Hi Roger, and welcome to the site

Markie wrote on 02. Nov 2006 at 13:35:


Thanx for all the replies,you certainly know how to welcome someone in!!!

As for the above comment, this is being strongly objected to on the Passionford website at the moment!!

A couple of the members saw an old episode of 'Used car roadshow' from the Retrocar Show at Santa Pod where Jason 'Whatever his name is' (previous presenter on Top Gear) did a review on a 21 Turbo - Incidently the car used was one of my old ones (a Red Ph1) that I sold to another club member!!

Anyway,he too mentioned the all important phrase 'Cossie Eater'...well to put not too finer point on it,it was like showing a red rag to a bull 
If ya fancy a laff,you'll find the link on here!!

http://www.21turboownersclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4681

And yeah,MOT,tax and insurance is a big ball ache BUT...being considerably older,having a clean licence and full no-claims bonus the insurance for all  4 of them comes to less than the average 18 yr old pays for a 1.0 Corsa!!!

After all the probs with the Espace I very nearly decided to sell up everything and buy the Mitsi Evo 6 that I so badly wanted,but after weighing up what i'd spent on all the cars and the engine components for my big BHP motor (hell,the one-off forged piston and liner set from the 'States cost the best part of £1800  ) I decided to keep them coz i'd never see my money back and aint about to give it all away for a song!!
Oh and I figured that once the engine's built and the management's fitted and mapped it should be as quick as an Evo,it just won't draw attention to itself!!! 

And totally off the subject,I noticed that quite a few of you are from the Northants area...I work down there,so if you see a 'Hanson' 8 wheeler tipper with 'Roger' on the back give me a wave!!!

Cheers for now,

Roj

Bo Bo wrote on 02. Nov 2006 at 20:39:


Which one?? Jaycos's?? Yeah,he's got a wicked sense of humour....gotta know how to take him!!!

Bo Bo wrote on 02. Nov 2006 at 21:03:


Why not?? Or am I being a bit of a newbie?? !! LMAO!!!

Just had a look....HA HA!!!  Point taken!!!
I'm gonna change mine when I can be bothered to find a decent picture!!

Big Steve wrote on 03. Nov 2006 at 17:24:


At the moment nothing, I did speak to the bloke on Fleabay last week thats selling the MV6 17" rims as I really quite like them and they suit the car,but after doing a bit of searching on the net regarding the superb  'Linglong' tyres (no,i've never heard of them either ) I decided to give them a miss.

A magazine in Australia tested them on the Aussie version of the Omega (Holden I think) and lets just say,from their reviews it'd probably have been better on bare rims!!!

I have enquired about a plug'n'play 'chip' that ups the BHP to approx 160 over the standard 130.
The only thing in the back of my mind is its done 142k and I don't really know how its going to fair up to the extra power (unlike my 1st R21T that had 20psi and 230bhp shoved through it!! And that'd done 165k on the original engine when I bought it  )

I'm probably just going to enjoy it for now,its got unmarked alloys,unmarked leather and the Bose sound system....all I got to do now is plan some long journeys so I can make the most of it 

Although after looking through the gallery last night and seeing Kev from Glasgow's Irmscher Elite V6....Man that car looks superb,I could see myself in that!!!!

Did say to my dad when I agreed to buy it that I could see a Facelift 3.2V6 Elite on the horizon....