Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

340 makes an odd drift car in my opinion, 50/50 weight distribution and de dion rear suspension made it quite stable.

Surely those attributes are a good thing? You don't really want a car thats naturally unstable.

Chaps, my zillion mile Forester failed its ticket on rear subframe rust yesterday :( I’ve asked a local Scooby indy to give me a quote to replace but I am not that hopeful that it will be viable. I don’t have space, time or tools to do it myself. Any bright ideas? Worse comes to worse anyone fancy a cheap project? It’s a ‘98 NA 2L with proper low ratio 4WD. #pray4scoobs

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#Datwing

We had 2 of these when I was younger. I think they look nice in red.

F902 PLA was the reg in case you come across it.

Amazing, agreed they look great in red. If I won the lottery tomorrow I'd buy one give it to Retropower and say I want them to supercharge F/K swap it, rear wheel drive and sequential gearbox.

Will look out for the reg too

Blasphemy!! You cant boost one of those. k20? Maaaaybe. But if you're talking what I think you're talking about, an F20C, then I curse you with eternally dodgy valve timing!!

If I had piles of money sorting these small niggles* would be part of the fun. Engineering Explained supercharged his S2000 on YouTube so there's some hope for my dreams!

*catastrophic problems

Edit: food for thought

https://youtu.be/Cyba6DZ6CLo

320is had the M3 engine, 318is was just the 16 valve 1800 M40 engine :)

I remember a time when you could pick up a nice ek9 for €4k (in Ireland). I bought a nice jap dc2r instead for €3k, had my fun with it, then sold it when 100kmph at 6000rpm in 5th killed my ears.

No such thing as a nice standard ek9 anymore sadly.

See, I've chin wagged a fair bit over the idea, but I'm just a fan of N/A. Especially for something so light as an MX5 or an EG6. If I had disposable income coming out of every orifice, yes. This is what i'd build which would immediately go live on a a closed circuit.

For the road, I feel that on British roads, a supercharged K/F20 would just be overkill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeK8MExNTlE&t=32s

@Colm89 I mostly do 600cc motorbikes now. 6k rpm is pretty snoozy. I get what you mean though, there Ek9 phase has long passed.

Don't get me wrong, I'm the biggest fan of revvy na motors, but sadly that ship has sailed. I sold out and bought my first turbo hatch fairly recently.

Show and tell? I know modern turbos are quite a different animals to bygone days.

Clio 220 trophy. Not for everyone but I've always been a massive rs fan and preferred this to the fiesta when I drove them back to back.

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Nice. What have you got next to it under the cover?

Neighbours sorn'd mk1 Clio, nothing at all special sadly

Tempting... ‘some welding’ tho

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"some welding" amazing

Jesus fucking christ, Renault. Why can no manufacturer make decent wheels these days??

I think Alfa and Porsche are the only 2 putting out decent wheel designs.

It's incredible how quickly you get used to speed though, with the right wheel, tyre, and suspension setup, an FI K/F20 would be usable on the road, you just end up doing things a lot faster.

In my humble opinion, what's enough to stay interesting on single carriageway British roads while staying within legal or just a little bit quicker speeds, is just slow on dual carriageways.

That's how you end up incredibly bored, in need of coffee, and blowing your headgasket... oh wait, that's just me.

The older trophy came with speedline turini's, they are a superb looking set of wheels. I've been looking at changing my oem set for those as I believe it can be hard to get hold of the oem Michelin pilot Super sports due to the large but narrow wheel size.

I like those, though are they as angry as the older RS stuff? Full creature comforts? I really wanted a 172 in silver with the Speedlines like you mentioned. What fiesta did you look at?

@NurseHolliday funny you say that. Just upgraded the bouncy and sticky bits on the bike and now sitting at a ton feels more like 50 it's changed the bike that much. I can sometimes see the appeal of modern crotch rockets.

They also came as an option on regular 172/182 Cups.

The Trophy was an amazing car. My dad bought one for my mum when they were knew and he kicks himself now that he moved it on after 18 months.

Yeah those really are lovely wheels. I also think fast Renaults look good with the Turbines, OZ Ultraleggeras and Superleggeras, and one of my favourite wheels, the ATS DTC.

I'm thinking of going back on to ATS DTCs with mine now it's arched

Do you have a set already or need to get some?