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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 10:28 PM
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Do you love driving your car all the time?

Had a new head put on my mini today and its totally changed how it runs/drives, even made the clutch slip , Not overly fast, but still shit loads of fun


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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 10:45 PM
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yes new exhaust + st3 turbo.....im smiling im in love with it again
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 10:46 PM
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its in a pile of bits and im banned so no
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 10:48 PM
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Love my cossie when i drive it, but i dont drive it every day The Passat well i get a grin from being in nice comfort and being climate controled and seing im doing 50mpg
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 10:56 PM
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I find I have to be really really on the limit driving to give myself a rush,but for shear grin factor the noise's of the car going flat out does it all the time
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 10:58 PM
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Just got a Honda S2000, and I'm loving it so much, fantastic fun.
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 10:58 PM
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Yeh i fucking love putting my foot down every time the chatter blasts i smile
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 11:01 PM
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Prefer driving my courtesy car
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 11:06 PM
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my escos is still in bits, but the escort gti is fun, untill you want to go fast!!!! but the evos not bad
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 11:25 PM
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grin factor...fuck yes
totally unsociable with teeth shaking clutch and clunking juddering diff ...bigger fuck yes!

vectra is far comfier too ...and and it has a stereo
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 11:31 PM
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huge grin factor with mine....700 cc with 110 bhp in a wee plastic body and rear engine/drive.......bit scarey in the wet tho at times
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 11:40 PM
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Fekkin love it Focus RS only pushing about 260 lb/ft but its such a grin. Not as fast as my FRST in a straight line but sticks like sh1t to a blanket on the bends
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 11:55 PM
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Love drivin it when she's workin

Even just cruising around the purr of the s/s exhaust does it for me and waiting those few seconds while the turbo spins up adds to the excitement

Makes going to work a bit more bearable
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 12:03 AM
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feels twice as fast when i don't use it for a while.

very noisey and harsh compaired to the mondeo.

but get a BIG grin when i use it

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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 12:27 AM
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Lightly modded Zetec-S fiesta. Polybushed, lower strut brace, magnex and panel filter with Ford/Sparco Racing seats. Not hugely fast but deffo a lot of fun.
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 12:46 AM
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The nova xe is a scream loads and loads of fun and managed to out handle me mate in an audi tt quatro

Straight line power isnt the be all and end all of having fun in a car imo
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Alps Pacino
Straight line power isnt the be all and end all of having fun in a car imo
Exactly, thats why i posted about me FRS, on the twisties its fuckin awesome. My FRST is around 270 but show it a corner and it craps itself and hides in a hedge
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 12:56 AM
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I have just aquired a integra type-r (well i get it tomorrow when he picks the cossie up)

People said on here why have i swapped it for a stage3 cossie, g let me think why did i px a e reg sierra for an x reg honda ingegra lol.

Cossies are great fun but in the wet or slightly moist it was a pain in the arse and a nightmare to drive fast, basically only good in the summer(when i am on my bike anyway) so a waste of time and expense imo
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 07:35 AM
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makes me grin like twat every time i take it out, the noise from those r1 carbs is awesome, just take my foot off and let it pop and bang down the road
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 07:43 AM
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i cant remember not drove my cossie for 7 months now
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by S1
Originally Posted by Alps Pacino
Straight line power isnt the be all and end all of having fun in a car imo
Exactly, thats why i posted about me FRS, on the twisties its fuckin awesome. My FRST is around 270 but show it a corner and it craps itself and hides in a hedge
Love that quote
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 08:24 AM
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after taking my s2 to karl norris for mapping after finally getting it all sorted, i was on the motorway on the way home and i needed to swap lanes, i dropped it to third and waited for a gap to appear, when i nailed it it just span the wheels in the dry.

lol, was i grinning.
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 08:50 AM
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yeh i love me cossie a long time comin but well worth the wait but what kills me when i had my 21turbo everyone wanted a race but in the cossie they stay behind until they realise i aint goin for it lol

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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 11:11 AM
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Love it! Drive it every day, and still smile madly when she comes on boost
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Freddy_mercury_magic
Do you love driving your car
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 11:19 AM
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Ive got a mk3.5 Fiesta FRST rep in the making - ain't fast by any accounts but beginning to look good and all the work im doing myself - im immensley chuffed when people comment on her.
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 11:40 AM
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grin factor is ace,but ill have to start wearing ear plugs in it soon eh rad?ill be deaf soon off it!
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 12:17 PM
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grin factor 4 me is breth taking performance & passing the evo & scoobies like they standing still

love it

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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 12:26 PM
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when i get to drive mine i will let you know
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Old Feb 4, 2006 | 12:26 PM
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mine goes well in a staight line, but it desperately needs the suspension geometry and shit setting up and decent tyres on the back, twitchy as fuck at the front end, and the back end steps out for a pastime!! almost span it this morning its shit scary to drive fast
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by big_wig_074
grin factor is ace,but ill have to start wearing ear plugs in it soon eh rad?ill be deaf soon off it!
Yes mate, You need them
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 03:00 PM
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Yup i love my car madly
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 03:05 PM
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Haven't driven my S1 since October as she comes off the road over the winter. Probably won't see the road until April when the salt has gone.

But when I do drive her it's like WOO HOO
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 03:07 PM
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 03:09 PM
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Yeh defo .. drive mine every day and just love the noise and hanging on it it while it comes on boost and foooks me off to the left
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 03:14 PM
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Absolutely Rad - absolutely
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 03:16 PM
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my old capri 2.8i special always put a smile on my face loved that car so much i couldn't be arsed to buy a daily drive and used the capri all the time
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 03:17 PM
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Drove the FRST for the first time since before Christmas yesterday and took her over for the MOT. Was cracking

Also drove my Escort for the first time since TRAX and by time I went to bed last night I was grinning like a fool. I had forgotten how much fun that car is
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 03:20 PM
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i drive it everyday, but still love driving
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Old Feb 5, 2006 | 03:21 PM
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I haven't driven mine since december when I lost 2 pistons. But up till then it was mega fun

I need a new bottom end
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