What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[M'coli]

Not car related,but yesterday's bike racing made me grin, British supersport from brands was lairy as fuck and the motogp for the first time in years had me holding my breath

I thought you were talking about Roubaix...

[Mr Lobster]

I can't drink a glass of milk today without gagging and thats all down to drinking warmish, slightly strange tasting milk though a red, plastic straw at school thirty odd years ago.

 

Given me a lifelong dislike of the stuff. i can just about tolerate it in cereal but thats it.

[Lacquer Peel]

Drinking milk from other animals is bizarre anyway.

[michael1703]

Not car related,but yesterday's bike racing made me grin, British supersport from brands was lairy as fuck and the motogp for the first time in years had me holding my breath

I thought you were talking about Roubaix...

 

Alastair seeley and Ben Wilson,Sundays race not on YouTube yet but it was similar to this from 2011

 

[TimothyClaypole]

The only thing I enjoyed at school was delivering and picking up the milk while in the last year at Juniors as you could drink the spares.

 

My Grandad told me never to go down the "pit" after working there himself but on the other hand my house was built by the coalboard... damned if you do, etc etc.

[Alexg]

those who don't wish to celebrate her death obviously didnt suffer enough at her hands.

Not at all, I just think some of us have more class...

 

i ll be glad when shes in her grave so i can piss on it.

... some of us.

[Tayne]

I'll feel quite smug when I watch her funeral going horribly wrong, safe in the knowledge that it will have cost the taxpayer a pittance.

 

The coffin will arrive late, some of the mourners will have been taken to the wrong church and the gravestone will have someone else's name on it.

 

It will be the first privatised state funeral, having gone out to competitive tender with the lowest quote getting the job.

 

Its what she would have wanted.

[ChinaTom]

I have a new job (well long term contract anyway)! No more jungles. No more commuting on perilously dangerous roads. No more getting eaten by poisonous insects.

 

Now to inform my late-paying goalpost moving contrarian arsehole of a current client. I'm so going to enjoy this next 30 minutes.

 

And I am in Texas at the moment, and whilst I haven't seen a great deal of shite on the roads, the length of some of the Ford Pick-ups make my Great Wall look like a Fabia estate.

[fotorabia]

Our free 1970s Highland milk was served in wee plastic bags that u bit the cnr off an sucked...something to do with transport logistics i.e bottles to difficult to get over the Corran ferry...theyd be left forgotten in this big sink in the classrooms and sometimes go off..which we then took great delight at holing them and lobbing them at some poor unsuspecting bastard in the playground...

[Geep]

Drinking milk from other animals is bizarre anyway.

 

Indeed, much better to sup milk from your own species.

[fotorabia]

In 1991 i was visting Czechoslovakia..witnessing the break up of the two countries..and buying up fabulous antiques for a song and selling back in Munich for a fortune...Zippi the guy we stayed with worked in a huge old scrapyard..once we brought back an ejector seat from a late 50s Russian MiG jet fighter in the back of the Merc W115-240D..it was huge n heavy..the Austrian border freaked out at us [the explosive charge had been removed]..but I also bought this..a radiator cap from a 1920s Praga tractor..solid brass...and gave it to my step-dad for that 1991 Xmas....its been sitting on top of the wood burner ever since..

 

Photo not in focus scuse me...but u get the picture..

[richardthestag]

K&N airfilter and a set of Bosch Super4 plugs and my Range Rover is utterly transformed.

 

I always enjoy driving it but am enjoying that experience a little more than usual today.

[Spiny Norman]

K&N airfilter and a set of Bosch Super4 plugs and my Range Rover is utterly transformed.

 

I'd always thought K&Ns were just marketing bluster, and that they did nothing to actually improve the performance that a fresh factory air filter wouldn't do since the engine management system will only 'ask' for the air it needs to mix correctly with the fuel, or am I missing something?

[willswitchengage]

 

Those funny green things beneath the headlamps. Can you guess what it is yet?

[Partridge]

No, but I noticed the Nissan Z wheels

[Rod/b]

Are they Citroen spheres?

[Guest]

 

Those funny green things beneath the headlamps. Can you guess what it is yet?

 

It has hydropneumatic speheres and Z31 alloys. WOT?

[Rod/b]

I guess the url gives it away!

 

http://www.citroen-ds-id.com/ds/Landrov ... nsion.html

[dollywobbler]

That's just insanity. Not just SM suspension, but the DIRAVI self-centering steering too!

[richardthestag]

K&N airfilter and a set of Bosch Super4 plugs and my Range Rover is utterly transformed.

 

I'd always thought K&Ns were just marketing bluster, and that they did nothing to actually improve the performance that a fresh factory air filter wouldn't do since the engine management system will only 'ask' for the air it needs to mix correctly with the fuel, or am I missing something?

 

I always thought so too, Range rover breaker near home I spoke too highly recommended both mods for my LPG'ed RRC.

 

I guess that the difference is that LPG relies on a vacuum to suck the gas in through the single point system I have fitted. too heavy a filter (been there have the t-shirt and spare LPG vaporizer) and there is not enough suction to get the lpg into the engine.

 

I fitted the air filter first and the difference was noticeable. smoother idle and slightly more urgency when pressure was applied to the loud pedal.

 

Then the plugs went in over the weekend. The difference is amazing. very smooth and gutsy. The motor has done 128k. according to some RV8 officianados my cam should be providing no lift what so ever, yet it doesn't crackle on overrun from a good rev and responds pretty well.

 

http://www.knfilters.co.uk/search/produ ... rod=E-2350

 

^^ guff from K&N

[Rod/b]

LPG eats spark plugs in my experience.

[richardthestag]

^^ done 120k on lpg in two Range Rovers and can honestly say that I have not really noticed that.

 

a set of bosch plugs seem good for 12k in the Rangie. They last about the same mileage in the Stag.

 

I know no different, how long do plugs last?

[cort16]

I've just bought a garlic powered dream machine*. I'm going to pick it up tomorrow night. It'll should fit right in on here

[beko1987]

Printed a for sale sign and stuck it in the window of the zx for £350 and got a call within the hour! Never sold a car before, better get watching wheeler dealers. 'Owld oat year aaaand' etc

[Guest]

I've just bought a garlic powered dream machine*. I'm going to pick it up tomorrow night. It'll should fit right in on here

 

I'm happy for you, but I really hope it isn't a BX. This place is turning into a one-model forum of late and it's boring me shitless. Sorry. They do nothing for me unless you're talking about the 4TC or a 16 valve. I don't feel like I can contribute anything to the forum any more, because it's moving further and further away from the shite I find interesting...either wilfully odd / rare, or fast. Or a combination of all three. The 4TC and 16 valve models meet this criteria - the rest don't.

 

EDIT....I'm really pissing on your chips cort, sorry. So many people on here like BXs, they just leave me a bit underwhelmed. The Xantia is [iMHO] a much better and more robust car for the money [iMHO]. I know where my £500 would go if I was wanting something to replace a shagged out piece of Togliatti-on-wheels.

[cort16]

It's not a BX. I'll put a post up about it when I get it home tomorrow after my epic 42 minute train journey collection story.

[richardthestag]

I like bx's but had to change the front subframe on my bros car in the late 80's. vowed never to own one.

 

Cummon cort, spill the beanz! Is is an xm estate running veg?

[willswitchengage]

This place is turning into a one-model forum of late and it's boring me shitless.

 

+1

 

I've not clicked with mine at all and will be trying to sell it in a couple of months when it can get a new Controle Technique.

 

Should really stop losing money on in-promptu purchases...

[cort16]

I like bx's but had to change the front subframe on my bros car in the late 80's. vowed never to own one.

 

Cummon cort, spill the beanz! Is is an xm estate running veg?

 

Oh, alright then I could never hold my water.

 

Xantia by cort16, on Flickr

[richardthestag]

Nice footwear

 

 

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