16v_paddy
05-04-2009, 03:01
This is a bit long but meh :roll: well worth the read imo :wink:
Had quite a counterproductive day with the valver :x went to my mates to help him fit some 4 pots to the back of his volvo 8) but 1st job was quickly change my discs & pads. Get the discs out of the box and we're greeted with a pair of solid discs :shock: furthermore they're 245mm in diameter & 10mm thick :shock: the dozy cunt who sold them on ebay as williams items has either ****ed up & put the wrong discs in the box (bizarre mistake but understandable) or is quite stupid & needs shooting :evil:
Either way, I've sent him a message this morning but had no reply so far :x
So.....while my mate was cleaning up & preparing his calipers I went about topping up all my fluids etc - I've got a bit of an oil leak atm so was quite low- noticed a slight coolant leak but fixed that with some strategic jubilee clip tightening :D
That done, we set about fitting some 4 pots 8) took us a while & required some startegic butchery of disc guards that took us a while to figure out :roll: Took a lot of head scratching then some forum advice to sort it out - the way to fit these brakes requires a) brand new disc guards (**** paying £50 each for a pair) or b) get busy with a dremel :twisted: unfortunately the dremel died :evil: so I had to get busy with some tinsnips :P :twisted:
With a job well done, everything fitted up & bled we go for a test drive, all is well :D my m8s car now has Brembo 4 pots & 330mm discs on the front with the same at the back :twisted: albeit slightly smaller Brembo 4 pot calipers on the rear 8)
Shortly afterwards my housemate pops around with his V6 8) we have a jolly good chinwag & decide to get a chinese. We get there, order our food, told to wait 30 mins so we decide to go for a blast & general perv in the Vee :lol:
Here's the fun part, followed by the embarrasing bit.......shortly
Me & my housemate decide it's time to go home & watch MOTD. The route home from our mates house takes us down 2 of our most favourite local roads ever :D Spring Lane followed by Shelford Tops
I tell my mate to lead as my brakes are ****ing shit atm :roll: thanks Mr. Ebay seller :cry: :evil: I now have a very new & very deep respect for the Clio V6, it is a ****ing quick car on a fast flowing & challenging country road :shock: (but if he asks, I didn't say that :wink: it's a sack of shit plastic pig of a bathtub with a 406 engine :P )
The amount he pulled away from me was quite shocking, never the less I kept him in sight (ish :P ) but I daren't push any harder as my brakes were quite shockingly bad :oops:
I'm not trying to say I'd have caught up with him had my brakes been in tip top working order :roll: but the gap would not have been so big, but underpowered & gutless 1.8 valvers are not to be underestimated :wink:
We get to the end of spring lane to some lights, he leans out the window & starts spraying his bottle of water as though he's won the grand prix and the look on his face is as though he'd just jizzed :lol: fair play though as we had both just absolutely nailed it down that road, kissed every apex beautifully, all in all a fantastic drive on a brilliant bit of road :D
We then turned onto a dual carriageway & proceeded to boot it :twisted: I'm right up his arse - lightweightness coming into play :wink: coming to the top of 3rd & the torque of the big V6 comes into play and he starts to pull about 5 car lengths before we start breaking for the upcoming roudabout :? I'm quite scared now as - I've got wilwood 4 pots but with shagged discs & pads, he's got big **** off AP Racing 4 pots and ****ing mahoosive discs, all quite recent from his last service - I'm worried I'll run up the back of him :shock:
Never the less, we were going straight over the roundabout but you have to go around it, no straight lining this badboy :wink: round we go, I'm right on his arse again. On the exit I got a bit of understeer but powered through it :D he got the same but then the power turned it into some lovely oversteer 8) & allowed me to close in on him down the DC until we got traffic and single carriageway up ahead, so calmed it down.
That roudabout & DC blast was a very interesting comparison of the advantages of lightweight, agile FWD over big, heavy & powerful RWD and vice-versa. The subject of much discussion over beer & football :D
Now we come to the spectacle that is Shelford Tops. My mate owns this road and I mean ****ing owns it :!: I didn't even bother to try & keeep up, I simply don't have the talent or the confidence to try. It doesn't mean I drove like a faggot though :wink: I went ****ing quick down that road but my mate just left me for dead :cry:
Having lived near the road for so many years & driving it almost every day, he knows that road sooooo well, every single bump, crest, nook & cranny, it's truly epic. To put it in perspective, if I gave him a 1.2 fiesta and any challenger in any car (within reason of course :P something like a williams, scooby, focus rs etc) and let him lead on that road, no-one will catch up with him, if they could I'd happily put petrol & matches to my valver :shock:
Anyway........ I eventually catch up since we were being civilised & driving to the limit through our village :wink:
Pulling onto our driveway we notice a whole ****load of smoke pissing out of my car :shock: :shock: :shock: BLUE SMOKE :shock: :shock: :shock: then quite a bit of oil dropping on the floor :crybaby: :crybaby:
:crybaby:
Pop the bonnet to be greeted with lots more smoke - ringpiece winking at 10,000 rpm & that god awful sickly feeling in the pit of the stomach :cry: only to find
THAT SOME STUPID P R I C K paddy :oops: JUST NAILED IT, CHASING A CLIO V6 ALONG SOME COUNTRY LANES WITHOUT PUTTING THE OIL FILLER CAP BACK ON THE ENGINE AFTER TOPPING UP, SPRAYING A ****LOAD OF OIL ALL OVER THE ENGINE BAY, GOD KNOWS HOW MANY MILES OF COUNTRY ROADS & MY DRIVEWAY
Yes I am ashamed & embarrsed :oops: , I feel so ****ing stupid :cry: but I felt the need to share, as to most folk, someone elses misfortune may help them to realise things with their valvers aren't so bad & a bit of laughter at someone elses expense helps to take the mind off the bad things & enjoy life with clios that little bit more :D
And don't worry I'll take the abuse like a man & still piss myself about this little mishap for quite a long time :lol: As well as spending the morning cleaning the mess I've made :oops:
Had quite a counterproductive day with the valver :x went to my mates to help him fit some 4 pots to the back of his volvo 8) but 1st job was quickly change my discs & pads. Get the discs out of the box and we're greeted with a pair of solid discs :shock: furthermore they're 245mm in diameter & 10mm thick :shock: the dozy cunt who sold them on ebay as williams items has either ****ed up & put the wrong discs in the box (bizarre mistake but understandable) or is quite stupid & needs shooting :evil:
Either way, I've sent him a message this morning but had no reply so far :x
So.....while my mate was cleaning up & preparing his calipers I went about topping up all my fluids etc - I've got a bit of an oil leak atm so was quite low- noticed a slight coolant leak but fixed that with some strategic jubilee clip tightening :D
That done, we set about fitting some 4 pots 8) took us a while & required some startegic butchery of disc guards that took us a while to figure out :roll: Took a lot of head scratching then some forum advice to sort it out - the way to fit these brakes requires a) brand new disc guards (**** paying £50 each for a pair) or b) get busy with a dremel :twisted: unfortunately the dremel died :evil: so I had to get busy with some tinsnips :P :twisted:
With a job well done, everything fitted up & bled we go for a test drive, all is well :D my m8s car now has Brembo 4 pots & 330mm discs on the front with the same at the back :twisted: albeit slightly smaller Brembo 4 pot calipers on the rear 8)
Shortly afterwards my housemate pops around with his V6 8) we have a jolly good chinwag & decide to get a chinese. We get there, order our food, told to wait 30 mins so we decide to go for a blast & general perv in the Vee :lol:
Here's the fun part, followed by the embarrasing bit.......shortly
Me & my housemate decide it's time to go home & watch MOTD. The route home from our mates house takes us down 2 of our most favourite local roads ever :D Spring Lane followed by Shelford Tops
I tell my mate to lead as my brakes are ****ing shit atm :roll: thanks Mr. Ebay seller :cry: :evil: I now have a very new & very deep respect for the Clio V6, it is a ****ing quick car on a fast flowing & challenging country road :shock: (but if he asks, I didn't say that :wink: it's a sack of shit plastic pig of a bathtub with a 406 engine :P )
The amount he pulled away from me was quite shocking, never the less I kept him in sight (ish :P ) but I daren't push any harder as my brakes were quite shockingly bad :oops:
I'm not trying to say I'd have caught up with him had my brakes been in tip top working order :roll: but the gap would not have been so big, but underpowered & gutless 1.8 valvers are not to be underestimated :wink:
We get to the end of spring lane to some lights, he leans out the window & starts spraying his bottle of water as though he's won the grand prix and the look on his face is as though he'd just jizzed :lol: fair play though as we had both just absolutely nailed it down that road, kissed every apex beautifully, all in all a fantastic drive on a brilliant bit of road :D
We then turned onto a dual carriageway & proceeded to boot it :twisted: I'm right up his arse - lightweightness coming into play :wink: coming to the top of 3rd & the torque of the big V6 comes into play and he starts to pull about 5 car lengths before we start breaking for the upcoming roudabout :? I'm quite scared now as - I've got wilwood 4 pots but with shagged discs & pads, he's got big **** off AP Racing 4 pots and ****ing mahoosive discs, all quite recent from his last service - I'm worried I'll run up the back of him :shock:
Never the less, we were going straight over the roundabout but you have to go around it, no straight lining this badboy :wink: round we go, I'm right on his arse again. On the exit I got a bit of understeer but powered through it :D he got the same but then the power turned it into some lovely oversteer 8) & allowed me to close in on him down the DC until we got traffic and single carriageway up ahead, so calmed it down.
That roudabout & DC blast was a very interesting comparison of the advantages of lightweight, agile FWD over big, heavy & powerful RWD and vice-versa. The subject of much discussion over beer & football :D
Now we come to the spectacle that is Shelford Tops. My mate owns this road and I mean ****ing owns it :!: I didn't even bother to try & keeep up, I simply don't have the talent or the confidence to try. It doesn't mean I drove like a faggot though :wink: I went ****ing quick down that road but my mate just left me for dead :cry:
Having lived near the road for so many years & driving it almost every day, he knows that road sooooo well, every single bump, crest, nook & cranny, it's truly epic. To put it in perspective, if I gave him a 1.2 fiesta and any challenger in any car (within reason of course :P something like a williams, scooby, focus rs etc) and let him lead on that road, no-one will catch up with him, if they could I'd happily put petrol & matches to my valver :shock:
Anyway........ I eventually catch up since we were being civilised & driving to the limit through our village :wink:
Pulling onto our driveway we notice a whole ****load of smoke pissing out of my car :shock: :shock: :shock: BLUE SMOKE :shock: :shock: :shock: then quite a bit of oil dropping on the floor :crybaby: :crybaby:
:crybaby:
Pop the bonnet to be greeted with lots more smoke - ringpiece winking at 10,000 rpm & that god awful sickly feeling in the pit of the stomach :cry: only to find
THAT SOME STUPID P R I C K paddy :oops: JUST NAILED IT, CHASING A CLIO V6 ALONG SOME COUNTRY LANES WITHOUT PUTTING THE OIL FILLER CAP BACK ON THE ENGINE AFTER TOPPING UP, SPRAYING A ****LOAD OF OIL ALL OVER THE ENGINE BAY, GOD KNOWS HOW MANY MILES OF COUNTRY ROADS & MY DRIVEWAY
Yes I am ashamed & embarrsed :oops: , I feel so ****ing stupid :cry: but I felt the need to share, as to most folk, someone elses misfortune may help them to realise things with their valvers aren't so bad & a bit of laughter at someone elses expense helps to take the mind off the bad things & enjoy life with clios that little bit more :D
And don't worry I'll take the abuse like a man & still piss myself about this little mishap for quite a long time :lol: As well as spending the morning cleaning the mess I've made :oops: