Anyone doing the Bolton Midnight?

Post by **ajdubas** » 25 Sep 2007 12:40 pm

Chris_C wrote:Damn... I'll have to sort Fake out and see you out there then, I'm not cut out for the nav seat!

You didn't do too badly when you navved me, 1st in Class is hardly something to cry about

Pheasant Plucker isn't running this year

and Jason... it's a Volvo... you can pretty much trust on it being reliable.

Post by **Jason B** » 25 Sep 2007 02:19 pm

Yeah, but at the moment its still blowing an alarming amount of water out of the exhaust. Though I'm sure its just resident in the exhaust already, as coolant level hasn't really decreased and I've to be able to give it a good thrashing.

Post by **Carl** » 25 Sep 2007 04:48 pm

Jason B wrote:Yeah, but at the moment its still blowing an alarming amount of water out of the exhaust. Though I'm sure its just resident in the exhaust already, as coolant level hasn't really decreased and I've to be able to give it a good thrashing.

Fioner did that to me, which I panicked about, but after a good blast she was fine. Before that she had sat in a damp garage, unused for numerous weeks (possibly months). Weird how some cars do that and some dont.

Post by **ajdubas** » 27 Sep 2007 06:37 am

Meh, I can't actually make this event, as it happens to fall on one of the very few nights a year when I have something more important than rallying to do.

Post by **Jason B** » 27 Sep 2007 02:22 pm

Ur right carl, when I bought the slaab it blew a little condensation out but that was all, and it hadn't really been run in 4months and was kept outside. Yet the volvos been under a roof and run occasionally but was blowing loads of water out!!

Post by **Chris_C** » 27 Sep 2007 03:01 pm

That'll be Hugh doing carb clean....

Having said that, I was stuck the other day and needed a quick blast through, water does work in a pinch, really small quantities

Nick seemed mostly confused, but that could be cos of the amount of cidar he'd gone through!

I'm not gonna go for this, it is too far for me

Need to get my sump guard fitted though, Aleks is showing me up with his 1.4!

Post by **foggyjames** » 27 Sep 2007 06:49 pm

Nothing wrong with the "water torture" as a de-coking exercise. Note that most of the "carb cleaning" products you throw in the top of the carb are barely cleaning the carb at all...it's all about the combustion chamber. I really noticed a difference when I did it on my stock 360.

cheers

James

Post by **Bilbo** » 29 Sep 2007 10:45 pm

one for you foggy,you could even just go see what its like......... http://www.autumnmistrally.co.uk/index.html

Post by **Chris_C** » 30 Sep 2007 12:07 am

Haha, having just come back from holiday in Mablethrope I knew that had to have a MC, Kate has got really good at calling corners again, roads rock up there!

Post by **foggyjames** » 02 Oct 2007 11:10 pm

That looks like a lot of fun, but there's so much about it I don't understand...I think I should probably join my local club...

cheers

James

Post by **Chris_C** » 03 Oct 2007 08:33 am

Definately get involved with your club Foggy, can't remember if I showed you any of our style Nav or not now. Just remember, that lil road you wouldn't go down....

Post by **foggyjames** » 04 Oct 2007 12:33 am

Not a hope in hell I was going down there in a car without a sump guard which I needed to get me home 200 miles!

cheers

James

Post by **Carl** » 04 Oct 2007 07:45 pm

I never used a sump guard (couldn't afford one) and I was always ok, and that included some pretty spirited driving.

Put a hole in a gearbox once though

And tyres with reinforced sidewalls are a good idea.

Post by **foggyjames** » 04 Oct 2007 10:57 pm

Nessy was scraping the ground on that white....and we only got about 10 feet down there. She does have quite badly sagged front suspension, but still...

cheers

James

Post by **Carl** » 04 Oct 2007 11:16 pm

The secret is to drive out of the ruts and in the bushes