The longest Thread ever!!!

Rodd1s · Post by **Rodd1s** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:03 pm

he wants a two tone, white on top with gold metal flake below paintjob... not gonna happen. said he'd hav it on the road last november, but that never happened... now he says it'll be done for nxt month for a dub show in plymouth... not gona happen either. (and apparently he has a scooby engine for it and a 1.6 that was bored out to a 2.0... but he doesnt know whether either turns over)

Pir0 · Post by **Pir0** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:28 pm

And i thought I was having bad luck with my car.

First off all the rust, then i get my new one and get the engine in. Find a bolt snapped in the head from the exhaust manifold. No biggy, just stick the rest in and use a bit of heat resistant silicone. Then i decide, this engines been lying here for a while without beng turned over. So i buy a new sump gasket and get the sump off, clean it, find a large dent in it, but there's no cracks, again, no biggy, didnt have a problem with that. So i get it all spick and span, shiny etc, and go to bolt it up. Get all the bolts in, then go back aorund them and tighten them one by one, opposites. Get to the third last one and it snaps

So now i'm either gonna drill out the screw from the block or leave it and glue the gasket on like i have to do with the exhaust manifold gasket. So thats a bolt in the head and the block snapped inside lol.

Because my engines the 130bhp version of the 2.0 8v, my friend always winds me up, saying 'Ahhhh, there's my engine, right Paul?' and he said it the day after i snapped the bolt and i was like, this one? you mean the one with a bolt snapped in the head, a bolt snapped in the block, and a bolt missing from the rocker cover gasket?' and he was like, '... maybe it's not this one then'. Thought that was pretty funny lol.

But anyway. Your friend seems to be having some bad luck, or is he just lazy?

Rodd1s · Post by **Rodd1s** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:23 pm

oh... he's lazy and tends to have some bad luck. so far, we've calculated he's spent a smidge over £5k... (getting near on £6k fast), for which price he could have bought a perfectly good running, MOT'd veedub camper.

the shell consists of rust and dust... and when he took the steering control arm off it shattered and broke more easily than some aluminium foil.

i've offered to help him here and there, altho his workspace is severely limited - by that i mean he is renting a single car garage that is only just big enough to park Matiz in comfortably. somehow he managed to squeeze the camper in after having to remove all the wheels and rolling the thing in on its axles.

this garage is a 20 minute walk or 5 minute drive from his house - oh... and theres no electricity, luckily he managed to score a generator for a low price.

Pir0 · Post by **Pir0** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:39 pm

:S Jesus. Even when we were doing work to the cars in our gardens it wasnt as bad as that. Rained every now and then but half the time we were in or under the car

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:46 am

i'm doin most of my work outside. well i have to take it in to the dealership i work at and put it on the frame machine. other than that everything will pretty much be outside. maybe under a tree if i'm lucky.

nick

Pir0 · Post by **Pir0** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:13 am

Working outsides not the worst thing in the world like. I done it for about 4 years lol. Until my friend started renting a massive shed.

Rodd1s · Post by **Rodd1s** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:09 pm

i wana rent/buy (or get hold of by other means) a big barn/workshop/lockup type place. but wudnt be able to use it while im at uni. mite hav to wait til summer and see what i can dig up.

Pir0 · Post by **Pir0** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:10 pm

This place is huge. He rents half of it, the mechanic that rents the whole thing barely pays anything. He basically goes up, fixes one car for a customer and that's his rent payed off for the month seeing as my friends renting the other half.. It's mad.

He doesnt pay over the odd's for what he gets though.. It's relativly dry. There's a few leaks in the roof, but no gale force winds hitting you in the face, no rain, no snow, no sleet or hailstones or other extreme weathers. It's fucking FREEZING as there's no heating, but it's nothing a good ol' thermal vest and hoodie cant sort out. He's got his Nexia in the corner on axle stands, a nexia saloon infront of it he might either be selling or keeping as a smallish project while he gets his main hatchback nexia project sorted. He has 2 calibras for parts sitting beside those two. Then there's My car over a pit and my old car beside that. After that there's his Ford Capri and infront of that, his brother's mk2 Astra. Beside those is his brothers V6 Omega, and infront of that is our friends Celica GT4. THEN, beside those again, is a Morris Marina and infront of that a Corsa. There's also a Ford escort sitting in there in random places too while it waits on someone buying it. So that's 13 cars. And loads of parts that either arent needed or are awaiting installation. And where my car is there's room for another one. You could easily get a good 15 cars in there, but then you're compromising room to work on them.

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:06 am

guess who is gonna have internet at the new house.... WOW cable gave me a deal to keep me as a customer. digital basic cable and 5 mb modem for $47 a month. good deal, especially since right now i have analog cable and 5 mb modem and its $75 a month! lol

yoshida · Post by **yoshida** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:35 am

daewoomofo wrote:guess who is gonna have internet at the new house.... WOW cable gave me a deal to keep me as a customer. digital basic cable and 5 mb modem for $47 a month. good deal, especially since right now i have analog cable and 5 mb modem and its $75 a month! lol

You must be kidding me, I have 20 mbit (2.5 MB/sec) for 27 Euro a month... that's roughly U$ 35 - 40. Then again that Dutch swampy earth (mostly sand & clay) makes it an ideal country to provide that service.
Not that I ever get more than 1200 kilobyte/sec on that ADSL line, but it still is one of the sweatest deals I could find.

By the way the longest thread ever I posted in was 86761 msg long, on the AUGI forum.
Keep them posts coming guyz

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:11 am

i must have mis-explained. its a 5 Mb/second, im not a huge techno wieny so i tend to not know how to say things

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:43 pm

damn it skinner your still doin it wrong Mb would stand for Mega-bit, you want to say MB Mega-Byte. jeesh get with the now. lol

watch me be completely wrong

nick

yoshida · Post by **yoshida** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:12 pm

ANYway.
My car passed MOT yesterday, cost me 700 Euro ($1000) just for parts and another 100 to compensate for my mechanic's time. (yeah it ain't exactly legal but at least my vehicle is road legal now)
I payed that money with a smile on my face. It runs better than ever, and perhaps a bit cheaper too, and now I can fully appreciate why you guys are nuts for Daewoo. But now I don't have to push it to it's limits anymore it kinda 'lost' it's sporty feel...

Ah well... time to find some new limits without wrecking my car.

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:25 pm

lanos2001 wrote:damn it skinner your still doin it wrong Mb would stand for Mega-bit, you want to say MB Mega-Byte. jeesh get with the now. lol

watch me be completely wrong

nick

i dont care, all i know is you fuckers arent getting rid of me that easy, ill find a way to do my daewooteching, even if i have to use a computer at the public library! lol

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:16 am

they still have library's???? thats shocking. must only be on school campuses. well its good you're still gonna be around.

well i put the radiator in just an hour ago and started her up. no problems. now i just need to take her to the shop get her pulled then start ordering some parts. (income tax money)

nick