Taff
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The Detectorists, on BBC4. Outstanding bit of television.
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Unless you are keeping the Freelander for ever, I wouldn't waste time trying to get an incorrect m/c to fit.
I've done a couple of mix'n'match brake set ups for hot rods and they aren't much fun to get "adequate". Pedal travel to m/c ratio is more important that you would imagine, so mixing up components can make for a lot of work.
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Just go to Germany. Their taxation is for every 100cc or a fraction thereof, thus they call it a 5.8, because that's what they pay tax for.
Correction: Were taxed for every 100cc or a fraction thereof. I think they also succumbed to this OMGCO2 horseshit now.
Hadn't thought of that mate. I had to jump through similar hoops with my Spitfire as Albingia had no data on it. When I was posted there, I didn't bother registering my yank cars on the German system (it was an option for us & and it made life easier if you had, say, Civic or a Passat. Mainstream stuff, you know?) I left the yank stuff as UK-registered and accepted the hit of having to bring them back to UK once a year for their MoT.
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Example: You have a 350 SBC
350 ci x 16.3874 = 5736 ccm. Depending on whether they are taxed for engine displacement or not, people call this either a 5.7 or a 5.8 litre.
I'm not disputing your maths or logic mate, but no-one I've ever met in 25 years of arseing about with yanks has ever referred to an SBC350 as a 5.8
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Remember the blue citreon? do you? eh?
Go and buy a Trans Am. Thank me & Junkman later
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his band are shit, too
I did meet the other bloke (Tim?) at Belfast airport once when we had both been bennied. Bought him a pint and he bought me one back, nice enough bloke and quite unlike how he comes across on the telly.
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/\ is that a commercial enterprise or mates rates, out of curiosity?
I'm in Bristol, I'm not on the cadge or anything, just curious as to what a bloke who advertises is going to charge , if that makes sense
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I think I have found a place in Bristol that sells filtered, ready to use WVO in 20 litre containers, just emailed him and waiting for a price.
I don't have the room to filter the stuff at home, so buying it ready to mix/pour is my ideal scenario
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I've just had a mooch at the Big Yellow Container website and I have to sign up to get a quote. Bollocks to that, I'm not that interested!!
I'm sure there are regs about what you can put in there, and I bet working on it is frowned upon, but simple storage? Epecially if you drained it?
£3/week? Bloody hell, down on the south coast you wouldn't get a cupboard for that! It's more like at least £50/mth if you are lucky and if you can actually find one for rent. As others have said, a good many have been sold off/trashed for their land.
Many of the remainder are in a shit state &/or in a shit area so you wouldn't want to leave anything there anyway. Most of the ones I've seen have been a in a really poor state of repair, leaky roofs & damp walls mainly.
Taff - I've wondered this too, even the half-size 20 footer would be a good garage. Maybe there's some stupid regs relating to what can be stored?
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I'm conscious that I'm diverting the thread slightly, but I found this site interesting for a veg-ignorant chap like me:-
http://www.biopowered.co.uk/wiki/Vegetable_oil_as_fuel
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That warning message comes up now and again. I had the alfa specialist check it out when it first happened as it shocked me a bit too. They said the problem was with the sensor and I think they said it could be changed for £50 or I could ignore it. I chose the latter. It only happens now and again. I should have told you but it hadn't happened for a while so I forgot about it. It's written down on the spreadsheet i gave you.
That's the spirit, giving stuff a good, firm ignoring. I do this, often.
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Sorry, this is a bit of a name dropping luvvie type post.
Well, I was chatting with Charlotte Church after offering her a brew when she came off stage. She looked cold so I offered her a warm up in my bus. (Really, not a euphonium)
She really is a down to earth kind of girl. Quite, quite normal. Oh for another universe...
It's nice to see that there are some people who could be called celebrities out there who in real life are just like you and me.
she is the only church I would willingly enter
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NSFW or those of a weak disposition....
Apparently I'm inappropriate and crass, and "asking for a kicking".
**SCARED**
Tell me something I don't know you gormless emo fucknuckling pisswipe.
STORY
Met a lass who I've known for donkey's years - she's been a good mate, we've leant on each other at various points, and no, we've never done IT, although between you and me, I would. (But my standards are, well, I have none).
Anyway, she'd been having problems with her belly and surrounding areas, and last time I saw her, she was being tested for all sorts of stuff, Crohns, Lactose Intolerance, Gluten Intolerance, Coeliac, Diabetes, you name it.
Turns out she's got a series of tests next week and needs to take a poo and blood test; so I said, "Just come round to mine an hour before, and they can scrape it off my knob". Bloke who was with her - NOT her boyfriend, just a bloke she works with then made the judgement and threat above.
What a wankspaniel.
Laugh, I nearly shat (As Peter Cook once said)
black humour is for winners. A mate had his right hand blown off by an IED in Helmand. Went to see him in Selley Oak, "fuck mate, you ok?" etc
Then I offered him £15 for his Xbox.
His mum went ballistic. He laughed until he choked.
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I can't find anything online about running common rail diesels on blended WVO that isn't extremely vague or second hand information, not that it can't be done - I'd love to experiment with a disposable CR diesel and decent breakdown cover.
That's what I'm curious about. I thinks it's inevitable that I'll end up with a cheap alfa, and soon. The F can join the X in the dry for a few weeks and if I can eek out a month or so on 50/50 in a £200 beater, why not? Realistically, the worst that will happen is a FTP, tow home and take MGF to work the following day.
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I had no idea it was as cheap as that.I paid 35p a litre for my veg, so even with some spending for prep you'd save between 50-60%.
If its a JTD you're thinking of, I dunno wherher thay are veggable
And I have no idea about the Alfa either but if I can find one, it will probably be the JTD.
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FDP, i don't know enough about running veg to critique and please don't take this as such, it's a genuine enquiry.
Diesel is currently 107.9 in my local Tesco. Given that low cost and all those potential pooh-traps you have signposted, is WVO still viable? I can't help but think it sounds like a lot of messy effort for minimal saving?
(Says a petrol user who is mildly curious about saving a few sheets and may be buying a derv Alfa)
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Last nights' work Christmas do was truly splendid - Free bar all night, 5 course dinner, casino, dodgems, burlesque show and disco followed by a night in the local Hilton to spare me the 50 mile trip home...happy days.
And as it's payday I braved the Black Friday crowds and treated myself to a new watch
I know a Burlesque dancer in Pompey...
Met another shiter tonight while collecting a stack of classic car mags from richardmorris.
That's a 100% record of all the shiters I've met thusfar being good eggs!
Don't worry, we will meet soon enough
My grin is payday, a full tank of pez in the F and enough spare cash to book an MoT for the X1/9
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Yes it's all polybushed now. I've also put -1 springs on it all around. It drives better than it did but it's still quite horrible. I think the fact all the sound proofing is out of it makes it worse. I've got fancy new stuff to go in it once all the welding is done.
Decent soundproofing can make or break a car, I reckon. I loved my old '49 Chevy to bits but I hated driving it for the year with a totally gutted interior. I always felt it was as close as I would ever get to being in a Lancaster bomber, a constant drone in the middle ear and every single bang and crash on the tarmac amplified to the extreme.
It looks a cracking car mate, get it soundproofed and then decide on it's future, would be my advice.
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Had missed this, what a great thread.
Thanks especially for the Tagora bit, my dad had three of them back in the day.
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beige...
Everything works
you know, I am struggling for a reason not to buy one of these
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I've just got out the cab and stood on a street corner in a minions wooly hat looking slightly suspect. 40 quid in taxi fares alone tonight. That would have bought the bits needed for vectra. Oh well such is life. Awaiting the great junkmans arrival now. Its chuffing cold here!
May I recommend breakdown recovery for any future journeys?
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"sits quietly with a packet of revels & awaits escort van based shenanigans in the East Midlands"
What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread
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I know what you mean but it was very well acted, I thought. Toby Jones has been brilliant in it.