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I got an "acknowledgement" outside of Elgin last night. I find that bikers will often give a nod to a friendly scooby driver too.

Cayenne or a cayman? You don't get turbo caymans. The Cayenne is obviously the size of a small country, but does go pretty quick for such a big girl. But I wouldn't compare that against any form of sports saloon/coupe.

I would have said my WRX at 290/290 would have been at the cayman's level. Certainly on the straights I'd have it beat, but I'd need the aid of a brick wall to stop quicker. An absolutely lovely car with 2 things wrong with it - could clearly have taken twice the power and coped incredibly well with it, but then it becomes a 911 beater and that's not on for Porsche. And secondly at 6'4" I'd need to remove my shins to make it driveable. Not a patch on the R8 I drove tail end of last year.

Ahh, the drifters did make it on. Oh well, see them next year

There was definitely a SICC meet going on! Not a bad day today. Weather to start with was fairly poor really. Trackday had some nice metal on display, although lacking in scoobies a bit. Still, it cleared up a bit and the early part of the time attack practice was enjoyable. I'll probably not get my pictures up until wednesday night or thursday now though as tomorrow I'm away for a few days.

New VW Passat R36 estate?

I saw a red STI today from the train. I like it I must say. Nice shots Colin.

Grant, I've usually booked mine in for the following week for servicing related stuff. Even for mods too. I usually get there early and they give me a lift to the station. Jolly lovely people.

Drove a Porsche cayman earlier. Lovely looking car but got to say that it wasn't brilliant. Performance is good, but not earth shattering in a straight line. Manual gearbox was a touch fiddly. Very easy to get 4th instead of 2nd on a downshift. Seating position was dreadful if you're my height. Couldn't really get my knees under the wheel and leave enough room to steer well. Sounds good though when giving it stick. I'd have said a sorted WRX will have no issues keeping up with one or even getting away, especially when the going gets straight. Secondly - new BMW M3. Didn't drive one but there was one in front of me round the private race track that is luckily shaped identically to the raith interchange. It looks fantastic, and it appears to go well, but either the driver lacked the balls or again .... it's not as fast as the price seems to dictate.

Now why didn't I think of that. Anyway, drama sorted - thanks John. And thanks to Imy for texting me the number in the end. She's a wee star. See you all tomorrow.

My mate really needs to speak to john to see if he's on track tomorrow or not before we convoy up with his westie. So if anyone has his number or john himself reads this please pm me or email me. Cheers

Easy enough to get to. Not far from the bridge over the canal, and then it's at the end of the industrial estate road you go up. You'll know it by the jap cars parked outside!

http://jpcnews.blogspot.com/2008/05/subaru...y-sti-s402.html Not huge power, but looks good and would go well after some tweaking. I like!

I'm going up the A9 on Sunday. Will just tootle I think. No point in getting into trouble.

Blimey John. Trimming down the looms. You really are going to the last degree in getting the weight of this thing right down. Is there much weight in the wiring?

I'm feeling like that with my car just now and have been for a while. I think it's now relegated to an exciting daily driver for the rest of its career and wont see the track again. My problems with the gearbox last year left me feeling less than confident at REALLY pushing the car and not breaking something I don't really want to be forced to fix. Plus even though the dealers rectified the problem, and it's been serviced by someone I trust since then, I still have my doubts that the box will last another 20 or 30K, especially if it's tracked. It's maybe just my imagination that changing gears is just that bit more clunky than it used to be .... but then that's the subaru paranoia!

Welcome to the club.

I think that's Fee's old car. You'll find her more on Track Scotland which she runs with Adam.

I'd rather drive it than clean it John!

That's what mine looked like when I did it. But I let some women decorate mine for me, that way you know it's getting done right!

Excellent shot indeed. 139! That's QUICK.

Now that is an interesting looking one. Are those 18" or 19" wheels?

Flamboyant car you say? Liberace owned that one. I'd say it was fairly flamboyant.

You want one with AV input so you can hook an external lens or the like to it davie? If you try places like the auction in bothwell you can usually pick up a bargain.

So is boost creep caused because the wastegate isn't efficient enough when fully open to bypass enough of the gasses?