What have you done to your car today?
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Took my E39 to an indy specialist for an inspection II and some suspension work after a demoralising experience at my local BMW main dealer.
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just about to start putting the zetec back together, find another chunk missing off another piston 
Might aswell just buy a crate engine now
Might aswell just buy a crate engine now
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1.8 silvertop, going in a project car (or was)
Left it at a friend's house and drove his Focus ST home after a wedding shoot. He's got it remapped and modded via Dreamscience pulling around 290HP.
A few things.
1: Turbo whistle is annoying, simply tap on the throttle and it spools up like a vacuum cleaner audible inside the cabin even on the motorway. the cabin is quiet otherwise.
2: When giving it some, the torque is comedy on this, ESP kicks in in 1st, 2nd and 3rd but the steering gets woolly. The steering is quite quick otherwise but lacks feedback from the road so I don't feel the confidence taking corners at the speeds I can in my own car.
3: Dump valve noise
4: Cars like this provoke you to give it the beans at every opportunity just to hear the noise and those exhaust pops and crackles when engine breaking around town.
5: Overtaking is lol.
A few things.
1: Turbo whistle is annoying, simply tap on the throttle and it spools up like a vacuum cleaner audible inside the cabin even on the motorway. the cabin is quiet otherwise.
2: When giving it some, the torque is comedy on this, ESP kicks in in 1st, 2nd and 3rd but the steering gets woolly. The steering is quite quick otherwise but lacks feedback from the road so I don't feel the confidence taking corners at the speeds I can in my own car.
3: Dump valve noise
4: Cars like this provoke you to give it the beans at every opportunity just to hear the noise and those exhaust pops and crackles when engine breaking around town.
5: Overtaking is lol.
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We went to a Pistonheads meet yesterday and a purple mk2 MR2 turbo turned up and made me go week at the knees.
I think theyre such under rated cars. You can tune it enough on the standard hardware to make it fast enough for the road and the chassis will keep you entertained forever... oh how much id like one of those again
Judging by the pictures of it on Facebookit's probably got Falken tyres.
The mans lucky to be alive
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The mans lucky to be alive
I wouldnt go that for but it does amaze me that people buy fast cars, spend money making them even faster, and then don't bother to fit decent tyres to it to enable them to exploit all that performance?!
Judging by the pictures of it on Facebook
SportContact 3 all round. Other than cosmetic visual mods everything else changed is under the bonnet, the rest is factory spec.
Don't get me wrong, it's a beast of a car and is easy to drive very fast but it's not the kind of fast around corners that I'm used to in an E46 Sport which has a completely different handling balance allowing you to cover those same corners at higher speeds.
I like the ST brakes, they're big and come down like anchors but the pedal doesn't have the feel of the road again like I get on my car, hard to describe but I guess I could describe it as less mechanical?
The throttle response isn't my cup of tea either, I like the centimetre response from my car's throttle, on this you need to move it a few inches before the turbo spools up and you begin to move at pace watching the boost gauge dive to the right
Think this just confirms I'm more a fan of smooth and linear power delivery across the rev range of an NA instead of turbo or Vtec (family member had an Accord Type-R).
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