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That thing's got too much torque for it's own good, it'll put creases in the road!

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Vauxhaull VXR8

Definitely a "strong" look

I think the drum on the back would be for the handbrake so shouldn't be there on the front

Valveman, do you have a printout of the dyno results? Would be really interesting to see.

I would suggest going for sports/race cats instead of de-cats. Saves having to remove them every time you MOT the car and the difference in performance is quite small. The XYZ pipe also works really well. I am getting about 320hp (flywheel) with a stock exhaust, XYZ pipe, Kinetix sports cats and a HKS filter - and of course a remap done at Abbey. Bloomin 'eck 320bhp! That's a fantastic result. Do you have any other mods or is that all from the exhaust/filter?

+1 High flow/de-cats and a replacement y-pipe should get you more gains. Stick with the stock intake and get a free flowing panel filter. Had mine done at RS in January and was very pleased with the results

Can't really tell how low it is at the moment from those pics. I think it's just a case of trial and error with the height. As long as it doesn't look like it's on stilts you'll be fine.

If you've got Tein coilovers then you can adjust them yourself pretty easily I would have thought. Did you get a set of C spanners with the car?

Might be worth a PM to ZMANALEX

Thanks Husky, much appreciated

When loosening the centre nut on the bar is it just a case of counting how many complete turns you make and tightening by the same number of revolutions when putting it back on?

Yeah I saw that post, but I've got a plenum spacer so I think I'll need to remove the strut bar in order to get the engine cover off.

Thanks for the pic, just what I wanted

Cool, thanks for that guys

Thanks guys, I've downloaded the PDF above. So is it just a case of counting how many revolutions of the centre bolt that you make, and then doing it in reverse when you're putting it back on? Also, and this might be a stupid question, but what do you use to torque the two outside nuts on the bar? I have a torque wrench but I don't see how that will help with the nuts on the actual bar.

Has anyone with an Azure coupe had their roof sprayed gloss black (not carbon wrapped)? Just trying to decide if it's a good idea or not. Externally my car is standard so doesn't need to match with a carbon bonnet or anything like that.

Right, I'm going to change my spark plugs soon. I've found a guide on how to do it and it all seems fairly straight forward. The only thing I'm a bit worried about is removing the strut bar. Obviously undoing the bolts that hold it on is self explanatory, I'm just worried about whether or not I need to slacken off the nuts on the bar itself (shown below), and if so, how do you know how much to re-tension them when putting it back? I'm just worried that I'm going to mess up the handling if I do it wrong. Any advice would be much appreciated

Might be worth getting a quote from here http://www.p4d.co.uk/

It can vary quite a lot, depends on how well the clutch has been treated in its lifetime. Is the clutch actually slipping?

This sounds interesting, I'll have to do some research and see if I can get my head around it!

So was that guy on here at some point then? Looks like he's got too much time on his hands

If it's a 2003 then it's definitely not a 296bhp, it's a 276bhp