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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:

No comments on using the so called dyno mode. I asked him how he would do it and he told me. He's been doing it long enough and I (and many others) trust him enough to know that he's doing whatever he's doing the best way he can. No exploration of drive modes either. I plan to datalog a bit...

He just stuck it on the rollers in normal 4WD mode, gave it a couple of pulls through and then that was it done. He said they generally sh*t themselves on the third pull and throw an array of lights up so he never bothers. It doesn't feel like it goes like a 338 bhp car but it really does go...

Exactly this...there are zero surprises in the way the power comes in, any speed, any revs, put your foot down and you have a lag free 300-350 ftlb at your disposal. Clearly he was showboating for the camera, tried to get a little angle, gave it the "seen it in the movies" quarter turn of oppo...

Having been sensitively run in 7k miles ago, driven enthusiastically ever since, and run exclusively on Tesco's Finest 99 since day 1, it was time to see where it's at... Compared to book figures it's slightly down on power (-7bhp/-2%) but up on torque (+14ftlb/+4%). I'll take that. 300ftlb...

Ha ha ha, if he'd given it a proper armful of lock he'd have had that no problem. Fully deserved outcome for being a muppet though. Ahem. And the plate. That too.

Make him pay in full in advance next time. That'll learn him.

I know I know, should have let Gordon drive etc. I will do once he's learned to H&T like a pro :smiley: