Guess the price !

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DMR

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81 posts

258 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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I had my Dax Cobra into Macdonald racing in Lanchester last week for a "general look over" and tune up, that was the brief.
I had read some good reports on PH's so decided to give them a try.

They......

- set the timing,
- set up the carbs,
- adjusted the mixture,
- checked plugs etc,

They also rolling roaded the car for me and gave me a print out and graph of the performance figures.

How much ?


PAT COBRA

152 posts

242 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Whats your point? Its a DAX ....... SORRY

grahamw48

9,944 posts

244 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Less than a hundred ?
Can't have taken them more than an hour.

I hope so, as I want to have mine set up there too.

DMR

Original Poster:

81 posts

258 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Don,t know what you mean pat ? no matter what it is, they are not gonna do it for free.

PAT COBRA

152 posts

242 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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The point is if you got a DAX its not for driving and not fast or round corners ..... its for polishing and looking at .... a very low value fake snake !!!!!!!

DMR

Original Poster:

81 posts

258 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Ahh....I just looked at your profile I see you have a "REAL ONE" I am well aware of how you guys or gals (not sure if Pat is male or female)look down your nose at us "kit car" owners, but yes I largely look at it and polish it just as I do with my "MING VASE."

whatever blows your frock up

grahamw48

9,944 posts

244 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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A pound down and a pound a week and we can all have one.
Now knowing how to drive the debt is quite a different matter.

Shall we just leave the window open so that it buzzes back out again ?

UncleDave

7,155 posts

237 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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PAT COBRA said:
Whats your point? Its a DAX ....... SORRY


DMR

Original Poster:

81 posts

258 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Anyway.....I posted this thread in the regional section with the relevance to Macdonalds Racing. The price for the work was £80 and after TVR Cerbera ownership to say it was resonable is an understatment.They done a good job at a honest price

southpaw

5,999 posts

231 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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UncleDave said:
PAT COBRA said:
Whats your point? Its a DAX ....... SORRY



Dave? What are you doing in these parts?

Oh, and Pat, stop being an elitist badge snob and just live and let live His car's cool and sounds good, and thats good enough for most round here

Edited by southpaw on Saturday 10th June 19:20

DMR

Original Poster:

81 posts

258 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Thanks southpaw,

I don't mind what anyone drives as long as they get their pleasure from it.I also come from the school of "if you have nothing good to say,say nothing."

For someone with a real SNAKE he's not very CHARMING.

wassy

632 posts

261 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Been using them for the last three years for my Griff. Always provided excellent service and good value.
Last time i was in they lent me a brand new Morgan for an hour.
Anyway, what's the DAX putting out ?

DMR

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81 posts

258 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Wassy.......I think it was your last post that lent me toward trying them.
I am not mad keen on reving the car hard so I asked them to only rev it to 3500 rpm,its only done 1400mls, (I know...pussy) apparently they rev to 6000rpm.

Figures;
engine 310.9hp @ 3480 rpm
torque 346lbs/ft @ 3480 rpm

When the car has done a few more miles I may give it a propper run,but I was well pleased all round when I collected the car.

David.

wassy

632 posts

261 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Excellent, going to get mine checked when i get back from Le Mans.

grahamw48

9,944 posts

244 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Hmm, that really is good value

I had no idea what to expect to be honest...most encouraging.

DMR

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81 posts

258 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Graham,
yours was an educated guess,I fully expected a 3 figure bill.

grahamw48

9,944 posts

244 months

Saturday 10th June 2006
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Well, the last car I had on a rolling road was one of my Lotus Sevens, at CC Racing in Kirbymoorside. They maintained a team of racing Porsches at the time.

BUT, it was 20 odd years ago and cost 40 quid, so I'm a bit out of date.

Allowing for inflation, 80 quid sounds like a bargain !

MeLLoN Stu

21,410 posts

221 months

Monday 12th June 2006
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very reasonably priced there

are they able to rolling road 4 wheel drive cars or just 2?

appreciate they probably wont be overly impressed when a japanese car turns up wanting a run on the dyno, but it would save me a lot of miles if they could get my GTR on there, plus i want to see what she's making after a few more tweaks recently

wassy

632 posts

261 months

Monday 12th June 2006
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Spoke to the mechanic the other day and they had just done an MR2 dyno day so no probs with Jap cars.
Not sure if they can do 4 wheel drives though.

MeLLoN Stu

21,410 posts

221 months

Wednesday 14th June 2006
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bugger about the 4wd part, and it appears they only go to 350bhp, which is a fair bit lower than the car's running now.

might take the 200sx up there for a run before she ventures of their scale too.