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[Zoobeef]

Do you think you'll keep it for the foreseable future Mark ?   This is a good thread BTW, gives a proper insight into owning one, so thanks.

I do, I really have no idea what I'd change it for :/ As some of you SC boys put videos up I did one earlier. I had 1 go and 1 go only as I like my clutch. And I'm sh*t at multitasking. To many revs to start and wheelspun loads then hit the limiter in most gears :/ Used my dads drive as I was on my way back from my parents

Edited by Zoobeef, 29 June 2013 - 10:54 PM.

[Zoobeef]

[TheRealVXed]

Mark,

 

Met a fellow Noble owner on Sunday.  Silver, recently re-built with new liners and forged internals etc.  From Alton and has had the car for about 4 years.  His name has completely escaped me though!

 

He's my mate's cousins boyfriend.  He recognised "zoobeef" when I mentioned it...

[Zoobeef]

http://www.pistonhea... way! 600bhp!!!

Gets more and more tempting the more I drive it. Doing all the work bar the mapping must make it cheap surely. And i dont need the second part of the list.

[Nev]

600 genuine BHP is too much Mark, honestly, you'd need huge back tyres and TC to before you had the balls to use all that power IMO.

[Bumblebee]

I think the Noble will be able to handle that power as there totally different in the way they do things compared to the Vx

[Apex Graphics]

Mark I went on track at Donnington with my friends new M400 a few weeks ago and that's 480BHP with traction control & OMG.... amazing power and balance, it's had allot of work done to it but what a car! it's Red with only 1700 miles on..... To be honest it left me for dead on track in my lambo!

Few things that made a HUGE difference from the M400 to my old Noble 3R is the obvious twin M400 turbos are bigger but the short shift gear change was amazing cut lots of time out between gear changes..

 

Made me miss my old Noble!

 

 

 

 

[Zoobeef]

So sell the lambo and get an M400 before they go up too much more

So what have I been doing? I bought a check trickle charger as the battery was going flat quite quickly. Its fine now but feel as though I'm avoiding a problem rather than fixing.

Lost a rear clam hinge pin so ordered 2 more pins, 2 nylon washers and 2 'R' clips. £34.
Got them today and the new pins are shorter so they dont fit, brilliant.



Also discovered a new leak in the flat roof from this rain so that's today's job!

[TheRealVXed]

Classic "That looks about right" british engineering

[Zoobeef]

Well, after a million emails and me using my vernier to measure things properly, Noble have said they are speaking to their manufacturing company to make some up that are the right length for "odd" cars like mine. 2 other people have said theirs are the same as mine so how about they just admit it and throw all the short wrong ones away and re-stock with the right size.

[Zoobeef]

Finally admitted defeat with those R1Rs. The inch of baldness in the centre of them is pushing my luck with the plod I think! 2 years though! Just ordered 2 Federal 595 RS-R 265/35R18 at £133 each so we shall see what these are like. Bargain price!

[Zoobeef]

Received a couple of brackets that one of the noble owners made and sent for free to move the air filters from the intercooler box to the bulkhead. Fitted those yesterday and sounds a bit different now!





Had a bit of a booboo with my finger while doing it.



New tyres turned up today so went and got them fitted. Recognised the bloke in the tyre place as a guy i went to school with, one i didnt like. He didnt recognise me and mentioned someone he knew had a blue noble. After about 15 minutes the penny dropped.

New tyres


Old tyres, 2.5mm on the outer, fcuk all in the middle and 1.5mm on the inner. Got my monies worth I think.

[Zoobeef]

Also welded an exhaust bracket that had snapped. Borrowed my brothers might welder and on looking at it today it had run out of gas and I didnt have a mask. We have a saying about knots at work. 'If you can't do knot', do lots'. I used the same principal with the welding with no gas and with my eyes closed. Its not massively pretty but itll hold and can't be seen haha. Your not getting a picture of that.

[Zoobeef]

MIG* that should of been.

[KurtVerbose]

You should show some of your colleagues back from Afganistan your finger wound, they'd be impressed.

[ChrisS1]

Tyres look like they were over inflated.

[Ormes]

Doesn't that ducting collapse under negative pressure?

[Zoobeef]

Tyres look like they were over inflated.

Once I noticed the centres were wearing quicker I started dropping the pressure. Even at 22psi the centres wore first.

[Zoobeef]

Doesn't that ducting collapse under negative pressure?

Takes quite a lot of force to squash the steel wire running through it so I hope not!

[Zoobeef]

Well took it out today and first impressions on the tyre is there is more grip than the worn ones. Good impression I know haha. Went to my mums for some milk then watched the F1. On the way home I stopped at Doncaster's rock bar for a drink. on seeing a hen do have their photos taken with the car i decided to go ditch the car and get on it to the death. (In the shower phase now) On thw way home though, was in 2nd at about 4k rpm and entering a NSL. Pushed passed 50% throttle and fcuk me it likes the camber on the road. Didnt go passed 50% for the way home but fcuk me i love that car. If anyone knows anything better to swap it for then let me know because I can't think of anything at the min!