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I used an LED light bar and a pair of gas discharge spot lamps for the isle of man and it was a great setup. LED gives a good flood and the spots gave the distance and headlamps do inbetween.
I am currently looking at getting a new toy. The vectra is about to need a bit of work and as it was written off 18 months ago, i cant be bothered. I dont need a car for work as i cycle to work now and we have a Kia carens for the family days out.
Should i buy a 197 or cheap 200?
It would be...
Yes mine has the Gripper lower cwp and plate diff.
It is currently with @bloke having the gearbox checked over and diff refitted after being back to Gripper to have the snapped output shaft replaced.
As my Manx rally codriver lives on Mull it would have been great to do it with him but i didn't have the budget to do it when it was last run.
The car will be up for sale soon so its unlikely that I will ever be able to do it.
The main reason my original studs sheared was because i didnt have the correct spigot rings in, but i replaced them with the A I Tech ones and copper coated nuts (not cheap).
As for the driveshafts, the one i broke was my own stupid fault at Weeton as i slid off into the undergrowth and I was...
I did charity rides in my rally car a couple of years ago and they had a booster seat there that sat perfectly in my bucket seats so there are some out there.
I've snapped 1 shaft but my own fault. Slid off the stage into the grass and was flooring it as it came back onto the tarmac so snapped the drivers shaft.
Other retirement was due to snapping the output shaft on diff which is being replaced for the new better material version.
Other than that...
All these first cars are far too good. You need to have a really s**t car as a first car.
I give you the Talbot Horizon......not my actual car but very similar. Mine was a darker blue.
My mum had it for years then I had it 9 months. 15k miles, 2 engines, 2 headgaskets, 1 gearbox, front torsion...
Oops i forgot about this!
I've been the last few years with my kids and we have had a great day out. Hopefully the kids won't realise we missed it this year.
(Can't go tomorrow as we are busy)
I've got a carbon one in mine and I had to make spacers to go under the bolts on that one.
My previous car had a similar aluminium one to the link and I had to spacer the front on one side and think I cut the back edge and modified it to bolt in.
Wonder if adjustable pedal boxes will come under scrutiny too if they don't want things adjusted whilst in a seated position.
Lot of people having to get the new passport type logbook on their cars to avoid having to make the changes from next year.
Standard pads on the rear of the rally car. No issues whatsoever Including using the handbrake on stages and locking the rears with Michelin soft inters on the back (super sticky). Other pads just dont the give the bite and if the standard pads got too warm they wouldn't work (which never...