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[loserone]

2 minutes ago, sims00 said:

bad idea

This

[Pat Earrings]

27 minutes ago, loserone said:

This

I've considered your reasoned and well thought out argument.

 

It's still in my watch list however..

[Agila]

1 hour ago, sims00 said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383428423327

 

Somebody tell me ordering the above is a bad idea...

You will ruin the originality of a fantastic example that you have.

That car is ace. Simple.

[iainrcz]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383428423327
 
Somebody tell me ordering the above is a bad idea...

Cheap eBay exhausts are a one way ticket to pissing off your neighbours.
Ask me how I know.

[greengartside]

2 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Have you had a look at it yet, what do you reckon went first, lack of coolant where it had been standing or water pump. Is it worth trying a bottle of the magic potion ?

I tried the magic potion. I think it made it worse to be fair.

[barefoot]

9 hours ago, sims00 said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383428423327

 

Somebody tell me ordering the above is a bad idea...

It depends whether or not you have a Focus.

[dean36014]

Door bottom repairs. Still need to make the complete bottom of the frame up to.

Also having the zx detailed as it really needs it. The paintwork was really flat and in need of attention. My friend who's doing it has been sending me photos.

[Pat Earrings]

12 hours ago, Agila said:

You will ruin the originality of a fantastic example that you have.

That car is ace. Simple.

 

11 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Cheap eBay exhausts are a one way ticket to pissing off your neighbours.
Ask me how I know.

Duly noted and deleted from the watch list!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

RamAir cone type foam air filter has arrived. This comes with a converter plate so that can be fixed to the L-Jetronic AFM on the CX.

Am going to try this on the basis that anything has got to be better than that inaccessible rusting box that Citroën calls an air filter.

[rusty998]

I will need to dig the welder out for this purchase,  deposit left and hopefully should be at Rusty towers in a couple of weeks 

1275cc low mileage, not to bad body wise but will need some welding,  paint, oil seals and an M,O,T 

[andyberg]

34 minutes ago, rusty998 said:

I will need to dig the welder out for this purchase,  deposit left and hopefully should be at Rusty towers in a couple of weeks 

1275cc low mileage, not to bad body wise but will need some welding,  paint, oil seals and an M,O,T 

Love the interior, nicely headache inducing! 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

44 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Love the interior, nicely headache inducing! 

Think Jaffa Cake filling!

[Broadsword]

Wow, that looks horrendous. Great purchase!

[Pat Earrings]

Well I had to do it. Popped to Halfords to get some Millers petrol max additive and at £5 for the Richbrook keyring seemed quite a good deal. I tried my best using Halfords toolbox red touch up pen to fill in the faded ST badge. Wobbly handed as fuck and it's not the greatest of jobs but, even at a couple feet it looks a million times better. A new OE badge is £28 and I don't think I will be buying that any time soon. I will be doing a full service including plugs on this just to keep it sweet. Think I will invest in a k&n panel filter though. 

[Eyersey1234]

Just been setting up our new Alexa echo thing. Fuck me the bugger doesn't shut up. 

[iainrcz]

Duly noted and deleted from the watch list!

I decided a Malian was what I needed.
Looked nice, YouTube vids sounded ok.

Got it, fitted it.... Found out it sounded like some fucker playing a trombone down a megaphone. The volume on cold starts, Christ you could hear it from a neighbouting town.
The drone inside at a certain speed was horrible. There must be nothing in those silencers.

Plus it never really fitted properly.

I now have a non resonated Milltek, it now actually sounds like a sports car.

[Pat Earrings]

Just now, iainrcz said:

I decided a Malian was what I needed.
Looked nice, YouTube vids sounded ok.

Got it, fitted it.... Found out it sounded like some fucker playing a trombone down a megaphone. The volume on cold starts, Christ you could hear it from a neighbouting town.
The drone inside at a certain speed was horrible. There must be nothing in those silencers.

Plus it never really fitted properly.

I now have a non resonated Milltek, it now actually sounds like a sports car.

I may just fit a nicer back box, I've seen a good used Janspeed one in eBay. But if I decide against that then I'll go for a local exhaust specialist to just replace it. The exhaust itself is in fantastic condition I'm just wanting to future proof it a little 

[mitsisigma01]

3 hours ago, sims00 said:

 

 

Just to the right of where it states "feel the quality" is that blue oval not aligned properly with its backing ?

[rusty998]

4 hours ago, Broadsword said:

Wow, that looks horrendous. Great purchase!

Why thank you ?

[Ghosty]

Teaser image. More tomorrow...

[dean36014]

Bit of a difference to how it was! Money well spent getting it done.

[dome]

7 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

RamAir cone type foam air filter has arrived. This comes with a converter plate so that can be fixed to the L-Jetronic AFM on the CX.

Am going to try this on the basis that anything has got to be better than that inaccessible rusting box that Citroën calls an air filter.

I've used Ramair to good effect on a few things including the Locost and Clio 182. Seems decent quality and decent price which is always good.

[dome]

4 hours ago, iainrcz said:

I decided a Malian was what I needed.
Looked nice, YouTube vids sounded ok.

Got it, fitted it.... Found out it sounded like some fucker playing a trombone down a megaphone. The volume on cold starts, Christ you could hear it from a neighbouting town.
The drone inside at a certain speed was horrible. There must be nothing in those silencers.

Plus it never really fitted properly.

I now have a non resonated Milltek, it now actually sounds like a sports car.

Got a Milltek on the S4. Not cheap but it makes it sound like a V8,  unlike the standard system which is too quiet. Keep searching for a centre box delete which they make to make it even noisier but not found one for sensible money yet.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 minutes ago, dome said:

I've used Ramair to good effect on a few things including the Locost and Clio 182. Seems decent quality and decent price which is always good.

That's encouraging. All I need is a suitable heat shield / intake box for it that will fit into the very limited space that a CX has behind the offside headlight.

[dome]

Deposit received for the Locost, it'll go this week. 

What's next, I hear no-one ask?

Oh, dunno, no plans 

Cough. 

[Broadsword]

11 minutes ago, dome said:

Deposit received for the Locost, it'll go this week. 

What's next, I hear no-one ask?

Oh, dunno, no plans 

Cough. 

Do tell us more about both of those!

[SRi05]

First chance I’ve had to take the Saab a wee run since bringing it back up the road,  haven’t been up Fife way in ages

[Ghosty]

People are telling me I need new glowplugs. Yay, fuckery! 

 

[richardmorris]

6 hours ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Just been setting up our new Alexa echo thing. Fuck me the bugger doesn't shut up. 

Richard Bacon’s has apparently let his children know he was sacked from the bbc for cocaine use.

[Angrydicky]

9 hours ago, rusty998 said:

I will need to dig the welder out for this purchase,  deposit left and hopefully should be at Rusty towers in a couple of weeks 

1275cc low mileage, not to bad body wise but will need some welding,  paint, oil seals and an M,O,T 

Formerly owned by @garycox of this parish!