Ekona

You're just waiting for one of us to say go for it, aren't you? Every one else has said that you shouldn't buy this Irish engine but you're still persisting with it, so I think you're going to keep going until you get the answer you want. Seriously, just don't. You have too much risk here, and the colour change is setting alarm bells off for me.

You've clicked something else on that column, so you're filtering your results too much.

Custard test, or similar. You need a cast-iron contract in UK law that allows you recompense if anything is wrong with the engine. I'd want his address and proof that it's his address too, so worst come to the worst you can fly over and deliver the court papers personally. Or, for the same money, you can get the valve seals done by a legit company in this country which will solve your problem. I know which I'd be doing.

^^^This.

If you remove weight from either end, you'll increase understeer/oversteer. Less weight over the front wheels means a reduced amount of mass pushing down on the wheels, which in turn can lead to understeer. It's why I tended to run the 911 with a full tank, and why I leave the spare wheel in the frunk on the MR2 on a wet track day. Not saying it'll be a massive issue on yours, and in general removing any weight is usually a good thing, I just didn't know if you were going to increase your toe out settings to compensate, or move other stuff around.

Are you worried about the increase in understeer at all?

When is it? I assume Thursday, since that's when the rest of the world gets it.

Not since the cucumber incident, he won't. Poor Grundy couldn't sit for a week

Exactly. When you step outside of the corporate "The customer is always right, even when they're wrong!" mindset in business, you take a massive gamble. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but if you can make it work then you're pretty much set for life as people always remember a character. Now, I'm being a tad hypocritical here as I've had a pop at Greg before when he first joined up and bit back, but since then he seems to have developed the knack for being able to defend himself and his way of doing things with humour, as well as a sly dig. Sometimes it'll work, sometimes it won't. I'd rather deal with someone with personality than another generic holier than thou attitude (see: J17), but it's not for everyone.

No probs bud

I like it. I like it when people deal in the real world, where sometimes the customer can be a bit awkward. As always, I suspect the truth lies very much between the two stories, but if nothing else Greg is always entertaining.

Drop the S from https

Bellend. Weapons grade, first class bellendery of the highest order.

I had my Zed for less than half the time I've been on here, still not gone yet! :lol I stay for the people, too many good friends on here to go. Great place

Pfft, you're all too late. Barges with big engines are the new cool round this place.

The more I read Greg's posts, the more I like him. I'd buy a car off you, Greg.

Given the relative price now, MPSS is the sensible choice as you'll get more miles out of them per £ spent. That said, if you don't have the cash at all, then the FK453 aren't the world's worst tyres either. Not a patch on the F1 or MPSS, but they're decent enough and at least they'll match.

Yes and no. I don't expect to get 20K miles out of a set, but if they'll last me a year then that's a price worth paying for a car that handles as I want it to. As an aside, the BMW has now been taken by the wife who is using it as her car and she has no issues with driving said car with a fairly aggressive geo, as I know some people do get worried that they will make their car too twitchy.

That first video is a perfect example of a completely useless feature: The head movement is so OTT, either the drive isn't strapped in or his neck is made of elastic! Also you can't see the dash to know when to shift. Hope fully that view won't make the cut. Very excited for this though, what car & track are you going to try first Will? I'm thinking a Zonda R at Spa, with the volume up. Or maybe an R500 at Donny?

Basically, exactly what Rob said. But to try and expand... You can get a massive amount of change of handling feel (that's a peculiar term in it's own right, as everyone has a different idea of it!) just by altering the geo. You can have two cars, one very benign and one very precise, on the exact same OEM setup. It very much depends on exactly what you're after. Do you want better turn in? Less slide from the rear? Less tyre wear? Stability in a straight line? Have a think. There'll be a set of numbers out there to give you that without buying other parts, unless you want/need extreme camber etc. To give you an example, my 645 is about as barge as you can get. It wafts well, but it's certainly not a sports car. That said, there's a lovely balance to the chassis with plenty of feel so I had a custom geo put on it. Plenty of toe out at the front with as much neg camber as possible, and the rear was a fraction of toe out but with the tyres standing quite upright. That turned the car from stable barge to agile GT, as the rear is now much more mobile (which is what I wanted) and the front end just turns in perfectly. Certainly. I'd be changing that before buying anything else. If you're after physical changes like softer over bumps or less roll in the corners, sadly you're going to have to cough up for extra bits. With the 350Z, I found doing the ARBs alone was quite a pleasant experience, and if that's enough then great. If not, then something like the BC Racing damper & spring set would be worth a look, as you can easily adjust the damping between road and track whilst still having the car sitting quite high up. My MR2 is a 80/20 track/road car, and much like you I don't feel the need to have it slammed to the floor as that wouldn't work on UK roads.

Midnight Blue, I think.

*facepalm* They clearly won't do, as you already found out. What if you need to make a quick manoeuvre to avoid something in the future? Is your car not worth £600? Just chuck it on a card.

You might well be surprised about the Cobra, I had the K1 on my ragtop, and it was fine. On a coupe it's horrendous because of the resonance transmitted through the shell, but the roadster doesn't have to worry about that. Now, I'm not saying go and buy a K1, but I think a Cobra or Scorpion would be absolutely fine.

Thing is, this is exactly what I mean when I warn against mixing tyres. 99% of the time you probably won't notice, but it's the 1% when everything goes wrong (and I believe that the car control and speed were equally contributing factors here) that you really don't want to be relying on an unbalanced car.

Christ on a bike, mixed ditch finders! Please, sell those on eBay and put something decent on.