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Elgin Convoy Meet - Tesco Carpark, Elgin 8:00am - Saturday 27th April

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I'm putting false plates on

L555 BAT was a red WRX wasn't it??

Nice one Rich! good to see your still working on that one! It was a good'un even before your unfluence!

That Autosolo day mustav been a lotta fun! Like Davey, I'd heard about it.. Was thinking abotu heading across the for a looksee but didn't get the chance. Definitely keep us posted for future ones

Welcome back Mark! Nice looking hawk!

Exhaust actually looks similar to the standard STi box... odd..

Just under 2 weeks to go so thought I'd put up a post to see if anyone fancied a shot stop off in Elgin on the Way through to the fling on saturday morning?

Looking to depart Elgin no later than 8:30am!! (ideally 8am->8:15am). I know that may seem early, but gives plenty of time to get through to Inverness, via the shell garage at Raigmore and back down to Start point again with plenty of time to settle down before departure at 10am. If everyone on the list is there early we can head off early If your names not down assume your not meeting in Elgin.

Elgin Convoy Meet - Tesco Carpark, Elgin 8:00am - Saturday 27th April

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Great stuff Al did you see what I meant about the sleeve into the car pole base? You able to sort something to keep it rigid? Thought about a couple of screws or something just to hold the sleeve in place permanently. :occasion14 : .

Yeah.. They hold in ok but still movement.. will either try rubber inner tube (ooh-err) or drill a hole and put a bolt in it.. one of the links on the gazebo lost a nut.. have replaced but will hopefull get roudn to checking over it all and maybe greasing the odd part to keep it sweet.

looking good Al - i know its sacriledge but think I actually prefer your bug to your brothers RB.....

LOL! I'll be sure to tell him... I do like the RB320 look.. But that Bug is a really nice example in terms of styling mods. Not overdone. Paint needs sorted in places though and it's not a polishing fix

... now... can I borrow it all for a bbq when the sun finally arrives

If it's a SIDC BBQ yeah!

Big thanks to Gus (Gus the bus) and Glyn (BalliStic) for helping arrange collection of a club stand for the North of scotland last week.

Just got a chance to set it up today! Much neater package than what we had before!

new flag poles/flags, same gazebo for now (requires a replacement bolt but easy fixed) and a new banner! Flag poles split into 3 sections which makes them MUCH easier to transport than previous pack! WoohoO!

Couldn't resists setting up a demo stand since I have a a couple scoobs here at the mo

^^ Note: the Blue SWRT flag, cuddly scooby, red WRX and RB320 are not included in the pack

Been hearing reports of attempted carjackings the last week in aberdeenshire.. Mostly around peterhead area. Car in questions seems to be Black Ford Focus with Blue flashing lights behind the grill. Tactic seems to be pull over a car. Occupants dressed in police uniforms then attempt to carjack the vehicle they just pulled over!

Recommended course of action is to drive to nearest police station with the numberplate of the focus so that it can be identified!

Given these recent reports.. Id say your safe enough NOT to stop in the area if you are being pulled by an unmarked black focus!! And then report the incident to local police as soon as possible!

Report of most recent incident:

http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/3177509

A HUNT was under way today for a bogus policeman who tried to force a young mum from her car in a layby.

The imposter used flashing blue lights to pull her over – then ordered her to get out while her baby was left in the back.

The incident happened on the A90 Aberdeen-Peterhead road near Boddam.

Not a huge amount really. Both do the same thing and allow the same mapping abilities on the ECU. ECUTek is a licenced piece of software whereas opensource isn't licensed, it's built by enthusiasts. The opensource project has been on the go for many years now and has a fair following!

Hopefully a ECUTEk mapper will be along soon to clarify any functionality differences there may be, but from what I've seen its very difficult to justify ecutek over opensource. Especially where the open source projects are today!

From the mappers point of view the licenced product has some comeback if the software itself fails and bricks an ECU. But this is highly unlikely to happen. In the years I've followed the open source mapping I've never heard of that being an issue. ECU's have bene bricked but that's because the operators of the software mad mistkes, the software was not at fault.

As above, I used open-source mapping on my car (Bug WRX) and have both Launch Control & dual map switching enabled along with a rev restricted valet mode You can also get the Flatfoot shifting on the later models which have Drive By Wire throttle

Now if that isn't blatant trying to sell then I don't know what is lol. But I suppose you are a paid member so entitled to do it.

technically yeah.. Got a few bits I'm going to try sell shortly but thought since this thread came up was worth mentioning

I like the GFB valves. I bought a 2nd hand Stealth Fx a few years back (adjustable recirc/VTA) and it's been spot on! Read the instructions for setting the initial pre-load tension on the spring and your sorted, you can tighten/loosen a turn depending how you want the valve to kick in / car to feel when makign quick upshifts. I quite like the sound of them, even without the whistle trumpet addon it can still whistle a bit when lifting off from high boost! which is kinda neat to have the differnt sounds from it

For anyone reading this I've also got a GFB Mach2 (VTA only) valve for newage imrpezas kicking around gathering dust if anyones interested

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2. LynneNap - Blob WRX - Any Date i tell her she's going!

3. ScoUK - Bug WRX - Any date hopefully

May also be worth seeing what events are on at Alford and maybe see if they are willing to have us pop along as a club to an event or two?

http://www.gtm.org.uk/whats-on/

cant remember the name of it but fairly sure there used to be a big one at the AECC. maybe not..

Teins can be repaired here in the UK at Chevron Motorsport for example.

CooL! that's handy to know! last i heard people were forced to package up all four of their struts and ship them off to japan.. Did think it was a bit much..

Maybe that was just for warranties sake or something...

Sounds daft, but maybe you misread the 87W upside down as M&S ? I defiantly wouldn't say the RE050's are anything like a Mud and Snow tyre..

Quite a few folk on here run BC's myself included. Had them 3 years or so now and think their great! No clunking or anything. Still nice and firm dampers Yuu can get a choice of spring rating when purchasing and the dampers are adjustable individually to you can get the style that suits you.

I've heard teins are quite harsh on the roads and if they do ever fail they need to be sent off to japan. whereas parts for the BC's are easily available in the uk from apex performance.

Got to admit I agree the Re050's are lethal in snow! I'd never driven a car that was so dangerous in snow than when I had them on the impreza for the first time in snow! Even the Toyo T1-r's I got later with their fancy V tread pattern was surprisingly better! Possibly because of the diagonal tread pattern whereas teh Re50's are mostly linear tread.

But with John (above) and a few others on here praising winter tyres for many years I took the plunge last year and got a spare set of alloys cleaned up and fitted some Nokian WRG2's. When people say winter tyres are like night and day, their not kidding! Where in most cases on snow/slush the car moves around a lot even taking it easy, it just feels much more stable on the winter grips and rarely step out of line, unless provoked . Their not miracle workers. you still NEED to adjust your driving style to be more careful but they are far better in every respect than the summer tyres. On 100% ice though, no rubber will help, only spikes/chains or maybe snowsocks. Had the fortune of driving in that sort of conditions last year through a local village. Think curling with around 1.4tons and near 300bhp.. Tricky, but surprisingly satisfying when you don't hit anything

I'm a total convert for winter tyres! I use them on both my cars now (Nokian WR G2's on teh Impreza and Vredestein Snowtrac's on the front of the focus). I agree cost of tyres isn't cheap! but if your thinking safety and long term, if your swapping tyres every 6 months it's going to take twice as long to wear them out. So other than the initial cost of spare wheels and the tires in the first place, it doesn't necessarily cost more over time and your MUCH safer over the winter months, note winter tyres are also superior in cold temperatures, not just the harshest of conditions! If your not keen on getting another set of wheels and storing them, some tyre fitters now offer a winter tyre swap, where you pop in and they'll swap your tyres over. But over you may find that's more costly than buying 2nd hand wheels unless you know a friendly local tyre fitter.

LOL! try calculating the cost in your old WR1

... Then look on it as just how much your saving! rather than how much it's costing

How about a bouncy competition instead :boldblue:

.. Where's a 'skippy' emoticon when you need on..

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They look simimar to ones the SIDC had a group buy for a while back.. They were of good quality and if you contact the seller directly you can probably get any design you want embroidered

Only thing I remember was that there were issues with the boot mat on some hawkeye's.. There were problems with fitment, not sure if that was just down to the IC/Spray or not. There was a group buy on RB320 owners club and I don't think they had any problems.. So sounds like there were variations on other hawks for some reason. Worth noting just incase. But quality mats and clearly not your £10 a set budget ones.

thanks for reposting that pic Al, no really.....

Any time COuld have been worse.. you could have been left at the side of the road... alone....

On a more serious note.. Was interesting to get your views after the fling and able to compare differences between what is considered a decent sporty road car and in Impreza Think first year we had laguna's wasn't it? 2013 brings on the BMW!

Admiral/Elephant I've found cheapest for standard or near standard cars.. Originally had the Impreza insured with them until the mods outgrew their policy (Still remember my first SIDC meet when I said I'd never modify the car because I wanted to keep the insurance cheap.. oh-well!)

You'd think the two would price the same but I've always been cheaper with Elephant (Had the Ka and now the focus insured with them) but my bro has always been cheaper from admiral.. Odd.. Both being part of the same group do multicar discount, and named drivers build their own NCD on the policy!

IIRC you can get away with up to 3 categories of mods with them, They were ok with new springs and couple body changes on mine but they wouldn't cover any more than that. Power increase is a no no.