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  1. Barry
    Good luck @sertac bro. Would love to go but my dad is arriving that day and we have already made plans. I used to love photography, still do but I ended up pawning my camera to come to UAE. Maybe someday soon I can get a decent camera and start again. You should start a photography thread in the off topic section where we can all share pictures.
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    The used market isn’t great. They really hold their money. You can buy a full size 4x4 for less. The only reason to buy a jimny is if you really want a jimmy. If you looked hard enough, you could probably find something with a Denali engine for the same price.
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    Roll on 14th of March. International Steak and BJ day. The chicks have so many days, this is our time.
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    @desertdude makes a very good point. 99% of parts shops in uae have no clue. The parts guys aren’t interested in cars. They just punch chassis numbers into their system to get their 2000 dhs per month salary and they don’t care beyond that. I remember rebuilding a supercharger on a MINI a few months ago. MINI dealer said the parts weren’t available from any source. It was a standard Eaton supercharger and I ended up ordering the parts from europe no problem. Then I needed the oil to fill it. Everyone was like, what’s a supercharger, no oil is not available you have to buy a new supercharger. I went and looked up the GM part number. Simple thing, available all over the world but even the GM dealers said either no such thing or not available. I ended up ordering it from America with no problems. Parts shops here suck. They just want to sell fast moving parts from corollas, Kali wali anyone who drives something different. Fast cash is all they care about. There is a big gap in the market for a garage who is actually into cars and actually wants to source parts.
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    They run at 79 BHP per tonne. Respectable. I've seen jimnys side sloping with patrols and the rest of the best. Plus you get the added benefit of running a 1.3 on the highway which is super economical. My wife wants one now. Price is putting me off though. Decent ones start around 40k+. I can have the same car for 5-10k back home. Price of them is massively inflated here.
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    As said, they really are 2 different beasts. If you really want proper sound deadening, it’s going to involve a lot of work. Whole interior needs to be stripped out. Door cards, seats, carpets, maybe even dashboard. Then it will all have to be covered in Dynamat or similar product. Then the interior has to go back in. You’re talking a weeks work. And it will add extra weight to the car. This will go some way to deadening road noise but the issue of wind noise will still be there.
  7. Barry
    Remove whatever bits of plastic and coverings you can. Use your ear and move your head around until you find the source of the noise.
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    Vauxhall Frontera. Sold as Opel Frontera in Europe, Holden Frontera in Australia and Isuzu MU in a few other places.
  9. Barry
    Does sound like a manifold leak but as said earlier, hard to tell 100% from video.
  10. Barry
    An innocent girl was walking along the road. Got struck by a wheel that fell off an Land Rover http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-43331639
  11. Barry
    An old guy I knew fitted a M5 engine to his BMW 2002. I asked him why. His reply, you can never have enough horsepower.
  12. Barry
    Beautiful. Any interior shots? Any plans for it? Very easy to up the horsepower by putting a smaller pulley on the supercharger and fitting a shorter belt.
  13. Barry
    @desertdude where did they all go? I’m guessing it’s the usual case of it’s broken and old so scrap it rather than maintain it.
  14. Barry
    Wow I love that old Mitsubishi! I’ve seen a few old Suzuki’s in Al Awir with similar stying but I can’t remember the model so no pics. Heres another from Ireland. Daihatsu Fourtrak. They’re old but they still make silly money second hand. Farmers love them. The off road ability of a land rover but a bit more comfort. I remember my aunt had one. She let me borrow it to take a girl for a date. I was around 17-18 at the time. First time I realised a 4x4 in 2wd mode could do donuts or drive on 2 wheels.
  15. Barry
    Wow an awesome selection of cool cars there, aside from all the new rich guy Ferraris, lambos, etc. Proper petrol heads drive proper petrol head cars, not all the big money shite. Vote registered for Renwick. Good luck bro 👍🏻
  16. Barry
    I miss the Peugeot 306. Had a few. The D-Turbo was a fun car. Very easy to get a load of extra power just by adjusting the pump and turbo.
  17. Barry
    It was a real culture shock for me when I first arrived in UAE. I recognised all the brands but I had never seen the majority of the models before. My wife still mocks me for getting excited the first time I saw a FJ Cruiser. So please post some models of cars from your own country that aren’t available here. Ill start you off with a couple from UK. Vauxhall Corsa and Vauxhall Vectra, rebadged as Opel in the rest of Europe, a subsidiary of GM. Extremely common, run of the mill at home but I’ve never seen either here.
  18. Barry
    You wear gloves? Pussy! Real men cut and weld in sandals here 😂
  19. Barry
    😂 When you look at what the other manufacturers are churning out, Audi, VW, even the Japanese and Koreans, The new Camry, new Nissan Range, the new Kias, they’re identikit cars. The new BMWs are standing out for their design. Part of me is sad because the manufacturers who used to make interesting, quirky cars like Peugeot and Citroen have gone completely vanilla now. The sad fact is we’ll never see anything interesting like the original SM or DS again. Even cars like the Alpine GTA. It’s just like someone in a design office somewhere drew a picture of what a car should look like, changed the headlights and faxed it to every car manufacturer in the world.
  20. Barry
    It is nice. But IMO, the price tag is unjustified. @treks I used to think they were complicated but after working on them, they aren’t too bad. Sure, there’s a lot of systems, probably too many, but when you isolate them and understand how the components affect each other it really isn’t too bad. Not saying it’s reliable because it isn’t. The more stuff there is, the more can go wrong. I started my career working on computer and electronic based cars so it comes naturally to me. The first time I was presented with an old car with no spark, old school distributor with a set of points a few years later I told my foreman it was too complicated. I had never seen it in my life. His exact words were “It’s not complicated, you just don’t understand it”. That has stuck with me ever since. If you don’t know, go and learn it and you’ll be better for it.
  21. Barry
    The word on the street is that it will have the 4.4 V8 from the M5, pushing over 600bhp.
  22. Barry
    I think this is a thing of beauty
  23. Barry
    Hi Anna. Welcome to Carnity
  24. Barry
    Eh, the Land Rover losers ripped it off from the bikers
  25. Barry
    Can’t comment on legality but if you’re just removing the resonators and leaving the rear silencers in place then surely it won’t be so obscene?
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