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Has it got any oil in the gearbox?

I’ll be staying with you lot until the party is finished my friend. There will be no sloping off early.

Negative. I’m staying in the travel lodge down the road. 3 nights of camping isn’t for me at this age. 😂

Plus, we can get Dave dreads really drunk and I’ll make him puke in my car on track.

If you come up on the Saturday, you’ll be in bed by 9pm latest. It’s a f**king long way, and it will be hot, and you’ll be drunk. Stay Friday night, get a bit of Kip, rip roaring for Saturday day and night then. 💪🏻

I’m going up Thursday otherwise I’d gladly come along and slow your convoy down. #towing 😢

@Breamy - can you remember how much you paid for the AR1’s back then?? I’ve just bought some and they seem really cheap compared to my other options. I assumed tyres had gone up like everything else and my usual MRF’s have gone up about £35 a tyre! But I just found 2 brand new AR1’s on eBay...

That’s terrible.

@lemonnobby - looks after my track car, my Kangoo van etc. doesn’t come on here much but is very popular in the clio trophy world.

Is Bristol too far?

315bhp, 310ftlb. I want a KitKat chunky if I win.

That’s amazing! You could sell them!

So you’re saying I can book my car in, not pay for a machine polish, and you’ll do it anyway??

If clean it up first and check it is that. Although that said, they’re cheap and easy enough to do anyway.

Yeah I’ve put those in my past too after getting burned. 😂

Speaking as an owner of a V8 Merc from that era with Air Suspension, you will need that cost again to maintain it over the course of a year or two. They are frighteningly expensive to maintain. I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m sure they were cheaper to run for the first few years than the...

We just saw one in the supermarket car park and I said to my son “I was looking for one of them before I got the X5. Would make an awesome tow car. 6 proper seats too, would be really comfy for driving to Spain next year” Dad, you buy one of those and don’t EVER pick me up from football in it...

Oh Daniel you naughty b*****d, that looks the b****cks!

Wow. I knew they were heavy but that’s mad!

Welcome to the club. 👍 Get some pics up.

Without meaning to sound like a knob, it’s my toy. I’m not worried if it takes a bit longer to sort, or it costs a bit more money. If it was a daily it would have gone OE only and I’d have chosen no other route. But as it’s a bit of an oddball, and it’s my toy/hobby, I’m not worried if it...

It’s a new box with a gripper. Been recommended to uprate the clutch by numerous people. For the sake of an extra £350 to save an £1800 gearbox, rightly or wrongly I thought it best.

Track car first, everything g else after. Man rules.

Absolutely no idea mate. It was about 12 years ago we put the engine in. 😂 It worked perfectly fine before with a standard clutch. But I guess a stronger/different clutch is beyond the realms of whatever is in there.

So my long suffering g mechanic Paul ( @lemonnobby ) has very kindly taken on the task of fitting the new gripper’d box and a new Sachs racing clutch whilst I tan myself in Spain. He’s having trouble because the OE clutch cable is not meant for a Mk1 and it’s not fitting with the Sachs clutch...

Welcome (back) !

@NorthloopCup is your man.

I hate to break this to you… but…

That car needs to win the most famous but unfamous car award. Everyone knows Coops’ Turbo. But nobody sees Coops’ turbo.

Owned this for 14 years;