What have you done today?

aragorn said:
Nope, its a crappy FWD japanese heap.

If you want to scratch the honda itch, buy an S2000.
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Like I said, not everyones taste. Still think it is better driving car than a lot of audis.
 
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so today was nice and dry and I had my dad up at a lose end.. so we got the car in the drive and set about removing the rusty subframe... we started it about 1 after the wee man went to nursery and had the car back on its wheels for around 5

rusty bit on the old one... ( it was worse than I first thought.. I had also bodged it up earlier in the year with some liquid metal and black paint to get it through its MOT )
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new one in place with a full suspension arm kit..
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so hopefully if its dry this week ill get the front end off and get the timing belt kit, water pump and new power steering pump fitted
 
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That will rub on bumps :)
 
michaelg1001 said:
I don't think it will, my 3SDMs were sat the same because of the spacers, and I never had any issues with them.
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I'm running et36 on 8" wheel and it does. I wonder if the b6 upright offsets wheel more. And I think mine is lowered more than yours.
 
Painted the chrome surround and grill the other day. Think it looks a lot better now. Ive put a new badge on it aswell but not took a pic yet
 

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audi upgrades
not on the car but involved the car...
today I used the quattro to pull out the hedges at the new house. still got more top come out but at least now I can get my shed built as ive cleared where its going..
 
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I've deleted a roof rack bars and respray front wings as well, looks much better now
 
I think it looks more sportive, but ofcourse it's not everyone's taste
 
:-D mine was the same, 1st I bought coilowers but now I'm running lower springs with standard shocks.
Still have the coilowers but I don't think I'll put them on again.
 
Thursday - oil filter slick 50 - sort water leak
Turbo / cat gasket
Friday discover cat was fubar'd fit boost gage
Today
Remove a bunged up cat
Installed an aftermarket cat
Started - seems ok
Tomorrow - test drive ....
 
Today I've realised that going big turbo will cost similar money to buying an EVO. Which made me think about breaking TQS and buying one!
 
slepy said:
Today I've realised that going big turbo will cost similar money to buying an EVO. Which made me think about breaking TQS and buying one!
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But then its just your average evo the thing about a big turbo TQS is there rare and will be pretty much a sleeper to the hot hatches of today it will certainly upset some of the younger generation thinking there going to outrun an 'oldmans' motor !
 
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Yeah. Definitely something different. Especially like the idea of passing some scoobies and evos on track :)
 
IMO the key to a track car is specifically NOT to go too extreme. Sure it sounds great having eleventybillion horsepower, but personally i'd be keeping the engine sane and more importantly stock internally. You dont want to be 3 or 5 grand into an engine build and blow the damn thing up on track. You blow up a standard engine and you bolt a new one in for 200quid. Stick a hybrid on and tune it to a sane 250hp, and develop yourself as a driver and develop the car as a package.

People look at cars like Prawns and want to emulate it, but prawns car got to where it is over about 8 years of development, and has spent way more time making 230hp than it has making 360...
 
Yeah that's true. I was thinking about sticking rods in, but engine is on 150k and IMO it is a bit pointless to stay with old bores/pistons. Because of the weight of the car I will be looking at getting 350+. Mallory showed me how screwed day on track can be when you have to let a car pass every minute. 350 would give me enough to at least bolt it out of corners and keep ahead on straights. Long corners will always be an issue even with 500bhp.
 
Theres NOTHING worse on a track day when someone zooms off on the straights and holds you up in the corners.

Power doesnt fix that problem, sorting the car and your abilities to get the cornering speeds up to where they need to be is what fixes the problem.

Which is what i mean by not chasing power figures. Power makes a car fast in a straight line. Good driving and a well sorted car makes a car fast round a track. Instead of making a huge jump from "i have a track car" to "i need 400hp because i'm slow", you need to learn to drive the car and extract the best from it, and install whatever modifications are required to make the car handle properly.

Folk run standard 172's and 182's on track year in year out with no performance mods at all, because when driven well they're fast little cars. Plenty track day footage around of wee clios hassling "faster" cars, be it Evos or Subarus or whatever. From the weights i got earlier in the year, you need about 20% more power (than the 170ish a 172 has) in a stripped out TQS to match a 172's power/weight, and you'll find in reality you'd get close with a little less because the turbo gives a wider plateau of power at the top.

My TQS was 1250kgs with 3/4tank of fuel, my mates clio was 1050kg with similar fuel.

So to run the numbers, the clio has 163hp/ton, a TQS with 210hp has 168hp/ton.

With 350hp, the TQS would have 280hp/ton, which puts it on par with a Porsche 996 GT3 RS... Which surely you can see is somewhat "extreme"...
 
I get what you mean about holding someone on straights, but it works both ways. I was chasing cooper s for 4 laps. Even though I was quicker in corners and chicane, didn't have enough power to overtake it on straights. With 4wd I was getting on throttle a lot earlier than car in front of me but was still stuck on the straight. There is definitely a lot more the car has to improve in handling and I have to learn a lot, but sooner or later power upgrade will be a must. To be honest i don't see the point of getting a hybrid for £1200 and not having any option further other than changing everything and going BT. I will see what I will be able to afford in the first place but it looks like building an engine is more expensive than a vband turbo kit.
 
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