Recent content by J333EVO

Nice car. Our R32 has been serviced at APS for the last 4 years now. I found replacing the front consol bushes to solid AUDI ones rather than standard (tired at 40,000miles) voided VW ones made the front end much more precise. I've got my own press and was a really easy job to do. On a ramp in...

Forgot to add the 2L 16V Rover engine in the Meastro was rated at 150bhp which is the same as the 8V Turbo, but was lighter with much better fuelling being injection and not an SU carb. The car was well under 1000kgs and the Turbo would do 0-60 is 6.7seconds and I doubt was any quicker than my...

Enjoy the car. Even more so once it is fixed and you're 100% happy with it. We've had ours for 4 years now doing 16,000miles in that time and it has just clicked over 40,000miles which for a late 2008 car is pretty low. We both love driving the car and haven't got bored of it. Someone recently...

My father-in-law worked for Tickford as a development engineer back when they developed the MG Maestro & Montego Turbo's but was never a huge fan. He did have a 1990 MG Meastro though which he re-shelled in 2000 into a brand new LHD Meastro meant for the Bulgarian market he got cheap. Selling...

Car looks great in that colour. I do not like the Monza exhaust, it is just wrong to have 4 small exhaust pipes which never seem to sit straight in two big cut outs meant for two large exhaust pipes. It is such an after thought. The original exhaust looks good, and the BTB turbo back not only...

As Jamie says I've been using a Ctek charger on my integrale for years, after a recommendation plus I think they are supplied as standard on some Porsche and other high end cars that are not expected to be used all year round. It is meant to be left plugged in and is supplied with a permanent...

Nice pictures. That's our R32 sat there with my father-in-laws Clan Crusader sat to the right.

Fantastic looking car!

Great looking car. I've seen a good number of these now on my travels to and from work. This is only the 3rd I've seen in yellow and looks excellent.

Escort Number 14; Guy Woodcock came first in class and 5th overall which was pretty heroic when you look at the competition from other classes. His co-driver was Graham Dance, who is my work colleague. Really nice guy who does some driving himself in other categories. Recently put up for sale...

Not exactly, as there will be a number of development engines that do meet the publicised figure, and are homologated as such. But they could have had optimised parts that are all at the very tightest of tolerances, i.e the rods and pistons are all nearly exact if not totally exact in weight and...

It is not just Renault. When an engine is homologated the manufacturer only has to ensure engines are within 90% of that figure, and even then only something like every 100 off the line need checked to meet that standard. AUDI and BMW used that to the full extent and the n/a AUDI RS and BMW M...

Love it, but a little biased bring a Lancia integrale owner. Few years ago now, but I sold a set of Compomotive MO's on eBay to a guy in Belgium who drove over via Dover/Calais ferry to my house near Silverstone and back to Belgium in one day to buy them as they were for his Monte Carlo.

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The rear bump stops are long, giving the rear suspension little travel before bottoming out, the same problem the 500 Abarth has as they share a platform. This gets even worse by fitting lowered springs as the car continunally bottoms out on the bump stops. Fitting the Fiat Coupe bump stops...