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R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
Youth and inexperience, what a dangerous thing for both you, your passengers and those who have to share the road with you. ;)

Time & a place for testing out your motors ability, the above is not one of them imo.
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What? Seriously?

He's alive, nobody is hurt, what's the lecture for?
 
Looks nice, roughly how much was it (from a "how affordable is it" kind of view,rather than trying to question if you got a good deal)
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
Youth and inexperience, what a dangerous thing for both you, your passengers and those who have to share the road with you. ;)

Time & a place for testing out your motors ability, the above is not one of them imo.

Anyway - If a modified car was what I was after, I'd rather a supercharged e46 M3 tbh.
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Mate, thats a daft comment. I have plenty of experience of fast cars and know when things should be pushed on or not. Now, empty motorway at 11pm at night in good dry conditions that i know like the back of my hand in a car that is very very capable of that speed on a one off.

There was no risk, lets not clout all youth and inexperience in a "OMG hes gona die and kill 300 kittens" If i was that bad i wouldnt have got through that list of cars without issues till now since 18 til now im 23. And not showing off lol, ive never felt a need to show off in a motor, thats a little shallow.

Anyway back on topic lol
Reference the ride height
Paul the previous owner said he had put a few standard bits in the boot, today was the first day i looked in the boot. There was the weight of at least another human in the boot. disks, pads, big heavy duty clutch/flywheel, manifold, turbo, mirrors, air boxes...all sorts. So it is up a bit but i think maybe a wee lift still might help. Il see how i feel. So them pics had all that in the boot plus 3/4 of a tank of fuel.
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
Youth and inexperience, what a dangerous thing for both you, your passengers and those who have to share the road with you. ;)

Time & a place for testing out your motors ability, the above is not one of them imo.

Anyway - If a modified car was what I was after, I'd rather a supercharged e46 M3 tbh.
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I also looked at 4 e46 m3's and god if there is a marque that there is so much scrap about, this is it. Between hit, painted, generally badly looked after, clocked, stone chips, rust, cat C/D etc
So i gave up and this just caught my eye
 
fonzee said:
sounds like me :D

now i love that. any idea on running costs? as ridiculous as people claim?
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Pretty much yeah, perhaps another reason he doesn't drive it regular, but then...why pay £450 odd on tax if you're not going to use it. :(

Also, your teg isn't a daily drive? :o I do 200 miles a week in mine, its a car for driving, not washing! (I think I can see a bit of car on my dirt at the moment) :D
 
fonzee said:
sounds like me :D

now i love that. any idea on running costs? as ridiculous as people claim?
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Running costs have yet to be seen fully. But im used to carrying petrol to things so :o but yes the needle does seem to drop quite quick, but then im used to all the last cars having a 65 litre tank, i think this has only 50 litres.

Servicing - this car has had a service every 4k from brand new with 17 stamps from only 2 different garages, 12 of are from the previous owner and used a local real good specialist place. They are highly regarded a bit like norris or apt etc, called AI Autosport. Each service they done was about £200 and anything else it needed was on top. brakes it had there were £600 quid for disks alone. Pads are about £150. Its just had all these replaced with "performance friction" items and are a upgrade. Its also only had its coilovers a few months, along with the alloys, tires etc. The forged rod conversion was done about 15k mile ago and at the time it also had crank inspected and new bearings and anything else it needed, then all ran in again. This was done just as a precaution, nothing actually broke. The ECUTEC licence is paid for so any wee tweeks the map may need will be cheap enough probably just rolling road time and a small amout for labour. Its the initial buying of the licence is quite expensive.

The car drinks no oil, the oil that is in there has been in for about 1k and is still golden and sitting right where should be :)
 
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David _b said:
Mate, thats a daft comment. I have plenty of experience of fast cars and know when things should be pushed on or not. Now, empty motorway at 11pm at night in good dry conditions that i know like the back of my hand in a car that is very very capable of that speed on a one off.

There was no risk, lets not clout all youth and inexperience in a "OMG hes gona die and kill 300 kittens" If i was that bad i wouldnt have got through that list of cars without issues till now since 18 til now im 23. And not showing off lol, ive never felt a need to show off in a motor, thats a little shallow.
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Well, I think the same of your reply.

But wtf, I was 23 too once and no better. ;)

Its my opinion, sure you don't like it, fair enough. :)

Passengers & speed is a very very sore point for me, so is seeing the aftermath of similar antics when things go wrong.

FFS! I live on the roads, for too damn long tbh and have seen it all....
Including a very mangled car about 20minutes after it overtook me @ warp 9 on an empty motorway early one morning.

I got there before the cops & ambulance, not that the ambulance was needed.... 4 people brown bread, apparently no other vehicles involved.

And thats before I think of a good friend who died in a high speed crash, he was a passenger...

So perhaps you understand why I picked up on your post?

Save this thread, & re-read it in 17 years or so - when your my age - perhaps you'll see my point.

I only hope you won't see and / or experience what I have to get to it.

Risk yourself, not your passengers, at least.

Anyway, no hard feelings & don't take it personally, I'm sure I have a somewhat different take on this due to what, thankfully, most motorists don't see nor have had to experience the aftermath of.

Joshy said:
What? Seriously?

He's alive, nobody is hurt, what's the lecture for?
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Happy? :p
 
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i myself have had a rather rapid car at 19 im now 25 and i was showing off to some mates and binned it ,fortunately no one else was hurt cept my pride and the car was a write off
 
I don't like them personally, if i was gonna have a 4wd jap rocket, id get a R-33 GTR Skyline, but there's no denying there rapid cross country pace and practical with 4 doors, boot, etc.
 
That EVO is very nice!

The previous owner really choose some of the best performance mods for the car, really job well done, though I think the tyre selection is a bit odd considering the quality/spec of the car.

When summer comes give the EVO what it really wants, some AD08's and you will be amazed again with handling transformation. :)
 
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