Alfashark

This reminds me I must go and retrieve the ones I have on display at Classic Flyers, since those ungrateful arseholes haven't met their end of the bargain for those of us who pitched in a lot of time and effort to get that place from a pipe dream, to a working, functional museum.

/Model thread.

Spotted some twins at max zoom from the balcony in Queenstown. 

Very! When it was in getting a DSG service I said "What do you know about DPFs?", knowing that mine's getting tired.  His reply was that they'd never fitted a replacement one in 10 years due to the price - Near on $4k. They remove the unit, which appears to be about 4" diameter and cut it open. Gut it and then weld in a section of 2.5" pipe between the inlet and outlet flange, then zap the unit back up and reinstall. Once the heat shield is back in place, there's no way to see their work.

2 minutes ago, cletus said:

What year is it? 

14 - No, they won't be able to tell there's no DPF in there short of complete disassembly.

Wagon's getting EGR and DPF delete later in the year - 15hp gain straight off the bat from the DPF delete, gets combined with a mild re-map since they're already going to be coding the sensors for soot loading and regen out. All up $1200 and 2hrs for a 40hp increase.

8 minutes ago, Valiant said:

Why not both!

I'd say your battery is rooted. 

Throw a known-good one at it from another car if you have one handy - if it works, that'll be the problem.

Wiped out a family of pukekos with my Audi one morning - Wide open in 3rd, making glorious 5-pot noises towards a rail overbridge with a sharp crest and a slight bend just after. Family walked out right on the crest while I was about 30m out and I didn't fancy my chances of suddenly changing my line or hitting the picks.

Nuked a possum coming home from work a couple of years back in the Fabia... Straight off a bridge with a fast uphill right-hander and the furry little cunt ran out, which would have been fine had there not been a tanker coming the other way.  Big thump and the sound of carbon fiber and fiberglass shattering.

I did however, thoroughly enjoy the ability to behead possums with my Skoda 120 as they have a full metal apron/valance up front, which over the years invariably gets bent backwards as people nudge things and the fix is just to bend it further forward each time until after 20 years its looks like an ugly metal splitter... Every single one I hit ended up with a permanent haircut.

Not knowing fuck all about these, are they injected?  Did any of them have cruise control, or were they too early and in the wrong target market for things like that?

Just now, Positive Ape said:

Those factory production numbers are interesting. They must be quite a rare car in NZ. 

Did Tickford create the 5.6 litre just for these cars?

Shitloads of Windsors stockpiled and sitting around for ages and had rusty bores, so the official word was at the time.

Are they pulsed, or CIS like an old K-Jet setup?

@cletus

The former owners of the ex-Summerfield VRS practically left a jizz stain when they saw the wife's one sporting 99% of a genuine WRC kit and were fizzing at the prospect of taking moulds until they realized out the amount of work involved and the number of replacement parts they'd need for a season. 

It's not so much the slopey nose that takes the shine off, it's the twin-steer setup that does it.