-)? The clear repeaters
and stuff you did though made a good aesthetic improvement - is there a way
of getting rid of those dang orange reflectors...?

All though I get the impression few people here have actually modded a
car...
Tough words, hard man.

What counts as modification?

Heh, ISTR this came up a while ago... I'm not going down the road you're
hoping for though, but nicely implied good sir ;-)

A ridiculously oversized turbo perhaps? How about bolting a 300 bhp
motor into a 170 bhp car?

I can't say **** all at the moment, I'm in the process of making the E30
look completely 'factory' again, although all this seems to involve is
replacing dented panels - hardly a mod. I am on the lookout for a pair
of black leather Recaros for it, but everyone seems to want mental money.

--
Pete M - OMF#9

BMW 325i SE Touring
Range Rover V8 Turbo

"Wait! We can't stop here, this is Bat Country"

**Conor** · July 23rd 08, 04:32 AM posted to uk.rec.cars.modifications

In article , Pete M says...

I can't say **** all at the moment, I'm in the process of making the E30
look completely 'factory' again, although all this seems to involve is
replacing dented panels - hardly a mod. I am on the lookout for a pair
of black leather Recaros for it, but everyone seems to want mental money.

Well wifey has just spent the last 4 weeks polishing a plenumb chamber
for her FTO, the daft cow. Thankfully last night she finally finished
it so perhaps she'll stop banging on about it now. Certainly I'm sick
of the ****ing thing after changing the front shockers yesterday - a
job she was supposed to be doing under supervision. I don't get mad
often with cars anymore but I got to the point I actually picked up a
lump hammer I was using and contemplated braying the bollox out of her
drivers door with it - ****ing cheap aftermarked drop links and dumb
****s who can't put on a nut without crossthreading it. She made a
comment about the engine moving when I was turning a driveshaft I'd re-
insterted after it decided to pop out the gearbox when I took a strut
off to be greeted with the reply "That's because it's FWD **** and if
it were a proper car, it wouldn't do." Suffice to say a quick half hour
6 nuts per side to undo job turned into anything but.

My views on modern FWD Japanese plastic ****e must've been heard by the
whole neighbourhood by the time I finished.

Tomorrow I'm picking up a strut brace for the Capper which is just
another in the long line of mods its had this year. Thankfully that'll
be a straight forward job to fit as its going on a proper car. 4-pot
brake upgrade is next before I kill myself in it.

--
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
looking good either. - Scott Adams

**Abo** · July 23rd 08, 12:53 PM posted to uk.rec.cars.modifications

Douglas Payne wrote:
DanB wrote:
"Elder" wrote in message
t...
In article ,
says...
I think it'll be easy cos Carl appears to not be hugely fond of it
anyway,
and the shabby bodywork will keep it that way, he won't want to spend
cash
on something that can't be polished up nice on the weekend.

Did you ever see my beige rusty estelle, bought for £80, ended up
spending £1k including GAZ shocks, new springs, improved braking, nice
seats, weber, tuned exhaust, etc, etc.
************************************************** ****

That doesn't count, it was your first car. Who here can honestly say
they didn't waste any money on their first, or one of their early, cars?

Me? Don't think I really modded anything of my own till I got the
Mazda. More through lack of money than anything else. My money all
went on fuel and mid to high teens MPG. (c:

All though I get the impression few people here have actually modded a
car...

Tough words, hard man.

What counts as modification?

I had an Escort on which I put twin 40's, uprated suspension and a side
exit exhaust. I crashed it a couple of times, but I blew the engine up
and flogged it at auction. Some mug paid £600 for it, back in 1990!

I had a Nova SR which had decent suspension, competition manifold and
exhaust, Weber twin choke and K&N filter. Actually I had two like that,
a white one and a dark blue one. The blue one was my favourite I think;
the ride of the white one was too harsh, the blue one was less hardcore
but at some point in it's history it had received an uprated cam which
was nice.

I bought a MG Metro once with the intention of dropping the engine into
a Mini. I got as far as putting a set of twin 1.25in SU's on and then
someone nicked it. I got it back but somehow the rear subframe had
become ****ed so I just got shot of it.

--
Abo

**DanB** · July 23rd 08, 02:51 PM posted to uk.rec.cars.modifications

"Pete M" wrote in message
...
DanB wrote:
"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
...
DanB wrote:
"Elder" wrote in message
t...
In article ,
says...
I think it'll be easy cos Carl appears to not be hugely fond of it
anyway,
and the shabby bodywork will keep it that way, he won't want to spend
cash
on something that can't be polished up nice on the weekend.

Did you ever see my beige rusty estelle, bought for £80, ended up
spending £1k including GAZ shocks, new springs, improved braking, nice
seats, weber, tuned exhaust, etc, etc.
************************************************** ****

That doesn't count, it was your first car. Who here can honestly say
they didn't waste any money on their first, or one of their early,
cars?
Me? Don't think I really modded anything of my own till I got the
Mazda. More through lack of money than anything else. My money all went
on fuel and mid to high teens MPG. (c:

Yes so when is the 'charger for the Mazda arriving ;-)? The clear
repeaters and stuff you did though made a good aesthetic improvement - is
there a way of getting rid of those dang orange reflectors...?

All though I get the impression few people here have actually modded a
car...
Tough words, hard man.

What counts as modification?

Heh, ISTR this came up a while ago... I'm not going down the road you're
hoping for though, but nicely implied good sir ;-)

A ridiculously oversized turbo perhaps? How about bolting a 300 bhp motor
into a 170 bhp car?

I can't say **** all at the moment, I'm in the process of making the E30
look completely 'factory' again, although all this seems to involve is
replacing dented panels - hardly a mod. I am on the lookout for a pair of
black leather Recaros for it, but everyone seems to want mental money.

Heh no no, Doug was hoping I'd post a reference to a past thread I mentioned
to him on t'MSN. Someone doing a monster about face in opinion etc :-)

--
Dan
Clio R27 F1 #65