Modded my new car today (well sort of)

You'll probably find it goes faster too.

Depresion wrote: On a random side note why dose driving get worse the further south

That's standard dahhhhn sahhhhf. If the M25 is busy they all bunch up as they approach junctions to no-one can join the motorway without risking a minimum 10 car pile-up.

This is *always* done whilst staring straight ahead and blanking anyone who's trying to join the motorway or get out of the way of the impending carnage. When you do manage to join the M25 you'll invariably get some wanker swerving across three lanes making a beeline for the next junction, never indicating, and aiming at taking the front off whatever you're driving if remotely possible.

For a proper challenge you need a 250k mile Transit recovery truck with the 70 bhp non turbo engine and a heavy car on the back. That makes the M25 really exciting.

Heh, I always used to hate driving / parking on the M25 as well - driving standards were almost ridiculous they were that bad, and the average IQ of the drivers around me seemed to be less than my shoe size, and I'm only a

1. I suppose that's one thing to be grateful for :-)

Does a 70bhp (when new I suppose?) non-turbo engined, 250k mile Transit recovery truck with a heavy car on the back (or no car on the back....) even move...? Can it actually do 0-60?

There's a section on the M4 where 40 is hard work to maintain..

Having got used to proper engines (TDis) it's hard to imagine it going any slower than it did yesterday. 4 valves per cylinder was a bad move as you get nothing till 3k then not a lot.

That wouldn't be England-bound somewhere in the Welsh stretches of it, would it? I went up there with a probably equally almost as gutless 2.3TD Carlton to tow a mate's V6 Vectra back from near J48, on a trailer, and it was very bloody slow heading back.

Think that'll be the same one, yeah.

A mate of mine bought a non turbo 2.5 Chassis cab. He then extended the chassis by about 4 feet, then built a motorhome onto it by modifying a lightly damaged luxury 4 berth caravan to fit. This f***er has belly lockers, a silent genny and hot and cold water / central heating. The whole nine yards as the saying goes. He tows his Brain James 4 wheeler transporter with the Fisher Fury to events all over the place. Not the fastest form of land transport ever invented, but having your own bed to sleep in and cooking facilities / shower etc. is sort of priceless when you're away from home at an event.

Heh the guy that delivered the Vitesse (~1400kgs IIRC) said he was down to

It'll do 40 all day long though which is about the same as the caravanners on the M5.

lmao! yep you been down this way alright

thats why the weave lane to lane to keep momentum as it took white van man

Why is it so tough to maintain speed?

anyone whos raced at cadwell park (coming from the south) will probably know the big long hill not far from the circuit, can't remember exactly where, haven't been there for a long time, there was a few times where we were down to first and barely moving at all. I think that was the only time my dad was glad he was racing a capri and not the (heavier) mustang he'd wanted.

james

Tsssh! Nah, second maybe, but first... first?

As you were then... :o)