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Projects / Roadkill's 1983 Chevy Z28 - (Work Starts on Page 5)

« on: July 13, 2008, 09:55:33 pm »

Might be able to help you there, i have a SPA Design 3.5" Tach with sequential shift lights and digital speedo. Was going to use it on the Transam but things have changed and its probably going to end up on ebay, Looking for around £200, but its worth it as its pretty trick

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General Banter / Offley Bike Show.

« on: July 13, 2008, 10:03:42 am »

Quoting: F Body

A few parts including the exhaust clamp ( onto the engine cylinder ) are gold plated

Very cool, if i was mine i might have had a little carving work done on the gearbox cover and a couple of other places

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Classifieds & Useful eBay Links / peddle power

« on: July 13, 2008, 10:01:44 am »

Quoting: Incursus

hmm tis in Farnborough though

Im sure you will find closer ones, it was just an example, that bike would have been £600 new

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General Banter / Offley Bike Show.

« on: July 13, 2008, 09:15:49 am »

Quoting: CJ-IROCZ

Dont hold back mate, tell us what you really think

Looking at the time it was posted im thinking he might have been a little pished

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General Banter / Offley Bike Show.

« on: July 13, 2008, 08:33:29 am »

Quoting: ianjpage

that 350 bike must be a bit lary!!

from memory they have no trans it's direct drive from the V8

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Classifieds & Useful eBay Links / peddle power

« on: July 13, 2008, 08:31:50 am »

Quoting: Fieldy

I forget the best make of front suspension

manitou, had a set on my specialized rockhopper back when they 1st started full travel, they cost me £700. I still have the rockhopper at my folks place, i had almst £2k invested in that bike but back then it was my only transport.

Name to look for are Mavic SUP rims, hope hubs and shimano gearsets, if you can find a flight titanium saddle its worth the upgrade

shimano used to start with LX,then XT and top of the line XTR on the groupsets

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Classifieds & Useful eBay Links / peddle power

« on: July 13, 2008, 08:12:53 am »

Something like this will last forever http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SPECIALIZED-HARDROCK-XC-24-SPEED-CAN-DELIVER-LOCALLY_W0QQitemZ140247868549QQihZ004QQcategoryZ33503QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Classifieds & Useful eBay Links / peddle power

« on: July 13, 2008, 08:10:00 am »

Not a name i am familiar with, Giant,Specialized,Marin and maybe GT would be my choices. With the above you know your going to get top quality components, but it depends what you want to do with it

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General Banter / Dam cold for mid July !

« on: July 13, 2008, 07:48:37 am »

Quoting: EDGE

well me, andy, graeme and phil have just finished siting round a pit fire in the garden... didnt rain either !

Notrh londn meet ftw... 12 noon till almost 2am !!

Rat on a stick FTW

Was home by 2.15am M1 was clear and even the cupl of sets of roadworks were no problem

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General Banter / Offley Bike Show.

« on: July 13, 2008, 07:46:08 am »

Am loving he Boss Hoss, also the Norton as you say is stunning, perfection in simplicity, yet the small details make the whole bike

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General Banter / Goodwood Centre piece.

« on: July 11, 2008, 05:37:08 pm »

Thats pretty damn cool

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General Banter / Your opinions on these

« on: July 11, 2008, 04:37:01 pm »

Quoting: philoldsmobile

most definatley.. for every 20 crap ones, 1 will be good..

Same for any classic car

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Computers and Games / Apple iphone GPS bombs.

« on: July 11, 2008, 04:33:59 pm »

The iphone is one apple product i wouldnt own, and thats from a hardcore apple user. Then again i dont like GPS/Sat nav anyways as i dont trust it half the time. Oh and WTF do you need GPS for in manhatten? i mean WTF you cant drive anyplace its quicker to take  the subway or walk

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Computers and Games / Apple iphone GPS bombs.

« on: July 11, 2008, 11:50:31 am »

Quoting: F Body

he metal of a car or the buildings of Manhattan are often enough to block the iPhone's view of the sky, leaving it just as confused as you are.

Well this happens with every GPS, im sure Titsy being the GPS guru will help explain. The damn TOMTOM was fcukin useless when we got into rochester

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General Banter / Your opinions on these

« on: July 11, 2008, 09:16:28 am »

Quoting: Big Mouse

Trying one out for a while is cool, we should all try different cars for the experience - but be sure its in good nick because you will want to change it sooner rather than later

Exactly, try anything once. Just saying the iroc is a better car doesnt really qualify it, the porsche is a european sports car the iroc 'american sports car' in my dream garage although there would be a couple of american cars there would also be some jap and european and even british. Variety is the spice of life mate so if you have the chance to swap i say go for it, not like IROC's are hard to come by

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General Banter / Your opinions on these

« on: July 11, 2008, 07:13:00 am »

Thing is the chesil is almost as expensive as an original if done properly and at the end of the day its still a replica. I can remember looking, infact i went to the factory as i was thinking of one instead of the 55 but it was going to be almost £30k to do it properly with a porsche motor and that was 7 years ago

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General Banter / Your opinions on these

« on: July 10, 2008, 09:25:51 pm »

Now if it was a 356 Speedster :drool:

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General Banter / Abolish Road Tax and Pay at the Pump

« on: July 10, 2008, 05:11:13 pm »

Quoting: philoldsmobile

the Alfa really doesn't see a lot of use.

because its broken

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General Banter / Your opinions on these

« on: July 10, 2008, 04:56:49 pm »

Well if you want a posh beetle then go for it, 911's dont do that much for me until the later watercooled, also if your over 6' then forget about it as you wont fit

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General Banter / Abolish Road Tax and Pay at the Pump

« on: July 10, 2008, 11:55:29 am »

life's all about choices, at the moment my choice is to just own it and occasionally go and mess about with it.

Its the one thing i actually own outright.

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General Banter / Abolish Road Tax and Pay at the Pump

« on: July 10, 2008, 11:49:58 am »

Quoting: Titsy

What difference would it make to you? It's not like you have a classic that drives anywhere..

Nope, and it doesnt bother me in the slightest, infact i m thinking i might just leave it exactly how it is as it seem's to piss more people off than it does me

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General Banter / Abolish Road Tax and Pay at the Pump

« on: July 10, 2008, 11:38:56 am »

Then again it willhit the classic car owners who currently have free tax, so as far as im concerned leave it as it is

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General Banter / Ordering from summit Racing, anyone want to get in on the order....

« on: July 10, 2008, 11:10:27 am »

Quoting: Big Mouse

I used to use NGK's in the camaro before it was rebuilt - if I use them now they melt real quick so I use Autolites

Did you call NGK and get the correct heat index? i had a simaler problem on the westfield where the plug would fail. Called NGK tech told them what the engine was and the modifications and they selected the correct plug which stopped all of our problems and actually gave a slight power increase

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Music & Movies / Heard this on Chiltern Radio today...

« on: July 10, 2008, 09:50:02 am »

The following via proxy to get around the time limit

  Alan Parsons Project - Mammagamma
   Don Henley - Boys Of Summer
   Duran Duran - Wild Boys
   Dusty Springfield - Son of A Preacher Man
   Genesis - Land Of Confusion

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Music & Movies / Heard this on Chiltern Radio today...

« on: July 10, 2008, 09:27:02 am »

Aerosmith - Dream On
Cinderella - Don't know What You Got
Scorpions - Still Loving You
Marillion - Kayleigh
Billy Idol - White Wedding