dave_morgan

Thought my 1229 was good

Looks nice. Welcome to the scooby fold Mrs Mako

I agree with every word of the article.. couldn't have written it better myself p.s. If you feel you've grown out of your boy racer phase, Click here

Try here.. http://www.mytyres.co.uk/Tyres.html And click on 'FITTER' under the 'YOUR FITTING SERVICE COMPANIES' HTH Dave

Great pics Rosie - well done.... Interesting track positioning....

Lemon Chicken or Chicken Chow Mein YUMMY !!!

<< The fud now says he made the story up.......... aye, right then! >> Sure he did - more like he's sh1tt1ng himself that a convoy of scratched cars turn up at his exhibition !!!

Welcome aboard.... Now you're in, there's no turning back.... Unless of course you fancy a few extra horse.. Clicky

<< (Eyes glaze over...) It was a 1966 mini cooper s, in the days before minis took off again in the early 90s. It would be worth a fortune if I had kept it, but it was well worn by 1987 anyway. I smashed the front end the second day I had it and my dad leathered me within an inch of my life! He put a glass fibre front end on it and connected the wiring by way of a caravan power socket so I could take the front end off completely. The 1275 block was replaced by a 1380 with omega pistons, and I used the cooper s steel rods and steel crankshaft. By the time I sold it she had a Jack Knight staight cut gearbox, kent 276 cam, 1.5 highlift roller rockers and a Longman stage 3 head. The carb was a single 45 webber and I cut an airbox into the bulkhead and made it out of a steel drawer from a filing cabinet. Janspeed 3-1 manifold, janspeed exhaust and an aldon dizzy with luminition. about 98bhp @ the wheels so 108 at the flywheel through a comp clutch and the JK box. Callum W >> Sounds a bit like my 2nd car !! 1978 1275 GT. Started off completely standard (as I was a skint student) and ended up as a 1400 (74mm omega pistons), s/c box and drop gears, 1.5 rockers, mental cam, stg3 head, lightened flywheel and backplate, 45dcoe carb (with battery box in bulkhead) rc40, lcb manifold, luminition, hi-los, detatchable front end and a nice set of 13" Alley Cats fitted with rubberband Pirelli P7f's! Ah, those were the days. Nothing beats the induction roar from a side draft weber pointing straight at your ear drums or the whine from them straight cuts !! End result - a very quick wee beast, and an even more skint student !!

Car : Renault 5 Gordini Age : 17 Insurance : A lot ! (can't remember, but it wasn't far off what the car cost me for TPFT!)

They've got photographic evidence and an admission from the guy, and they aren't going to prosecute until someone complains !!! What is that all about !!!??? I wonder if he'll be parking his car outside the gallery on Wednesday !!!

Try Glenburgie in Forres -they should have one I'd have thought. Link to glenburgie.... Going rate seems to be £50.

I thought you lost your licence at 12 points !?!

Go for it !! Did the same thing a while back and had a P1, a classic wagon and a GTR outside the house for a while ! Looked like a scene from the fast and the furious I went for an Ecutek remap on the wago, and even with the standard exhaust there was a noticeable difference. Dave

p.s. I touch goats

<< P.S. What kind of beer do you drink ? >> Anything !! (but Guinness or Corona are my current favourites!)

FINAL (1 - Dave M - 59.36 - disqualified for bringing his Skyline instead of the P1 ! ) 1 - Calum S - 59.20 2 - Ken Mc - 59.28 3 - Mark W - 59.20 4 - Grant H - 1:00.16 5 - Mike B - 59.84 6 - Douglas C - 59.60 7 - Fraser S - 1:00.64 8 - John S - 1:00.56 9 - Paul F - 59.04 10 - Alan D - 59.84 11 - Scott A - 1:02.40 12 - Gordon Q - 1:06.80 13 - Stephen F - 1:05.28 14 - Ian J - 1:06.00 15 - Imy - 1:19.44 Good to see so many times in the sub 1 minute group. Good driving guys! Anyone who didn't make it... there's your challenge for next time !! The format yesterday was 'first across the line' for the prizes, which adds a little more excitement to the preceedings. However, here are the final points for the day which sometimes gives a better view of your overall performance. 1 - Dave M - 63 2 - Mark W - 59 3 - Calum S - 57 4 - Ken Mc - 46 5 - Mike B - 42 6 = Douglas C - 40 6 = John S - 40 6= Paul F - 40 9 - Grant H - 37 10 - Fraser S - 27 11 - Alan D - 24 12 - Gordon Q - 20 13 - Scott A - 19 14 - Stephen F - 15 15 - Ian J - 10 16 - Imy W - 5 Thanks again to all for coming along.. Dave

Final The start grid for the final was : Position, Driver, Points 1 - Dave M - 47 2 - Mark W - 46 3 - Calum S - 42 4 - Paul F - 33 5 = Ken Mc -32 5 = John S - 32 7 - Mike B - 31 8 - Douglas C - 30 9 - Grant H - 25 10=Fraser S - 18 10=Alan D - 18 12 - Gordon Q - 16 13 - Scott A - 14 14 - Stephen F - 12 15 - Ian J - 8 16 - Imy - 4 (where points are equal, grid position is determined by a combination of best finish positions and best lap times)

Heat 3 Position, Driver, Fastest Lap 1 - Mark W - 58.32 2 - Dave M - 57.84 3 - Calum S - 1:00.72 4 - Ken Mc - 1:00.64 5 - Mike B - 1:00.72 6 - Alan D - 1:00.72 7 - John S - 1:01.44 8 - Paul F - 1:01.28 9 - Fraser S - 1:02.00 10 - Douglas C - 1:00.40 11 - Grant H - 12 - Gordon Q - 1:08.32 13 - Ian J - 1:07.04 14 - Scott A - 1:06.00 15 - Imy W - 16 - Stephen F - 1:11.68 (beaten by a girl !!)

Heat 2 Position, Driver, Fastest Lap 1 - Dave M - 58:80 2 - Mark W - 1:00.72 3 - Calum S - 1:00.56 4 - Douglas C - 5 - Paul F - 1:02.24 6 - Mike B - 1:02.96 7 - Ken Mc - 1:02.24 8 - John S - 1:04.16 9 - Grant H - 1:01.20 10 - Stephen F - 1:06.64 11 - Scott A - 1:05.84 12 - Gordon Q - 1:07.36 13 - Alan D - 14 - Fraser S - 1:04.56 15 - Ian J - 16 - Imy W - 1:24.40 (Apologies for the blank times, but the ones recorded were invalid due to kart changes.... unless you genuinely did a 17sec lap Ian !!)

Ok, here are the results from yesterday's karting event. Thanks to everyone for coming along, and to Raceland for a nice smoothly run event. Heat 1 Position, Name, Fastest lap 1 - Dave M - 1:05.36 2 - Mark W - 1:04.40 3 - Calum S - 1:05.76 4 - John S - 1:07.12 5 - Paul F - 1:06.56 6 - Grant H - 1:08.40 7 - Douglas C - 1:06.40 8 - Ken Mc - 1:08.48 9 - Mike B - 1:10.88 10 - Fraser S - 1:07.20 11 - Gordon Q - 1:12.24 12 - Scott A - 1:11.52 13 - Stephen F - 1:20.00 14 - Alan D - 1:16.08 15 - Ian J - 1:16.40 16 - Imy W - 1:26.96

<< MINTEX M1144 >> Squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek !!! (I prefer the Ferodos as the squeeking from the Mintex used to really get to me !!)

The place has just been taken by "THE STIG" would you believe!! If you still fancy it, come along though as you never know who might drop out on the day... Dave

ANOTHER place has just become available, so if you're still sitting on the fence, PLEASE come along... A wee bit of rain just adds to the fun !

And a final BTTT......