keithwalton

ooo this sounds like a plan, i'll be coming up on the saturday and spending the night with my parents in Bicester. i'll be only a couple of mins around the ring road from the esso station but knowing me i'll be on the later side of 8am. What time do you guys plan to leave the esso ?

All depends on who you are with, some companies charge more some dont. who i'm with quoted me exactly the same for a uk turbo 2000 as a jap wrx. the uk car has 208bhp as standard, yet the jap has between 240 and 280 bhp depending on which version (1 = 240, 2= 260, 3-> = 280) so of course i got the jdm

Ancient thread yes! but i've just been watching this chop shop crap via my top up tv box, and have just seen the 'boy racer' edition and spotted a fair few scoobies i recognised (mainly craigy's) i even looked up the event on this forum only to find the sidc stand is sold out for this year

I tend to stick to use v power the most as I have a shell garage just down the road. Though if i'm feeling tight i'll run it on tesco 99, especially if i happen to be at tesco's at the time (8 mile round trip to get the stuff) and they're doing a 5p off deal. Prices are in free fall atm which is great, i've found getting to know the guys at shell is useful. v-power has a tendency to go off the older it gets (looses its aromatics) some of the guys at my local shell if they see me coming will but the newest tank on for me having a jdm scoob thats mapped to 100, its very sensitive to which fuel your running, particularly on a cold start. I once run it on esso super I think and it didn't like idling

Just ordered my sticker this shall be my first sidc event and i shall be bringing friends

same down south too ..

ditto to what buzzuk said, dont run an import on regular unleaded unless its been remapped (v.difficult for a 93) 99 is recommended (shell v power, tesco finest) bp ultimate is 98, the rest of the supers are 97 which really should be run with an octane booster. How much are you paying per litre ? 110p for 99 ? If so that is about 6 gallons of fuel which is 16.66 mpg, thats low! the lowest mine has ever done is 18mpg and that was alot of city miles, its recently returned 24mpg which was mix between lanes and motorway

At that price no!! Just the pads, which require you to have 4 pot calipers already

For those that did watch the show, was there advise fairly useless ?? They said a) look under the car for signs of off road adventures listen for knocking noise on start up as it could mean big ends on the way out esp on early models (tho don't we get slight piston slap until warm ... which could be confused) c) check oil (to which they showed a car with black oil!) for which its running and how often its been changed. The said subaru recomend's 7000 but 'enthusiasts' change it at 3k (thought 5k was the given norm for normal driving) and to use fully synth oil (though scoobys esp early ones hated fully synth and really should be run on semi-synth)

Thats because Directline, Tesco et all are all underwritten by the same company (RBS i think) which are usually available through comparison sites. DL insure my citroen just fine however they wouldn't touch the subaru. Using comparison sites the cheapest quotes i was getting was with endsleigh, all sites came out about the same. Goto endsleigh and type in the exact same details and the cheapest they could come up with was £600 more. I put the two side by side and could not spot a difference, so i accepted the cheaper one

ditto, pretty easy to work out who i am!

If the feb meet ends up just creeping into march as in the weekend of 1/2nd of march i'll be in the area for the RR session at silverstone

welcome i grew up in bicester and my parents still live there, defo recognise those houses in the background if you ever see a dark blue (+muddy) classic saloon around town it's probably me

Is that both outside edges of the tyre or just the one ? If its both outsides sounds like they're running under pressure (what are you running them at ??) If its only the one side sounds like to much camber. Tracking in the laziest form just checks that all 4 wheels are pointing straight

By yellow roads im referring to those on a landranger OS map. With a 'narrow yellow' being the worst grade of road that has a sealed surface (white roads often don't have a sealed surface or are significantly pot holed, either way they are a no go!)