{"id":480,"date":"2004-06-30T20:01:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/skodarallyblog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2004-06-30T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T19:01:50","slug":"more-bloody-skoda-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"More bloody Skoda bits&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. OK, so I didn&#8217;t buy the gearbox.  Mainly &#8216;cos ?900 is a lot of dosh, and I&#8217;ve just been hit for a ?600 tax bill!  But I did get another 12 wheels (4 with pirelli corsa tyres that look sticky as you like, 5 with colway forest and three bare), a kevlar\/carbon sumpguard with alloy crossmember that looks fantastic and weighs next to nothing, a pair of front calipers, a pair of footwell treadplates, an exhaust, a pair of lightweight rear doors (which are seriously light), and a pair of driveshafts.  So I think I&#8217;m fully sparesed-up for the next year or two there.  If anything else breaks, I&#8217;ll cry!  <\/p>\n<p>Got the wheels balanced on the car, which made a huge difference; one was 85G out, and now it drives really smoothly at speed, which will make a big difference.  Only a few days to go now, until it&#8217;s &#8216;own up time&#8217; as it were.  Saturday is looking stupidly busy for me though; hardly ideal preparation for a first event, but life&#8217;s like that&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. OK, so I didn&#8217;t buy the gearbox. Mainly &#8216;cos ?900 is a lot of dosh, and I&#8217;ve just been hit for a ?600 tax bill! But I did get another 12 wheels (4 with pirelli corsa tyres that look sticky as you like, 5 with colway forest and three bare), a kevlar\/carbon sumpguard with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}