Neil VR6

I was pushing my car in the queue the other day, a fan switch sounds much better! That's a great time with 190 bhp by the way! Something to aim for!

Adrian Flux are quite NO2 friendly although only if you've got a WON kit.

Are there any fitting guides for this manual override switch? Seems like a good idea. Wouldn't the fan be on full blast when in traffic anyway if the engine's hot enough?

JMR did mine, I think it was about £140 all in and that includes a thermostatic sandwich plate so it only kicks in at 90 degrees. The standard oil "cooler" is poop and actually serves to warm the oil more than cool it. It really is an absolute necessity if you're going to do anything to a G60, they run hot enough in bog standard tune.

Thanks to RACK for delivering my spangly Newman cam and tappets promptly and for a bargain price!! :)

Good one! Marketing rocks!

Well it is a Boxster! :lol:

What a way to go, headfirst into Stuttgart's finest!

Front and rear views look quite nice I think. It must weigh loads though with that SLK-esque tin top. There's a bit too much of a gap between the top of the wheel arch and the top of the car for my liking which to me gives it a Megane Cab type look. Interior looks sumptous though :)

A G60 would I think take very well to a 25 shot as it would cool the charge nicely. It's an alternative to a FMIC although you obviously need to factor in the cost of the refills which for an 11lbs bottle will be about £40-£50. However, on a 25 shot it would last you ages. There's no danger as long as you set the car up properly, run a cooler set of plugs and retard the timing by a couple of degrees. However, water injection is cheaper to refill and will also serve to cool the charge although has less scope for big power. Also defo go for a Wizards wet kit, they're the best by far. http://www.wizardsofnos.com/index2.html I was thinking of it semi-seriously not long ago and joined the WON forum: http://www.noswizard.com/bboard/viewtopic.php?t=892

Dunno, didn't have my calender handy!! Actually I went up against it in one run which I completely mesed up with loads of wheelspin and missed gear changes and still beat it!! :lol:

I keep my head down a bit these days; using the forum more as a resource, looking at old posts, using search and finding stuff out about my own car and its problems (of which there are many which seem to rear their ugly heads in strict rotation just when I think I've fixed them).

I've always had a bit of a soft spot for fast Fords. S'pose it was the Escort Cossie with its massive spoiler wow'd me when I was younger. Also I liked the black Texaco Sierra's that competed in the BTCC back when it was fun. I even had a Sierra body shell decked out in Texaco livery on my old RC car!

I don't recall. I saw a mint Sierra RS500 at the 'Pod the other day though. The only point I was trying to make was that on your daily drive to work you seldom see an RST and you even more seldom see a nice RST. I thought the matey who owns this car is getting a bit of a slating for having what is quite a nice motor into which has been poured a lot of money and love. We all love cars, not just VW's. :)

Fords like this aren't. Properly modified RS's are extremely rare and a 60 mile search on Autotrader only relevealed 10 RS Turbo's, including ropey ones! :)

The Escort looks mint. It looks well thought out, subtle and not chavvy at all. I bet Fords parts are cheaper than VW parts too!

numpty (nump'ti) noun, [From Old Saxon, numptìn, a horseless cart]. A middle aged driver of a non-descript (yet surprisiginly frugal) Japanese hatchback that drives at a constant 39mph in all conditions and situations. Pl.: numpties. Often quoted by readers of PistonHeads e.g.: "If that numpty doesn't get out of the way, I shall large it up the inside" See also: Soap, Large soap (sope) noun, [Acr: Slow Old Aged Pensioner]. Typically driving a grey Morris Minor a soap never travels above 10mph but boasts that they've never had an accident in 100 years of driving. suv (ess'yu'vee) noun, [Acr: Slow Ugly Vehicle]. Oversized car driven by distracted mothers on school runs. See also: flik flik (Darr'n) noun, [Orig: unknown]. Common term of abuse for fat children who don't walk to school. Believed to be derived from the acronym Fat Lazy Idle Kid. Usage: "I was held up by an SUV with one flik in the back scoffing Monster Munch". I suspect - and I know I'm one to stereotype (that's typing with two hands according to the OED) - that many of the researchers must fit into the numpty sector themselves and they're permanently ignoring motoring culture to spite us. I suspect they all drive trugs themselves... trugs (tr-ugs) noun, [From the Scottish, tartan rugs], beige cars made by British Leyland. Can be applied to Allegros and Marinas circa 1978 supplied with colourful picnic rugs on the rear shelf. Sometimes inappropriately applied to brown Austin Ambassadors and Princesses. To be fair, that would explain their lack of knowledge of the following: large (L-arrrrrge) noun, [Latin: Ben Hur], giving it large refers to unnecessary or inappropriate acceleration resulting in partial loss of control of the car. Only appropriate to rear/4 wheel drive cars. Also verb: Larging . Larging it in a front-wheel-drive car is commonly known as 'driving like a nonce' caning (Kay'ning) verb [Latin: canna, Greek: kanna, Essex: spank], Using the top end of the rev range. Usage: 'I was caning the nuts off it'. See also threwaconrod. Trackday (trak'day) verb [German: 'ring, French: Magny-Cours], a day spent larging it in order to increase your repertoire of stories that noone else is interested in. See also: lostit lostit (lost'it) verb [Old Englishe: crash], common slang for losing control of your car. Retains credibility when recounting a motoring tale. Usage: "1st corner, second gear, I lostit" is preferable to "Sh*t, I crashed" locost (lo'cost) noun [Humourous], Euphomism for a car that costs several thousand pounds to build. diff lock (diff'lok) noun [Engineering], Key missing from my keyboard. lunched (lunch'd) verb [French: onion soup], p. tense to have 'lunched' is to have gorged a large portion of fish and chips or to have damaged your transmission system spectacularly by changing into 1st gear instead of fifth. off (of'f) adjective [Posh: Orrrf], Mysterious state of tyres reported by drivers prior to 'losing it'. Usage: "My tyres went off and I lostit". Also noun: off, losing control, leaving the circuit or the road way. Usage: "I had an off." is preferable to losing it or crashing as it implies no responsibility on the driver's part. rev-limiter (rev-lim'ter) noun (Latin: reddus-linus) a person or device that prevents a car going too fast. See also wife, handbrake and ballast. ballast (fat'tee) noun (Olde English: Bunter). Polite reference to obese passenger. See also porkpieonwheels and dribblingfatblokeinmondeo. Curiously the whole lad culture, Max Power scene seems to have passed Oxford by too. Nowhere for example can I find a reference to boltonboy (bolt'on'boi) noun, [From French, fils de plastique merde]. Not to be confused with a resident of a Northern English town, a boltonboy is the owner of a worthless hatchback that has adorned it with numerous aftermarket bits of tat in a vain attempt to hide the humble origins of the car. beanies (bee'neez) noun, [Heinz, 57 varieties]. The collective term for boltonboys. Derived from the use of industrial sized baked bean cans bolted onto exhaust systems the size of pipe cleaners. Usage: "I couldn't get a burger because the car park was full of beanies" naughtybits (nought'e'bits) noun (orig: RGA). Cheeky term for 'body styling' or 'tack-on tat'. tossertable (toss'er'tay'bull) noun, similar to the 'picnic' tables seen adorning some rear wheel drive supercars, the tossertable is the oversized spoiler bolted on to the back of a front-wheel-drive hatchback that lifts the front wheels off the ground and prevents opening the boot. Usually in primer. huggies (nap'ee) noun, collective term for the shoulder pads added to seat belts in old Novas. Also known as seat belt warmers. hunchies (Kev'inn) collective noun referring to scrawy shirtless blokes who don't wear seatbelts and lean over their steering wheel to try and make the car go faster. Muppet Owner of a series 2 Escort RS Turbo who insists on blue lights on his washer jets and 20 inch rims scraping the rusting arches. Strangely they've also missed out several high profile items from TV including: numskullbint (t'art) noun. An attractive female presenter of motoring programmes who can barely string two words together and knows nothing about cars. See Men and Motors drivelwunhundrard (driv'il'wun'undr'd) noun (orig: Mike Brewer). The assessment of a car based on fatuous categories and a scoring system based on flawed arithmetic and an obsession with jelly and cobblestones. We'll be pressing hard for all these words to be included in next year's dictionary. We've also heard suggestions that the Government is already lobbying for some new words to be included in the 2003 edition. These are rumoured to include speedkills (speed'kils) verb, [schoolboy French, La voiture n'est pas ralentir]. Meaningless one dimensional mantra preached by numpties. publictransport (bus) noun, [Old Saxon]. Dirty, slow means of travelling between fixed locations nowhere near your home.

Dunno. We compared slips afterwards and I had him by a tenth or two. I'm sure in the hands of a more capable pilot he would have had me.

Not bad. I could have probably get it down by a tiny bit more by abusing my 117,000 mile gearbox a bit more but the 15.68 run was as "perfect" as I reckon I could get it; minimal tyre chirp, quick gear changes etc. You also have to change into 4th in the G60 as you approach the 1/4 mile which is a bit of a pain. The car's probably running 175-180 bhp at the crank. However, it was a very hot day and there must have been a lot of heatsoak. I beat a 350Z though :)

15.68, as in my sig. :) I was primarily going to race against my mate in his 50 shot nitrous equipped Scirocco. I lost by 0.2 secs but then his engine kind of wouldn't idle and belched out black smoke on the drive back so I wasn't too fussed about losing! :lol: Jim:Cheers, my mate took the picture actually, the sunny really flatters the Inka Blue colour. That Astra was hilaroius. It looked like it drove through a Ripspeed Halfords and came out the other side with all manner of RGM bolt on junk. The interior was full of gauges and "colour coded" vent surrounds etc. It was the laughing stock of the day!

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I have to disagree as I've got some Highsports and they are definitely not harsh at all. I would imagine the ride and handling would be better with the H&R's and Konis but you'll go lower with Highsports if that's your thang. I would have got Konigsports if I could have afforded them. You're relatively local to me so you can always drive over to mine and have a go in my car if you like.

Some new pics from a sunny Santa Pod...

I heard to keep them relatively warm so a loft would be ideal.

There have been loads of threads on this, you may find the search useful as andycowuk said. I've got standard bushes all round and I think there are far greater forces at work to determine handling like ride height, springs, dampers, age of current bushes, alignment, camber and temperature (with poly, they get harder in the cold). I use standard bushes front and rear and the handling is nice and progressive. I'm sure the differences are over-hyped. I'm sure VAG spent ages designing the compund used in the Corrrado and reached what they thought to be the optimum between comfort, noise and handling. Unless you spend all your time on a racetrack you'll probably prefer VAG ones.