Old cars vs new cars

by **rebeccaleanne** Wed Mar 20 2013, 22:02

First topic message reminder :

Picked up my hire car for work tomorrow this evening, 62 plate Hyundai diesel. It had more buttons on the steering wheel than a spaceship. Dear not touch one of them incase i blow the the thing up!!!

My personal car is a focus st and u get in a drive my OH has a escort (project) and thats even more basic!!

Now is it me or are cars just getting to 'gadgety'

by Guest Wed Mar 20 2013, 22:58

Lynda wrote:
Automatic choke

Wow Lynda even I've never had a car with a manual choke , was always fatal for a lady though or so my dad told me as the ladies thought it was somewhere to put the handbag Laughing

by Guest Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:00

Really? All I know is I don't have to bother with choke any more!

by **rebeccaleanne** Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:01

Haha whats a choke? I know i dnt like electric hand breaks!

by Guest Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:01

rebeccaleanne wrote:
Dave wrote:
rebeccaleanne wrote:
Which one the rs2000?!

http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/ford-escort-rs2000-2

Thats nice that dave!! Im a ford lover and can appreciate a good car!

Had a few fords over the years but never anything really racy Fiesta diesel Van, mk3 escort , Orions , a Capri that the gearstick used to come out in your hand , 2 mondeos

by Guest Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:02

Lynda wrote:Really? All I know is I don't have to bother with choke any more!

That went over your head didn't it ...........................................................

by Guest Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:07

Haha Dave! I had a classic MGB way back, by heavens it needed the manual choke to get going! AND, I had to keep the choke open to KEEP it going by putting two clothes pegs on the pulled out choke button (it never occurred to me to hang my handbag on it!) Nightmare car. Modern cars are sooooo much easier.

by Guest Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:12

Lynda wrote:Haha Dave! I had a classic MGB way back, by heavens it needed the manual choke to get going! AND, I had to keep the choke open to KEEP it going by putting two clothes pegs on the pulled out choke button (it never occurred to me to hang my handbag on it!) Nightmare car. Modern cars are sooooo much easier.

Thing was though in them days my dad looked after my car for me , we did brakes , exhausts , engine changeovers all sorts , these days unless you are a rocket scientist with a super computer and a million special tools you can't get much past topping the oil up

by **Nathan** Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:25

rebeccaleanne wrote:
Nathan wrote:
rebeccaleanne wrote:Nathan my daily car is pants on petrol i get 240 miles of a full tank! Thats if i been good haha!

What matt its a 10 plate? Still cost abit tho at that age!

its got the same T3 turbo as the cossie and 444cc injectors, high lift intake cam, straight through 3 1/2 exhaust as before cats needed for mot. runs 1.5 bar and we had to dial it back on the rolling road as we couldnt get enough fuel in. also bigger front mount intercooler and methonal alchohol/water injection to keep the charge temps down. its a beast. i ground in each valve personally and changed all the collates (pain in the butt) racelogic traction control and blitz turbo timer. my fave bit is the streering wheel mounted turbo control...your making me feel like getting her out the gaurage now lol except she has very bald rear tyres....no idea how that happend many more bits and bobs like the greddy pistons, shot peened crank shaft.. its endless for gods sake i even mapped the chip myself its a killer not to drive her

Just had to read to OH to explain fully haha am getting there tho with car talk!!

He says u must a put loads into it!
I want mine chipped soon and having new exhaust built. My OH doing his but needs welding and re spray first. That did 240 on rolling road he wants least 300 bhp from the escort in time!

the escort should easily do 300 bhp its a good solid block tbh and they are very reliable when turned so the internals dont need so much * about with. YT getaway in stockholm 2 for a taster and if you can get the full vid its awasome what a cossie can do, not that i condone street racing Blushing

i once dreamt i did a racing lap of the M25 at 2am and came 3rd after a cossie and skyline... intresting fact...not one camera on the m25 is active..even now lol.

by Guest Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:39

Nathan wrote:not one camera on the m25 is active..even now lol.

Really I thought they were all active but only when the variable limit is in force.

You need to go to Stuttgart where they have 1 of the longest stretches of unlimited Autobahn now (most are limited with only little short spurts these days) that's where the Merc , Ferrari and Porsche owners get up at 3.00am to do their road testing

by Guest Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:43

Dave wrote:
Lynda wrote:Haha Dave! I had a classic MGB way back, by heavens it needed the manual choke to get going! AND, I had to keep the choke open to KEEP it going by putting two clothes pegs on the pulled out choke button (it never occurred to me to hang my handbag on it!) Nightmare car. Modern cars are sooooo much easier.
Thing was though in them days my dad looked after my car for me , we did brakes , exhausts , engine changeovers all sorts , these days unless you are a rocket scientist with a super computer and a million special tools you can't get much past topping the oil up

Yeah Dave, cars were a lot more straightforward in those far off days - no computers! Unfortunately for me though I didn't have a dad to look after my car for me so all the weekly puggling under the bonnet was down to me (and those cars DID require a lot of weekly puggling under the bonnet).

I'm just so thankful that these days I don't have to lift the bonnet at all and leave it all to the yearly service. Hooray for progress.

by **Nathan** Wed Mar 20 2013, 23:45

Dave wrote:
Nathan wrote:not one camera on the m25 is active..even now lol.

Really I thought they were all active but only when the variable limit is in force.

You need to go to Stuttgart where they have 1 of the longest stretches of unlimited Autobahn now (most are limited with only little short spurts these days) that's where the Merc , Ferrari and Porsche owners get up at 3.00am to do their road testing

No mate they never even got off the ground http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9740880/M25-not-a-single-motorist-caught-by-speed-cameras-in-a-year.html
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by Guest Thu Mar 21 2013, 00:55

Dave wrote:
rebeccaleanne wrote:
Dave wrote:
rebeccaleanne wrote:
Which one the rs2000?!

http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/ford-escort-rs2000-2

Thats nice that dave!! Im a ford lover and can appreciate a good car!

Had a few fords over the years but never anything really racy Fiesta diesel Van, mk3 escort , Orions , a Capri that the gearstick used to come out in your hand , 2 mondeos

cheeky cheeky thats a copy rs2000 the link shows a green one which is legit but that one has a bonded on nose which was used to make the mrk2 look like a mexico still nice car tho Old cars vs new cars - Page 2 833335

by Guest Thu Mar 21 2013, 02:58

I like the older ones because I can fix them myself, although the new ones get much better gas mileage

by Guest Thu Mar 21 2013, 19:02

asa-james wrote:
Lynda wrote:

Automatic choke

Haven't had those on cars since carb's were phased out in '91/'92!

Really? Oh well, I meant the thing that made the engine run faster when first started, then when it was judged appropriate you pushed the button in (unless you forgot like I did sometimes!). Anyway, we don't have to do that these days - don't know why!

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