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Alfashark

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  1. Hopefully, I believe it's cracked (distilled) to a higher octane than the BP/Mobil offerings so has less additives to bump it up to the the 100 mark.
  2. Yep, still ethanol. Throw some NPD 100 at it and enjoy.
  3. Yellow gets my vote - it would look great next to @yoeddynz's blue one!
  4. Good stuff! On the bright side, a gearbox is a relatively simple thing to deal with compared to some of the gremlins that Renaults of this era can have. VW diffs of the recent past have a similar issue where they are retained by a ring of rivets but thankfully there are off the shelf kits with super high strength bolts to replace said rivets.
  5. That's an ignition cut, with the fart being the unburnt juice igniting downstream.
  6. And so begins the slow march to 911 ownership! They're not horrifically difficult cars to work on, and there is a decent logic behind the way things are designed and assembled in these and pre-996 911s, as opposed to other high performance vehicles of similar vintage. As you're no doubt discovering, there's a large amount of aftermarket suppliers too which helps.
  7. Likely works off individual wheel speed differential via ABS sensors. Take it for a hoon and see if it clears the light. VW/Audi products light the dash up like a Christmas tree after disconnecting the battery and they'll all resolve within a few hundred meters when they get the feedback they're looking for.
  8. Miami Blue! Otherwise known as beach public toilet block blue... Looks like an easy save and comes with a parts car, so I'd call that a win. Is that an old Octavia sitting to the right of it in the paddock pic?
  9. Nah, it's the ABS sensors - All it's doing is measuring wheel rotations relative to each other while taking in to account steering inputs. There's a good chance the other cases you found were shitty sensor pickups/wiring or just plain shit tires creating a bit of slip.
  10. Another culprit for this - If you've got lower/stiffer springs and the car is capable of cocking a rear wheel around a corner, that pings the TPMS as well. Wheel size won't matter at all, as long as all 4 are the same diameter.
  11. I see a lot of Mk6 imports on those rims - Super light, but being so open they're begging for a big brake conversion behind them...
  12. Fuckin hell that's some serious boots. What's the price point between the 4s and 5s?
  13. Not interested in a Mk7 to add to the herd?
  14. Are you a member of this group? https://m.facebook.com/groups/1365983997079300/ That's DUBNZVW. There's always wheels being sold on there.
  15. Kit bashing. That usually upsets them - Finding leftover bits/spares/variant components from a kit and butchering an already fucked build just for the hell of it. That winds them right up and the actual build is quite fun and you're not really restricted to doing anything remotely right. Once I dig out my kit crates and find my tools, that's what I'll be doing.
  16. At least the goons from the IPMS branch I was in - And it was a small branch, no more than about 10 of us - Were fucking brilliant at doing their own thing and realising that not everyone could or would go that deep down the detail hole. One of them, just to try it out, masked and painted every individual panel on a 1/72 model to get something like the effect of polished aluminium. Took him forever and while it did look impressive, he reckoned he'd never do it again just to get that 99% right look that some other cunt (likely from one of the forums you've mentioned) to still pick holes in it.
  17. Amen! Best to ask for thoughts and examples on, then make your own mind up and don't ever show them the finished results...
  18. Comes down to where and how they were operated... The Tonkas and Jags got a quick smearing of Desert Pink and then got throw into the desert at Mach fuck, down in the weeds with a lot of grit in the air so they got sandblasted on all the leading edges/pointy bits. Some of the chaps over your way use a Pledge furniture polish sealant, watered down with thinners and wash the whole thing with it which can bring out panel lines with just the right amount of depth.
  19. More scope to dirty it up a bit with the pink too. Get a look at some of the Tornados in theater back then and someone like you could have a field day with the weathering...
  20. If I can find the pod, and that fucking awful camo can be removed without rooting the panels, I'll hit with a coat of Hemp (Tamiya XF57, or Humbrol 168 for those playing along at home). If the panels don't clean up well, it'll get a dose of Desert Pink and can represent Teasin' Tina which is on display at Bruntingthorp - No one is quite sure why it was painted in D.P as it's quite a different colour to Hemp but presumably someone thought that since the Tornados, Jaguars and Buccaneers wore it while giving Saddam a good tickling, the tankers keeping them fed must have worn it too. For reference, Hemp: And Desert Pink:
  21. Had to do a bit of digging, but I found the old duck... Missing a refueling pod from the starboard wing, and the centerline unit is missing as well - No doubt in a box somewhere. The thing that passes me off most about the whole saga is the time I spent masking off the cockpit glazing and it appears he removed this and had a half arsed attempt at doing it himself and then hit it with the Dark Green again.
  22. Ahh! You've definitely got your eye in then. I never did a lot with that Badger, because it was a lot of shagging about compared to opening the tins of Humbrol's finest and getting work with the brush. Your weathering is outstanding - Miles above my ability/patience.
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