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If you're wondering...

Why the cheaper option?

...well they're original parts and I may have a very limited budget if the PPC £999 Challenge returns as suggested next year. :slayer:
 
Collected some wheels for my Coupe today from Buxton in my Bravo and made a couple of discoveries.

1/ Shell V-Power is worth the extra. I did 376 miles on £50 of normal 95 Ron Shell petrol today but would normally get 410-ish from £50 of V-Power.

2/ When you are in a car for close to eight hours with the rear seats folded down your farts accumulate in the back. You discover this when you open the tailgate at journeys end.
 
Liquid Knight said:
Collected some wheels for my Coupe today from Buxton in my Bravo and made a couple of discoveries.

1/ Shell V-Power is worth the extra. I did 376 miles on £50 of normal 95 Ron Shell petrol today but would normally get 410-ish from £50 of V-Power.

2/ When you are in a car for close to eight hours with the rear seats folded down your farts accumulate in the back. You discover this when you open the tailgate at journeys end.
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Tiy should register with fuelly.com if you don't know about it already, you can have very detailed tank by tank consumption.

PS. sorry, but while i'm on the fuel subject, this is one of my all time pet hates and is not directed at you, but you pushed a button and I feel the need to vent.
liquids are measured in litres, or if you're in the 60s, or Muuurica, gallons.
Quid means nothing from week to week, and from region to region and certainly means nothing to our overseas friends, the very british "miles per quid" is a very bad way to measure fuel consumption.
/rant
 
franglais said:
The very British "miles per quid" is a very bad way to measure fuel consumption.
/rant
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It is somewhat foolhardy as it changes day by day as the price of oil goes up and occasionally down. Geographic pricing of fuel as well. I wouldn't want to start an argument about the whole Metric System and how it's based on 18th Century guess work.

The difference between cost per Litre, calorie count between standard 95 Ron and V-Power 97 Ron, ambient temperatures, humidity levels, altitude and other varying factors would make it more of a faff to calculate.

Also when I used V-Power my car had fifteen inch wheels with Winter tyres and yesterday I was using the Coupe sixteen inch wheels with Summer tyres. The circumferences are the same due to profile sizes and they are all 205 wide but the difference in tread patterns and subsequent rolling resistance.

The only constant between the two circumstances was the amount money spent so that's what I went with.

For the record my Panda Fantasia used to regularly achieve over sixty miles per Gallon. (13.2 miles per Litre or 21.12 Kilometers per Litre). ;)
 
not bad the panda!
i hypothesise that it's due to being 300kg lighter, has skinny wheels, and if i were driving, would never go above 50mph! :p

i have never noticed any difference between excellium (or any other brands best diesel, we only have Total in Autun) and standard diesel in my fuel logs. 5th gear did a test a while back, can be found on youtube for the curious.

Buxton was not far off one of my old stomping grounds when I lived in Manchester, days out in the peaks etc.
 
franglais said:
i have never noticed any difference between excellium (or any other brands best diesel, we only have Total in Autun) and standard diesel in my fuel logs. 5th gear did a test a while back, can be found on youtube for the curious.
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If memory serves correctly, they concluded that only very highly tuned engines really show any difference with the more expensive fuels.
 
franglais said:
amazing, where can I get one?
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Made myself, got couple boards and one half-moon cluster assembled (1.6 dash I installed on the 155 20v weekend for testing before I converted the 20v cluster).

Only works on mk2 facelift electrics (no OBDII) and gasoline engines (no JTDs here for testing).

Also it works fine in the summer, but now in the winter the BT module seems to overheat as the airvents leak quite a bit hot air inside the dash.
 
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I played a bit of Punto part Tetris with my Bravo yesterday. Another three hundred and something miles and £50 worth of petrol.

No point trying to calculate the mpg or mp£ as I used a quarter of a tank on the M25 between the last exit and Dartford tunnel. :bang:

Sad news this morning. The little girl who we have been doing the charity track days for passed away during the night.

https://www.facebook.com/oliviamayphillips/?fref=nf&pnref=story

Rest in Peace little Olivia.
 
Posthumous break from blogging out of respect.

The Bravo has been taking care of daily driver duties with no issues to report.

Just managed to get hold of an HGT rear beam and front hubs to upgrade the brakes next year.

All the best for 2017 guys.
 
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I've gone cheap because I think the whole (brand new last year) stealth exhaust will be going soon. I'll use pollybush mounts for the new one. :)
 
Plans, plans, plans...

I was keeping this a surprise but the sale of my Spider has fallen through so I can not fund it.

I was going to bin the air conditioning pump and replace it with a supercharger. I have the larger injectors and bits from my N/A Coupe donor to balance out the air to fuel ratio and so long as I kept it around 7-10 psi the standard engine would have been fine.

Based on the supercharger conversion kit you can get for the Punto HGT but made from bits I already have, could get hold of or fabricate myself.

Removing the pump frees 10hp from the engine alone so with the low boost charger in place I was hoping for 175-ish as a base line to work with other developments.
 
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