rtbiscuit

agree whole heartedly.

i've always preffered evo's over scoobies, but i'd never own one.

you take off the spoiler, air scoops and bodykits, and no matter how you look at it you have hyundai saloon styling. its the family mans car on steroids.

for me it screams barry boy.

i prefer the refinement of the Z, more style, better credentials.

mind you if i ever took up rallying, the first thing i would get is an evo

prime example was the alfa 147 GTA (hot hatch with 240 bhp) FWD and the traction control kicked in all the time.

Wasnt that the one that Clarkson test drove and the torque steer near as damn it took him off the track? Looked like a monster!

Correct, but it was a lovely car

With the new Focus RS, Ford reportidly have made FWD a lot better with respect to putting over 200BHP through the front wheels. It used to be that more than 200BHP in FWD was a no no, but apparently they have some new trick diff and stuff that sorts it out. Will be interesting to see it when it comes out.

quite possible, but for me the more gadgets you add in to compensate the further away you get from a natural driving feel.

and for me regardless of gismo's the best set up is "rear wheels push, front wheels steer"

i was always told something that does 2 jobs never does them as well as something that is designed for an individual job.

that and FWD caqs understeer like a bitch regardless of power and tools.

i'd rather oversteer than understeer, far more fun, easier to correct .

most of the time

people always forget about the clutch,

if you uprate a cars power and tourque by a large amount, then guarenteed the original clutch will burn out in no time at all.

if you go turbo your going to need a better clutch, and while your under there dismantling the gear box, you might as well lob in a lightened flywheel.

see how easy it is to start getting new bits

that and any kind of after market turbo or super charger is never just a plug in a play unit like standard fit turbo systems. they require constant monitoring, tinkering and tuning. All the lads on the MR2ROC spent loads of time fettling and checking their system.

the only unit that didn't require this was the TTE system as this was the only one authorised by toyota and covered under the same warranty.

if your not a tinkering type of person i would suggest not going down the FI route. you can't just slap it on and forget about it.

i test drove the supercharged version,

dead esy to tune up to well over 200 bhp.

a giggle to drive, but just couldn't get on with the interior. and the fact that its FWD.

anything over 200 bhp and still front wheel is starting to lack.

prime example was the alfa 147 GTA (hot hatch with 240 bhp) FWD and the traction control kicked in all the time.

i was always brought up that when moddin g a car the order to do it in was

1 stopping

2 cornering

3 power

getting more ponies is the last thing you do.

i have added power mods to my car first only becaus they don't gain anything.

i'm happy with the car i have, just want more noise

but then i see myself as a competant driver (my view not others )

i haven't done any track days yet, but i have done a bit of go karting, and considering that all the carts are on the same power its a fairly even playing field and should show drivers ability.

i tend to way more than 3-4 stone than most people at 16 and 1/2 stone. yet i can keep up with and overtake people alot lighter than me. i like to think i have surprised several people who were expecting me to be at the back. on my last karting day i qualified second on the grid. (my only let down is that from a standing start i do take longer to get up to top speed.

they are a uk based company, just been on their website. i presume their manufacturing is done abroad and they don't seem to offer the exhaust through their website.

looks like i'll just have to wait till big phil starts stocking it

they seem to get good ratings in here as well.

most of their tyres are in the top 20

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Grid/

is this the test car then?

well i filled up from empty for £60

I have used these in the past. I liked them. Do not last as long as Bridgestones.

EVO test 2007

1) Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric

2) Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta

3) Continental Contisport Contact 3

4) Bridgestone Potenza RE050-A

5) Michelin Pilot Sport PS2

6) Pirelli PZero Nero

7) Kumho Ecsta STP KU31

8) Dunlop Sport Maxx

9) Yokohama S.Drive

its amazing how toyo and falken don't even get into the list i would have chosen them over some of the tyres in there.

and the vredesteins work out cheaper than the toyos on mytyres

does that work out to about 45p per litre in the US

half price fuel

how much per gallon is it in the US?

he needed to work to a US gallon to see how much we pay compared to him. if he calculated it to a uk gallon it would be the wrong conversion

depends where in the country you are!

i'm on the east coast in ipswich. we pay roughly

92.9p for 95 ron

97.9 for 97 ron

99.9 for 98 ron

thats pence per litre

not sure how many litres to the gallon for a conversion. but its a lot more that the US pay.

and 70% of that is tax

Sounds good,

not to severe, but nice burble and popple

is there any kind of piccies to show styling.

 

i know its a single cylinder system with dual exit like the scorpion, but i would like to see what it looks like.

 

i like the price of the scorpion system, but i prefered rolled in tips. always think the slash cut tips or non rolled ones look abit boy racer. like the dustbins you find attatched to the rear of a corsa sh1tbox.

My pics are on page one

thats a nice looking piece of kit. i like the tips and the finish. just that bit more grown up, suits the car.

is there any kind of piccies to show styling.

i know its a single cylinder system with dual exit like the scorpion, but i would like to see what it looks like.

i like the price of the scorpion system, but i prefered rolled in tips. always think the slash cut tips or non rolled ones look abit boy racer. like the dustbins you find attatched to the rear of a corsa sh1tbox.

see i don't mind the bridgestones i got used to them on the MR2, yes they have their moments when the grip diappears but i always found them progressive, you could feel it and control it.

have always been a loyal toyo fan. had them on all my cars. but found on the MR2, when first fitted for the first 300 miles they were aweful. once they were properly scrubbed then they were excellent (initially it felt like driving on jelly, even pulled over on way home after fitting to check to see if something had blown.)

never liked the eagle F1's had them on the 306 GTI6, had a very soft tyre wall, Car performed better on pirelli p6000.

have been contemplating toyo's again or the falken 452's

but these verdestans look interesting.

not sure out of the 2 above which ones i would go for; the standards or the sessanta's?

do you recon camskills would order them in at a good price? or if they would beable to give any positive feed back.

am impressed how well evo rated them. in the top 3 so maybe they are worth ago?

i had the civic 2.2 Type S GT

all the trimmings of an r type, but diesel power, and if you get it remapped it has nearly 190 bhp.

i liked it, but wanted sportier once my milage got slashed. hence the 350z

its abit like marmite some like and some don't, but do see alot around so must be doing something right.

also liked the 120D interior is abit plain but then it has the rear wheel advantage.

i liked the diesel tourque, especially when doing big milage. could put your foot down in 6th at 70 to overtake and it would just go, no need to down change.

you joke, but thats what i am teachin g my students

got to run abusiness some how, and if you can't get students to do it, that just leaves low cost imigration workers.

saying that the standard ultratacs are nice looking tyres too and remind me of the mps.

http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?d ... 110&Achse=

http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?d ... 110&Achse=

they look quite interesting, never really heard of them, but are comaparable in price to the toyo's

can only find them on mytyres, black circles don't seem to stock them.

and mytyres are always more expensive.

just wondered where the cheapest place to find them is.

does anyone else use them. i might be tempted to try them out when mine need replacing

i have some great encoding software, can turn it into almost any file type.

Trying to upload this is a nightmare so some help please.

Its avi file and the footage was taken off our camera, tried to upload it on photobucket and after half an hour with it at 50% uploaded i gave up

and i have just tried youtube and the same thing has happend.

Any suggestions?

and this vid

Sound clip of the invoauto coming up shortly, just waiting for it to upload.

this sound clip