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You're certainly piling the miles on! Must be one of the higher mileage (new) 5's out there?

Dashboard fell out tonight. And by 'fell' I meant that I swore at it and cried and stubbed my fingers and generally got shitty with it until I managed to pull it out. Dash bar needs to come out next so I can remove the heater matrix ready for the micro heater and cage to go in. Building a race...

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.

Discs will be fine I reckon, a few stops and they'll clean up nicely, the tyres should be replaced though. I'm now replacing the 5 year old tyres on my X5 because I don't know what they're realistically like. So discs should be ok. Tyres go in the bin.

I got all excited and washed it. Does that count? First time in a year it seems as it was f**king minging!

If you listen to podcasts it's worth listening to theirs - C.R.E.A.M (Cars Rule/Ruin Everything Around Me). An hour of them chatting s**t and taking the piss out of each other, talking about projects, wants and general nerdery. They set up a separate channel for it too so you can see what...

2:19.33 in the wet. On Direzzas. Never got a time when I was there in the dry recently though. That's in my 197 with YSR coilovers, 225 Direzzas and I think the car would have been 206bhp at the time? Not that it made much difference in the wet.

I see one every now and again, that one is much tidier and less rusty than the one I see. The one I own... Mmm... Crunchy.

A few from last year. A bright Datsun, a crosseyed kit car and some old Fiat.

Following on from Blyton was a day up at Oulton. Oulton is my favourite track but sadly it's so f**king far away, a day there turns into a £1,000 3-day event usually as it's 5 hours with the trailer, I usually end up booking a hotel for 2 nights too. The car was in good company with a couple...

Little update, been forgetting I have a thread on here too. Blyton Park. As usual it's always wet when I go to Blyton, which honestly I don't mind too much, last time we went half the track was underwater, this time we actually managed to use the entire track. Other than the clutch still being...

Several updates to be summed up in a few photos. The 172 was sold to fund a new engine for the 197, the mk2 was fun but it was only going to end up being another car that I'd make miserable to drive on the road, so I did a trackday at Snetterton in it when the 197 was making noises I didn't...

Hello this is my terrible 197. Recently had a new engine fitted by a complete spaz (me) and somehow it didn't die at Snetterton the other day. Owned it 8 years now. Love it to bits but I'm under no illusion that it's a POS.

I'd put money on it being the oil pressure switch. I haven't had this on my 172 but my 197 did it, normally on the cooldown lap on track which wasn't terrifying at all...

It's a 15 footer at best :LOL:

So the NSR caliper hasn't been doing much... Replaced and now working. I'd normally avoid MTEC discs but these were a steal, front and rear discs with bearings and a full set of Mintex pads for £200. Bargain. NSF caliper has been mauled by an incompetent ham-fisted mong at some point in its...