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Relatively speaking you've not been around here long...this explains your complete disrespect for the gloves. You'll learn. I'm waiting on a call back from them right now to start that process! With pictures.

That can wait. I'll have several full in depth analyses of coolant levels and start up audio before that happens. Oh, and gloves, I keep meaning to work some glove love in.

A little update...yesterday morning showed a little splutter on start but nothing like the full blown misfire and plumes of burnt off coolant I've seen others have, and checking the level on a flat surface when fully warmed through showed the coolant level to be approx. 5mm lower than when it...

Oooh. 172 Cup you say. Nice. How standard is it? A clean tidy sorted standard one has me reaching for the kleenex tbqfh.

Exactly. Ford have at least now acknowledged there's a problem with these engines and are supposedly working on a fix 'for all owners'. This is the one slight positive to be taken. I may, err, have been launch it a lot lately...but I've been mechanically sympathetic while doing it 😅

I'm planning to film a video tomorrow and wanted the usual "the coolant level is fine" shot of the resevoir...so I popped the bonnet this afternoon with camera in hand to film the level and found that it's lost a good 200-300 ml or thereabouts :fearscream: It looks like mine might be about to...

It does and it is...but it's a really unnatural feeling. Most of the time at Rockingham when I managed a nice angle and had it held just so it would start shuffling power back to the front to straighten you out. It feels RWD, very much so, but only up to a point before it seems as if the Ford...

I recall this being said when I was suggesting the M4 was a better car than the M3...that the M3 was stiffer because while it does have apertures they're mostly full of heavier and stiffer stuff than the basic thinner skin of an M4 shell.

This is a good thing. Pick one up at 2 or 3 years old for pennies then run it into the ground over many many years. One of these may well become my daily instead of another Fiesta ST when I get to the point of retiring the RS.

@green this sounds epic...

You can't click on the YT idon at the bottom right over the video view when you first start it? LOL I can't post the link here as it keeps displaying the video itself. Ignore me...try this but with the obvious replacement... https://youtu dot be/uLLVRawISIw

On a phone and on the YT app watch it in portrait and in the info below the video you should see a share icon there.

Y723?

What are you watching it on? PC? Phone? You should be able to see a share icon on almost any platform. On a PC there's an arrow top right when moving the mouse over...that will give you the link.

Yes, no problem at all. It's an 'unlisted' video so it won't show up on my video page or on any YT searches, but for whoever has the link, and wherever you post or embed it, it's watchable.

@barnesautos ...and yours.

@masekwm here you go...

I expect so...I'll have a look when I get home this evening.

@Hyperhatch ...as requested;

Ha ha ha! I can't watch him ratcheting up my handbrake, it makes me cringe so much I just keep saying "don't worry, it's fine" in my head. Your post hasn't helped me any. Re. the video...I'll knock something up...

I forgot to mention that if anyone who sees their car on that clip would like a slightly less edited longer than four seconds upload of their pride and joy being run...PM me and I'll see what I can do.

Nice. A sunny quiet Goodwood is such good place for pictures and video

It was far from drawn out, the whole day was quite fast paced really. You had at the most three to four minutes between runs, enough to digest or LOL at what had just happened and then you're off again. I know what you mean about the 340; my first car was RWD, a Triumph Toledo (think Dolomite...

...Ken Block need not worry. If you ever get the chance to do this just do it, so much fun was had :grinning:

I've no f***ing idea... ...what I was thinking. It is an experiment gone wrong.

Ignore my last effort...this one should be better...

The full version will follow soon...but I still have a lot of editing before it's ready...

I get what you're saying...but the boost is always there, lag is minimal, and it just quickly builds boost and goes whenever I need it to...as you say though it does lack that dramatic build up and lunge for the horizon!

Howdy :up: