Title: Proper no cost engineering
Post by: nickliv on May 09, 2012, 10:55:58 am
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1416&sid=ab26cb74aad7e48684597ecc403ab0d5
Title: Re: Proper no cost engineering
Post by: Lazy B'stard on May 09, 2012, 11:07:16 am
My wife had one of those when we lived in Manchester. I used it all winter on my 100 mile a day journey to work when my stuff was safely tucked up in bed. It was a great little car and I thrashed it to within an inch of its life for years. One evening i chased a TVR Chimera over the A635 Woodhead pass and despite his best efforts he could not shake the little Nissan. He pulled away out of the corners but I always caught him on the next one. At the traffic lights at Hyde he got out and asked what was under the bonnet. He was really gutted when I showed him the stock engine and bald remold tyres ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Proper no cost engineering
Post by: smokie on May 09, 2012, 11:56:41 am
Some bits of that are priceless...
" the original plastic material covered door cards have been replaced with lighter duplicates in hardboard since I want to retain at least some side impact protection"
"Ambling around Lidol (or was it Aldi?) one day looking for fish shaped calculators (for doing sums), I happened on a clever little device obviously intended for suspension setup. A tyre pyrometer. Unfortunately my pyrometer, on the ‘Beef’ setting, pronounced the tyres ‘Rare’ at 25 degC. "
Great project, and he writes well...
" the original plastic material covered door cards have been replaced with lighter duplicates in hardboard since I want to retain at least some side impact protection"
"Ambling around Lidol (or was it Aldi?) one day looking for fish shaped calculators (for doing sums), I happened on a clever little device obviously intended for suspension setup. A tyre pyrometer. Unfortunately my pyrometer, on the ‘Beef’ setting, pronounced the tyres ‘Rare’ at 25 degC. "
Great project, and he writes well...
Title: Re: Proper no cost engineering
Post by: termietermite on May 09, 2012, 07:44:23 pm
Everybody on here knows I'm into Micras. When I bought my first jelly-mould one - just a month or so after they first came out, I parked it next to a Swedish reg Mk1 version in a supermarket car park. Inevitably, I started chatting to the owners (and their two fellow passengers) who turned out to be fellow members of the Micra appreciation society. They had just driven theirs overland from Sweden having recently put 300k kilos onto the thing. Unglamorous but great little bits of kit (one of which saved my life.)
Love the guy's style. Laughed like a drain. ;D
Love the guy's style. Laughed like a drain. ;D
Title: Re: Proper no cost engineering
Post by: MIKE C (Liverpool Boys) on May 10, 2012, 01:37:09 am
I hate red Micra's.It's a Long story ;)
Title: Re: Proper no cost engineering
Post by: Lazy B'stard on May 10, 2012, 10:13:03 am
I hate red Micra's.It's a Long story ;)
Did you have a new green TVR about 12 years ago by any chance?
Title: Re: Proper no cost engineering
Post by: Nordic on May 10, 2012, 02:32:39 pm
http://sniffpetrol.com/2012/05/10/micrarecall/
A very worrying articule. I have seen several today that have been affected on both the M23 and M25.
A very worrying articule. I have seen several today that have been affected on both the M23 and M25.
Title: Re: Proper no cost engineering
Post by: Fran on May 10, 2012, 02:47:05 pm
*SNORT*! ;D
Title: Re: Proper no cost engineering
Post by: Doris on May 11, 2012, 03:34:24 am
*SNORT*! ;D
I did that too... when I got to the last sentence. ;D
Dx
