Pulled the 75 from Ebay last night.
So far I've bought a set of uprated gas shocks for the front end, now I'm on the lookout for a set of lowering springs and dampers for the rear. Combined with the torsion bar mod. I'll probably drop it
After that, it'll be a K&N - but I'll leave the exhaust alone as the OEM system is large enough as it is.
Wouldn't mind a set of cams, but that can wait until the valve clearances next need doing.
haha you're weak! i did doubt it when i saw you're MSN name. i was thinking 'bet he bottles out of selling it somehow' and you did but with no good excuses like i was expecting.
Hello,
Stop it at once! Don't modify anything until you have looked at how it might turn out on the BarryBoys website.
trackday special? or long term project that you might actually finish?
Oh, do f*ck off.
This is going to be a proper modded car - no cosmetics, just a few tweaks here and there to make it into a back-road blaster.
Why *are* you such a tosser? Did your dad abuse you sexually?
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F*ck off, "kc".
Hehehe. Just reading that and updating my website with, at last, a picture of our "high airflow" performance front grill insert... :)
Goodo.
Good order. What about the brakes?
Heh. Where are my quotes that I can save for later?
Hello Brian/Rob/KC Knobjockey.
Amen to that. Got a bit too lardy after the MK2.
*cough* 18's ;)
He said b road blaster, not a car park c*ck-mobile :)
A good chassis and set up could go well, and handle 18's ;)
touring cars run 18's i think :)
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Be *zero* fun to drive on 18's though.
Whole idea of having fun in a car is to be able to adjust the cars attitude using the throttle and steering wheel combo. 18's tend to remove most of that fun, or move the chances of doing it to extreme speeds and at those extreme speeds the fun of collecting a nice slide is a bit too scary for most of us.
I.E. an 80 mph drift on 15"s tends to need to be 110 mph on 18's, and it's nowhere near as user friendly.
Besides, it's an old school chassis designed around 14" wheels and 195 tyres. Any more than that would just be for vanity reasons, IMHO.
you wanna whack 18's on the 156 then :)
Whilst I agree it looks a little 'under wheeled', it rides and handles perfectly well on 15s, so I'm not changing 'em.
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