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It's at the age where anything rubber is going to want replacing.
If you've got budget, go round the whole car with new bushings/TREs/ARB-links. It will feel like a new car.
Love it, thanks for the insight @Darren S !
The real shame is that you can't buy road going rally cars anymore. 4WD Fiesta with 300bhp and no nonsense, yes please.
Same, I’ll do a few TDs this side of July. And treat the Rays to a gun metal refurb to match the Team Dynamics.
A bit more power would be nice, but that is one slippery fecking slope.
Part of me thinks this. But then the other half says just enjoy until it becomes a problem, fixing it now or fixing it when it’s rotten through still has the same end result.
Mine needs a new water pump pulley, before I take it for the first td of this year at Silverstone in a couple of weeks.
I pulled mine out the garage for the first time in over a month to put a new set of wheels on..
Then I go for a hoon, come back, and one of the pulley/bearings is chirping. Sigh.
I had slight miss on my 172 Cup once, that showed its head one cold morning that started as a feint mis-fire. On the 30 mile commute it gradually got worse, that turned out to be the coilpack. But, when it got really bad just as I approached work, it lost a cylinder and threw me the electrical...
19th October 2017?
If so, I was at Donny that day, it was an utter deluge of rain.
I wouldn't go near an Astra VXR or Focus ST unless you've got funds to throw at Suspension and Diff, for track work. The 225 would be the best 'out of the box' car on track.