Can you stand another workshop thread?

[OllyK]

Gate now sanded

(toy in the background)

And primed and undercoated

And a coat of gloss, just need to do the back and sides now

 

[Vormulac]

Hi Olly,

The gate looks really good, looking forward to an in-situ shot.
Scooby-wise I was thinking of a UK spec WRX, nice and bog-standard, nothing an insurance company can ream me over!

V.

 

[Gary]

Scooby-wise I was thinking of a UK spec WRX, nice and bog-standard, nothing an insurance company can ream me over!

V.

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[OllyK]

Hi Olly,

The gate looks really good, looking forward to an in-situ shot.
Scooby-wise I was thinking of a UK spec WRX, nice and bog-standard, nothing an insurance company can ream me over!

V.

Yup - may get to fit it this weekend, you should see the supports on the house :roll: (all will become clear)

Bug or blob eye or a brand new one?

Insurance wasn't too bad, about £500 per year fully comp.

 

[Vormulac]

Scooby-wise I was thinking of a UK spec WRX, nice and bog-standard, nothing an insurance company can ream me over!

V.

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Yes, ok Gary, I should have said 'in relative terms...' :lol:

Olly, I am looking at an '03 or '04, so 'blob eye' (just missed out on a low mileage '05 last week - gutted). I have been quoted £770 fully comp, so actually not as bad as I was expecting. Unfortunately most of the ones I am seeing for sale near me are PPP models, so an extra £400 on the quote! :roll:

 

[OllyK]

Scooby-wise I was thinking of a UK spec WRX, nice and bog-standard, nothing an insurance company can ream me over!

V.

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Yes, ok Gary, I should have said 'in relative terms...' :lol:

Olly, I am looking at an '03 or '04, so 'blob eye' (just missed out on a low mileage '05 last week - gutted). I have been quoted £770 fully comp, so actually not as bad as I was expecting. Unfortunately most of the ones I am seeing for sale near me are PPP models, so an extra £400 on the quote! :roll:

Extra £400, that's silly. It's an OEM modification and only adds about 25 bhp. Don't know who you've tried but Elephant and Liverpool and Victoria have traditionally been good with scoobs. You may need to fit a tracker for some insurance firms though.

A lot of people PPP the WRX to get it up towards the standard output of the STI. Of course you can PPP the STI as well!

 

[Vormulac]

Curiously, I found Bell were the cheapest by a long way, approximately half the price of the nearest competitor - although I have been advised to try various other companies who invariably don't have websites and are therefore a pain in the @rse to deal with! :lol:
I don't know, maybe my brain will chime in and I'll end up getting something sensible that makes me want to fall asleep in the drivers seat, but the rest of me is still desperate to get behind the wheel of a scooby :roll:

 

[OllyK]

Curiously, I found Bell were the cheapest by a long way, approximately half the price of the nearest competitor - although I have been advised to try various other companies who invariably don't have websites and are therefore a pain in the @rse to deal with! :lol:
I don't know, maybe my brain will chime in and I'll end up getting something sensible that makes me want to fall asleep in the drivers seat, but the rest of me is still desperate to get behind the wheel of a scooby :roll:

Depends what you want from your car. The scoob, apart from the acceleration from stationary is actually quite dull to drive, the MX5 I have now is far more fun, but more difficult to drive. With the scoob, just point it at a corner and it goes round, foot flat to the floor at the apex. The MX requires rather more finess to avoid wild tail sliding.

 

[Vormulac]

It's probably more the scooby's reputation for otherworldly roadholding and handling that I'm interested in. I'm not interested in driving everywhere at 100mph, but I want the ability to get out of the way of any morons I encounter on the road (there seems to be an ever increasing number of those!).

 

[OllyK]

It's probably more the scooby's reputation for otherworldly roadholding and handling that I'm interested in. I'm not interested in driving everywhere at 100mph, but I want the ability to get out of the way of any morons I encounter on the road (there seems to be an ever increasing number of those!).

Road holding is certainly impressive, about 20mph higher cornering speed than the MX, although it feels quicker in the MX, or so the misses complains. Very competent in the wet, but change the standard tyres to Goodyear Eagle F1's and you'll notice a big difference. I had the prodrive handling pack with uprated springs and a few other bits and bobs which helped. It can understeer a bit, but when the back goes, it does so very quickly.

 

[OllyK]

Anyway to get back on topic

Did somebody ask where the sawdust was?

OK, the new gate is being positioned slightly back from the existing one, can anbody spot a problem?

Yup, I live in a mining area and the house subsided slightly 70 or 80 years ago (stable now the surveyor tells me). That's a lot of shims to get vertical!! :shock:

I will be scribing a piece to fill the gap in due course!

 

[mailee]

Phoo! not muh sawdust there Oly, you want to see my shop at the moment :shock: I must gety the extractor plumbed in properly when I get the time. :lol:

 

[Vormulac]

Erm... sorry to go off on such a tangent there Olly

That's some very neatly collected sawdust - well done! One minor project about 6 weeks ago and my workshop is still caked in the stuff! :lol:


(ps I had Eagle F1s on the MG and you're right, they're cracking tyres)

 

[OllyK]

Phoo! not muh sawdust there Oly, you want to see my shop at the moment :shock: I must gety the extractor plumbed in properly when I get the time. :lol:

I don't have any dust extraction at the moment so it's a case of opening the doors and windows and sweeping up afterwards!

 

[OllyK]

Erm... sorry to go off on such a tangent there Olly

That's some very neatly collected sawdust - well done! One minor project about 6 weeks ago and my workshop is still caked in the stuff! :lol:


(ps I had Eagle F1s on the MG and you're right, they're cracking tyres)

Mine would be too, but SWMBO popped in last Sunday while I was pottering about and went round with the vac as she thought it was messy :roll:

 

[Vormulac]

Mine would be too, but SWMBO popped in last Sunday while I was pottering about and went round with the vac as she thought it was messy :roll:

LOL :lol: I can just see that! Oh God - she didn't tidy up as well did she? :shock: I live in fear of my other half doing that, I'd never find anything again!

 

[OllyK]

Mine would be too, but SWMBO popped in last Sunday while I was pottering about and went round with the vac as she thought it was messy :roll:

LOL :lol: I can just see that! Oh God - she didn't tidy up as well did she? :shock: I live in fear of my other half doing that, I'd never find anything again!

No, but it was funny watching her vac around the tools on the workbench :lol:

 

[Vormulac]

:lol: Aw bless! :lol:

 

[OllyK]

Some slight issues with that funny yellow ball thing in the sky, but gate now in situe. Some issues with the bottom hinge which will need resolving and the frame needs a final top coat to cover up the plugs where the screws went to hold it to the wall.

 

[Vormulac]

Nice work Olly, that looks really good in place!