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[Al*]

whos roger and whos ash? which one was running the launch controller? sorry but that one flew right over my head......

Al

[Pie]

Sorry, Roger and Ash, Dan knows as they are from worcester. Ash has a nice blue clubby and roger has a red and white works replica (featured o the malvern show stand on the TMF main page).

Ash had the launch control and Roger blitzed him lol

When we were in worcester a while back a kid in a escort XR3 turbo was revving his engine (and hittin the turbo everytime) at the lights by Bamboo. I was in rogers car and i suspected roger might race him so i said "what you got planned" and he just smikled and sais "watch this".

Beat him off the line, wheel spinning through 1st...2nd...3rd TRACTION and held the kid in the middle lane by making him keep behind a taxi so he had to go the long way round to PC world lol.

When he got in the car park, his face was an absolete picture, "what the hell you got in that?" he managed to spit out lol, and Dan you know what rogers like, this was just classic from him "engine"

Keith, nick and Matt Warner weer all behind and they saw it all and were all in stiches. Keithe even said to his passenger "the escort hasnt got a clue whats gonna happen"

Ahh nohing like a bit of CHAVinating round worcester.

[lew]

i think thats the best thing about owning a mini is that you can wind up the chavs in worcester , i had a chav in a 106 pull up at the traffic lights i was in the landrover i still managed to thrash him lol landrover didnt like it lol ,

lookin good hopefully c you in worcester in my mini, if i pass *

[JetBLICK]

bout the lanch control, oh well, i only innitially wanted a rev limmiter, but for an extra few quid it would be rude not to get lanch control too

Loverly story pie, can wait to get back into worcester sooooooooon. I remember trying to keep up with him down the lanes on the way back to malvern once - no chance!! Ur gonna ave to get urs out because we'll be down a mini or two whilst rodgers gots the escort and navyseal's is bosted.


Made a bit of progress last weekend, but not much worth writing about. This weekend i've started the rear subby. Today i got it off and the radius arms off, it's pretty much bare now - EXCEPT 4 bloody bolts that i sheared!! They where the ones holding that bracket on the end of the radius arms, one on one side, three on the other Also the big pin thing on the one side won't come out because its rusted in place. So tomorrow is going to involve several drill bits and a damn big hammer!! Fun awaits! :'(

Pics to follow after the weekend.....

Edited by JetBLICK, 02 March 2007 - 11:43 PM.

[mad4mins]

nice one dude.. gonna get it back on the road for the summer??

[JetBLICK]

hopefully it'll be back for easter

[mad4mins]

yeah yeah!! oooo look a flying effelump!! *points*

Edited by mad4mins, 03 March 2007 - 12:23 AM.

[CanadianMiniFan]

chavination story sounds good!

[Pie]

Dan, some scary scary news about roger and his mini!!!

HES THINKING OF SELLING IT!!! SO GET SAVING LOL

BUT this IS roger we're talking abuot and so it probably WONT be sold lol.
He's had the car for *thinks*.....10/11 years now and has been through 42engines and its on its 3rd complete shell (excluding all the body work). so he wont get his money back lol NO WHERE NEAR!

[lew]

i would prefer rogers , escort ,

[JetBLICK]

HES THINKING OF SELLING IT!!! SO GET SAVING LOL

as nice as it is, i'd never buy that thing - he gives it death!! only thing i'd buy it for is to take the nice bits of it hehe

Well i thought i'd report back on the progress.

The subframe is shot, so i'm gonna be gettin a new gen one during the week - this is not good!! i did not budget for this, i've already spent all my money on toys - My bad

I've cleaned up the radius arms and all the drum related gubbins, and they've all be painted white. At the moment its all a really clean pearl white, but i'm hoping that after a few weeks it'll all stain and become a nice dirty old english white kind of shade - rally styleeeeeee

Also started cleaning up the under the car, and poked a couple of small rusty holes in the heal board, this is also something i didn't budget for. The only cosilation is that its only one small hole on one side (about the size of a pen hole) and two on the other side (about the size of a penny). But now i gotta find a portable welder that can come to my hooose next week to fix it.

Tryin to think of quiet jobs to do now, because i got a stonking headache (strictly a MAN headache tho) Its my own fault i shouldn't ave told the lads i was back in town this weekend and i definatly shouldn't ave let them drag me out last nite
And it doesn't help using the wire wheel in the boot - it makes a horrible noise at the best of times, but sticking ur head in the boot with it - my god it hurts!!!

I got lots of pics, but cant upload them on this silly computer, so u'll have to wait till monday when im back at uni

OH - seeing as i'm paintin the underneith, engine bay and subframes all white - in rally styleeeee - i'm thinking of painting inside the boot white too - what do you peeps rekon? im a bit scared of making the car look like a zebra tho?

[starmag1275gt]

I told you there would be a surprise when you took the subby off Anyway a new one will last for ages so the cost isn't that great when you think about it


I think white in the boot will be fine- no one will see it much anyway so it can be a stealth zebra

[CanadianMiniFan]

too bad for the "non budgeted" items, happens in all projects. keep going.

[MINIMON]

if your getting a new subby go for a beam or chopped subby if you can afford cracking project ive just read it from page one and im greatly impressed keep the good work up

[mad4mins]

if your getting a new subby go for a beam

thats what i would have suggested but the silly bint has bought new spax dampers.. haha lol

dude did you see my engine bay after i painted it white!! well combination of fuel, oil and the radiator that turned into a sprinkler left it rather dirty and horrible!! lol. . i'd leave it black even though white looks better..

lol. keep going bud, dead jealous you have the time to get back under the zebra!