andysmee

Thinking of some update to the paint as it's aging. Maybe 3M Satin Flip Volcanic Flare, Avery Satin Energetic Yellow, Flash Yellow Matte Metallic, Super Matte Yellow Vinyl, sunflower matte metallic, Matte Saffron Yellow, Red Aluminium Wrap Arlon Ultimate Premiumplus Matte Red, Matte Electric Blue

Didn't realised I'd had the car this long! It's still going strong but two kids means it doesn't get out much. I did the slave cylinder this year, finally, and guess what...it fixed the clutch problem

Bit late to this thread but there's 3 GT4's in Lower Earley alone

Bet he didn't give a toss now he's sold up and bought a grey car after all

Quite the opposite, he was really touched at the support and asked if we could do it again next year! He's 84 so it's an unprecedented thing to happen to you at that stage of life.

I'm still sad that he bought a grey car as it means that the bullies won

yep, it was awesome :-)

Is anyone else going on the convoy or meeting at Cotswold Wildlife Park to see the biggest gathering of yellow cars you are likely to ever find? We're in the convoy .

http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/yellow-car-convoy-through-bibury-in-support-of-pensioner-whose-car-was-vandalised/story-30131660-detail/story.html

https://www.motor1.com/news/140597/vauxhall-corsa-maddox-yellow/

well, my clutch problem has reoccurred. It's completely heat dependent. On track it is fine, but in traffic and with the air con on full, the pedal drops. But stop the car for five minutes and the pedal's back. We're going to try race clutch fluid next....

I cruised through on the way home and saw a couple of zeds but couldn't stay

Well, no slave cylinder required so hoping braided lines will solve the clutch pedal dropping when hot. So, my rev-up is now up-revved with Motordyne plenum spacer and cat back TDX2, and making 302 fwhp, back how it should have been out of the factory (and either never was, or had dropped in the intervening 10 years)

Off to Abingdon on Friday to see what it handles like on stock suspension and cheap tyres...

replacement backbox arrived free of charge and sounds good. now with Jez for a new slave cylinder and braided lines

I'm taking the GT4, with a mate in an S2000, anyone else up for it?

ultra yellow please

yep, lower earley. it was obviously a good day then, attracts dirt like flies to the proverbial

that'd be me then!

I miss my RX-7 for its flames...they were one of the characteristic things about my car. Those who don't like them obviously never had a car that does it, it's great fun when BMW's try and sit on your arse on the motorway, a long late lift off the throttle and six foot flames pop out the back...what's not to like?

If I recall correctly, you can put more fuel into the map where the lift off path is, which they used to do to keep turbos spinning on gear changes. If you imagine that when you accelerate you pass up along a curved path on the map as the throttle position increases ahead of the revs, well when you lift off you follow a reflected path as the throttle position drops sooner than the revs and that's where to put the extra fuel which will largely pass un-burnt into the exhaust.

Quick sketch here:

pop out to Reading Jap Meet at the B&Q car park tonight, maybe?

For the first time in a few years I can come along!

People are forever commenting on how bad my paintwork looks....oh no, hang on a minute, no, they never do, but yes, you can see swirls...they make a pretty pattern in the sunshine

...nearly everyone who posted on the thread, maybe.

I've got work, kids, volunteer work, house, garden. I haven't had three hours spare to detail a car for years. That's what I mean by a life, not social life per se, just stuff that needs doing and claying is no longer one of them, as much as I liked the results when I did it once!

From someone who has a life and so doesn't have time to wash it myself, the only problem I've had is the rear windscreen wiper. It got caught by a roller the last time I went through and bent right back. So I'd stick to hand car washes in future, they just take a bit longer waiting around

but it's sacrilege to put a v8 in, of course

had one for 7 years, I'm still a mod on FD:UK.

What's up?

no video from the rolling road, but it actually sounded sweeeeet...really quiet as it went through the gears then a really quality tone on full wot.

Interestingly, Motordyne have delayed sending me a replacement as they are making "...a change to the muffler to make the welds stronger and now include internal bracing", so clearly there is a design issue as well as a quality issue with the one I got.

Andy

yep

on the other hand, you'll have a GT4...

but really no point in buying a yellow one and respraying. Buy a black one, they were cheaper when I was looking for mine