rtbiscuit

Good luck

I had to share this as I thought it was such a beautiful car considering its nearly 50 years old, and the sound is something else. Its the only one in the world. I know you can get a kit car version, and I must admit I think its something I'd,love to build instead of the Usual gt40 ac cobra etc

The jaguar xk exhaust on the old x100 chassis has a squashed pipe on each bank of the engine at the rear of the car in order for the exhaust to go over the rear axle. Its was done in the factory as an easy fix to a problem. The exhaust still works but it does reduce performance. Its not about bore size but smoothness of flow. The first thing a lot of owners do is remove the exhaust and put a system in with no squashes, as better flow means better performance. Any system designed with a squash in it will never be as good as one designed without it.

my wifes iphone 4s says its not got enough data allowance for it

you'll like this, I had a question from one of my year 10 students yesterday...."sir can I please go and ring my mum" me; "is everything ok?" him; "yes sir,but I just want to find out if my copy of GTA V has arrived yet?" . not what I was expecting in the middle of a lesson :lol:

Its not a major fix, nothing a bandsaw, some pva and a bit of wood can't fix

git very jealous, please tell us/me about it on here once you have

but yes they aren't pretty

i think you'll find that they are functional, most likely ramming air direct to the brakes making sure on track they stay efficient all the time and reduce fade, and increase brake cooling.

that's OK us owners just refer to them as jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags you'd have to bloke and infinite number of combinations of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

well i had a good run at it this evening managed a couple of hours work. you know that saying measure twice, cut once. my old man taught me that, and i teach it on a regular basis, so why in a million years did i not follow sound advice more on this later, its not as bad as it sounds, but it does mean tomorrow will require some minor adjustment. First job was to sort the rocking edges on the bottoms of the stand, i knocked up a quick template in CAD and then set too with the band-saw. this gave me the access i needed to cut the joints and saved me from having to chisel out the whole section. and i could get on with marking and cutting the dovetails. again i;m using half lap dovetails to keep the strength in the build and it helps keep its shape. as you can see the dovetails stick out over the curve of the rocker not a problem as my industrial sander makes light work of them so this is one frame all test fitted together bit later on this was just before i went home i managed to get all 4 frames together and this is a dismantled view of the parts as they are so far; there is still another 4 joints to go in as i have to cut and mount the horizontals that give the frame its cube shape and keep the 2 ends at a set distance. now you may be wondering what i was talking about earlier when i said about cut once measure twice. or you may not if this isn't your sort of thing. well i took 2 frames home to test fit with the pram cot sections. i put the first one on at the feet end, and it fitted like a glove. perfect. went to test the other one at the head end....and oh fudge it doesn't fit. turns out there is a 4 cm difference in the frame between the head end and the foot end. and i had although measured twice, only measured the foot end and assumed it was the same all the way up. which means some minor alterations and surgery as i have to reclaim 4 Cm's of space out of 5 Cm's of wood. but i have a cunning plan and all will be reveled hopefully tomorrow evening

see you can still swear will thats just in jest

swear filter works unless you substitute letters for symbols or numbers so to test this:sh!t the bed, thats one ugly b@st@rd, i wouldn't f#ck wackywill if my life depended on it. mods can delete and sensor as necessary

people buy them for the height, my wife has a volvo XC60 and loves it, she likes the higher driving position, the fact that getting shopping in and out is easier at the new boot height, and with kids when we look after our neice and nephew getting seats and kids in and out of the back is a lot easier. the 4x4 factor is more a subconscious feel safe factor. all in all its a package that a lot of women find reassuring and so they sell in their masses. the badge on the front just depends where you fall in the badge snobbery scale.

that front is very function over form basis. if i could take the chassis and running gear from the X150 and put it under the bodyshell of my X100, with the interior of the new XJ and the rust proofing of the modern aluminium body and the bite from the F type. i think you'd have the prfect car....for me :grin:

the video has an unfortunate preview point it used to be a video of a dyno run, but it was annoying people as it would auto start when you logged on to the forum, and if your speakers were up loud it got a bit tedious, so I recommended changing it to the forum joke video made by an old member. it was very funny. but still had the same issue. but this time hitler would start blaring out of your speakers. so the mods auto paused it. but sadly the preview screen happens to be stuck on the one unfortunate word in it.

Made my spin tingle

Not a massive update this evening, had an after school club to run, so only cut 4 of the dove tail slots. and this is them just slotted together for now on a test fit

they've both been laid transverse for the majority of the pregnancy but all of a sudden he seems to have changed, i'm fairly relaxed, but it seems to be the midwife that reckons an early onset. the other issue is lucys had a lot of swelling in her feet, and a bout of high blood pressure, and yesterday they found high white blood cell count and protein. so waiting to see what the results are. we're a planned C-section, but the date may be moved out of our control if the doctors decide they want them out early. i'm more than happy if they choose to spend another 6 months in there. i'm still enjoying my lay ins at the weekend

Theoretically its the 28th of October, but from what the midwife said yesterday it looks like the lower twin has turned and they think he's getting ready to make a break fro it. technically another 6 weeks, but I think it will be in the next 3, my wife's been told to finish at the end of this week and not next week like she planned. maybe need to start running a sweep stake on the delivery day.

i'm making this up as I go along, no 10 steps here, I have a rough idea in my head and know roughly how its going to work, but the rest is a working plan. I suppose the only thing is I only glue it all together at the end.