Recent content by Tav

Friend of mine bought one of these - look great towing the hillclimb MNR Vortx haha One of those cars...if you know...you know!

Was looking on MOT history site and saw my old 182 Cup is still alive - wondering if anyone on here has it now? I think it'll have passed through a few hands now perhaps. Was previously owned by Tim Harvey's wife (of BTCC fame.)

See when you say bigger disk in the first post thats the main difference. Will a car with a bigger disk have the ability to stop faster - yes. Example my Polo with 239mm disks could only lock a wheel in the dry at say 40mph on good tyres. With the 256mm disks you could lock them up at over...

My point was that if you want a longer 5th that'd be easier but... How does the 6th comapre to the 5th? Is it longer or is it the same and the extra gear is just packed in, so intermediate ratios are shorter. Lupo GTi is like this. Also the amount you'd spend doing it will be nowhere near...

Why would you want 6 speeds?

I've just recieved my light weight battery to replace my flat OE one...lasted 9 years, not bad! Just wondering if anyone has any tips for fitting it in the engine bay, on it's side, mounted to the gear box mount? Before I go and reinvent the wheel. I found a good guide on fitting it in the...

Cabrach is fun. Last time I was up there was in a Caterham and did Lecht and Glen Shee in same day.

So who does days other than track Scotland and knockhill themselves? Has clio sport ever done one?

http://youtu.be/i-nUgPMYLjw Issue: car won't start. Starter motor fires rapidly like a machine gun. All lights turn off. Doesn't even try to crank. Background: fitted new brakes today and drivers drive shaft yesterday. Only electrical connection I've been near is unplugging brake resivoir...

That's about right...mine sits and bounces between 90-99% if I look at it and move the mouse with only this open. If you want it looked at in person the you might have an Apple store near by you could take it to. Book an appointment at the Genius bar and they should have 15 mins or so to check...

Open activity monitor by going to the magnifying glass in the top right if your screen. Type in activity monitor. Open it. Look at CPU load and see if there is an application that's running it flat out or take a screen shot and post it here for me to look at.

I asked this question a long time ago thinking the answer would be simple...it wasn't. I don't really fancy welding in seat rails on this car.

Add spring rate, not roll bar stiffness. My Polo has a pretty hefty roll bar on the front due to it making up half of the wishbone (it joins a track control arm to triangulate). Car has the habit of lifting the inside wheel or certainly unloading it heavily. So you can get quite a lot of...

I can't see the link but thought I'd comment anyhow. Last year at Knockhill there was a Mondeo V6 (when they were blue), Cleland's white Cavalier with gold BBS yum and one of the late Honda Accords doing demo laps. It was amazing to see....then two of them clipped each other :o

Stiffer roll bar on the front of a front wheel drive car, not so sure that'd be a good idea.