colin_ross

That sounds like a masterly plan, what handsome genius put that idea in your head?

Yes, and no. When it comes to wheels the 2 golden rules are to reduce unsprung weight and rotational mass. The wheels, tyres, brakes and struts i.e. everything under the suspension is referred to as unsprung weight. In essence this mass has no suspesion and must react as quickly as possible to the surface that it's trying to grip to. Rotational mass relates to the gyroscopic effect generated by a rotating wheel. Think back to first ywar physics and when you had to change the direction of a spinning wheel, it doesn't want to. Increase the mass and increase the resistance. This means heavier wheels, tyres and brake discs will resist sterring input more than lighter ones. Holy grail = as small and light as you can get away with.. I went for bigger brakes but countered with lightweight wheels.

Welcome to the fold shandyboy. I give it 2 weeks before you are exhalting the virtues of the gc8 over any other mode of transport. Now the real fun begins, phase one is surely in the pipeline. 'mon the classics!

My eyes.....my eyeeeeeeeeeesssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not a review as such but that seems like a lot of cash for an air filter. Nice figures though.

I'd have to reread the thread to be sure. I seem to remember lots of issues with looms, ecu's, dashes, mismatched diffs, hubs, brakes etc. Much cheaper/easier to buy a car with it already fitted if you want it.

Give me an F........?

Not too sure I agree with that comment. 911 on snet did a project retro fitting it to his hillclimb car and said it was an absolute nightmare, it certainly looked like it. The friend or foe thread was one I started many moons ago but one that probably needs updating. At the time I was adding power to the car and was feeling the car fidgeting a lot more. I thought this was down to the dccd but in the end I traced it down to torque steer, this was because my car had a plated front diff. Now I have a quaife atb the car is much more stable and I'm learning the dccd all over again as the car drives so different. It still oversteers like a mkII escort though

Hmmm. My personal opinion would be to give the wrx ra a miss. It looks clean enough but I'd really want an sti as you'll be tracking it.

Don't know this one. Why not ping Andy and ask him? You got some links for the prospective purchases?

Where are you buying the downpipe Davie? Most suppliers will sell you the wrap too.

Typo or slip? Congrats all round.

Nice, this is clean too http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk/www/c...mp;max_mileage= a bit over budget but that what they're asking, not waht you pay.

Agreed. Here's the white evo in the pic. http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=212701

I'm guessing he's a trader. Did you notice another evo parked behind the type r in the first pic? He's not really given a lot of info to go on other than it's not had the belts done since it landed in this country. Oh and closed deck??? don't think so. Pics can be misleading, would really need to see it in the flesh. Is it just me or does the passenger door look like it's a different shade of blue? If he's sent pics post them up Cal.

Dingbro van? If so I did see you. I'm always a bit weary of my surroundings when getting mapped. Other road users must think you're driving like a bit of a tool.

I figured it was you after Andy showed me the text message you sent him. Never spotted you, were you undercover? Re the questions about more power........ it's only tweaks from this point in. To push it to stage 4 would take a lot of cash and potentially make the car even more undriveable. I'd never say never but this will do me for a while.

I don't even know them myself. Rolling raod will be done at some point but it feels fast in a big way.

Oh yes, meth and everything.

Thank you. The gawping slack jawed expression on your face tonight was awesome. For everyone else, look out for a evo 9 driver with a white car and a red face. He tried to show me what a real car could do on the M8 tonight but it was him who got taken to school. Oh yes, went o see Andy today. Top job as usual. A willing victim on the way home was just a brucie bonus.

looks tidy to me, nice options too on an RA with leccy windows and aircon. Looks nice and standard too, always a good sign. Buy on condition, not history as it probably won't have any. And vet the owner as well as the car, ask what sort of fuel he runs it on and has it been remapped for uk fuel or to remove the limiter. It's a buyer market so deal hard of you do make him an offer.

That and the phase one throttle body sit much closer to the bulkhead so getting your square peg to fit in a slanty hole has to be overcame as well.

I'm sure it can, doesn't make it a good idea though. I'd be looking for a fmic and saving myself a load of hassle. All in my humble opinion of course

Callum, that's a phase 2 motor which is a piece of p!ss to make it fit. The OP has a phase 1, I wouldn't even try to make it happen.

Why? - Fit basically. The slanty i/c you have isn't and easy swap with the newage top mount as mentioed. A front mount may cost more depending on what type you buy and there will be more involved in fitting it i.e. you'll have to cut you bumper and it may introduce more lag. It's a pain of a job but less so than a tmic in your case. The charge temps will be better though and if top speed runs are your thing it will be safer.