Muppet Maker

This weeks Muppets of the week go to



JasonM for loyalty to Vauxhall above and beyond the call of reality.

SSSK for not knowing when to stop a thread

The Jap racing in the Sti for gratuitous fiddling with his ***** while racing. Special mention should also go to the 'kicked your butt chuckle'

More Muppet awards next week

hooksin

Spot-on Mr. M. M.

Nice award choice btw guy's....vv funny.

Nick

Chris L

Spot on MM

robski

Take a bow muppet award winners!

Webbie, any chance the awards can be shown on their profile ?

robski

JasonM

Thanks for the pic, but somehow it's just not me.



No baseball cap, pufa jacket or Maxpower sticker in sight. Sorry guys think again.



And guess what, still say the Impreza's handling is overrated. Still waiting for someone to take up my track offer.

johnfelstead

Thanks Cem,

Gone a bit red

Number 1 priority on track for me is safety; I stick to the rules religiously. I never pass under brakes, mid corner or until I know for sure the person in front has seen me.
I have been driving track days for 5 years now, not had one incident with another car and never damaged my car either. Melted shed loads of stuff though

Some people may say I can afford to drive that way as I don’t get held up, that’s irrelevant, I started out track day driving in my old bog standard 2 litre Manta GTE. Great handling car but bugger all power.

People like JasonM haven’t got a clue what disciplined high speed driving is all about, it isn’t what ability you have, its what mental approach you use that counts.

Cheers
John

Shaun

John FELTCHSTEAD,

I have been off the BBS for some 2 weeks now (I now know why, when I read this crap!), and must admit with your comment JF.....JASONM is an obvious candidate for "Bellend of the Week" award.

As for mental approach ........here we go, John's getting in one again Yes John your are mental We all remember the way you "Prepared" for the go-kart racing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shaun.

P.S. Harj and me have a surprise for you when we all go to Germany......something about letting the steam out of your dump valve

JasonM

READ THIS THEN - NOT written by me

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Posted on 10/1/2000 at 12:24:02 AM

Well Jason, I have finally got around to turnin the Koni's up.

Turned all 4 onto hardest and went for a wee drive.

Result: a VERY firm ride, too firm for everyday use and was quite "tiring" after only 10 mins as I was getting sore head, neck etc etc.

BUT....

The handling is something else. I went on a road I travel almost every day and know, roughly, what I can and cant do with my car.

Usual understeer that I had with my old suspension (SPAX springs and standard OEM dampers) was gone and that aint the end of it.
Going round the corners, I thought I would see what would happen if I was turning a corner and snapped the steering slightly. Usually this would give me understeer but all the car wanted to do was TURN MORE !!!!! and that wasnt because of oversteer (havent EVER got that yet).

The car reamins flat, and tbh, driver confidence is so high (more so if you drive like this all the time) that if you got in a standard car of almost ANY sort, you would probably end up in a hedge.

I liked it... A LOT, but there's no way I could have it on hard all the time, or even halfway round. I am a fussy ******* and I like a bit of comfort so I think I will keep em on soft jus now.

If I ever get on somewhere like Knockhill, then its only a simple 2 and a bit turns on each to get it spot on for some serious handling =)

So there you go ppl, JasonM might have went on a bit, but he was right about the Cavalier and Koni setup.
I recommend anyone to get them if you looking to change your existing setup.... jus make sure you go for the CALIBRA kit so that you got 4 top adjustable and not jus the front. Its same chassis and virtually same car anyway.

Cheers

johnfelstead

ever had an IQ test JasonM??

I am just intrigued as to how low it needs to be to post such crap for 3 days non stop??

330sapp

john,

i downloaded your in car footage from donno today from the 22b site. Your cars very impressive fro the 'drivers seat', it looks like youre just playing with everyone!!! I noticed that you kept having to slow down to let the engine cool down, why is this? Is it because of the small frontal area and so presumably small radiator in your westie? Have you still got the prob or is it sorted now? Last time i saw you was at santa pod for the Ultimate Street Car, did you run? If so what times did you get?

bren

Maxwell Straker

Ahhhh Crewe, no wonder the Cavalier handles as if on rails.............oh well back to sleep

johnfelstead

Hi mr saph

Nope, I was in rsquires 22B at the pod that day, had it on display.
I have run at the pod once and got a 12.5 time, which was pretty crap as I had wheel spin till 100MPH, its much quicker on a racetrack, the pod is unbelievably slippy I found.

I had 2 probs at donno that were made worse by how red hot it was. I had a blown head gasket, which was pissing water out the header tank. You are right about the rad size though, its way too small for 350BHP. I am having a one off rad made using the core from an F1 car over the winter to get the temps down to 83 degrees. I have improved things a little with better ducting, this is giving me about 15 miles of flat out running before the temps get too high, at donno I was only getting 2 fast laps at a time which was frustrating. Those 2 laps were fun though.

All I can say is thank god no cavaliers were on track, would have made a mockery of my 480BHP/Tonne no doubt.

Blow Dog

John,

I spent many a time into the wee hours of the morning last night watching video footage of your car around donnington.

The westy is extremely fast, the speed you caught up with SDB is testament to that fact. I have to say, though, that it isn't the car that should take all the credit. You have great track discipline and skill, which <B>combined</B> with the car, makes for great viewing.


Nice stuff

Cem

[This message has been edited by Blow Dog (edited 02 October 2000).]

Kevin2000

Thats one scary lookin Cavalier.If I had a P1 I would be starting to get very worried.

CharlieWhiskey

Glad I got rid of mine!

Go away you sad man!

Get yourself a real car!

Whoops, I'm falling for the muppets provocations ar'n't I!!!!!!

Bet you don't know any of those girls!

Chris

CharlieWhiskey

CREWE! explains everything!

Get a life! MOVE

I Stancer

If your'e going to get all dewey eyed over a car first buy somthing interesting , I'm sure you could buy a Tipo 16v or a Corrado or a Peugeot GTi for that sort of money for pitys' sake , when I were a "lad" these guys bought Cortinas and jacked em up

WHY?

Olly

Shaun

Whats a FELTCHing involve?

johnfelstead

Glad someone remembers because i dont.

Whatever i did worked though, stuffed the lot of ya

You'll have a job messing with my dump valve cos i dont have one

Yex

Olly,

FELCHING.....something non straight men do with straws after the other thing they do, so I am told

Yex

johnfelstead

Yikes

Dont like the sound of that one

Gonna be a scary drive to Germany shaun

Shaun

LMAO

So everyone now knows why John IS NOW John "THE BOG" FELTCHstead!!!!!!!!

John, regarding my comment on Germany.....dont read literally, read between the lines (as I am well aware you dont have a dump valve). But think about it!!!!!!!

I feel sorry for John, his a bit slow in his OLD age

Shaun.

Olly

Yex,

Could you draw me a picture?

Diablo

Is it just me or does JasonM's cavalier look like a little red cross in a box??

Yex

Olly,

Luckily graphics are not allowed on the BBS so I'm afraid a drawing is not available. However, I am sure some of my more 'learned' friends on the BBS can help with some links to suitable, sorry un-suitable, web sites

Yex

PS: I go away for a week in the sun and threads like this develop...where do these people hide when it's time for school ????

johnfelstead

Oi, shaun, i dont mind "THE BOG" but i do the FELCH.

"THE BOG" is based on fact FELCH most definately is not

Dont know what you and Harj are into but steaming colonotic irigation sure aint my scene.

Shaun

John,

I know you DO the Feltch!!! In fact you'll DO anything......including "The Funky Chicken"!!!!.....or anybodys Chicken!!!!

John doesnt use medical hose pipe, he prefers DRAINPIPE!!!!

Shaun.

johnfelstead

Oi, shaun, leave it!

You know i aint into that ****, thats your bag

I managed to install the piping from where my dump valve used to fit into the passenger seat for you, should keep you warm on the way over.

Chris L

Surely everyone has heard the 'Armageddon' radio clip?

No? Goto

Stef

Well it's good to see my 'muppets' being put to good use!

Stef.