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Fvck me! That’s better pressure than some showers I’ve used! Funnily enough, I notice my M4 was quite muddy around the roof/body run offs this week when I took the roof down to annoy the missus. Must have a proper look where all that guttering goes!

Rich B wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:52 pm Holy fuck, I thought the initial bit of water was bad!

Massively this! Blimey.

If it was April 1st you would assume that was a joke.

Doing some green laning with JonMad.

That looks good fun. Great day for it!

Sundayjumper wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:18 pm Doing some green laning with JonMad

Longer write up please!

Jobbo wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:32 pm Longer write up please!

I was joking unfortunaely, we weren't green laning. We did another Targa Rally and that was the access road to one of the stages, or "tests" as they call them. Jon was navigating for me.

It was the Bramley Targa, organised by Farnborough District Motor Club at Bramley Camp, an Army training area just north of Basingstoke. Usual format of a wiggly route around the site passing through numbered cones. Mostly nice firm surfaces this time but some of the secluded bits were VERY slippery with moss-covered mud over concrete. Kind of turn-the-steering-wheel-and-nothing-happens slippery.

This was also the first time out for Compact #1 with LSD and non-buggered engine & beam mounts. And they did seem to make a difference ! At first I wasn't sure if the LSD was helping or not as the back just seemed to spin up all the time, but I eventually decided it was just the slippery conditions. I could get up to third gear with the wheels still spinning. I think it was also creating a tendancy for the front to push on but lowering the pressures and giving it a touch of toe-out helped balance it out a bit. A few times I managed to get a really nice drift going on and the car felt good I think Jon actually whooped and waved at a marshall at one point as we slid past them

I'm not sure where we finished overall as I had to rush off straight after the last test but I'd guess we were mid field and that's fine by me. It was a lot of fun.

I've got the M44 engine to go in still, but on an event like that, lack of power was definitely not a problem. Apparently fastest time of the day was by a 106 Rallye and was a minute and a half clear of everyone else. Light, nimble, with a very good driver = winning.

Next event is an AutoSolo at Abingdon on the 7th. That's all tarmac and hopefully it'll be dry. Some more power *will* be useful there.


Also - professional photos are being sent out in the next day or two. I'm hoping for some good ones.

Loltus sitting a bit higher than usual this week. Wheels are off for a refurb.

I did the coat hanger trick on one of Kathryn's Mx5s. It made a lovely gurgling noise when all the water drained onto my shoe.

Jimmy Choo wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:52 am I did the coat hanger trick on one of Kathryn's Mx5s. It made a lovely gurgling noise when all the water drained onto my shoe.

Glad it's not just me who found it highly cathartic.

Although I knew where it was going to drain and avoided soaked shoes.

I used to have to skewer the sill drain holes on my mk1 Clios once a month during inclement periods. You could hear it sloshing back and forth under braking/acceleration.

I've got a vague feeling the I used a hose pipe to blast out drain holes on the Alfa.

Jimmy Choo wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:09 pm I've got a vague feeling the I used a hose pipe to blast out drain holes on the Alfa.

That sounds........sexual.

Jimmy Choo wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:09 pm I've got a vague feeling the I used a hose pipe to blast out drain holes on the Alfa.

Probably why the seat base collapsed.

Jimmy Choo wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:09 pm I've got a vague feeling the I used a hose pipe to blast out drain holes on the Alfa.

Did you suck or blow?

JLv3.0 wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:10 pm

Jimmy Choo wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:09 pm I've got a vague feeling the I used a hose pipe to blast out drain holes on the Alfa.

That sounds........sexual.

I think it was on the 155. I definitely remember getting wet.

scotta wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:58 am Loltus sitting a bit higher than usual this week. Wheels are off for a refurb.

In the same colour?

Needs a good clean under there while the wheels are off and a clear side indicator!

The usual new car program continues.

Noisy Bosch wipers swapped for some lovely piaa silicone jobbies. Thankfully that came with loads of adapters so quickly and easily convert from a retrofit hook mount to or style clip on.

Borderless, dealerless numberplates ordered

Tried swapping the drl/sidelights for some eBay compatible led ones. They weren't. And started smoking. Bought some expensive amazon mito specific led ones with nice metal bases. They work if you only plug one in. Fit both and it gives errors and won't bother lighting either of them shame as when they were working they were a decent colour match for the hids.

You can get white look filament bulbs, but they blue tinted glass which is very visible and looks crap, I don't want it to look like some odd undercover police car