dhdev
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Every so often the name andy H gets thrown into threads along with wild rev limits and bhp figures. Just intigued to know more about his car, anyone got any pics/specs  
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Mattb
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http://public.fotki.com/DaimoB/my_favourite_corsas/andy_hamilton/
highly tunned 1.6 iirc. 220+bhp with a 9000+ rpm revlimit..
[Edited on 09-04-2006 by Mattb]
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dhdev
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Awesome cheers!
Not what I expected to be honest, cage and dash are fantastic. Is the engine bay pictured on Pro-Tec's website for the 1.6 16v breather tank? looks familiar.
Has it ever been up the quarter or 0-60 runs etc? Anyone know the internal engine spec?
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Mattb
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it is on protecs website yeh.. not sure about the rest tbh.. internally i would imagine lots of steel..
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corb
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was thinking about him yesterday, where's he gone? i kniw he knackered his engine, but he also got some new fancy valve springs didnt he?
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jr
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quote:
Originally posted by corb
was thinking about him yesterday, where's he gone? i kniw he knackered his engine, but he also got some new fancy valve springs didnt he?
 in what way corb
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Mattb
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
quote:
Originally posted by corb
was thinking about him yesterday, where's he gone? i kniw he knackered his engine, but he also got some new fancy valve springs didnt he?
in what way corb
in a wet dream he had
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corb
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Dont see him on here much anymore or do i just not notice him online? and not heard or seen anything of his corsa in AGES.
Im sure i was chatting to him a while back and he said the double springs he had dont last long and need to be changed every race season or something but he'd got some more durable ones from somewhere instead.
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jr
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car should be back and being running in by now
think andy was talking about selling it when its all runnign again
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Mattb
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apparently teh springs let go didnt they? did a fair bit of damage.. tis one of the reasons im scared about getting a solid top end on mine
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jr
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think it was the case off them going after 4k miles or something, andy ringing up SBD and them saying "didnt you know, your supposed to replace them evrey 2k" or somethign stupid like that
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corb
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yeah, they, or it, broke when quote "luckily he was only at 7k rpm" unquote
or something silly like that!
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Mattb
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i dont think i will be getting SBD double valve springs then
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jr
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[quote andy]
i have two gripes with SBD
1 - they're overpriced for what you get.
2 - They'll very happily sell you stuff that's not suitable for road use, without explaining the limitations. Like their valve springs which they recommended for my engine and which shattered after just 5000miles destroying my engine. When I approached them about the situation they basically said "tough - we rebuild our engines every 1000 miles. That's what you should have done." Pity they didn't explain how sh*t their springs were before I bought them
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