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  1. Posted

    "From what I can gather from this thread, there seems to be a 50/50 split in opinions, so clearly a fundamental design flaw exists. It's just that some people (no offense to them) are not as fussy as I am."

     

    Well I'm very particular about how my exhausts fit, having had bad experiences with Longlife and Piper. My Miltek doesn't rub or bang EVER. Even four up on a bumpy road. Perhaps it's to do with the amount by which the car is lowered? Mine's lowered 40mm?

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    An oil cooler wont do anything if the car is stationary no matter where it is situated. As you start moving, you'll see temps drop as Insane_VR6 says, it relies on air moving across it.

     

    Mine gets up to about 108 sitting in traffic (on my G60) but the minute you get going the temps drops within a minute or so. I shouldn't worry about it too much.

  9. Posted

      Henny said:
    Neil g60, yeah, I do agree with you... I should have clarified what I meant a bit better... :oops: I was distracted by a young lady who I'd not seen in 5 years as I was writing that reply... 8)

     

    Similar (originally priced) FWD and RWD cars which have been modified to be over 250(ish) BHP are pretty much all animals to drive... RWD tends to be better IF the car was designed to be RWD... If it's been modified to be RWD (as suggested in the post I was replying to) when it was designed to be FWD, then you're gonna run into handling problems like Ian Birch did with his orange RWD Golf MKI which just couldn't get the power down the the ground... At that point, it's primarily a weight distribution thing... 8)

     

    I agree entirely! :)

  10. Posted

      Henny said:
    RWD's not much better over 250bhp or so... you just end up spinning the rear end out on every corner which, although lots of fun, doesn't make the car any faster! :lol:

     

    Gotta disagree with you there. Look at all the high power fwd cars on the market now, Focus RS, 146 GTA, any modern V6 Alfa for that matter, Fiat Coupe. All are complete animals. You either have horrible traction control coming in all the time or an LSD which squirms all over the place. Taming rwd is much easier. Front wheels for steering, rear wheels for driving. Plus you can't drift fwd cars :) All decent perofrmance cars are not fwd (bar some hot Honda's which have seemed to have got the hang of fwd)

  11. Posted

    You can't tune a VR6 as much unless you s/c it. Go forced induction if you want big power. Remember it's a fwd though at the end of the day and if you want big power you might as well go rwd or 4wd.

  22. Posted

    I've just had fitted Zimmerman x-drilled discs and Pagid fast road pads (click on my Dubforce link for pics). They were about £130 delivered which I though was very reasonable. They only just bedding in but they're already as good as the stock set-up. I think a few people on here use this combo.

     

    I tired to do it myself but the 17mm bolts which hold on the caliper were done up way too tight. It's simple to do though. :)

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