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Postby Mustang » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:33 am

Time and location is good for me. ( I'm thinking of heading out to Dave Mc Canns to get the tracking done so I might be out in your neck of the woods earlier CJ)

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Postby CJ » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:57 am

Mustang wrote:Time and location is good for me. ( I'm thinking of heading out to Dave Mc Canns to get the tracking done so I might be out in your neck of the woods earlier CJ)


Mustang, let me know if you are and I'll meet you at Dave McCanns beforehand.

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Postby Mustang » Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:02 am

Will do CJ. I just want to make sure I have resolved all the suspension issues/ noises etc, before I get the tracking done. Taking a trip to Cork later today, so I should know for definite after that...
I'll send you a pm later in the week.

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Postby Dave » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:59 pm

only back in today from the old holiers!!
what's the exact time and location folks??
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Postby Mustang » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:04 pm

Dave,
There's been no objections so it looks like the Spawell at 11am.

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Postby Dave » Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:00 am

nice one, hangover permitting i should be there!
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Postby JD » Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:53 am

I'm getting frustrated here....... :( .........wife is meeting her old workmates this morning for 'brunch' (organised since the dawn of time!!!!!) so I can't get to the motor show with the club (have a young kid to mind and teenagers that need a permenant f*&^ing taxi service), .....AND she's in college the weekend after next.......so can't go to that meet :evil:

Ahhhhhhhhh The responsibilities of being an old fart!!!!! :? I should have bought a sprots car when I was younger! ...............I'll just curl up here with a nice cup of horlicks and watch an old western on the telly untill I fall asleep.

Enjoy the day out guys :wink: and fair dues to the lads comeing up from the country.
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Postby CJ » Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:49 am

Big thanks to all who turned up, we had a decent enough turnout with 6 FTOs. The show itself wasn't too bad, I always come out if the RDS a bit dissapointed after these events, but there were a few interesting bits and pieces worth checking out. The 'cruising4pussy' FTO wasn't much too behold, while a lot of work had gone into it, it was a bit rough around the edges, way too gaudy for my taste anyway. After seeing the lack of body kit stands at the show, I reckon that myself and Wavin could go into partnership and produce some serious kits for display at next years show, soil pipe is such a versitile material you know! Remember Wavin hurleys in the 80s? If they can make hurls out of Wavin, think what they could do for automotive body styling? (OK enough - you had to be there ;))

I'll try and get a few pics up on the site (my camera died on me - if you took any pics that day, zip 'em up and send 'em on), In the meantime, click on the pic below to enlarge:

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Anyway, it was good to put some faces to names, lets see if we can get some interest going for Overdrive later in in the month.

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Postby kevinod » Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:22 pm

Enjoyed the meet, good to actually meet people I've 'seen' on the forum the last 8 months. Arrived home about 11 I think, so a good sleep last night but well worth it!

Good pics from Caroline, looking forward to what Mark comes up with (and what nice wheels he superimposes on my FTO! ;] ).

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Postby Speedyboy » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:16 pm

I had a good day RDS was average great to talk about unholstery designs, and thermodynamic properties of wavin piping with fellow enthuasists

ps anyone know where i can get some large flame stickers to put up the car? :twisted: :P
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Postby Speedyboy » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:45 pm

Was just browsing the crusing4pussy site and i defenitely think this is the best angle to look at their FTO im thinking of going for this type of photo for my own car if mark would like to volunteer as photographer ill model !

Not work safe btw

http://www.direct-electronics.com/cruis ... a_0016.jpg
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Postby CJ » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:09 pm

Thats an awful looking yoke (yer one isn't that great either ;))

www.wavin.ie


LOL

Seriously, all I need is a foot of this
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and a pair of these and I'm laughin'

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I've got scouts keeping an eye on building sites for 9" offcuts, no point in investing in a 6M lenght when I only need a foot of the stuff...

In the mean time, I've done a mock up design of my next Wavin project, I'm sure Mark won't mind me using his motor as a demo car at the next motor show, check it out here.

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Postby Speedyboy » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:22 pm

I see mark is going to take one for the boys and drive the wavin4pussy demo car im sure he'll get plenty of "admiring" glances from his local plumbers and boy racers!
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Postby CJ » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:41 pm

Speedyboy wrote:I see mark is going to take one for the boys and drive the wavin4pussy demo car im sure he'll get plenty of "admiring" glances from his local plumbers and boy racers!


ROFLMAO :lol:

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Postby Caroline » Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:16 pm

CJ wrote:Thats an awful looking yoke (yer one isn't that great either ;))


I think she is lovely, I am really jealous.

See how speedyboy didn't want me to pose in the photos with hit car!!

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@CJ - you could do much more to marks car if you had all these variations!!

http://www.kon.ru/engeqnt/wavin.html

And I reckon that yellow hose pipe could could come in really handy under the bonnet for crank case breathers and the likes!!
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Postby CJ » Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:19 am

Caroline wrote:See how speedyboy didn't want me to pose in the photos with his car!!


Well there was talk about it on Saturday, sure the weather is perfect at the moment for getting the bikini out and hopping up onto the bonnet for a few classy shots ;)

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Postby Mustang » Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:16 am

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In the mean time, I've done a mock up design of my next Wavin project, I'm sure Mark won't mind me using his motor as a demo car at the next motor show, check it out here.

Nice one CJ! This could be the start of the next big thing.
Chrome wheels....
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Postby Caroline » Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:23 am

Two can play at that game!!

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Postby Mustang » Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:27 am

Looks like it's caught on already. You're on to a winner there CJ :D
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Postby Speedyboy » Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:16 pm

The advanced acustic properties of the wavin make the fto sound like a 17 year old fiat 127 with a hole in the manifold so its all good! :D

Would anyone like to join me for a group buy? :?:
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Postby Mustang » Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:36 pm

Might well be interested speedyboy. Any dyno results for bhp increases?

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The advanced acustic properties of the wavin make the fto sound like a 17 year old fiat 127 with a hole in the manifold so its all good!


Old fiats can be quite funky (the 126 anyway). If you haven't already, check out this post by Kace.
http://www.fto-ireland.com/forum/phpBB2 ... hlight=126
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Postby Speedyboy » Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:55 pm

Thats an "interesting" car, Wouldnt be up there with TVR and Lambo for my favourite exhuast note though!!

The Wavin Back box gives an extra 48.208372393497584935793875bhp at the wheels
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Postby kevinod » Wed Sep 15, 2004 1:03 pm

Mustang wrote:Old fiats can be quite funky (the 126 anyway). If you haven't already, check out this post by Kace.
http://www.fto-ireland.com/forum/phpBB2 ... hlight=126


Didn't spot that post before, but that 126 is demented... wonder how they control which wheels turn or if all 4 turn...

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Postby CJ » Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:03 pm

Speedyboy wrote:The Wavin Back box gives an extra 48.208372393497584935793875bhp at the wheels


Lads, lets not get ahead of ourselves here, I'm still working on the Wavin baffles, I've found that with a cat-bypass in place, the exhaust takes on a note similar to 17 toilets being flushed simultaneously, while its unique in itself, this is not the image that we want to link with one of the most versitile materials known to man. Next up @ Wavin Motorsport Developments : swapping out the tip box and replacing it with an 'AJ'

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