It never actually happened, but I nearly had a Nova Hood ornament, when A Nova with blacked out tail lights tried to brake test me, after he over took me in a very dodgy place, then had to slam on to avoid stting in the boot of the car infront of me.
Luckily my brakes work better than his.
ok guys just sitting thinking how cool my free mod looks on the nova :)
anyone care to share their free mods
btw mines were a pair of the wifes tights over the backlights fooking lovely with a nice matt black finish now :)
Set of padgid 8 grove disks far better than the wafer thin remains of the standard disks struggling to think of anything else I got free.
One of those car cover things, so you can't see what it is ?
You're old enough to be married and you still think a pair of tights stretched over a Nova's lights is "cool".
worrying isnt it lordy
been on uk rec nigh on 6 years now :)
started out with a nova
now its back to a nova 6 years a wife and 2 kids later
well we'll just ignore the sensible 4 door saloon vectra on the drive :)
only thing thats changed with hte novas is the engines and insurance quotes :)
17yr old 800 yr on a 1400 SR :) 23 and 5 yrs no claims 240 yr on a 2l 16v XEgod bless getting old :)
The only thing i think i got free was a 57i kit. Which is nice :)
I put some of my parents old carpet underlay under the back seat of my peugeot 205 diesel for sound insulation.
Couldn't tell the difference, it was still pretty loud at high speed. (c:
Douglas
This: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Doesn't tally up with this: ^^^^^^^^^^
:-P
-- JackH
LOL i was just gonna say that
-- Chet
The underlay didn't make any difference. Ah right, sorry, speed is relative you know.
You are of course entirely correct, however, I had it reading 100mph on the speedo a good few times (that must have been about on the ~4500rpm governor, surely). It was quite happy to tootle along at 85. Wasnt as loud as say, a Punto at that speed, loud enough though.
Douglas
Not especially.
On here ? Under what name ?
Ah, not Rob is it ? :)
Probably best, you wouldn't want to admit that as well. (I certainly don't have one there if that's what you were implying btw).
Ok then, insured as a 1400cc maybe.
You keep it on the road then?
Peter
How can I keep what I have not got...
Best free mod you can do is get your tyre air pressure correct.
Fraser
That will cost you when the wife finds out you are doing kinky things with her tights. Mate at work says 'kinky' is what the wife wouldn't do.
10 years ago an oik of a student welder though it would be fun to heat up his next door mates oxygen bottle valve. (git should have been hung!) He managed to flow the solder in the low pressure gauge into the flame trap gauze. This meant the bottle showed pressure and oxygen came out of the torch nozzle but it was not possible to show pressure on the low pressure gauge. Basically the gauge was FBU, I acquired it. Punched a hole in the flame trap with a nail, moved the needle to show 15psi, hung it over the steering column, plumbed it on to the manifold. 0 +15 +30psi is -15 0 +15psi boost gauge for free.I was given 3 dead Amstrad DMP3000 printers. Made one good one. Took the online switch and paper out leds out of the pile of junk that was left over. Un-soldered and turned the leds round to get polarity right. Used ribbon cable off other scrap printer to extend it and plugged it into my engine check connector. One pattern nissan engine check (un)box(ed) for nothing. Has a spare led that I use to monitor VLSD differential oil cooler pump operation. Nissan only put a diff oil temp light on the dash to show when diff had got hot enough to damage VLSD, there is no indication that the cooler is working to prevent it.
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yes lordy tis i Rob
and yes i do get my insurance 240 a year conversion declared highway insurance subject to limited mileage 3k a year
as for the vectra well its a bit better than the previous "sensible car" the mondeo although only just. also got the remains of a punto but thats another story if i get a spare redtop then the lil italian shed will be recieving valver power :)
still got that 620 barge :) next door neighbouts got a pair of 820 turbos :)
nope, yours is a dogy antique dealer, david dickinson orange man, 5 door estate version isn't it?
You got rid of it then? Thought you had a V6 Vectra not so long ago.
Peter
The key is in that the Vectra being discussed here was a 4 door saloon ;)
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