The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

mmmm lovely pipework

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1980 Dolomite Sprint Track Day Car....KLJ 895W. now redtopiffied

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Volkswagen Golf MK3 Gti....R301UUJ. RIP 22-5-13
Volkswagen Golf MK4 TDGTI 150 MM53VNT Sold 7-8-17
BMW 320d Coupe M-Sport YL08 XBZ with factory fitted Performance Pack - Sold 22/05/21
BMW 330d Touring M-Sport WN63 XPY - best daily ever

Proud TDC Member!

My parallel printer port header came in the post (all the way from China) while I was away but the SSD is yet to turn up.

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Toledo Man

West Yorkshire Area Organiser & forum moderator
Meetings take place on the first Wednesday of the month at 8.00pm at The Old Brickworks, Wakefield Road, Drighlington, Bradford, BD11 1EA

1972 Dolomite 1850 auto (NYE 751L - Now for sale)
2003 Volvo XC90 D5 SE (PX53 OVZ - The daily driver)
2009 Mercedes-Benz W204 C200 CDI Sport (BJ58 NCV - The 2nd car)
1991 Toyota Celica GT (J481 ONB - another project car)
Former stable of SAY 414M (1974 Toledo), GRH 244D (1966 1300fwd), CDB 324L (1973 1500fwd), GGN 573J (1971 1500fwd), DCP 625S (1977 Dolomite 1300) & LCG 367N (1975 Dolomite Sprint) plus 5 Acclaims and that's just the Triumphs!

Check my blog at http://triumphtoledo.blogspot.com
My YouTube Channel with a bit of Dolomite content.

"There is only one way to avoid criticsm: Do nothing, say nothing and BE nothing." Aristotle

The SSD went a bit Pete Tong (I fell for a too-good-to-be-true ebay scam. Got my money back though). Instead, I bought a 500gig hard drive to replace my primary hard drive. I also bought this bad boy from CCL
It just over £13 it was worth a punt for a cheap brand new case. I got it all working and I got rid of the DVD-ROM drive so I've just got the DVD writer. I will be looking at getting a SATA optical drive in the futue and I might even go for a Blu-Ray drive so to this end, I've bought an extra SATA data cable. It is all up and running nicely. The SSD can wait. I might need one bigger than 250 gig. I'll find out once I've installed any more programs. I might up the RAM to 16GB but other than that, I'm pretty much there with it.

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Toledo Man

West Yorkshire Area Organiser & forum moderator
Meetings take place on the first Wednesday of the month at 8.00pm at The Old Brickworks, Wakefield Road, Drighlington, Bradford, BD11 1EA

1972 Dolomite 1850 auto (NYE 751L - Now for sale)
2003 Volvo XC90 D5 SE (PX53 OVZ - The daily driver)
2009 Mercedes-Benz W204 C200 CDI Sport (BJ58 NCV - The 2nd car)
1991 Toyota Celica GT (J481 ONB - another project car)
Former stable of SAY 414M (1974 Toledo), GRH 244D (1966 1300fwd), CDB 324L (1973 1500fwd), GGN 573J (1971 1500fwd), DCP 625S (1977 Dolomite 1300) & LCG 367N (1975 Dolomite Sprint) plus 5 Acclaims and that's just the Triumphs!

Check my blog at http://triumphtoledo.blogspot.com
My YouTube Channel with a bit of Dolomite content.

"There is only one way to avoid criticsm: Do nothing, say nothing and BE nothing." Aristotle

I haven't updated this thread for absolutely AGES.

I took advantage of the free Windows 10 in 2015 and with a program called Start10, I have a Windows 7 style start menu. I ABSOLUTELY recommend the software if you don't like the new style start menu. You can find it HERE Windows 8 users will need to get Start8. It is only $4.99 so it is worth paying for.

I filled up my 1TB hard drive so I looked for something a bit bigger. I was after an internal drive but I came across THIS Seagate 5TB external hard drive in Argos which seemed good for the money.

Unfortunately, it died on me within 6 weeks so I took it back for a refund. Fortunately, I still had the data on my 1TB drive so I didn't lose anything vital. I ended up getting THIS WD 4TB internal hard drive instead which should be suitable for my needs.


I finally upgraded my primary hard drive to THIS Crucial MX300 525GB SSD. It took me several attempts to clone my old hard drive to the SSD but I got there in the end and it has made a noticeable difference. Windows starts up and shuts down a lot quicker and programs start up quicker too. SSDs also use less power which make them suitable for laptops. My partner got me an Alienware laptop for Christmas so it now has the same Cruicial MX300 SSD in it as the desktop. Cloning this one was easier. We've still got the previous laptop so that might get an SSD upgrade too.


I'm still considering fitting a Blu-ray writer but the general lack of availability of blank discs (Asda don't sell them) has put me off for now. I put an extra 4GB of RAM in which was surplus from when I upgraded my partner's desktop PC and it is running quite well.

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Toledo Man

West Yorkshire Area Organiser & forum moderator
Meetings take place on the first Wednesday of the month at 8.00pm at The Old Brickworks, Wakefield Road, Drighlington, Bradford, BD11 1EA

1972 Dolomite 1850 auto (NYE 751L - Now for sale)
2003 Volvo XC90 D5 SE (PX53 OVZ - The daily driver)
2009 Mercedes-Benz W204 C200 CDI Sport (BJ58 NCV - The 2nd car)
1991 Toyota Celica GT (J481 ONB - another project car)
Former stable of SAY 414M (1974 Toledo), GRH 244D (1966 1300fwd), CDB 324L (1973 1500fwd), GGN 573J (1971 1500fwd), DCP 625S (1977 Dolomite 1300) & LCG 367N (1975 Dolomite Sprint) plus 5 Acclaims and that's just the Triumphs!

Check my blog at http://triumphtoledo.blogspot.com
My YouTube Channel with a bit of Dolomite content.

"There is only one way to avoid criticsm: Do nothing, say nothing and BE nothing." Aristotle

Nice, I've nearly finished mine - I don't like Win10 because of privacy stuff so might go back to 7.
The main pc is
i5 6600K Skylake
AS Rock Z170 Fatal1tyGaming k4
16gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4
212 Hyper Evo Cooler
Antec 800w PSU I think, but can't remember for sure
MSI Twin Frozr RX 480 8gb DDR5 (thanks black friday)
Asus Monitor VE278
Red Dragon mouse, CM Storm keyboard


Seems to work well enough, no need to mess with it for a while now. I'm not sure about the ott names they give to the bits though, 'fatality, hyper evo, vengeance' seems a bit much for bits of a computer. Even my Broadband port is 'Killer LAN'. Not entirely necessary.