OV9

Who says Exige aren’t practical?
2 people
2 pairs of boots
4 corner flags
1 respect barrier

More progress. While I have been here there and everywhere and on the very busy work lead up to Xmas I had my coilovers sent away to be refurbed. Rather worryingly nitron sent the coilovers back with the front springs on the rear, and the rears on the front. 600ib on the front, 450ib on the rear. Fa...

Here is my mark 1 ( and final ) home made cage for my 620

Some new bits have arrived. The battery weighs 7kg

Whooooooooooo 2 weeks since my op. I now have a great scar and hope to collect my car soon. No idea when though. Its going to need a full alignment as well, so I am going to take it to Dan at HPE as I want to talk about the setup I want. Last time on track it had all the front end grip and some that...

Nitron just called. Looks like I am going to have to put some new springs on as well due to corrosion.

I knew I should have bought a new S2 ...

So the lotus have developed a character trait or fault as they are known in Renault parlance. When I turn off the car sometimes it stays ignition live, sometime not. Its a good game. However, I have left the negative terminal on the battery finger tight and take off the wire if it wont go off. Job ,...

Couple of pics ...

Car is at RSTuning for toelinks ( spitfire ) and fuel pump. Car is up on the ramp at RSTuning now Looks like I have a weeping rear right shocker , small oil leak ( TBC ) and the aux belt is fraying. I’ll get the aux belt done immediately , the oil leak investigated and the shocker sent away after Bl...

I ❣ this car.

I took my son to his drumming lesson this afternoon. I went over the usual speed hump and it was accompanied by a loud ccccccrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkk noise as something scraped over the hump. Must have been going too fast I thought so crawled over the next one. ccccccrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkk Balls. Something is h...

Car now has a years MOT.

AD08R fitted ( great tyres! )

My cheeky ginger fleabag cat sat on the car.


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Its tight in here! https://i.ibb.co/H27hFkm/764-F5-DF2-2-DA5-40-D3-A928-65-F483265209.jpg Thats the reference part number - as found on a 2001-2004 Diesel (!) d4d Corolla. https://i.ibb.co/yBX89NB/AFA4-BB9-B-63-FA-4439-8-E68-063-F21-D0-D4-F5.jpg Do you think something might have gone wrong here? Thi...

quite happy with that

Milestone! https://i.ibb.co/PMfhhF5/55-F61-FBA-C922-4-BFD-BEE0-FBC801-AB8-D2-C.jpg I cleaned the dash on the loltus on Sunday. It now whooshes when I am gaining speed like a turbo when you lift. Its 100% at the front of the car, not the back. Wonder what I have disturbed? I have looked at the schema...

Fitted said vessel tonight. Not 100% happy with one of the clips, so I’ll get a jubilee clip for it as well. Few pics Hole where plastic one was https://i.ibb.co/ftWphc7/DAB7800-B-DA9-B-4460-9-CD3-F11-EF32-EEB41.jpg New one in and not leaking https://i.ibb.co/GTPHLng/835652-A8-8964-472-C-9912-746746...

Bit cleaner now..




coin toss online with friend

Best clean the car ..

Things are going well on the exige. It must be about time for my luck to change. Taking the youngest to school tomorrow so it could be then.

Loving life with the loltus ( as its now nicknamed ) driving it loads ..

Whine.