Morpheus

Oh yeah! Come and join my party? I'm the life and soul of The Popular Front of Judea. In the words of another popular British comedian, "The fun starts here!" Somewhat prescient though, don't you think, re. men having babies and everyone dying of heart attacks......?

That'll be me! I once started a bare thread called, "Discuss?", the obvious contextual intention, (as far as I was concerned at least), being for free-form organic chat where we couldn't 'leg-ally', (standing on precedent or rules regardless of common law or sense), get harassed for straying off topic and engaging in cross-pollination or referencing, (which, by the way, is how normal humans break free from the yoke of ignorance and broaden their narrow horizons, hence electricity for example, which was once considered the work of The Devil and in remote areas, (like Scotland! ), probably still is, much like channelling spirit is still considered witchcraft or nonsense even now by many in the so-called, "Civilized World", no matter how much sense it actually makes sometimes, often referred to as, "Shooting the messenger"). So simple yet so complicated if you have no grounding in basic principles. Needless to say, it didn't catch on, which is ironic since everyone is on here browsing for a thread that most closely matches their current topic of interest or they have no specific idea of what they're looking for so shouldn't care what it's about. It was based upon the corporate mainstream media's weaponized hypnosis technique of mass mind-control, principally developed by Edward L. Bernays, exploited ruthlessly by Joseph Goebbels and others by implanting the image of a deliberately non-specific saviour figure, (for example, Barack Hussein Obama), into the collective unconscious and encouraging everyone on the left and right, desperate to reverse 8 years of G.W. Bush, 9/11 and the subsequent Afghan/Iraq wars to project their own hopes and dreams, (literally), onto said blank screen or figurehead, with obvious to some but carefully crafted slogans and phrases for the consumption of the uninitiated, such as, "Yes we can!" and "Change you can believe in!", thus being voted in, (if you can believe that!), without saying a single word about what he'll really do when he gets into power. Things have certainly changed but most people remain stubbornly determined to believe what they want if it makes them feel safe and comfortable in the moment. Bless. "Don't bother me with your stupid facts; Life is stressful enough!". I wonder why? This is next-level psychological warfare and our basic subconscious survival instincts are not only being used against our best interests openly but with 'voluntary' experimental gene editing software developed, direct injection global mandates. Thankfully it's a sane world and that would never happen. Phew! A contract is null and void unless both parties are actively made fully aware of the terms, conditions, obligations or ingredients and their effects. I've simply tried to warn people about what was and is coming, having been made aware myself beyond a reasonable doubt. Again, this is how we learn. "Yeah but why on a car forum?" Well, you're not on all the others and neither am I. (BTW, Mod's please change the 'Submit Reply' button below to 'Regret Soon'?).

Nice 1986 XR4X4 Sierra Cosworth. My boss's 'rich' brother bought one new when I was an apprentice cabinet maker. It was the GTR of it's day!

52 today! Trump won the election btw. Deal with it. You can thank him later.

Right, so what you're saying is that I should aim for a more upmarket area like Skegness? Remote is what I want. I'll be making a lot of noise. Will need my own engineering workshop. I have no space here and I'm getting nothing done.

You never know. Nothing will cause more crackling than an incompatible product blend. They even do it on purpose to give a crazy paving look!

If you don't mind, what's it like living in Lincolnshire? I've been researching land and property up there for years on Rightmove and it seems pretty cheap around Boston and Spalding. Is there any particular reason? It's got some great public drag strips, I mean isolated, long, straight roads along the drainage canals. Just saw a little 2 bed detached going for £57k but not much of a garden or parking, yet surrounded by acres of crop fields on all sides. Nice long drag strip outside though...

Mine's still bone stock apart from the mod's. Where are the Mod's anyway? Are we self-regulating and decentralized now like the Chaz/Chop Autonomous Zone in Seattle? Speaking of airboxes, having owned two MkIII's before the IV, I broke an air filter lid hinge off by trying to open it the same way as I was used to. Must have been dark or I'm a dork. One or the other. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it is broke, don't fix it in case you break something else in the same general area. Saves a lot of double handling! That's why I waited for my water pump to wear out so it rattles about 5mm T.I.R. before doing the full timing belt and head gasket/decoke. I cannot stress enough how handy those mechanic's stethoscopes are! Bloody hell are they loud when you bang the probe on something. Definitely worth the £3 investment, I'd say. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ogquaton-Stethoscope-Automotive-Diagnostic-Convenient/dp/B07TBJYZ8X/ref=sr_1_45?crid=3VD0CMCVL7YTW&dchild=1&keywords=mechanics+stethoscope&qid=1595094664&sprefix=Mechanic%27s+stethoscope%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-45 After that will be a full set of Cusco coilovers and motorised adjusters with uprated sway bars and a carbon fibre rear strut brace that probably won't make any noticeable difference but looks cool as hell. Shame it won't be seen or felt. Or even driven.... I have the same front brace as our new members' here but in vanilla polished aluminium. I didn't notice that one either except for maybe some placebo effect. Need to drive it about, take it off and drive it again straight away. The 19" lower profile tyres/wheels with a wider stance definitely made a huge difference though over stock 17's. Night and day. We'll see what the Cusco G Sensor unit says once the whole lot is fitted in 20 years. Will I be devaluing my car to do the suspension work, since it's bone stock except U.K. headlights and front brakes and the aforementioned Cusco front strut brace? Still factory speed limited to 112mph too. I don't think the engine has seen more than 3600 rpm.

She's a beauty! A Black Beauty. Black Liveries Matter! I went to buy a black one and ended up with a silver one as the seller had it resprayed and whoever masked up the lower edge of the tailgate glass trim overlapped onto the existing paint, leaving a horrendous gutter rut when it was peeled off! Other than that it looked nearly new like yours. A word of caution in case you're a natural risk taker like me who sometimes just wants to see what happens and damn the consequences; Due to the oodles of low end torque, please do NOT floor it uphill in the rain on a slick, worn out stretch of tarmac on the way home from Sainsbury's after being hyped up playing Gran Turismo on your racing sim and thinking that your PS3 track skills will translate into actual road skills..... They actually do! I saved it from fishtailing completely out of control by a knat's whisker but not before suddenly aiming straight at the car next to me to the left on a dual carriageway as I attempted to overtake and then 90 degrees in the other direction toward the central reservation! It was at this point of no return (home!) that sheer survival instinct took over. It was skill or be killed. This is why slow drivers are a danger to the travelling public and should be banned. I actually failed my first driving test for going too slow; 30 in a 40. That and hitting the opposite kerb on a particularly difficult mini-roundabout and being told to pull over to inspect the wheel damage! Or was it nearly running someone over as he stepped in front of me waiting at another roundabout and "Not appearing to know what I was doing" lol.

How many horses do they add? ....and why is there another bloody helicopter circling my estate again? I must be one of those targeted individuals I guess. Would the deflectors help with the downdraught from the rotor blades if they chase me up the M1 on the way to my bolt hole once the sh!t really hits the fan, if you'll pardon the pun?

You haven't seen me. From The Fast Show; Dave's diets. "This week, I are been mostly eatin'..... cabbages." I thought it rather apt. 52 in November! Where did the last ten years go?

Thanks for clearing that up, if you'll pardon the pun. Speaking of which, does anyone know of a good product for absorbing Mobil 1 from my concrete garage floor? A bottle got punctured and leaked all over the place. I was going to use copious quantities of washing up liquid, water and a scrubbing brush which will work as a final degrease but there are powders and cloths for it as well. Any suggestions? I'd rather not pour petrol on it and burn it out but it's tempting....

Take two bottles into the garage? I just want to flush and go! Anyway David, I asked my local shop how much ATF I needed and the spec's he pulled up said only 1.5 litres so I bought 5 just to be sure. Now you're saying I need 8 for a TT.

Judging by the complete multi-year absence of feedback of any kind from owners worldwide, the Tiptronics collectively have a perfect operational record and are, (to all practical intents and purposes), incapable of making errors and thusly do not apparently require such modification. One exception is to the stupid double dog-leg gate that I still can't get used to after nearly ten years and the clunky steering wheel shift buttons that somehow manage to defy the laws of Newtonian Mechanics and actually make driving a fully automatic transmission seem like hard work yet are considerably less rewarding. Yeah, apart from that, they work really well as they are!

You said you'd be replacing them but fwiw the seals all look good and the hose connector threads are clean. I plugged them with twisted kitchen towel years ago and removed it with pliers, a wire pipe cleaner and a vacuum so there shouldn't be any rust inside the cylinder bores but it would be a good idea to connect them up and force the pistons out under fluid pressure to clean up the exposed cylinder walls behind the pads where they normally bind. I can reduce them to bare metal with rust remover if you're going to paint them but they'll need to soak for a couple of days. You can't get into the corners with brushes. Maybe sandblasting would do it but there's no need with EvapoRust or Azure liquid. Anyway, message me for my address and you can pick them up whenever you like. I'm not looking for anything for them unless you're feeling generous. I've also got a set of 17" Toyota wheels that I intended to fit with winter tyres but won't get round to it. U.K. 4 pot calipers will fit inside them.