Quite literaly ROFL at needing to be lower. It's absolutely 100% perfect for a road car. Front is around 15mm lower than standard and rear around 5mm lower. Still has loads of damper travel and no need to slow down to silly low speeds to scrape over speed bumps. Pot holes don't put it off line, there's no bump steer and I can deploy WOT in 2nd gear exiting a roundabout onto a bumpy cambridge road without the car drifting off line as it hits the bumps/pot holes - all you get is a slight bounce in RPM as the wheel unloads and loads back up, the bilsteins react very quickly! I don't do show cars or cars that are useless for their intended application (i.e. roads cars that don't work on the road).
The Bilsteins are very, very good. Damping rates and spring rates are excellent for a road and occasional track car. Good amount of travel, removes a lot of roll even on standard ARB rates. I rate them highly as an off the shelf option.
The air filter I found in the bin at the workshop, it's from a Saxo VTR. On the rollers it made 0.3bhp difference vs no filter at all. Charge temps aren't bad but its worth noting its been less than 8 degrees ambient for the past three months. This will get changed at some point, most likely when the new inlet manifold/induction setup goes on along with the new engine making its way into the car.
As for inlet manifold temperatures etc. the air mass moving through the manifold is moving at several hundred miles an hour and is 'considerable' in volume. PTFE gaskets help with a more accurate reading from the ATS at low engine speeds though as the body of the sensor is no longer heated by the manifold.
The dark bits in the lacquer on the wheel pic are where bits of brake pad have burnt the lacquer - you'll notice I got the brakes hot enough to burn the temperature tell tales off the caliper as well........ result
Battery cable is 12.5mm2.
Cheers
M
