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Cars Modifications Aspects of car modifications (tuning, styling) (uk.rec.cars.modifications)
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07-12-2004
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hey everyone ive just started really thinking about modding a car hopefully an MK4 |
Cortina?
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Dofus <dofus (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote: hey everyone ive just started really thinking about modding a car hopefully an MK4 A MkIV what? |
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In news:1ggtpnk.10b77gr17nsgqmN%steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk, SteveH <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows Dofus <dofus (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote: hey everyone ive just started really thinking about modding a car hopefully an MK4 A MkIV what? My bets are on the Escrot Mk4.. or possibly the Spagthorpe Bologna Mk4b Or even the slightly rarer Uberflange Stigmata. And anyone who attempts |
machining it is going to require to to parts being made to fit Metrinch
fittings and spacing, and mobody has tried that since the fall of the
berlin wall, and all the East German engineers said "Fuck how did we get
it so wrong, bugger that for a game of tinpot dictators" and went back
to good old fashion AF Whitworth to fit in with other technology of
equivalent advancement, and also because of the roasting he is going to
get from the true classic buffs, the Duke of edinburgh included, is
known to be a life long member of the Uberflange invaders, the official
owners club and raiding party.
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It never fails to amaze me the people who buy a car for its looks/image/apparant value .... then decide it ain't fast enough so they then start modifying it. Isn't it better to start with something light, then add big bhp ... sort of getting a head start on things??? |
mod cons people want nowadays. Unless of course you have space for 2
cars.....
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Or at the very least, do more research instead of buying on impulse. |
well, but its people that buy the base model and then try and make it
quicker that are daft. They end up spending more than the cost of the
decent model and its insurance etc on making their pov spec machine nearly
as quick.
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hey everyone ive just started really thinking about modding a car hopefully an MK4 how did you all get in to modding cars i dont just mean liking them i mean how did you get to know how to tune and style your cars did you just get a book or something |
hay man wot id do is first to loose all grasp of the English langwadj,
espesially gramar and puntuasion. Then youl fit in nisely on a
newsgroupe popullated by like minded car moddifyers wid similar
educattional defisiensies. but yore almost their so good
then wot id do is developp an agresive, combativ and confrontasional
atitude, talegating anywon drivving at less than 2x the legal limmit,
paying litle regard to otha rode usars like pededdedstrians and syclists
and going into a violent rage evary time somewan pulls out less than 150
yards in front of U.
Hay boyee no point in havving a moddifid car if you dont no how to drive
it!!!!!!!
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SDD <eveodds (AT) yahooco (DOT) co.uk> wrote: Isn't it better to start with something light, then add big bhp ... sort of getting a head start on things??? Or at the very least, do more research instead of buying on impulse. I think you'll find that many get what mummy and daddy give them, usually what the parents see as a "safe" car[1]. Then they realise that the bog-standard Reginald MoleHusbandMobile has as much bird-pulling power as a dose of the clap. So they try to make it more desireable. [1] I know someone who against all advice to the contrary bought her child a Corsa, because it was "safe". The child died in a horrific road crash (no other car involved) and now the parent is an agitator for more restrictive road legislation. At no point does it appear to connect with her consciousness that had the child been driving a decent car (say a Laguna, Mondeo, Scenic or WHY) that the cild would probably still be alive. Such parents look only at the engine size "it's a 1200 what harm could they come to?" and never at the NCAP test rating. |
oil and not running. One very alive and pissed off child.
Fraser
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[1] I know someone who against all advice to the contrary bought her child a Corsa, because it was "safe". The child died in a horrific road crash (no other car involved) and now the parent is an agitator for more restrictive road legislation. At no point does it appear to connect with her consciousness that had the child been driving a decent car (say a Laguna, Mondeo, Scenic or WHY) that the cild would probably still be alive. Such parents look only at the engine size "it's a 1200 what harm could they come to?" and never at the NCAP test rating. |
link between how U drive a car and how U mite die in a car. I meen, why
isnt the stuppid womman campaining for manditory issuing of 12 ton
Mistubishi Shotguns to everyone over tha age of 10 and tha creation of
more inter-village motorways.
NOW THATS MORE LIKE IT.
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SDD <eveodds (AT) yahooco (DOT) co.uk> wrote: Isn't it better to start with something light, then add big bhp ... sort of getting a head start on things??? Or at the very least, do more research instead of buying on impulse. I think you'll find that many get what mummy and daddy give them, usually what the parents see as a "safe" car[1]. Then they realise that the bog-standard Reginald MoleHusbandMobile has as much bird-pulling power as a dose of the clap. So they try to make it more desireable. [1] I know someone who against all advice to the contrary bought her child a Corsa, because it was "safe". The child died in a horrific road crash (no other car involved) and now the parent is an agitator for more restrictive road legislation. At no point does it appear to connect with her consciousness that had the child been driving a decent car (say a Laguna, Mondeo, Scenic or WHY) that the cild would probably still be alive. Such parents look only at the engine size "it's a 1200 what harm could they come to?" and never at the NCAP test rating. |
strong the Ka's body is, but thankfully it didn't hit anything of substance.
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