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Graham, you’re a lovely bloke and the effort you’ve put into this club has been amazing. Thank you for everything, my friend.

That is a billion times better, I actually love that! Amazing what a front bumper change and a body coloured katana will do for the car.

Who are you, and what have you done with ilogikal??? That was waaaaay too nice a reply!

True. However you’d have to be an absolute numpty to expect to walk into a pub full of locals and shout at the top of your voice that the local ale they’ve been drinking for years tastes like arse and is brewed from the excrement of roadkill badgers, and not expect people to point out you’re wrong. Which is pretty much what you’ve done here.

That’s probably because I am. However, that doesn’t make what I’m saying any less true, like it or not. Running such huge wheels on the front in comparison to the rear is not only stupid, it’s dangerous to yourself and other road users. The fact you’re doing it willingly and cannot understand the simple physics behind why it’s causing you massive grief on top of the mod it’s staggeringly daft. If you’d done that to get you home after a puncture, that’s fair enough. Life happens. To carry on doing it whilst having your car in such a dangerous condition is… well, insert your own adjective here.

Well, in fairness I was giving you a chance to say “whoops, made a mistake there, that should’ve read 19” at the back instead”, which then wouldn’t have made you sound like such an utter berk for driving your car in a consistently dangerous state and then wondering why it wasn’t working properly. My apologies, next time I shall assume idiocy rather than typo.

Not just me that’s reading that this guy is running 265/35/19 on the FRONT and the 17”s on the back, then?

Running that combo for anything other than an emergency ‘get you home in a couple of miles’ situation is dangerous as hell regardless of any other mods you may or may not have, tbh. Why would you not switch the fronts to the rears at the very least?! I’m not surprised you’ve had problems!

Accidental landscaping, the single worst shame of all trackday goers

Unintentionally, sure…

Wasn’t having a pop bud, I like the enthusiasm from you on this

More so than the Transit indicators? The thing with Nobles is they’re brilliant, but they’re always the first car with the bonnet up at any given track day.

Every proper driver should own one at some point. Even if only for six months, they’re a true experience you won’t get with anything else.

Someone has never owned an Elise car, clearly… I can still remember feeling like I was driving a Rolls Royce after chopping the VXR in for the 350

It’s kinda your thread at this point mate, might as well own it

PASM I never found that useful on the 9x7 cars, as the harder setting never seemed properly settled on the local roads around me and the wider UK in general. The gen2 stuff was much better than the gen1, but invariably I usually left that in normal mode when on a hoon.

Yup, because there’s more material in the head so far less likely to suffer from bore scoring and d chunk problems. Must admit I’d go for the base car these days too, enough poke to be fun but you can wring it’s neck and not end up in silly speeds too quickly.

I didn’t even click it, I swear!

Did he mention he’s won the WDC 3 times? Usually tries to slip that in during every interview the man bores me to tears.

Clean the seats or rub your hands on some grease before you next drive and the reds will match perfectly

Never go back, always try something different. Life is too short to keep driving one thing, plus the 86 is a fabulous car to drive

So basically “wind your necks, wait and see”

Which is why I hope that those 98,000 people bothered to respond to the original consultation, which is what can and does shape what happens.

Tbh mate, you rarely say anything that’s related to the topic in question that doesn’t turn out to be a bunch of blithering nonsense. We as fans can all have an opinion. Some might be more relevant or precise than others, depending on experience, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t share them. The more ridiculous opinions will simply be laughed at, something I’m sure you’re more than aware of.

Since we haven’t had the results of the consultation yet, this is a waste of time. That was the time to do something, not now when we don’t even know what the final response to it will be. Save your anger for when we know the actual proposals and can form a reasonable argument against them.