Ok so yesterday i had a very interesting day, i headed up to sunny scunny, which it was raining then went to pay Ash a visit as i was getting the exhaust off his Si. I turned up at about quarter past 1 and had to wait another 15mins for Ash to turn up. Got ready to get started to find out that Dave had used Ash's tools recently and we couldn't find the 13mm so we had a trip to halfrauds. we were following a bus on the way and it indicated left, so i decided to go round it as i thought it was indicating as it was at a bus stop. It wasent. It was at a set of traffic lights on red and i was greeted by about 5 cars as i went round him with a few obsanities shouted at me aswell
. We got back and started work to find out that we didn't have a 15mm thanks to Dave again so it was another trip to halfrauds, this time not picking a fight with any traffic. Eventually, after much brute force and ignorance we got the exhaust off his Si after 7 as we heard the Emmerdale music
. Then came the fun job of getting the exhaust off mine. The joint from the backbox to the middle section just would not budge, Ash managed to make a modified exhaust tip with a hammer but to cut a very long, about 3 hour story short, we got it off by breaking the backbox off the pipe before the joint. Basically, that exhaust will never fit an Si again
. It was really easy to get the exhaust on to my car, atleast it was at first. we got it bolted up, started up and it sounded like a tank, by this point it had been raining for bloody ages and we were getting pretty wet and i still had a 2 hour journey ahead of me. We decided to tighten up the downpipe bolts which according to Ash produced the face of the day, i snapped one of the downpipe bolts and my face had the worried look of a rabbit starring into the headlights of a lorry coming towards it
. After replacing that we decided that we needed to tighten up the join from the cat to the middle section so the crossmember had to come off again, which produced the tied first quote of the day, "Ben, i don't know what you have un done but they are not the cross member bolts"
They were the lower arm bolts, it was all most pitch black by this time hence the mistake. By this stage i could hardly walk because how wet i was, so Ash sourced some water proofs from some where and sorted my cock up out. So after all that, at about half midnight i set off home, still with it blowing but thats because we had no exhaust putty, i got back in to rugby at about half 2 after stopping on the motorway for fuel and a large coffee and that was my day. I'll give Ash the honor of explaning about the WD40 but at the end of the day i have a new (blowing) exhaust system, a MK4 wiper arm and the skirts and arches that i wanted and to top it off today my RS1800 badge came through the post
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i can imagine how grippy yours is. a mate of mine has a corsa that has been lowered and has uniroyal rainsports on and it's suprised me how good my car is as standard with just the front arb.
cutting to the chase we took it back, to which ben demonstarted against his face that it wouldnt actually spray anything 
