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I fitted eibachs to my cup. I reckon: Cons: Body roll is higher initially (ie when you first turn into a corner) and this has taken several months to get used to The lowering effect is minimal (about 1cm) - Id have preferred another 5-10mm to get the wheels centred in the arches (if you...

Ian 172 - Im feeling and sharing your pride fella, good call m8.

...and I saw 3 cups on Thursday within 2 minutes on the A55 by Chester - and thats excluding the one I was in, making 4...WTF?

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Fair enough. Making the point that £300 for both front and rear sounds alot, thats all. Each to their own I guess.

Mines having front pads done next Saturday at Renault here in Wrexham - £103 inc fitting & VAT; seems OK to me.

Ive had the same on my 52 cup; got it fixed under warranty - suspension top mounts were changed at the front, and that cured it. That was last June. About 4 months later a similar knocking noise appeared and it turned out to be gearbox mounts; again these were changed under the warranty and Im a...

And even 17s bugger up your acceleration - believe me, I know.

Superchips are remaps of standard ECU; the guy in the garage connects a wire to your cars diagnostic port (near the gearstickk somewhere) and "flashes" the new settings into the ECUs memory. They can be reflashed with original settings just as easily. Ive had mine done, and its OK; pulls...

Theyre not stickers, theyre stamped as part of the casting & painted - mine are blue on the white 17s I have, which at least goes with the centre cap text and my nice mondial blue cup!

...and theyve had a monaco blue one for a while, but not sure if its used or not

Get 10" mini-lites:devilish:. 17s do slow you down (mine have), but they do look good.

I was in the same boat as Rich-D when I bought my Cup last March; had £11k to spend and was looking at 3 year old classic shape UK turbo imprezas or the Cup; for practical reasons alone, the cup would win (warranty, economy, etc), but its only when you drive them back to back that you realise...

My Clifford (I call him Clifford) is a classic to me, and thats all that matters.:sleep:

Oh, and by the way, it was because of the warranty issue that I opted for the superchip and not the R-sport ECU; superchip is just a flash / remap, which is readily reversible. And, to further complicate matters, I am quite sure that any benefit gained from the remap has been totally lost by...

Cheers for the namecheck. No, I never claimed any great BHP gains, but I was chuffed with the improvement in torque. This was my post back in August (when it was unbelievably f*cking hot!!)...

...and the cup does have elec windows & a single CD player. But thats it.

For comparison purposes I posed a question on the Civic Type R forum to see if anyone knew how many CTRs had been made in the two years since they started: some guy who works for Honda reckons theyve made about 27,500 so far - I guess thats for worldwide distribution, but UK sales must account...

Ive got 17s, and theres a definate loss of something - hard to actually measure the tenth of a second you might lose in in-gear acceleration, but you will definately notice it. Still, lifes about compromises, and I like the 17s & eibach combination Ive now got. Not sure that 18s are necessary -...

So if 2900 Mk2 172s have been sold in the uk, and 2200 Cups, does that make Mondial Blue statisically the most likely colour to see a 2.0 16v clio in?

Dont think the two things are related mate. I had the knocking noise and it was fixed in a day under warranty no bother - they changed the front shocks and altered the top mounts for the shocks. Its been fine since, and that was back in June (10000 miles ago). Coincidentally, Ive just had...

I paid a local body shop £250 to do all three panels on my passenger side, after some twot keyed right the way along the side (back in April, like after 3 weeks of Cup ownership). Two panels were taken down to the white primer layer.

Nah, forget that - Im clearly talking b****cks, as the torque peak looks right, and the VVT steepening is at about 4500. I really shouldnt drink wine and type at the same time...:sleep:

When I had mine done (RRd) in the summer, the x axis scale was 1000rpm out, and it looked pretty similar to the one above (though not as powerful!). Adding 1000rpm would make it all seem right again, ie VVT should make the power curve steepen at about 5000 revs, not the 4000 shown, and peek...

I like the exhausts, but the wheels are absolutely horrible. And has nobody else noticed the worst of the changes?????.......The grey background inside the headlights? WTF??

Are you getting it from Henlys, Saber? Got my cup from there - good people.

Cheers for linking to my old post, Griff_90. I love that extra bit of urge you get when your foot goes all the way down...

My Golf 150PD is still faster with 30-70 as being 4.6s in 3rd and 5.4 in 4th gear. Stuff me sideways with a marrow, didnt realise they were that quick.

Back in about May, I posted this crude video "evidence" of my sub-6.0 sec 30-70 blast in the cup. Its a bit of a laugh, and is in no way accurate, so dont shoot me down in flames...oh, and its 1.3mb...

14000 on 52 plate cup. Itll be One next week. Ahh. Knocking noise on suspension fixed at 7000miles, engine/gearbox mounts replaced at 11000, serviced at 12000 & needed new front tyres (but I swapped for the white 17s). Thats it so far. Oh, and I have suffered from two specific rattles...