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Old 06-08-2018, 09:51 AM
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Seriously though dude. If you don't push the car hard, why spend even more on setting the suspension up even more?

Buy a Porsche. You know you want to. Life's too short. Then sell it. And buy the next one. Stop agonising over it.
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Old 06-08-2018, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by CynicG
Seriously though dude. If you don't push the car hard, why spend even more on setting the suspension up even more?

Buy a Porsche. You know you want to. Life's too short. Then sell it. And buy the next one. Stop agonising over it.
Although I’m not a die hard track person like yourself, I do ( in my opinion) drive it hard enough to warrant the upgrades I’ve done ,even just for road use .... yes am agonising over it a bit , as it’s a big decision and it’s not like I can talk to my wife / kids about it ! She’d kill me if she New the cost of the Porsche’s I’m looking at !! Hahaha

Anyway what you getting next .... you grumpy git
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Originally Posted by Bodyboarder1981
it’s not like I can talk to my wife / kids about it ! She’d kill me if she New the cost of the Porsche’s I’m looking at !! Hahaha
haha mad me lol

cars are a shit cash investment usually so you need to get your jollies out of it

go and drive what you are salivating over, that might help if you're not seduced by the sales patter

i'm staying the feck away from lotus for this very reason
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Old 07-24-2018, 05:47 AM
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Had this a few weeks now .... didn’t bond with it straight away but beginning to enjoy it now !







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Looks lovely .

If it is a keeper, the first thing to do is junk the boaty suspension and fit a rear bush limiter kit. Like the S2000, they are also very sensitive to tyre pressures on track.

Also if you're going to use it on track, like all M-cars of this era, the brakes are about as much use as a chocolate fire-guard . Just fit APs and forget about it .
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They are marmite looking aren't they? i do like that straight six, they sound good.

assume it's manual?
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Originally Posted by Mike RT4
Looks lovely .

If it is a keeper, the first thing to do is junk the boaty suspension and fit a rear bush limiter kit. Like the S2000, they are also very sensitive to tyre pressures on track.

Also if you're going to use it on track, like all M-cars of this era, the brakes are about as much use as a chocolate fire-guard . Just fit APs and forget about it .
yes the rear bush limited kit is in the list .... already has eibach springs on and is very nice to drive on the road . But soft for track work but I don’t really think it will see a lot of action on track anyway . Vagbremtecnic do a kit that uses the brembo 4 pots from a ttrs / Aston Martin that mount up to the standard front 345mm front disc . For road use I think this will be ample . Got a gruppe M induction kit for it as well
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Originally Posted by Nottm_S2
They are marmite looking aren't they? i do like that straight six, they sound good.

assume it's manual?
i absolutely love the look of them ..... that’s the main reason I bought one !

Yes only came in manual
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That's a weird looking Porsche dude?!
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Originally Posted by CynicG
That's a weird looking Porsche dude?!


if I wanted the Porsche I’d be happy with the S2k would have had to go .... can’t part with it , even refused a very tempting offer


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