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Grrr! Still not sure. Have spent all afternoon stood & kneeling on ice trying to get this ****ing cambelt on just right. It's been on & off about 4 times now but either the timing marks simply do not line up correctly, or I just can't get it set up spot on. Seems that each time I can get all the marks lined up pretty much perfectly, until I release the pin from the tensioner, then it all looks out a bit. It'll start up & run fairly roughly but I still don't know if it's knackered or not because the rough running & pops & bangs could very easily be down to the belt not being timed quite to perfection but also might be down to dodgy valves. Either way, there are no horrible crunching/banging/grinding/tapping noises coming from it which is a good thing but I'm just pissed off that I can't seem to get it set up properly. And I'm bloody cold!

Ha ha! Yeah that's my current beastie, although there's the slim possibility that the scoob might be back alive again tomorrow. Not getting my hopes up too much though..... How did you guess it's my one?! Good choice of chinese too mate. Although dangerously convenient for me!

Had a kebab in the end last night. Nah, quiet one in tonight I think. My cambelt idler arrived today so I want to be alive tomorrow to get it lashed on & hopefully find out the fate of the rover. Be that good or bad...... I expect I'll have a few sherbets at home all the same.

Why cheers dude, sweet to hear it! Ha ha, I forgot about that. I should have learnt to not play that game anymore after breaking a finger last time I had a championship bout.

It's mint. Except my head hurts a bit for some reason.....

Have both Dude!

Fear not dude, it'll be worth the wait I'm sure. And lo, it will radiate sublime sweetness.

Hee hee. Scoob exhaust 'Top Trumps' Tailpipe: 4.5" round. Decibel level: cannot currently be measured due to technology not yet able to measure such high sound pressure levels. And because the engine doesn't work. Number of cats: 0 Bore: 3" from turbo to tailpipe - straight through.

"You say 'pull', and I'll say Bang!" "Luke at the clay, don't luke at the gun. See the gun!" Top man. So had the nova just gone past or something then Nick?

GRRR on your behalf mate. That's a bummer. As for the little feckers chucking snowballs at your car though - I can't imagine the obscenities I'd be shouting if that'd been me! They'd have to downgrade all existing profanities to make room for the new ones I'd have just created. I suppose that's one small light with mine being off the road at the moment. The dents on the wing I had for so long were thanks to an ice/steep sharp bend/hedge combination and I've just had that bodywork done so maybe it's better I'm not driving it at the mo' anyway.

<< See the competition, mate? Can you spit fire?! >> Hmmm, not quite yet matey. Just valves & stuff like that, very quick followed by the dummy! Although there was the incident where I mistook lighter fluid for a swig of juice once just before blowing the candles out on my birthday cake.....

<< blowing huge flames out of his rear to try and prove a point!! Paarrp paarrp paarrp , he nearly burnt off my front splitter the other night with his flames >> Was that after a decent Madras, or maybe vindaloo dude?!

Metallic grey old shape Legacy*. Low level spoiler, 5 spoke alloys, and an exhaust that's louder than Boxer's (). But basically if it's a grey legacy saloon, it'll be me! *Albeit currently manifesting itself as the rangie in my avatar.

Sweet! But not snowy enough dude.

Damn the lure of that glittery 2.2!!! "....and lead us not into temptation, and deliver us from Beaker. For mine is the valve-train, the pistons, and the conrods, for ever & ever, dugga-dugga."

Come on Dave - spill the beans or we'll be forced to assume that by rally bits, you're just referring to a set of sparco harness pads!

Cheers dude but I'm still busy convincing myself that it's a goner. That way if it is knackered then A) I'm right , I get the chance to do a top secret 'project X' If it's ok after all then I'll just be delighted that it is, have some spare dosh to buy, say a water injection kit etc, and won't give a shoot about being wrong about it being dead. It's a win win situation. Sort of. Fingers crossed anyway......

Cheers dudes. If that belt idler arrives quickly then I can find out once & for all at the weekend. I'm getting nervous now! And yeah the bloke at Grade A seemed a decent chap. It'll be good to do some novabashing again.....

What you mean you associate with flame spitting nova people?! Yay! New Cambelt idler on its way now, plus the bloke at Grade A reckons he's encountered a good few scoobs where the belt has slipped/snapped & not caused carnage. I'm going to try not to get my hopes up though as that would be asking for disappointment!

Excellent stuff! Flames are good. You could grill a cheeseburger behind that matey! I was having a run along the prom last night and this cruddy looking dark nova kept going up & down the prom issuing loud bangs every couple of hundred yards. I truly hope it wasn't a flame kit on it as it looked totally bog standard & renty!

Ha ha! Sweeeet.

Wasn't me either!

Hee hee. All in good time amigo, all in good time. Even as I speak, my team of crack umpa lumpas are devising plans for a new pipe that emits sonic booms on engine overrun!

Hope you're ready to put your money where your tailpipe is, foo'!

Hmmm, the Loud & the Furious! I know Tandy used to sell SPL meters for about a tenner but not sure where'd be the best bet to get one now. Ebay I suspect, just like everything else!