I do like buying Guinness Original for a change instead of my usual Draught.  Sometimes I'm not in the mood for the stronger flavour the Original has, but tonight it is just right!

 

B-Day treat sorted, with some H&R spring a nice drop

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11 hours ago, Ken.K said:

B-Day treat sorted, with some H&R spring a nice drop

They will look excellent, 

Some EBC brake pads with slotted&grooved discs and Goodridge brake lines would finish each corner perfectly 👌

They will look excellent, 
Some EBC brake pads with slotted&grooved discs and Goodridge brake lines would finish each corner perfectly [emoji108]

Did not think of that kind of set up you know. Will look into this. Maybe some bigger calipers as well

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11 hours ago, jmurray01 said:

I do like buying Guinness Original for a change instead of my usual Draught.  Sometimes I'm not in the mood for the stronger flavour the Original has, but tonight it is just right!

 

As a Paddy I'm ashamed to say I've never tried the stuff.

I've only ever had Captain Morgan's, jack Daniels, Jameson, Smirnoff, pearno, Jaigermeister, Bulmers, WKD red or blue and Budweiser.

haven't had any alcohol since 31st December, going to have a bottle of captain Morgan's on the Easter weekend as I'm off for a few days,

Been working six day week since Christmas only been off on Sundays.

 

7 minutes ago, Ken.K said:

Did not think of that kind of set up you know. Will look into this. Maybe some bigger calipers as well

No unless your adding huge power don't fit bigger calipers because they need bigger discs which will reduce performance by contributing to the level of "unsprung mass" 

bigger alloys also contribute but they look good. Much better to upgrade pads and discs for the existing calipers.

brake lines are available in various colours and made to order, different ones for rear discs or rear drums.

No unless your adding huge power don't fit bigger calipers because they need bigger discs which will reduce performance by contributing to the level of "unsprung mass" 
bigger alloys also contribute but they look good. Much better to upgrade pads and discs for the existing calipers.
brake lines are available in various colours and made to order, different ones for rear discs or rear drums.

Good bit of advice. Will look into it. These alloys plus tyres and the springs and spacers coming to 1500. So will be buying them over time.

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If you upgrade your calipers you may also need to fit the correctly sized master cylinder as you will need more pedal effort to stop

1 hour ago, Ken.K said:

Good bit of advice. Will look into it. These alloys plus tyres and the springs and spacers coming to 1500. So will be buying them over time.

Reminds me of the time I bought my Genuine 18" facelift ST alloys from ford i bought two per month after four months I then bought the springs and tyres on the fifth and sixth month, they cost me €475 per rim

then the lowering was another €690 including Labour 😅

was all definitely worth it in the end but I'm now back to 16's and sold the genuine alloys on eBay Auction for £300GBP as I'm now trying to spend as little as possible on the car and 16" partially worn tyres can be purchased from my local tyre place two minutes down the road for €35 each which is a saving of €95 per corner compared to replacing each one of the 18's new as there €130 each every 9 months.

I highly recommend Avon ZV7 tyres I've had Avon ZZ3, Avon ZV5 and the latest type is the ZV7 they got better each time and the help is awesome.

after you get it lowerd and fit the bigger wheels you should get the tracking alignent done otherwise the car will eat up your tyres prematurely due to the camber being off especially on the rear tyres, I know as it happened to me in Reality HD 😁

any good tyre place will do laser tracking alignent for half the cost of one of the tyres on your new alloys.

and finally then some coloured nut caps to match your caliper paint would really get things popping on those alloys 

2 hours ago, Lenny said:

As a Paddy I'm ashamed to say I've never tried the stuff.

I've only ever had Captain Morgan's, jack Daniels, Jameson, Smirnoff, pearno, Jaigermeister, Bulmers, WKD red or blue and Budweiser.

haven't had any alcohol since 31st December, going to have a bottle of captain Morgan's on the Easter weekend as I'm off for a few days,

Been working six day week since Christmas only been off on Sundays.

 

Good Lord man!!  No Guinness at all!?

42 minutes ago, jmurray01 said:

Good Lord man!!  No Guinness at all!?

No 😓

Reminds me of the time I bought my Genuine 18" facelift ST alloys from ford i bought two per month after four months I then bought the springs and tyres on the fifth and sixth month, they cost me €475 per rim


then the lowering was another €690 including Labour [emoji28]

was all definitely worth it in the end but I'm now back to 16's and sold the genuine alloys on eBay Auction for £300GBP as I'm now trying to spend as little as possible on the car and 16" partially worn tyres can be purchased from my local tyre place two minutes down the road for €35 each which is a saving of €95 per corner compared to replacing each one of the 18's new as there €130 each every 9 months.
I highly recommend Avon ZV7 tyres I've had Avon ZZ3, Avon ZV5 and the latest type is the ZV7 they got better each time and the help is awesome.
after you get it lowerd and fit the bigger wheels you should get the tracking alignent done otherwise the car will eat up your tyres prematurely due to the camber being off especially on the rear tyres, I know as it happened to me in Reality HD [emoji16]
any good tyre place will do laser tracking alignent for half the cost of one of the tyres on your new alloys.
and finally then some coloured nut caps to match your caliper paint would really get things popping on those alloys 

No spraying of calipers. Trying to keep it close to stock look as possible only a trained I will know the difference. Yeah I think over time I will not feel the hit compared to one big expenditure.

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5 hours ago, Lenny said:

No 😓

That's like a Scotsman never having eaten haggis...  But then again, I hadn't until a year ago so there you go!

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4 hours ago, jmurray01 said:

That's like a Scotsman never having eaten haggis...  But then again, I hadn't until a year ago so there you go!

Mmmmm................haggis..................lovely!!! Wetherspoons do chicken with haggis and whisky sauce............absolutely lovely! 

Saw 4 Ford Edge sports this morning I assume they were going somewhere to be delivered. Very nice cars in Black

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On 05/04/2017 at 9:22 PM, Turvey said:

Mmmmm................haggis..................lovely!!! Wetherspoons do chicken with haggis and whisky sauce............absolutely lovely! 

I do like having beef olives made with haggis today for tea! 

20 minutes ago, Turvey said:

I do like having beef olives made with haggis today for tea! 

I haven't had beef olives for a while.  My favourites are the ones with the white pudding/oatmeal mixture stuffing, but I can't seem to find them, only the ones with the sausage meat.

8 minutes ago, jmurray01 said:

I haven't had beef olives for a while.  My favourites are the ones with the white pudding/oatmeal mixture stuffing, but I can't seem to find them, only the ones with the sausage meat.

Make your own  Mrs Turvey makes sausage ones for the kids and haggis ones for us. 

1 minute ago, Turvey said:

Make your own  Mrs Turvey makes sausage ones for the kids and haggis ones for us. 

Good idea! 

i do like waking up and finding it's summer like in April  It was 20°C on the garage wall as Pipper and I set out for her morning stroll, it then got warmer and sunnier as we progressed  I gathered rather a lot of pounds (18) and a couple of 20ps, along the takeaway pavement; £18.40, no other coinage was present

Pipper continues to show no interest, in any food that is not in her bowl. Unlike Brandy, she ignored three partially eaten kebabs, a lonely sausage in a bucket of now limp fries and a semi chewed chicken wing.

I hope we don't get a repeat of 2009 though, where we had a hot summery April, a springlike May, and then from late May onwards: 4 months of late November weather

On 05/04/2017 at 4:52 PM, jmurray01 said:

That's like a Scotsman never having eaten haggis...  But then again, I hadn't until a year ago so there you go!

I've not actually eaten Dorset's famous knob

2 hours ago, GMX said:

I've not actually eaten Dorset's famous knob

I can't say I'd heard of that before...

I do like having my medication sorted by the doctors which (touch wood) isn't giving me any side effects whatsoever, and is doing what it is supposed to do.

42 minutes ago, jmurray01 said:

I can't say I'd heard of that before...

The wikipedia article doesn't make them too appetising, " they are very crumbly and rather like very dry stale bread or rusks in consistency^"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_Knob

16 minutes ago, GMX said:

The wikipedia article doesn't make them too appetising,

 

1 hour ago, jmurray01 said:

I can't say I'd heard of that before...

Dorset Knobs:

As far as I know, the only real use for them is to hurl at people and objects.

Maybe the Durotriges invented them to fend off the Romans! Didn't work though.