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It's a speed hole, makes the car go faster.

I guess whoever he sold it to threatened to knock his teeth out if they didn't get their money back.

I know Ad's private plate is a reflection of his name, but whenever I see it I read it as T21 AIDS.

Is that the same seller, or the clueless tit that bought it off him then realised it's actually a sh*t heap with none of the mods it was advertised as having?

Weird, any resurfacing recently, no lips on the road surface causing tramlining? If you're the 5th blow out that week something on that road is damaging the tyres.

That's pretty bad, do you think it had been rubbing on the inside of the arch?

How do you use one incorrectly?

8bhp either way.

Every time i've been there i've got wildly different power figures, despite the car remaining unchanged for years.

Widow makers, I only use mine to get the car high enough to get a block of wood and bottle jack under it.

It amazes me it's legal to drive a car like that on US public roads, given how H&S concious the yanks are, the old bill in this country would tow it away and crush it.

I used to try and organise Cov meets, I stopped when only me and two other people showed up, much better to get involved in the big West Mids meets, it's more fun and less demoralising. Plus car park meets are boring.

They're glued on iirc.

That's how I did mine, can't imagine how hard it'd be doing it in situ.

God knows, Adam at Wolverhampton Renault's your man for cheap parts.

I've got Powerflex arb bushes, tbh if I was to do it over again i've fit new standard bushes, since I upgraded i'm going through a set of ball joints every year.

It's always some part of the bloody heatshield, lol glad you got it sorted mate, those kind of rattles do you friggin' head in!

Is that Klingon?

Leaking oil from somewhere most probably the gearbox, there's also some kind of intermittent knocking coming the back that sounds expensive, but at the moment isn't affecting the car in any way. That's just the latest things, there's no point in posting all the other problems I have to live...

You're just a car buying machine Chi.

I doubt it'll be the starter motor shield it's not flimsy or big enough, it's usually always some part of the exhaust heatshield in my experience. My car sounded like a load of scrap metal in the back of a van until I tracked down which part was rattling, then zip ties to the rescue.

Probably, old Fords seem to come with tin worm as standard, my mate had a white XR3i in 1992, you could almost see the thing rust before your eyes in winter.

Exhaust mounts ok? Could be knocking against the heatshield when going over bumps.

There's loads of members in and around Brum, (i'm from Cov) there's a fair few regular meets including our monthly pub grub meet, if you become a member you'l have access to the West Mids section and can see what's going on.

I guess all the White ones must have ended up in Coventry then, they were bloody everywhere.

White is the colour I think of when it comes to XR3i's, it was the most common colour I saw in the 90's, they were everywhere.

This can't be right looks far too nice to go for £800 quid, maybe £1800, if it is it's a right bargain! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-XR3i-1989-G-Reg-Barn-Find-/111297413540?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item19e9d7c1a4

Were those 4 Pikey's asking if you wanted to scrap your car or something? They look rapey.

I could never figure out how any of that crap worked, I just used my flabby arse as the bench mark. lol