Recent content by helpimonfire

A few years ago I stripped the rear of my 197 out, fitted a half cage and realised the boot floor vibrates like a motherfucker, so I put some sound deadening down. That was a mistake. Today I've been taking out the sound deadening. This s**t never went hard so it's been an hour per section so...

Prep for Knockhill, just a checkover and a service. It shows how s**t the cars are when it's easiest to get the oil filter off by removing the front bumper. Absolute cretins deciding that the oil filter needs a coolant hose right below it. Facebook reminded me of something too. Classic.

Few days ago now but me and a mate beat the ever-loving piss out of the Clio. Burned a litre of oil, 90 litres of fuel, a set of tyres and a set of pads in 200 track miles. What a beast.

I was secretly hoping you lot had a s**t time and made it sound miserable. Looks like I'm going to have to book next year!

3 wheeling round Anglesey?

Haven't touched the 197 since I parked it up a few months ago after an evening session at Snetterton so of course I've left it to the last minute as usual, trackday booked for Tuesday and the car needs discs and pads all round, tyres swapped front to rear, a service and a general check over...

Saw this as I came out of Tesco tonight. Sounded angry.

Bad wheels but it was at least a manual. Spotted at Clay Pigeon Raceway down in Dorchester yesterday.

This guy SeeYouLazer has been doing TDC/CREAM no context videos and they're brilliant.

They've both got the correct level of cartism which makes them easy to watch and the podcasts are great. Looking forward to the cheap track car challenge they're doing next but it's a collab with AutoAlex so hopefully it's not full cringeworthy shite.

Don't see these anymore!

No photos as I was driving but on the M11 today I saw a Ferrari Mondial. Even better was that it was being piloted by what appeared to be a 125 year old woman! The car looked really tidy, the old lady however looked like that bowl of fruit that you neglect and it goes all wrinkly, bruised and fuzzy.

I have a feeling I know which one you mean and I agree... I know that business used to build gearboxes for another specialist that was too busy to do them and they stopped using said specialist because of the failure rate. To the OP. I'd make a trip somewhere else to get it looked at. AW...

Just to add to this, my old engine in my 197 never used oil at all but it started making noises I didn't like so I chucked another engine in that supposedly was fine and ran brilliantly. Which to be fair, it made good power and feels strong, however it'll happily use a litre per trackday. But if...

It's a very sporty wooly hat.