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172 or 182 preferably. Best hot hatch ever bar none, drive one well and it'll keep up with most things on the fun roads

First off, good man for realising you need to do something. Second, don't be an idiot an get another performance car as it'll either be fragile (rx-7, GTO) or too tempting to spend cash on (anything big with a turbo on). Get a shed so you have no temptation to spend money you don't have as it's pointless, or get something cheap and cheerful that won't have big costs (mr2 again, or mx-5?). If you're in that much trouble you have to sell your car, then buying another fast one is just daft. Don't take any of this the wrong way, you know I love you and that, but I don't want to see you take a bad turn on this one fella.

No way would I drive on that tyre full stop.

You still won't need any test for that, just ask all the Elise guys who drop Audi and Honda lumps into their cars. Building a Cobra replica is completely different to an engine swap, which is again different to mass producing a car that needs to go through all the European safety regs.

Why? Just... why?

You won't need any kind of test for a simple engine swap.

Orange roadster

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Good spot that man

If you ignore the badge at the back (which is clearly on there for comedy value), that doesn't actually look so bad. I've seen worse cars on this site, put it that way.

I'm assuming that you have no idea just how much louder 20dB over the stock JDM box would actually be? To give you a hint, every 3dB is a DOUBLING of volume, so if the stock 'box was 90dB then 93dB would be twice as loud, and 96dB would be twice as loud as that and so on...!

Very quick, very capable, very fragile. I looked into buying one a year or so ago after playing around with a friend's M400, but just couldn't live with the interior (Transit switchgear and a tiny dead pedal) nor how often things break on them.

Thanks for the clarification, I understand a bit more now

+1 and it should be the same font used in the current logo. Another +1, seems a shame otherwise. Maybe have the URL running under the whole thing?

Granted, and it's not exactly dangerously lean (far from it), but given that there's already a slight blip in the power graph at that point anyway I'd have expected the AFR to follow the downward line as boost increases, not go back up briefly from where it was at 2.5K. The car is still under boost between those points (3psi - 5psi) too. I'm no mapping expert at all and I'm not saying for one second that it's a bad tune (far from it, I'd be very happy with that!), I'm just trying to expand my knowledge at these things should I go down the same path in the future. Sorry if it came across as a harsh criticism, I certainly didn't mean for it to.

Very nice numbers, congrats Seems a bit lean between 3K-4K revs though?

DO IT DO IT DO IT \o/ My tickets came today, feels that little bit closer now!

This place is up and down more times than a whore's drawers this week.

If people searched before posting up and added their info to the bottom of an existing thread, then yes.

I would love to know just how many threads we now have on here about bloody road tax

Tbh I wouldn't expect an issue with running tyres that little out of spec anyway: Certainly dropping to 40 profile with the R888s has made no difference to the TCS that I can tell so far.

No it won't, it'll be 2.4% smaller. Profile is a percentage of the width, don't forget.

Ah, I see. You're completely wrong of course, but there you go.

If you're in the market for a Panamera you're hardly likely to be considering a Boxster I saw my first one in the flesh last week, and actually they're nowhere near as bad looking in the flesh as they are in pictures. Shame that the one pictured here has such vile wheels on.

Sure you're not mistaking torque steer for feel? An FR car can feel a bit numb at first when coming from a car that drives the front wheels.