soundie

Right, Got the car all booked in at Steve Whitsons and well chuffed with the plans; 6 speed conversion (39000 from an 03 sti) exedy organic clutch lightened flywheel lightened pulleys delete air con compressors to counteract the extra weight also getting gauges fitted while i'm there. I was seriously considering ppg but in my research there seemed to be an overwhelming majority verdict for the 6 speed route. Even, i must say, from the companies who sell ppg kit! was off the record, of course. The next thing will be to open up both my cardboard 'gear'boxes and see if they're refurbable for sellage. Might have a crack at that maself. Thanks all for the wishes of getting it sorted with cheapness, but that didn't really happen Cheers, Chris. (ex-scoobysounds)

hi mate, surprised you haven't got response yet.. I'm not an expert but for knockhill I tried a little higher than normal road use (~35psi), and like 37psi on the front left. seemed to do the trick nicely when they were warm

Hello people, Chris (scoobysounds) here, I've just changed my name to Soundie. hi dale, yeah bit of deja vu goin on here - or maybe 'groundhog scooby.' cheers john CRAIG, was just chatting to SW and he says there's no way the diffs are wrong just from the feel of driving it. He also said interestingly, that the uk cars had different rear diffs as standard, to slow the prop speed down a bit. There was some kind a magic involved to make it work, but I think he said it reduced the prop speed by a factor of 1.1 .. well i never. -- so the only thing I can think of is this; opinions please Although the car is only at the very most 315bhp (not sure what the torque figure is) the power band is very wide across the rev range, so Is it possible that putting the gearbox under prolonged torque through the gears is causing this. And it is possible that, in fact, this car IS set up correctly, and there's just too much torque for these standard gearboxes? its just too weird that countless people have said they've run a lot more power than i am through these boxes - I took it so easy round the track when this happened that if I were to take it any easier, then the whole scoob/track experience just wouldn't be worth it, and it would start to look like selling time.