Outofthi5world

Yes, there is one somewhere on here running on air ride suspension too I believe, can't remember who it was though.

No, it doesn't look like you'd stand a cat in hells chance of getting that car back any time soon.

Learnt something today that I kind of thought would happen. Rain washes chalk off of chalk boards really well. I wonder what sort of effect it would have if I drove a fully chalk-board car covered in chalk through some light drizzel? Streaky?

Difference is though a gas boiler is a complicated piece of equipment with the capability of causing a massive explosion if even a tiny fault is present, whereas a socket is a couple of wires screwed into a couple of bits of metal that has a fuse.

Just do the work, it's in your own house behind closed doors and nobody has any right to demand entry to inspect something that they don't know is there. Unless your little razor socket kills someone then there will never be anything to worry about, and even then you could probably just say that you got an electrician, they said they were registered and you conveniently can't remember their name or anything about them. Why is everyone here suddenly a health and safety inspector?

Doesn't matter any more, scon now anyway. I'll grab my coat.

Because race car, that's why. It's only the Croctavia so it doesn't matter. :p

And the 1.9 TDI 110 BHP is a fantastic engine with a sound gearbox to, I have an Octavia that used to be an Elegance with the 110 engine in it that has done 202,000 miles and that runs sweet as a nut. You can thrash them and they love it. Change down to 3rd gear at 90 mph? That's fine sir, as you wish.

You'd have the space if you had an Octavia to store some of your stuff in. Also top tip: Bedrooms make great storage spaces for car cleaning gear and wheels.

Well I offered up the Monte calipers today and there's no chance of them fitting, the Octy carriers are integrated into the hubs whereas the Monte ones are bolt-on and the calipers don't fit without them, so that's that idea out for now anyway. A trip to the scrap yard and we now have an FSIII caliper to match the old one off a Golf and I got some ATE race fluid on the way home. I'll have to get round to fitting that at some point and get some pads ordered. Apart from that I put another patch or chalk-board paint on near the filler cap to see what it does.

On tonights episode of Croc Gear, a man points at a Skoda: (1:50)

Pictures are up on the site now, or at least some of them. I hope this isn't all of them: http://www.javelintrackdays.co.uk/trackday/index.php?view=category&catid=842&page=1&catpage=1&option=com_joomgallery&Itemid=13#category

I like this, nice to see it being returned to factory condition. Meanwhile I put chalk board paint on mine...

I think with all this help Updown and Andsoutham own 50% of the Citigo by now.

So, I came to a realization today... The brake calipers off the Monte aren't the same ones that are on the Octy. It's the old Fabia that shares the same calipers. However my theory is that the hubs on both Fabias will be the same therefore the calipers should, in theory fit the Octy if I swap over the carriers as well. This will mean I have two Monte calipers instead of the Octy ones, giving better braking performance than standard. Another realization I had today was that chalk board paint is fun: I'm going to see how well that paint stays on the car and I might ditch the red and paint the whole car chalk board instead.

Does have it, and it does get switched off every session.

Neither have I, but it has and it will remain like that for the rest of eternity. On a brighter note the video has uploaded:

Seams to fit in with the current state of the Croctavia. That and I remember it from Saturday night. Good times...

Took the old brake pads out and inspected the caliper that was smoking and leaking at Croft yesterday. I think they're worn out: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/386974-the-croctavia-outofthi5worlds-octy-track-car/?p=4688398

Bit of an update regarding the brakes, I think they are worn out: I've taken a few photos from different angles that show some bits better than others: See it's worn the whole pad out so it must have bent because of the heat rather than the paint on the sliders: Piston came straight out of the caliper, there was no internal seal left at all: Here you can see how it's just melted the metal and folded over its self: So all in all not too good. But still, I like it. It's like a piece of modern art. But anyway, I have a caliper waiting to go on and just need some pads and fluid. In other news, this happened: Special thanks to Phill for giving me his old wheel, it's a lot better than the old one that was crumbling and had split from the frame. Now I just have that damn airbag light on again...

Pads aren't down to the backing plates just yet, they have about 1-2 mm left and they were made of cheese. Has bent probably at least partly due to the paint but I'll have to have a closer look. Only 12 miles or so on country roads going slow, I know where all the junctions and tight corners are so gave lots of time to slow down. It has a great hand-brake by the way, really effective.

Quick trip to Leyburn and back then off to Croft.

Update on the situation today... whoops: You can see here how the pad has bent, the seal round the piston is gone and the paint has melted on the caliper: Break fluid sprayed in the wheel arch liner, also all over the wheel: So yeah, the red-stuff lasted for a half hour country road bed-in drive and 67 miles on track before they put an early end to the day just before dinner. Had they not have taken the caliper with them I could have put the original pads back on but instead this had to happen. So I drove it home steadily using the handbrake to slow down, swapped wheels back over between that and the Monte and took the Monte back to Croft so if Phill and the guys wanted to go out after then I had something to take. I lost it a couple of times, put a couple of wheels in the gravel and went off onto an escape road but after everything tat happened I haven't hit anything and the car is back home. I have a spare caliper that can be used so all I'll need now is fluid, pads and a bleed kit.

Sit-rep: Octavia down.

I can understand them wanting all that proof of ownership (within reason) but surely "Getting to the bottom of where it is" is down to the police is it not?