What have you done to your car today?

Dale V · 7 Apr 2015 at 19:53

Clarkey said:
What housing have you gone with? Stock mani is twin scroll on those isn't it? Seems single now with a single wastegate.

I've been looking keenly at these GTX turbos, getting really tired of the disco I have just not working properly. I hear you can get a 0.72AR which is just savage on a 2.0l.

0.82

Yeah stock manifold is twin scroll

Fuzz · 8 Apr 2015 at 01:08

Howard said:
If you're gonna play outdoors then you have to expect to get a few bruises occasionally

It's going to take a bigger tree to bend the new one

5mm thick steel main bumper with 10mm thick towing points.

Quite how the postman is going to deliver that I have no idea.

ShiWarrior · 8 Apr 2015 at 16:11

cleaned, polished and waxed bodywork
Cleaned door Shuts and wheels

off to Halfords tomorrow, to get the rest of the stuff

InvaderGIR · 8 Apr 2015 at 17:46

Took long enough.

shauncr91 · 8 Apr 2015 at 17:59

Added my new steering wheel today, I think it's finished off the interior nicely although I'm yet to take it for a drive to really try it out.

Blackhawk47 · 8 Apr 2015 at 18:31

How quick is it m8.

Tom|Nbk · 8 Apr 2015 at 18:35

Blackhawk47 said:
How quick is it m8.

looks rapid

Ryan-3 · 8 Apr 2015 at 18:39

I like it. It's also one of the very few wheels i'd stick on a car.

Akagi · 8 Apr 2015 at 18:46

I personally wouldn't stick buckets with harnasses and a pudding bowl steering wheel on a car unless I drove it on a racetrack more than a road.

shauncr91 · 8 Apr 2015 at 19:00

Acme said:
I personally wouldn't stick buckets with harnasses and a pudding bowl steering wheel on a car unless I drove it on a racetrack more than a road.

It's surprisingly tolerable as a daily, my commute is short and the seats are extremely comfortable if you fit in them correctly

Blackhawk47 · 8 Apr 2015 at 19:09

Lol it was a genuine question...don't follow the naff ford thread.

Voxination · 8 Apr 2015 at 19:10

Blackhawk47 said:
How quick is it m8.

Think we need a 0-100 video.

shauncr91 · 8 Apr 2015 at 19:15

Blackhawk47 said:
Lol it was a genuine question...don't follow the naff ford thread.

Never done any times in the car but as standard 0-62 is 7.9 from factory with 147bhp, mine last dyno'd at 192bhp and has lost quite a bit of weight + is on much stickier tyres.

These are the claimed figured for Mountune's MP185 pack
0-60mph: 7.0secs
0-100mph: 17.2secs

I'd say that with a perfect launch an so forth 0-60 could probably be done at around 6.5? As for top speed I wouldn't have a clue.

AndyCr15 · 8 Apr 2015 at 19:20

If you've never done it, you need to get down Santa Pod...

Blackhawk47 · 8 Apr 2015 at 19:45

AndyCr15 said:
If you've never done it, you need to get down Santa Pod...

Good...Audi TT diesel vs Fiesta ST.

TheVoice · 8 Apr 2015 at 19:58

Got this quote from Arnold Clark for work they've apparently identified needs doing after getting it serviced there the other weekend. £800 for an exhaust sounds like pure comedy to me. It's a Mazda, not a Maserati.

rodenal · 8 Apr 2015 at 20:19

Is that an Arnold Clark Mazda or just a service centre?

I wouldn't personally let them touch my car outside of the dealer network, even then only if I really, really had to

Quite happy to buy cars from them, just not for them to get anywhere near them!

Kenai · 8 Apr 2015 at 20:20

Replace just one rear spring?

I thought that was a definite 'do it in a pair' job?

rodenal · 8 Apr 2015 at 20:22

It should be advised at least from a "reputable" garage

Jonny ///M · 8 Apr 2015 at 20:24

Paid the garage to balance my front wheels after the wheel swap the other day and do the tracking again for the steering wheel to be straight.

Steering is definitely straight now and the wheel balance is at the very least a lot better, hard to tell with the crap surface of the M74 I tested between two junctions.

What have you done to your car today?

Chooser of poor weather meets