A20 LEE

Your all just convincing me more it's the right thing to do :lol: I think you'll all love it as its not going to be your average polished cage. It's going to be made to my spec. You've got to try stuff.

MPS quoted £180 for a 52mm half cage. Not sure which to go for, half cage or full. :?: cheers mate, I'd go for half, but then its yr car... Yeah, think your right. Full cage wouldn't clear the door pods. Still i'm sure i can do something special with a half cage.

Is there anyway to run the 24V with 12V clocks? Think the 24V could be overbored and use 2.9 pistons?

That's not true, my rear rims are wider and the grip is incredible at the rear, vastly improved, only down side is the car scrubs off more speed in the corners. Noticed how every supercar has wider rear wheels/tyres and F1 cars. Not exactly true either, the static grip is the same, for both wide and narrow tyres (of the same compund and pressure) .however a larger contact patch will heat the tyre up less, meaning either more or less grip depending on compound and how hot the tyres were before. What you probably havent considered is the geometry changes you can cause with wider / narrower wheels. The rear tyres on a fwd car dont really do much in the way of accelerating/ braking and so probably run quite cool as all they have to do is corner, wide rears at the back wont increase grip becasue the tryes dont get that hot, however they may reduce it because they end up too cold. Wide fronts would probably help as they do most fo the work, but that brings bigger steering and geometry changes during cornering. Have to trust me on this as i have driven a C with 9.5" rear wheels and the back end it much gripper. Chassis balance isn't as good but the grip is truely amazing.

MPS quoted £180 for a 52mm half cage. Not sure which to go for, half cage or full. :?:

Not decided, got 12months to decide, i've got alot of other stuff to do first. R32 vs VR Turbo ?

Been a bit slow for the last month, got a lot to do but I spent the last 12months working on it and probably a little burned out. Haven’t washed it for a month!! Most of the work at the moment is tedious, got to strip the wishbones, rear beam, cross members, etc to bare metal and power coat then rebuilt (removing excess paint were necessary) using new parts. Not very exciting and I rather the time was spend on mod’s. Can post pic’s if you like but didn’t anyone would be interested? ICE and Cage should be sorted by christmas. Hopefully back in the bodyshop in jan/feb for a bit more work.

Point still stands, bigger tyres more grip. Fit narrower tyres to the back of your C and prove me wrong.

Thats probably more do to with RWD and heaps of power. Meaning...............they need more grip, hence wider wheels and tyres.

That's not true, my rear rims are wider and the grip is incredible at the rear, vastly improved, only down side is the car scrubs off more speed in the corners. Noticed how every supercar has wider rear wheels/tyres and F1 cars.

I had mine done by Jason Buckley, he's in Retford which is about 45mins from leeds down the A1. He's very good, my car was runner up for best paint at E38.

Also worth changing the door pins for ones which sit flush to the door trim when the car is locked.

No fair, at least i post teaser pics :lol:

330mm brakes :!: , tell me more!! I was after 330mm brakes myself but thought i'd have to settle for 310mm because i'm running splitties.

Agreed, i wanted ZW1's since i saw a pic of them on a german C in 1996. Finally got them in january 2002 and had to wait 18 long months for the car to be stretched to fit :lol: . Theres nothing better for a C IMO in whatever size. However i'd be interest to see how they'd look on OSV's car with grey centres :?:

Sorry, guess i'm just fcuk-ing lucky :)

The egroup email revell in mass 2years ago. Even got a reply that the corrado would make the possible new models short list for 2003/4. Nothing since. :(

I was told differently. Only works at low speed to give the car agility. Depends what you want i guess. If you want great handling get polybushes and live with a bit more road noise. BTW, Daz Ashby has solid aluminium rear bushes on his track car!!

I've got audioscape pods, would have prefered the baffle area to be wood too. Cutting the fibre glass was very messy and awkward. Also would be good if they could paint or spray the cavity with sound deadening as its difficult to get dynamat to stick to the inside.

They've certainly got the lust thing going on,

Alpine are main stream and lack the cool factor to me compared with brands such as Sinfoni/Genesis/DLS. Or am i wrong on this one too after my U turn on sinfoni?

Ok, i've started to fall for sinfoni gear. Thanks for that Pablo Vr6, my bank account will never forgive you :lol: Still looking at more senseable options tho'. Are Zapco any good?

Don't plan to enter in audio comp's. If a VW is judged the point scheme is broken down into 5 areas with 20points in each:- Bodywork, Interior, Enginebay,Ice, wheels/suspension/brakes so i'm just improving my overall score. But never say never. I never planned to mod my VR but look at it now :lol:

I don't do average :lol: I'm trying to get the balance right between SQ/SPL/Looks/Budget. Its easy to go SQ or SPL but for a showcar it needs to tick all the boxes without breaking the bank. The quality of the install is probably more important for me as this is worth 20points and SQ isn't usually judged. Strange but true.

Just looked at them, signal to noise ratio is 90dB. That poor for the money.[/quote:cd662] are you kidding these amps are the creme de la creme mate.[/quote:cd662] Not saying they aren't. Not been into incar for a while but a signal to noise ratio of 90dB is still poor isn't it? Thought any amp worth its salt was S:N 100dB+