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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*

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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

355

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.

I'm assuming that you have no idea just how much louder 20dB over the stock JDM box would actually be? To give you a hint, every 3dB is a DOUBLING of volume, so if the stock 'box was 90dB then 93dB would be twice as loud, and 96dB would be twice as loud as that and so on...!

Very quick, very capable, very fragile. I looked into buying one a year or so ago after playing around with a friend's M400, but just couldn't live with the interior (Transit switchgear and a tiny dead pedal) nor how often things break on them.

Thanks for the clarification, I understand a bit more now