7 hours later & still no pics :tapping: or has he had a 400bhp rwd talent failure:gears: :lol:
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7 hours later & still no pics :tapping: or has he had a 400bhp rwd talent failure:gears: :lol:
Well Paddy, you could have watched my trip on Facebook. I checked in at many locations on my way to get the car via two taxis and three trains, two of which were cancelled due to floods and a fire at Paddington signalling station. Then the taxi was late due to a river that burst its banks too. Got there in the end though! Traction control was going apeshit on the first hint of a corner hehe!! Yeeehaaaa!
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Although I did get home in one piece, the piece of inner lining they had replaced for me had not been fitted correctly and it just got ripped off by the sheer pressure from the air as I cruised at 90ish. Of course, there is a sensor there, the same sort we have in our wing mirrors on the Williams for outside temp readings. It broke that so the ECU thinks it is -40.0 outside.
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I guess I will have to fix it properly. As they say...if you want something done right, do it yourself. I hate garages. Bunch of tards mostly.
So...is it fast? Errrr, yes. It is very quick indeed. I can light the rears easily. The torque is mental for a N/A car. I have not pushed it really at all yet as I want to get used to it first.
The box is slow compared to the Clio's so you cant flick about up and down the gears as fast, and you need to be more measured with your pedals I find.
It needs more noise. I can hear and feel the 5.0L V8 but it is so muted. Will sort that very soon. Nice for cruising though.
As fast as the Clio? Yep easily, but you cannot chuck it about like the little Williams and I dare say the Willy would have it on twisty roads. Beef up the suspension a bit more though and get better tyres and give me a few months with it and I reckon it might be a different story. At the moment, I am scared of RWD, though I did get the rear out once or twice, felt very controllable, it is an encouraging start!
220 bhp per tonne those cars are and I didn't follow your trip on fb because I was too busy being asleep so stfu :tongue3:
Actually, they are 236 bhp/ton and this ones remapped hoho.
Actually, the Clio and M5 are roughly the same BHP/ton with Clio's current spec. Lots of weight saving going on soon and I have since found errors in the ECU map since you drove it, which made it less efficient so it wil ltrump the V8 on the bhp/ton soon. Of course, if I did significant weight saving in the M5 it would be far more significant, but I wont be doing that :)
No point buying an M5 if you're gonna strip weight out of it though, just supercharge it, fit a tow bar and go be a complete & utter cunt at track days, I'll gladly be co-driver & take out whatever car you're not driving so it's not sat in the pits feeling lonely :muahaha:
Yea I agree, the comfort and stuff on board is great shit to have. The heated seats and heated mirrors and demisting stuff is worth their weight in gold.
I am eyeing up the Evolve supercharger kit, costs £9k though. I would do other stuff first if I was going to go mental. There is simply no point doing it for road use, its already ridiculously powerful. Better brakes and a bit of stiffening up would be the first thing to do to make it faster round a track.
Yea sure Paddy. Could bring Clio as well. It should be fighting fit when you next see it. Fixed an idling issue I noticed on the ECU map, meant it wasn't idling at all properly due to throttle pot setting, and noticed a couple of glitches which Emerald didn't spot too :D
Looks nice in the pics. Shame about the lower valance, but not too difficult to fix at least (it's not body coloured is it, so at least no painting required!)
Should be an easy fix and I got a used sensor today for 30pence hehe.
30 pence?!?!?
Yea :D
I got some new wipers too. Had an incident where the drivers wiper stopped and the passenger one hit it and got stuck. It then became buckled and although I bent it mostly back into shape, it left a scratch on the windscreen :(
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The cause was easy to sort though:
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This nut was not torqued up properly. Now sorted!
Minor gremlins aside, HOLY SHIT this car is so fast. The torque is immense. With the AlphaN tune it adds typically a minimum of 12bhp bumping it into the 410bhp area. It is so stable too. I have had the rear twitching out many times already hehe. On the motorway, it just eats miles at a massive speed.
I drove the Clio before I took the wiring loom and ECU out. Although it missed a few beats still, what a BRILLIANT little car. I love the Clio to bits still, and it is going to get lots of attention over the next two months.