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met a few newskool friends tonight
a quick blast confirmed she is driving sweet as a nut, bar a slightly rattly dephaser which is due to be changed in the next few weeks!
budget tyres which obviously I knew about need swapped ASAP so got 4 pilot sport 3's ordered :)
and most importantly...
Na sold it cheap needing a box.
182 needs an exhaust as the custom £600 jobbie is loud and boomy and never goes away!!! And they welded it direct to the cat, no idea what exhaust to get, I want an akrapovic haha
picked this up the other day, wasn't looking for one as I only sold my 197 last week but this popped up local and looks like its just rolled out the factory!
Plans are just a wet sand for the headlights, belts and dephaser (wee bit noisy), machine polish, replace the custom exhaust with...
it would cost you £2500 to get a proper paint job in a normal colour, never mind one of these fancy flip paints with a kit fitted etc, I don't doubt it! Some of these young lads back in the day used to throw crazy cash at "show cars"
I had my issues with a 1.2 tce with henk, constant limp mode, he blamed my leads, plugs, fuel, etc etc I changed them all, no different, I bad mouthed him on here eventually which got me an abusive email and a revised map which worked fine!
Went to rs tuning with my next one, it wasn't...
for all it looked like s**t the boy put mega cash into it and finished it to a very high standard, remember his story about a drag race in it where I'm sure he raced an x5 off the lights or something lol
RS tuning used an RS tuner on my twingo but with their own map as it locks it to the ecu so no one can download it and steal it since they put so much work i to the custom twingo maps! Makes sence
I wouldn't use Eibachs on standard dampers on a non RS if you want handling, they are horribly miss matched ive tried them on a DCi100 and 1.6 16v and they were terrible.
later stuck koni dampers on it and it was much better!
to use RS dampers you need the hubs which means you need the brakes...
Coilovers are definitely worth it even on a 1.2 if you have good ones, well setup and at a sensible height.
however I would forget bilstein and kw and spend half as much on AP coilovers, I had them on my twingo GT and they were fantastic! Better than my previous set of FK Koni damper ones which...
pointless on a diesel as they don't have a throttle butterfly like a petrol so have no need to blow off boost, you can get ones that are electrically actuated but you would be just as well using a cd with dump calve noises and playing that with the volume up