The Car Thread

[N.Wood]

Best place to buy some cheap new / nearly new part worn winter tyres in 205 55 r16? The bay? Some blizzaks for £79 posted per pair with 7mm left (only 1mm worn from new) on there...

[Greetings]

Random question - how probable is it that one can fit dog clutches to a standard gearbox without faffing about with getting the whole dedicated clean cut gearset? I know I'm not going to get a 100% answer here but perhaps someone has fitted dog clutches and can share their experience?

[Pashley26]

Cracking day!

Woke up early and cut my hair.

Cleaned the car, waxed it and all that shit.

Took a preppy picture for Waxybox after waxing my wheels.

Opened my bonnet, everything was where I left it. So I closed it again.

Sold the Alfa which made me very sad.

Every cloud and all that shit.

My top mounts got bagged up ready for me to pick up on Sunday.

Went to Prawns, picked him up and went to Interlink.

Then I let him drive. Which was weird. Conversations about brakes ensued.

Picked these up for a fellow forum member to trial on his Mk2 -

Superlowz A3 being practical as f**k.

Then rinsed it to Bracknell with Prawn to pick up his Mangane, he left it at the tuner who has helped him with his latest bit of work on the A3. Which is f**king huge and not many people know about yet.

Ground my sump and cars face along the road for a good 20 yards at 30mph because I didn't listen to Prawn.

Committed the above cash to rods and a potential 1.9 stroker rebuild.

Caned it back at warp speed, still couldn't lose Prawn and that f**king Megane though.

Now I'm in bed.

Edited September 26, 2013 by Pashley26

[AdamR28]

Random question - how probable is it that one can fit dog clutches to a standard gearbox without faffing about with getting the whole dedicated clean cut gearset? I know I'm not going to get a 100% answer here but perhaps someone has fitted dog clutches and can share their experience?

I've been looking into stuff like this recently, from what I can tell it would be impossible... But don't rely on that!

[JD™]

Serious question Jardo: Isn't the whole point of the whole 'detailing' lark that it helps your car keep itself cleaner and as such mean you have to clean it less? Every time you post you seem to have waxed the bloody thing! I ask because I've just bought a load of bits to do exactly that to the BMW when I've finished the bodywork, but I know I won't bother doing it as often as you do.

[Pashley26]

It is. You are 100% right, and quite frankly I am utterly retarded.

But I have OCD, as such I can't help but clean it constantly. And I enjoy it, it's relaxing.

All I need to do is use a quick detailer twice a week, and it would still look exactly the same as it does after my daily routine of waxing over wax.

So my recoomendation to you would be buy some AngelWax QD or Sonax Britemax detailer, wax once every 4-6 weeks and quick rinse and quick detail once a week.

I find the act of cleaning, wax on and wax off very therapeutic. Hence the constant cleaning. Me time

Edited September 27, 2013 by Pashley26

[JD™]

I figured that was the case, I just wanted to make sure because there's f**k all chance I'll do it once if I have to do it every week!

I got a bit of a kit including iron remover, foam, polish, sealant and various applicators and stuff. I'm sure it's not as great as if I'd bought it all separately, but I only want to make the car easier to sell in a couple of months assuming all goes well.

Edited September 27, 2013 by JD™

[Prawny Baby]

Odd random fact:

When i came home last night, Jardo was waiting for me to go to Bracknell,

As I approached his car, I could actually SMELL the cleaning products on it from 10 yards away, it's THAT covered in products.

it is very clean though, and does look great on the road, even if ti can't get away from the French Diesel Coupe down Hampshires back roads!

[AdamR28]

can't get away from the French Diesel Coupe down Hampshires back roads!

I like this, a lot.

[James Quigley]

Bleeding a clutch on a hiace van, not fun! I've bled it as per the instructions, no more air coming out, just fluid but still no pedal response, and now the brake pedals gone all weird. Looks like a clutch less drive to the mechanic.

[AdamR28]

This may sound stupid - but - does it have a separate clutch reservoir or does it use the same one as the brake circuit?

On my MX-5 it's a separate one and I once tried to use the brake reservoir to bleed the clutch (fail) which gave exactly the same symptoms you've just described!

[James Quigley]

Yeah pretty sure its the same reservoir. Well I think it is anyway as the reservoir I topped up was pretty low after the clutch line popped.

[Greetings]

I've been looking into stuff like this recently, from what I can tell it would be impossible... But don't rely on that!

Yeah that's what I've been assuming too. Guess I'll have to get in touch with Samsonas and see what they have to say about this.

On a side note, the M3 has a new gearbox (which should make Prawn happy because he's been taking the piss out of my floppy lever) and various mechanical parts have been replaced including hubs. All the wheels before the fix had at least 0.5cm of play with one rear close to about 2-3cm but that wasn't due to the hubs. Fitted DS3000 pads on the rear and a shorter diff. The car brakes better than it ever did, is as direct as it has ever been. It's actually weird because you almost think your way through corners. It reacts to the tiniest steering input. No clonks or rattles either for the first time since I've had this car. Comp tomorrow, using rally tyres for the first time, I'm sure this also translates to higher precision since the tyres have a wire canvas and are only 225 section rather than the usual 250/260.

Edited September 27, 2013 by Greetings

[Prawny Baby]

awesome awesome epic news!

I've always been told that the gearbox will make or break the car for the driver.

I've always suffered from gearbox problems, and a shit feeling gearbox to, so it made me sad to see your 'floppy stick' and know that it's detracting from an otherwise incredible car.

I reckon fixing that will make it so much nicer to drive

In other news, I've also had a gearbox change recently

Finished off a 6 speed conversion this week in the A3, and I'm over the moon with it! I now have a box that changes positively, and slots really sweetly into gears, changes FAR faster than my old 5 speed box ever could, and should be considerably stronger too.

new 6 speed also has an LSD again, this time a peloquin ATB, but this one feels considerably tighter than my old well used quaife.

makes such a difference to the driving experience having a nice box, the shorter ratios are really suiting my car, and progress to 100mph now is frighteningly fast

Good luck in the comp tomorrow Alex, looking forward to the vids!

[*gentlydoesit]

Ive got some old pdf files on k jet, if you dont mind a trouble shoot yourselt?

[Jolfa]

Threads are better with pics of Audis

Sooo -




Made this little touch



Saw this guy at the scrappy



Unfortunately my electricity is escaping from somewhere, the battery now lasts less than a day before it's flat as a pancake, need to pull the dash out at some point as it's a wiring disaster behind it!

[Sam T]

Can somebody repost the download link for Vagcom on that file sharing website please? Ive searched for ages now and i cant seem to find it in this thread. Probably just being blind

[James Quigley]

So turns out the master cylinder was being a PITA and wouldn't bleed, mechanic stuck a compressed air gin in the reservoir and gave it a little blip which solved the problem. Turns out I was bleeding it properly it just wasn't playing ball.

[Jake.]

Reading on the happy thread that kidney got a project Honda eg last night spurred me to look at cars again...

Good news is, I've found a bunch of cars I like with a reasonable insurance rate..

Bad news is, I will massively struggle to afford to go to Australia if I get one.

Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Jake.]

Being on a car course makes me desire my own car more by the day.

Can't quite fiddle with my mum's Honda jazz haha.

Edited September 28, 2013 by JMCD

[Greetings]

f**k yeah. Managed to win today's comp which I think is my biggest motorsport achievement yet. To put it short, due to a tyre mishap on two previous rounds I would not have enough points to compete for 1st place in BMW Challenge if I didn't win this event. There were 3 special stages and 9 runs in total, after 4 runs I was 7 seconds behind the leader due to poor choice of tyres on one of the runs. I later decided to risk running on racing slicks moments before very dark clouds started to appear, thankfully it didn't rain. Despite the slicks being a medium compound (operating temperature 90C) and the sufrace being -2C I managed to get enough heat into them to start taking the lead. After 22 minutes of special stages, I won my class by just 2 seconds and came 2nd overall. So there's one more round left and it's held on a track on which I haven't lost a single time in over a year. Fingers crossed.

[greg1040]

Was down at the grand opening of drift land yesterday had an amazing day and saw some amazing cars there was a s15 wigth a viper engine the thing just looked mean. Uploading some short clips I took with the phone

[greg1040]

http://s1158.photobucket.com/albums/p605/greg130190/?action=view&current=20130928_161927_zps3f46455b.mp4 Edited September 29, 2013 by greg1040

[David]

2006 Vauxhall Astra 1.6i SXI - Good, bad? Problems to look out for?

Dave

[Azarathal]

So up until yesterday I was content with a headunit only outputting 9watts so a single door speaker as the other one had blown years ago (don't think my dash tweeters have ever worked). Bought some cheap FLI speakers from halfrauds as I'm doing this on the cheap (£22 with "my" staff discount ) and used an old rip speed headunit I was given a few years ago.

It was my first time actually trying to install anything on the car that wasn't just replacing pads or topping up the water so I had to ask for a bit of help. New speakers had smaller spades than the old so decided just to strip the wire and twist+tape, at first they were shockingly bad but I put it down to the old 9w head unit so started installing the new one.

Needed an iso-din adaptor but luckily I was parked behind work (Maplin) which is next door to the halfords. Cables were a pain as behind my dash it's cramped and I spent ages trying to wiggle things free. Hooked it all up and it's such an improvement! Thinking about now building an underseat sub box to ice things up a bit but keep things minimal.