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Heh-heh. I do the same in my MK3 Mondeo TDCi. Really sacks them off when they get whooped by an oil burner. Tell you what though, those TDCi's really haul ass. I'd love to put one in a Capper or similar.

That photo you did in B&W if you redid in that with a brown tint like an old photo style, it'd look great.

Here's why not. They warp heads and they eat camshafts. Uness you change the oil every 3000 miles, they sludge up at the drop of a hat. Also down the back side of the CVH (drivers side on RWD) at the flywheel end, there's an oil return pipe that goes into the sump. Under the bottom of that pipe is a ^ shaped plate. It serves as an excellent crap trap and blocks up regularly resulting in a smokey joe rattling clunker. No point bothering with them at all unless you go injection because the carbed versions produce the same BHP/litre as a Pinto.

You can pick them up and carry them under one arm. Probably weigh not much more than a sack of spuds.

I'm in France that weekend.

Nowt wrong with that paintjob. Photos make it look quite horrific as they distort it but its a lot better IRL.

http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual/contents.htm

http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual/contents.htm

You might find declaring the mods isn't that expensive.

Oh aye. Goes like stink but has a lot of little jobs they didn't bother doing/botched when the interior was put back in after the paint job.

What is a Cosworth style rear spoiler worth for a MK3 Capri? Got one on a car I bought that I'm taking off. Piccie of it on the car here:

See if they'll accept one from a club.

Mine was red sprayed over a yellow base coat. Really makes it pop.

I did. And I told him it was pinking. Gave up in the end. Didn't really feel like arguing with him cos he's that kind of bloke - you can't really get narked with him. Next time you're up at Scotch, Antz, ask Colin who has the white Capri what Boggie is like. He's had the same experience as me. Maybe he's OK with Kents but he has his own ideas on what to do to every Pinto that comes in and he refuses to change it for anyone.

Personally I prefer dipping. Blasting can warp thin panels.

My advice is don't. Old man Dave is as deaf as a post and wouldn't know a pinking motor if it had a big neon sign on saying "I'm rattling like a barsteward." And he insists on taking off the vacuum advance on the dizzy when you've told him specifically not to because you need some economy out of it as you do 300 miles a week. Steve is OK as long as its to do with bike carbs but don't dare complain that they're faulty. How to tune Pintos/Kents the Dave Bogg way. 1) Wind on the advance straight away so its so far advanced, it's off the crank pulley timing marks. According to him, all Pintos can run at least 18 degrees. 2) Take out the main jets and run a drill bit through them. Sod the secondaries and air correctors. 3) Remove vaccum pipe, knock up a short one to block up the hole. 4) Bang it on rolling road and give it full welly, apparently completely oblivious to the massive amounts of pinking going on. 5) Smile and say "There you go. Be right now lad. Would you like to come look at my V6 MK1 Transit recovery truck?" In the 80's, old man Dave was good at what he did. Now? Well I'm less than 10 miles from them and I go elsewhere. The last time I went to Boggs, last year, was the last I'll ever do. Within a week I undid everything he had done because he'd basically wrecked the car. Upped my fuel economy from 26MPG to 37MPG and stopped the pinking. Seemed to go a bit quicker too. In short, the only decent thing out of Boggs, apart from the road home, is the manifolds for the bike carbs.

Mine's on the 19th so some early pressies please? If it's the 16th, I'll be sodding off around 5 as I'm off out that night. Antz, see if u can get some of the BC mob interested.

Mine gets a real good clean and polish the day before CF show. It'll only get jetwashed after that until the following year. You can either use it or spend all weekend polishing it then not want to use it cos it'll get mucky.

It's HERE. H. E. R. E. Hear is what you do with sound. FFS, doesn't anyone go to school anymore?

Forgot about it. Only a few miles from me as well...

In short, you can't. Its fooked. Once they go, they go. If it'd been made using coremat, it'd have stayed straight and have been stronger than steel but the downside is it would have weighed more and cost a lot more. If they don't warp, they ripple. Large flattish fibreglass areas and high temperatures don't make good bed fellows.

Well their Aldon Ignitor kits are cheaper than getting them direct from Aldon.

Madness. The law limits the amount of hours I can drive in my truck but anyone in a car can just go do something like that even though they're far less used to long hours than we are.

Sounds like my Capri. I now have £5300 invested in a sodding MK3 Laser and last week when fitting new seats it decided to show me the rot it's developed in the floor so it looks like the passenger seat is coming back out and it's getting its first plate ever. Bitch.

Large one looks OK on the back of a MK3 but I think it may be too large for a MK1. Can't put the large one on the front windscreen cos the wipers hit it and pull it off eventually.