Oranoco

Sensible cars are all well and good but you find you thrash them harder to make up for the fact they are so slow

S4 is deffo the plan for my next workhorse

r5200bhp

xr2i-carl

i nicked those pictures of rtoc where im a member the lad who has the car is selling it now because the turbo has blown on it
i lost all my pictures of the car on my computer so i had to use the 1's he took so i aint got a clue where it is pal sorry.

xr2i-carl

ideally i would want same setup as mr ripley, an e46 m3 and escos, but i aint as rich as him

there is difference between sensible cars and smart decent sensible cars

Robski

I had a Gordini Turbo for my first car when i was 17(15 years ago )

To me they are old skool and not the GT Turbo,and they are built WAY much better then the GT Turbo and are much more solid as i found out when i rolled the fooker at 90 MPH ...but the dammage was suprisinly mimimal,maybe the hedge helped me out
Even back then uprated parts were quite hard to find,i got all my stuff from Radbourne Racing..i had Konis,Devil exhaust,uprated carb,turbo and head etc....the thing shifted!!
I was tempted to buy the Turbo2 body kit(it was called a Le Mans kit) for it,but the car was wasted b4 i got the chance...oh and the 3 stud wheels caused problems....if u wanted to uprate the wheels you had to go direct to a french tunning company.
Anyway the only pic i have is of my car a week before it was lowered so its sitting a tad high,soz about the quality.....digital camaras wern't about in those days,just kodak 110's

PAUL V

just brought a 1991 totaly std one for my son as his 1st cay

Std ones clean ones cost £££££ Ali G maxed up ones are cheap but most are pants

Stavros

Gordinis fucking rule

Robski

glad someone else agrees with me

keo_rsturbo

tommyb, is that a mark 1? it looks the tits but i cant see what make it so different?

OvaBoost

Jammy cunt...i'm stuck with a 106 1.4 diesel
How can u insure him for that? Price?

Robski

yeah Tommy B's is a PHASE ONE R5 GT Turbo

Stavros

slammed on wide low offset 13s with stretched tyres make the biggest difference.

apart from that, looks wise, phase ones have non colour coded kit with slightly different arches, no rear spoiler, different grille.

PAUL V

Stuck him on our traders policy, he could have and petrol car up to 1.4 or a 1.7 oil burner. Was looking at a new 1.4 zetect fiesta but i thought the GT turbo was better

Stavros

I had a 1990 GT Turbo as my first car.

1500quid TPFT

Fiecos Dan

Then a 3 door cossie for your 2nd.

Stavros

Yep, and that was 1500quid too, but at 20 rather than 18

charlie luciano

iTrader: (3)

My mate had one of the 5 turbos it was a D reg and when we drove it it felt fookin lively, although D reg it had the gloss bumpers and it was finished in black, not that i'm into anything french but these along with the gordini's and the turbo 2's were the frogs bollox


Charlie

Charlie Chalk

iTrader: (1)

I love that....

charlie luciano

iTrader: (3)

This one is definately the frogs bollox

Charlie

xr2i-carl

man a 17 yr old lad in a r5gtt

hope he is a sensible lad, doubt it sensible lads wouldnt like a r5



man that is bit lethal, quick little car(and very unsafe) + inexperianced, easily influenced young MALE driver can have quite davastating consequences

Stavros

Yeah, it was like 90 spec stuff on RSTs, there was some changeover and mixups.

Some D plate ones were full phase 1 spec, some were Ph1 spec but colour coded, some looked full phase 2, some where Ph2 barring rear spoiler and front bumper, etc etc.

The ECU position didnt change totally till F-plate either, tho some E-plates had it in the Ph2 position.

COMEDY DAN

I have had 5 of these in my time.

Cheaky little hairdryers and to be fair, I have seen some go down the pod in 11's front wheel drive, which would smioke most of the quick cossies on here, how sickening.

xr2i-carl

all you guys who say theres were reliable?! how long ago are we talking?

89xr2

I find that everyone I know around my age knows someone that's had one and ended up parking around a tree or on it's roof or in a ditch etc.

Love the Turbo 2

xr2i-carl

????? pj engineering?????

PAUL V

Only had it 1 week, had to put new rear disc and pads and one of the very small water hoses has split but i think left reasonable std they are ok