avoid like the plauge lol, i bought a 'williams' engine which was infact a megane engine, their excuse was "well it came out of a wiliams" i had confimation from hillpower that as it was it would...
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avoid like the plauge lol, i bought a 'williams' engine which was infact a megane engine, their excuse was "well it came out of a wiliams" i had confimation from hillpower that as it was it would...
so did i, twice! just found it by chance on youtube
for anyone that missed it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JxLVbIX78UA
lol i dunno, i never realised i did it till watching the video back
hello, havent been on this site for a while but im back! made a quick vid the other day, was going to use my vid camera but somehow my bro has managed to break it :x so i used my digital camera. the...
well his driving style is that of a rally driver lol, looks like there is a footplate for the co' driver too, just whipped the other seat out for a bit of on track practice looks like to me
my mate recons his standard nova gsi can easily outdo a audi tt quattro, and sais there must be something up with my valver if i cant beat one! also reconned he kept up with a bmw m3, funny how no...
hehe nice vid mish, camera was at a bit of a funny angle though, cant see road ahead, ive have my camera and mount for ages now and i still havent used them! only cus the car has hardly been on the...
tell ya some of the coppers are the most dangerous drivers ive seen! i was going up the Broadway in Walsall which is a 30mph road, and at one part has 2 lanes each side, there was a load of traffic...
tyres r us in b'ham
nothin here in the midlands its just raining now, crap!
hehe, well heres some pics of the new engine anyways
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/derv1980/my%20car/conversion04.jpg
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heh think i'll change the insurance over when i can, i actually did a mock quote and a williams is the same at 25 as a valver is at 24 so i an hoping i wont get stung too much!
ermm i'll have to see, when the wheel bearing collapsed it has scored my brand new tarox brake disc and it shakes under braking so gotta get that and a few other things sorted first.
hehe my birthday is on the 13th of september so it dont bother me too much!
i'll get some pics up soon!
Elephant said they won't insure engine upgrades, i;ll try greenlight, i think i tried them...
wohoo! finally got a williams engine and gearbox fitted to my valver! so much better now. right question to all hybrid owners who are you all insured with cus my insurance company (elephant) wernt...
i went right past the refinery today and it was still blazing a good un!
lol my foot wont reach, the accellerator actually sits about an inch further back than the brake pedal, i might try and sort it some day :P
hehe, is there any way of actually moving the pedal? that alloy one is fastenened directly ontop of the plactic one and cus of the metal bar cannot really bolt it further down
this is why its hard to do it in mine anyone elses pedals set out like this?
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/derv1980/my%20car/pedals.jpg
hehe awsome stuff, we tried to make some a few years ago but we didnt have the powder fine enough, and its damn difficult to light!
i find the clio pedals are all over the place and if im braking i cant reach over very well to the accellerator. on the angelsey track day when the instrutor drove my car i think he was struggling...
im afraid you are looking at least 6 hours even with a straight run, i live in the midlands, on a good day(with a bit of traffic) ive got to folkestone in 4.5 hours and holyhead in about 3, thats...
exellent vid mate!! need to start filming my own stuff , i got the camera and i got the mount but crap software to edit with! the crap standard windows thingy keeps deleting all my vids!!
the Blues Brothers lol quite comical car chases but entertaining none the less!
i didnt, but i would imagine as the engine is running, everything that u can normally turn on with the engine running should work ok with the engine remote start. if not i would get them to sort it...
yep the heaters should come on, mine does i put the rear demister on too!!
heh, good stuff i saw your car last time i was up hillpower, but it had no engine in at that time!
yeah spoke to nick hill about it, we have another plan,
when i company sell you a williams engine you expect just that, not a megane engine, they claim it came out of a williams 2 but that is...
jeez, one day i'll get this all sorted lol, took the engine up to hillpower, pop open the van door, first thing he says is "you do know this is a megane engine dont you?" im gonna print off my...