Stephen

Personal plates in my personal opinion :thumbdown: mine came with one but it means nothing, to me at least. I think it was the original owners intials. Yadda yadda MF. Pretty lame and puts the car on an A plate, I've been tempted to sell it but it's not worth enough for the hassle. Just kinda seems like a way to blow money to me, doesn't do anything. Most are so tenuous or vauge you have to modify the spacing or know what it's supposed to say to even see it, which in the case of spacing is something lame to get pulled for. I'm sure some will disagree with me and that's fine but I'd have to personally be desperate to waste my hard earned for a goody plate. Save your money for go faster parts.

That's just large corporations bud. Government funded ones are the best, I can think of one that tend to send a whole packs of 100 bolts when one bolt was required. Then lay off staff due to funding shortages whilst still recruiting for new ones. Don't worry though because the top knobs will still get there six figure salaries.

Fingers crossed the filter keeps up, Ammonia is your current risk. Enough ammonia will kill anything. If you get though the next 48 hours ok I'd consider yourself home though tbf.

As long as the filter media and substrate were kept wet and not cleaned with tap water or anything silly it's unlikely you will need to recycle. What you need to watch for is phosphates now, they accumulate in the substrate, distruption of a bed that's been sat will often unleash them. Easily solved though with a Ferric or Aluminium Oxide based binder, available in all fish shops.

I had a line split on mine, prffft 8 years ago. It was on the first floor at this time, I lost about 100L of water, sal****er. If you don't know salt water doesn't dry like fresh, the salt residue collects damp and it's a nightmare to dry out. Some of it came through the ceiling and made a big mess, the rest vanished. Must of gone down the cavity or something. Anyway I realised at this point it had damaged the stand too. Sweaty stuff, I was worried about the tank ending up downstairs the fast way at that point. We've moved house now and it took 16 hours to move the Reef between the two houses but it now has its own room with a convreate floor and a stand made of 40mm box section, string as an Ox.

Oh the puns lol.

With 500L of salt water spinning around this is my nightmare lol.

That's really improved buddy.

I think if you buy the twinZ full bumper it has those diamensions but the diffuser is moulded on.

It's a shame that you can't buy a 2+2 rear bumper in the 2+0 diamensions. The twinZ one does this but you end up with the diffuser which I'm going off ATM.

How will renting a unit make your more money? You can only do so much work so fast without employing staff.

Looks so much more clean and mature, your going to have a top quality car at the end of this.

How fast do you want to go? You can always go faster if you pay. Say you buy the Evo and aren't much faster? What you need is practice and to enjoy yourself.

It's such a shame you can't just switch the Diff itself allowing you to try easily or chop and change depending on what's going on.

I'd want to have a bloody good look at the receipts.

I still get back lash with the two piece mate.

No Lymon they taxed the hell out of it meaning that with its subsequently higher consumption combined it was not financially viable and was withdrawn from the market. You can buy it in drums but this works out even more expensive. So it's Dinosaur bone fuel only here to.

A tight bearing is a bearing doomed to fail bud.

Go from underneath mate. The drivers ones a bit of a pain but the passenger one shouldn't be too bad, worse case scenario you will have to move the aircon condenser but I think you will be fine. They jut run from the actuator to the thin hard pipes between the intercooler piping near the rad, via the boost solenoid which are bolted to the sides of the plenum. Pretty easy once you know where they are and go.

No I mean what is actually wrong with the car that you've given up on trying to repair?

We did it with the dash in Ali, both times. It's a **** though. As mondo says that top bolt is a nightmare. If your doing other stuff it makes sense.

I've just PM'd you bud.

Fitting the clutch pedal will be 100xs easier with that lot out the way.

Crazy money for retro metal is passing hands. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-3321837/Escort-RS-Turbo-Sierra-Cosworth-RS500-fast-Fords-set-record-prices.html

Not for me either and I'm sure that's more than they were new. Pretty sure they only made 500 of them as well, so a rare car to start with. Couple that with fact it's got 34 miles on the clock and you can start to understand how the Ford boys may pay it. Ford fans are numerous and well funded.