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[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Your back is costing you a fortune

[Crabash]

Yeah and the bits he buys will prob cost me my back.

[T. Spark]

 

Lovely colour choice

 

Great read! 

 

Cheers! I've used this as a diary to map my journey and vent my frustrations.

 

Need to change my profile pic. It's no longer Mexico Blue  

 

 

Yeah noticed in the recent pictures a change exactly how different is it would you say?

 

I love the lighter blue/s on the VX suits it I think a lot. I am looking at a respray next year (or maybe the year after) and deciding if I want to keep it blue or change...

[Acidpopstar]

 

 

 

Yeah noticed in the recent pictures a change exactly how different is it would you say?

 

I love the lighter blue/s on the VX suits it I think a lot. I am looking at a respray next year (or maybe the year after) and deciding if I want to keep it blue or change...

 

 

 It's a lot different when you see it in the flesh, there's more green in it. I just need someone with a good camera to capture it properly. Personally, I love it  

[Andrew aka Stuwy]

superb result on the water injection, reliable power hands down better then peek figs.

 

 

[Acidpopstar]

superb result on the water injection, reliable power hands down better then peek figs.

 

 

 

Cheers Stuwy, really chuffed how it worked out. Reliable, consistent power is all I want as I consider 260bhp perfect for these cars.

 

These arrived today, the orange logo will match the custom headrest logos on my B6s. Excited to see how it all looks.

 

 

[Acidpopstar]

Bit like this but in true orange with black background and orange stitching

 

[Graeme Lambert]

Could they not get the logo straight on the passenger mat? Or is it a trick of the camera angle?

[Acidpopstar]

It is slightly wonky but not really noticeable when it's installed in the car.

[Andrew aka Stuwy]

for cheap distilled water to refill your water bottle, just boil the kettle

[techieboy]

for cheap distilled water to refill your water bottle, just boil the kettle

 

 

That would be just be cold boiled water or effectively pasteurised/sterilised water and may actually have more concentrated minerals in it than the tap water, due to what you lose as steam. For it to be distilled, you need to capture the steam generated as the water boils and condense that in another container, leaving the minerals behind.

[ciderbooze]

Or know someone who works at a factory with an RO plant?? Not sure if you can use it but its not far off distilled in terms of TDS @ 7ppm.

Edited by ciderbooze, 18 July 2015 - 08:29 AM.

[Andrew aka Stuwy]

 

for cheap distilled water to refill your water bottle, just boil the kettle

 

 

That would be just be cold boiled water or effectively pasteurised/sterilised water and may actually have more concentrated minerals in it than the tap water, due to what you lose as steam. For it to be distilled, you need to capture the steam generated as the water boils and condense that in another container, leaving the minerals behind.

 

 

 

yes that makes sense but how come when washing things with it, if it dries on the surface of whatever your washing it does not leave water marks?

 

Also because some of the oxygen molecules have been ripped apart does it not leave it ionised?

 

What about boiling filtered water?

[Crabash]

It costs virtually nothing anyway.

[Acidpopstar]

Dear diary,

 

Today I awoke to the most extreme pain I have ever experienced. I was busting for a p*ss but the sciatic pain wouldn't let me stand up to get to the toilet. Double the torture. This pain continued for a couple of hours until the gabapentin, tramadol, paracetemol and ibuprofen kicked in and took the extreme edge off. It's now settled down to the usual relentless throbbing all down my leg from my arse cheek to my ankle.

 

I've been like this for weeks now. From the moment I open my eyes to the moment I'm drugged up enough to finally fall asleep, I'm in pain. I'm thoroughly sick of it and starting to despair a little. I consider myself quite mentally strong but there's only so much someone can take. It's made all the worse by the fact that my long anticipated trips to Spa and the French Frolic were due to start this weekend. If there is a god he/she is a f*cking sadistic c*nt with a twisted sense of irony.

 

I'm in danger of having my hours cut down at my part time job unless I can prove I can do everything I need to from home. I'm losing money from guitar teaching because I cannot sit down to demonstrate and teach properly. I'm losing money through my business because I cannot deliver workshops or even get in a car to go to meetings to generate new work. I'm almost completely housebound and isolated and I'm sick to death of my own company.

 

So why, given all of this, am I spunking money I don't have away on my car? I CANT EVEN GET IN THE TWATTING THING!    It must be the very definition of insanity.

 

In better news Tillett are finally on with my custom B6s. The embroiderer was apparently away. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Steve.i.am]

 

Bloody 'ell this is not nice to read. Can't your GP refer you to some specialist or something? is there such a thing? 

One day you will be over it though, and life will return to normal, and all the ££ on the car will be worth it... 

 

I've just had a go at painting my garage door... It is quite possibly the worst bit of painting anyone has carried out, ever.. It looks like a 3 year old has had a go at it. And my neighbours opposite have some trades in today doing some work.. they must have had an enormous laugh watching me.. oh the embarrassment.. I am trying to summon up enough bottle to go back out there and attempt a second coat.. bloody embarrassing.

 

Hang in there

[Mangham54]

 

Bloody 'ell this is not nice to read. Can't your GP refer you to some specialist or something? is there such a thing? 

One day you will be over it though, and life will return to normal, and all the ££ on the car will be worth it... 

 

I've just had a go at painting my garage door... It is quite possibly the worst bit of painting anyone has carried out, ever.. It looks like a 3 year old has had a go at it. And my neighbours opposite have some trades in today doing some work.. they must have had an enormous laugh watching me.. oh the embarrassment.. I am trying to summon up enough bottle to go back out there and attempt a second coat.. bloody embarrassing.

 

Hang in there

 

When I did my garage door, the wind picked up and blew sh*t all over it whilst it was drying and now feels like fcuking sandpaper.

 

Sometimes it just does not make sense DIYing.

[Acidpopstar]

It's been a while so...

 

I am still crocked but have now had an MRI which confirms a disk is out on right side which is in turn pressing on the sciatic nerve. Got an appointment at specialist back pain triage and treatment clinic in a couple of weeks. They will make a decision on whether I need an operation or not.

 

After much delay (not that it mattered in the end) my Tillett B6s with custom embroidered headrests arrived today. They look stunning and I can't wait to get them fitted to stop me sliding all over the cabin when on track. Might not be for a while though so for now they are yet another car part ornament. A shiny carbon ornament at that 

 

 

The embroidery colour doesn't really come out but basically it's all orange to match my highlighting plan thought the car.

 

 

 

 

 

[SteveA]

I have a B6 as the passenger seat in the 7, it's the one you nearly sat in at Croft. I couldn't use it as a drivers seat as the steering wheel is too close to me knees.They are quite a reclined seat which pushes the legs forward, how is the seating position in a VX?

[Acidpopstar]

I have a B6 as the passenger seat in the 7, it's the one you nearly sat in at Croft. I couldn't use it as a drivers seat as the steering wheel is too close to me knees.They are quite a reclined seat which pushes the legs forward, how is the seating position in a VX?

 

 

I'll let you know! I believe I'm the first to fit them in a VX.