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Exactly what I thought when I read it, glad it's not just me! Thanks for all your hard work Rich, I'm sorry I didn't make to as many events as I would've liked but I know that every one here appreciates the efforts you made.

What does this combination sound like when compared to the standard y pipe? A lot of people say the scorpion back box without the japspeed y pipe is not much louder than standard, was wondering if I may as well save a few quid and get the same sound by changing the y pipe and not the back box.... Honestly? It's not that loud really. Bear in mind that I've done that on purpose to ensure that I'll never have an issue with any trackday I choose to do, but it's also worth remembering that I used to have a K1 on there that I ran happily sans inserts so I do enjoy a loud exhaust! I forgot to mention I've also got a Popcharger on there too, and for me when the car is under load at WOT and I'm ripping through the gears to the 7K redline I'm more than happy with the noise the car makes: There's enough edge to put a tingle down your spine still. I do wish it was a bit more fruity at lower RPMs with less throttle, but I'm not prepared to risk losing trackdays by putting a different backbox on. For most people who are looking for a noise increase over anything else I would say that changing the Y-pipe alone probably isn't going to be enough for them, but then I haven't heard too many other Zed exhaust combinations in the flesh to have a proper comparison.

Megane is a great car, let us know how you get on with it

Do tell, PM if you like

Post the regs up then.

This reminds me of the Aston-stylee front bumper you can get for the Zed (forget who makes it now). It actually suits the car very well, but you could never do it as you'd look like a tit.

There's not too many cars that don't look better than a Zed ragtop with the roof up, it really is quite ugly!

I wouldn't worry in the slightest about a hardtop. I wouldn't worry about mileage either, I'd rather have a high mileage car with lots of servicing than a low mileage one with less.

I think it looks better on the outside than the Zed, certainly the later models do. *hides*

PM'd

Great engine above 6K, like a sewing machine below it. Interior is bland and vile (yes, even compared to an early 350!), seats are far too small for the *ahem* larger gent, digital dash looked ace when it came out but crap now. On track however, it all starts to make incredible sense. Even driving a car which had crap brakes and mismatched tyres, I was barrelling into the fast hairpin on the international layout at Anglesey and holding a beautiful line/drift (depending on mood) round it with ease after just a couple of laps. A very easy car to drive fast, I'd love to know how good it would be with decent brakes and tyres. I'd buy a sheddy one for track use, but I wouldn't have one for the road as there's other cars that do what it does better for less money. Don't get me wrong, it's really not a bad car at all and I enjoyed driving my mate's one on track more than my Zed, it's just not something I'd live with.

S2Ki are the people to speak to Rich, there's where I got my info from when it came down to the Zed or the Stook.

Do people still buy this tat?

182 it is then

No-one in their right mind would pay £45K for something that ugly

172 or 182 preferably. Best hot hatch ever bar none, drive one well and it'll keep up with most things on the fun roads

First off, good man for realising you need to do something. Second, don't be an idiot an get another performance car as it'll either be fragile (rx-7, GTO) or too tempting to spend cash on (anything big with a turbo on). Get a shed so you have no temptation to spend money you don't have as it's pointless, or get something cheap and cheerful that won't have big costs (mr2 again, or mx-5?). If you're in that much trouble you have to sell your car, then buying another fast one is just daft. Don't take any of this the wrong way, you know I love you and that, but I don't want to see you take a bad turn on this one fella.

No way would I drive on that tyre full stop.

You still won't need any test for that, just ask all the Elise guys who drop Audi and Honda lumps into their cars. Building a Cobra replica is completely different to an engine swap, which is again different to mass producing a car that needs to go through all the European safety regs.

Why? Just... why?

You won't need any kind of test for a simple engine swap.

Orange roadster

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Good spot that man

If you ignore the badge at the back (which is clearly on there for comedy value), that doesn't actually look so bad. I've seen worse cars on this site, put it that way.