Project Binky

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integrale_evo wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:39 pm I’m surprised their ocds allowed them to refit crusty suspension bits with nice shiny new bushes.

I realise it’s supposed to be a quick budget build, but still, while it’s off....
Maybe someone with a whip was keeping them to an actual schedule. :lol:
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I am guessing everyone is following them now, and posting this here is a bit superfluous :?:

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Not sure it was worth £6k and many, many hours of labour but each to their own. Any of you had a squizz at the results? Doing well so far.
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mr_jon wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:03 am Not sure it was worth £6k and many, many hours of labour but each to their own. Any of you had a squizz at the results? Doing well so far.
Can you do circuit racing for much less?
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mr_jon wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:03 am Not sure it was worth £6k and many, many hours of labour but each to their own. Any of you had a squizz at the results? Doing well so far.
IIRC the original premise was to compare it, (pricewise at least), to a decent multi-display force feedback virtual racing setup. And then do actual, not virtual racing.
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Rich B wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:06 am
mr_jon wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:03 am Not sure it was worth £6k and many, many hours of labour but each to their own. Any of you had a squizz at the results? Doing well so far.
Can you do circuit racing for much less?
You could buy a mini cooper cup car for roughly the same.
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scotta wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:23 am
Rich B wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:06 am
mr_jon wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:03 am Not sure it was worth £6k and many, many hours of labour but each to their own. Any of you had a squizz at the results? Doing well so far.
Can you do circuit racing for much less?
You could buy a mini cooper cup car for roughly the same.
Don’t let those guys anywhere near another mini 😂
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scotta wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:23 am
Rich B wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:06 am
mr_jon wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:03 am Not sure it was worth £6k and many, many hours of labour but each to their own. Any of you had a squizz at the results? Doing well so far.
Can you do circuit racing for much less?
You could buy a mini cooper cup car for roughly the same.
exactly.
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Buying a used one of these is surely the cheapest thing to do.
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Rich B wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:23 pm
scotta wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:23 am
Rich B wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:06 am Can you do circuit racing for much less?
You could buy a mini cooper cup car for roughly the same.
exactly.
Minis roll less as well when they inevitability meet the gravel trap.
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Jobbo wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:08 pm Buying a used one of these is surely the cheapest thing to do.
And you think they’d be happy with a car someone else had put together? :lol:
Cheers, Harry
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integrale_evo wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:01 pm
Jobbo wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:08 pm Buying a used one of these is surely the cheapest thing to do.
And you think they’d be happy with a car someone else had put together? :lol:
Could make decent telly that - slagging off someone else's work and then fixing it :lol:
The Evo forum really is a shadow of its former self. I remember when the internet was for the elite and now they seem to let any spastic on

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Jobbo wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:08 pm Buying a used one of these is surely the cheapest thing to do.
It wouldn’t be much of a show though would it.

“Here’s the car we bought”

The end.

Dave!
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Part 5:



That looks cracking fun. Really awesome.
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Can see why he was getting pissed off getting passed by the faster class of cars then them getting in the way
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That hat though...
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Rich B wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:50 pm That hat though...
Unfortunately that was my strongest memory of this vid. :?
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Good fun, seeing that Red AW11 launch like a mofo at the start really makes me want another one.
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The artist formerly known as _Who_
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Some cheeky interpretation going on there, wonder if they’ll need to remove anything
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