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Tornado Red, often referred to as Tornado Pink, as they faded in the sun so badly! I sometimes think about buying a G40 even today

Plan at the moment is to build it to tarmac spec, I’ve owned the car for over 16 years and I didn’t really want it getting battered in the forrests!

I’m running the engine and gear box from a later 1.4 16v 6n Polo Rally Challenge car, but with ITBs and some other bits, roughly 150bhp with close ratio straight cut gearkit

I had an exciting email saying the Group F body kit for my polo rally car will be delivered in between 14th and 20th May

I designed a clothes dryer which uses low energy de-humidification to dry your clothes indoors.

The stuff i have is like this, but just in a loose bag

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dry-Packs-Indicating-Reusable-Plastic-Canister/dp/B002VNI6L4

I can decant some and bring it into work at Victoria if you want (or feel free to pick it up from Surbiton)

I have about 5kg of indicating silica gel left over from a project if you want some.

It turns from orange to green when it's fully saturated and you can re-generate it in the microwave on low

Car looks nice though

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I have had multiple polos. I used to regularly put two bike bags in with the rear seats folded + other kit stuffed around the outside

Yeah that makes sense, i'll take the cranks out next week and investigate, i'm hoping it just wants cleaning out or something

Yeah that's the one.

Is there any point going for a significant upgrade? pretty sure the ones in there are over 5000km old and have only just started making a cracking noise under load

What’s a good replacement B.B. for my supersix with SISL2?

Couple of pics from Porsche meet at the Fairmile in Cobham

Would have taken more but I skipped dinner and there was an hour and half wait for food so went elsewhere

Can i join the ITB club?

Would recommend a strategically placed cement bag in the boot

A PCT is where you have to drive around a grassy field between pylons over normally tight / twisty course and undulating terrain.

I've done a few (in my rally car, a long time ago) and they're quite good fun. Clutch control is a thing. RWD cars aren't as good. Used to see people bouncing up and down in the back trying to get traction

I never liked the headlights they put in that thing

by mk3, do you mean a 2F?

Wasn’t it actually a joint project between VW and Porsche? I read somewhere that VW bailed on it in favour of the Scirocco

I've just re-cabled this one with the Jagwire elite link for this reason

maybe, i just re-built a friends 50cm supersix and the headtube is so short it's a nightmare to cable up

i figured i would just have it mapped now it's out of warranty. they tune to 136bhp and 315nm

I own a dieselgate affected 1.6 TDI Skoda, i politely declined the "fix" after i read a load of reports and the head technician at the garage had his car bough back off him by Audi because of an irreparable engine fault post fix, along with a whole host of issues reported by others online

I don’t think think it’s that uncommon at all, I’ve seen a fair few standard cars where the wheel is offset on the column

I’ve never used anything but harnesses with any I’ve had in the past, but the SPG does say it’s compatible with harnesses where as the ABE does say it does inertia reel