End of Summer blues?

Post by **Stuart** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:23 pm

Just wondered my own reluctance to accept that another Summer is behind me is shared by others? The forum is very quiet too.......is everyone in hibernation already?

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:42 pm

Have been wondering where everyone is for a while now. The winter months bring there own pleasures.
This winter we are planning to build and fit a new engine and hopefully have all run in and set up by December

Other projects/plans are:
1. Knock down the water feature and rebuild it into a pond for under

Ian (DaOne) · Post by **Ian (DaOne)** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:13 pm

we should get a big power RR day going, nice cold weather for good cold ambient temps :-)

Bladerider · Post by **Bladerider** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:34 pm

You're fitting a new lump Pablo ???

Is this the best time to catch hamsters in the wild then ???

Personally,

I have been a bit skint, a bit too busy with work stuff suddenly coming out of every orifice, and a bit to generally car-malaise to be bothered with tinterweb too much. Dont feel like I have done anything "car'y" for ages and as such nothing really to talk about.

I might even miss my first BigPower night next week as I will be satrting to revamp John Lewis's TV department in Brent Cross and to begin with its a bit of nightwork.

J.

Bart · Post by **Bart** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:40 am

bladey we are sick of these hamsters in the car there to slow so were coming over to your neck of the woods to get some big fat rabbits judging by the one we hit last month he ran fast failing that we have plenty of rats the same size over here to do the job :-D :-D

pablo bring the pool on you know ill win :lol:

must say it has been prity quirt on here of late.

Post by **Ben** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:31 am

Me, well I'm sat by the pool in Rhodes drinking magners and filling up on fillet steak every evening.

But it as been quiet on the forum, I guess we are in need of more track time .. I'm in need of new brakes, some new shiny stuff and some new tyres.

Anyway, I better get off and enjoy my holiday

Post by **maff** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:10 am

The winters for tinkering, but being susceptible to the cold most of it seems to go on inside.

Soi far ive put a PC aside as a Media Center and loaded it with MythTV and added some more cabling for it from the sat dish, dead handy being able to set the video recorder from work

Avoided doing any more welding on the MG (i will get out this weekend honest :oops:).

Pulled all the wiring out of the sitting room and rerouted it so its not such a mess.

Tidied the loft.

But mostly im looking forward to the resolution of all the motor sport seasons

Its bathhurst this weekend so its 11 hours of couch potato, or off to see the MGs at snetterton... descisions...

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:45 am

I have been busy on a few fronts:

work ---------------
Busy working getting one big project done and dusted:

http://www.datz.com - Handbuilt by yours truly and launched last week through Sainsburys and Woolworths... phew

A new big project is underway related to the motor industry and will be unveiled shortly (ish)

Also been striving off hacker fcukwits (why cant these guys get a life??) on a clients server which has taken me into the depths of the night still working.

car --------------

Entry to Time Attack 2008 has been lodged and along with quite a few other familiar names, stand forward, Mike Payne, Kevin Duckworth, Zak Ramage, Fiona Muir, Lisa Diamond, Terry Buckel and many more, it looks like a huge BigPower turn out for this next year 8)

Final preparation for the ring trip in 2 weeks:

- i have been letting myself loose on the mapping of my car

and frantically learning how to do it in small steps to fine tune the current set up. This will help me to make fine tune adjustments whilst on event with more confidence and get the best out of the car in all situations and on all fuel grades. So far so good, the engine load has been increased a fair amount and fuel trims, knock correction fine tuned to bring it closer to being happy all the time.

- tyre swapping season is underway in an effort to get the last few miles out of the various sets of tyres i have here and give me some good rubber for some serious laps of the ring

Preparation for next year:

- plans are underway to improve power outputs through turbo and internal modificatiosn to the engine. I am currently speccing these out and saving madly.

Yes, the site has been quiet but not for too much longer. Lets make next week's meet a good one !! (mine's a steak pie

)

Pike · Post by **Pike** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:08 am

dynamix wrote: Yes, the site has been quiet but not for too much longer. Lets make next week's meet a good one !! (mine's a steak pie )

You can't beat MSV's own unique take on Lasagne in my opinion Duncan!

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:17 am

or chilli and chips :bandit: