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DanHarper

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  1. Yes. Because at the moment its a cheap car, later it becomes a cheap modified car. Brentacre will insure it modded if the value of the mods take it to £1500 but I'd need to fit them immediately or be uninsured. Its not the weather for scratting about fitting coilovers etc :P Your ability to rephrase someones post and point out the obvious is still going strong I see.
  2. So I called Brentacre to switch insurance from my Tiguan to my new purchase, a £800 Seat Cordoba. They (or the underwriters) refused to cover it as the value is too low. Apparently the claims stats on lower valued cars are too high. Now left with a conundrum... do I go with a 'normie' insurance company and leave my car standard or play the ring around game? I've had good experiences with Greenlight in the past on my Fabia but I don't think they'll cover the Cordoba standard as they don't do normal cars (wouldn't do my Tiguan). Oh and the Brentacre fiasco, with the fees, meant I paid ~£150 for 26 days insurance.
  3. I miss it! I'm thinking of rebuilding... not set in stone and not sure it will be an estate again if I do...
  4. £10 for passengers on the day payable directly to MSV. Doesn't guarantee passenger rides, you'd need to find someone who wanted to take you out
  5. I do. I had a bike with electronic assistance and did it all year (in fact my highest mileage was December). It got nicked and now I'm trying to make do without the assistance, so sticking to good weather days until I build up more resilience. My ride is 10.7 miles each way, however on the round trip I'll do 2200ft of climbing (much worse on the way home as I live on top of a large hill). Cycle to work all looks like a faff, unless your in the 40% income tax bracket it looks like it would be more effective to shop around or buy last years model with a discount.
  6. F1s great! No matter my energy levels, I'm always asleep by the end.
  7. By staying at home you would have saved £142.97p
  8. 1. Depends on the car, if its your superb I'd get some! Try REIS. 2. Yes, but if they are anything like Karting helmets you wouldn't want to put it near your head. I find I sweat a lot on track, I bet the previous occupants of the hire helmets did too. Fairly basic helmets are going to protect you (afterall, your head isn't going to be coming in to contact with anything but the interior of the metal box keeping you safe from the rest of the world unlike on a bike) well enough for a track day, well worth £50 or so. 3. For your first time it would be a hell of an expense and unless you go straight out hard you'll probably be ok on your road tyres. Just keep an eye on the temperature and don't wear them too low or overheat them. If you think however you'll be using them again, Federal RS-Rs are a good budget track tyre and are road legal, just make sure you have enough tread depth if you drive home on them. 4. No.
  9. You can chop more off that alternator bracket. Iirc the stock one without aircon only has 3 bolts (just fitted one to mine but don't know where it came from... maybe Tech1e's engine).
  10. £100 is for 1 car 1 driver. You can normally add additional drivers on the day for 30ish £ payable to the track day organisers.
  11. Well feck, need a slave cylinder. Mine won't seal even with a new £10.50p gasket (2 o rings, 2 bleed nipple covers with holes in) from Leeds TPS (no discount there :(). Guess the pipes been in and out of it too many times, made it all lose, it is the original one that came on Ibiza No.1.
  12. Oooh better idea! I'll get one of those 'Ouch!' stickers to go over it
  13. Engine bay coming along, waiting on fuse box and filter: Jerry rigged, extra safe (yes that bit poking out is live and unfused! No I don't have a breaker anywhere... :P): Battery goes here... no tall passengers. Breaker will go behind the handbrake: Dash is all in looking OEM, but theres very little behind it, or holding it in And finally... what the hell is this: So what I thought was just a bit of filler replacing some broken bumper fixings, turns out to be a massive piece of it. I really should have looked closer before putting so much time in to this shell as I'd have taken a few pieces off to break even and scrapped it :( I'm now thinking of smoothing the rear end and running bumper less and trying to make this bit a tiny bit less crap, which will be a lot easier when the bumper isn't there highlighting the fact it doesn't follow the original lines.
  14. Got a fair bit accomplished this weekend - will get some pictures tomorrow been called in for food All the wiring up front is finished, just the rear lights to sort. Radiator/intercooler and all the pipe work is on, just need some new clamps for the cooler pipes. Setup exactly the same as the Fabia, but seems to fit better in the Ibiza... the bumper isn't as restrictive in pipe placement which helps. Brakes all bled through with some Pagid fluid to get it going and flush through the crap, used my new compressor driven vacuum bleeder... seemed to take a lot longer than the Eazi especially on the rear. Got it started! Its amazing how badly these run without a throttle pedal connection! Fixed now and it ran up to temp with no issues Oh I whacked my standard downpipe back on... will worry about the 3" decat later. Just need some parts... the little rubber seal off the clutch pipe has gone walkies. I've got a spare somewhere but I've got no idea where. Think it was £8 last time from VW! Pics and a bit more to follow tomorrow... tempted to get booked on for Blyton in October to shake down before Snetteron - I don't want to waste half a day after travelling all that way like last time!
  15. Slowly slowly. Black rocker cover back on (had this for a year or more, was going on the Fabia but I never got around to it): I did have a painted intake to match, but I crossed a thread on one of the TB bolts and knackered it :( Spent a lot of time messing about with the loom and tidying it up. One of the areas that always annoyed me was where the loom drops off the chassis leg near the PAS. It was messy. Looking a lot better now with some bits routed through the chassis leg and the relay box thing moved (will go in the wing): Don't know whether to take the GB mount off (another purchase from a year or more ago I never got around to fitting) and route under it or leave it as is but wrap it up as one. Going to get some fuse holders rather than use the cut up battery box lid as I was doing. Should look a lot neater. Interior essentials going back in: I really want to get a shakedown track day in October rather than take it straight out at Snetterton... but I have one more weekend in September free and lots still to do! And at some point I think I'll need to get it mapped for the decat! Need to contact the mapper about whether the 2nd O2 sensor is in use and if I'll be safe to take it on track before getting it mapped to suit.
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