Pashley26

This is very true. If I'm honest, I just want to go and race people in my Golf. Hurry up and move down here, you can come live with me in the mean time.

Can we do a TF road trip soon?

You must have swapped the wrong b and said barr, as in the people who make cream soda. If you'd said it the right way then you'd know there was nothing better, and having them fitted to your car couldn't possibly compare.

If you say RARB, as in like barb but with an r instead of a b then it's one of the most satisfying words in the world. Second only to beazles. An in bees and measles. Beasles.

I'll just buy all the bits and give it to Prawn.

Could I use a hacksaw?

So I've bought a massive sheet of Lexan... What do I do now? Haha

Oh, I saw the MPH as the predominant speed and assumed it was in miles.

Impressive. Shall we see who can hit 250 first My car's a bit like this.

I've just emailed the seller I bought the Parada Spec 2's off seeing if I can cancel the order, if I can I'll buy a set of 595's as well.

I'll take the NS2's. PM me your Paypal. Xxx Blatant copy and paste. Well, on the subject of that... 18 minutes to change the thermostat, from opening the bonnet to putting the lid back on the expansion tank! That's a record I'm sure of it. There was one slight thing concerning me, there was very little flow back to the expansion tank. So I quickly grabbed the hose and washed a load of shit through from the bottom of the rad. All up and running, lovely return flow and sounding very healthy. Engine is still over cooled, it gets up to would would be about 70* on the gauge, and the vents come out warm. But it never gets up to 90. I've done 165 miles in it now. I also remved the heater fan and lubricated it. And fixed a leak in the power steering and ran some conditioner though the system. Then I put the car on full lock and soaked the coilovers in plus gas. The sun roof is really upsetting me now, I've just had enough of looking at it. It appears to be just bonded in, then there are little wedges riveted into the shell pushing the roof up. They aren't actually attached to it, just butted up against it. Very odd. God it looks shit. A very clever friend of mine has come up with a fantastic idea, which I'll be doing. Buying a sheet of black lexan, remove the sunroof and trace 10mm round the outside of it onto the lexan, then using the glass roof as a template run a router around the outside of the glass onto the lexan, paint the lexan body colour and then bond it in with tiger seal. Should give a flush and fairly nice looking result without costing more than £50 and a few hours labour. Then I can just buy a non-sunroof head lining and have the inside looking OEM. We all know I wouldn't go long without cleaning it... The paint work really isn't that bad, it really needs a thorough machine polish. I went over it by hand today with a renovator and a glaze, but I really need to spend a day doing it properly. And now I'm on the sofa with the monster drinking beer watching western movies on TCM. And if I play my cards right I may have just bought a load of track tires

I'll have a set of 595's and the NS2's.

Robin and I just had a chat, I've got a plan Robin suggested buying a sheet of lexan, using the old glass as a template and a router around the edges to make it flush fit. Paint the lexan body colour and bond it in place. The current roof isn't really held in by any more than bonding and three aluminum support plates which are riveted to the inside of the shell and simply butted up to the roof mechanism. Removing it should be easy, hopefully it will be a fairly straight forward job.

I've seen sieves hold water better than this roof does haha! It's not the original roof, it's a super 90's Webasto tilting jobbie with a mirrored chrome tint on the glass. It looks horrible. And because it is a "custom" roof it also had a "custom" head lining, which apparently just snapped in half one day and was put in the bin So my headlining options are non existent, unless I remove all of this roof and the framework beneath it and attach a non sunroof headlining to the original mounting points which are still there. It won't ever be a show car, so from that point of view it doesn't have to look faultless. But I'm at a bit if a loss what to do with it and how to rectify the situation. One of my thoughts was removing the roof, tracing around the glass and bonding something in its place, which is I think what you and Rich are suggesting too.

It isn't steel, it's aluminum. It's already cut to size, reasonably well finished and presented and is also pre drilled. I averagely earn £30 an hour. Spending two hours cutting, drilling, refinishing and f**k arsing around with a piece of metal to make it look as presentable as that I can just buy for £40 isn't really my cup of tea. When I could be spending that time selling cars.

Well I actually bought them.

I just bought some Spec 2's George, because you said they weren't shit. If they are, I'm driving to your house and setting fire to them on your doorstep.

I did get your WhatsApp, then my phone died I'd be buying relentless DP myself, but what with you being FWD I'm not 100% sure for K04 fitment.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STUKE-civic-Sunroof-delete-plate-blank-aluminium-plug-honda-ek-track-race-etc-/181492476530?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a41cb6a72 Buy that, cut the old sunroof shit out, drill some holes, buy some tiger seal, rivet. Yar?

Line up the cars in the pits. One car on, does a warm up lap and one flying then off. The car on track comes off and joins the back of the line. The next car goes out on track. Wash rinse and repeat.

Just bought some 15" BBS RA's.

Yeah, see you there.

I want one, just for lols. I can get a little trailer for all the tires and tools for track days! Who ever thought a track car with a tow bar could be so attractive.

Woooooo!!!! That's at BELOW 1 bar, it's just actuator pressure. When this is mapped it's going to be a f**king monster, arguably it's capable of more power and torque than the S3 had 300bhp on the cards. I hate public transport, in fact lets just cap it off...I f**king hate London. Almost a 4 hour train journey later (to travel less than 50 miles), I got to the station, as I was on the phone to Prawn and walking to his house I said 'f**k me, there's an amazing looking Mk2 coming the other way! It looks just like mine but the reg is different, what's the chances of that?!' Turns out Bruno had put on a bit of a welcome party, his friend was picking me up from the station in his stunning 16VT Mk2. Got to the car, had a quick chat, threw an envelope of cash at Bruno which he didn't even look at let alone count. He gave me the keys, I told him I'd be back in a couple of weeks to pick up all the spares and off I went. Proper job. The traffic getting back from N11 London, at 6PM was HORRIFIC. Two hours of constant stop start traffic crawling at that annoying 2mph crawl pace that isn't quite out of gear foot on the clutch but doesn't warrant stopping and then setting off again. Rrrrrr. The car was perfect though! Then as soon as I got out of London I absolutely annihilated it to Prawns, where it also didn't skip a beat. Took some pictures. Battery voltage and ambient engine bay temps. There's a couple of issues. It's HUGELY over cooled. It just never gets up to temp, ever. It's got a double core aluminium radiator with two fans on it, which is massive over kill. The rear engine/gearbox mount is toast. There's a lot of slop. It's too low, and the tires are too small and the wheels are too big. It needs mapping, badly. But otherwise, it's rad.

I did have to send him a chocolate sculpture of my arsehole to pay for the favor, but we'll keep that low key. http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/edible-chocolate-anus