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EDIT: no it’s not shut up

I go to watch, never to drive. Dan of SJM fame on here was on a session there once when a BMW flew up the inside of Camp, across the grass and piled into the side of him and his missus and she got hurt quite badly. Nothing better than seeing people sat in their cars on the club stands smoking...

Ah yes, the yearly reminder as to why your insurance provider will cover every track in the UK except Castle Combe.

The Combe noise testing shed is infamous. 208 track miles and still didn't kill the tyres, nice.

Record it again, HTH. Unfortunately most of the AI apps consider engine noise as the noise that needs removing 🙄 IIRC the newer iPhones have multiple microphones, one being quite directional, and mixes them according to that setting.

As cool as that is, it didn't half hit every branch of the ugly tree on its way down.

I find the Anker stuff is very decent and performs as advertised.

Yeah, you need to try it with your stock power supply, but be aware that when power supplies fry, it can be terminal for anything they power.

Yes, but it’s a bit of a faff to do it in three dimensions simultaneously, and with it being a box you can just move around you can play with slightly different angles etc and see what gives you the best clearance. Plus it was close enough that I wanted a visual representation. I also added...

No, that’s just carpet trim, you can see the actual wheel well behind it. So I can trim that upwards to accomodate the battery, the critical dimension was the gap between the spare tyre and the wheel well.

Space in the boot is looking a bit tight, will a battery fit? Quick, whip out the phone, take a scan, stick it in Blender, and make a battery-sized box. Answer: Yes.

This one is a bit of a hidden gem: https://www.youtube.com/@RobbertAlblas/videos For example;

Guess Bezos isn’t getting his money then.

You don't tend to feel it getting strangled and most people would probably rev out to 6-6500 before it got so strangled you notice, but (with the Volvo/Mondeo ratios) it worked out as being best to shift at redline in 1st, 6500 in 2nd then 3rd/4th/5th/6th shift at 5500 to get more torque. K04...

With the stock turbo, the party’s over by 5500rpm. But yes, he should be revving it more

A few switches and some badly hydrodipped air vents no less. Meh, it's still entertaining to watch. I'll be happy when I'm watching it driving from my rocking chair in the retirement home.

Love proper projects like this. Great combination, going to go like a whipped whippet.

Love this thing.

I quite agree. You certainly wouldn't expect it and I reckon most would have binned it.

I'm inclined to agree but the fact he said it was in comfort mode etc makes me think that someone checked. All I can think is that it dropped a wheel into the mud at the edge of the road and that combined with the back end going light over the bump made it snap sideways.

Yeah Mercs are almost always autos so it’s no surprise that even the spiciest of them have been predominantly auto too.

Such a slow speed minor loss of control, but massive consequences, even in a modern well protected car.

f**k me that's a few quid's worth

Yeah another vote for the Halfords Advanced one. 2t lifts my Focus fine so it’ll lift yours too.

Fair enough then. This one's definitely going straight in a case.

How have you bought so many? You keep breaking them or something?