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Ekona

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  1. Ekona

    Impreza Sti

    Blobeye FTW Still miss ours, although we sold it to a mate so I still get to drive it every now and then.
  2. But how There are a lot of reasons why FB is a waste of time! Which is why I binned that cr@p off! But then how do you do your stalking?
  3. There's a lot of casual racism and gay bashing in there, for sure.
  4. Oh dear. This doesn't sound promising.
  5. Hmmm, this might be a struggle. However, I think what you're actually after isn't softer as such, but more compliant. Certainly the KWv3 will be that, albeit at a cost, but I've found the BC stuff to be more compliant than OEM too across brands. The 645, for example, now runs the BC BR setup, and whilst it's not as squidgy* as OEM, it actually rides bumps and lumps in the road better. I can still feel them, but they don't unsettle the car. Given the cost differential between BC and KW, I'd be tempted to try the BC first. *Technical term.
  6. It's Resale Grey, that's a lack of colour and imagination!
  7. Even at the softest, I've found BC stuff to be stiffer than OEM. 99% of aftermarket stuff is. What wheels, tyres and pressures are you running?
  8. Ekona

    Understeer

    Absolutely! You would be absolutely amazed at the difference just altering the toe makes, and there's loads of play on that as stock. Forget staying within standard settings, whatever you do like that you *will* get understeer. You'll want to be well into the red on most of those if you want a truly agile car, but don't worry about that: OEM settings are ridiculously conservative, and the car won't suddenly crash just because you've moved from the green to the red zones. Make the handle like *you* want it to, not how someone office bod in Nissan's legal department says it should.
  9. Ekona

    Understeer

    Agreed. Bin those crappy tyres, get some decent ones on there, then get a geo by someone who can understand and interpret what you want the car to do. Little bit of toe out at the front and less camber at the rear should help nicely.
  10. You know, I don't think I ever have, maybe I'll give it a whirl
  11. So you might as well do decay then, and save the weight. It takes 20mins to swap the cats over, or just get the garage to do it for a few quid.
  12. Nearly! I've unlocked it, but I've not gone there yet.
  13. I think the point is that beta software shouldn't be put into the hands of ordinary folks on public roads. This is why the real big guns who actually have a f*cking clue about cars and stuff like this are doing masses and masses of testing away from the public roads, where people can't get killed because the person who programmed the computer is a 'tard. Look at the last video Stu posted: That guy had his hands right by the wheel, so as close as you pretty much get, and still the car couldn't figure out that it should turn up the ramp, causing him to twitch as he grabbed back control. Even if he'd been holding the wheel, he'd still have been waiting for the force of the motors to take over. It's a really, really silly idea dreamt up in the name of publicity because the rest of his car making plans are falling apart.
  14. Ah, didn't realise that, my bad. In that case, if you've already removed everything you can with the DA (what compound did you use btw?), then no harm covering what remains with a glaze. Any of those you mentioned will do, although I'd probably go with the White Diamond if you pushed me.
  15. But don't worry, because Elon Musk is God and nothing he does can ever be wrong.
  16. I wouldn't use any of them, tbh. If you have a DA, then use a proper polish on it to actually remove the defects rather than just cover them up. Blackhole is good, but full of fillers (which is okay, that's the idea of it!) which will only come out with time. It's a great product to use by hand, but with machine I always prefer to use something that will make life easier for you in the future for the same effort.
  17. HFCs I personally wouldn't bother with. Decat and swap for proper cats come MOT time would be my preference, if you wanted to go that route. Plenum spacer definitely, as well as the remap, but just be sure you've finished with breathing mods before the remap else you'll have to have another one once you've changed something else.
  18. Sod. That. *awaits first Yank owners suing because the car crashed itself*
  19. We've already discussed those as looking retarded.
  20. Just goes to show that people are idiots. There are some things that replicas are absolutely fine for: Body kits, spoilers, gear knobs. Then there are some things you really, really don't want to be mucking around with: Brakes, seat belts, seats themselves. It's like buying a fake gun, and not being sure which end the bullet is going to come out of.
  21. I'm not kamikaze Okay, well maybe a little bit
  22. I take every post that says they hate me as a sign I'm doing something right
  23. Just did my old Zed, man that's being abused! Sept 11: 37K miles, Pass July 12: 56K miles, Fail, both front tyres cord exposed! Oct 13: 78K miles, Pass, both front tyres worn to legal limit Oct 14: 84K miles, Pass, brakes all round worn, rear tyres at legal limit My poor ol' Slagathor
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