jr
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jr
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well she made id, did well over a thousand miles and did 8 laps between myself and willay, personally did a 9.45 BTG, and loads of room to get that down
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Ojc
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I'll get the vid up later blud.
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jr
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much love xx
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gavin18787
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Whats that in the pic under the side skirt?
Rear ARB?
Impressive car anyway. Its the only one I didnt get a ride in
Drives supercharged Tec with torque  
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Kano
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Looks like a arb with some serious adjustment on it.. lol
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Ojc
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That's how they all sit, quite low. All 3 Astras on the trip had Whitelines
The Burgandy was the most enjoyable car for me, I didn't go out in Tony's GTi but wish I had but the Astra was so relaxed, so much grip and is so smooth.
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jr
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thanks mate, i have grown to love it, its in a feild at the pod with willay now, so proberly on fire
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Rich H
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I hope this isn't still covered in German roadtrip grime? I've got to clean the bloody thing tomorrow
How'd it get on at the Ring then? Don't think I've seen it's quickest lap yet?!
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jr
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your have to ask willay if you still are ? and what state its now in
lap time wise it did a 9.45min, wasnt intentailly timing it, but ojc told me after he flimed it, it proberly was quicker with stocker in the car on the tuesday, but we wernt beeing that serious to time it
ojc has the 9.45 on flim
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Rich H
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:lol; Ah well I'll find out when I get there - nice 4.30am start tomorrow so off to bed in a sec! No attendance from you this year? 
Impressive lap time sir
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jr
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i will be there tommrow in my french car
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willay
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Prep for Combe/September's Nurburg trip
Take one engine bay
Remove aircon
Take some cheap coilovers (big thanks to Pickford for sorting these out for me!)
And fit them like so
Coilovers were fitted on the Friday morning before Combe so I decided to pop down to Mark Fish Motorsport who is just outside of Harlow for him to set the car up and do the tracking for me. After various cups of teas later I let back out to get home and pack my bags for Combe!
The Astra did really well at Combe, felt alot more planted in corners and a little bit faster on the straights which I think was mainly down to the big service it got last week (belt, cam pully sensor, fuel filter, air filter, plugs, oil, oil filter and rebodged the exhaust to fit again) and I'm looking forward to the Nurburgring! The tyres are slowly getting to the end of their life and I'm hoping to get the best out of them with jr at the 'Ring which may be our last trip of the year ( )
In its current state I'm happy to take her abroad again but I still have a little wish list compiled which consits of:
Oil temp/pressure gauges
Better brake pads
Fressshhh set of semi slicks
Cage
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jr
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ripped off from willays northloop thread
With the track sessions been and gone I was REALLY excited about Nurburg, the semi slicks were getting to the end of their life, Me and James were planning to get the last out of them!
Nurburg came and went, two amazing sessions of week day TF and we got on the GP track which seemed like whacky races, no sign on, hardly any flags, no helmets needed.
GP
At Karin's apartment
Lining up on Monday
Not found any pics of us on the Ring on our last visit.
Hope you enjoyed reading.
[Edited on 11-10-2009 by jr]
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SVM 286
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FFS it's BURGUNDY!
Oh and goodness gracious it looks smart that low and on those black steels.
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willay
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New year, new plans.
While the Corsa goes through its own personal problems I decided to focus on the Astra, so far its been a award winning platform for fun in Germany and this year I'd like to improve on that and take it to some UK track days.
First mod of the year is plastic windows, decided to start off with the rears only and see how it goes. Lee303 inspired me for the idea and gave me the push for it so big thanks to him.
I donned my new PPC overalls I got from subscribing to their fantastic mag for another 12 months while I was at Autosport international on Friday
we used polycarb 4mm thick from the builders, no one does a kit for a mk4 5dr astra funny enough...
Once fitted it was sealed
Lee made a fannytastic bracket
the final weigh in
Thats it for now, next on the todo list:
buy and fit steering wheel (hi rally design!)
remove carpets
remove sunroof
stiffen the shell up abit.
cheers 
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lee303
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doesn't even look like there's a window in on the pic from the inside! and those overalls were made for you!
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Ian
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Great mod boys.
I'm off to Autosport tomorrow, fancy a set of those overalls myself.
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jr
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nice bracket allowing orginal seals to be used  good effort
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DannyB
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Lovely, that's next on my list aswell.
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lee303
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just needs the fronts doing now in my opinion!!
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jr
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that will make it lovely and hot for the 1000mile round trip but then its not my car
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lee303
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you disappoint me at times james...
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jr
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theres making it light, then theres fucking it up for a cross continent jorney
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lee303
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its not like you have to do the journey every day is it?? and its not going to be any less comfy really, and think of the benefits!!
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