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172 Cup is the one to have, mine's covered over 120k in my hands from new and it still rips along quite nicely.
Always had a soft spot for the GT4 after a mate had a standard 170bhp GT.
Never realised how heavy they were though :eek:
With the standard 240bhp they're only 166 bhp/ton...which...
If I was you I'd change to braided lines before doing anything else.
No matter how good your fluid is, no matter how fancy your discs are, no matter how capable your race bred pads are, if your standard rubber hoses expand due to heat (which they will!) you will fail to get any pressure...
No it doesn't.
It failed the MOT becausae the tester is a muppet, not because of the alleged missing part.
There's a VOSA guide somewhere which you should print and take along to educate them.
Amen to that. Brakes and tyres are all you need. Plus a bit of weight saving. And a decat. With some minor breathing mods. And maybe a remap. Losing the power steering's a good move too.
This.
Change gear at whatever revs you like, and you'll still get s*it MPG if you press the loud pedal too hard.
As Chris said, the actual revs that you use makes almost no difference at all to how much fuel you use.
It's acceleration that uses fuel, and that's determined by how hard you...
Nice one! That's the only picture I've come across of my car, and even then it's post-puncture so I've some stylish Dynamique rims on the back :dead:
Great pic though.
I had that multiple times, must be Jap envy.
Having spent sessions in the past at FCS waiting for someone to consent to you overtaking them I've learned the only way to make progress at FCS is to push past. Most people brake way too early, or are very late on the power when exiting so I...
Not bad Lee, I didn't push anywhere near as much as I did in the morning as I know how old the tyres are, and also without the spigot rings I wasn't 100% comfortable. Thanks again for your help :approve:
Surprisingly similar. Slower obviously, but apart from that they share very similar DNA...
Good work Jay, Tony showed me some of his craftsmanship on the Burp machine yesterday, very impressive.
Keep it up and keep the updates and race reports coming, one day I'll take inspiration from it and get off my arse and do something similar.
Can't comment technically on most of what you're asking, but I can say that the speedo sensor doesn't affect the ECU running.
I have a 172 Cup (speedo sensor on the gearbox) and it's fitted with a 182 gearbox (which picks the speedo feed from its ABS rings), so the standard ECU is fed with no...
125 is mightily 'impressive'.
I was there in February running the circuit which takes you through turn 4 flat out and then up to the chicane on this inside of turn 1.
In my 172 Cup, running flat in 4th through turn 4 I only managed to reach 115 before turning into the turn 1 chicane.
I treat FCS like a trackday, only with lots of stupid looking cars parked up making lots of noise while draped in ropey bints.
As such yesterday excelled.
How does it get into the lacquer? Badges put on before the lacquer had properly gone off? So it absorbed some of the adhesive then went rock hard?
Regardless, it's a pain in the a*se. I wanted to put a amall sticker where the big S is. :(
Took badges off the boot earlier, much gentle rubbing, claying and polishing later and I'm left with this...
Rubbing fingers across these marks they can't be felt at all so it's not an obvious sticky residue or dirt build up that can be cleaned off the surface :S
Recommendations as...